skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time. It is only "worth it" for the one VC that wins the winner take all rat race. There can only be so much stupid money in the world before only the smart people are left with any.
The Military Logic of Punishing Chelsea Manning’s Suicide Attempt
won't somebody just come along and put a pretty front end on cryptography, mesh nets and blockchain systems and hook it up to advertising and make even more money because their costs went down because of the mesh network.
Will the online lectures have subtitles?
The choice is that if you're going to develop software for sale to the public, you can choose to develop software for sale in another market which is not so restrictive and oppressive. Other platforms and marketplaces exist, and money can be made there. To contemplate the actual possibility of sweating for years building a business, slaving over software, creating marketing campaigns, and a brand and fighting to beat out the competition, all while knowing that at any point for any reason Apple may decide to pull the plug and leave me with absolutely nothing-- no sellable product and no other avenue to sell it-- sounds like a pretty obvious choice: Don't ever get in business under circumstances like that unless there truly is no other choice.

Stories like this from Dash (and others) is a real-living and breathing worst-case scenario... it makes the choice to not participate in this marketplace all the more obvious to me.
You might also want to check out "Functional Programming, Totally" by Keanu Reeves.
Glory to the company but shame to modern internet — you have to use one of few "email providers" instead of just installing Postfix otherwise all your emails go to spam folder.
>It should be prohibited for companies to halt service someone without providing a reasonable explanation.

By US standards, that would require an absurd level of legislative and/or judicial overreach. I don't think I'd even want to do business in that kind of regulatory climate.
"Coastal educated"? Nice stereotyping there.
I'd like to say that it is possible to reach paypyal. They've even been moderately effective.
Governments employ experts in myriad capacities. Some of these experts achieved their position through actual merit rather than successful politicking.

I think many politicians, despite appearances, actually listen to these expert advisers. It takes a generalist to integrate information from disparate domains of expertise and make a decision. It takes a political expert to establish public support for the decision and shepherd it through various levels of government.

This represents an idealized picture of government, of course, and may not correspond with the reality in any particular country.
Can we drop the whole "need to eat" language when talking about software development? We're talking about people with abundant opportunity to make tons of money. Tugging on the heartstrings with "they need to eat" or "feed their families" is preposterously over the top rhetoric.
Haha! about to be so many Kevin Holiday cards this season.

Thanks for your answer, super helpful as my team and I create new ways of connecting with our users.
I kind of think of imminent battle between decentralized/centralized as analogous to the Linux/Windows wars of yesterday. Over the short term you're probably right that centralized services will win. But because decentralized services yield control of your data, they have the potential to be so much better for the consumer than centralized services.
I guess what I'm getting at -- and could have communicated better -- is that this approach of "buffer/queue/cache/defer everything because it's faster right now, never mind that we might have to stall and flush the pipeline all at once later" has worked its way up the stack, with the worst-case stall growing in magnitude as the path cascades through progressively more layers and bigger buffers (cf. bufferbloat in networks [1]). Among other issues, it fools people into thinking that expensive operations are cheap. I think that pattern is far more responsible than language-imposed overhead for the weird quasi-random delays that are seen in modern systems. You can certainly connect this to popular idioms and some standard library facilities in some higher-level languages, but I think that connection is largely a historical accident rather than having much to do with the languages themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
Like SPARC?
As someone that works in manufacturing (on the ERP systems side), I assure you that the dignity non-unionized assembly line workers feel is about what you'd get from any highly repetitive $10 - $20 an hour job with scant pay raises. Having been around the assembly line, I'd definitely recommend someone try life as a barista or bartender or Costco employee before stepping foot in a factory.
Well, SLAM is a fundamental building block for all kinds of autonomous robotics applications, with self-driving cars being one of the most obvious ones.

I'm having a really hard time understanding exactly what you find concerning about this. If you're relying on the assumption that it's inconvenient for somebody with physical access to a building to draw up an accurate floor plan... well, sorry, but that just sounds like a bad assumption to me.
That's basically putting the cart before the horse.

Security is hard. Hard problems are easier when there are fewer of them. It's easier to build one big wall than lots of little ones.

Surveillance of employees is a cornerstone of enterprise security because humans are inherently untrustworthy. One part of the solution to this problem is to define a distinction (using golf[+] of all things as an analogy) between the rough, the fairway and the green. Because defining a border between the rough and the course is easy, and untrustworthy humans aren't all that bad most of the time, the distinction between the fairway and the green easily becomes blurred.

While employers may polish up the distinction between their workaday desktops and their locked-down servers they will never abandon the difference, and nor should they, between their systems and everyone else's systems.

