skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complete failure of IT privacy in the US proves that voting with your dollar and voice doesn't work. The very existance of companies like Google, Facebook and thousands of others whose main purpose if data analytics proves that.

While your opinion sounds balanced at first sight (let's allow customers to choose...), it is in fact completely misguided. Such arguments have been used by many harmful industries such as tobacco and food producers pushing HFCS and other damaging foods or additives.

They know they can let the customer choose, because without regulation they can out-advertise, out-market and outwit all but the most savvy consumers. And even they can't escape due to network effects and lobbying.

No. Privacy should be regulated to the point that companies think 10 times before gathering one additional piece of information and then decide against it because they know they will be fined 50% of their profits when they fuck up.
Bourne in the latest movie looks much more tired and cynical than he used to be. In the first three movies he was actively trying to find out the truth about his past. Now he's like "Why the hell are you dragging me back into this shit. Leave me alone. I've had enough."

Besides, Alicia Vikander can't seem to keep her mouth shut whenever she's on the screen. I think her character more than compensates for everyone else's lack of dialogue.
lmgtfy: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/is-lyft-headed-toward...
The Chinese are cute. They win in their home country but nowhere else.
Can you get an uber black? UberX is not allowed to pick up at airports in some markets, but I'll settle for Uber black over having to deal with taxis.
It looks quote nice and well done :)

Unfortunately I am not in that kind of business but I am into IoT and I would like to ask you a question.

Do you store every single message received from those parts? If yes how? If no, why?

Good luck
Interesting. Resembles MinSpeak in a lot of ways.
I gave a short, semi-technical explanation of how Barliman performs synthesis in my answer to `YeGoblynQueenne`. I'm not sure if that description answers your question, though.

I agree that relatively modest synthesis could be useful; exploring modest synthesis is why I made Barliman, although I hope Barliman's synthesis can be made less modest! :)
Quote:

This is the second of a two-part post following my stay
on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Part 1 talked
about what I saw and learned - the layout of a carrier,
how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions
in context of the other ships around it (the strike
group.) But the biggest learning was the realization
that disruption is not just happening to companies,
it’s also happening to the Navy. And that the Lean
Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption
and create continuous innovation for large commercial
organizations were equally relevant here.
Although I agree with you, I'd say it's just as much because of massive apathy as lack of informed consent.

I can't even bring myself to use Facebook with how little I trust them with my information, but my friends are comfortable logging every place they go in it for the whole world to see? I can't live in this world...
I have something similar to that too!

Mine is based on an R-Pi that I've got an RFID card reader hanging off, which triggers playback of music in Kodi (aka XBMC)

Here's a video demo I made ages ago of a very early version (before I learned how to capture the RFID reader prior to Kodi/XBMC grabbing it, which allowed me to eliminate the MK802 device): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyq2xqjHW0

My toddler loves it and thinks that the standard interface for playing music is to select a card from the magnetic board and swipe it against the reader.

As a special bit of fun, I've also cut open some cards and bit the RFID loop into a few of her toys. When she swipes them the appropriate theme tune plays.

I worked on the system recently to add a web interface to manage the playlists and cards, but I haven't made the code available on github yet. Though I do have a repo with the old version here: https://github.com/Fuzzwah/xbmc-rfid-music
I wonder if we could put FFOS on this phone. I still think the FF model of "everything is a web page" would lead to a pretty magical end goal, first set out by Smalltalk VMs. But I am not using a phone with a laggy keyboard.
> it seems to be used too much these days, and in many cases by individuals or companies that would not have issues getting funding through traditional channels

I have seen this a lot, people suggesting that it is somehow wrong or destructive to use Kickstarter unless you have no other options.

Why? What if he just likes Kickstarter, it works well for his funding and pre-order needs, and his audience is familiar with it? Why should he stop using something that works to cobble together some other system that does the same thing? Why should he use a 20th century funding strategy and business structure when we live in a time when you can just fill out a form, press a button, and then run a business out of your kitchen? Isn't that kind of the dream?

The only argument I've heard is that it somehow takes revenue away from other more constrained Kickstarters. I guess the idea is that people go onto Kickstarter with a fixed budget and choose some number of projects to back within that budget.

But I have doubts that "is this within my budget for Kickstarter projects?" is a common purchasing constraint. And there is also the fact that by putting his projects on Kickstarter, he is repeatedly drawing his customer base to the site, many of whom will then browse for other related content, thus increasing the funding for other projects.
there's not enough bandwidth. it's a marketing lie.
I think mbesto's list was supposed to highlight the fact that a large number of China's top companies are state owned.
It's going fast, if you read the papers on arXiv, but if you're checking Siri from time to time, I agree with you that it seems to be stagnating. We're not that far from agents that can much more meaningfully interact in language.
Nokia did it before the iPhone. everyone hated them. Apple is smarter. they first get the monopoly, then they screw the users
the 30% tax break holds also if you are a one man company (zzp) ?
Heh, the Phoenix picture is impressive but that's every July-September for us - it's monsoon season. We get massive, violent storms that last a very short time, dump a massive amount of water on the city, and then are clear skies before you know what even happened.

