skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, and while there is still room for improvement, we've improved the server-mobile sync case by an order of big-O-magnitude. And this is a first class design target for the future.
The article mentions grid level power storage but I don't see any comments around that. What would the feasibility of creating one of these batteries as some kind of fixed structure be?
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I say make any company collecting info (beyond maybe some very bare-bones basics that any company providing a service pretty much has to have, like name, address, phone number) about its users provide that info, say, once a year, on request. Kinda like the annual free credit reports from the credit agencies.

ALL of it, too. Every time. Not just what was collected since last report. Even require that they provide it on physical media if desired. Again, for free, including postage.

"But that will be so expensive because we collect so much and never get rid of any!"

... yeah, so what?

Now they're free to do it but can't hide what they're collecting and can't hold your data hostage. And there's some cost associated with collecting more than is absolutely necessary.
Same here. Purchased a workgroup color laser almost 7 years ago. My printing volume is fairly low (around 500 pages / year) and I'm still on the original set of cartridges. The amortized cost of this printer has been amazing-- under $75 / year. It uses the PCL protocol and has an Ethernet connection, so it's a long way off from practical obsolescence, too. I'll likely be using this printer in another 7 years.
This is the tip of the iceberg. What do you think will happen with self-driving cars on the road, or self driving trucks and other commercial vehicles? Parking lots will be long-gone as people's cars endlessly circle the blocks. The highways near storage depots will be filled with self driving trucks endlessly looping back on to and off of the highway in lieu of having the costs of a paved lot. There will be MORE cars, not less, as the total $$$/mile costs start a race to the bottom. The road's condition will deteriorate as the numbers of cars/minute/foot skyrockets, causing more construction and lane closures. It will be a glorious time for junk car dealers as the cars become as disposable as Abercrombie shirts. I can guarantee that someone with no friends or close family will set their car to circle the block and then die in the middle of their manicure. This car will not be 'valet'd' for and will just circle, drive itself to a recharge station, and then continue to circle until it catches on fire or is blockaded by thieves and left as a 'navigational' hazard for pedestrians. It's windows blown out, a headlight dangling, covered with graffiti, and filled with dusty pine needles and empty beer cans, it continues to circle the nail salon like some Flying Dutchman of the 21st century. That or it's tires blow out and it yelps at the roadside for it's dead owner to put it down. There will HAVE to be a lot of regulations as cars turn into public goods like PG&E or AT&T. Google, Uber and Lyft will conglomerate their businesses into GL&U, and the robber baron nature of capitalism takes over. No, these self driving cars will be scourge as car subscription services become like so many lite beer brands; all offering the same thing, so a race to the bottom for costs ensues. Quality falls down to the question of what a 'car' is legally allowed to be, and we are inundated with ever smaller, ever cheaper, and ever less safe "cars" to the legal minimum. It will be a nightmare for the climate and all of us. Keep your keys close and your state rep's number closer.
Wire does not use Signal Protocol. They use a protocol of their own devising that we do not recommend.
Good video of a presentation from Lee Cheng earlier this year here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-yUZW-v0io
The "full price" here was 15 percent of GlaxoSmithKline's revenue last year. They spent 40 percent on marketing. When can this myth die?

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/07/19/where-gs...
Presenting the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System [Video]
TL;DR - Big rocket launches, refuels, and heads to Mars on solar power.

I'm hoping there are more details about living conditions, habitats on planet, and other aspects of such a trip. While other companies may eventually provide solutions to those parts of an expedition, I fully expect SpaceX to have to figure it out for the first few trips...
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Absolutely, and we might be starting to see that - I'm just mad that it's still purely negative for the defenders.

Of course, it's hard because paying the opponent's fees opens up other kinds of abuse. If you get sued by Coca Cola, you can't just judge what lawyer you can afford, you have to realize that even a small decision against you could come with the million dollars in costs they paid to take the thing to court. I don't really know a good answer to "litigation is expensive, and that produces abuse".

Sanctions or frequent invalidation of patents would be great, though. One other thing I would love to see is a change to the choice-of-venue rules - this would be less of a problem if we weren't seeing every case fought in East Texas where summary judgement is impossible to get.
> The best programmers that I've met just loved the art and science of computing, had respect for their craft and very high standards of quality, were undaunted or even motivated by new challenges, but most importantly, put in the necessary time.

