skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We will see a growing class of people who are economically useless.

Should we build our society on the imperative that every citizen must be "economically useful"? If production of basic goods and services is automated to such a high degree that only a small portion of people are needed to develop and maintain this machinery, aren't we just creating artificial, unproductive niches by trying to employ every citizen?
Definitely post-editing will continue. I was mainly talking about the market itself growing, with the assumption that a large portion of that market will demand high-quality, human translation of marketing copy, instructions and legal texts.
Since no one seems to be talking about how to secure devices, I guess I'll get started...

USB devices should not accept any incoming connection when the computer is locked. The only use of USB ports when a computer is locked should be for charging devices (current out, no data in). We also need to ensure that devices that were connected before the computer was locked continue to function.

Now obviously, the issue with this would be about external devices that are connected after the device has been locked (drives, keyboards etc. - say for example, keyboard stopped working so you switched it out) but in my opinion, that's an edge case and should not cause too much inconvenience.
Embrace(check), extend(check), and extinguish(?)
A Human’s Guide to Machine Learning
As I think this is important considering all the discussion so far I feel justified in guiding people to the Ask HN [0] I have just posted. Welcome all feedback

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967873
Highlighting black people does not place them "over" anyone. We are not replacing another museum with this one. There are plenty of African exhibits in the Natural History museum and elsewhere and those are great, but it's not the same.

Do you not think slavery, Jim Crow, civil rights, etc. is a worthwhile topic? Is it not clearly an extremely important area that deserves an entire museum, rather than a couple exhibits here and there?

And finally, imagine a hypothetical country where we enslaved black people for 100 years, and then ceased all slavery and racism completely. One day there were slaves, the next slavery is abolished and nobody is racist. Is the problem solved? Are black people now equal to everyone else? No, because history didn't disappear, they still used to be slaves. They have no money, no land, no friends in power, no education, etc. Their lives still suck, no matter how impartial everyone else is. Again, you can't solve a problem by ignoring it. Pretending black people have no disadvantages and can be treated exactly the same as white people is just naïve, and impractical. It is not racist to acknowledge existing racism, and try to counteract it. There is a line, and it's completely possible for racism to negatively affect white people, but building a black history museum does not come anywhere near that line.
> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows.

Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.
Import Your TFS into Visual Studio Team Services
You're twisting my words beyond reason. Just because being white results in additional privilege, that doesn't mean that white people are "privileged" (i.e. better off that non-whites) in general. Even if you reduce the multidimensional spectrum of different advantages a person might have compared to others into a single dimension (and call it "privilege"), by far the most important privilege is class (wealth), others just barely tip the scale in one or the other direction.
I remember looking at this one. Be careful, though : no bluetooth, probably because it was meant for point-of-sale / other Retail industry use cases.
Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967770
Hell can't freeze. It's already frozen.

Apple now is going to have to make improvements to the XCode platform.
My hypothesis was that the computer "runs" better because of faster RAM and processor but because the system has 8GB, it can't be pushed __too__ much.

Testing:
1x headless Linux w/ 1 CPU core and 512MB RAM
2x MS Windows 7 with display, 2/ 1CPU core and 512MB RAM each.
IDE consuming ~987MB RAM
6x Chrome Tabs open
3x Safari Tabs open
Apple Mail.app
Other misc software running in the background.

Physical Memory 8GB
Memory Used: 5.96GB
Cached Files: 2.03GB

Each VM being added increased SWAP. With one headless, SWAP was at ~50MB. Adding WIN7 VM with display brought it up to 251MB, adding a third VM with display brought it to 550MB.

CPU Usage peaked at ~70% when adding VMs with some delays in response when browsing simultaneously.

All VMs running, mocking around a VM and running minor tasks in background (comprising and decompressing junk data) brought usage to about 30%, CPU usage never peaked past 50% without additional load.

Conclusion: I'm actually really happy with the laptop. The whole dongle hell really doesn't exist, in fact I was able to remove cables from my desk. Before, I had to plug in 1 power cable, one thunderbolt/DP, one USB...now all three are going into a single dongle and one cable to computer.

For external HD, I've been using the Samsung SSD USB3 to USB-C for about a year so that made life easier.

Prior, I had to carry an ethernet adapter for remote work, which was replaced by an ethernet adapter of a different kind.

General USBs, thumb drives, etc are plugged into my monitor (which has a hub) just as before, no difference.