If anything, it's been a particularly tame year this year. We've had a few good storms, but we haven't even gotten close to our annual flash floods.
Agreed. In Beijing/Shanghai I've always preferred subway to Taxi or ridesharing services, except when it's terribly bad weather and I have to talk over 1km or so, or when I carry tons of luggages.
I think this may be correct. What kind of mother pens an article to the Guardian about how her daughter is dumb, blames it on her husband, and holds nightly reading lessons that make her child cry? Certainly an overbearing one. It sounds like she's doing more harm than good at this point.
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Since this seems to have caught some interest I may as well share the github repo where I've got my (dodgy) code:

https://github.com/Fuzzwah/mplayer-web-mouse-control
The Android permissions system has changed a lot in Marshmellow. Now the system ask for your permission when an app actually requests personal information, not when you install an app for the first time.

It's still inferior to Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard feature that can silently revoke permissions without the app being aware of it, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
Are you a US citizen, or Aus?

How do you deal with the visa?

I want to move to thailand for an unknown amount of time but the visa seems like more than I would care to deal with. Don't want to have to do visa runs and all of that.
I think the down votes are because you could install Linux instead. Which is not owned by Apple or Google.
Kagi, old-school software payment processor, abruptly goes out of business
The great leap has been in reinforcement learning - learning to behave in an environment, with AlphaGo and even robotics.
Intero is amazing for this.
Horrifying. Who cares if she's book smart?

There are many kinds of intelligence!
Would you pay for it?

http://www.lispworks.com/products/capi.html
How the mindset of devops is evolving
According to the Verge [1] : "The most powerful Ubuntu phone is still not good enough, The Meizu Pro 5 has the Galaxy S6's processor, but not its performance"

[1] : http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097126/meizu-pro-5-ubunt...
Same here, for almost the same reasons (down to wife being Bulgarian). I would add that the girls are quite hot too (it has been a driving force in my life up to before marriage).
> Yes, it's cool that you can identify pictures or have a program read your handwriting, but none of that gets us any closer to a program that behaves like a human when I tell it to do something

Yes it does. Humans didn't just emerge out of the aether. We evolved from animals that first had to perform simple tasks like that. Our brains are still heavily based on networks of simple pattern recognition neurons. We just don't know how they are structured, or have enough computing power. But it's definitely progress.

As proof, we are starting to get neural networks that can do complex language understanding tasks. RNNs are the state of the art at tasks like predicting the next word, and make interesting chatbots.

Obviously they aren't human level, but they only have 1,000 neurons. Humans have billions! They don't even have episodic memory yet, it's amazing they can do language at all. But research on that is just starting. Give it time.
The US economy is 70% larger than China's, it should have far larger companies. The US also has vastly larger multi-nationals, that have between 30 years and a century of lead time in competing for / capturing international markets - once again, it makes perfect sense that the US should have more mega-corps. The US also has a vastly more evolved economy, including an extremely large services segment (which China is currently attempting to clone as their manufacturing continues to contract). As China develops the services side of its economy, you'll see dramatic consolidation in the number of mom & pop shops, leading to large service companies (which is why KFC is so massive in China; if this were 20 or 30 years later, China's service sector would have already produced it domestically at scale).
I argue that on the go board, it did understand meaning and intent. It had a very nuanced appreciation for go positions, and demonstrated creativity. The critics were shocked, even felt like it had a personality.
Let's put it like this... what can you express in JSON that you couldn't express in TOML?
> Let’s talk about code as data, shall we? What enables that? Of course, it’s the s-expressions and prefix notation.

s-expressions and prefix notation are orthogonal concepts. Nothing in the definition of s-expressions says it uses prefix notation. S-expressions are just a data format and its external notation.

> But we won’t want to write a macro that simply sits at the beginning of an s-expression and takes in a bunch of arguments, because then we could just write a function.

Functions and prefix notation are also unrelated concepts.
Lisp syntax uses prefix notation, but not everything is a function call. There are also Lisp variants, which don't use prefix notations, but still have s-expressions and even macros,

Take a lambda expression: (lambda (a b) (* a b (+ a b)))

It has a lambda symbol in prefix position, but it is not a function call.

> So the very first thing you do with your macro powers, and pretty much the only useful thing you can do, is break s-expressions.

Which is nonsense. Macros don't break s-expressions.

> Every future macro must account for every previous macro

Which is also nonsense. The typical macro expansion mechanism takes care of that most of the time.

> Once the first macro is written you can no longer assume that inputs to macros will be s-expressions with the function at the beginning and arguments following.

