skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a lot of movies on VHS rated G to R movies in a box in my basement. Last VCR I had ate tapes and I had to quit using it as I didn't know how to fix that.

I know there are DVD and VHS hybrids that were able to copy VHS tapes to DVD-R disks. But that can't be done with copy protection in the VHS tapes.

My wife and I have our wedding in 1997 on two VHS tapes, I haven't had a capture card to convert it to MP4 files or whatever. We got a lot of tapes in 8MM format and the advanced format that replaced it using video cameras as well. I don't make much money because I am disabled and trying to get better so I can write code again. So paying a professional to transfer it would cost too much.

In Thailand they quit using VHS tapes and went to the VideoCD format as CD players are cheaper to make than VHS VCRs, plus when they pirate a movie it is on VideoCD format using 3 or 4 CDs to play the whole movie. In the USA we went to Video DVD disks (Red Box or Family Video, etc), or BluRay disks.
With Hollywood accounting, they may be looking for pennies
Agreed but I feel Musk is not here to do a business; he is here to fix humanity. Normal logic does not apply on him, just like when he used all his earnings from selling Paypal and decided to start a roket company (SpaceX)! Other enterpreneurs literally laughed at him and called him crazy.
Now we have a different problem -- in that the new examples aren't idiomatic. There's no reason we should expect it to identify the phrases 'L' train line and 'L' line with equal accuracy, because the former is something basically nobody says -- while the latter is something everyone (even someone unfamiliar with that particular city) understands.

But hey -- I'm not defending the API's accuracy ;)
HarvardXPLUS
Through a combination of cognitive API sentiment analysis and entity recognition is also supported.

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/text-anal...
> The data is useless unless it is annotated (e.g. a human labels where the lanes are, where the obstacles are, what the bicylist is doing, etc.) - that's the bottleneck, not collecting large amounts of raw sensor data + driver actions.

Except that is exactly what Nvidia did, and it worked out fine for them: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07316
Why would you want to maintain extra whitespace (again outside of text strings) after a save? Any sort of JSON editor is going to have some sort of formatting function that could restore it on load.
Likely. They gave away all of their patents (https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you), so it's likely they'd be willing to share this data.
... unless you live outside of the US where it's impossible to buy legal copies of a lot of content.
Autonomy is a big win for semis -- even just platooning (drafting) is a huge win. Two startups in this space: Otto & Peloton.

As for power density... going to a turbine engine feeding electric power systems is a sufficiently big win compared to straight-up diesel ICE. There's a big industry group looking into this:

http://corporate.walmart.com/_news_/news-archive/2014/03/26/...
What's wrong with HTTP? If you're going to build an RPC protocol, you are going to need encryption, stream multiplexing, a way to distinguish RPC methods, support for extensions (e.g. auth), and compression.

Add the fact that high performance HTTP servers and clients exist in most languages, and building an RPC protocol on top of HTTP sounds pretty attractive. No wonder gRPC did exactly that.
Elixir's doing very well for its age—before 1.0 it had four books, a conference, and a dedicated video series. With the rise of Phoenix there's quite a lot mire of resources for it.
I'm not sure when promises came to the javascript, but it seems weird that people would settle with callback hell for so long without even attempting to refactoring it.

I mean if I didn't have the option of using promises, I would have probably written something like this.

function handler(callback){

var state={};

function logic(step,err,data){
if(!step){
connectToDb("somedatabase",logic.bind(state,1))
}

if(step==1){
if(err) callback("error1")
state.dbInstance=data
state.dbInstance.query("someQuery",logic.bind(state,2))
}

if(step==2){
if(err) callback("error2")
csvExporter(data,logic.bind(state,3))
}

if(step==3){
if(err) callback("error3")
callback(data)
}
}
logic()
}
I've been using Rollup for bundle size optimizations, and I believe it will work with the lodash internal packages.
In the future with Star Trek, they should have quantum computers using fiber optic wires that are harder to hack because intercepting data changes it and the receiver will know it was tampered with.

