skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not 100% there yet but it's pretty damn close for me. If you are set on running a stable build of Windows then there are still some bugs out there that range from annoying to possible deal breakers. The two that come to mind is the stable version doesn't support 256 colors (annoyance) but then there are issues like this that stop me from being able to totally use go: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/638

Most of these are fixed in the insider builds of Windows but that means you have to run full insider builds, you can't pick and choose components, so sometimes that is a non-starter for people.

Some of the annoying (color, cut & paste, etc) things can be fixed by using something like ConEmu (what I use).

I've actually stopped using my macbook and am now just using my company provided Windows machine for day-to-day stuff and it's been pretty smooth for the most part.

full disclosure: I work at Microsoft
I subscribe to Blue Apron, one of those companies you describe that deliver ingredients. I'm thinking about canceling because it takes so damn much effort to cook their meals. I have to chop my own garlic, where I would just use garlic powder or minced garlic before. I have to prepare my own kale, which I would just get kale with the stems removed before. I have to fry my own sage, which... well I would never use a garnish before. It's a meal I'm eating, not a meal I'm selling.

Saying "it's so easy, they deliver the ingredients" is a non-sequitur. Sure you don't have to buy groceries, but cooking still takes a lot of time and effort. Sometimes it's a solid hour that I spend cooking, then a half hour eating, and a half hour cleaning up.

I get four hours I spend at home between work and sleep, and two of those are spent preparing to eat, eating, and cleaning after eating. It's much quicker and easier to pick up KFC on the way home instead. That's the problem Soylent solves.
The words "neural network" describe pretty different things, depending on whether a computer scientist or a neuroscientist use them.
Good point. That reminds me, they've also raised more than $1.4 billion, which seems like a pretty good barrier to entry, imo.

And, furthermore, there aren't even enough AR/VR programmers to support multiple companies in this market: http://www.businessinsider.com/magic-leap-lawsuit-secrets-re...

So anyone thinking of "stealing" their idea has to deal with the facts that 1. They're already way behind, 2. The monetary investment is massive, and 3. They may never catch up because they'll be in an endless employee poaching war
I would personally not be so eager to disclaim such impressive credentials, but I suppose you have your reasons.
In the spirit of "teach a man to fish" I'll plug this handy resource for consumer electronics that I think makes very trustworthy and good recommendations. [1]

And they have an entire article devoted to the topic of laptops. [2]

[1] http://thewirecutter.com/

[2] http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/what-laptop-should-i-buy-th...
I bought a refurbished Mac Pro and it looked new to me. Has worked well so far and I never could tell the difference between a brand new and the refurbished one. Saved almost $400 compared to a brand new one. I say go for a refurbished one.
I'm not surprised. The application never worked in browsers. Everyone was complaining about it for years. It was never fixed. You had to click the play button twenty times to make it play. It was absolutely frustrating experience and I just put a mental block on vine.co domain and app.
When we make mistakes in making a website, people get frustrated.

When we make mistakes in food, people die.

Not every industry can accept the "move fast and break things" mantra.
Electoral vote distributions are Monoids
Right, that's the issue though. It's only available on Pro or higher.
> This translates in extremely high customer acquisition costs

So you've just traded in marketing cost for server costs...
No human resources? Who's gonna fill up the tank?

Fewer human resources, certainly.

But humans are very flexible. In the containerised shipping world that doesn't add huge value, but for a taxi some flexibility is a value-add, be it changing your mind about your destination or falling ill suddenly (when you probably can't just log in and change your destination) are examples of when people are well served by human operators.

Self automation has to become cheap enough that the premium of having people drive is worth losing compared to the price difference. It isn't enough to just have tje technology at a level it can serve.
"They are substantiated. It's clearly your research that is not." Where is the evidence? Link me to one scientific paper or credible news source on this. There is no backing to either your claims or the throwaway account's claims.
When I clicked on the link, my browser was redirected to: http://imgur.com/32R3qLv

It seems there was too much traffic coming to jwz's site coming from HN.

