skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to attach files to the autorespond email is unfortunately arguable both for and against.

If at least one of your friends is technically minded you could probably use yEnc.
> 1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what it thinks a feather looks like.

I was prompted to draw a hurricane. I drew something that looked like the typical hurricane doodle used on news reports.

The software didn't recognize it.

When the game was over and I was able to look at all of the doodles that were used to train the software to recognize a hurricane ... the majority of them instead looked like tornadoes!

So maybe we should more precisely say:

1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what the humans who contributed its training set think a feather looks like.
> I've railed and yelled

> the money talks louder.

> If anyone has advice,

You might want to look at your communication style. Railing and yelling doesn't work if you want to persuade people.
I've got a MintBox 2, which is a fanless PC produced by CompuLab (same manufacturer as the Airtop).

From what I can gather, CompuLab's primary market is industrial/embedded PCs. As such, they have extremely long SKU lifetimes.

The MintBox 2 for example comes with a 5 year warranty, and the "Long Term Availability" of the Intense PC SKU (released in 2012) is 2019. So they will still be selling 3rd Gen Intel parts in 2019.

The MintBox 2 cost $599 US when released, and if you check the price today it's still the same $599 as on release day. So don't expect the models to get any cheaper over time.

The only issue I've had thus far with the unit is that it's very picky on memory. You have to install modules from their QVL or you'll end up with memory errors and crashing.

Otherwise, if you want a compact fanless PC, you don't want to build it yourself, you want a long warranty, and you're willing to spend Apple-level money, then CompuLab has the product for you!
I recently stumpled upon Skyperious[0]. I intend to test the merging feature soon (multiple computers and unsynced chat logs annoy me more that they should). So far the viewing works fine !

[0] https://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious/index.html
Some companies have ethics hotlines you can call.
It's a neat demo, but it would be a lot neater if it recognized something that I chose to draw rather than something I am told to draw.
The pedant in me wants to point out that the TLD can be uppercase, as the domain part is case-insensitive.

In any case, it probably won't be too long before we get emoji TLDs, or UTF8 flags to replace the country-code :-D
My wife and I do this all the time and we've been together 16 years...
Oh man, Miranda was so great. I used it as my main client until I switched away from windows, but I loved how configurable and light it was. I guess I'm a complainy old fart now, but when one manages to see a time where apps open up, fully drawn, less than 50ms after you press the hotkey, you start hating all the bloated Electron and slow web apps that seem to be all we get nowadays.

A bit off topic, I guess, but I think the thing we most need now is a moderately low-level, easy to use, cross-platform UI toolkit. I don't want my desktop apps to take up 1 GB of RAM each and feel slow.
>I'm not sure if their understanding of data or statistics has decreased, but the level of journalism has definitely taken a nosedive.

Not really surprising. The number of professional journalists is shrinking yet those that remain are expected to produce the same volume of output as was possible with a much larger staff.
For first few minutes, I was testing this neural net. After 10 minutes, this starts influencing me on what I should be drawing.

After sometime I start scribbling randomly. Then it says "I see motorbike". And, wow! that was a motorbike. I din't see a motorbike in the drawing until it told me what it resembled. I didn't freak out, but closed the window immediately and told myself - "its a machine, I'm a programmer, I know how NNs work and there's nothing to worry about". The kind of feeling non-techies have when they experience predictive-text for the first time and they they say "it knows what I am thinking"
Chrome only, has be installed on each PC, not on mobile. Bleh.
The problem is that the general public doesn't care as much as you'd care about these things. If one were to call oneself a whistleblower by announcing that a company made the email signup 'opt-out' instead of 'opt-in', in all likeliness, no one will take it seriously.

And as long as people are willing to give attention, time, money or a combination in exchange of something, it's highly likely that this 'something' will remain profitable and there lies the incentive to keep doing it.