Kirk and company basically had a Siri they could talk to and it would do things. "Computer show me yesterday's video log on the bridge at 3:32 PM" or whatever.
(The joke is in supposing that Windows would ask first.)
Mobile Growth Handbook 2016
>Our machine learning system was able to consistently achieve a 40 percent reduction in the amount of energy used for cooling, which equates to a 15 percent reduction in overall PUE after accounting for electrical losses and other non-cooling inefficiencies

So the actual savings were 15%? Which is still significant for sure. I'm guessing their next step will be to reduce those non-cooling inefficiencies.
That's the point: it's for people that want to own a Tesla but can't afford it.

Not for people that can afford to own a Tesla and have it sit idle waiting for them 90% of the time (like all of today's owners).
Would be great if you could provide some details.

I only have experience with Typescript, almost none with Dart, and I would love to see a comparison of the two in practical use, especially with Intellij.
I agree, it was easy (and I live in the US). Even programming a time-delayed recording was pretty easy though a lot of owners never even seemed to learn how to set the clock. However, there were a set of people who, for some reason, could just not grok the picture currently on the TV being something different than what was being recorded.
Not anymore.

Complete LIDAR units are already available for under $500[1]. There are other, cheaper sensors which aren't as good as full LIDAR but are available for under $100[2].

There are plenty of other options hitting the market soon too[3]

[1] http://www.teraranger.com/products/teraranger-lidar/

[2] https://www.pulsedlight3d.com/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/0...
You can encrypt org files pretty easily. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/encrypting-files.html
When are all the other GO apps going to be released?

Mario Kart GO (ok that's a risky proposition)

Super Smash Bros Go

Zelda GO

Silent Hill GO or Resident Evil GO

Augmented reality after many years I think will change video games and how we play them. Virtually reality for me no thanks .. bulky and uncomfortable in it's current form.

Now if you could wear sun like glasses in which augments reality (see & explore a new world via these lightweight sunglasses) that would be cool!
It's in the millions. Tesla's is in the hundreds of millions/close to a billion.
Show HN: Pokemon Go Interactive Map
Perhaps this is pedantic, but i wonder if magnet links provide any legal securities when compared to actually hosting the torrent files themselves.
10 minutes roll out to production is insanely fast. Roll out usually goes through build, test, staging, and to farms of production servers, with smoke tests in each stage along the way.
Maybe this explains why there are no libertarian billionaires and other well off individuals who do not fund secure crypto work....
>You know why Ford turns a profit? Because they've gotten those economies of scale.

Ford was immediately profitable, was it not? Even before implementing an assembly line?
I'm sure the TSA would be suspicious.
I don't think it matters much what these charts say as long as they do not measure merit and Clojure has a lot of it. You can use it irrespective of how an ill-advised majority of developers think Javascript/Node/Angular is good.
What? There are room for multiple companies that make a profit. The point is that claiming a business sucks that still makes a profit and provides value to lots of people is tone deaf.
TIOBE seems to be the most realistic with history tracing back to 1986. C/C++ coders have tons of code not on github and a lot of references like books, which are sometimes more useful than SO. Also the metrics, native language and area of application are very important.
Iterables vs. Iterators vs. Generators(2014)
oh oh ... MS just came out with a similar booking software integrated into Outlook.... don't think it will affect you much though ...
I've had relative success with org-mode. I figure that's the emacs mode you're talking about.

I have a capture template that automatically catalogs the entry to the right date. It comes up in a new window and I just write whatever I'm thinking. It works for me because it's so easy to hit C-c j when I'm doing anything at the computer and then I can write all I want. And if I want to make two entries on the same day, I can. The template has a little area for a title.

I've managed to journal a few times a week every week for over a year now.
Was that the 490L Overseas Autovon? I went to school for that phone switch in 1987 and was in the last class before they decommissioned it for the DOD.

