skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done lots of therapy. Really! It's very sweet how worried everyone in this thread is about me, but maybe I've painted a dire picture.

Time heals all wounds. I'm only 25, it's only been 6.5 years since I was last homeless. Even though it hasn't been too much time, I already feel quite a bit better:

* I used to have anxiety attacks and heart palpitations nearly nightly; now, it happens maybe 2x a year.

* "Money isn't everything - unless you don't have it." Without financial stress (yay corporate programmer salary!), I am much calmer and happier. Most people on HN are men so I don't know if you will understand this, but women (at least in the US) are often pressured to go into a "do-gooder" career. People look at me like I'm a snail when I say that I care first and foremost about being financially independent, but I've learned to ignore it.

* I've completely cut out toxic family members and learned to ignore any asshole that says "you will regret not having a relationship with ____ when he/she is gone"/"the bible says 'honor thy mother and thy father'" etc. If you say these things to someone coming from a family of abuse, you are very tone deaf. No one cuts family out of their life on a whim.

* Everyone talks about "not being a victim", but for me it was a very healing thing to admit that there were a bunch of bad situations where I was surrounded by bad people and did nothing wrong. Maybe it was pride that kept me from admitting this. Maybe shame. Maybe misplaced affection. Whatever the reason, once I shook this off I was able to move on.

In summary: it's okay to admit you've been a victim. It's okay to cut toxic people out of your life. It's okay to be selfish and "materialistic" sometimes. It's okay to ignore people judging you for things that they cannot understand.

Once I learned these life lessons, I left behind a lot of my issues. The more "physical" ones, such as startling easily and having nightmares, are relatively lightweight compared to the more insidious psychological damage caused by years of living with addicts and being treated like my needs were secondary to those of everyone around me.

I don't know if anyone reading this could be in the same situation as my teenage self, but if you're out there: please tell everyone trying to use you to go kick rocks. Know that you can do a lot of very awesome things, as long as you keep your mind open. And you are not "broken"! I won't lie and say Nietzsche was right about "what doesn't kill you" -- but you're never broken, not until you give up. Don't do that.
Universities already have incentive to up their game in the form of being an university. The potential to get a million dollars if they maybe win some contest is a complete abstraction to the people who manage the establishments finances.
Well, that really depends on where exactly you place start of a year ;-)

Chinese New Year was February 8, 2016. Orthodox New Year was January 14, 2016. So it's 2:1 for me.
This is an example of someone reprogramming the monitor, not using a monitor to attack the computer that it's connected to the video-out of. I'm not clear if there's an attack against the ORWL itself you have in mind here.
I have a camera on my front door with a mobile app to view it.

I recently had out mailman do exactly this (while I was home and only a few feet from the door). I had to chase him down and he told me flat out that he had knocked, waited and I wasn't home.

I showed him the camera footage and I've never had a problem since (and I'd have weekly problems with this beforehand ).
No feedback at all is worst than negative feedback :(
Somebody is going to have to start something up that can replace Stack Exchange.
Forward all scam calls to Lenny: https://www.youtube.com/user/ToaoDotNet/videos
Aside from the fact it's a good question.

I'm also upvoting because that "sounds" like maybe you are pessimistic about the significance and need them to recoup the robo downvotes given to anyone not willing to swear the worlds going to end tomorrow. (don't know for sure if they lurk on HN, but for sure they are everywhere else).
Why? It's usable from visual studio, as the screenshots show.
Tmux 2.3 released
I think this could be a great application to debate software technology choices or best practices, discussion types often locked on StackExchange sites as opinion-based [1].

Many discussions could benefit from the breakdown of arguments into individual premises like "this language supports concurrency natively" and "this language has been in production at X companies for Y years". And, since users can pose counter arguments, it's OK if different users end up at different conclusions.

[1] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252854/why-doesnt-s...
No.

The reason I know the answer is because there is no such thing as a self driving car.
Sure is - the problem of course is the other projects just rot in the meantime :(
AplicativeDo solves this a little bit through using Applicative until the results are necessary for the next instruction, then opting for Monad instances
> [Tesla] first built the Roadster—the opposite of a mass market car—to generate revenue to get to the Model S. The Model S then generated the revenue to start the Model 3.

Except the Roadster didn't generate enough revenue, Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Elon Musk swooped in to save the day (and have himself labelled a co-founder as part of the deal).

The Model X was supposed to be a quick reskin of the Model S chassis as an SUV to provide a stopgap model while the Model 3 was developed, but that turned out to be more complicated than expected and Musk's demands for those striking but complicated gull-wing doors caused development and production problems that delayed it for years.