Apparently, Jamie Zawinski has strong opinions about HN.
Even if I was French, I would be happy to ignore arguments about how I must to things because it's The French Way.
That was me! Well, I could type, but not properly. Got all the way through graduate school and well into my career before deciding to change. Wrote about this a few years ago at https://rietta.com/blog/2014/02/14/my-touch-typing-journey-c.... I now touch type Dvorak 100% of the time; even with all the punctuation that we use in programming. I've flirted with Programmer's Dvorak a few times, but have not taken the plunge.
Google Brain creates its own encryption methodology [paper]
Special order to comma.ai from NHTSA
Razer has a 14" laptop that looks really nice, if you can look a little past the color scheme.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

They also have a 17" and a 12.5" laptop, but you're probably looking for something in between 13 and 15.

I'm in the same market. I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro and there is ZERO chance I'm buying a modern 15" MBP. The Touch Bar is offensive to the point that I'll put up with Windows instead.
I can do almost everything I want in bash except run anything that needs a list of network interfaces. I would like to run gulp with browsersync.
This seems kind of crazy to me. Why not just treat the touch strip as a second display? That would seem to afford a smoother integration.
Can you expand on why you think that IPv4 will have to be supported across the entire Internet infrastructure for all eternity? Do you think that in 100 years, there will still be devices which support IPv4 exclusively?
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
Mods, can you please add 2015 to the title?
If there was a truly-good cloud IDE for Java I would buy a chrome book. When I think of the tens of thousands of dollars I've spent on compute hardware over the years I want to cry.
I dunno, i've talked to and seen the code of a few JS devs and they all code very function-based (i.e. little modularity, poorly refactor-able, flow is difficult to understand, <insert another consequence of functional programming>)

Maybe that's just anecdotal though, since I know that JS supports some form of OOP.
Most of the pile-ups that happen around where I grew up were due to thick fog. Where by the time you see the wreckage, it's too late.

Now, that can be solved by people slowing down due to conditions. But how slow is slow enough? Often it's slow enough that the person behind you is gonna wreck into you.

Maybe pile-ups aren't deadly, but wouldn't it be better if we had tech that helped prevent them? Or do maimings not matter?
What about DarkTable instead?
Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employed
If HP really wants to attract Mac users they need to do a much better job of marketing than this.

There's so many things wrong with the web site, they don't seem to get it.
The point of this ruling is that Uber already does loads of things that only an employer would normally be able to do. That independent contractor flexibility just isn't there anyway. It sure as hell isn't employment law stopping Uber from setting a rule that prevents drivers from running two apps at once. In any case that's not really an issue in the UK, where there aren't any direct competitors such as Lyft.
"The researchers didn't perform an exhaustive analysis of the encryption methods devised by Alice and Bob, but for one specific training run they observed that it was both key- and plaintext-dependent. "However, it is not simply XOR."

I think this says it all.
Most quadrupeds can swim because for them 'walking' in deep water is nearly the right way to swim.

Apes can't swim for the most part, and often drown. We are apes.
This quote doesn't inspire so much confidence:

“The thing we were terrified about when switching over to PC’s, was learning Windows, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought, especially because we spend the majority of our time in Adobe® Premier Pro and the interface is exactly the same.”
Not because health codes are a hard problem to solve, it's because the proprietors are lazy pieces of shit who make up their margin by storing their bleach next to their raw chicken.
Ask HN: What's up with AWS lately?
Getting a bunch of "The instance is running on degraded hardware" events where they're (presumably) cycling hardware and forcing a restart of the EC2 instance. I've had at least 10 of these events in the past week or so.
>Really interesting that for the first ~6500 steps Eve was better at decrpyting the messages than Bob, which had access to the key.

This is probably because Alice wasn't good at encrypting yet.
Any noise over a given decibel threshold damages hearing.

