skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just answered your own question. A truly awesome AI assistant would be as minimally present as you prefer. If all you do is talk to AI you don't need to interact with a tablet screen, for instance. If you figure out how to make people productive with that then you may have an idea of the next big thing.
Hi-jacking top comment to point out that the actual launch is at 1h:06m.
> They became the defacto place for public discussion instead.

I've always view Twitter as the commerical break and news teasers for the internet. I rarely see good thorough discussions on Twitter especially anything expected to last more than 30 hours of relevance.
> Vim isn’t the best tool for every task

Begone with your heresy!
Not sure about the historical narrative. But the work of the visual artist, Dmitry Zaviyalov, featured at the top is quite impressive, at least.
well my iPhone and my navigation systems both will tell me how far I am from home/work/parents depending on my location all without my asking.
The $7,500 is the consumer subsidy.

He is talking about the separate $5 billion corporate subsidy.
Thanks for your comment!

We understand the commitment a user makes when switching planning/collaboration app. We are in this for the long run and already have a user base from the closed beta that provide steady revenue.

No problems to have a sustainable business at 10 euro per user and month with our cloud offering (also accounting for customer acquisition costs in line with industry standard). The on premises hosting (offered to enterprises) requires more support and therefore we have a higher price point for that offering.

Further on it would be natural to create additional revenue streams for us with supplementing solutions and modules. E.g. analytics across multiple teams.
inHg is easy... 1 inHg is roughly 1 ftH2O.

Hope that helps ;)
> SpaceX only existing because of NASA's COTS

Falcon 1 and Merlin, Kestrel and Draco engines were funded with private capital; SpaceX was a space-faring company before NASA money got involved. COTS money went into developing the Falcon 9, and amounted to $278 million.

They did get a bunch of cash from NASA for launching crew to the ISS aboard Dragon v2: $2.6 billion. NASA also gave money to Boeing for their CST-100: $4.2 billion.

> Tesla only existing because of generous federal subsidies on electric cars and other handouts

The bulk of Tesla's cash comes from sales, stocks and bond sales - incentives from the government take the form of tax credits, or state agencies offering their own incentives because they are themselves competing to hitch a ride on Elon's business ventures. And who can blame them! Boeing gets considerable subsidies and tax credits as well, as do other car manufacturers and defense contractors, let's not suggest Tesla is alone here.

Also, Tesla was saved from near death by Daimler AG in early 2009, not by a "handout". In 2010, they received a low-interest loan from the government of $465 million, which they repaid in 2013 (the first automaker to repay their portion of the $8 billion loaned out).

Boeing makes less than a third of its revenue from defense and space spending, and yet has still received far more money through federal cost-plus contracts than SpaceX has received from all its revenue sources combined.

I don't think it's fair to characterize them as apples and apples here. Boeing keeps Elon honest by putting crew on ISS, or launching something to Mars, not by lobbying congress to slow Elon down with government red tape for matters that didn't pertain to the government to begin with. That's Boeing/Lockheed (ULS) using its position as one of the largest government defense and space contractors to keep their seat at the grown-ups table.

That said, the CST-100 Starliner is quite a good looking craft that evokes memories of the Apollo program, but I personally like the sleek and swooping curves of Dragon V2 - plus the whole "lands on its legs" thing they've got going on for it. :)

Photos of both can be seen here: http://www.americaspace.com/?p=73778
Yes, but this is all we know about now, every day there is a new revelation about what the government has access too that we previously thought they didn't. I think it's naive to assume they don't have access to all of it.
"but a record for neither". Incorrect. Trump got more primary votes than any Republican in history.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/1/donald-trump-...
I can live with most things, but I hate not having an SD slot. The Pixel is definitely not "all we want"
Yes, you're right, but this is a phone that thousands of people will get either way, regardless of the VR, just for the phone itself.

No one will ever buy a 600-800$ VR headset for anything else than using it in VR. And that's the ONLY thing it will be used for.

The phone will be used every single day of your life for doing everything, from messaging people, watching videos, browsing the web, playing games, etc.

If you want this to be a fair comparison, then also include the 1000$+ gaming rig you'd need for the VR headset to work.
That was then, now is now. Today, at least in europe, big companies do care about standards. Go ahead, try proposing using a Compiler that does not implement any standard like C,C++ or Ada in the Automotive industry.

As for the rest, i agree.
The fact that governments don't want people or companies talking about what it does at all shows that governments are overreaching.

