skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ml comes in big in cleaning up the data and making recommendations on what to look at.
The idea that the universe is a simulation is just a different way to express the religious impulse.
Pah! I solved it in my head.
Piggy backing on this comment. Agner Fog has some nice tables at http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf describing the register usage and calling coventions. Chapter 6 & 7
Very interesting, clearly explained !
Stereo vision is obviously highly effective in biology as it has independently evolved a great many times. Time-of-flight may be poised for a renaissance, but it scales badly and is active, not passive. Stereo vision, and its big brother light fields, are far more general and are certainly not going to "die out".
I worked on a Leaflet project a while back (about a year and a half ago). While the project didn't rely on Leaflet heavily enough to use all of its features, I've gotta say, it's ridiculously easy to use if you want to get something useful up and running.
A light source built into the camera is modulated in time. The camera uses this to infer depth. When the modulation is synced up right, the camera can see the light wave "travel" as it illuminates close objects first and then farther ones over successive frames. The camera isn't actually fast enough to capture the light wave traveling, but the timing between the shutter and the light source is shifted by nanoseconds each frame to accomplish this.

They can have problems operating outside because it is hard to make a lightsource brighter than the sun.
So instead we should shift the benefit to the people who would be able to afford giant property taxes? I.e. Another set of incredibly privileged people.

What on earth is fair about taxation based on property value anyway? Other countries e.g. the U.K. do it by property size and the implied use of services.

Why shouldn't it be possible to buy a home safe in the knowledge that you won't be forced out because of the choices of people around you that you have nothing to do with?

If you're going to talk about random lotteries - why aren't you taking about raising taxes on people who made paper money from other unsold assets that happen to have appreciated dramatically in the last 30 years?
But if somebody else steals my credit card I can still get a $2000 fraudulent charge reversed. BTC is created intentionally to prevent that from happening. Theft is your money being gone forever.

Actually that's not really true, as we've seen with other crypto currency the stakeholders can simply vote to fork and thus invalidate the transactions of every other person.
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It's constant within a given frame of reference.
I've read the book The Power of Habit and found it enlightening, but the bits I'm having most trouble with are choosing rewards and getting started. The part about choosing rewards is, by far, the most difficult for me. Everybody keeps saying "make sure to reward yourself after doing the thing you want to make habitual" but nobody provides actual examples of rewards that work and are not harmful (no, I don't want to eat a cookie each time I do the habit).
Swept under the rug because there hasn't been a proven viable alternative that creates enough food to support modern human organization. Growth is the be all, end all of capitalism and agriculture is the 10,000 year old basis for it's existence. Until society rewrites the social contract, we're stuck with it and there are going to be articles like this one written that continually cast it into doubt.
Without reading the actual article, I was going to say something like:

"Even the worst air force
might be better than no air
force at all, unless of
course, you consider how much
money gets wasted, and how
many lives a fleet of death
traps needlessly costs a
country."

But that was maybe in the sense that an odd third world country might have been nurturing some money pit of a vehicle pool.

Having read the article about a hypothetical air force, I kind of like the look of all those ineffective airplanes. It reminds me of that web page with the simulator video game, where the polygonal race cars evolve to endure a randomized terrain, according to a genetic algorithm.
Is this how democracy ends?
It really depends what you're interested in accomplishing. If you want to DIY a self-hosted, custom classification solution then TensorFlow, Caffe, Torch7, etc are your best bet. ClarifAI, Watson, Google Cloud, Imagga will classify images into defined buckets through their hosted API. Other cognitive services, like http://CloudSight.ai/, focus on providing a deeper understanding to the image (fine-grained object recognition or scene captioning) using a massive library (currently over 350M+ images) in order to accomplish the task, though we can also utilize custom libraries.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of CloudSight. We, of course, would also be happy to discuss a solution with you as well. You can contact us at: contact@cloudsightapi.com
Oh I see, a physical "Z-Buffer".
First, there is no "AI boom" because there is no AI - there is machine learning.

Second, booms that produce real, tangible results don't normally go bust.

Finally, we've only just scratched the surface of what machine learning is capable of delivering, so no bust is to be expected.
Considering they are all relatively new construction, I doubt that any previous structures had them - this is a new, and awesome, phenomenon...

I freaking love what Asia is doing with their urban environments...

I just wish that the US developers would take note.

We are building the tallest building in SF ("salesforce" tower) and its a mundane peice of shit building. Literally zero aesthetic innovation.
Totally nothing on battery life. Can OP say something about it here?
I doubt you'll get that, because nobody thinks that progress in machine learning will stop.

