skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't be surprised if this news is met with the usual sentiment that Google abandons everything that isn't immediately hugely successful, and while I often share that criticism of Google, I can't really fault them too much in this case. Getting a nationwide ISP up and running from scratch just seems like an almost impossible task. This is disappointing to me nonetheless.

Can someone with knowledge of the industry explain to me what the biggest hurdles were for Fiber and what if any mistakes Google made in it's rollout? Am I correct in assuming telco interference or hostility played a part? What could Google have done differently for Fiber to be profitable, or is this simply not an industry that you can hope to be profitable in unless you look 20-30 years out?

Basically I'm curious to learn whether this is a result of mistakes on Google's part, Google just not having the long term wherewithal for the rollout, or market/regulatory forces making such a project impossible at this time?
I have been very interested in this seemingly similar software, and the projection hardware is much more conducive to this scenario.
http://www.nureva.com/span-system
Yup. "And by advancing, I mean retreating!"
I reeealy can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not[1]

[1]https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Poe's_law
Just got rejection email as well - last time (s16) we were invited for the interview but did not get in at the end. But it only makes everyone stronger, nothing that anyone should be sad about. For anyone interested, our product demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpG1sKd5bI
That's a good point - I just assumed the 512pixels article was the original since it was shared first widely on Twitter, but only just noticed that Macrumors doesn't reference or credit it. It's possible they both discovered and posted about it today.
how about Escape?
How one rent-a-botnet army of cameras, DVRs caused Internet chaos
cpp html: http://imgur.com/gV3dMI9

It's going to take significant momentum to displace "CPP" in the appropriate computing contexts.
There's a saying: lies, damn lies and benchmarks. In this case AFAIK mi one has replicated these claims.

MS hasn't got it in the standard CNN inference benchmark yet though: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks. This is the benchmark that showed how slow TensorFlow was on non-Google libraries until Google fixed it.
I've been doing this (with a different util) as my primary way of navigating for 20 years. It makes screen clutter irrelevant. Without physical function keys, I can't think of a way to maintain this with the same convenience, being able to do it one-handed with either hand, avoid conflicting with stock shortcuts, and not sprain my hand.

Fortunately, I use an external keyboard much of the time, which I selected almost wholly for its proper 4-groupings of function keys, letting me touch-type them.
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While I completely agree with you that spending $4,000 on these slack bots is a waste of time, that is still a minute fraction of the cost of "unbillable" items listed by this article. Why not submit an FOIA request on one of the other items instead, such as the $140k spend on "developing the brand" and find out what actually involved? [0]

If you really want to be outraged by a waste of taxpayer dollars, I would recommend that you take a look at how much state governments are overspending on prisons vs education [1], wasteful spending in defense [2], and the $8.5 trillion in unaccounted taxpayer dollars spent on defense [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793035

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/pf/college/higher-education-...

[2] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/29/where-did-us-taxp...

[3] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/19/85-Trillion-Unaccou...
America's ultimate idiocy is to think the "transportation revolution" is autonomous cars.
> The original document file (I think - I can't test it)

Interestingly, I can open this just fine in LibreOffice 5. The alignment is slightly off, but the graphics appear just fine.
Time Warner Cable is a separate company from the Time Warner AT&T is acquiring. A previous spinoff.
Then use Scala!

You almost never need to deal with Java except if you want to.

Plus, unlike C/Ruby/Python/.NET you get a JS backend that actually works¹ (unlike mess like GWT, or various other languages).

¹ In the sense of: Scala.js is stable, mature and production-ready. You can use it, save a lot of time, share a lot of code, use mny of the libraries you already know, enjoy great IDE and tooling support, use it in real projects and make money with it.
plenty of games use ESC in input options as an exit out of selection. "Press key to bind or ESC to cancel", with your solution I would end up with unwanted CTRL binds
Quoting,

"Keywords are a common method of accessing data for which one does not have the exact coordinates. The usual problem with keywords, however, is that two people never chose the same keywords. The keywords then become useful only to people who already know the application well."

Interesting that some problems have been known for so long, with no solution in sight.

The whole article is super interesting in the context of everything the author did not yet know
Really odd. I had one of mine for four years through college, which meant constant plugging in/unplugging in classes, at the library, at the dorm/my apartment.