Well, now we not only have special forms (!), functions, lambda expressions, etc., but also macros. The main difficulty now is: more syntax and even user-defined syntax.

> First-class functions are a much more coherent, consumable way of using code-as-data.

Which are unrelated concepts.

> Most of the features of Common Lisp I actually want are in other languages now. Garbage collection? REPLs? First-class functions? Higher-order functions? They’re all in other languages now. Python, for example has all those things.

There are cars which have wings, can swim, etc. But that does not make them especially useful, say, to bring the kids to school every morning. The raw assembly of features is not the point, it's their integration for certain use cases.

> Wright-brothers style planes today and we shouldn’t use Common Lisp just because it was first to have those things.

Common Lisp wasn't first. CL was defined 26 years (in 1984) after Lisp (1958) was invented and standardized after ten years more work (1994).

> But I tend to think that learning functional programming is the part that people are referring to,

Not really. One can learn functional programming with much simpler languages. Legions of students used simple Lisp dialects/subsets to learn some FP concepts. See SICP (and many other books/courses) - which doesn't use macros, btw.

> and frankly, there are better languages in which to learn functional programming. Haskell, Standard ML, or OCaml would be a better choice.

Since Common Lisp was never designed to enforce or advance statically-typed Functional Programming, it's only logical that it is not particular good at it.
Const Correctness
7bn is 20% of the 35bn.
Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript Engine Comes to Linux, MacOS
Home. In Lyon, France, because my friends are the most important asset.

I've also chosen my coworking space ("Ecoworking") based on the awesomeness of the community and the variety of entrepreneurs (NGOs, architects, book writers, motion designers, etc). I'm a software editor.

If it were only for the quality of living, I'd be in the south of France (Nice), but the coworking space I met there wasn't friendly. Besides, the cost of living is much lower in Lyon, notably because the car isn't necessary.
Show HN: Functional Programming Interactive Tutorial for Kids
And of course infamously Google and Facebook dominate most of the planet, but can't compete in China (and Baidu can't manage to do much outside of China).
I had been selling through these guys continuously for the past 19 years... well, I guess the Newton OS gravy train[1] is finally over.

[1]: http://www.fivespeedsoftware.com
Yes, and how nothing was mentioned in mainstream media.
A note to the parents: This tutorial's goal is to teach the kids the foundations of functional programming, in a fun and interactive way. It is mostly based on Clojure and LISP.

The code snippets are interactive. It is supposed to be fun for kids to play with that.
I can't share the set itself but can tell you a portion of it was made up of scans of open-source website template that we've hand picked based on popularity and quality and then labelled using Crowd Flower. The minimum we are looking to achieve is websites that can compete with anything you might find on Themeforest or Wordpress.
Uber was never going to win as a foreign tech company in China. Good thing they are doing this, at least they get a piece of the pie the only way you can in China - as an investor.
Tesla has to overcome a major problem for its massive new Gigafactory to succeed
> Windows for that is very powerful, the UI goes quite a long way.

Fine for doing the basics (slowly)... Until you need to do something even semi-powerful, then you will curse the lack of a good CLI.

I find in Windows that because most programs don't actually support a CLI at all, it's actually impossible to do lots of stuff that I'd like to do.

Plus I get a nice feeling when I can put together an elegant little sed (or whatever) command to do exactly what I need to do in seconds. The learning curve is high but the satisfaction is great, same as learning programming.

I can see how having to google for commands is a bridge too far for some people, but I get much more annoyed having to do extra mouse clicks everywhere than having to google a command that I can hopefully find a use for later as well.

Source: linux user who is forced to use windows all day at work.
It's not much of a defeat. They get billions of dollars from a market they were never going to be allowed to dominate to begin with. The only outcome from day one for Uber was being forced out of China, no different than the problems Amazon / Google / Facebook / eBay have all run into in being prevented from competing normally in that market as they do in the rest of the world.
Hello,

>We're at a 8 digit dollar valuation here after just 2 years of hard work

and

>Zero financing rounds

Are a contradiction. Valuation isn't something you come up with your executive team or your accountant, it's the number that is deduced from an investmenet or an acquisition.

Also, valuation is by no way a measure a success, the real measure of success for a company is the amount of profit.
We don't need to match 1 artificial neuron for 1 biological neuron. An artificial neural network doesn't have to be implemented in a self-replicating body as our brain does. It doesn't have to carry its biological baggage into the computational aspects. Our brain are part of a process of evolution - the specific requirements for that goal impose huge restrictions on it. On the other hand, in a computer, we can have perfect neurons that don't age or degrade, with any structure we want, scalable to a higher degree. We have already seen in image recognition and go play super-human performance, I expect all domains to be conquered soon. Consider go - they started on this project only 2-3 years ago and already AI has overgrown humans. It doesn't need a lot of time to learn once it is created.
There are a lot of cities where any Uber is available outside of airport only.
What unread books can teach us (2015)
Singapore.