An AI winter doesn't mean that progress stops. It means that businesses and the general public become disillusioned by AI's or ML's failure to live up to the popular hype, and stop throwing so much money at it. The hype then dies down. Research continues, though, until enough progress is made that machine learning starts to produce results that excite the public again, and the cycle goes into another hype phase.
You should try having this conversation with those trans friends you ostensibly have. I can assure you it's not a spectrum, and yours isn't a position so much as a retrograde claim about who I am. I'm not claiming to represent Google but your position is thankfully not one I've heard here. I'm happy to amend the epitaph I'm pretty sure you don't actually have to reflect your opinion, if you'd like.
I think calling linear regression simple is misleading. While the algorithm is simple, interpreting the results and not falling into one of the many traps is quite difficult!
In Montreal we call it General Tao's chicken. I have no idea why.
The progress in AI didn't stop during the past AI winters, it just slowed as funding dried up when people realized the AI at the time couldn't possibly live up to the hype.
It exists in Canada, which is only marginally outside of the US.

Of course we call it General Tao's chicken (in Montreal at least, maybe elsewhere?).
Not even sure what is left in Indian sense. its not as clear cut as it is in west. And congress really doesn't have a clear ideology it stands right now except may be the misguided notion that Rahul Gandhi is amazing.
Not as far as we know. Even with grover's algorithm, all hash algorithms in Bitcoin should still (probably) be secure. Even if there were a huge leap in processing power, the mining difficulty would increase automatically. Even if someone had infinite processing power, all they could do is mine the rest of the coins more quickly; there is still a hard cap on the total future number of coins.
> In my opinion the haptic feedback and the huge trackpad are actually the best features of the new MBP.

It's not really new. It was introduced with the early 2015 MBP. You can even get it in the new magic trackpads.
"in the electoral college" aka the system that elects our President where Trump won 306 to her 232
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by continuing the flamewar and by calling names.

It's not ok to violate the rules here, regardless of how badly other commenters have done so or how wrong they are. Otherwise we just get into a descending spiral. So please don't do this.
> quirky inelegance

On the other hand, quoting Einstein's quote found in the famous book by Sussman and Wisdom who use Scheme to teach Classical Mechanics, "I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought be left to the tailor and to the cobbler.”
Another, more easily accessible, quick reference: http://clqr.boundp.org

I made a paper copy a while back, as is recommended by the authors. It's come in a lot of handy.
Why, as presumably rational agents, is there so much hype with certain technologies, even though past history should have taught us otherwise? Is it all for the VC? Is it the media just needing to sell stories? Usually there are smart, knowledgeable people involved in the hyping. They should know better.
From personal experience, starting with a cookie (I used a piece of chocolate, because small individually wrapped units) is really the most effective way.

However, I always congratulated myself (outloud, by name) when giving myself the treat, and pretty soon, the congratulating myself was conditioned as a reward for the activity, letting me drop (most of) the usage of actual treats.

Just treat yourself like a particularly stubborn and clever dog/cat/animal you're trying to train -- if marketing has taught us anything, it's that cheap psychology tricks work.
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I highly recommend this as well. It involves all the principles discussed in this thread, but makes you actually do them rather than just reading about it
The article fails to mention the elephant in the room: damage from high-speed neutrons.
From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-small-fusion-...
Deuterium-tritium fusion releases most of its energy as high-speed neutrons, which damage steel parts and gradually turn them radioactive.

In contrast, much simpler Molten-salt-fueled reactors can burn current stock piles of spent fuel rods.
Safely generating electricity while reducing nuclear waste. References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_Salt_Reactor#Molten-salt...

http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf

The molten salt reactor (MSR) in generation IV: Overview and perspectives
http://www.daretothink.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/serp14...
I would use Flask, not Django. I recently had to help a beginner with some Django code and found it inelegant and unintuitive. Flask, by contrast, is simple and straightforward. The setup is four lines of code, and each URL is a Python function, so it can do anything Python can do.

For your "stack", I'd recommend Heroku for the backend, and PostgreSQL for the database because it's supported well by Heroku. The name of the game is that you shouldn't have to spend any time setting up servers, etc. Just test and deploy. There's a good Flask tutorial by Miguel Grinberg in book form and online which uses this stack.
I agree with most of your list, but also strongly disagree with this point. Or rather, while I agree that you should try your hardest to keep your routine, I detest the part about making yourself feel bad. There are lots of reasons you might have to break a routine, it's not like every habit one might try to build is going to be the single most important thing in your life. And some people just don't respond well to guilt and self-flagellation. I know I don't. If that approach works for you, fine, but it really doesn't have to be a binary choice between considering yourself to be a self-pitying "pussy" and a self-actualizing achiever of your goals.
There are at least 5 or 6 major Lisp implementations that follow the standard very closely. They might have the odd quirk, and they all have extensions, but ANSI CL also provides a standardised way to handle implementation-specific parts. The situation there isn't any different from C.