[+] You have my permission to use this analogy with your manglers.
Many of her comments are very interesting and I'd probably like to read more on other subjects. That said, she almost shills for Google even if she doesn't intend to. This jumped out when she pointed out that Microsoft's strategy was to profit off of "artificial scarcity" while Google's was not. Bullshit haha! It's called PageRank: the patented, artificially-scarce algorithm that made them the multi-billion dollar company worth discussing. That plus them going public told me they'd shift toward evil for the financial, "greater good." Which is evil in surveillance and software empires more often than it is good. We see them pulling stuff with Chrome and Android that wouldn't have gotten them celebration in the early days.

Another is the part about people paying ad words for freedom or stuff they couldn't otherwise get. The fact that Google's system can reach more people and more cleverly than before is certainly a benefit. There were alternatives, though, like listing your product in online stores, Buy It Now on eBay with a link to a store, or mass marketing after buying listings of leads. Similarly take less staff than traditional marketing at big firms. The online ecosystem for ads also involves lots of fraud with estimates showing it is a good percentage of ad expenses. So, Google is actually yet another middleman in this sense that tries to lock you into their set of benefits and problems. They also try to shift the benefits toward themselves a bit more over time like any business. So, they're just middlemen with a bent toward lock-in rather than purveyors of freedom.

So, aside from the Google comments, other stuff was pretty interesting. Lots of historical and economic tie-ins to her analyses.

EDIT to add: I'm only through around half the post. It's pretty huge haha.

"When I was at Google I hung out "

She also apparently worked at Google. Explains the bias. :)
Because without manufacturing you have nothing.
Total loss of control for your product.

Wal Mart crap everywhere.
Does this help? http://www.b4usa.com/tag/toaster/

I've bought quite a few things made in the USA (or other countries with decent worker and environmental protections, like Italy, Germany, Japan...) that other people seem to usually get from China. Anecdotally, I've noticed that people who will talk about how Grandma's toaster or washing machine lasted forever and it's a shame you can't buy something like that today are not willing to budget for it like Grandma did. Grandma spent a lot of money on her appliances in 1950, whether you want to adjust by consumer price index or just look at (e.g.) the ratio of minimum wage to sticker price. Are you willing to spend thousands of dollars on a washing machine, to match relative buying power and prices from the middle of the 20th century? If so, you can still find appliances that are built like a tank, built by workers paid decent wages, built in factories that don't just dump all their trash into the nearest river. But if you want to buy a toaster that lasts a long time, is made in the USA, and costs only a little bit more than the Chinese toaster, yeah, I agree that is hard to find. There is good stuff still available at the high end. The low end has gone a lot lower.
Take it at your own speed, when you're confident in your abilities.

Especially mail is difficult to get started with now - domains that don't have years of (spam-free) reputation tend to be blocked a lot, creating a bit of a chicken and egg issue[1] to get past, and it is... extremely frustrating to figure out what hoops j-random-webmail.com demands you jump through. Also, setup is complex, mainly due to the accretion of of anti-spam half-measures that need to junk up your DNS if you want people to accept your mail.

But trust me, even with all that, setting up mail today is still much easier than it was in the Sendmail days.

Assuming you're interested, and you want to, I'd encourage you to try running more services. When experimenting, don't keep private things on your host, make sure you have your machine access covered (passwords, keys, magic customer service phrases, whatever) and keep an eye on it. If it is compromised, consider it a learning experience and recreate your config (I'm assuming you're running a cheap virtual host; if this is hardware, that's a bit different).

It isn't that hard to do, and I think too many people are much more scared of running their own services than is sensible or real.

Netizens, arise! You have nothing to lose but your shackles.

And maybe some time that you otherwise would have wasted on Facebook.

[1] A few sites still block my domain, despite being single-owner, always spam-free and online for almost 20 years. I don't feel bad about not having them as potential conversation partners.
measured on performance/risk on the Seller Performance and no one wanted to take a chance on you?

i'm just guessing here.
Think of essentially any major US-based scandal in the last twenty years involving extremely powerful individuals (presidents, billionaires etc.). I think it is highly likely that in each case, the most powerful people managed to avoid prosecution and sentencing unless the people they harmed were even more powerful than themselves.

More importantly, these powerful people effectively write the laws themselves - why break a law when you can simply cause whatever action you wish to take to become legal?

Torturing prisoners? Crashing the world's financial system? Spying on millions of Americans without any kind of warrant? Lying about the spying to congress? All no problem! Just make up a law and get it passed, or if you forgot to do that, get retroactive immunity granted or just ask the President to pardon you directly.