For instance, if one were to work on a browser, who do you think has a greater incentive to allow adblocking: Firefox or Chrome?
The problem with that is people need to eat. Very, very few people are in a position where they can resign from a job on the spot.
http://datafart.com

When I was learning Go a few years ago, I build a simple way to generate line graphs from the command line by piping to a cURL command. A few people still actually use it.
I wish there was a browser plugin or something that would give you a vetted synopsis like this for articles you view.

Best comment I've seen in a long while.
Humans frequently misrecognise sketches too.
The configurations that allow multiple 60Hz 4K monitors appear to depend on either having a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or NVIDIA Quadro M4000 graphics cards.

But the NVidia GeForce GTX says it needs a 350W power supply [0]. The NVidia Quadro says it needs 120W and says it has a "Ultra-quiet active fansink" [1] ... i.e. quiet, but it still needs a fan.

Can anyone therefore confirm if the Airtops are completely passively cooled? Is it just the CPU that is passively cooled, or the graphics card too?

[0] http://www.evga.com/products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=567ece10-ff52...

[1] https://www.pny.com/nvidia-quadro-m4000?sku=VCQM4000-PB&type...
I've done both Ibuprofen 400x3 and naproxen 500x2 daily for knee problems, and would say the pain reduction from Ibuprofen is much greater than Naproxen. So much so, that I would say its not a fair comparison, particularly at 600x3.
Straight-up invasion isn't the only option. Either of those countries could erupt in civil war. Most of the time in Iraq wasn't about invading and subjugating it, but protecting the embattled government from groups like the Sadrists. The kind of scenario could happen many places, and the us could be involved.
I think this is a mischaracterization of the way government operates. congressional representatives are not "abdictating" any role. They provide guidance that is all too specific in many cases, because the legal standard requires it. The folks in Congress are right to set the national budget and priorities, but it is a good thing that the details of implementation are left to agencies, because they're the ones with the experience and technical knowledge to know how to achieve the objectives.

Your example of surveillance is completely misplaced. If, after the Snowden revelations, congresspersons in favor of widespread surveillance continue to be elected, that's actually a sign the American people are fine with it.

If you think a law or regulation violates your rights, the correct avenue to address the issue is the courts.
Cats are probably a particularly unfortunate example to use in comparing abstraction forming cabilities, as given our history it's highly likely that we come supplied with some dedicated cat recognition circuitry.
> You might say that solid middle-class countries would help to stabilize the governments, but the Syrian and Libyan civil wars really ought to be clear signs of the fallacy of that belief.

Neither the Libyan nor Syrian civil war was caused by a failure of the middle class or institutions. In both cases the wars were fomented by external state actors who sought geopolitical advantages at the expense of these nations.
In any case your sample size of 2 is insufficient to prove anything

If a war broke out in Tehran no prizes for guessing which nation would start it.
How Trump Took Middle America
SpeedOf.Me Lite, HTML5 speed test for mobile
Yeah, I got sent that by someone when I was a teenager. Good thing my ISP blocked incoming ports (not a good thing when I found out that HTTP servers exist, but with all the nuking that went on in the 90s, probably for the best overall).
Compare to something like this that you can get for $30:

https://www.pine64.org/?product=pine-a64-board-2gb

Yes, the airtop will give you 4x-6x the features, yet in these days of cheap electronics, is $1800 really worth it?
This appears to be a false premise, traffic deaths per miles driven shows a rather steady decline according to wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths...
I feel your wrath, all your points are things which should be addressed and the amount of people not giving a single f are legion. But saying government didn't create this is too short-sighted:

- they at least have a part in it. Just take your 'people who decide to use cars' argument: in countries like Belgium where it is, simply explained, more economical for a company to lease cars and give them to employees than to give the employees more loan. You can imagine what an employee does with a car he/she often doesn't even have to pay the gas for.

- they should be part of the solution as well. In my opinion it's their job to create a system where information and education about any of the problems you mention is available, or no, mandatory, for everyone annd definitely children. Teach them to do right, instead of having them believe chasing glamour or so is what's needed in life.
> They are literally the first company to do open GPU drivers for ARM-related GPUs.