Edit: Not to mention, C only got threads in the most recent revision of the standard, and I can't say anything about their implementation because I've yet to encounter a project that uses C11.
GRAB HIM BY THE PUSSY
dO yOu wAnT TO??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFC_LoR5mWw
I don't think this has anything to do with morality.

Problems arise when negative externalities [1] are not accounted for. Sure, companies (and their banks) can make a fortune by burning rainforests for palm oil, but that leaves the costs (loss of habitat, CO2 release) to be borne by the rest of the world. Ideally, regulation puts those costs back to the companies causing them. If that doesn't happen, I have no problem with exposing and targeting the banks financing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
No, I don't think "data science" is nearly as well defined as computer science.
There is no AGI, or strong AI. There is weak or narrow AI. AI simply means that if a human performed the task, it would be considered intelligent. So Deep Blue was chess AI, but it wasn't remotely AGI. Same with Watson and every application of AI to date.

In a sense, Artificial Intelligence is the encoding of human intelligence for some task or problem domain in machines.
Uh, did you support Obama and 800B he spent on infrastructure? Were you gonna support Clinton and her proposed $300B borrowed from the public for infrastructure (copying Obama's failed move)? If you could relax off the vitriol you might find that Trump's ideas could lead to an uptick in our economy. You might even give him a chance. Afterall, every newspaper and "economist" in the world predicted the market would plummet if he were elected and instead it rose to it's highest levels.
How childhood memories shape us, even after we've forgotten them
That depends on perspective. Probably a big disadvantage to the North Koreans.
More like AI will decimate jobs in the knowledge economy. AI cancer recognition is better than most doctors already.
Thinking more about this: you are right, I am not communicating any of this skillfuly.
This Reddit thread has more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hsmge/moores_law_for_...
> People have been desiring gold for longer than documented history.

Yes, it's been around longer than Bitcoin. Not really sure what you're trying to indicate there.

> It's beautiful to look at.

Which is responsible for a very small fraction of its value. Most gold is not used in jewelry.

> It has inherent value

There is no such thing as "inherent value". Humans assign value to things. Most of the reasons that humans assign a high value to gold (fungibility, divisibility, unforgeability) also apply to Bitcoin, only more so.
Everyone on Mac that actually produces software for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS.
Hi! This is Cassie. If you have questions/thoughts/recipes/doodles, I'm here to field all. (Pro-tip on the recipe front: peanut butter cookies are my #1, always seeking innovations.)
MacBook Pro Users Express Concerns About Limited Battery Life
Yet humans produce terrible depth data.
Show HN: PJON 6.1 is out
Love this idea. There are plenty of other places for vitriolic discussions like this on the internet and IMHO HN should not be one of them.
Nice project!

RE: IIIF, we're interested in going in that direction as well. Fortunately it looks like someone already wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF

PS - Hey Kjell! This is Eric from the Getty. It's nice to see there are other museum folks on HN!
First of all, it's a volunteer military. You are not required to join, and you know what you are getting into when you do.

Second of all, what you are essentially suggesting is a private military (one where people come and go as they please and pay is at the market rate). That's certainly an option, but after seeing the results of other privatization schemes that one might consider similar, say the use of security contractors or private prisons, I'm skeptical.
I immediately thought about Argentina's air force. Main reason for it being so bad wasn't technical, but political (corruption, etc...).
I'd like a blend of Svbtle and Medium. Svbtle is the perfect blog editor interface, and I like the way it displays code samples. (Medium's lack of support for syntax highlighting without the GitHub Gist widget is a dealbreaker for me.) But Svbtle has no social features or commenting features, and I like those about Medium. I also like the social "highlighter" feature of Medium. One thing I'd add (back) is the ability to write notes in the margin.
So, really it isn't a universal constant, then? I guess the makes sense.

Sub question - if photons are light particles, moving at the speed of light, then do they actually experience time dilation themselves? i.e. from the frame of reference of the photon, is the local time for the photon ticking away in one frame, while the outside world appears to move much much faster? Or, relative to us is time on the photon moving very slowly?
This is MPLS, not Ethernet. No protocol field, only endpoints know what's inside.
+1 for Flask. Start low level and then work your way up to Django. Check out https://realpython.com!
Right, when the room was spinning, I didn't think "I better read a Tim Ferris book!" or "what type of application should I use to schedule my time to monitor habits".

It was more like sitting down and having a conversation with myself that went something like this:

"You're not in that bad shape, but something is messed up. Cigarettes are terrible and while you're not overweight, you're inactive and that needs to change or you're going to die".

Then I basically evaluated my life up until that point and made sweeping changes based on a bunch of goals that I wrote out.

