skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the face of so much for will

Oops, that should be good will, not for will.
I was actually hoping that this would be an article explaining how reality is literally a shared hallucination, and not just an eye grabbing metaphor for explaining how non-autistic people perceive reality.
I think it would be funny if Gwen Shotwell put "Used Rocket Salesperson" on a business card.
Best middle-out in the game.
> I'm kind of shocked that the way to program these is still just through assembly, but really not that surprised.

This is not true anymore (was in the beginning though)- there is a C/C++ compiler available.
This has been my problem with talking to the watch or phone. It is usually the internet in the area that is the problem.

Also, one thing that is relatively hard for voice recognition to distinguish is varying between two different languages. I am always cooking and words like, dashi, kombu, and gnocchi are hard to parse. There are uses of words from other languages that don't involve saying "translate x in English"
It appears to be a Australian/New Zealand English term, I guess it's abbreviated from backpackers' hostel. Somewhere along the line the apostrophe was lost, so now it's backpackers.
I think it could be free and you could monetize from businesses who need customers.
Amusingly enough, performance enhancing features like cache or a flexible interrupt controller get in the way of a system's "real-timeness", because the timing of operations is no longer clearly deterministic. That's why ARM has cores like the Cortex-R series (R as in Realtime) that do promise real-time characteristics. The Sitara in the Beagleboard has a Cortex-A (A as in Application), which is not designed for realtime.

So yeah, it's more than just the OS.
The most well-known way of determining fossil age is carbon dating[0].

[0] http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology...
> If they can't turn that $200M into a $5B+ exit, they lost.

Well, the VCs lost. Presumably, the people at Docker -- including the people who would do fantastically well with an exit that also made VCs happy -- are drawing paychecks, in some cases substantial ones, and will have in many cases done tolerably well (rather than have "lost") if no VC-friendly exit ever occurs.
The Things You Might Be Doing That Will Force Your IT Guy to Start Spying on You
Sandstorm for Work is Ready
They're really limited in terms of instruction set, making getting a compiler working tough. Programs are generally short and not too tricky to program with asm
Pick two and flip a coin.

When the coin is in the air, you will know which option you really want. Or you will go with what the coin has chosen, absolving you of the consequences of making the choice. "this restaurant sucked" "dont blame me, the coin picked it"
It's really not so bad. I was reluctant to use 1password until being forced to by work, and discovered how wonderful having a password manager is.

First off, your passphrase should only be used for the password manager itself. So if you accidentally paste it on twitter, you just change your passphrase.

Secondly, you're way more easily fooled than a password manager. I don't know my passwords (they're generated), so to phish me you have to convince 1password as well. That means e.g the google open redirect bug on HN yesterday can't trick me with a fake password page on a different domain.

Third, it makes your passwords way easier to use on mobile. Most of the managers support whatever biometric integration your phone has nowadays, so rather than trying to type your 24 character alphanumeric symbol crap (or worse, a crappy password because you didn't want to make a good one on mobile) by hand you can just paste it in.

Lastly, it encourages you to actually use separate passwords for all your accounts. And when passwords get leaked, your manager can tell you which sites need new passwords.

In conclusion, password managers improve your internet security and experience immeasurably. Go buy 1password!

- satisfied 1password customer
I'm interested in the flip side of this. How, as a consumer, can I discover cool new products from startups that Amazon thinks are noteworthy? I wish the also announced an section of the website like amazon.com/launchpadproducts where I could see a list of qualified products.
You should probably use Jupyter notebook if you don't use it already. It's great for exploratory coding like data analysis. And as the last evaluated expression of a code block is automatically printed, no need for a print statement.
I use Swype, which is significantly faster than typing - maybe a good alternative if you don't want to speak to your phone in public.

http://www.swype.com

Then I guess we'll get used to people speaking to their phones very soon, just as we got used to people talking on mobile phones back in the day.
I think that positioning Sandstorm as a productivity suite is smart. It's more concrete than "cloud operating system".
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400551 and marked it off-topic.
It's actually the literal truth if you take a quantum-mechanical view:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
>250mb of RAM for a chat app that can display 4k assets, renders every known written language under the sun side-by-side in multiple fonts, supports a stupid number of emoji, has an inline image viewer, realtime sockets kept open for notifications, includes syntax highlighting for a bunch of languages, a wysiwyg-ish editor for posts, one-on-one audio chat, and can work effortlessly with hundreds of people in a single channel

Not of what you wrote is even remotely difficult to be achieved, even in a 50MB-using native app.

