skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had conversations with board members at most of the major open source companies (eg: large and private or public)

and the consensus has been that you need a lot of components for the support contract to work.

One difference we've found for example that seems to work pretty well is providing support for deep learning models. Each "model" solves a problem like "face detection" "cat finder" "fraud detection" and we charge for the platform used each time for each model. This reflects the amount of work we do for customers but also provides an SLA for deep learning they might not otherwise have.

Source control has a wider user base and tends to favor an easy to install integrated experience.

Machine learning applications tend to have fewer people who know how to build them but they are just as critical for the business.

Eg: points of accuracy in a model can directly map to revenue or profits. That's easy to explain to an enterprise customer.

So despite the smaller potential user base "data scientists" in this case, we've found it fairly easy to go to market.

One thing I think people miss is that the bulk of open source infrastructure companies
tend to be devops or operating systems with lots of moving parts.

They don't tend to be applications or machine learning.

I think what a lot of us are finding is that you have to innovate on the business model itself in order to really capture value for both your user and the customer as well as your startup.
I'm not mad, I'm confused. Even by your own lights you don't seem to be making much sense. Are you sure you've thought your opinion on this all the way through?
That's good news, thanks!
Someone has to jump? Je ne comprends pas. C'est un métaphore?
For the record, as a fairly hardcore lifelong science fiction fan with limited tolerance for cutesy teenage-esque plots or soap opera drama (I found Buffy difficult), I have to say that the Dollhouse finale was 100% worth getting to for me. Yes, it started out bad in many ways-- some of it may have been on purpose, but there were just so many issues with poorly edited scripts and bad acting. After it warmed up, though, aside from a few minor hiccups, I thought it got better and better. I don't remember exactly when it really picked up, but 10 episodes in is probably not far enough.

From late in the first season through the ending (and oh wow, especially the ending), it seemed to me that the sci-fi themes got much, much stronger, more complex, and more interesting. I have a particular interest in the ideas around 'consciousness transfer' or whatever you want to call it, and in my book the show explores multiple facets of that better than just about any I've seen. I highly recommend getting around to it. I actually plan on watching the whole thing again, something I almost never do with any show.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), this software isn't as creepy as I had hoped. It doesn't use computer vision to literally track club-goers, it simply allows the doormen to check someone's identity:

"...they saw doormen turn away celebrities, billionaires, and in one instance, even the owner of the nightclub....In this game of “who’s who,” a doorman can literally lose his job if he doesn’t know who’s standing in front of him."

Seven Rooms, the startup in question, is basically a CRM for doormen with additional tie-ins to the POS to track sales history. The idea is to know someone's celebrity status in order to ingratiate them to the club.

Also, a warning: there is auto-playing video in the link.
> It had a kernel of functionality written in C but the majority of the functionality is actually written in Python

I don't think that is true. It provides a Python API, sure. But most of it is still C or C++. Github says only 4% is Python.
I think all the supposed benefits are just a distraction away from the main reason behind this change: it's the corporations trying to slowly close off the analogue hole by moving the more difficult-to-work-with digital signal closer to the user-device boundary, giving them more control over content distribution --- if they could, some of these people would add DRM to your ears and brain or even eliminate the DAC and replace it with a direct neural interface --- all under their control.
Switzerland has had many propositions that would have worked in favor of the majority but were actually voted down. Meanwhile, in California, everyone votes in their self interest without caring or considering the consequences.
Whenever Canadians complain about Chinese speculation in real estate, I wonder why they don't try to create more inventory. It is probably naive to think this way but AFAIK Canada has a lot of land and a housing boom can help extend and modernize urban infrastructure.
Fox needed to find a way to monetize these fans. Getting standard network advertising rates for fanatical followers is leaving way too much money on the table.
Node.js interview questions #theBitTheories
And for the larger number of immigrants that move into California and buy houses
Contextually, the employment of literally hundreds of armed troopers in anti-riot gear occurred before any violence at the protests, and the local and state authorities ratcheted up the response in the intervening days. Violence and looting within protest actions is definitely a problem, but it can't be considered in isolation from the behavior of the government towards protesters of all kinds.
Every language has pros/cons and applicable use cases. Think of Python. It is a beautiful language that is high level, uses white space, but requires the python VM and is very slow. Nim has a somewhat pythonic syntax, compiles to C and then binary executables and is very fast with good metaprogramming facilities. That is appealing to a lot of people. I encourage you to read the free chapter of Nim In Action as the author does a good job explaining why.
From the link above, CC@Hulu is ending in Nov to make way for the new service.
This is exactly right. The X-Files had a shitty Friday night time slot when it first aired, and grew out of it to a prime slot on Sundays.
I guess git's success owes most to the Torvalds as mercurial was started contemporaneously and quite similar in being a DVCS.
" it might be if it returned on, say, Netflix."