These aren't nuclear schematics we're talking about. These aren't plans for a doomsday device. We're talking about the government silencing people/companies when it gathers (or forces those people/companies to gather) information about (largely random) people in order to use that information against them if they become "subversive". Government intelligence agencies seem to be modeling themselves more and more after the Stasi's.

Though I will say, people often forget that the primary directive for any government is to stay in power. No matter what.

Keep them silent and keep the power.
I share some of your sentiments. I find that I so frequently want to go the first and last non-whitespace characters in a line that I remapped H to go to first non-whitespace character and L to go to the last. I think of these as "linewise-h" and "linewise-l", which almost fits with vim's other conventions. Then I substitute ctrl-d and ctrl-u to go up or down by half-screens.

I'll also note that although I do also frequently use () and {}, I very much like the plugin sneak, which adds an f-type motion. Usually f{char} goes to the first following instance of {char} on the line. Sneak adds in s{char}{char}, which goes to the first instance of {char}{char} (not restricted to the line), and is ;-repeatable just like f-type motions. What this means is that my default navigation is often, look where I want to go, find two letters, sneak to that combination, and then ;;; until I get to the right one.

On your also: My O doesn't stall at all. Have you tried performing the same action on an empty vimrc? You might start vim with `vim -u NONE`, enter some text, and try out O. Or maybe `:map O` or `:nmap O` will inform you that you have some operator-pending map beginning with O.
If it constantly needs data in order to calculate predictions, then it is no artificial intelligence. It is plain Software, like a calculator. The only reason it is called artificial intelligence is because that would be the only reason to adopt this technology.

Again, it might be neat, having a computer like on star trek, but what if you oppose your government? What if you oppose anything, and suddenly your toaster burns down your house, locks you out, locks you in, reports your every move?

Look at Manning, look at Snowden, look at Assange. They opposed and now they get terrorized by the govrnment and the software they once happily used to use. Look at how i will be treated right here by others.

Stop this Masspsychosis.
They weren't looking for errors in papers and trying to push for corrections or improve the science. They were using these errors as fodder for promoting their software.

It might not be bullying, but it's not coming from a place of objectivity or honest debate.
they got him a month ago. gat'damn.

the US Government is playing a different game right now. Play time is over.
Know Your Twitter Followers with Machine Learning
How is the weather in ATL?
This is such a mystery. Oh and by the way, what do women want? Yet another mystery. Life can be so confusing.
Looks like a some useful, but I've seldom seen the word "curated" over-used more. In a cursory glance of a couple categories, it looks like "curated" is used in close to 50% of the collection-item descriptions.

When you over-use a word that much, it tends to lose any meaning.
If the twilight zone taught me anything, it's that humanity will always have a rebel. If you make life so safe and easy that free will is no longer necessary someone will demand free will.
Why not? The In-Reply-To header in emails makes following threads pretty easy and you can fire a web hook to API gateway to kick off a Lambda function when you reply to a Trello story.

You might need a database to map the In-Reply-To header to a Trello story if the customer replies to their own message but DynamoDB on AWS would let you do this for pretty munch free.

AWS Lambda is actually absurdly powerful when combined with other AWS products. Think IFTTT only with custom code. I am 100% sure there is nothing this product does that can't be done with Lambda, SES, and AWS API Gateway from a technical standpoint.

Granted by the time you are done it would cost enough to pay for over a year of this service. Which is why I didn't say I would write it myself. Even if it takes a weekend the break even is too long. Bit if someone wants to open source it ;)
Yes, "intentional ignorance" has value. Justice is blind. That's why some companies blind gender when screening applications, and why most interviewers aren't likely to ask a candidate about their religion or politics or sexual preferences.

Sometimes correlations are self-perpetuating, and it's better to not know about them when making decisions.
I used to have a Sony Xperia Z3C and I feel like the photos were acceptable for me. The bigger issue to me was that the cameras were significantly slower than the iPhone camera. I suppose this is only an issue depending on what you're taking but I mainly only take pictures of my cats who never stay in one position for long.
I use plain vi quite a bit (normally emacs user) and it's pleasurable if you are (1) used to Ctrl-Z & fg on shell, (2) familiar with the Unix environment so that you'll rely on its toolchain instead of plugins for edits and (edit: 3) have grasped to a good extent the verb-movement-object system.
This is a camera review, not a model photoshoot. This comment is unnecessary.
Here's the thing - we're starting to get into territory where we can actually add real value for people again in terms of helping them plan their day, and actually have real AI assistants, computers from Star Trek, what have you. The value here is pretty easy to understand. The problem is that they're all being pushed by advertising companies who make all their money by learning and selling every single bit of information about you.

