skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing how much Google paid Apple to make Google the default search engine on the iPhone to the the most valuable trade secret in the world - the recipe for Coca-Cola - is a peculiar comparison. Does he think no one knows that a search engine company pays other companies to be the default? Is that the trade secret? Or is it the amounts paid? Is the amount paid for something now comparable to a trade secret? His comment seems ill-thought. It's as if he just "blurted it out".
I would gladly take any number of 9s better than driving myself, but the problem is we're seeing products like Autopilot rushed to market that aren't there. I personally think Google is doing the best job of building a comprehensive system that can reliably replace drivers, and most other players are rushing to try and put something on the road. There's a happy medium where autonomous cars are significantly better than human drivers and still released sometime in the near future, and I'll wait the extra couple of years for a system that is proven safe instead of clamoring for one to be available tomorrow.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that is how I'm doing it. The Queue struct has a 'Queue.Jobs chan string' that is the public method for adding to the "Queue" and then the go worker()'s read from that buffered channel.

Basically, this simple Queue just adds some niceties around a buffered channel X number of go func() are reading from.
Attackers shut down 'Krebs on Security' site with DDOS
Looks like a neat site, but it doesn't allow us to structure the task (use an HTML template). The flexibility is important.
Why did the founder leave d-wave?
I'm excited to hear the new BS excuses for data caps existing once common infrastructure can handle this bandwidth.
Question everything you know about fitness
Lets pretend alpha = 1 on a win and alpha = 0.1 on a loss.

Imagine a scenario where you play a game and the opponent plays poorly and you win; you then try and repeat the same thing again, this time the opponent has learnt from their mistakes and beats you. You'll keep playing the same losing move significantly more times because it worked that one time.

I don't know why everyone wants to second-guess the first chapter of the standard textbook in this space with what seems like no experience even thinking about this topic...
Everything in Bitcoinlandia is fairly superficial, since everyone is trying to sell Bitcoin and make himself rich. So it's like reading multi-level-marketing books.

That being said. What's actually kind of good (with actual technical specifications) is Bitcoin wiki, even when it's slightly outdated; then official bitcoin website; and sometimes bitcoin stack exchange website (but that can become outdated too).

I don't think Blockchain can be disconnected from Bitcoin, and if you do, it's very general and not that specific.
Sounds nice except that politicians are in no way bound by their electoral promises, and they certainly take liberties with them to get elected, and they can't possibly plan for everything that can come up during their terms.
Great product for people who want to film women in public, but not be noticed. Game changer
> students need to stop thinking of their major as the most

But why? It is the most important determining factor in their career. That's a fact.
Modern C++ pretty much avoids manual memory management (except in the few instances where you really want it) with smart pointers and STL.
Are you suggesting that was the primary motive, or an additional consideration in dropping the bomb?
1. Duckduckgo?
Itanium came out of a spec that HP initially designed, so it most likely had a lot of impact to do with it being locked to a single vendor (i think SGI played with Itanium workstations but my memory fails me at this point).

I'm not defending IA-64 overall it had issues, but it wasn't as bad as some people claim it to be "OMG INTEL CAN'T DO X64 THEY SUCK".

Intel also took quite a long time to bring Itanium CPU's to the forefront of Intel's own technology, Itanium got DDR3 and QPI only in 2010.
By the time Intel brought all the good things to Itanium it was pretty much already dead in the water and on life support, but doesn't really bare on the viability of the IA-64 as an architecture it more or less bares on the viability of the Itanium as a product line.
I could see Snapchat's Spectacles evolving into that. They already have impressive facial and object recognition.
And 757 times it's liquid volume, hence the boom part.
Who Needs Presentation Training and Why?
if you open your JS console, you'll see that the page reloads every second.
Well, but it's a bit weird with software. The "realized system" typically comes out of a compiler. When designing the system, the computer can often take your design and turn it into a realized thing.

In fact, we even have software called an assembler :)

Of course, it all depends on what level you're doing design at, and what level your language(s) work at. But the point is that those 3 roles aren't necessarily are fulfilled by humans when working with software.
> What besides bloat requires a Moore's law increase in a phone processor?

Marketing departments.
Depends on your perspective. What brought me around was comparing it to an iPhone - similar price, yet it addresses pretty much every standard nerd complaint about the mobile ecosystem (keyboard, free software phone, standard Linux). I felt that not buying one would be simply hypocritical :)
Delhi High Court ruled Whatsapp to delete user information until Sept 25th
Artists, musicians, historians etc are no less valuable than engineers

On both average and median they definitely are less valuable. Free market basically figured that out.

What you're suggesting is some fantasy land where you ignore all that and pay everyone the same.