Other than being off-white from dirt/dust and whatever, that charger lasted all that time.
I think Hacker News would be improved if there was a way to add a subtitle for submissions. The title could be unedited from the original, and the subtitle could be a brief note explaining what the link is really about.
Show HN: A gulp-like build engine for front-end depends on DAG
In other words, no new Fiber cities.
Broad scale agriculture already uses similar technology to selectively identify and spray weeds in grain fields.
Speaking of hitting a function key blindly, Command-F5 is how you turn on VoiceOver. How will that work if F5 is just an image on a smooth surface?
"Products. Now is the time to build products that are infused invisibly with AI." ... What is the best way to get started on this? I'd like to learn practical ML/DeepLearning algorithms, not the implementation, but how to apply known theory to problems and with a framework.
The main skill—in short supply—that Wikipedia fosters is to look at things from varying points of view, through a kind of detached pseudoprofessionalism.

Because the function of Wikipedia is to exhibit different viewpoints (where applicable) rather than to convince anyone of them, it's much easier to step into a relativistic, descriptive mindset, rather than a prescriptive one.
This is excellent. The graphics and sounds are nicely done.

One thing that I don't see in it, but that I find fascinating, is that in western music each half step represents a ratio of the twelfth-root of two, in terms of frequency. That way 12 half steps (an octave) will double the frequency.

Certain notes within this are close, but not exactly, on a "simple ratio". It's just coincidental that it works out pretty good. (although you could make it work out just as good with something other than a 12 step scale....a 19-step scale has been used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament )

Anyway, I think that would fit in well with what you've done so far, but obviously, explained in the nice simple graphics that you seem very good at.

I also must say I love the way you use color, I have a music project of my own (that I'm hoping to debut very soon) that also uses color in a very similar way. Did you know that Isaac Newton fixated on 7 colors (ROYGBIV) because he thought there was a connection between the diatonic scale and colors? That's why indigo seems to have been promoted from some obscure color to one of the "basic" colors of the rainbow. (I prefer BOYGBPP, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-pink)
Cmd-r
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Congrats on the $1775 milestone. Good work.
I completely commiserate with you. It is hard to have a good idea and not be able to get it attention. However, after trying to actually pitch an idea in person, I learned that I wasn't nearly as prepared as I thought I was. Seeing your product through the eyes of someone who is not emotionally invested in it (or you), and whose job (or money) depends on vetting you and your product, is very enlightening (and a bit heartbreaking).

As for the clarification on your idea, this audience (and investors) would expect to see much more than that. After reading what you wrote, all I can tell is that it's related to online advertising, but I'm not clear on what specific problem you're addressing, how your product will make money, or how your product will compete and gain marketshare in a crowded market of entrenched (and capital-rich) competitors.

I say this with the intention of being helpful, not to tear you down. And I'm just a guy who reads HN, not an insider of anything.
With enough effort and stubbornness, you can build any system in any turing complete language.

Whenever people point out massive projects done by Fortune 500s, I do recall this and think "yes, Boing can do that, they also used Ada before for the same thing", and "yes Google can mesh 5 different languages within the same company, 2 of them invented there". Does that mean my company can do that?

No. We'd burn our capital stake long before we get to the point of seeing returns versus taking the 'boring' well trodden route that everyone is already experienced in.
so when he says he steps aside, what will he be doing as CEO cause clearly this didn't work out - a tons of mistakes were made at least here in ATX where they keep pushing flyers through my door but...all killer no filler.
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The only thing I use a digital watch for (or any watch for that reason) is when I'm in the outdoors. It's waterproof, has a 10 year battery, and is a lot sturdier than a phone.

That reminds me of a cool trick that not many people seem to know, you can tell north with a analog watch: http://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-skills/how-to-use-a-w...
It's a far cry from Haskell but I've found Rust's type system to be a breath of fresh air coming from C++. Stuff like destructuring assignment and matching on enums (or anything really) while not as powerful as their equivalents in Haskell, are still much nicer than what you can do in C++.
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Not just for new cities. Reading between the lines they're basically saying that they're shutting down and current assets are up for sale.

I wonder who will pick up the pieces?
I tend to be of the same mind, but if justifying their existence through billing their services to other government agencies is a part of their charter, then they pretty much have to consider that. Even if a significant portion of their budget is intended to be internally billed, going off on a logo redesign that "costs" 140k worth of meetings and face time to get buy-in is simply not a worthwhile use of the time.

As I said earlier I'm not sure that the billable hour is the best way to judge their effectiveness but as a long-time consultant who's worked in both government and private settings, they would do well to find a better compromise of the time.
> Connecticut introduced [vanity license plates] in 1937 as a perk for drivers with five years of accident free driving

1937 gamification, nice.

I always wondered why more countries didn't offer vanity license plates. It's a trivial service to offer in the internet age, and has the potential to bring in a nice additional lump of money every year for the government. Plus, it's just fun.
It turns out saying "we failed and are canceling a product, again" hurts the stock price more.
Still sounds made up.
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I have the same model, totally agree! I think 2013 15" rMBP was the pinnacle of apple laptop design.
^ That's a great translation. RIP Google Fiber.
Sure I follow that but I think that the stock will take the hit no matter what.