In fact most of those things come for free with the OS and relevant native libs are already loaded into memory:

"renders every known written language under the sun side-by-side in multiple fonts", "supports a stupid number of emoji" (the OS font-renderer can give all that to all apps for nearly free)

"can display 4k assets", "has an inline image viewer" (I can do that in a trivial app that's 1MB or less).

"includes syntax highlighting for a bunch of languages" ...

Really, none of these features, and neither all of them combined, warrant 250mb of RAM.
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (1900)
Anyway, tech-savvy folk are more likely to setup their own file-sync server. It is the non-tech-savvy people who are the primary users of dropbox.
Pokémon Go Is Stalling Out
1Password doesn't have 2FA because it needs to decrypt your data. It does have a long "secret account" key that you need along with your password.
Researchers investigate user behaviour when unknown messages are received online
The OP seems to be talking about when two people are trying to settle this question and may have different priorities.
Exactly, our goal is to make this service something affordable for everyone. The current solutions, imho, are charging an insane amount for what they offer.

We haven't discussed this yet but it seems like a good idea, so we'll probably have a page dedicated to this where users can tell us to remove their email from our database.

Once we're in beta, our crawler will operate under a specific name which you can refer to in your robots.txt exclusion rules. We'll have an info page for this.
According to that boundless.com link, "The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, so carbon dating is only relevant for dating fossils less than 60,000 years old."
After Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO, he was still working on Apple TV
I thought Google Drive did as well, is that not the case?
It is not efficient to download Chromium for every app. I think Electron produces 60-80 MB binary files. I'm disappointed when someone uses Electron because it usually means a slow subpar experience.
You're making a weird distinction by saying "mass-market finance" as if the fundamentals of asset classes change radically depending on how they are marketed.

Stocks, as an asset class, have been around a lot longer than the 1970s, and they have on average grown a lot faster than GDP over that time.

That makes sense since stock prices measure a form of wealth, and GDP measures income. Big difference.
So we just need the Cone of Silence from Get Smart.
If a scientific article has been funded by at least 50% by the state, public establishments, local collectivities or the european union and is published in a review coming out at least once a year, the author (or authors, provided they all agree) have a right to put up, for free and in an open format, the final version of this article on the Internet.

So, not just a preprint, and yes, journal licenses forbidding such publication have now no legal value.
It does not require the author to do so.

EDIT: see answer below for a few more precisions.
We're talking a finger stick here.
Thanks for sharing that link :)
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Something for me to think about, seriously. Seeing the argument sketched out like this is illuminating as to its extent, I appreciate it.
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I think I can tell you which of those is most likely.
>In order to get the necessary data for a machine to bootstrap new criteria, wouldn't you need an independent scoring function for each sample?

Merely having an experienced human score images for them can be enough for the machine to self-discover new criteria based on the pictures and their scores.
Yes, our service will not return any webmail addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, and the like.

We will most likely have a specific page which lets users delist their email.
But from the Wikipedia about radiocarbon method: "Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years old."
It's not about "ping and traceroute"; it's about organizing and mapping the data (both logically and geographically) that come out tools like ping and traceroute.

They aren't saying they've demonstrated quantum teleportation, or anything. But for the subject matter at hand (and given that Netflix runs one of the largest CDNs in the world), it's quite impressive.
I am on a Mac - I'll check out 1Password thanks
Survey: What's the future of mobile tech?
I know. I live in an area where it is below $50k. All I'm saying is that $2000 for areas of Brooklyn that are very close to lower Manhattan is not expensive for new or recent residents. It probably is for businesses or families that have rented there for decades.
Talking can be used to send texts. People really don't seem to be getting this.
The Urban Periscope is now live on Kickstarter
Masatoshi Shima deserves more credit than anybody. He was responsible for most of the logic in the 4004 and the 8080. Should write an article that summarizes what goes on in these oral history discussions:

4004: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

8080: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

z80: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...
Not many tech-savvy people have time to set up and maintain a personal file sync service that works across their laptops, phones, and tablets.
Yeah. Statistics like that are designed to alarm rather than educate.

The reality is that world hunger has been on a steep decline over the last two decades:

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/288229/icode/

In the developing regions, the prevalence of undernourishment - which measures the proportion of people who are unable to consume enough food for an active and healthy life – has declined to 12.9 percent of the population, down from 23.3 percent a quarter of a century ago

Obviously it's far from eradicated, but amazing progress has been made.