No, the Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom GPU (VideoCore IV). ARM-related GPUs would be the Mali line, of which there is already an open-source effort (lima).

So Broadcom is paying someone to write an open driver for their own GPU. This doesn't benefit anyone else in the ARM ecosystem in the slightest. It's a Broadcom move for Broadcom's benefit alone.
> Google is a tech company - and they had absolutely no idea how to market and position those glasses to consumers.

wat.

1. G-glass != snapchat spectacles.

2. IMHO google tried to create new accessory - smart glasses, they first wanted to introduce it to developers to create apps for it.

3. Either:

3.1. Google saw that it was not worth it at that time. Google is in business of making money after all and not in business of making selfish and shameless teenagers happy.

3.2. The idea was burned down by privacy concerns. G-glass became recognizable enough that users won't use because public will dismiss them due to privacy reasons and vice versa.

I loathe 'startups' like snapchat (though I understand there's money when such big user base takes pictures/videos of everything around them), but IMHO it's a matter of time when teenagers will grab another new and hip service to scream their daily lives to the world and all 'genius of marketing' will disappear.
Im not as brave as my Chinese friends.
Boxfuse seems like a brilliant idea, but partly hamstrung by the need (which I'm not complaining about it all, just observing) for a business model. I would like to use technology like boxfuse, but I do not want another service between me and the AWS or other cloud provider account my VMs run on.

I think something like this, but sold "as plain old software you buy and run" instead of "as a service" would be compelling, although perhaps difficult to make a business model around.
PoisonTap, a $5 tool that invades password-protected computers
German to English works amazingly well... I was able to fool it the other way round though. Here some crazy German sentences and the English version:

"Das altbacken emotionale Muster einer zerstoerten Ehe aehnelt dem Neutrino-sturm eines sterbenden Gasgiganten"
-"The old-fashioned emotional pattern of a ruined marriage resembles the neutrino storm of a dying gas giant"

(In the above I tried to confuse it using archaic words mixed with completely disconnected topics in the same sentence while still being grammatically correct.)

"Das verrueckte an der Sache ist der enorme Unterschied zwischen digitalem Denkmuster und analogem Sachverstand" -
"The crazy thing about this is the enormous difference between digital thought patterns and analogous expertise"

Beautiful! [Disclaimer: studied linguistics]
I basically agree with this.

However, I should add that:
> Perhaps his conscience would have been cleaner
Is a big deal. Obviously, it is up to the individual to determine the proper course of action for themselves, but I disagree with the line of thought that 'you should stay in unethical situations because someone else will be there and at least this way you can create change.' Rather, you ought to act authentically and with honestly.
Phew! Zero recognised.

We are safe.
It's not "Symantec", it's not "Norton", it's the "VeriSign checkmark". That's why they also bought the checkmark from VeriSign (which was also their corporate logo) when they acquired the CA business, and VeriSign went on and adopted a new corporate logo.

The checkmark been around since at least 1997, and in it existence it has been associated with the most trustworthy institutions. It has become a synonym of trust. That checkmark is one of Symantec's most valuable assets.
How one user slayed LinkedIn and was responsible for the deal with Microsoft
How large of an image can this output? I'm interested for large murals. Nice work!
I'm glad someone noticed this. The judge basically said, "there's no legal basis for this challenge," which means it would have to be some amazing legal analysis to pass scrutiny.
So, what kind of algorithms are they using? References to literature welcome.
> But, getting a rating (or an endorsement) from a stranger [...]

I've never had an endorsement from a stranger. All the people who are in my
contact network are people who I really know.

And even if your comment was about somebody who doesn't know the tool they say
I know, my comment (that they usually couldn't tell I know the tool) still
stands.

> [...] if the person knows that tool really well (has a good rating), then that's good for you, I guess :-)

> Does this make sense?