It had a core memory when it was initially deployed.
Nope. That car just does lane keeping - it doesn't even do turns or lane changes. This is all stuff solved 20 years ago. And even then it only achieves 98% autonomy on lane keeping - this is a task that needs 100% accuracy. You should not be running into the median every couple miles.

Furthermore, they augmented the data with left/right-offset cameras to supplement the data with examples of "bad" camera views. This is not present on Tesla cars (because these sensors are only used for training purposes)

In fact, the paper actually supports my point. They collected all this data for one task, lane keeping. They subdivided the problem of autonomous driving, and managed to solve one small subproblem (the easiest subproblem of autonomous driving, solved for decades already). They avoided the need for annotators, but only because they used specialized purpose-built cameras to augment the data.
Microsoft issued with formal warning by CNIL
Hmm...I wish they had taken a bit more time to dig into the situation with Julia than simply to note it moved from position 51 to 52 on the ranking (is that even a significant shift?). Having just come from giving a presentation at this year's JuliaCon, I am more optimistic about Julia's future than at any point in the past. I think what we're seeing here is that Julia is making a concerted push toward v1.0. It was announced at JuliaCon 2016 that they are targeting JuliaCon 2017 for the v1.0 release. It should be expected, then, that the break-neck pace of innovation has taken a back seat to a focus on stability, but based on what is already on the roadmap for Julia v2.0, I don't see Julia moving anywhere but up.

(Also, I think the comparison to CoffeeScript is rather unfortunate. In my mind, CoffeeScript was primarily addressing shortcomings in JS that JS has, since, done quite a bit to rectify. Julia is not trying to be a better "X", so there's no "X" to steal away its momentum.)
It reflects the biases of github and stackoverflow which tend to reflect the interests of enthusiasts and web developers.

I don't think it very accurately reflects what's used in real life, either for the innumerable hours of boring everyday programming work that people do or even what kind of code is being cranked out in the major open source projects - the ones that are actually used by other people.

What it does provide is an interesting leading indicator: what's hot right now. Languages like clojure which get a lot of attention for a while but aren't used in a whole lot of real applications tend to peak and then drop relatively quickly.
So apart from swift and go, things have been extremely static for ~5 years?

I'm guessing that VB uptick was from VB devs finally discovering git?
That doesn't explain how software can distinguish them.
I found that stuff you recorded yourself was lower grade than what you bought prerecorded. I had some purchased movies that were watched many dozens of times and were still fine. And Blockbuster did, for a while, have a great business in renting out tapes over and over again, and I don't recall ever getting a noticeably degraded copy from them.
Python 2.7 quick reference(2013)
Reign, Supreme
More than 3 years? I would confidently wager that noticeable diminishing returns would occur after 3 days, and very significant diminishing returns after 3 weeks.
To be super pedantic, it went

1. "Macintosh System Software"

2. "Mac OS" (starting with 7.5/7.6)

3. "Mac OS X"

4. "OS X" (starting with Mountain Lion)

5. "macOS" (starting with Sierra)
I believe they are stored more efficiently, so if your data set plus indices don't fit into RAM, you may see some gains.
Do you see it replacing python for non DS? What is on Julia 2.0?
Ask: Has Microsoft spent your trust
Microsoft has spent the little trust they had earned from me with this KB in particular: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583

No matter if I hide it from the Windows Update list, it comes back as it just did.

I ruined one installation with this shady update and I've started checking every single update something I used not to do in the past.
That means there are about 70 persons on this planet currently who are not going to die?
Misleading title. It's entirely github and SO-centric and as such misrepresents C and probably C++ as well, since those languages have scads of code elsewhere.
Agreed. At the same time, it is remarkable to be an entrant and succeed in an industry which has high barriers to entry and economies of scale.
I am in the inverse position: i used JSONB when 9.4 came out. I cant speak for comparative performance, but our 8gb db server has no performance issues at all querying an unindexed jsonb column across many millions of rows.