The really funny thing is, death wasn't enough to keep me motivated with walking. Not because I hated it that much, but it was really easy to get trolled by my own brain with thoughts such as "you just walked 4 miles in 4 days after sitting at a computer desk for years... you're fine man".

Now I have long term goals and walking meshes well with my life style. I've grown to like it because of what it allows me to do, not because of the mechanical motion of walking.
Are sure you arent confusing culture and gender? I have many japanese friends who love meat(steak) but cant afford it in japan, and so go a little overboard when they visit me in america.
I found Thoreau through 'Where I lived, what I lived for'. I was bitterly disappointed: his attitude was that of a puerile individualist, and the only thing he had in any abundance was arrogance. He was a lesser person than I'd been told. So I sincerely hope he has some work that was of a higher quality. Suggestions? 'Walden' seems to be a recommendation based on high quality social commentary, so maybe I'll start there.
I think this field is suffering from some confusion of terminology. In my mind there are three subfields that are crystallizing that each have different goals and thus different methods.

The first one is Data Science. More and more businesses store their data electronically. Data Scientists aim to analyze this data to derive insights from it. Machine Learning is one of the tools in their tool belt, however often they prefer models that are understandable and not a black box. Sometimes they prefer statistics because it tells you if your insights are significant.

The second one is Machine Learning Engineering. ML Engineers are Software Engineers that use Machine Learning to build products. They might work on spam detection, recommendation engines or news feeds. They care about building products that scale and are reliable. They will run A/B tests to see how metrics are impacted. They might use Deep Learning, but they will weight the pros and cons against other methods.

Then there are AI Researchers. Their goal is to push the boundaries of what computers can do. They might work on letting computers recognize images, understand speech and translate languages. Their method of choice is often Deep Learning because it has unlocked a lot of new applications.

I feel like this post is essentially someone from the first group criticizing the last group, saying their methods are not applicable to him. That is expected.
I believe this will leave only Taylor (http://www.taylorbells.co.uk/web/) casting bells of this sort in the UK, possibly anywhere.
The economies of scale that a manufacturer would get from cranking out hundreds of thousands of the same home a year are "real". There are a lot of reasons the market doesn't support such a business though.

The smarthome market is just not in the same league as cars when it comes to an subsidizing technological development. There is no Formula 1 for housing.
Getting Started with Apache Beam
So we should just use Prolog to accomplish all our programming tasks?
‘Now is the best time to be an entrepreneur in Europe’
Ok, s/load/choose/ it is.
I guess i'll start. How did you end up getting hired by kickstarter?
But meat cows and milk cows are not the same thing. You need to grow a whole cow to have the meat of one cow, but if you grow one milk-cow you have the life-time supply of one cow. The water to meat (weight) ratio may be in the thousands or ten thousands, but the water to milk ratio may be in the oughts or tens.
> You have lot of good libraries in clojure, as well as clojurescript for the front end with nice js interop.

I've been writing Clojure for about a month now, and I love it.

My background is mostly in Python, and I picked up Ruby about a month before Clojure. My rampup in Ruby was really about a week, given that much of it is so similar to Python - it was mostly about learning conventions and what the community considers to be "idiomatic Ruby".

Clojure was much more difficult to learn, and much more fulfilling/enjoyable. It's definitely changed the way I think about my code in all languages and that's a good thing. One thing I will say though is that the majority of the time I've spent struggling with Clojure has actually been struggling with Java.

For example, I wrote a collection of forms that decrypt and validate an auth token sent by a third-party legacy application. This required using java.crypto, which was a nightmare. I was porting code from Ruby, which was using OpenSSL. At one point I had references for Clojure, Java, Ruby, OpenSSL, and C all open at once, trying to figure out what was going on. In the end that particular problem was because Ruby's OpenSSL wrapper magically use an IV of eight null bytes if you don't supply one while java.crypto didn't use one at all - but it was one of the more difficult issues I've had to debug in recent memory.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would absolutely recommend Clojure as a first Lisp to learn, but I would also suggest that the person doing so either already have some experience in Java or have a way to reach out to someone who does.

I'm planning on picking up CL at some point soon as well, but from what I've experienced and gleaned from the experience of others Clojure is probably the better choice is your area of interest is mostly the web, because of the dev community and access to Java libraries.
Hi Cassie. Did you feel like you had extra leverage to negotiate equity as employee number one? If so, and if I may ask, did you?
Met one of the co-founders through a friend. We had a lot in common and, that first night we met, had a great conversation. A couple years later, he proposed to me the idea of working for a company he was trying to launch. (Aka: Kickstarter.)
There is no such thing as complete rational people, every person goes through bouts of rationality and irrationality, some are just more often rational than others. With that said nobody is immune from irrational emotion sometimes, for example have you been angry from something that wasn't worth it?
suiteCRM is awesome and very developer friendly
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