This description doesn't conjure the image of a person unable to understand pointers.
AFAIK all toner cartridges are sold this way. I believe it's simply because there's no practical way to refill toner, which is an extremely messy indelible powder. There are also environmental regulations regarding the disposal of toner.
This might also be specific to the Metromile hardware (OBDII interpreter). I just checked on my vehicle with STN OBDII interpreter reversing is showing non zero value (I increased the reporting frequency to 1Hz).
Do you really use any apps?(i.e. downloaded from the appstore) I have a LG(WebOS) but I never bothered to download any 3rd party apps.
One problem is that they collect "shadow" profiles of people who aren't even on the service. If someone who has your contact info is on the service, they'll start a profile of you based on that. Plus, there's many web sites that are connected to Facebook and send info back to it without you even knowing about it, just by having a Facebook share button on the page. It's very difficult to avoid having any of your data on Facebook's servers.
Demonstrably incorrect. Technology reduces labor force participation. Some portion of that void has been filled with McJobs in the last 15 years but that isn't sustainable.
Some background on this:

http://blog.hackerrank.com/introducing-cracking-the-coding-i...
Yeah, the XBMC Youtube addon used to do subscriptions and the like, it was pretty nice, but I think it broke and the main developer abandoned it. Youtube-dl does support channels and resuming though so you could fairly easily just set up a cron job and use syncthing to get the videos onto your phone. No pretty GUI for that though.
I hated trying to read about pointers in c when I was about 15, a few years later a different book put it more clear and it all snapped into place for me.
make sure the printhead doesn't get ruined

How does a head get "ruined"? If its clogged can't it just be cleaned? Perhaps by flushing through with a solvent. I call shenanigans.
I already do this with everything online that matters to me. `wget -r`, HTTrack, and youtube-dl are great tools.
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FTA: "One possibility is that we have a shortage of programmers. If that’s the case, you’d expect more programmers to enter the field, bringing down compensation."

This is imo a big part of why high-end salaries have skyrocketed, but the author's reasoning is total "let them eat cake."

It's not that there's a shortage of programmers overall. There are lots of programmers working non-industry jobs for relatively piddly salaries who would leap at the opportunity to double or triple their compensation at a big name tech company - if they were qualified to do so.

The problem is that there's a shortage of people who have the aptitude and skills to work in a big tech company with very high expectations for even their entry-level engineers. I don't doubt that there are intangibles at play: soft skills, "cultural fit" biases, to a lesser extent academic pedigree, but none of that trumps needing to be an actual honest-to-goodness engineer, rather than a "programmer".

Plenty of other pieces (citation needed) have been written about the growing chasm between the two classifications of development jobs - engineers who can create software, vs. programmers who can write code - and I think the salary differences are just an aspect of that.
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CRDT, but also vector clocks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12590753
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Interestingly, I think the current systems in most of the developed would would already handle this somewhat adequately, insofar as "designer babies" would probably not be treated as genetic children of their "gene base" parents (i.e. something they have an intrinsic right to take home from the hospital), but probably rather would be considered "genetic orphans" (like babies dropped off at a hospital with no known parents) who are then adopted by the "gene base" parents. As such, just like any other adopted children, the parents would have to go through harsh screenings to determine eligibility, and then after "adoption" would be heavily monitored by governmental child social-welfare departments (e.g. Child Protective Services in the US.)
Actually being "free/open/libre" software has had everything to do with the success of Linux.

However, I've heard the high cost of UNIX licenses in the early 90s was the reason why Linus decided to start his project.

Also, Linux has never been "a failure" on the desktop: you seem to think that the definition of being successful is to have a complete monopoly.
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Let's notice that the war was as much about preventing the South from secession as it was about slavery.
Like it's been adjusting for the last 40 years? Do we need to review graphed data for labor force participation, real wages, and income inequality?
This is really nice and brings back a lot of memories! My first line of code was for a small rpg maker(that had nothing to do with python) called rpg60 that made games for the nokia 6630. Since then I learn to write my own engine and anything and it's always a great learning experience! There are so many needed skills combined and it's very fun!
This.

Out-of-court settlement is awesome.

The real problem is that laws are complicated and variably enforced, making it extremely unclear who is right. Thus high legal fees.

The legal system is worse than the shittiest legacy code base you have ever seen, composed almost entirely of buggy exceptions, written with no thought toward future maintainers, beyond the comprehension of any mortal man, and gluing centuries old defunctness to poorly conceived addendum patching over the peeling layers. No one has interested in remove features, just adding more to the mountain of rubble.
Because the consumers here are richer?

$30 for an American is far less expensive than $10 is for an Indian.