The one "gotcha" with the column type right now is comparing hash values to certain data types can be a bit confusing at times, but simple string comparisons in arrays and hashes is relatively straight forward.
TIOBE is much more about general computing/IT, evidenced by the relatively high ranking of things like COBOL and Transact-SQL. RedMonk, in contrast, seems more focused on pure programing (or, you might even say, the "hacker" community).
A person in the US who, for example, wants to watch all but the latest season of Game of Thrones can go to iTunes and, within seconds, purchase and start watching. And it will be in better quality than the torrent which was ripped off some TV broadcast and re-compressed. iTunes is available for both Windows and Mac (plus various iOS) and is super simple to use. And the one purchase lets you either stream or download to any of your devices and watch whenever you want.

The very latest content does get artificially restricted due to various business reasons (licensing deals, etc.) and I suspect that will change over time to go to an instant-release model. Ditto for fewer geo restrictions. We're starting to see these changes more and more. For music, there are far more options available: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, etc. where one low monthly fee lets you play almost anything you want.

However, despite all this incredible ease for lots of different media, people still want content for free. Maybe the solution is to combine enforcement with an educational campaign so that people are aware of the myriad legal options available to them.
Not really. gfycat does both gifs and webm.
>This is a straw man - nobody expects perfection. For some reason there is a lot of resistance to educating the use and asking their permission.

The person I responded to specifically said waste. As in the part they find morally unacceptable is that if a developer had spent more of their time optimising their product they could have got the data use down from 20mb/hour to something less but chose not to.

If not perfection then they're still setting the bar for morally acceptable actions to be somewhere between benefitting others and perfection. So my question there would still remain. If someone developing a data wasteful product that people enjoy using is immoral, what exactly is me sitting on my couch eating doritos and watching tv? It's benefiting others far less than creating pokemon go is.

>I suspect that this game simply needed a clear warning before download and on startup that includes an estimate of the bandwidth needs.

Why this game? Or do you think all internet using apps should do this? If so why would this not be on the operating system rather than every app rolling their own version? Note that they already do measure data use and allow for restriction. If pokemon go is using between 10 and 20 mb of data per hour as the paper suggests then I'd be very surprised to learn that this is in excess of most peoples data useage per hour of internet use. Facebook, instagram, snapchat, reddit, pinterest, youtube, spotify, browsing around on ad and large header image infected news sites is standard internet use no?

>Welcome to the club. I'm offended every time a developer user resources (including data) without specific informed consent.

I don't see why informed is their responsibility and not yours. They aren't choosing to run their work on your device.

>This lack of respect for the user has grown in recent years

Why does the user of a free service deserve anything from the developer, including either the service or respect? Why does the developer owe the user respect? Where did they earn that? If they are paying for the product, why do they deserve anything more than is listed that they're paying for, of which I know at the very least for pokemon go 'respect' is not a listed item.

>They can have that level of interaction if-and-only-if they inform the user properly so the user can make informed choices, and they leave the user alone.

Why is the default that they owe the user something unless stated otherwise? Were they born with this responsibility? Was it bestowed upon them when they learned to develop? When they wrote the code? When they put it on a public accessible site? When they marketed it? I can't see at which point they start to owe complete strangers something if not at the point of contract signing.
9.3.3

10.11.6

Yes.

Previous HN discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124683

Apple info here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206902 (iOS)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206903 (OS X)
Consumer VHS VCRs could not reproduce the full fidelity of a broadcast NTSC picture. Commercial VCRs, which typically used Betamax, were better and used by broadcasters until digital took over.
Well, from now on I'll remember to interpret every cat's purr or meow as a crazed outburst of, "Blood for the blood god!"
I think this is a nonstarter. For two generations we've been failing to enforce even a moral obligation that software should work reliably.
They also weren't competing against several companies that already had an assembly line.
Maybe they're too poor to do the obvious:

Get a bunch of $100 bills, buy some tickets to MLB games (with seats at various suitable locations), pay $100 for each foul ball that a fan is willing to surrender.