Aside from the obvious ease of doing business bit, I like the rule of law, weather, food, infrastructure, people and values (both Singaporean, and the expat community), low COL (for a developed country), international outlook, English as first and main language, ease of flying to cool places including the PRC and Japan, and the jungle in the middle that you can trek in any time also has a place in my heart. It's a great "home".
That is a really extreme definition of externalized costs in my view. No one is literally forced to run the same software as someone else.

By extending the definition of 'force' to include 'being inconvenienced' we cheapen and muddy an important concept. Asking your colleague to convert a Word doc to a different format is inconvenient. But forcing compliance for something via fines, jail time etc. - essentially at gunpoint - is a much more serious affair, even if the person being forced is the CEO of one of those evil privacy-violating corporations.
Interesting fact: Uber China's Senior VP (Liu Zhen) and Didi's President (Liu Qing, or Jean Liu) are cousins.
The cult of DevOps
Analog GPS: Scrolling Wrist and Car-Mounted Maps of the Roaring 20s and 30s
If the odds aren't long enough to be met with a bit of a snicker, it's not a moonshot.
> “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there. Getting to profitability is the only way to build a sustainable business that can best serve Chinese riders, drivers and cities over the long term.”

Hm. This makes me wonder if their strategy for doing that is price fixing. The merger lets them do that legally.

Are there any other serious players in the market in China?
Kudos to you. I'm in a similar situation where while working remotely I have decided to stay in my home town with family, so they don't age alone.
What's the goal of a "Find my iPhone" attack? Ransomware?

Also puzzled that the attacker manages to guess the victim's password (described as complex). In my experience, 3 incorrect login attempts on iCloud block the site for a while.

Is there more to this story?
Creating a Culture of Observability
The new documentary "Branching Paths" covers the independent part of the contemporary industry and the interactions between the older "doujin" model and the newer Western-inspired "indie" concept.

[0] http://indiegames.com/2016/07/branching_paths.html
As of Android 5, there is only ART, which is no different than using Go, D, or any other AOT compiled language with a GC enabled runtime.

Also many Scopes are actually written in either JavaScript, or QML with C++ and Go as possible code-behind languages.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/scopes/

So overall the runtime requirements aren't much different, unless you are writing a pure Qt/C++ scope (without QML).
Then why aren't the big problems with simple solutions solved already? If your answer is something along the lines of "politics", or "coordination is hard", or "people are stupid", I'd argue that those factors are part of the problem and a solution should account for them.
Australia.

Foremost because it's always been 'home'. I grew up here and it's where my family and friends are.

There's plenty of space to explore and enjoy outside. I love having so many great beaches, places to mountain bike and go bush walking.

There's clean drinking water, unpolluted air, have a pretty decent healthcare system and healthy work culture. Speaking of culture, I'm yet to come across another culture that's as laid back and easy going.

At the same time, I take advantage of being 'location-independent' and travel frequently. In the past year I've explored Vietnam by motorbike, been surfing in central Australia, gone skiing in New Zealand, road tripped around California, Nevada & Arizona as well as spending some time just soaking up the culture in Japan.
Smalltalk used "everything is native".

As someone that used Smalltalk, HTML/CSS with JavaScript glue surely isn't what Smalltalk had for its GUI.
There's been some talk about digital preservation of games and other software. I wonder if there are ant international projects on digital preservations.
What were those for? I could never figure it out.
>chief executive of Uber wrote in a blogpost obtained by Bloomberg.

You mean obtained it, like it isn't available to the general public or something? Did they let you make a copy or was it FYEO?
How to Deal with COTS Products in a DevOps World
The numpy array is a great data structure. I know it's not python but I wanted to plug our attempt at this for the jvm, nd4j:

http://nd4j.org/tensor

We have a java wrapper:

https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j

Scala:

https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4s

And underlying c++:

https://github.com/deeplearning4j/libnd4j

We heavily dog food it in our deep learning library but we're hoping this can be more broadly useful for people.
You're going to "love" this little guy: http://txti.es/barry/xml

Only slightly better is the JSON counterpart: http://txti.es/barry/json
This is a pretty good way to go. I wrote the software for a 40ish node lighting control network built with NodeMCU boards. The software was C++ via the Arduino IDE, it all worked out pretty well.
State of Cloud Instance Provisioning
Ubuntu Touch actually runs parts of Android in the LXC container. Maybe this is why is not very memory efficient.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/static/devportal_uploaded/13698...
You've probably played a Naughty Dog game. They use Scheme as the scripting language, but their PS1 games were written entirely in a Lisp.

…except it didn't have garbage collection. Lisp weenies are all GC weenies too, right? Is that acceptable?