The only thing that matters is how much power (influence, force, money etc.) you can bring to bear and who your opponents are. Law is irrelevant. To put it in plainer terms: people who own nuclear weapons don't have to pay their parking tickets.
Ah I see - I was just looking for a hangouts replacement is all.
How long are they going to continue this farce? When will the investors step in and try to save what's left of the business?
I've owned the 4, 5 and both 7s, but I returned the 5X after a week. It was a good phone but the first (?) batch out of the factory had issues with the touchscreen while charging and it was $700+ here - it wasn't a $700 phone, IMO. Is the Pixel a $1200 phone? I'm not sure, but I've switched to a Moto X Style for $520 and it's quite good.

Unfortunately, I'll have to flash CM soon due to Lenovo deciding to leave the phone on a May 2016 security patch. I'm missing the Nexus updates, but Google's hardware and pricing is leaving a lot to be desired.
Vaguely related, It would be really interesting to see a government try juries for legislation.

Let representatives do everything they normally do but vote. A jury selected from voters in proportion to representatives is convened. The bill sponsors and opponents make their case to the jury. The jury votes.

It might be an unmitigated disaster. But, it would be interesting.
Wow, so many responses that come to mind and they're all of the form 'un' + some swearing + 'scientific'.
Until we get that Holy Grail of general AI, services are the exact opposite of scalable. Even then, most services will need to be replaced by AI and hardware, which will depend of manufacturing scalability. A single factory can be big enough to mass produce enough widgets for every person in the world but that can't be done with lawyers, restaurants, barbershops, retail stores, or driving instructors until we have advanced robotics, AI, teleportation, virtual reality, etc. at which point it's just software and manufacturing. Just look at how the manufacturing sector output has grown over the decades despite a static labor pool while the service sector employment expands linearly with its size.

More importantly, manufactured goods can be exported much more easily to a growing global consumer base than services (other than software) that are almost always limited locally or regionally.
You should have downloaded "Totally Not a Scam Pro" when it was on the store!
Search for "burr puzzles"; they are mostly made of wood and fit together similarly but have many solution combinations.
Ask HN: What do you look for when conducting user experience tests?
> "… in 2016 I can't really find a reason to still use a RSS reader."

Also remember that every podcast app is an RSS reader.

This year, 21% US adults ages 12 or older have listened to a podcast in the past month.
Ah well they're banks you see and "doing things" requires spending money which they're rather averse to.

Also never use the word just outside the context of law.
What do you do when Qualcomm stops updating the graphics drivers for your phone?
Kinda paranoid... But if we really want to blow your mind.

They also know your exact location, mapped with Google maps, understand your connections, recognize how you write via your email and docs. Sure they don't know the inside of the building you are in or even inside you (although they will soon I'm sure).

Now for the most horrifying... They have access to every Android phone, and they can listen to every single one if they wanted to. If you use Google voice, they can even "learn" your voice. Eventually, they can probably pick you out among the millions or billions of voices.

Combine that with your Google searches, a convolutional neural net over all your selfies... Now sprinkle in some Android wear data and they literally have all of you.

All of you.
The Southwest Will Probably Suffer a Crippling Megadrought This Century
> The cost is in the latter, the former is just abuse of position for power over the end user.

Exactly, hence my question about "student projects" which is really about why aren't there more OSS projects that challenge this. Is it because of the lack of platforms to experiment on, or the inherent difficulty of the task?
Wow, thanks for sharing.
The part that jumped out at me was this:

Piaw: "The magic trick that Facebook pulled off was getting the typical user to provide and upload all his/her personal information. It’s incredibly hard to do that: Amazon couldn’t do it, and neither could Google. I don’t think it’s one of those things that’s technically difficult, but the social engineering required to do that demands critical mass. That’s why I think that Facebook is (still) under-valued."

Rob: "@Piaw - it was an accident of history I think. When Facebook started, they required a student ID to join. This made a culture of “real names” that stuck, and that no one else has been able to replicate."

I added the emphasis. I think this exchange is significant in thinking about an open and better replacement. Why hasn't popped into my head.
No ECC on chip, but we do have column redundancy. We are pushing the envelope in terms of SEUs, making an assumption that the right programming model and run time will be able to compensate for high soft error rates. It's a contentious point, but basically our thesis is that with 1024 cores on a single chip, cores are "free" and it "should" be possible to avoid putting down very expensive ECC circuits on every memory bank (x4096). Some of our customers don't notice all bit flips because they have things like Turbo/Viterbi ..channels aren't perfect...
Notice that, despite not giving it Apple's successful marketing, Google also invests in R&D of differential privacy: https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-use-a-differential-privacy...
Good points. However, the macroeconomic benefits of manufacturing don't necessarily require people to be employed in manufacturing, do they? If America builds enough productive, highly-automated factories, the country is still generating wealth. As long as some of this wealth is captured for the people, then standard of living can increase.
As someone who used to work at Microsoft, now work for a small startup in SF, I really do miss working in VS. Still one of the best development environments out there.
My eyes. Good content, but very hard to read.
The difference is that those studios don't try to rewrite laws via lobbying to block their IP from entering the public domain after profiting greatly off public domain.

