skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fanless laptops are where I'm now looking. The UX360CA Zenbook is fanless, low-power, and very reasonably priced

The fanless Zenbooks are fantastic. But they're also really low power with the Core-M CPUs with a TDP of 4.5 Watts [0]. That's in a power budget that could fit in a tablet.

The Airtop-D has a Core i7 CPU, which has a TDP of 65 Watts (can downtuned to 37W) [1]. You can roughly expect it to have 10x+ more computational power.

It's just a whole different category of devices.

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/88199/Intel-Core-m7-6Y75-Proce...
[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/88040/Intel-Core-i7-5775C-Proc...
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Look into the actual posts, it was used as an argument to dismiss smarter merge algorithms which is of course the smarter auto-complete part.
Thanks for the offer. I've seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA and I think I understand how it works but still think the results are amazing.
https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/zvtbgexy/
It seems they only have an outlook plugin. I can't find their mobile apps.
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Steve, to comment on just one aspect -

Geo-targeting is a must unless one's trying to build a "brand awareness" and need to spray everyone in sight.

In particular, in a context of trying to actually sell some professional/work software it's a norm and a common sense to target North America and Western Europe first and foremost. Conversely, and putting it bluntly, serving such ads to India is like feeding money into a shredder. So geo-targeting is absolutely essential.
Companies where the founders own a large % of the stock will tend to do better. This will play out more strongly across all sectors over the long-term.

Also, given that I am a target customer that interacts with Snapchat and runs their ads and invests reasonably heavily I am better placed to judge than you are.

The ad products need a lot of work, no doubt about it, but the engagement and earned media generated is super high for a product that doesnt have a biddable solution in place just yet. My clients would agree with me.

The lack of data is being worked on, as I mentioned there are partnerships with Millward Brown and Nielsen. The business will also end up buying 3rd party data and matching it against its user base in order to provide a competitive solution to FB.

The difference is Snapchat doesn't want to collect every single datapoint about a user like FB does.

Despite a set of ad products that are far from the best they can be, this hasnt stopped advertisers wwanting to use the platform for campaigns. Early results are very positive and improvements will come leaps and bounds. Plenty of my most talented peers / colleagues have recently joined snapchat. They wouldn't if the company wasn't doing well, it is.

I am betting it will succeed where Twitter has sadly failed based on the fact it has created a completely different form of communication and expression.
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Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I hope the transition to Linux goes well for your parents.
If i understand correctly, Trump became president because of the Dunning-Kruger effect? Apparently the people responsible for these false stories first tried anti-Trump stories and they weren't shared that much. Then they tried Anti-Hilary stories which were shared more so became more popular.
It used to be called "SAX-style".
Evidence that HN is a right-wing capitalist site (like both US political parties): in a discussion of threats to humanity, an apparently highly-rated comment talks about paying too much in taxes. And fears that solutions to global warming will "completely subvert our entire system of law making."

(Both of which are good things: not just markets, but the nation state system itself, are exactly what need disrupting. Those who drank the koolaid can't think past tight bounds even when future generations are at stake. Not everyone can escape to billionaire mansion compounds in New Zealand. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-man... )
Mark Zuckerberg built the worth of Facebook convincing advertisers it can influence people to buy their brand, yet why all the sudden does Facebook's influence not apply to deceptive news?

Remember Upworthy? It had misleading clickbait headlines and within one week it was gone from the Newsfeed. Facebook has the skills to fix this.

It has been said the media has a liberal bias. Conservative media denies that global warming exists. Liberals and the overwhelming majority of scientists accept it does. Can you name one issue where conservatives and scientists refute liberals?
Due to the ubiquity of git (and github) we (the users) are in the same case today.
Fair. It was posted and voted up so perhaps I inferred that it would be useful or amazing.
surprised to learn it still exists, good memories.
That's a low-quality source in a hype-loop with a True Believer from Reddit, so take that 'word' with a bushel of salt.
I'm guessing at your level of being among the top 1%, you'll likely not need to actively seek work; instead great employers will seek you out hence their conscious decision not to annoy you by showing you ads.
I'll check my messages at a traffic light, or flick to the next song whilst driving. I don't see any particular danger in these things (apart from possibly angering the poor bugger behind me if I'm slow to notice the lights change). Much like ye olden days of changing a cassette or tuning the radio - there are times and place to pay less attention. People just need to be sensible.
Here's a fixed transcription, with bits I'm unsure about in italics:

Meine lieben Kinder! Soeben brachte Frl. Moldelen¹ die Karte von Herrn Thomas mit der schönen Nachricht, dass R. doch endlich gut in Br. ankam. Was bin ich froh darüber! Und nun hoffe ich doch sehr, dass Rosi Samstag mittag in R. ankam, sich schrubben und ausschlafen konnte. Dickes, hast Du Dir nichts geholt bei der Rums Scheru? Mittwoch ging ich nach Tisch² zur Stadt, besorgte Einiges und wollte im Hansabad in der Wilm. Str. baden. Musste aber 2 1/2 Stunden werde, dann war es aber sehr schoen. Ich machte dann das Abendessen und erst um 8 Uhr ging ich rauf ins Zimmer zum Tisch decken, da fand ich den Zettel von Frl. B. mit Frl. Moldelens¹ Grüßen von Dir! Meinen Schrecken³ könnnt Ihr Euch denken.