We should have social safety nets, sure, but to pay everyone the same is insanity. Because then I would like to be paid for sitting on my ass, playing counterstrike and receiving blowjobs.
PHP isn't a valid language. Then again, we already knew that.

In all serious, I do have some PHP code-golf examples.
One step closer to a Black Mirror episode :)
High-assurance sub-fields have many examples where the code is easiest part as it's just implementing a verified spec. Others have plenty of work on both sides. Altran (formerly Praxis) is a nice example with many commercial successes:

http://sdg.csail.mit.edu/6.894/dnjPapers/hall-correctness-by...
Can you buy one right now?
Or any of the other corporations building walled gardens.
> We did indeed find the oldest computer in government, but it’s not really a computer at all; it’s computer software.

What a complete disappointment! I was hoping to read about some crazy legacy hardware they were still using. Software?! Yeah... no, that does not count as the oldest computer in government.

In general, does a software's age alone really give any cause for concern? In my book, software that survives 56 years is proved solid. Software that is new is guaranteed to have bugs.

> I’m starting to have a lot of questions about this tax software and the management around it.

This does seem like muck-raking by a non-expert with little to no real context... Is that what Muckrock does? This software was audited, presumably by experts, and people looking directly at it acknowledge it's hard to maintain and still conclude there's no immediate need to replace it. What evidence is there that this conclusion is in dire need of re-examination?
LMAO right? These are literally shitty-looking sunglasses with a ten second loop camera on them that's only usable with Snapchat. These will be handed out at fancy NYC/LA/SF parties where people will play with them for a minute or so before putting them back down and going on their phones.
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Computer scientists close in on perfect, hack-proof code
Is Cheese Rational? (2012)
I'm curious as to where you came up with your symbol rate numbers. The theoretical limit[1] is 2 bits/Hz which for infrared light (~400THz) would put the limit at ~800Tbps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate
Root CAs Used by the Alexa Top 1 Million Sites
Yet another reason to dispense with the idea of the 'self', which is illusory. No need to be conflicted about crediting the person with accomplishments like how talented, or tall, they are. You can simply appreciate their output on its own terms.
> By writing the simplest code possible you are working on communicating with other programmers (including your future self).

Yes, the computer really doesn't care if your code is simple.
> Don't underestimate the power of social signaling.

You mean the social signaling that is going to brand these users as "glassholes" as well?

>At $129 this is a no-brainer.

Please step out of your tech bubble. Most snapchat users are teenagers or college-age persons who absolutely do not have $129 to drop on a pair of novelty sunglasses.
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2016/04/13/who-deleted-the-song-i...

This one is from this year :)
The trendy end of fashion always looks ridiculous after it falls out of style. Snapchat still has the trendiness that Google and Facebook lost long ago. If you think otherwise, find a few 20 year olds (outside of tech) and ask them what they think of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Snapchat.

Facebook probably can still use Instagram's brand, so that is an edge over Google. If they can do it soon enough while resisting branding the hardware as "Facebook" is another matter. That also means they probably have to already be close to releasing a finished product.

The larger question to me is who will have the stamina to thrive in the post-smartphone era? Snapchat may be able to break to ice and get a lot of people to wear something weird and clunky. By generation two or three, what happens if Apple, Magic Leap, or someone else is able to produce a more refined & seamless wearable? To "win" Snapchat will have to produce an incredibly robust AR headset that no one thinks twice about wearing all day long.

Other commenters are correct, the article reads like a shameless press release.
> the industry is moving toward HTML5 for video playback

Welcome to the 2010s.

IOW, it's a pretty big miss Yahoo didn't invest here a long time ago.

With no Flash on mobile or desktop, taste-maker consumers have been unable to see swaths of their embedded video for a while now, making the Yahoo brand feel out of touch and dated. Much like that quoted phrase above.

The industry moved. OK, you can catch up. But can you lead again?
"Intel Begins Shipping Xeon Chips With FPGA Accelerators"

http://www.eweek.com/servers/intel-begins-shipping-xeon-chip...
Awesome added service! :)
I didn't like the movie adaption either.
I felt it lost a lot of the suspense. In the book you get more a sense of how long time he is stranded, his thoughts and how meticulous he is with everything he does.
So Sci-Fi authors get a bad rap while its artists are yearned for .. I mean, can we not extend this observation to include those who push words, and not just paint, in order to inspire their fellow man?
Where they really trying to keep it hush hush though? My question is whether this actually differed from general policy and procedures. Maybe there is an argument that more far-reaching agreements should be subject to greater scrutiny, but there is (probably) no precedent for that. At the end of the day, you give a mandate to your representative and they are supposed to deal with it.