So Americans and Europeans are capable of paying more than Asians, and companies know this, and are able to price their products accordingly.
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There are age-restricted communities which don't allow people with children to move in. I don't know whether this is a good idea, but it is legal in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age-restricted_community
My 2012 Subaru accelerates smoothly without jumps unless I switch it to 'manual' mode. Throttle position determines engine RPM and the CVT smoothly tracks acceleration, no artificial jerks. It was an eerie transition from shifting transmissions.

I wouldn't mind seeing similar graphs of CVT cars, where there wouldn't be distinct lines but patterns of typical driving behavior may still be obvious.
> The core database that powers all the versions of Realm was open-sourced today here:

Ok, what about the server database?
Absolutely true for older generations, but among those under, say, forty years of age, the 'I don't have anything to hide' fallacy is alive and well just as anywhere else.

I'm German and it's been a huge ordeal to get my closest friends to migrate to Telegram at least. Signal was debated, but the lack of a good desktop client killed it. XMPP and IRC and all, not with these guys.

Germany has some vocal proponents of privacy ideals, like the Chaos Computer Club, but we also have politicians who pull the very same crap as anywhere else.
I think this is true to at least some degree. I have noticed that the better paying jobs here are Java or Microsoft stacks, probably more corporate style jobs. Personally I prefer working in a smaller place in Python, and feeling genuinely valuable to the company, having done some corporate stints earlier in my career.
This reminds me of the DeepMind bit where the AI beat human players despite not knowing about the edifice of built up knowledge in that domain. I'd expect that an AI could be a great chess player with enough gameplay info and not knowing particular strength scoring, types of famous defenses, etc. In some ways the way that humans have constructed these relationships may actually make learning more difficult. We certainly don't teach 3-year olds about theta criterion, we just speak in 'correct' language and may correct them when they make mistakes.
A lot of people still have shitty, unreliable, expensive, and/or very limited internet connection. This is great for all of them.
When a jet engine burns fuel, some energy goes into turning the fan, and some energy goes into creating thrust.

At low-mach, the fuel burn is primarily producing torque which turns the fan. This fan could be turned by electricity.

At high-mach, the fuel burn is primarily producing pure thrust, and the fan portion hurts the engine's performance.

Supersonic turbofans are a compromise that have to produce thrust from takeoff through to high speed. I may be incorrect, but I don't believe we have ever built a ducted fan which can use pure torque to generate supersonic thrust, although I guess I don't see why it wouldn't be theoretically possible. We can put megawatts of energy into a fast-moving flow using thermal energy and a brayton cycle. In order to put megawatts of energy into fast-moving flow using rotors would require a totally new design - nothing like the supersonic turbofans currently in production.
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12591517
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My hunch is that the more apt analogy is to Skinnerian Behaviorists, or apostles of the Hilbert Program. Deep learning is a very a powerful tool, and the current zeal for it has yielded rapid progress in previously stagnating fields. That said, we have yet to see what its limits are in this space; it's still too young to know. It may be that, like in so many cases beforehand, synthesis is the path forward, and there are no silver bullets.
> I love it, because it's un-addicting

You mean you love it because you hate using it?

> un-addicting.

Interesting marketing formula. "Un-addicting". Might be useful in the future to justify the uselessness of a product. "but it's a feature! it's un-addicting". It was so un-addicting Mozilla killed the project dead.
One of the main issues is, despite that decision, the USPTO is understaffed and underfunded, so stuff will still get patented that should have no grounds for patentability.
Yeah, it is a pity all the phones are sold out. It can be ported to other devices though, you might get some useful info here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
Wells Fargo's shareholders fired 5300 employees and paid a $185 million fine. As far as I'm aware the CEO kept his job and bonus.
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> But why would it need a rewrite?

Because the UX focus is different, the assumed technical infrastructure context is different, and, well, basically everything except the backend service consumed is different. Youtube Go is more distinct in role from the core Youtube app than the other break out apps (which mostly are distinguished by content focus on UX tweaks around the focal content) like Youtube Kids, Youtube Music, and Youtube Gaming.
"Yes, it leaked during the Win2K release cycle I believe. And you're probably thinking about the kuro5hin website, where someone claimed to have analyzed it. "

Yeah, my inability to evaluate the skill level or character of source was main drawback of claim. I gave a little credence to it because I knew that they were ramping up QA due to image problems and potential lost sales. Steve Lipner... who did high-assurance security with legendary Paul Karger... came in to turn it around with the SDL. Massive investment in professional programmers to find quality issues across the lifecycle implies it would have fewer issues than average software.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995349.aspx

""one programmer" commenting about 30+ million lines of code. Yeah. uh-huh."

You can tell a lot by glancing at random samples while digging into a bit fewer. Good, well-commented code with various security checks stands out for people that spend years looking at the opposite. All such a review could say, though, was that people were putting in effort. Actual security would need thorough review.