Now, that said, I still wouldn't characterize 800M people with chronic undernourishment as "rare", but... it's not as common as you'd think, either, based on a statistic like that cited by UNICEF.
Yeah I would never ask anything crazy like "implement a binary search tree" in an interview. Our hiring is more like, look at someones resume, and if their skills generally fit what we're hiring for and they actually know the things on their resume and they don't seem extremely lazy/arrogant/(whatever personality flaw that is hard to work with), then hire. A lot of the time we bring them in to the interview and they don't actually know the things they say they did on their resume. For example, if you claim to be experienced in object oriented programming but have no clue what i'm talking about when I say words like inheritance or polymorphism, you do not actually know object oriented programming. You should also know how to do it in one of the languages you say you know on your resume (I don't care if it is the language we're hiring for, syntax can be learned quickly enough).
Fully Autonomous Cars Are Unlikely: America’s Top Transportation Safety Official
Should we start with the pied piper jokes now or later?
Listening to yourself makes a HUGE difference, in my experience. I've gotten used to recording myself for things like singing lessons, and it's been perhaps even more beneficial to replay the casual conversational exchanges with my teacher, as the singing itself.

In my case, I learned that I tend to speak in very quick bursts - get a thought out at a rapid clip, followed by a brief pause. Actively trying to measure comes across as far more intelligent I think, and I have time to think through what I'll say next.

Really hearing how many pauses, contractions, etc. you include in your regular speech helps you improve dramatically
Using radiogenic isotope geology.

Carbon dating only works on very recent things (up to a few tens of thousands of years). For older things like the earth and these fossils, slower-ticking radiometric clocks (like Uranium-Lead clocks) must be used. There was a great COSMOS episode discussing the history of it [1] but the fascinating math and science behind it is better explained for the layperson in [2].

[1] http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-ody...

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/physics/age_of_earth.html
If you relayed these sentiments to your co-founder would he understand or take offense? If your co-founder is level-headed maybe the right approach would be to say, "Look, this product is on the fast track to nowhere and it isn't doing any of us any good. Honestly, it's taking a toll on my health and it's putting a strain on our relationship. You're like family to me and I don't want that to change. I've thought about this long and hard and the way I see it, there are only two options left: we both agree to shelf this product or one of us should buy out the other. What do you want to do?"
It took them _years_ to realize there'd been a breach, even though lots of users were noting that one must have happened right at the time.

What are the odds that they actually understand how badly they were breached?
That will be great. Ocaml is great language, but not that user friendly.

Elixir is pretty mature nowadays. Reason still have a long way to go. Hope that will happen.
Electronic cigarettes are not 'more healthy' than cigarettes, they are less unhealthy. They are still unhealthy though. They are also easily lumped into the same bunch as tobacco products and their use similarly emits a cloud of nasty smell onto other people. My money is on the future of electronic cigarettes being a very short one.
This is true, but you may have to go through hundreds of search results in order to find the right email. Also, we use extensive pattern matching which would be very hard to mimic through a search query.

In a sense, our service just saves you a lot of time from finding and then verifying an email.
I'm sure there is an real-time version of Linux that would work on the ARM, but these systems still have worst-case scheduling latencies of around 100us, and around 10us in just normal operation.

So they are perfectly fine for some subset of real-time tasks, where you just need some sort of guarantee like "this thread will not be starved of CPU for 10 milliseconds". But that kind of latency and jitter isn't going to work out when you want to generate something like a fast PWM signal or send out audio over I2S in software or generally do any task that relies on reproducible (fast) timings. You could connect a servo to your real-time Linux generated PWM signal and it would tremble like it's drunk.

And honestly, modern beefy ARM cores like the BeagleBone uses have been tuned for throughput above everything else that you will find it extremely difficult to get anywhere near the timing that a PRU can do and still have anything resembling a useful system.

There's a nifty presentation from TI [1] where they have the ARM core do nothing but toggle one of it's GPIOs and it takes 200ns for that to go through all the various layers of caches, pin muxing, buses, interconnects, what have you. And that's a GHz processor!

1: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/images/3/34/Sitara_boot_camp_p...
> Good for people who need said thing,

Which is everyone.

> bad for people holding said thing.

Not really. The whole idea behind commodification is that prices should drop to the minimum sustainable level. Sustainable means a return on investment that is appropriate for the risk taken.

Electricity could be $20 a kW/hr and we'd all pay it. But I'm sure you don't say that it's "bad for power companies" that they can only charge $0.12 a kW/hr.
A very perverse incentive: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/13/what-incentivizes-profess.... It also creates an incentive to avoid anything that could be considered remotely controversial, as I discovered the hard way a while ago. I was fine, but I didn't have to be.
Gladly:

X = 'you on Tuesday'
Y = 'a hamburger today'
If I remember correctly, Brent's variation considers both the chain of the element being inserted, and the chains for the elements being swapped, and then does a dynamic program to decide exactly what to swap. It sacrifices some insertion efficiency for fewer expected probes for lookups.
Smoke a big fat fattie before rolling into the interview. Eat three pages out of Cracking the Coding Interview for breakfast. This is how I got my jobs at Google, Facebook, and now currently a senior research fellow at MSFT.
Something to consider, how about having the ability to delist domains?