I think the problem in car crashes is probably the airbags though: airbag inflation is very loud. One article I found ( http://www.sae.org/standardsdev/tsb/cooperative/airbag.htm ) suggests 170dB, vs 140dB for the car crash itself.

170dB is well within the 'can cause permanent hearing loss' range. 140dB is 'this hurts' (and probably causes hearing loss).
I used to follow these quite closely. In my experience in Silicon Valley, there was a decent correlation between how good the food was and how badly they perform in those inspections :)
I didn't say pricing was based on the amount of innovation. What's being discussed here is whether the price makes sense to the consumer from a value standpoint.

iPhone sales are down 5% from the previous quarter, and I suspect a lot of it is due to people seeing no value in the upgrade compared to previous iterations. Adding one silly feature, and screwing people over on cheap parts like RAM and storage space, is dissuading consumers from running out and grabbing these "upgrades".

Just look at Apple's revenue reports, down 8%, largely due to less iPhone sales. I suspect they'll see even greater losses in their desktop that received no mention, as well as in the laptop line.
I'm waiting for Dell XPS 15 to get Kaby Lake update.
Ensure gives me digestive issues that I haven't experienced with soylent. Obviously I'd love some more insight into why.
Which is what this story is about. You're welcome to use ES6 and transpile it. They just don't provide docs.
We need a culture of listening and less of speaking.
> Its already a pain to use touch-pads on some laptop models where if you rest your wrist on it it will detect it wrong.

To switch topics to another new "feature", this was my first thought about the 2x-larger touchpad on the new 15" mbp.
I just got a System76 Lemur.

The actual build quality isn't great, but it's functional with no frills which is exactly what I wanted.
> commodity crops that require [...] government subsidies in order to be profitably cultivated

Wait, what?! Why would governments need to subsidize such crops? Can't the price be left to increase a bit, and have the market sort this out more "organically"?

Only reason I'd see for the US government subsidizing such crops would be to make your food exports more competitive, a pretty "dirty" tactic in a globalized economy, but at leas it would make sense...
How does a secured child get ejected from a vehicle? Sorry, that just doesn't compute..

E.g. my six year old is in one of these https://www.britax.com.au/car-seats/britax-safe-n-sound-enco...
I moved to Z...400 (6-year-old refurb), running fedora, haha.
I love food. Too much, I'm very overweight because of it. My initial reaction was the same - why the hell would I want to take calories and not taste something great? It sounded like madness.

Then I tried Huel (Soylent equivalent made in the UK), and I get it. The best way I can describe it is that food had become like music for me. Rather than just sitting down and listening to music, I have some music on all the time, in the background. I constantly wanted to be tasting something, eating.

I found that by using Huel, I changed that habit. I can prepare it in a minute and drink it quickly, and it stops me feeling hungry. I can limit my calorie intake perfectly without having to think about tracking it, and it means I can avoid thinking about food at all. Then, on occasion, when I go out with friends or whatever, I can have a real meal and really enjoy the tastes.

It's like only listening to music when I go out to a concert and that's all I'm doing.

It's not for everyone, for sure, but there are definitely real cases for it. I'm sure on the other end of the spectrum, there are people that just don't care about food and this helps them remember to eat the right amount.

Assuming that your relationship with food is the same as everyone else's is your mistake.
I am using the Dell Precision 5510, it is really nice.

http://i.dell.com/sites/imagecontent/merchandizing/Publishin...

Comes pre-installed with either Windows or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Also comes with Thunderbolt over USB type-c so you can charge and hook up your peripherals over 1 cable.
It's difficult to be sure about George.

He spoke so derisively about other companies that failed to deliver, and now because of the inevitable paperwork that comes with a product that takes over your car for you at times (level-3 autonomy iirc), he too fails to deliver.

If he leaves to join Tesla, it seems pretty irresponsible, given that he's raised $3.1M and has a team of employees relying on him.

But that's all speculation until we see what comes next.