¹ that's probably supposed to be the same name twice

² "nach Tisch" (after table) is old for "nach dem Essen" (after lunch/dinner)

³ old for "Meine Überraschung" (my surprise)

I have no idea what "Rums Scheru" could mean. Maybe it's referring to some event, hoping that the person didn't catch an illness there.

A lightly edited translation (not perfect, I just fixed some Google Translate mistakes) would be something like:

My dear children! Miss Moldelen had just brought Mr. Thomas's card with the good news that R. had finally arrived at Br. How glad I am about that! And now I hope very much that Rosi arrived in R. on Saturday afternoon and got a chance to scrub and sleep. Thick (referring to a person who's a bit thick, as a nickname), I hope you didn't catch anything at the Rums Scheru? On Wednesday I went to the city after lunch to run some errands, and wanted to go bathing in Hansabad in Wilm. street. Had to wait for 2 1/2 hours, but then it was very nice. I then went to make dinner, and at eight o'clock I went upstairs to set the table, where I found the note from Miss B. with Miss Moldelen's greetings from you! You can imagine my surprise.
Researchers are trying to collect data for training. I wonder how many examples they receive and how many are bogus.

The microsoft chat experiment from a few months ago shows that people can hack these systems to train them into racist slur-spewers.

Similarly, i wonder how this project aims to get accuracy given that many people are going to draw the porno objects no matter what the prompt was to mess with it.
Regardless of political views I think Bernie Sanders talked very well about the overlap in Bernie voters and Trump voters in the Colbert interview [1] [2]. (Yes, I know, liberal media)

And in a rare moment of actually being funny, SNL managed to also poke fun at both/neither side, making what I think was good political commentary about the American working class and the issues never addressed by campaigns (prior to this one) [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyTwoBIo8kQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_XrfpdOsM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly0X2XmEf1s
This one covers like 99.9% of the cases: [\w]\S+@\S+[a-z]+
> no / very little noise

Doesn't that heavily depend on usage? At least I've never had a laptop which wouldn't turn into a noise generator once you start compiling, computing or heavy imaging/editing.

But yes a single machine + docking station at home and one on the job isn't a bad solution
it guessed phone when asked to draw phone but obviously wasn't strong enough a match because it moved on without getting it right before coming back to it twice. Finally stayed on blackberry after doing cellphone. Requires some weighting to get there?
ICQ was an ad ridden overbloated UI shitfest.

Miranda was so beautiful!
i loved miranda and the megahal plugin. one of my friends had a really good therapeutic session with the megahal plugin (thinking it was me) after his girlfriend broke up with him.

then some other friends discovered that it was a bot and that they could train it..... it didn't went well after that.

i still think about recoding megahal in pure JS and use it for the current hip chatbots.

thx for miranda (and the megahal plugin)
At least it's clearly understandable and grammatically correct, and only a slightly odd (distant) phrasing. I wouldn't be surprised at all if I heard someone saying it exactly like that in an off-the-cuff remark.

Interestingly I wouldn't know how to translate the German back to English while preserving the feel of the phrasing. Languages just don't map 1:1.
It's really not about the platform being a "buyer of last resort" of the unused capacity. Think about the narrow band of values you need for that to work. Google must value these compute jobs highly enough to have them offset the unused capacity...But they can't value them so highly that they're worth buying hardware to make sure they run. And this has to remain true, even as the hardware gets much cheaper?

Here's how I think AWS and GCE work...

Imagine you buy some hardware. You have n=1 users, and so the variance on your compute needs is very high. You buy for peak use, so your median utilisation is low.

Now imagine you have n=10,000,000 users. Again, you stock for peak use...But the variance is now much much lower. Your median utilisation is now much better.
It can be easily measured in the lab. When the effect keeps diminishing with better measurement, it's strongly suggestive of no effect. This paper seems to have some areas where the next round of tests could be obviously improved.

Time for me to break out the Tech Readiness Levels: this proposal is TRL 0 (1 if you're a True Believer). Observe the TRL required by NASA for a flying prototype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
it's meant to be used for specific offers/courses/etc., that is supposed to provide value to the visitor.