I want a startup that provides services like this but treats your personal location, correspondence, and behaviors like tax returns and credit card numbers. If we can achieve a good measure of safety and privacy in our messaging apps, we can do it for this sort of data.
MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a #StartUp
I am going to mention our framework, since I think it's relevant, but it's not just a JS framework. It's a fully integrated platform:

http://qbix.com/platform

http://qbix.com/platform/features

Would like to get some feedback on it, from anyone who looks through the features.
They did before and it worked until they made it unwork:

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...

I wrote a post on Schneier's blog describing a few ways security evaluation has been done plus how I would do it:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/friday_squid_...

My model can be used for regulations or liability. Another proposal I had was enforcing a minimum amount of assurance activities proven to knock out defects. Likely a subset of techniques in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734477

Note that U.S. government has already given prior guidance on robust software that mentioned some of those with specific tools. A number of companies in safety-critical are doing things like formal specifications for precise requirements, review of various items in lifecycle, automated generation of tests covering every path, and implementation in Ada/SPARK to knock out classes of errors there. There's also tools like Softbound+CETS plus minor modifications to processors that make most classes of errors or attack impossible. So, it's not theoretical so much as something practical that many avoid for convenience or extra profit. ;)
Machine Learning and the VP Debate: Analyzing Tweets
Here's the criminal complaint. Check Paragraph 12, sounds like he just liked to take work home with him. I'm leaning on the side that this IS NOT ShadowBrokers.

https://lawfare.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staging/2016/Mart...

EDIT: Yeah, Martin is not even being charged with unauthorized disclosure. Not ShadowBrokers, sorry to burst everyone's bubble.
I'm talking as much local computation and storage as possible to minimize uploads.
This dummy was caught red handed. Documents, hardware, etc.
The idea behind ZeroDB might be applicable here.

All data generated by a user is encrypted and stored in the cloud with the decryption keys on the user's device. This way, the service provider (eg Google) can't read your data. The major advantage of this approach is that the user is in complete control of the data. The drawback is that service providers and AI systems will be starved of data that enable targeted ads/recommendations.

A good middle ground might be to offer users an option : 1) Give us your data 2) Pay up and we will not collect any data.

Thinking deeply about the state of the internet, I think we have to move towards a model where users pay for services they use if privacy is a concern. As it stands, a lot of services offer free services in exchange for our data which is monetized through ads.
Honestly... you could do it as a primitive type if you wanted. The only "special" bits needed are a piece of syntax which checks if it's an error, and if so returns it, else evaluates to the private value; and a way of unwrapping the actual error value when you want to handle it.

Go already has plenty of complicated language primitives with complex behaviour.
Certainly one of the main weaknesses of the current system, but the more power Google accumulates, the faster it can displace those states.
Title would've been a lot stronger without the last three words.

Our media has an unfortunate habit of turning stories into he-said-she-said, even when evidence is overwhelmingly on one side.

They seek artificial balance and are unwilling to speak frankly. Ironically this makes their journalism less objective.

It undermines their mission of holding power accountable, because when someone or some agency does something really vile, the media act as unwitting apologists by framing it as just another two-sided disagreement.

Related:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/713416863678595076
State of Georgia mandates 0 day paid maternity leave. Was quite shocking for me in this day and age - having moved from London.

Also although I like Atlanta, the casual racism comment is not unfounded. For example, we have bunch of white only elementary schools and then we have some with black majority ones. Also putting my son through this system convinced me schools like to keep this segregation.
Agreed.

Grew up in the suburbs, hated it. Moved into Atlanta and fell in love. It's perfectly proportioned for cycling. The food everywhere is amazing (I still miss Atlanta's food, now that I'm in SF).
Totally agree with this. We started Reamaze back in 2012 and have never needed an injection of money nor wanted it. We focus on our core customers and deliver a curated experience we all love as a community. We have good growth and our team is extremely happy all the time since we're building what we know to be important long term, not what others think is profitable in the short term.
This appears to be about STEM education, not STEM fields directly.
From Elon Musk to Tim Cook, tech leaders hardly follow women on Twitter
Give Cython a try, you can get huge gains in memory/speed by carefully transitioning from Python to C with it. (Or use it to "write C in Cython"[0])

[0] https://explosion.ai/blog/writing-c-in-cython
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645210
Ask HN: Do we get different results if not logged in?
http://m.imgur.com/a/2k7d3

So I wanted to read the Reddit article but in my heavily locked down desktop at work I can't see Reddit - but on my phone I could not see the same results on the front page.