I'm readying the popcorn for the delays and production issues of the Model 3.
Show HN: Random Star Trek Generator
Once you reprogram the monitor, you can store or exfiltrate all of the data the user sees, and do clever things like erase and redraw the mouse pointer, or draw new prompts, to induce the user to click on the things they wouldn't have otherwise.
They are measuring perceptions, which are all inside people's heads. If they had included "lizard people" and "foreigners" on the survey, that would also be a valid way of measuring perceptions even though one group represents 7 billion people and the other zero.
Many US health insurance plans already give premium discounts to members who maintain their BMI or waist ratio below a certain limit.
Maybe not vaccines, but certainly antibiotics fit the trope :)
HN Show: Tested model with early MVP, great results so far
Interdiction could happen with open source hardware too. Swipe the SoC, and no one would be the wiser. Given everything that has to be in place for vPro/the ME to work, looking at the pcb would give enough information to tell exactly how much, if any, information it could steal, if all the malicious items were in place. All of which could be easily undone by reflashing it, because the write line on the bios is not controlled by the CPU. A lot of steps have to be done, physically and in software in order to exploit it, and that exploit would melt away on the first bios flash. I'd be much more concerned about the security of the software running on the system than any theoretical hack on the ME.
We have massive national programs to grow all of our male citizens to this size!
>This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner.

I'm still reading through the competition rules, but it's not clear to me if the winners lose their intellectual property rights. In some past tech competitions I've seen the winners still got to keep their product, the point of the competition was just to get people interested in the domain.

>AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain.

Are they really though? I've been experimenting for a little bit with neural nets for chatbots. It's always been an interest of mine. I never thought it would have much economic value or interest until now.
How to fix a phone that does not load?
Can a tamper event be triggered through software? It would really simplify the ability to create trap passwords which wipe the device.
A service that shows homes to interested clients, paid for by the agents. MVP works by outsourcing showings to highly rated ride-share drivers who are also licensed agents. Worked in trail runs in So Cal. Would love any feedback. Thank you.
Note the moving objects in those generated/predicted thumbnails.
Probably a simple editing mistake, but (at the time of this post) the Before and After timelines are identical.

Both images point to the same URL:
https://engineering.siftscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
Just in Windows though
Show HN: All the travel blogs in one place
The definition of 'tax evasion' is 'the illegal nonpayment or underpayment of tax'.

So - it's not up to you to decide what is 'tax evasion'.

You can commandeer the term if you want, but you'd have to be very clear that you are doing that.
In theory, the idea that it was a true 'choice' is suspect. They were a Google company previously, so they'd just use Google by default even if everyone on staff also was equally expert at AWS.

That said... in reality, they likely had real reasons to use Google since they probably have a higher expertise with it that AWS.
VC is apparently awash in capital (11 Trillion USD in bonds now trading at negative interest rates quotes Andreessen)

The Internet was born out of probably the worlds most successful long term focused VC - DARPA

now I can't tell if this is the VC community going back to a long term model and invest for decades before expecting a return. 11 trillion would do a lot of good invested for ten years in the globes best and brightest

If we don't know if the tech will work at all (fusion etc) then YC is effectively funding academic research. Which is fine, but I assume the right way to build a business may not be the right way to choose the next research project. Gittens index notwithstanding

Are these businesses measured in some way differently to the next Uber? Different P&L expectations, different pool of funds? If not then ... ?
I can see why they might want to rebrand, given that (a) the word "app" has taken on a specific meaning in the mobile space and (b) Google as a whole is now branded with a stylised "G".

EDIT: It's hard for this product to have its own stable brand identity. All it does is add a feature to the existing Google products: the ability to use a custom domain, with some useful tools to manage that namespace.

Maybe the word Domain should be emphasised: "G Domain Suite" (or Domain Pack/Extensions/Link). Sounds better than just G Suite anyway.
Dick Costolo is launching his group fitness startup in December
In US, 'self-make' means 'privileged'
Just use coloreds only drinking fountains. Problem solved.
Why not G Spot ? :)
Hacking elections is a declaration of war? Then the US should be at war with dozens of countless!

Oh, wait... It is!
That's only 977 bytes per page (42 MB / 43,000 pages). Are you sure about the numbers? Maybe the plain-text body is stored in a TOAST table?

Anyway, it looks like the whole dataset can fit in RAM, which explains the excellent performance, even with relevance ranking.
Isn't this the case with most of the groups? I would imagine even atheist Jews have been to synagogue at least a few times. I would consider Catholics who only go to Easter and Christmas mass to not be religious.
There are some old servers at my work.

The oldest box I've personally seen runs Windows 3.1 it is a specialized measurement instrument (Microwave radar) with a hardware card that runs in an ISA slot.

There are also a fair number of RS/6000 Unix boxes which are getting pretty long in the teeth.