Mickey Mouse should be released.
It worries me that the unlocking of many phones relies on manufacturer websites that might not be there one day. Hell, even the Xiaomi Mi4c required unlocking with "identity verification" via SMS.
>Manufacturing jobs weren't (and aren't) filled with a bunch of meatheads coloring by numbers any more than are construction jobs.

This is true, but the fact that there are definitely stigmas around higher education in underprivileged and working class communities in the USA is very much a reality.
Thankyou for giving possibly the only coherent argument against this.
"I don't think it's so much a cultural thing as the high intellectual capabilities required for high paying knowledge jobs. Coding, for example, is just too hard for a huge segment of the population, regardless of how much training they get."

Maybe but it doesn't matter that much. If some breakthrough in education made it easy for 60% of the population to become good quality coders, it would lower the wages of existing programmers, somewhat increase the pool of working programmers but not give that 60% good jobs.

The type of coding done at Uber, for example, is specifically valuable because it replaces the lower paid labor of other people. We can't all have jobs automating each other out of jobs, now can we?
I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones. I am confident it will not be able to compete with Google Now on the same device.

In addition to founders, Viv got a good number of early Siri engineers. From this and other hints I gather its internals are similar to first few versions of Siri. For example, they outsource the Speech component (something Apple still does for several languages). A consequence of that design is separating speech recognition from NLP, which makes it inherently more error-prone than Google Now.
No, that's not logical at all; the next step will be meat grown directly in a petri dish. There have been successes the last two years, but it's going to take many more years to work well and scale up. The Gates foundation funded the first petri dish burger, btw.
So each processor has 64KB of local memory and network connections to its neighbors?

The NCube and the Cell went down that road. It didn't go well. Not enough memory per CPU. As a general purpose architecture, this class of machines is very tough to program. For a special purpose application such as deep learning, though, this has real potential.
No, the biggest challenge in IoT right now is security and in that same vein, updates.

IoT devices identifying themselves (authentication) is only a tiny sliver of the security picture. You also need to worry about authorization, encryption, and (security) monitoring.

One really annoying security problem with IoT devices right now is SSL/TLS's complete fundamental incompatibility with the concept of "roaming". Want to connect to your device via SSL/TLS? Better get used to ignoring warnings about the certificate name not matching the device's IP/hostname.
absolutely right. If it shouldn't be a walled garden the entry shouldn't be walled. Would be cool to see like a list of most popular users or a list of most recent posts or something.
The Epiphany gains are certainly only achievable for massively pipelinable or embarrassingly parallel operations with very little intermediate state (e.g. streaming data, neural software, etc), not for random access large memory footprint crunching like the Xeon. There simply isn't the per-core memory (64KB), or external memory bandwidth, to go around otherwise.

Xeon, Power, etc are kind of power pigs anyway, though they've got a lot of absolute oomph to show for it.
And nothing of value was lost.

Sorry, reflex. But running an imageboard is an immense challenge in getting sponsors willing to deal with the porn, volunteers willing to wade through the CP, and the constant flow of DOS attacks. Providing a true forum for free speech is a real challenge today.

Still, is 4chan actually willing to tarnish its brand by putting Martin Skreli on the board? If so things must be getting really bad over there.
@daveid, are there instructions on how to get Mastodon running without Docker? Very nice looking app, thanks!
> First, a class action suit for 48 hours of downloads on an app is not likely.

You'd be amazed at what a few billion in the bank will attract, especially when it's cheaper to settle than litigate.
In modern DSP chips programmers have to contend with: VLIW, SIMD, pipelines, caches, and multicore.

In Epiphany, the programmers are challenged by the manycore and an SRAM size cliff (so 0 or 1 in terms of pain).

It depends...but I personally prefer having one big dragon to slay rather than 10 little ones.
Another classic paper is The Poor Man's Explanation To Kalman Filtering : http://digi.physic.ut.ee/mw/images/d/d5/Poormankalman.pdf
10 things the Dutch think about Americans
Sad about that life sentence tho
Propose HN: Pinned explaination when significant posts are buried
In interest of transparency, when front page posts are mod-buried, it would be great to have a pinned comment at the top explaining why. Especially when the news involves a YC company. I imagine it could look something like this:

- Post is a negative rumor, so it was removed from the front page. Full disclosure: YC invested in this company.

- Comment thread devolved into a flamewar, so it was removed from the front page.

I know this is done sometimes when comment threads are detached (great!) but how about doing that for posts that have significant traction when they are buried?