I agree that it can be extremely irritating when it's not relevant. But the times it was relevant, I was happy it popped up, because I definitely wouldn't have dug through their site to sign up, and then would have missed out on something valuable to me.
Yeah, conversational German has changed quite a bit. It's less formal nowadays, and many expressions have changed. The GP isn't referring to a regional dialect, though - more like an older revision, in software terms ;)
I wish we had standard hardware-software interfaces -- mandatory by law for consumer electronics -- for all significant components (what is understood by "devices") of computing platforms used for general public, as we have today (to varying extents) for USB host controllers, Ethernet PHYs etc.

The typical counter-argument here is that standardizing would stifle innovation (and possibly hit performance), but is that still as impacting as it sounds? For once, innovation seems to have moved to "rear ends" of the devices, and secondly, given the amount of firmware that goes into all sorts of devices these days, any reasonably complex translation doesn't look so penalizing anymore?
I recently got my parents a fanless desktop computer. There a lot of options, but I went with a cheap Shuttle XPC slim barebone [1]: It is tiny, has a really nice industrial design and two front facing COM ports (!).

[1] http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/resources/download/docs/spec...
Then we will complain about that. "Yes, but what does it MEAN?!"
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> With this update, Google Translate is improving more in a single leap than we’ve seen in the last ten years combined

Pretty bold claim
near the top of the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12963231
German has not changed a lot since then, but perhaps more than English. I mistook some of the garbled words for some local/old dialect. The transcription is just really bad, but the original also seems to contain a lot of abbreviations.
> The latter is basically summarized to: imperial concubines, Armenian genocide, fought with the Axis powers in WWI, lost WWI, joined the light by shedding the religion and culture we don't like. The 800 years before that are simply irrelevant, I guess?

Maybe in America, here in Eastern Europe everybody knows that the few preceding centuries was "bloody wars with those obnoxious Turks" ;) About their Middle Eastern and African conquest less is known but that's because we have had our own wars here in Europe and nobody cared, at least outside of the former colonial powers.
Similar for me.

I was asked to draw 'eyeglasses', kept guessing 'glasses'.
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At least it shows that people are willing to try new things... whether it be out of optimism or desperation.
It's pretty clear to me that people value Snapchat. Imagine totaling up the time voluntarily spent on Snapchat. Capturing that value...that's another question but there's a lot of economic value provided by Snapchat (as in people chose to use Snapchat over doing something else).

I've never used Snapchat and only barely know what it is (an even shorter lived instant messaging thingy where messages disappear and gamification techniques are used to keep you enganged?)
IronPython is stuck with 2.7 anyhow.
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My feeling is that large aircraft carriers must be close to being outdated as the UK is close to having a couple of them.
I worry about dust. With a non-fanless PC, you will notice it needs cleaning because the fan becomes noisy. With a fanless PC you won't get that.
> That’s why the first memorable photos of Spectacles weren’t shot by Scoble, but by famous fashion photographer Karl Lagerfeld.

How soon we forget: Google Glass actually collaborated with Diane von Furstenberg (a famous fashion designer) and did a launch party at New York Fashion Week.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3001142/google-glass-hits-runway...

But Google positioned Glass as a platform for apps, meaning they had to get devs in the loop, while Spectacles are intended for precisely one thing: Snapchat.
I searched for the phrase 'light' on the article when I looked at it, but didn't see this. Someone may have seen this thread and added it perhaps? Useful addition in any case, and I hope it stays.

EDIT: Actually I may have searched for 'lights', which would have returned no results, so perhaps my bad after all.
It's possible, but I'm not entirely convinced that this is honest, or at least not really accurate. It's far too eager to try to match it to something than it is to figure out what it has.

It could figure out most of my drawings but it would get them well in advance of me completing anything substantial (like others, I would be asked to draw a leg and draw just a curved line and it would guess leg before I finished).

Trying to draw what it asked for but with some unusual features (like lines or dot patterns around what it asked for before drawing it) and it gets extremely confused; it doesn't really seem to be good at filtering out any noise: http://imgur.com/a/oE1j2 (gallery of results and what it thought it saw.

Drawing things it didn't ask for just to see what it was guessing resulted in some really strange responses and fits. The answer set it has is extremely limited, so something like a hand giving the horns (\m/) was last guess a duck. A moose was a scorpion, then a duck, then a hand. Godzilla (or a bipedal dinosaur if you prefer) was a vase, then a scorpion, then a boat. My loaf of bread was a washing machine, an anvil, then a postcard. The Deathstar was a bandage, a helicopter, and a lighthouse. And a chainsaw was considered an aircraft.

Between the disruptive patterns and drawing things outside of it's vocabulary, the system seems really confused. Looking at the comparison results, I can see how when drawing some things it got it real fast. (Tennis Rackets were mostly defined by a crosshatch pattern, Harps by a series of parallel vertical lines). This makes sense. For other things, not as much.