For spare parts I've heard sometimes engineers buy things like Scsi hard disks off of ebay.
The author has seriously underestimated (or, more likely, overlooked) the difficulty of a key step in his proposal: enumerating all possible circumstances. How many different "truck crossing ahead" scenarios are there? How many different ways might something be misidentified as the sky? or something else? How many combinations of basic errors are there, in which the basic errors themselves may be harmless, but the combination is not? Even deciding whether two cases are the same or different is often a matter of opinion, and it is further complicated by the fact that what is the same or different to a given system depends on details of the implementation of that system.

The author is not shy about making other assumptions, either: "Sebastian Thrun postulates that, when subject to real-world conditions, AI can double its performance every 18 months" "let’s assume that a driverless car is perfect at navigating scenarios it has previously handled safely"... The foundations of this article's argument are not nearly as sound as the author seems to think.
Any plans to offer a 16GB RAM version? The commentary from Qubes users in the 3.2 release thread [1] seems to indicate 8GB would be borderline for Qubes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12604417
> It uses gotos and variables like "yxtgn" that mean nothing to the reader (turned out y meant it was an integer, weird)

It meant "ynteger". Elementary, my dear Watson.
I like the new central resource to keep up to date on marketing direct from Google I just wish Google would get a readability expert on their team. They are using a very thin font with the color of #333 on a #fafafa background and, as per usual, they love their whitespace making the page look silly on my widescreen desktop monitor. I still look forward to going to a single resource instead of the various blogs now.
I'm not exactly sure what a 'deep learning box' is, but if I wanted a box to stuff some GPU's on a budget I'd start with a used Dell Precision 7xxx series off of ebay for a couple of hundred dollars as a platform.

These machines have two graphics x16 PCIe slots wired as x16 and two more x16 wired as x8 powered by an 1100 watt power supply. New, a similar power supply would cost more than the what a whole system will go for including a Xeon CPU, some Ram and possibly a disk and perhaps a Windows license.

The downside is that the Precision 7xxx's are big and heavy and a bit power hungry and only come in Oakland Raiders black with silver.

The Precisions are also certified for various flavors of Linux when new, so there's unlikely to be any driver problems regarding their hardware. They're stupid easy to open up and in and around...a similar new case would also probably cost more than a complete used system. I've found them very reliable.

From there, it would just a be matter of how much money there is for GPU/graphics cards, more RAM, and SSD's and how it gets spread around based on the anticipated workload: a $50 SSD and a $50 GPU might be enough for fooling around and developing a toolchain. After that, it's just a matter of how far you can fall when sitting on your wallet.
If by JSON you need serialization, then I'd recommend Serde: https://crates.io/crates/serde (which works on stable Rust but has a nicer interface on nightly; this nicer interface should be available on stable by early next year at the latest)

For Unicode support, here are crates for normalization https://crates.io/crates/unicode-normalization and segmentation (working with grapheme clusters and so on) https://crates.io/crates/unicode-segmentation

Re: "string manipulation" what do you need? Rust has a rich set of methods built in to its two native string types, (e.g. left-padding https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/struct.Formatter.html#meth... :P ), and we're open to adding more if there's demand for them.
Using Deep Learning to Predict Steering Angles
I'm not sure this would be a very good fit for Disney. Twitter just doesn't fit the squeaky clean image of Disney proper, and not sure that they would provide appropriate value even including other Disney holdings... unless they own, perhaps a news media option I'm not familiar with.

As for Disney buying other companies, I'm frankly surprised they haven't tried/offered to buy off Netflix. There's a MUCH better pairing there.
At least it's non-exclusive so they can take their tech elsewhere too.
Say I have a technology that's related to autonomous vehicles. It requires hardware and software. How would joining YC increase the odds of the technology being adopted by auto manufacturers? Its not a consumer product and its a technology that aides and improves autonomous operation but does not actually drive the car. It would be nice to hear from anyone from YC or with experience.
Why I hate the Boeing 737
From their FAQ:

>Will this competition be judged like a Turing Test?

>No. The goal of the Alexa Prize is to create socialbots that engage in interesting, human-like conversations, not to make them indistinguishable from a human when compared side-by-side. While the socialbots built for the Alexa Prize will be human-like in some respects, they will be very different in others, and could easily reveal themselves in a Turing Test. For example, socialbots may have ready access to much more information than a human. Asking the socialbots to act human could diminish the customer experience and hinder the efforts of the participants to build the best socialbot to further conversational AI.
> Reality: I've been making more than $200K USD since I was about 27

> Mentality: I'm one day away from being homeless.

In the US those two things are not always exclusive, unfortunately.
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out. Updated!!
He may be talking about loaning the first million from bank.
Scare tactics/propaganda. Whether the article is rightly or wrongly indicating something significant, I can't tell.