My Netflix has Firefly. In Finland. Our selection in Netflix in generally very limited, though. Or do you mean Netflix would make new seasons?
These are target drones, and unlikely to be armed with anything or operated near high-value infrastructure susceptible to the relatively minor impact damage of which a QF-16 might be capable.
There are numerous cases in mathematics. I can't put names on incidents but:

* The schoolboy who realised the algorithm for adding the integers 1 - 100.

* The UC Berkeley Graduate student who solved 2-3 "extra credit" final exam questions ... only to discover they were previously unsolved proofs.

Chess isn't an area I'm closely familiar with, but there absolutely have been prodigies there as well. Many in music.
I find the main problem with the interface is lack of documentation. Take a look at this screenshot:

https://wiki.blender.org/uploads/f/f5/2_78_env_lighting.png

Ok without reading the manual, tell me what the 'Correction' slider under 'Gather' does. It's (probably) an advanced feature, sure so maybe you can't expect to know at first. But why is there no way to find out other than googling?!!

No little help icon next to anything. No simple tooltips, let alone rich ones. There's zero discoverability.
This took place in a low crime community that was fortunate to have some very smart and experienced law enforcement professionals who were able to see through the Peters' ruse.

Certainly, had this happened in a high crime area, the police would simply not have had the time to properly investigate. The victim would not have been believed, and might well have done some prison time.

One way to look at this asymmetric justice system is that the Irvine standard is what all cities should aspire to. We should provide police departments and courts with the resources to solve cases and pursue justice at the same high level as was done in the Easter case.

In the long run, this would increase people's confidence and faith in the criminal justice system to treat everyone fairly and equally, and consequently there would be a commensurate increased respect for the law.
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The use of manned target drones is somewhat frowned upon in the military aviation community.
For the last year I've been doing exactly that with an iPhone dock. Yes it's an additional accessory, but if you have a $600+ phone plus $600/yr for service then you can probably afford a dock. So, let's move on from this talking point.
I'd be on the verge of agreeing with you about Firefly not being that big a mistake. IMDB is skewed. I mean, I love Firefly, but I'm in high school and I'm a nerd, so I'm in the fan demographic like twice over.

Except.

Then I thought about all the other people I know who loved Firefly. And that's everyone. My friends love it, although that's to be expected. Most of the adults I know love it. My mother, who can barely use a computer, and is about as far from being a nerd as is possible, loves it.

It's not statisically significant. It's biased. But the fact that I can walk up to most of the adults I know, ask them about Firefly, and have them say that they saw it in reruns or on Netflix, and loved it, and they wish it hadn't been canceled, tell me that there may be an audience for the show beyond just us nerds.
It doesn't say how they are flown, is it remote pilots or some kind of AI? The latter would seem a scary concept at this point. Imagine it being hackable...
Also being trialed in Perth, Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-09/driverless-electric-bu...
You'd still use core on your own servers, but this has the benefit of tight integration with GCE, like verified boot, as well as the accounts and IAM system (seamless key management). But cloud-init configs work across both.
It'll fit right in then.
3 cusped hypocycloid
Ferguson involved both protests and riots. More people were involved in the former than the latter.

Quoting M. L. King's "The Other America":

> These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity. - http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/

I can expect the police to not yell out "Bring it, all you fucking animals! Bring it!".
They are shot at with missiles, but are rarely every 'shot down'. They can use fully capable missiles without warheads. A "kill" is getting the missile to a point that it would detonate, which likely means flying very close but not actually touching the target. You don't use manned craft, but you still expect the target to survive most encounters.
After moving audio to USB-C, you only need one jack for charging and audio. Space saved right there.

You're kidding, right? It's not "space saved" if phones are still hand-sized (or larger); there is plenty of empty space around the edge for two, three, or more ports even after allowing for blank areas to hold onto. A dumbphone from 10 years ago was smaller, yet still managed to include audio and charging/data.

The situation is even more puzzling with laptops and tablets, where the device is obviously large enough to accommodate several full-size USB ports around its edge, and yet manufacturers seem reluctant to add even one; there's also this amusing site: http://www.tabletswithusbports.net/
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Pick a domain name that contains the name of the company you're trying to undermine. What could go wrong?
Subtile patterns
Rule of Engagement are strict and strictly enforced. You can end up in deep shit for shooting someone in Iraq or Afghanistan if it was not allowed under the ROE. Whereas you can apparently choke someone to death in the US with the primary punishment being desk duty.
That's true, but Rust and its compiler components are fairly well ported, LLVM's going to be near the top of the porting list for any new architecture, and processors are almost a monoculture at this point.
So, then you use a splitter. Most people don't do this. Optimize for the many, not the few.