It might be a more convincing presentation to give the user a list of items the machine knows (the full list) and tell the user to try to draw some, and then the computer could check it off as it gets them. That seems like a better way of presenting this than "Draw a box. hey! you drew a box! Isn't that cool?"
Here`s hoping for a future where desktops are so efficient that they don`t need any active cooling.
Do modifier keys (control, alt, command, fn, shift) fall under your definition of modal UI? If so, how do you deal with the fact that your keyboard doesn't (I'm guessing) have dedicated keys for cut, copy, and paste? I think its safe to assume that everybody uses those significantly more often than they step through a program with a debugger.
It didn't recognize my phone drawing, but it was interesting to see other's people drawings of phones, I drew what it called a cell phone. Some drawings were smartphones, other were corded phone with a rotary dial and everything in between.
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I have no idea if there ever was an env. study that show one way is more friendly than another, but having to replace your computer just because you don't have enough space anymore, it's a bit crazy and it just produces waste, one way or another.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Touch+Ba...
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Still, they were not in the ballot boxes where the majority votes are. That checking of postmarking date of an absentee ballot, one by one, is what makes things slow for those kind of votes.
They sure as hell sacrificed a lot of battery for those useless stereo speakers.
at this price, i would rather buy intel NUC.
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To remove the pop-over:

(document.getElementsByClassName('spev-modal-active')[0].className = document.getElementsByClassName('spev-modal-active')[0].className.replace(/\bspev-modal-active\b/,''))();
From that post:
"Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news."

People might say they want accurate news, but what many really want is news that supports their views, i.e. confirmation bias.

Traditional papers try to give you a balanced mix of news. Of course, they don't always get it right. Before the TV and the internet, they used to enjoy stable monopolies: one newspaper per city (see the section "We Buy Some Newspapers ... Newspapers" in Warren Buffet's 2012 letter to the shareholders http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2012ltr.pdf). To get to that monopoly, it helped to have good independent journalism. Once they had established their monopoly, the culture often remained (e.g. the board of editors defends its independence). That culture is still largely intact today, even though their margins are under heavy pressure from the internet.

Facebook has a commercial incentive to feed you posts that you will click on. With their detailed user profiles and immediate feedback, the result is predictable: in the case of the election, you will get positive stories of your candidate, and negative stories of the opposite candidate.

Facebook faces some big ethical challenges, and I'm not sure how to fix them. In the mean time, I think we should cherish existing newspapers. If they disappear, without being replaced by something as good or better, we will miss them badly. The president-elect has been bashing them during the election, and is continuing to do so. If you don't have a subscription yet, I suggest you seriously consider subscribing to the NYT or WaPo.
Just reminding Google that snakes can eat elephants so please stop confusing them with hats:

http://imgur.com/lBtGUKr
They could also combine it with recaptcha to filter out the trolls.
They probably want data on how people draw certain shapes to improve the model.

Also, I realized how incredibly hard I suck at drawing.
two front facing COM ports

They'll come in handy!

But seriously, what's the motivation behind putting those on the machine, or wanting them?
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> The command line interface doesn't reflect this properly, but it's the underlying model that counts.

Could you explain why, for a tool meant to be used by humans, the underlying model (which I agree is very elegant) counts more than the user interface?
When I read something about google translate (related to Latvian or not), there is a certain phrase I love testing - "Hard rock fan".

There were times when it was translated literally - "a fan, manufactured from solid rock" (cieto iežu ventilators). Then for a brief moment it was translated as originally intended. Now, however, it translates to nonsense ("hard rock ventilators"), which losely may be translated back to English as "Hard rock fan", where "fan" refers to that thing which moves air around.

However, an article from Latvian news site was translated to English unexpectedly good. Which was not the case for English to Latvian translation, sadly. But it makes some kind of point if we consider English as lingua franca.
Or you could always just click on "Backup", erase your phone, and restore it after you get it back. Apple has had iCloud backup since 2011. Its had tethered computer backup since day 1.
Let's try (Brazilian) Portuguese:

"Google e Facebook declararam guerra aos sites de Internet que difundem notícias falsas, que o buscador e a rede social vão impedir que se beneficiem de seus serviços de publicidade."

"Google and Facebook have declared war on Internet sites that broadcast fake news that the search engine and social network will prevent them from benefiting from their advertising services."

_____

After the comma (which Google misses in its English translation), the word "que" (that) should be translated as "which" in this case. Also, the reflexive "beneficiar-se" (to benefit onself, used here in the imperative/command tense) seems to have confused Google, likely due to having missed the comma earlier. I took out the middle part of the second clause and translated only "que vão impedir que se beneficiem" and Google got it right, translating it as "which will prevent them from benefiting".

I have experience translating from BR-PT to EN (and even vice-versa for my own testing), and BR-PT native speakers have a habit of writing long-winded, run-on sentences in all sorts of published literature. I'm curious to see Google understand that aspect, which even trips me up once in a blue moon.