1. Chart shows carbon dioxide going from light red to dark red. The color scale is wildly different from the measurements (388ppm -> 404ppm -- 4%; assuredly higher, but not their drastically darkening RGB depiction (247,211,211) -> (134,3,8)

EDIT: It has been pointed out to me the percentage change is irrelevant. I'm a fairly ignorant outside observer of climate science with an interest in the presentation of this material. I saw http://xkcd.com/1732/ but many people will assume heuristic from http://xkcd.com/605/
I don't think fossil fuel is going away until prices are adjusted to the externalities.
Thanks for the downvote, made me think a little harder about the importance of--(jeez, it is hard to say "politically correct" with sounding sarcastic).

2. Cherry picked a solitary data source: "At Mauna Loa Observatory, the world’s marquee site for monitoring carbon dioxide" -- Is there only one? Couldn't the article have provided a global average?

3. Animated image (with unhelpful caption) provides a little movie that looks like the northern hemisphere was on fire for the month of March 10 years ago.

This is terrible stuff. Not for passing the "symbolic threshold", but for the beautifully crafted subtexts in presentation.

HN, I welcome these threads.
There's, uh, prior art for the name: https://www.instagram.com/p/5dDY0YtgEP/
You imply that it was dishonest. It was absolutely not dishonest. It was precisely to emphasize my point.

My point being that the words you used were all comparisons, made in relation to a norm. That's the whole point of the thread. That it was actually impossible to use the nouns themselves ("dumb", "weak", "ugly"), exactly because there cannot be any objective measure of it in nature.

Yes, you lift Nkg. You weight Mkg. You measure Xcm. That does not tell whether you are strong, heavy or tall. These are all meaningless in a vacuum. More importantly, it does not tell whether you are stronger, heavier, taller. Stronger, heavier, taller than what, than whom?

You were excluding this context in you analysis, telling that the poors would not lose anything as they would not be worse off from their former self. The context here is that they are not measured against humanity decades, centuries earlier, but to their contemporaries, the elites that would design their babies.

It is impossible to abstract this context from the comparison, precisely because it is a comparison, and because the only meaningful comparison is that which concerns contemporaries.
To add to the confusion:

GCE = Google Compute Engine
GKE = Google Container Engine (Kubernetes)

To be fair, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is not exactly clear either. I guess Azure has the clearest naming with it comes to VMs, literally Virtual Machines.
For those who didn't know about the ".google" TLD:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_goog...
Note that Rust statically links in everything it needs by default, which is why hello world is so much larger in Rust than in C. :) If you want a hello world binary that's as small as C, there is a compiler flag for dynamically linking the generated binary.
The broad consensus in the games press was that Pokemon Go is a great example of a strong gameplay loop overriding a massive technical failure.

Google's post is weird because they seem to think the game was a technical success. Google may have done great, it's impossible to tell from the outside, but the actual user experience is - or at least was when I played it - awful.
You mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHaIjAk0X7Y
What's it supposed to do? Connect me to a randomly chosen ST episode on Netflix? (I don't have a Netflix account so I'm stymied there.)

When I go to the page it always gives me the text, "For Those Who Boldly Go" / "U.S.S. Ektorp". That doesn't appear to be a ST title, or randomly generate. Even when I try again in privacy mode.

I'm quite confused.
"Adult humans' immune systems tend to go all-out to finish off the virus in a campaign that nearly always ends in failure.

Children have a relatively tolerant immune system, which becomes more aggressive in adulthood - chickenpox, for example, is far more severe in adults due to the way the immune system reacts. "

This is fascinating. It looks like a kid's immune system is in "learning mode" for a while. Which makes sense, gives it time to get exposure to pathogens and compounds.
I had expected something cool with webRTC based on the title. While pushpin and stack are interesting, this is anything but serverless, especially since you'll still need to configure these "serverless" hosts. I wish "serverless" as a term for PaaS frameworks would go away already, I don't think anyone should/would consider, for example SalesForce a "serverless" development option.
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It does not have to be a marriage. Living with a good roommate could be a good substitute.

But she failed to find a good roommate too.
A lot of programming jobs turn out to be pointless. Is that what this article is about? I didn't read it.
I tune Porsches that require windows xp machines with an Rs232 port. I just buy a couple from ebay and keep stock of old parts (mostly old IBM t-series).
When you have to choose one of two options, then yes it does offset.
> think it's not grammatically accurate to use "them" and "they" for a singular subject;

That is incorrect. The "singular they" is grammatically correct and has been in common English use since the 14th century. (There is a very modern impression that this usage isn't somehow incorrect or non-traditional, but it has zero factual backing.)

The only reason to avoid the "singular they" is that it may annoy some people who incorrectly believe it to be ungrammatical.