If this laptop started at $200 less, I'd say this is a very adequate laptop for work purposes, including running VMs.
Definitely agree. It's not very surprising at this day and age, but if you told me this would happen 10 years ago I would have laughed and discounted the idea completely.
As older as I get ( 30 now ) I feel more and more the world is going to dystopia, rather than utopia.

Instead of having a world-wide federation, we will most probably have a period of dissonance around the nations where people will close more and more inside their borders, until they feel they have the power of their lives in their hands again.

I know you won't like it, but I will blame unregulated capitalism for this one. Media is so sensational, because they know nobody will watch / read anything that has a boring title. Social networks are becoming click-junky. Advertisement is fraudulent on a lot of levels. Globalization, instead of making poorest people not so poor has made rich people richer and so on. And no wonder this tendency is going worse with such a high-priced education.
Welcome Google and Congratulations Samsung
We're really committed to doing our best on being good members of the global developer community, just watch Connect(); // 2016 where this was announced and is streaming live right now. We've got a few more announcements coming :).

https://connectevent.microsoft.com
first they mock you, then they fight you, then they coopt you, then they win.
“Maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.” — Sergei Markov, 9 November: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/putin-applau...

(I don't know if him having said that means anything, but it's interesting nonetheless.)
I work in a mid-size company where "the computer guy"
manages the Facebook page. One day my boss asked me "WTH does reach mean, you mean with 50 bucks we reached 100 000 people ?" Before replying, I read fb docs, a lot of blogs and for me it was gobbledygook. I said it was marketing bullshit and that we should focus on conversion rates. I felt guilty. Impostor syndrome kind of guilty. Until now.
I guess they moved fast and broke things.
Yeah, I was really concerned about these effects as well. How can you expect the citizenry to transition from a wartime mentality when their neighborhoods look like a war zone?
Microsoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux
The development of strong AI, by copying the human psyche
I think humans are going to benefit from a kind of "reverse machine learning" in the future, where AIs will become much more skilled at teaching humans that human teachers. No need to regret the loss of calculation, driving and translation - we don't care about riding and throwing arrows either. We will learn what is relevant in the new age.
I'd really like to see some windows compatibility layer for Linux to run Windows applications.
Kill it from the inside.
It's because it's gathering training data from the things other people are drawing. So if it's just asking for police cars anything car like should just fall into the police car category.
Over 100 on-demand developer videos now live – Connect(); // 2016
I would expect libertarians to be considered "alt right" by the average person.
Maybe this will force Apple to improve the XCode platform.
> Race matters to a lot of people and should be recognized as having an axiom of privilege not unlike class (which you broght[sic] up), gender identity, and sexuality.

The narrative of "white privilege" leaves out the fact that no two people's experiences are ever alike. Social privilege is a combination of many things: socioeconomic status of their parents, educational attainment, criminal history, cultural experiences, etc. To try to encapsulate it into a trite meme like "white privilege" is a fallacy and that is part of what sent people to the polls for Trump.
I looked at a list of OSS project leaders and other programmers recently and was surprised at the popularity of the hammer and sickle symbol in their bios.

Upside is that I now know who not to listen to when the next tech drama pops up.
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The link is tenuous at best. Some people probably saw Pepe sidelining swastikas, associated the two, reported on it, then someone saw the report and decided to run with it because people are stupid and report back whatever they see without critically evaluating it.
> Poor people won't be able to afford a car or meat and they'll be the first ones to go bankrupt

A good solution to that would be to payout all of the proceeds of the carbon tax split evenly between everyone. That way people with below average carbon emissions will actually end up with more money than they had before, though they would still be incentivized to emit less.
Microsoft Offers Hosted Linux Build Agents
IIRC isn't the number needed to treat on aspirin pretty high, like in the thousands?

I'm not sure how that compares with other treatments or the average but offhand it seems pretty high to the point of asking whether it's worth it.
I seriously hope no one thinks we're going to go to war against Mexico...
What the Bubble Got Right (2004)
>Some may consider it stupid to elect Trump, but obviously tens of millions of people felt it was the only solution.

But most people thought that was stupid, and legitimacy rests with the majority.
While I agree that these stories and histories are worth preserving, I would rather they were integrated into current historical accounts and current museums, creating more complete picture, rather than the racial segregationist approach this museum represents.
They had computers, but they usually remained gigantic expensive machines. They could forsee supercomputing, but not personal computing.
Pretty much everything celebrates white america. You don't name it so because it is already implied. Unfortunately you are so insecure that when a bunch of historically opressed people try to make room for themselves you feel like you are the one being opressed. Highly ironic.
There are two types of economically useless people:

1. those superseded by tech who are incapable of adding "value" as defined by our current economy

2. those using the state to appropriate labour, such as banks using their monopoly on credit creation to force up land prices to extract labour

We should be focusing on taxing rentier activity to provide for the former in order to obliterate the latter.