Is this weirdness from some load balancing / front end web server or is this a new thing I did not notice ?
My impression is that (in the main) younger people have lower privacy thresholds than older people. Not for everyone (of course). Just on average.

My impression also is that most early adopters of this kind of technology are younger people. (again: mostly)

So this brings up an interesting question about the future. As the young early adopters age, what will happen?

a) their privacy thresholds will also increase and they will have a "oh holy crap" moment in the future, where as a middle-aged or older person, who has lived a now much richer and problem-laden life, they will realize that google (and/or other co's) have what they consider now, as too much personal information about them,

or

b) they will keep their young-ish privacy thresholds as older people, and in general, across society, people will have lower thresholds than exist nowadays. In other words the world will change.

My money is on a)
MANY have said that its possible there was another NSA patsy covering for Snowden or definitely at least another spy.

http://observer.com/2016/08/the-real-russian-mole-inside-nsa...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/europe/wikileaks-jul...
I remember App.net with fondness. I was a paying customer and the community was awesome, pretty much entirely troll-free techie types, and I never felt awkward just jumping into a random thread or conversation.

First was the great apps, and the features that continued to roll out for users. Unfortunately it was under appreciated.
From public news sources, I imagine it's the value prop of live streaming sports games -- ESPN is largely owned by Disney, and from what I've heard it's failing as of late.

Issue with Disney from a customer side is censorship.
My understanding is that the difference is most other states highly fund their large city.
This is a really interesting comment and approach to reasoning about information warfare. I'm curious if you have any reading recommendations or if you would care to share more thoughts on the subject.
Whatever happened to the other "second Snowden" where it was reported DoJ was reluctant to prosecute?

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-identify-suspected--second-leaker...
Are XMPP messages published for public viewing? That's the use case of Twitter, not private chat.
I'm not sure about Blue Origin, but the Apollo abort system intentionally introduced a tumble into the capsule as part of the abort process. The reason for this is that it was stable in two positions - nose first, and heat shield first. Only the latter was survivable on reentry.

It was more stable in the heat shield first position, so by introducing a tumble, they were able to avoid nose-first and ensure an abort followed by reentry was something that could be survived.

I don't know if Blue Origin is doing the same thing - but it's not impossible this was something they might have wanted.
Amazon sells you things. Google sells your information indirectly to other people who want to sell you things. There's a lot more cultural acceptance around the first business model because more people interact directly with those who do it.
Musk announced he is planning a roadmap to Mars. Boeing did the same.

SpaceX still doesn't have a launch vehicle in production capable of getting humans to Mars, unlike Boeing.
They used to be like that but over the last year they've switched to announcing all their flights in advance and live streaming them.
Yeah, so instead of testing their updates, user still has less space JUST IN CASE. Sorry, not buying this. If the phone had expandable storage, then yeah maybe, but this is the 16GB story all over again (woops, 11GB actually and less after the Play apps updates).
If you're trying to change your lifestyle, it's more difficult when you have a bad friend constantly enabling the behavior you're trying to cease.

Google may not have a responsibility to be a good friend, but personally I'd prefer not to have a bad friend always following me around, thus I'm a little less excited about this feature.
First Amendment Finally Reaches Patent Law
Another example of a company that has grown quite large without using venture funding is Zoho.com - based out of Chennai, India. They are even larger than Mailchimp in terms of revenues - clocking over $1 Billion and with over 3000 employees.

[1] https://pando.com/2014/10/14/anti-burn-how-bootstrapped-zoho...
> The fact that governments don't want people or companies talking about what it does at all shows that governments are overreaching.

Or it shows they do not want to ruin a very targeted investigation.
The problem he has is that while we're obviating the need for a wall, we're also denying even the possibility of an attractive ironwork fence.
Are you of the opinion that whistleblowing and espionage are the same thing?

It's one thing to call attention to warrantless wiretapping and unconstitutional practices. It's an entirely different thing to take and distribute the source code of a tool used to access foreign government systems. The former is illegal the latter is literally the reason why the NSA was created.
Request-level versus connection-level load balancing. See e.g. https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/03/16/beyond-round-robin-load-b...
I would not want Google knowing I sometimes drink too much, or that I do so and get behind the wheel of a car. Easy inferences it could make, given the time I spent at the bar, and the purchases on my credit card. That could even have consequences for the cost of my auto insurance. Edit: and health insurance.
How Murderous Are Humans? (vs other mammals)