If the person knows that tool, it still doesn't tell whether the person has
seen me doing anything with the tool. There's just not enough context about
the relationship between endorser and endorsee to derive anything meaningful,
this is why the very underlying idea is broken beyond repair.
Agreed, plenty of us were wasting time on the toilet well before the invention of the smart phone.
I'm curious where you live and whether it is illegal to use your phone while driving wherever you are.
So much nostalgia in this thread. I wonder if we're gonna do the same for jabber in a few years.
Reddit iOS Update Brings Support for iPad
Oculus buys another computer vision company
I took a CS ethics class. We generally read better things, with a more interesting conclusion.

The conclusion of this? If you said NO, someone in India would have made it, for likely less money. The only winning end game would be to e-mail the FDA and hope that the right political party and lobbyists are currently in control of the agency.
I suggested this in a recent similar thread: if this is a desktop, you could switch to an entry-level server motherboard with IPMI.

Then run the IPMI cable to OpenVPN on (eg) an RPi or even directly on the router.

You can configure and soak-test the router/RPi/etc locally, and IPMI is OOB.

Using an RPi/similar has some nice properties: you could VNC to that and then go from there to the IPMI console, and also recovery images stored directly on the RPi would upload quickly etc.
I imagine the majority of professionals that use computers as part of their professional work don't even know what an SSD is or has given any thought to its upgradability.
It's not about top-down disallow, it's just restrictive for many reasons. To use a programming language to build a system within a company, I need not only the approval of my boss but also other developers in my team to know that language or at least eager to learn, that's not always possible.
The ai keep throwing guesses in 20 seconds until he got the right one.

So if you draw a simple shape it start to go trough the list of things he recognize and end the game there.

It works great for this game because he can have very fast answer but only work win the cases when you actually have a feedback that eliminate all the wrong guesses.

Basically if it simply went trought the whole english dictionary fast enough he could get the same result without even looking at the pictures.
Here is a fun one:

"In the medieval time of a roman emperor who had no regard for life and engaged in the most atrocious habits of mass slaughter, babarian footsteps made it all the way to the capitol."

In der mittelalterlichen Zeit eines römischen Kaisers, der keine Rücksicht auf das Leben hatte und sich mit den grauenhaftesten Gewohnheiten der Massenschlachtung beschäftigte, machten babarische Schritte den ganzen Weg bis zum Kapitol.
Agree. And the 20sec timer is annoying. I guess it has been introduced to keep the load on their server down.
Ask HN: What companies do you most admire?
Someone asked me yesterday this exact question and at first I thought I could rattle off 3 or 4 companies but turns out I'm actually having a difficult time answering.

When I think about truly admiring a company that means their products, their leadership team, their culture, their success and more. Perhaps the one name that keeps standing out to me is Stripe. I'm curious what the HN community thinks.
At least in the iPad, the "Pro" actually means something. The iPad Pro is more powerful than any laptop by any manufacturer made before 3 years ago. For the same size and weight, you can get a non-Pro iPad Air 2, which is cheaper but lacking in that ridiculous processor and graphics power

The "Pro" iPad, in addition to these considerable spec improvements, also supports their proprietary stylus for graphics professionals.

I think the "Pro" word is not as clear in the Mac line now as it is in the iPad line.
Echo chambers? Would you lump existing media outlets into that bucket? I think if there's one thing that 2016 revealed very clearly it's the extent to which journalists tend to line up behind whatever the political elite groupthink is, regardless of how well it matches what the overall population thinks. The Guardian has become something of a joke paper - on the rare occasions these days that they open the comments the top rated comments are mostly giving them flak over the wildly extreme positions their journalists take.
Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
"...But for immediate popularity, appealing titles are what creates viewers, which is revenue in terms of ads.
It's the sad reality of click bait..."

But did you see the Supermoon Monday? It was ginormous!