Land value tax must be used to fund a basic income.
Google Cloud joins .NET foundation technical steering group.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Google-Cloud-to...
Awesome!
Way back when, I was a huge Microsoft fanboy, until Mac OS X came out, then I hated Microsoft...then I used a Windows Phone from day one until just before Microsoft bought Nokia. And I own a Surface. Definitely come full circle.
I don't think they are going to support GPLv3, ever.
What a year!
New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training
As someone who has been working with them on pushing this live for the last 6 months I can tell you, we're all very excited to finally push this public preview
Maybe Microsoft will pour a bit of support into WINE?
The new game is to use as much open source as possible to build a closed source ecosystem with vendor lock-in.

Microsoft was late to the game, but we gotta give them props for contributing back something more useful than "open core", platform onboarding or "hire me" piles of code.
I gravitate towards the category of people who is more interested in formulating a problem and make use of the right tools to get to a clever solution. But, you need the other category of people who work on getting that another 0.01% improvement as well equally as much. After all, you can only industrialize what the academics bring up right?
When I was a middle schooler in the 90s my grandpa would bring over stacks of old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 50s-70s that were predicting what life would be like in future decades.

I think it gave me a good perspective when reading these same kinds of predictions made today. For the most part, they complely missed on the existence, much less the impact, on things like social media.

It was easy to predict the physical nature of small, hand-held computing devices, but their actual impact on how society functions was missed.

Even watching "realistic" contemporary sc-fi like The Expanse, they focus on the physical aspect of how realistic space colonization would work with slow space travel, but completely ignore the role of AI and drones. Will we even need real people to live on an asteroid city, even if Mars is colonized?
The Xamarin tools have supported using a remote Mac to run the simulator. Microsoft has an iOS shim library and Objective-C tool chain for porting apps to Windows, but it's very much in preview.
The fact they were forced to pay for the study does not imply they had any saying on how it was conducted.
Putting Eval in Go
> At 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions

So it begins. How sticky are customers in this space to existing solutions?
Of course it's not the problem - it's just like any other bias and propaganda (of which there's plenty in pretty much all media) - but it's a convenient scapegoat.
Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview)
November Update to Docs.Microsoft.com – PDF Downloads, Azure, VS and More
Speak of the devil...
Nice.

Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.
Thanks. I will check this out as well.
Augmented Reality (AR) Resources, Best Practices
On Live they just announced it few minutes ago. Its official!!! Visual Studio on Mac :P
Announcing the New Visual Studio for Mac
I guess the other thread was the one that became the dupe:

I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something.
In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows.
Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
Accountants adagium: Billing is a fact, profit an opinion.
GPUs for certain workloads are much more powerful than CPUs, meaning you can get stuff done much quicker.

Machine Learning is one such field, batch-rendering for CG studios etc is another.

You could throw 100 CPUs at something that perhaps 1 GPU might do in the same time (made up numbers but it gives you an idea of why people want it)
Just saw it too! So exciting :)
Oh yes, the "poor" rich people being threatened by the actual poor. Very threatening indeed.
I'm Chinese with a close mentor of a Nigerian American. We absolutely have related issues with regards to being treated differently because we are not white. We have things we both relate to in ways our mutual white friends can't really follow.
That would be dope! I'd kill to have WPF ported over too!
ES6 is great, until it’s not
Not OP but how about https://images.template.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/15120...
> It bothers me that I don't even know how to fight it since all it takes is the next dev to come along and say yes to end months of protests against something unethical. [...] If anyone has advice, I think this is a great thread to share thoughts.

Leak it to the press.
Never trust user input :)
I was more trying to express the irony of it, even if one a spot and the other is a platform. Twitter doesn't have a "spot" so it is the platform you get banned from.
Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate – now available for download
I think the QUESTIONS are definitely pre-programmed, so the answer set is probably limited too.
The page that you get from the buttons on the big white panels isn't working.

If you click on the "view all downloads" button and download from there, it's working.
Fair, but there is a lot of institutional racism in the art world and academia, so progress on these counts is extremely slow moving. Also, some would argue that as a result of how history is written, that it is important to have black owned institutions with black curation because the narratives and histories between black and white Americans is so vast that it is important that black people get to control their narrative and history to prevent cultural erasure. A post racial world is ideal, but simply not possible
I have no experience with Blueprint, or for that matter Clarity, but I do have relatively extensive experience at this point with Angular Material components (NG1).