In the very least be honest with us.
As a consumer, the last/most recent product from Google that I "trust" (to be reliable and to stick around) is Google Docs (whatever the current branding). Because they are still "dogfooding" it -- using it internally.

I don't have current cloud app deployment needs -- and until this year, the Google "cloud" seemed to be kind of marginal, anyway, as an impression based upon "osmosis" from various articles and commenting.

I've tried to stick it out with Android, but support and consistency.

Google pushes these projects for a while, to meet or explore its own objectives.

But I don't count on them, anymore.

As an individual consumer, I'm just the product.

P.S. Removing the + operator from search. Still missing it.

P.P.S. Yes, the nature of this comment is a bit rhetorical. But in a serious sense. The occasional comment on HN is the only way I feel I have any maybe effective feedback -- at least, to some individuals at Google who happen by.

Although, after months and months and months, including repeatedly using the error reporting feature within Android to report instances... And finally, shortly after a comment about the behavior on HN, the crashing of the Google Camera app upon "zoom out" on my Nexus 5x, appears to finally be fixed.
ISPs need to be disrupted so badly. This was actually one of the few initiatives that I thought would really force everyone to change.
From Wikipedia:

The United States Postal Service (USPS), (also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service), is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
They had a chance of starting a new trend by renaming CapsLock to Escape :/
One of my favorite geek license plates is '4BSD755' on a California car, which happens to perfectly match the format for a generic license plate in that state. It could be a coincidence, but I suspect not.
I'd say more "effort and stubbornness" is required to get a Java/C# app out the door in decent time compared with Clojure. There was a study not long ago in which Clojure won hands down for least number of bugs and lines of code. I think Rich Hickey got a few things right so don't write-off Clojure too hastily. There's also Clojure Spec round the corner so you'll be able to have your types and eat it too. Win, win surely, no?
Thanks, nice job.
I must say I am more saddened by the way Google chose to word it than by the fact that they are killing it.
The thing I don't quite understand is why many seem to argue that major chords aren't inherently more "consonant" than minor chords, and that it's just psychological/cultural, despite the mathematical consonance that seems to be inherent of major triads.
A currency from 2016, maybe. Not on the greater scale of things. I'd argue the dollar has only recently hit maturity in the past 50 years, being written into law in the 1790s [1]. The yuan has been around for over 2,000 years [2].

Currencies take time for sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar?wprov=sfl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan?wprov=sfla1
Running Debian on an old Macbook 4,1 (2008) on my first ever Mac and am not thrilled with the trackpad, or the keyboard layout. The best configuration I've yet mustered is:

#!/bin/bash
synclient TapButton1=1
synclient TapButton2=3
synclient TapButton3=2

This gives a minimally usable touchpad, with two-finger-tap right-click, side-scroll and tap-select.

I am still scratching my head at the absence of right-click and the key layout. I have no actual Mac OS experience to compare to, but Imagine they've done it all well when it's used as intended. Otherwise, it's working great and the build quality is solid. I am already fantasizing about Linux on a newer model, maybe with a PC mouse or external touchpad though.
What your saying is certainly true for some areas, but I feel like there is a big market for commodity ML. I don't worry that Microsoft developed our database and might therefore steal our business from under us. I just need a nice relational datastore that "just works". The database is absolutely critical to our application working, but it's not in any way what differentiates us. For many people, ML services will be the same sort of thing.
Ask HN: Screenwriting as a side project?
I like writing and I really like TV -- I've been thinking about dipping my feet into screenwriting as a fun side project. I'm curious what avenue anyone in the field (or other amateurs) would recommend as a path given the current landscape?

Is there a LeanPub for screenwriting? What is the MVP? How can I validate if my concept is any good at all?
I don't really have an answer to your question but here is an observation I've made over the years: A lot of people want to be able to play, and want to get there as quickly as possible. But the people who succeed are the ones who enjoy the journey. In other words: Don't view practice as a hump you need to get over. Enjoy it.

Having said that... As with learning all things... It's definitely more enjoyable when you progress quickly.
One transistor for each bacterium in every person's gut.
I'm glad you can do that, but I'm not going to. The only time I really use those keys is for the brightness/media controls.
The problem is - what's the alternative? Was it a sackable offence? Very unlikely! Google have shareholders/ investors to keep on side. As others have already have said, you can see through the marketing talk to see what is really being said.
The NYT buying Wirecutter and Sweethome is so much more amazing than you think
My totally non-professional opinion is this: the problems of there not being good ISPs in the USA isn't a technical or infrastructure problem, where Google excels. They are instead political and organizational problems. Existing ISPs give as little as they can legally get away with while extracting as much money as possible from customers, by hook or by crook. If Google enters a market to provide a better service, Comcast et al. can easily pretty much flip a switch in that market to start providing a better service to hold onto their disgruntled customers, depriving Google of much of the market it needed to make Fiber profitable.