I think the average kid, or adult for that matter, when given the choice of keeping a foul ball hit by some mediocre batter, or exchanging it for a crisp new Benjamin, would gladly do the trade. I certainly would, but perhaps I'm not rabid enough of a "fan".
The main duty of executives is to increase shareholder value, but their personal incentives are generally misaligned so they
abuse profit centers and undermine company future to hit short term numbers and get the bonuses.
> Regexes are almost always a massive code smell. They should almost never be used

Regular expressions are just a notation for expressing a finite state automata that recognizes a regular language: if that's the problem that you have, regular expressions are definitely the tool you want to be using. For instance, I recently made myself a small tool to compute the min/max/expected value of a dice roll; the notation for such a thing forms a regular language that can be expressed as follows:

non_zero_digit ::= '1' | ... | '9'
digit ::= '0' | non_zero_digit
integer ::= non_zero_digit digit*
modifier ::= '+' integer | '-' integer
roll ::= integer 'd' integer modifier?

Converting this grammar to a regular expression is straight-forward and was the correct tool to use.

I agree that regular expressions are often used in contexts where they should not, especially when people start using back-references to recognize non-regular languages, but don't throw out a perfectly good tool because sometimes it is ill-suited.
Well, we're in the USA. And proud of it.

Best country in the world except for broadband, health insurance, education, nutrition, university fees, longevity, infant mortality ...
Isn't monitoring of data usage of apps an OS-level issue/responsibility of the user or their parents? Why is it the fault of Niantic? Any game could easily use loads of data, and 10-20Mb/hour doesn't seem that much given what it does.
I just did another hundred (on ultimate), and got Marshtomp, Shellder, and Pawniard each twice.

Also, I got one wrong at one point (Misdreavus's silhouette was just an unrecognizable blob to me haha), but it didn't have me start over and instead just let me try the other options. Not sure if that's expected or not, but I figured I'd check, since it didn't give me a message telling me what was going on, so I thought the button wasn't working at first.

I'm still waiting to get either Voltorb or Electrode and have them both in the options. It would be literally impossible without viewing the actual image...
" This regular expression has been replaced with a substring function." I came to rely on Regex so much that I almost feel we'd be the next.
Google's doing a lot better on the whole self driving front.

At least in terms of fatalities per mile.
The juliacon videos are online. See here for Julia 2.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gXMpbY1kJY&t=1250
Let's play another game, then.

Assume that over time, you go to the neuroscientist, and they replace a very small part of your brain with artificial technology of some sort. But they do so in a way that you can not tell the difference.

You repeatedly do this, until there is no natural substances left in your brain.

If you like, you can continue with all other body parts.

Is it not you?
I don't think Uber and Tesla are competing in any way. In fact, Travis Kalanick stated he would buy half a million Teslas if they became fully autonomous[0].

[0]: http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098997_uber-ceo-to-tesl...
Many people seem to have somehow grown to an adult age without ever growing out of the teenage predilection for considering edgy, grimdark fantasies as "grown-up" and "real", despite those fantasies failing to resemble the real world at all.
When ford came on the market, it only had to be better than a horse. A tesla has to be better than a masarati on the high end, a jaguar on the "medium" end, and a subaru on the "low" end.
In S.F. startups maybe, not in the enterprise world. Enterprise is barely SOA today, they aren't going to throw 10/20 y.o. apps that still work for the latest fad. Just like MongoDB didn't replace Oracle or SQLServer just because it was hip.
batteries :)
Seems ok with Ghostery as well.
and soon you'd have monopolies seeding and the whole decentralization fades.
WebAssembly Hello World
Actually should prompt:

Retry, abort, or fail
Yes! If you own a motorcycle, you -have- to countersteer!