Scandal and conspiracy helps sell newspapers.
This is something that should exist, and I hope you can find ways to finance it sustainably. What are your plans?
Ever use the first iPhone? It could barely make PHONE calls. It was a terrible phone.
I read the whole thing, understood it, dismissed it. Vague or explicit allusions to sexual violence are about as funny/helpful/fair/meaningful/good/logical/whatever as vague allusions to racial violence.

So yeah, free downvote for mentioning it outside of a discussion that actually includes it meaningfully.
Is there a good online reference for this design?
https://hypothes.is
Best comment so far

Edit: Thanks for the downvote.
Short and mathematical: "Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning". PDF available: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/RLBook.html
Yeah, you don't need to do that anymore on FreeBSD: we officially distribute x86_64-unknown-freebsd (as tier 2) and i686-unknown-freebsd (as tier 3) versions of std, rustc, and cargo these days: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/getting-started.html#p...
The Moon Does Not Exist
When you lose the value of v' change and so change the value of v.
Yes, that could be it. In the US a drying cycle took 30-45 minutes, while here with the dryers I used took 3-4 hours.
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
Except the market isn't ready for this. Impedance mismatch.
Date: 1994
Curiously enough, that ratio is about the same as it was with my first laptop and 10baseT vs 802.11b...
> And yes, it was already illegal.

Oh really. Fascinating. That seems to line up with the history.

> I use that hyperbole to make it specifically clear that I would literally not care.

I would like to make it clear I specifically don't care what your justification is for invoking that specter. It's at best utterly irrelevant and unneeded. At worst, it's threatening.

Find a better way to express this and you won't get downvotes. It's on you to communicate yourself in a socially acceptable way. If you don't care about that, then accept the downvotes as salty fluid that waters the tree of your liberty.
Renaissance Man: Paul Lutus [video] (2011)
Wow, a thesis on theoretical physics and topology written in Microsoft Word and not LaTeX? Dead giveaway.
True, this removes a ton of useless and uber-annoying friction.
Could you explain this for someone without any hardware experience?
Heh, harmless theranos.
> The operator can use foot pedals to control the robot’s movement and a virtual reality headset like the Oculus Rift to experience what the robot is seeing.

Maybe it's a bit off topic, but I'd like to put here fiction sources (which I know) that explore this kind of setup:

1) A Cognitive Discontinuity story by Andrej Karpathy (2015): http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/

2) Sleep Dealer movie (2008): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleep_dealer/
Are you seriously comparing a pair of shitty-looking sunglasses to the iPhone?

These are sunglasses that take a ten second video that is tied to Snapchat. They cost 130 bucks and immediately signal that you are a techie douchebag because that's what people still associate video-taking glasses with. It is literally a novelty toy that is using a WSJ article (native content advertising) to make it seem like a revolutionary technology / something cool. No one is going to buy these.
It's hard to say. Industry experts like Scott Aaronson have gone back on forth with regards to whether or not it's 1) truly a quantum computer and 2) capable of real improvements over classical computers for anything nontrivial. Point #2 is perhaps more important for practical purposes.

Aaronson is currently back in the skeptical camp after a brief stint of "cautious enthusiasm" in 2012. Umesh Vazirani, Aaronson's PhD advisor and the grandfather of quantum computing, has been largely dismissive of D-Wave and doesn't believe their computers will be capable of much even if they are truly quantum.

The technology is apparently impressive enough that Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin have partnered with D-Wave to test its capabilities, but to date it has not done anything revolutionary. I'm sure they have done something, but it's not clear what trade secrets they have can be separated from marketing, and their public work has been reproduced on classical computers.

There have also been a number of articles in Nature Physics, Science and elsewhere by different authors going back and forth on points 1 and 2 above. The current consensus is that D-Wave is not creating true quantum computers; but they have developed classical, pseudo-quantum computers with legitimate entanglement implemented, and which do not currently offer any real quantum speedup or improvement over classical computers.

That said, I mostly follow quantum cryptography, so I haven't read this research in a while. I am personally happy that D-Wave exists and is trying to push forward the field - I think comparisons to Theranos are uncharitable. But I am skeptical of their real advancements.

Edited to clarify after reviewing the research again.
Holy shit I can't believe the amount of venom these guys came up with just because some guy wrote a book!

After reading all these war stories from Pieter I'm definitely going to weigh his book on the subject of psychopaths far higher than any controlled experiment psychology BS (those guys can't even reproduce their results most of the time.)
Is it not possible for someone to have more than one startup?
I love discover weekly too. I have found at least three bands that now are among my all time favorites and i bought all their releases on bandcamp
As an aside, they did a marketing video for the commodore Amiga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjRNAndfFEY :)
That's probably their New York office.
Actually it doesn't say the opposite at all.

Except if you think that incompetent Facebook-level engineers are more possible than greedy Facebook-level execs.