"Anyway, you can still find the kernel's source if you care to dig around. Its the Windows Research Kernel but it's mostly unchanged from the commercial codebase."

Will do. Appreciate the tip.
130 km/h is a pretty good clip. Does Metromile charge clients more for high speeds?
Im not in London still in(uk), 1.5years IT Security,18k :(
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The devices couldn't even power the standard applications(i.e. camera, phone app etc) without visible lag.
As I said in another thread, I used that (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/how_tos/image_retra...) which seems to work well. I think especially with your problem since it is similar to the type of classification of ImageNet.
Aircraft weight turns directly into fuel cost via induced-drag. If electric energy is wildly inexpensive, you can afford very heavy airframes.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
what language?
> your "Eich chose to step down due to community pressure" line, which you made up.

You are correct. That was conjecture. I don't know the actual thoughts in your mind when you stepped down, because you won't tell me.

Right now, the only solid evidence we have is that mozilla.org blog post that you voluntarily stepped down. Unless you will renounce it, then to the public record, it will remain what is believed to be true. And anything else, "you were forced out", "you were fired", "you resigned due to pressure", etc is hearsay.

> This does not exclude other possibilities that are none of your business.

I believe it is the business of the public whether you were given an ultimatum or not. It would greatly influence how many felt toward the senior leadership of Mozilla.

> "Forced or resigned" is a false dilemma in general.

I disagree strongly. There's a world of difference between me choosing to leave my job to protect my company; and my company firing me, making me sign an NDA, and lying and saying I left voluntarily. The former is commendable (if unfortunate) on your part; the latter is absolutely reprehensible on Mozilla's part.

> Oppression does not remove agency from the victim.

It can. There was no serious option for me to move to a country with full marriage equality (the world does not have open borders - even permanently moving to Canada requires hosting by a family member, substantial capital to invest, or an asylum request); and only partial redress (state-level) were I to choose to move to, say, Massachusetts. Which also wasn't much of a possibility as my spouse did not want to leave his family behind in Ohio. But I guess you could say the latter was a matter of prioritizing.

Those ballot initiatives were definitely aimed at removing agency from gay and lesbian couples, that much is for sure.

> Can we agree on this much?

In the general case that the two can be true at once, yes. But I don't see how your resignation can possibly exist in a quantum state where you were both forced to resign and weren't. It can only be one or the other.

I can understand there being subtle hints and allusions that a firing would have been inevitable should you choose not to resign, but unless they were substantiated, they were just that. I'm not going to read between the lines to speculate on what might have happened had you chosen to stay onboard.

I'm dead serious: if you really were forced out but just can't tell me, then you have my sympathy. I never once called for you to be fired. Free speech only works when we all have it. The only thing I did, and stand by, is my own free speech to voice disapproval for your donation. I also stopped using Firefox until you had resigned.

(I do have some thoughts on money not being the same as speech, but that's a whole different issue.)
Biased, but also extremely excited for this. What catches our collective attention are systems we hate, systems that suck, systems that fail--or systems too new to know. It's refreshing to consider systems established and clever enough to love. There are wheels we don't need to reinvent, systems that can teach us.
I agree with all of that. It's a complex issue. And it's compounded by the general "we have no idea how to hire developers" that is found throughout the industry.
In that link, where's the comparison of fpga vs TX1?
Well, the real-world implication (at least, as taught to me when I took my ML class) is that you have to make some assumption about P(f). If you assume that "reality" has to "spend energy" on building complicated f's ("reality functions" when we learned it), then you get usual probabilistic assumptions about function learning and everything goes back to normal (as we usually experience it in the real world). If you make other sorts of assumptions, you get many popular and useful ML algorithms.

It's all a matter of finding prior assumptions specific enough to bypass NFL, while still general enough to encompass useful real-world tasks.
But it doesn't have to be that way, even if it is right now. I wish there were a way to explicitly signal "I bought this Smart TV as a dumb display, and I'm using smart features, just not the ones provided by the TV". If enough people were known to be doing that, it might suggest a market for high-end dumb TVs.
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People reading HN could, but the general public doesn't really have that option.
Presenting the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
Which was seriously considered during the cold war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft

As bad of an idea as using javascript to do addition rather than assembly. You're assuming electric energy is the same order of magnitude cost as electric energy. It's possible that could change some day.
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Probably about the same time as people stop equating "general and administration expenses" with "marketing". Marketing is a subset of that.
https://easyrpg.org/ is a more mature variant, if you are not fixed on Python