Wouldn't the better solution be to have wireless headphones so you are tethered to the chair while your phone is charging?
How is actually Google compared to other cloud hosting providers in pricing? Is there any independent site that compares cloud hosting providers?
Some say it was BeOS. Others say it was MS-DOS. Yet others, Oberon. Operating systems differ widely, and so do opinions. In my opinion, each and every one of them was a product of love, each served the purpose it was designed for, and each deserves to live forever - if only in our hearts (and VMs).
VirnetX Wins $302.4M Trial Against Apple in Texas
Well, let's be honest, justice and humanity is only possible in an atmosphere of respect for law and relative tranquillity. Justice has seldom been found at the head of a mob.
There is an update method that can be used with F expressions to achieve this.

This is the example in their docs:

Entry.objects.all().update(n_pingbacks=F('n_pingbacks') + 1)
IOC, military minimum viable product
:)
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I'd pretty much echo this. I didn't get into Dollhouse when it first aired. But someone or something I read got me to dive back into it around Season 2 or so. I recall watching at least the back-end of the series and thinking that it was really quite good science fiction. I should maybe rewatch it one of these days.
Good point. There are many examples of this in states like Texas-- open/concealed carry gun laws, rewritten textbooks, etc
Unfortunately on my xenial it still crashes so often that it's basically useless. I had to put together a short video recently and, after checking out all the available options, I ended up using the free version of Lightworks. I didn't try Blender though.
We use SumatraPDF at work for Windows machines and it works great.
I think the trend of designing devices by shedding use-cases until they become good at one very specific thing but almost completely useless at everything else is somewhat unsettling and a bit disappointing. Of course it could go too far in the other direction, but I think sacrificing so much flexibility is not a good solution in the long term.

Then again, the companies probably don't want to put out such flexible devices; they want you to pay for it in the form of extra adapters and such.
Ask HN: How secure is Firebase?
Hello everyone,

I am front-end developer and now looking to work with Firebase, because it looks like an easy way to implement backend system for me.

After I played with the sample code a little bit, I am not quite sure about how secure it is. Anyone can basically grab my API Key and start adding a new account to my Firebase project. While it's true we can add authorized domains to prevent a call from other domains. "localhost" is in the default authorized domain and I can't find a way to remove it.

If I miss something, please kindly let me know :) I would love to hear your opinion about Firebase.

I think Firebase looks promising (pricing is nice, too) and would like to work with it in the future.

-----------
EDIT

With regard to the "localhost" domain, my friend who is GDE said it will only allow access via "firebase serve" which require me to login first.

We will test and report back :)
It appears, after reading this article, that the sisters actually had a very talented father and therefore possibly very good prerequisites to become what they did.

He should have accepted the proposed experiment of raising adoptees the same way he did with his children.
"the code is the documentation" /s
" For instance, the startup analyzed customer orders of a high-end New York City nightclub, and the findings were eye-opening. Across all vodka orders in the last two years, 50% of customers ordered Grey Goose, 25% ordered Belvedere, and 5% ordered Ketel One."

So what's more puzzling is that most bars and clubs use standard restaurant POS systems, and nobody has ever offered any kind of deep analysis like this before?

It kind of makes me think that there's an opportunity to do this for some if the larger restaurant chains, if they're not trying it already.
It's part of a rarely-discussed issue with beyond-visual range (BVR) missiles. For all the hype about technology, they have a horrifically low kill rate against live and aware target. If you look at stats against maneuvering opponents actually beyond visual range, ones with the senors to detect the radar-guided missile approaching, the kill rate is on the order of 15%. Doing the math, the fancy new fighters don't have the missile capacity to confidently down any BVR target, hence the need for a "truck".
The first time I installed Windows 10 on my Lenovo laptop I was left with a file manager which gets hopelessly spinning circle stuck every few days, requiring a reboot. About 25% of file copies also hang up for about 2 minutes before completing, in the "Calculating" phase, even if the file in question is just a few bytes.

So I was looking forward to this new update. Perhaps it might fix things. No dice. It crashed during the install process. At this point I consider myself lucky to have been able to roll things back to the old version.
Functional Swift: Using Array Filter and ForEach Functions
New Kubernetes 1.4 release has "lots of user empathy"
> that operates on futures or regular values.

but what is the return type? The multisync example shows separate generated methods that return `string` and `Future[string]` depending on the method argument.

