skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the automakers, and the business reports, are missing the point of the Tesla (again). They think it's about simply making a car that has a better {thing} than Tesla, whether that is range or the size of the touchscreen or even the number of cars they can pump out. It's not. There is a reason that Tesla had 400,000 pre orders for the Model 3 and it's not because it has a cool key.

Tesla is bringing all of the pieces together in a way that no current automobile manufacturer will. Could an existing car company (Toyota, Chevy, Porsche, etc.) beat the Tesla at the EV game? Maybe. But I think its far more likely that we are witnessing a paradigm shift and the existing companies are like the carriage makers in the early 1900's trying to compete with the Model T. How many vehicles to you see on the road built by the Frey Carriage Company?
See also this article from a different source about the same study, posted here with lots of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443629
Based on the numbers in the article, the fake accounts generated about $1 each on average. Based on my experience being charged fees much larger than $1 by banks, it seems like the vast majority of the accounts must have generated no fees.

I can easily see how that would happen. As a bank user, some line item in my statement with $0 in it wouldn't raise any eyebrows to me. And if I did get charged a fee, they would probably remove it if I complained. Even if my complaint got escalated, what are the odds it would be attributed to a system problem and not just some idiot who forgot he signed up for an account?
I think you misunderstand the magnitude of the problem.
Put it another way: will you carry the burden of chronic credit bubbles through decades of reduced economic activity? Everyone, including good financial actors, will share in collateral damage. The resulting unemployment will make existing debt harder to pay off, and there's A LOT of it!

http://i.imgur.com/yU9b1Ta.png

These things really, really shouldn't happen in the first place, but when they do, the systemic effects should be prioritized over individual gains.
Frankly cooked fish is less than irrelevant in judging a sushi joint.
I never became a fan of Hipmuk but may check them out again.

I use:

1. Expedia. Recently had a problem that they never issued me an eticket. Had to confirm with the airline directly that I actually have a ticket!

2. Vayama. Really like them. Good tool. Can be time consuming to change a ticket.

3.Book directly at airline. God idea, especially considering the problems laid out at #2. Not. Never book a ticket in a 3rd world country directly at the airline. I learned it the hard way!

4. Dohop. Quite unknown but I really like it. Use it a lot recently.

5. Swoodoo for the EU

And yeah, googles ITA.
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printfs are usually good. However when you deal with complex realtime multithreaded processes, sometimes high priority thread just pre-empts the printf, so you need to use somekind of flush statements ...this delays overall operations. In such cases debuggers are good 'to some extent'. I still haven't found the best way to debug hard realtime multithreaded applications
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Canned food afaik. The seals contained lead back then.
That can't be right. Perhaps it includes people who live in a house owned by their family?
I'm more curious about Snowden's reaction to its accuracy.

I wonder if he was contacted by Oliver Stone, and what story he did tell, because from the trailer you can't really see anything really new.
as someone else mentioned: zoho. I think it's $2.5/month for unlimited domains connected to one mailbox.
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Does "trained not to gamble" means "SHOOT ON SIGHT" in your mind? Because that's what it sounds like. If in every situation the cop has to not gamble, that means he has to shoot everytime. That doesn't sound right to me. It _shouldn't_ sound right to you.
It does not equate anything. It describes the correlation and steps to not waste huge talents. In fact it does say they do not know exactly why some highly intelligent people do not achieve much.

It is surprisingly easy to waste talent. For example, get a gifted person through standard school and they will likely never extend enough to achieve full potential, often by growing lazy and coasting. Or push them into a wrong field, they will do good but not exceptional.

See, if your niece was challenged enough, she would probably place more value on achievement and thus achieve more. It is a positive feedback loop. The correct approach is to give them as much challenge as they can take. Evaluating where this point is takes some major interpersonal skills and experience.

Emotional support is a necessary ingredient as well so that failures do not break them and they remain human.
But lots of things seem obviously true but turn out to be wrong or problematic. It is nice to get more than one opinion.
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This isn't 'arbitrary obsolescence'. Your four year old ipad works just as well as it did yesterday I'm sure. You just can't run swift playgrounds.
That tamed mink is absolutely relaxed. Such an animal would likely serve as an excellent pet, but the regulatory and cultural obstacles are almost certainly insurmountable.

Even genetic evolution moves faster than our regulatory system!
So, one of the complexer part of Java isn't completely finished, and they want to postpone the release instead of releasing something buggy. I'm fine with that. Everybody survived with Java6 for half a decade as well. And three years with Java7.
Take a look at the competition. There is no single part of TFS that isn't done much better elsewhere.

The only reason it still exists as a product is because of Microsofts sales force, not it's own qualities.
Probabilities could be correctly applied only for fully observable and well defined cases like of an unbiased dice or a fair coin. Everything else is a misapplication and should be regarded as a type error.