From first glance it appears that the form input elements on both of those projects are not going to be nearly as mobile friendly as I've found with Angular Material Design components.

I could very easily be mistaken, but already having a sense of what I feel like I need in order to make a nice mobile experience my first instinct would be to skip even trying out either of them for future mobile projects. That said, they both seem solid for building a standard web app the user will navigate with a mouse and keyboard.
Looks like MS is making mostly small changes, focusing on improving the features they already have instead of introducing lots of new changes.
SofaPlay: Easy Mac – Apple TV Video Streaming
Tizen supporting .NET is the interesting thing in this article to me. If Microsoft got so far as getting UWP apps running on Tizen, Microsoft and Samsung could potentially offer a pretty compelling offering against Android.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967901
I'm sure it isn't the only problem, but I'm sure it doesn't help at all either.

The real problem is people being so willing to discard their bullshit detector when information fits their preconceived ideas, and so willing to break it out for things that don't. Source of the idea matters but it's not by any means going to stop people from sharing the stuff.

If you can figure out how to fix that, then we can fix Democracy.
It's rare, but I know at least one person who has a San Francisco King (7x7, just like the city).

http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/hotstuff/article/S-F-7-b...
The expanding Visual Studio family of products
Both major candidates optimized for the electoral college. If the election were on popularity they would have optimized for such --what the result would have been is unknown, it may have been the same or it might have changed the outcome, but we do know that the campaigns would have been vastly different.

Also, one candidate spent twice the amount on advertising. If the winner had outspent the loser by 2x, I'm sure there'd be an outcry about the amount of money used in the campaign.
>I don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1].

I'm not familiar enough with all those alternatives you cited to make a feature-by-feature comparison but one key difference is those other tools all use AMI (vm images). The Amazon QuickSight doesn't seem to need a deployment and management of any AMI. The customer just uploads a csv or Excel or points at a data source like Salesforce and instantly starts slicing & dicing the data. QuickSight seems to be positioned similar to Google's Data Studio offering.

>The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.

That seems inevitable. Amazon AWS proved that IaaS being higher up the value chain than bare-metal services was more profitable. Rackspace's decline was proof of that. To continue the climb up the value chain, everybody including Google Cloud and MS Azure is offering higher valued-added services. Even a company like Github couldn't survive purely on on hosted Git disk space. (A "dumb" data pipe and disk space to a shared git repo.) They are moving up the value chain to build out full life-cycle project management to compete with MS Visual Team in the cloud.
Surprisingly, BitKeeper is still around somehow
This is a common take on the issue but there is a lot wrong with it. The biggest reason that the Western understanding of Islamic history is so poor is because there was comparatively little contact between the West and Islam for hundreds of years. Yeah, the library at Baghdad was cultural treasure, but the West didn't have access to it. There was basically an Iron Curtain along the Mediterranean and only a limited amount of trade crossed it. They didn't rewrite the history books, they simply didn't have access in the first place. If you were to read history books from the time period by Islamic scholars, they would seem equally skewed but in the other direction.
What exactly would be the benefit of this?
What evidence exists to suggest that this was a deliberate attempt by Russia to influence the results of the US election in a way that would benefit them?
Clever. Gave it a test run. Will play again when I get paid. Mostly because I could do this for quite a while.
In the US, the Net Neutrality position describes internet access as a utility, not a luxury. Further the UN declares it a Human Right. If either/both of those positions hold, then the gatekeepers - Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc - suppressing any view or blocking access to any group could be a violation of human rights.

I think that will have to be settled in court, but it will get messy for those companies.
No thanks. I like Java, and esp Java 8 just fine.
Also, privacy issues. You might not want to leave a log of all your conversations on Google's servers.
So you're telling me that they don't have a test which provisions a Facebook with N users, calls the AJAX handlers for K clicks, from various users and then checks that the metrics show that K clicks were counted, from the correct users? That they don't do this for video watches, friend display-to-click conversions, and every other metric they use to make decisions about what happens on the site? Really?
Ah, I see. Less exciting, though I suppose inevitable.
ZapBox: Experience “Mixed Reality” for Just $30
Show HN: Old Pluto
This is an exceptionally tired and stale argument. (In the same vein as "why isn't there a White History Month" and "why isn't there a White Entertainment Channel").
Nothing like being asked to draw "camouflage" in black and white.
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