If that's the case then blocking and non-blocking operations need to be treated separately since operations defined on a result of `Future[string]` are not the same as those available on `string`.

HKTs not only allow for both method argument and return type to be polymorphic, but also allow one to define the same operations (like map, flatMap/bind, fold, etc.) on the wrapped type.
F-16's can carry nukes.

And why would you have a small very expensive fleet of fast moving drones that can carry bombs? Targets/training only? Wouldn't that be wasteful? Wouldn't those be expensive to just send in for recon or shooting down a plane or even a bombing run that they could use other manned aircraft for? What would they be best suited for?

"...the Pentagon is also modifying Turkey’s current fleet of F-16s to carry the bomb.":

http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22037

I'm not against the USAF trying to improve its defense.

But, if a remote-controlled nuclear-armed jet were controlled by an AI, or by a terrorist, that would be a big problem.

I understand that it's expensive to find and train good pilots, and it takes a long time. They are a limited resource. So, I can see why you'd want to replace them with drones- you save a lot of money, could expand the fleet more quickly and with less expense, eventually.

But, that expense is a safeguard. It keeps really bad things from being able to happen. We shouldn't be making anything nuclear-capable more easily remotely-controllable. And if the US does it, others will. Even if the US were to be completely safe about it, other states might not be.
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Learned helplessness and the languages of DAO
I'm always wondering if that isn't also a reaction to police force, at least to some extent.

Civilized and creative diplomacy more often than not leads to better results than setting the stage with an atmosphere of violence.

Also wasn't that incident of escalating violence triggered by executive failure in the first place?

Back in school we learned that the separation of powers is one of the defining attributes of a functioning democracy...
We should rewrite our delegate method names for Swift 3
Wonder if this has been added to the Human Connectome Project[1] yet.

[1] http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org
The economy we’re heading toward could offer millions of people more free time to do what they want to do instead of what they have to do to earn a living.

Looks like Keynes wasn't far off with his prediction in 1928. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/no-time

Though I suspect we'll find some other way to spend our time and earn money doing it.
>The main quality of Firefly was just plain old, maybe somewhat simplistic, character likability.

Agreed. In fact, I'd argue that if you take away the appealing and interesting cast and characters from Firefly, you're not left with an awful lot. Of course, characters form the backbone of a lot of shows but science fiction can also be driven by plot, the setting, ideas, etc. in a way that can make the characters less central. But in Firefly if you take away the characters you're mostly stuck with an overdone Western in space motif and generally unmemorable plots.
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If you were using Bluetooth audio, or some other source that accepts a digital feed, previously you'd be carrying around two sets of DACs, one of which would be doing nothing but taking up space. Attaching an analog audio cable to a device already dramatically increase it's size; stashing a DAC and ADC in there doesn't make it much bigger. Moving the DAC outside of the device also means you get less analog interference from other noisy stuff inside your device, like radios.

The mini PC example isn't quite the same; you always need a power source to actually use the thing. That being said, I could imagine the PS being much smaller if you had access to 12V direct current, like in a car. So it's potentially nice to not require NUC people to carry an internal AC->DC when they don't need it.
Let's see... "VirnetX Holding Corp". Just East Texas back at work handing money to patent trolls... nothing to see here folks... move along.
Tone note: Serious question, not just kvetching.

Does anyone have a good clue as to why this update is so big and disruptive?

The feature list [1] shows "biometric security for Windows apps and Edge", "Windows Ink" support, vaguely-specified Cortana improvements (I think that translates to "Cortana has plugins now"), and an Xbox improvement.

I'm thinking that's not really what's in there since that just doesn't seem like a 2-3 reboot and massive disruption sort of update.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/03/30/windo...
You can't reduce a collection of the priorities of individuals down to a single one. Mozilla doesn't have a single direction in the same way Apple or Google don't have a single direction. You can look at the general goal of pushing the web forward if you want, but that idea has many forms of expression.

The real problem doesn't come from being confused about what Mozilla 'stands for', it's comes from short term thinking by their leadership. Their products are being undermined by a leadership that doesn't understand their potential worth (both in terms of their importance to the web, and financially to Mozilla). Without leadership that looks long term at what benefits the web and has a vision of how to get there, that leadership will mostly be a hindrance. Thankfully the engineering teams seemed to have struck gold with Rust/Servo (and in ASM.JS's influence on WebAssembly), which should serve Mozilla well as the technical basis for future development.
I've been thinking for a while now that police overresponse and internal surveillance and control are similar to immune disorders: a hyperactive defense mechanism turns against that which it ought be protecting in the first instance.

I'm suspecting this is a general systems problem.