Frequency based approach is the right tool, but it could explain nothing about the partially observable phenomena, except partial statistics of the outcomes observed so far.

Attempts to derive any causal relationships from statistics of a partially observed phenomena which is not fully understood and well-defined is unscientific and is the source of so many misleading "studies" and overconfident decisions and policies.

The observations that the sun is raising each day on the east does not tell anything about whether or not and why it will raise there tomorrow. Only physics offer a causal explanation.
I'd guess that Google switching the Android IDE from Eclipse to IntelliJ had a pretty big effect on usage numbers.
Fantastic book and would be in the top reads I've ever had. Super cheap from Penguin too.
Why you should read “Weapons of Math Destruction”
Using the numbers in the graph, if you make 1 billion you would have 580 mio. after taxes in Denmark and 720 mio. in UK. The difference is huge in absolute numbers but relatively it is not. I doubt that entrepreneurs would have any less drive or motivation to succeed because of this difference.

> Christensen and Fornais (Saxo Bank), Jesper Buch (Just Eat), Mads Peter Veiby (M1), Lars Tvede, Toke Kruse (billys), Martin Thorborg (Jubii/Amino/Dinero/Agera)

Most of these are liberalists who happens to be entrepreneurs. They also all belong to the commercial/business type of entrepreneurs.
Suffering appears as a quintessential natural function, that is minimized as time diverges...
A more secure way of running PHP?
Reading about the ww2 Arctic convoys has the same feeling.
None of these do proper bitcode. And once they do, the managed runtimes will be slow as molasses.
While I don't have any of this kind of device, I bought a Dropcam a few years ago, when they were new, without knowing that they stored everything on their servers. I was mortified, and immediately got rid of it. I feel like a home webcam is at least on par with this device in terms of how profound the invasion of privacy is.

That said, in this case, a lot of the stuff the device does couldn't readily be done without some sort of connection to a server in the cloud, I would think. I mean, Bluetooth can handle the local controls (and probably should, when available), but even the remote control app for my Fire TV phones home rather than using a local link; and that's a situation where I'm guaranteed to be in the same room with the device when I want to control it from my phone. But, they should be really clear about how much information they're passing around and where it ends up.

That was what upset me most about the Dropcam...I read the box, saw it had all the features I wanted, but no mention of, "BTW-We'll also be sending every video over the Internet to our servers, where we will sell you access to that data." I think one shouldn't have to guess about how a company implements stuff like this, particularly if there are other, non-privacy infringing, ways to implement the features. Hopefully they'll be more clear about it in the future.
I think that may be the difference. Public transportation in Europe is generally much better than it is in the U.S. In most of America, you can sort of get around using busses but for the most part, you have to have some sort of personal transportation. And our bus system is not really designed/built for normal people everyday travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
It's not just for deep learning, it's for any computer vision research.

Synthetic datasets have been used in the past too, but this makes it much more accessible.
> Past practice lacked in some regards

This seems like a rather mild interpretation. As for the effective addressing of safety issues, it was not that long ago that the USAF last "lost" nuclear weapons [1]. (The weapons were in fact in USAFs possession, but no one knew were they were, or even that they weren't where they should have been. During this time the weapons were not handled according to the normal procedures.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...
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hmm has anyone tried such global karma that determines default comment ranking? IMHO it could work only if its on something like a logarithmic scale.

Else people that tend to create substantial on-point comments will get swamped with say funny or snarky one-liner producers even worse than now, as those are much easier to digest and, being devoid of opinion, much easier to upvote.
> how does one draw the most talented researchers to work for a small group of people with minimal pay over working for a large company with a high salary and all the computational resources you might need? And what kind of product could theoretical research produce in the short term that would keep a startup afloat long enough to come up with ground breaking ideas?

I think the short answer is, you don't. Between Google, OpenAI, Facebook, Baidu, Microsoft, IBM, and every other startup that is putting "deep learning" in their pitch deck to see what happens, there's enough money being pumped into the area. 90% of the results of that money being spent will be made available to everyone in the world for free. IE, if you're investing for competitive advantage, you will lose. If you're not already on one of those teams or studying the subject, I don't see any opportunity for at least a year, maybe 2.

To be clear, I'm talking about opportunities around starting a new company. If your business is consulting or you're working as an engineer for an existing company, there are many applications for deep learning, but none that stand on their own.