Perhaps I'm unimaginative at ~1:30am, but I can't imagine what he wants comma.ai to do, unless he sells or licenses the product to automakers who can do the paperwork for him.
The whole digitizing India is total and complete sham.

Old Govt. offices atleast used to work, and had forms in local languages. Now, you need to have,

- A scanner, to have all your documents scanned

- A printer, to get a "printout" of the receipts

- A computer with internet

- A shit ton of patience, since the sites barely work.

... and of course, all the forms are now only in English (courtesy of your "nationalistic" regime - you're welcome!).

Of course, you'll still need to go to the Govt. office (where files provide for rat fodder and pigeon litter) to give them the receipts and stuff. I imagine, this is how most conversations end up,

"No what do you mean you don't have a computer, or speak English ? Get out of here you pleb!"

Digital India my arse. My parents are sick of this moronic hyped up shit - there is no fallback now either, nor is there some accessibility help. I can't imagine how this helps the mute 90%, if its such a bloody pain even to the top 5%.

Now this UIDAI thing. Removing this massive big-brotherish database was on the election manifesto; instead Modi gave his blessing (he's after all a re-incarnation of Vishnu[2]) after coming under the spell of Nilekani. It's now being pushed heavily, ostensibly as some "magic wand" that can fix India's leaky bureaucracy - problems which in reality could've been fixed by simple bank a/c numbers.

The Supreme court of India, which in the middle of its supreme quest to civilize the "barbarians", directed the state to make sure this additional layer be made non-mandatory; obviously this directive is routinely ignored.

I'm extremely wary of this additional layer which was essentially pushed down our throats with barely any public consultation.

It's anybody's guess how this kleptocracy will use such information in the future. I expect to see a massive roll-out of online censorship/internet spying in the future - even "liberals" [1] in India are calling for ID regulated internet access. Perhaps, once the time-servers are kicked out in '19, Madame, her highness, the Queen of India, Sonia Gandhi, and his highness, his excellency Sir. Rahul Gandhi, Prince of India, can bless us with this marvelous policies, and bring about another glorious age of slavery.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0OwfGzcYmo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwgMvbEyV_s
Side note, I switched to Capture One, love it! Much more intuitive interface over Lightroom, and I think the RAW processing is superior.
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
But we have made surgery mistakes along the way. We have made food mistakes along the way. And drug mistakes, and flight mistakes, and war mistakes.

It hurts to get better. But it should also hurt the companies making the mistakes themselves, and for companies that make things like food and drugs there should be balanced regulations. Iteration should happen on small scales, but licenses and inspections should be enforced as you grow.
By failing at reading comprehension. There's a vast difference between public school students and school-aged children. In Chicago, only 10% of public school students are white[1], with a 45% white population[2] (for example.) Conflating the two things seems almost willfully deceptive.

edit:

[1] http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats_and_fac...

[2] http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/1714000
They do get some points for misleading product comparison. On the page they use the "starting at" price and then specify the max specs that you can customize to. Not the specs related to that price.
Comma.ai shelves self-driving device after regulatory warning
That's like saying it costs a billion dollars to develop a drug, so there's a big barrier to entry. Making the first pill (or Magic Leap) might cost $1B, but the second will only cost a couple hundred bucks. That's why there's a patent system.
So we upvote ads on HN now?
JavaScript Package Managers 101
For those wishing to run Linux, which of laptops require no (or minimal, I suppose) closed source firmware? I tend to prefer Debian sans non-free but I'm practical enough to just weight that as one factor among many.
> I'm willing to wager $10000 that a significant majority of HN commenters in any thread do not read the article in full, and even among those who do, a smaller minority actually post comments addressing the meat of what the article is saying.

I'm curious... did you read the article in full? I'm not saying you're wrong but it would be funny if you didn't read it as well :)

One of the things I like about Scientific America is they have an Executive Summary at the start of the article. So while folks may not have the details they at least have the correct gist.