I think it's very clear that "stupid Facebook engineers couldn't manage to see such a basic metric in two years" fails the Occam razor test much more than "Facebook as a business likes ad money".
Asimov's point regarding "cross-connections" reminded me of V.S Ramachandran's discussions on synesthesia. People with synesthesia have insufficient neural pruning and therefore more cross-talk between different areas of the brains. V.S.R.'s hypothesis is that this condition could also make one more creative because it facilitates the connection between two seemingly unrelated ideas.
Does anyone here understand why people do this to themselves? Is it some sort of disorder, like anorexia?
Great read. Reminds me of "Coders at work", but more on the business side of things. We all talk about this stuff, but not many people are bold enough to write it all down and stick it on a webpage or in a book.

I'm most impressed by just how much work ends up flushed down the toilet. Makes me feel so much better about all the dead-ends I have been involved with. Actually my sense of the industry is that the majority of projects tank for one reason or another. I guess that's fine if you are just doing it for the money, but if so, then you are probably not a top-level dev.
GitHub does not display the comment of the SSH key to the public, check yourself:

https://github.com/<username>.keys
Another huge innovation which is more about software than hardware is the new circular video format: you can rotate your phone and the video keeps its orientation.

Quite impressive, you have to see it in action:

https://twitter.com/ow/status/779592486461313025
deeep learning model to extract the text out of the images? you can't even read that.
ChronosES – A cross-platform event sourcing middleware
No offense, but in the case of uber it is alot more to it.

just one example:

In many european countries a driver needs a special insurance for human transportation. In case of an accident this insurance goes into effect, not having this is really bad for all people involved.

In case of ttip:

In europe we got high standards and good laws to protect people(consumers, workers, ...). Dont blame me for this, but this is not the case for the usa.
> and then the device blurts out some description from Google without using an inside voice.

It would sound like an American tourist by doing that.

(There’s lots of articles from US expats in europe, or european expats in the EU, showing how US-Americans tend to speak a lot louder than Europeans in quiet settings, from museums to restaurants)

This leads to an interesting question: Which culture should a voice assistant follow? Should there be multiple variants of each assistant?
And replaces it with the uselessness of only being able to record to snapchat and the friction of only 10 seconds at a time.
Interesting to see reactions to my old article (mostly composed for the 'Ragtime' magazine). It has not been up-dated radically, that is - by writing about changes in Norway since then. Just a few corrections and changes made last year. I wanted to provide a kind of 'second opinion' for Norwegians and inform foreign visitors of matters into which no tourist brochure or book would ever write about.

As to my writing about "the inferiority that seems to lie deep in the psyche", events have shown that this is no longer the case, so it was not so deep. However, in the 1960s there were many signs that this was so, since Norway was hardly on the map in the was it is today. Outside Scandinavia, the vast majority of people who knew anything about Norway was that it was the home of Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki. Trygve Lie (UN Secretary General) was known, but few apparently knew he was Norwegian. The more educated (who were a minority both in Norway and UK too) may have read Hamsun, heard Grieg, heard about Ibsen... but little else. Munch was not known abroad except to well-informed art enthusiasts. Many persons expressed surprise that I was interested in their country enough to settle here, and there was a definite sense that they were often struggling with a sense of international neglect because the culture was not rich in variation, not up-to-date technologically or in social liberality. I often heard the phrase 'potet Norge', not least from those who disdained their government and all the restrictive cultural and social mores.
On the other hand, I found much fresh and positive from my viewpoint... as is often so before one becomes too knowledgeable and used to a culture.
Nowadays - with widespread international travel, influx of foreign culture (especially TV), and more lately the Internet many of those restrictions have been blown away, of course, but changing the mentality was a longish and laborious process. Unfortunately, some values have been lost...
The idea would be that the Asteria device learns to interact with you in social norms, like how you would act. And with that, some locations are better than others, but it really evolves to converse with you in your daily life, to help fill your needs.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDELBFSeqQs

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07093
Predictably, Oculus developers are now saying nothing but Luckey's resignation will satisfy them: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/some-developers-droppi...

Which is tantamount to saying they don't want Trump supporters to be allowed to work in high ranking positions anywhere (since neither Oculus the company nor the tech industry in general is special in any relevant way).

If such demands are regularly complied with, I imagine the maximum rank or salary allowed to politically-incorrect individuals will be lowered over time.
Fingernagel kauen stoppen – alina baer
Qt isn't native.
Hubble observation of Europa. I wonder if it is something that Galileo missed
I spoke to a 25 year old girl this morning that is not a techie, but likes Snapchat, and she had already heard of the glasses and wanted a pair. Sample size of one, but I'm pretty confident that non-techies will buy them.

The question is whether it can grow to anything bigger than instant film Polaroids, which people also buy and enjoy using at parties, etc.