In 2 years, content generation will be a big thing. Like pandora with purely algorithmically generated music, or games with assets that create themselves in a way far superior to what we see in the current generation of "procedural generation". The big cos will have very good versions of Siri, but no startup is going to be able to touch that near term.
Well, fair enough. I do stand by my language quibble for reasons stated, namely that new math research does move the needle from time to time. Understatement about the security of tokens is just courteous. But thanks for putting this in perspective.
MSX wasn't a company; it was a platform promoted by multiple companies, many of them Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX#Manufacturers lists, for the original MSX:

"Spectravideo, Philips, Al Alamiah, Sony, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Hitachi, National, Panasonic, Canon, Casio, Pioneer, Fujitsu General, Yamaha, JVC, Yashica-Kyocera, GoldStar, Samsung/Fenner, Daewoo/Yeno, Gradiente, Sharp/Epcom, Talent, Frael."

AGE Labs
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I haven't used IRC aggressively in over 15 years. What's with the double hashes I now see on the front of channel names? Is one hash no longer enough?
I understand why a parent would want to raise a super-smart children (which makes the title a click-bait) but from where I stand I'd wish to see more people being interested in raising socially responsible children. IMHO we are abundant in (technical) smarts but very low on social/emotional ones.
Might be other problems though with a tame but undomesticated animal. Do they smell bad? Can they control their bladders etc? Carry pests or other undesirable bacteria etc?
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> What happens if you don't pay your taxes? Eventually you will be arrested.

At least where I'm from, no you won't. Your debt to the state will grow and eventually they'll try to repossess it (through e.g. wage garnishing). They can't arrest you for not paying taxes.
> Why not directly ask the customers?

As you correctly suggest, "it's quite private" and users don't openly discuss their turn-ons with strangers.
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Looks nice but what's the difference between this and a folder with bookmarks?
this isn't related to anything, but out of personal curiosity can you tell me whether you are a manager? (you can mail me at the link in my profile, if you don't want to reply here for whatever reason). I'm just curious and have no follow-up either way. thanks.
Tell me about it. I was one of those "precocious" children - I consistently tested years ahead of my peers, did state exams several years early, went to university several years younger than my peers.

Pressure. So much damn pressure. "Madaxe, don't you think it's disappointing that you didn't come first in all of your exams? Blankety blank is a stupid boy. He shouldn't have beaten you in blank. Are you stupid too?"

I never cared about achievement - just about knowing more, understanding why everything was as it was, how everything works - I ended up studying physics, because "because atoms" didn't cut it. All my parents and my schools cared about was achievement. Stop asking questions, study the material we gave you. "But it's wrong." "We know. Doesn't matter. Learn it anyway.".

The bit at the end of TFA about emotional intelligence vs academic intelligence is very true - my parents and the boarding schools which raised me put emphasis only on academic achievement. The fact that I was setting fire to things and torturing other kids apparently wasn't too important, and just warranted more beatings, and more pressure.

As an adult, I have the emotional intelligence of a cucumber and am conflict avoidant in the extreme. Whatever benefit having a superior intellect might have granted me I am hell-bent upon squandering, as I learned long ago to be ashamed of and resent my intelligence. People hate you if you are academically gifted. It's much easier to pretend to be a dullard.
It's about return on time invested. As an IoT company we got super excited after we decided to bump our chip from one that has 64kB instead of 32kB. However, I wouldn't blink an eye if we would need a few more GB for our cloud servers. Of course if it's just a static website I run it of Github pages.
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My thoughts exactly. I completely agree with every point you made there.
How insurers keep the money pump flowing
There are some OS-level features to support running arbitrary code in additional sandboxed processes.
Maybe the content with paywalls overlap with interests of some HN users? I haven't seen any paywalls at all (to my recollection) so maybe it's business and political topics.
The Mac Pro hasn't been updated in 1,000 days
Libcurl heap overwrite in escape and unescape integer overflows
So they broke backwards compatibility again? How many times did they do that?
This is kind of my problem with the React(Native) ecosystem at the moment, everything breaks all the time. And since dependencies are so intertwined, in many cases you can't just pin your dependencies and code along...
Congratulations guys, it's well deserved :)

With the addition of trello like board, gitlab has come to a point where I just can't name a new feature I would love to see in it. But then again, like most, I would not have put so many things in it (good ol' unix philosophy) and have been pleasantly surprised about how everything added just fit in.

My only deception about the announcement: after the teasing last week, I would have expected more concrete features to be announced in the "master plan" article (what's the next feature?), but well, I'll wait and see.
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Thanks for this. I hope you'll get more exposure because of your great offer.
They charge USD 49 do give you a quote..
I'm still on the waiting list for the new N-series GPU servers. Does anyone have any idea about when it will be made available more broadly?
Blocking the actual page as well and not just scripts? Seems broken to me.
I wholeheartedly agree and plan to do something of the sort myself. Don't need anything grand like a huge business, just a small one that I'd, like you said, want to wake up and still want to do in five years.
So, it is base64 data... from there.. the 'file' utility doesn't recognize it, so (I gave up) maybe translate from unicode data (base 2^8 | 2^16 | 2^32 ) to something else? ("warmer/colder" would be appreciated).
I also bought a Dropcam Pro a few years ago, and from memory, it was pretty clear that it was cloud based. I've been pretty happy with it, but my goals are different.