I skimmed the article. Do I have pre-formed opinions... I do. Would they have changed after reading the article in detail ... they might have if there was some hard evidence other than the obvious stat that the US is bad in math.

My question (I'm having my first child with in a month) is what do I do as a parent other than be patient:

"Training teachers in a new way of thinking will take time, and American parents will need to be patient. In Japan, the transition did not happen overnight. When Takahashi began teaching in the new style, parents initially complained about the young instructor experimenting on their children."

My father forced my brother and I into Kumon. Kumon was hardly imaginative. Did it work? I think a little bit.

Education techniques particularly math has changed so many times that it is beginning to look like diet and exercises. We are all a little jaded so I can understand the plethora of pre-formed opinions.
> Also I think the term we should actually be using is "Natural Selection" rather than "Evolution" in this case.

Nope, I'm using it in the "evolutionary algorithm", "evolution as mathematical optimization" sense.

> It is an optimizer for breeding and nothing more.

I really disagree there. Humans did not evolve in a vacuum; their are a ton of systems and subsystems that evolved across different species leading up to humans. I don't have time to write an essay, but I think you're vastly oversimplifying evolution in pursuit of a binary function. It's just not that simple, and neither is how food interacts with our body.
>> I find glossy hurts my eyes more.

Sure, that's valid. But everyone's eyes are different, which is why I don't get why there are a lot of glossy screen haters out there. I never had that problem sitting in front of my glossy screened MBP for 8+ hours a day for 3+ years (it died but not because it had a glossy screen).

>> If it is about having something pretty as a status symbol, then yeah glossy makes sense.

Aren't glossy haters mocking/judging people basically using matte screens as status symbols? i.e., you must be a hipster or shallow and not a real programmer/{insert other profession here}?
Hmm, no, I haven't. I'm trying to learn the standard routing library for AJS2. It's very bulky and boilerplate-ish which I don't like.

The amount of code and files you need for a very basic login-auth feature for a page is extremely large.

I feel like, after 2 weeks, AJS2 is built for large websites for huge companies, and pointlessly complex and boilerplatey for small websites like a forum, blog, simple store/story site, etc.. I think that if you want to make hundreds of pages, AJS2 or something is your bet, but for a little thing, go with PHP 7.
You're probably not a pro. Pros read the site on Z.
Have no personal experience with any of following laptops, but there is a list of laptops with Nvidia 1060: http://www.ultrabookreview.com/11702-laptops-nvidia-1060/
There are even laptops with less than 2kg weight
Not much.

If we're taking risk proportional to what we have in the bank, the amount is immaterial -- an impartial 3rd party can verify that I'm not sandbagging (I do have to reserve rent, electric, internet, and gas bills though).

But I could really use the $100,000 -- so how 'bout we set up an escrow to keep each other honest.

Trust but verify and all that jazz.
Touching off of this: We have access to the learned encryption function, f : plaintext -> ciphertext.

Most importantly, f is differentiable. It has to be, since it was trained with gradient descent.

So if you want to decipher a ciphertext Y, then use backpropagation to find the X that minimizes distance(f(X), Y). You already know dF/dX (f is differentiable after all), so run this through your magic optimization solver and you'll get an X very close to the result.

Researchers use this "backproagation in input space" idea to recover the training set of a trained neural network, or to debug their model by finding inputs that activate certain neurons, for example. (This is the basic idea behind Deepdream from last year)

It's not even correct to call this "cryptography." The transformation isn't one-way.
Show HN: A small utility to benchmark installations with npm and yarn
Turbid: A High-Entropy Random Generator	(2005)
I made the terrible mistake this week of using the strategies in this article as a way to provide to my employer my resignation, and unfortunately it didn't work as I'd expected.
Mine was pristine. I'm pretty sure they replace the battery and the case (if need be), so it always appears new.
I'm very happy with my XPS 13, great build quality, great battery life, new hardware, tiny screen borders(resulting in a tiny laptop) and linux support.