So Google ends up spending a bunch of money while not being able to capitalize on it.
There's no truly provable reason to believe anyone isn't a scammer. Many supposedly reputable people in the finance industry are eventually revealed to be scammers. It's unavoidable.

But these guys are much less likely to be scammers than the typical no-name GitHub/Twitter/Bitcoinforums accounts promoting a new revolutionary coin.
I was really worried about Esc, then I realized, you know, there's gotta be a way to remap the whole touch bar to be Esc.
Just got my rejection. Now I wonder if all 46 of the embedded views were them just laughing at me lol.
Except one requires the attacker to read from the processes memory in an organized way for an extended amount of time to snoop data while the other just puts its conveniently onto your disk.
This looks a lot like a kind of "Google Code In" but for adults: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/
The issue with mandating CT isn't the CAs. CAs are generally supportive of CT. The big push back comes from corporations and the fact that CT logging also logs any of their internally issued SSL Certificates if it was issued by a public Certificate Authority.

So any internal domain and domain hierarchy is exposed to the general public who queries for the organization's domain in the CT log.
>it’s been quite a journey

Boom, headshot. There it is, google fiber will be closed down soon.
CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
Has anyone here made a living/killing selling compiler modification services? I want to contribute to Rust/Swift/Some other language with a view of selling consulting services. Can anyone here comment about their success in this regard?
I don't want to see a specific keyword; all I'm saying is that there is nothing on that website indicating any great knowledge of theoretical cryptography. For instance: no proofs, formal definitions, nothing. Not even links to other websites hosting such things.
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An always relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1420/
Debian Security Team: VirtualBox End of Life
I imagine it definitely has something to do with it. When I'm looking for a web dev I get 3+ CV's / day. When I'm looking for someone to help with my end of things (imaging device design and computer vision)... Well, I'm still looking and it's been two years.
But would it also not require developers to build support into their programs for it? At least on that front, Apple would have a far easier time getting support and buy in from developers than a random Windows OEM.
Are you working on a specific project? If so, you might get better answers if you either talk generally about the thrust of the project or link to it (or do both -- some projects are not well explained on their site).

I think you either need to think of marketing open source pretty much exactly like any other marketing effort, or you need to not think of it as "marketing" at all. If marketing seems inappropriate, you need to think of it as how to get the word out or how to reach the people who could benefit from it or would be interested in it.

Thinking of it as marketing may be problematic because most people think of that as being about a) self promotion and b) making money. If neither of those is a comfortable fit, you still need to think about how to connect with prospective interested parties so as to further the mission.

How you do that will depend on the particulars of the project. Please give us some idea of what, if anything, you are working on. Hopefully that will lead to better answers.
If we are currently at 35B transistors per person on earth produced per year, back-of-the-envelope calculated, in 2025, we will probably have 200B transistors per person running on this planet. Or about two DGX-1 for every single human.
Sleeping dogs are actually quite honest in my experience.
Sure it means something, it means that Apple had a spectacular 2015.

In 2001, Apple had revenues of $5.3 billion and a net loss of $25 million.

2014, revenues of $182.8 billion with $39.5 billion in profit.

2015, revenues of $233.7 billion with $53.4 billion in profit.

2016, revenues of $215.6 billion with $45.7 billion in profit.

Apple's 2016 revenues shrunk in comparison to a peak year but it's still their 2nd best showing ever.
Strict abstinence towards anything in life is absolutely one way to prevent issues related to it. But blaming others because they chose to not be abstinent is absurd.
"It's silly to think that the function keys and the ESC keys are used so little that they can be removed altogether."

Not on macOS, at least for the Fn keys. Having a context aware row of buttons that will actually give some cue as to what they do, rather than some random, generic name will probably see those buttons get much more use than they currently do.
It will be interesting to see how well they use their new hardware unspoofable UI. Puts Apple Pay ahead of most other payments in terms of security.
I have the same keyboard and same problem. I am desperately hoping that Apple is (a) using some taptic magic to make it easy to feel the edges between keys (this is possible from the original haptic/taptic research) and (b) requires a CLICK instead of a TOUCH to reduce accidental touches. A physical escape key wouldn't have gone astray either, as a power terminal user particularly with vim -- different escape keys (no matter how good or bad, simply being different in tactility) also drive me a bit batty.
The reason for this is that Oracle are completely useless and do not release backportable patches for security fixes.