I suspect you weren't the target market for Dropcam. It was sold, and is sold as a turnkey camera that works out of the box, that anybody can setup on minutes, has native mobile apps that let you watch from anywhere in the world, and records up to 30 days of footage, with motion/sound (and more person) alerts.

In contrast, I've also setup local hosted cameras (Unifi video cameras) for somebody else recording onto a rack mounted Dell R610 with S3 backups. Different needs.

Many of the features of Dropcam (now Nest Cam) aren't really possible without it being on the cloud. In particular, the new person alerts take advantage of ML in the cloud, as does the new Sightline feature that lets you scrub quickly over a few days in seconds.
Great extension. I would also like to have some not taking capabilities built into it.
> The fed pays 0.5% on reserves that banks hold.

The Fed does require a certain reserve percentage that the bank cannot loan out. It's only fair that they pay some interest on that.

However, making 0.5% is losing money because of inflation. Furthermore, no bank is going to loan you money for 0.5% - they're going to charge you a lot more.

> Banks absolutely do not have to loan out every dollar deposited to make money.

No legal requirement, sure. But they have every reason to loan out as much as possible. It's why they advertise loans, credit cards, etc. Banks have plenty of expenses, too, which means if they don't make loans, they go bankrupt.
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Not always. Steve wanted to, but Steve disagreed. For the Apple 2, the net effect was that it shipped with hardware schematics (everything, including the power supply) and commented ROM listings.

Even the original Mac still had fairly comprehensive documentation of parts of its hardware, if you bought the phone book edition of Inside Macintosh.

And of course, IBM didn't 'settle' for opening up the platform. Compaq and Phoenix Technologies opened it for them.
Super thin, flexible fabric that generates electricity from light and movement
For anyone looking to get started on iOS programming Apple has released a free interactive iBooks book called "App Development with Swift" https://itunes.apple.com/in/book/app-development-with-swift/...

Here is a report of someone using that book to get started,
https://hackernoon.com/i-develop-therefore-i-am-b501e2a10277...
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In some places, e.g. Amsterdam AirBnB will add tax directly to your bill.
I like this idea, wonder how it scales! on the simple side of things, you can have something like that youtube snob browser extension, that simply hides stuff like all caps, no punctuation etc. Guess you can add more such hand-crafted features..

For something machine learning, well if it'd need to train on your preferences all the way from character-lvl to your preferences, maybe its too expensive to do it for all users.

On the other hand, if it tries to learn just a smallish matrix of general purpose features for everyone (how exactly? to predict votes? or unsupervised?), embedded in the say JSON-LD of each comment, and then just a simple shallow regression model on your history of voting conditioned on that matrix, maybe that can scale?
Concur bought Tripit, which is now in the middle of a bit of a drawn out redesign. They didn't destroy that lovely product, so I have hopes!
The movie looks interesting, but seems I'll never get to see it, as there are no screenings in London, and I bet they won't offer a digital download option on their website...
You can never, ever, just upgrade Xcode (or anything important, really) on a production Mac. Xcode, especially, needs to be installed on a sandbox machine first where it can destroy anything it wants. It's an effort, but still better than having production explode in your face.
> It is not source-compatible with Swift 2.2 and 2.3.

This created havoc in Python. Hopefully it won't happen here.
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Silvia, not Silvia.

And then fit a https://mecoffee.nl PID.
This is essentially what happened to eBay, for example - at first it was a marketplace to connect individual buyers and sellers, but over time shifted to favour the bulk sellers. When the internet was young there was a lot of excitement about it being used to disintermediate the big corporations, but what seems to be happening is the "reintermediation" of big new internet companies.
very good point re blowup. Another thing is that whatever reddit is doing, still doesn't help much to clean up comments on large lightly-moderated subs. Best quality is still a matter of having an army of moderators and tight rules there, like r/science and r/askhistorians (?is that the one? its called something like that anyhow) subs.

Just like with any old primitive forum.
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Indeed...

However CV is becoming more and more Deep Net based.
It's theoretically possible, provided you have a small trusted circuit. It's an active research area. The basic idea is to use multiple separate, untrusted chips and have them do multiparty computation, coordinated by the small trusted circuit.

With testing amplification, you can then set an upper bound on the probability that the chip will run a backdoor.
I'm apparently out of the loop; could you help me: what scandals? what happened?
New System Could Break Bottleneck in Microprocessors
Probably because most people know of an LCD display (including Physicists), as opposed to a celular automata