/s

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/05/02/th...
Wait, I thought that CRISPR was a matter of gene editing but that stem versus other types of cells was a matter of gene activation? Wouldn't that require different techniques?
10 best tips for buying a car in 2017
<joke about also meeting your wife that way>
Not sure what the training set is like, but it performs poorly on drawings that are clipped at the edge of the screen.
Yeah, it's probably stupid to sue (from a legal perspective, that is, it may be useful as PR), given that the judge seems to have admitted that there's no legal basis for the claim: Aikin wrote: “This action is of a different order than the typical environmental case. It alleges that defendants’ actions and inactions—whether or not they violate any specific statutory duty—have so profoundly damaged our home planet that they threaten plaintiffs’ fundamental constitutional rights to life and liberty.” This is a novel legal argument, and it would have to be brilliant to gain much traction.
oh nice. I remember using it long back for some personal mp3 classification software I wrote.

Nowadays though I tend to use either Key/Value stores or straight SQL.
I had a couple of machines from Hush Technologies (long since out of business), also ~10 years ago. They were passively cooled through a finned chassis, connected to the CPU and other hotspots by heat conducting pipes.

Like yours, sounds like the same sort of thing as these Airtop machines.
Populism takes a wrong turn
>If he hadn't coded it, someone else would have.

At his level at the time, sure. Anyone can write a web quiz. But I would think that a lot of the most significant ethical challenges developers face would be in much more specialized areas.

Safety-critical systems often have real-time and embedded components, for example. The regulations for safety-critical software vary a lot between industries, too, which makes it even harder to find a replacement for someone who leaves for ethical reasons.
Yup, I can second that, stable with good feature set.
Socrata and data.gov Iowa Economy datasets
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a...
GATTACA just relied on gene analysis (including among a number of blastocycts) but no gene editing. Though I was very annoyed at that movie for implying that people who get diseases just have insufficient willpower.
I saw nothing in the article that indicated the drug discussed was incorrectly prescribed or promoted.

You don't think presenting a questionnaire and having every answer being the drug in question, regardless of the choices made, at the very least hints at it being incorrectly promoted?

Seriously?
Would you also have anything available in Europe?
some possible theories:
-teenagers may have less disposable incomes, but they are far less rational and discerning in their purchases. they make purchases much more based on emotion and trends, rather than utility or value. yes, i also have more money at 25 than 18, but at 25 my purchase decision is informed by different reasons because i'm making my own money now so i need to be smarter about how i spend it.
-teenagers are at the brink of adulthood. if you can successfully get someone in that age to buy in, there's a good chance they will remain loyal to your brand. e.g mcdonalds marketing happy meals to kids to encourage them to continue "lovin it" as adults.
-teenagers are far more "hivemind", so if something catches on with a popular group, aka the thoughtleaders or trendsetters, the marketing effect cascades across the entire landscape very quickly.
The button isn't a physical button though, so it doesn't have to behave like one. Sometimes you can make a better UI by ignoring reality - for example, in this case, bringing a button in to focus and apparently nearer to the user could make it much more obvious that it's the one you're about to press, rather than making it smaller and farther away.
Obviously not something you can do in most of the established industries, but IT is in its golden age, and we should take advantage of that while we can. It will end eventually, and we'll have the same "go evil or go hungry" dilemma most people face in their day jobs.
Every startup CEO should read this
But there's a third explanation that doesn't imply it's right-wing capitalism: Maybe paying more taxes still doesn't solve global warming? A problem when I discuss global warming with colleagues is that they attempt to put me in one side (deniers) or the other (social-ecology), both of which don't match my views (In my case, I think tying social with ecology hurts both results, but the comment you're talking about has other ideas). So instead of judging and classifying this person, please dig into their logic and provide them with sources.
Yeah, I got the same problem. I drew an aircraft carrier similar to yours. Google guessed "cruise ship" and "submarine" because it was comparing my drawing to drawings of airplanes.

https://plus.google.com/+JohnHattan/posts/c6JWMbrFL9b

I'm also amused that one of the aircraft carriers has wheels :)