I have a few domains that I use as pre-spam filters so that I can see immediately if my email address was spammed. e.g., I receive an email addressed to sun.com@myhappydomain.com but it's advertising something along the lines of rutabaga hentai.

If I could remove myhappydomain.com completely, that would be a happy making thing.
At least those guys know it's not encrypted.
While it has already been cleared out, I would just like to point to this, from wiktionary:

organic ‎(comparative more organic, superlative most organic)

1. (biology) Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
> However, to filter out the low quality junk and avoid every garage warrior trying to sell their flavor of homemade barbeque sauce, the products have to come from "the approved network"[1] that includes firms such as a16z, Accel Partners, etc.

In other words, Amazon will give preferential advertising space to those well-connected with the Silicon Valley elite.
(disclaimer: I work on speech recognition for mobile devices)

The experiment setup is a little weird here. The participants were given a set of pre-created phrases to type/speech. At least for English, the phrase set [1] contains utterances like

"circumstances are unacceptable"

…which contains rare but in-vocabulary words. That makes it hard for keyboard input (hard for humans to spell long words, hard for touch input to predict unlikely words) but very easy for speech recognition (no other word sounds like "circumstances"). And that test set is so old that it's very likely that the speech recognizer from the experiment (or any state of the art speech recognizer) has already been trained on those sentences.

The utterances being pre-selected is also unfortunate. When users are given a sentence to speak ahead of time, they tend not to hesitate or stutter. They also speak faster than when they're trying to think of something to say on the fly, which is more typical of text input on mobile devices.

All that being said, it's certainly true that you can often input text very quickly with speech recognition, and it's getting better every day. :)

[1] http://www.yorku.ca/mack/PhraseSets.zip
I am not an expert, but in my brief experimentation, I am a fan of the Torch API. It's focused on modules that you can easily build and combine together in very open ended ways. I have no idea what the best method would be though.
Murdering someone would prevent them from committing suicide. Being suicidal is not quite the same as wishing to be murdered.

As far as I know, suicide (or self-euthanasia) does not have a settled, common ethical ground. Some cultures abhor it, and some expect it. A few have some problems with the occasional suicide-by-murderous-rampage. Thus, any "universal" ethics would not be able to answer any questions about it in a consistent way.

Suicide is a corner case, anyway. The above 4 rules can probably handle at least 80% of ethical dilemmas without much additional thought.

Certainly, if you think you would like to know whether a government or multinational is acting against your interests, and you discover evidence of it in your employer, you should sever your relationship by rule #1, blow the whistle by rule #2, and try to remain anonymous by rule #4. Additionally, the worst retaliation you should fear is to have your own bad behavior outed to the public, by rule #3. But you already know your employer is unethical, so who knows what they might do to you?

The world would probably be a better place without rule #4, but that's describing what we are, not what we wish to be.
I want to help him. And it is partly for this reason that I want this project to be successful.

So, it sounds like some important information is missing. And it sounds like you are doing this as charity for him. That is not likely to result in a viable business.
Perhaps to signal affordability.
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BrowserLab: Automated regression detection for the web
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What did you do?
This is what I was getting at - from the information at hand, the mother's classification seemed to be the definition i.e. She had 100% accuracy because whatever she classified was the right answer
geez, privacy.com, I wonder how much that domain cost.

I'm using a card from getfinal.com, which appears to be the same idea. So far so good, though it's not 100% disposable, I still have a plastic card who's number is no easier to change than a chase card.
It would be nice if they adopt it fully first.
The UK uses a mish mash of units depending on the subject and circumstances of your measurement.

I wouldn't be surprised if the plumbing association of Wales mandates that the length of drainage pipes over 15 inches in diameter but no more than 1.5 meters in diameter should be measured in cubits.
It works really well for a first draft if you just ignore what was already there. You can add notes / metadata, but just keep talking as you go. Mentally I think speaking just sits in another area as people who have trouble writing can act out a story with hand puppets for their kids in real time.

At the end you end up with something that takes minimal effort to get into a readable first draft state. And after that it's just editing.
(Why people think that's attractive, I don't know; given the absurd prices, it's a drop in the ocean if you intend to live in the same place for a while.)

My impression is that a lot of people in conventional, market-rate NYC housing move ever 1 – 3 years and concomitantly try to keep their "stuff" (http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html) footprint small and mobile. I wonder if companies like Campaign Living (http://www.campaignliving.com/) will help this general trend.