skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my brother gifted me a Leap Motion last year. I tried it for some time but it is not really very useful, and tracking is not that great.

It seems that the new version of the software, Orion (https://developer.leapmotion.com/get-started), made things better. But it has been in beta, and Windows-only, since at least last February... and the list of "known issues" doesn't seem to shorten over the months.

The gadget is now again in its box, where it has been for some time now. It's sad to see that they pivoted into VR based interaction, completely abandoned their current users in the process, and are now only working on the new VR version.
To my point though, couldn't any topic in the world be linked back to politics one way or another? I could understand if the guidelines were don't talk about political parties, politicians, policy, etc. However having a blanket "no political topics" opens the door to flag anything

If I post about the rising cost of computers, is that political since costs could be influenced by tariffs or gov policy?

I've always felt the HN community as a whole was respectful to political points and now seeing this be censored is a bit of a downer.
The 'sitegeist', if you will.
Show HN: Playing with net dotnet and IronFunctions
If I recall correctly you've previously requested feedback on were they line is between moderation and censorship. I think this is the line. At least I define censorship as when certain things cannot be expressed despite being relevant and expressed in a similar way as other argument.

Removing political discussions is in itself tricky since the definition of what is political is subjective. But removing certain kinds of political discussions is even harder to do well, if not impossible. If it's still going to be allowed to post things about housing markets, education, economics, regulation or other areas where social science arguments are relevant. You must also be able to express arguments or submit stories that uses subjects like class or gender. Otherwise you are removing certain perspectives from the discussion in favor of arguments outside those perspectives, which is censorship.

I don't think polarization is the problem, nor even that society is more polarized now than before. In many way it's the opposite. Subcultures and large dividing issues are to some extent a thing of the past. People tend to have less developed views and less experience with other peoples views. Which makes disagreements more personal.
I'm an (ex-)musician playing with machine learning, this is very interesting, will check it out! Kudos for curating the dataset. So your goal initially is to basically build polyphonic transcription with CNN's?

I am starting to record my own dataset for solo jazz piano - all midi though. Monophonic melodies, and matching chord voicings and voice leading from one chord to the next. With the goal of learning to generate a good sounding jazz piano arrangement to a given melody with nothing except monophonic input.

Style transfer is good at essentially texture transfer - I suspect it won't work that well for understanding music theory (or text), especially with long time series dependencies, but will be very curious to see what emerges.

I'd like to hear more generative music samples from DeepMind's WaveNet too, the piano samples they published sounded very good, but it was unclear what the model had learned or generalised - and how much was semi-randomised recall. I haven't seen the open source implementations of WaveNet produce as good results yet - probably because it's computationally very expensive to train and run, and that limits experimentation. I saw Aäron give a talk on it a couple of weeks ago which helped me understand the stacked dilated convolutions - but would still like to hear more music examples :)
In fairness to Piwik, it was some of the custom metrics that required more processing power. We ended up doing delayed batch processing for them.

Towards the end, IIRC, the calculation of unique visitors within a custom range was also slow.
How long will it be until desalination becomes economical?
This looks like a Microsoft hosted cloud based "Dynabook."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

Is that what it basically is?
roughly half the country for trump. there isn't a single positive thread about him in /r/politics. that isn't by accident.
You Might Not Need TypeScript (or Static Types)
A properly written python2 module will already be python3 compatible, in most cases. Occasionally, modules that violate existing best practices will do so in ways that limit python3 compatibility. They can be fixed with automated tools that ship with python.

Package systems like pip have separate repositories for python2 and python3, and you can have both python2 and python3 installed along with pip3 and pip2, and a whole package set for each; a package that is not compatible with python3 won't be available from pip3. But, most packages were already compatible, and those that weren't have had many years to become compatible.

Any python package that currently doesn't support python3 is either no longer being maintained or is acting as a political statement.
How many people on the planet are capable of doing this? What's your best Fermi estimate?
How is it "assumption and hyperbole" to take statements at face value? The incoming administration is on the record with their intents.
Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump
California's hyper-environmentalism is unlikely to make it politically viable.

California in fact could have invested more in water collection and reservoir building but they did not. Desalination is pretty distant.
> But clearly, they're either gaming the system or there's a very large population on HN who are trying to break into the industry with no credentials.

Not necessarily "clearly"; perhaps it's another thing altogether. We tend to be anti-marketing, and many see coding schools as selling a dream ("99% of our graduates get hired at a $100K starting salary"), while producing graduates that are ready to be interns at best. The idea of the anti-bootcamp, in the sense that it's not profit-driven, resonates.

I'm curious what kind of credentials you're referring to, however. Paid boot camps? CS degree?
Augmented Reality App Turns the $1 Dollar Bill into Tour of the White House
If our jobs could be achieved by going to a 2 weeks certification, there would be plenty of people to do it and no need for the certification in the first place.
Back when I was a teenager I read "The C Programming Language" and did not get it at all. There's a lot of jargon in there that presumes familiarity with low level operating system and computer architecture concepts. I read it again a few years ago after many years of a successful software development career and it seemed generally concise and practical. Point being, there are much better introductory CS texts such as "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".
I think the standard for HN political discussions ought to be other HN discussions not political discussions elsewhere on the internet. HN having better political discussions than elsewhere on the internet might even be part of the problem if HN is attracting people whose purpose is political discussions.
Same here all across the board: healthcare, previously Ruby, everything new is in Elixir.
Tickerstorm.io - An algo trading platform in Java (pretty early still).

Difference from other platforms I've found: integrated machine learning phase which reuses the same data pipelines used by the algo when backtesting or trading live. Trying to reuse as many open source frameworks as possible to reduce the amount of new things a user has to learn. Based on Apache Storm, H2O machine learning, guava, Spring Framework etc. Not HF focused.

Most other platforms start off with you coding up your rules and allow you to back test those assumptions. However, this platform also incorporates the discovery phase of these rules rather than just assume you already have a set of rules.
It's refreshing to see a mainstream news article with a neutral-ish tone on China. Usually any mention of China - regardless of political bias - is wrapped in fear or degradation. Kudos to NYT.
The bootcamp I went to gave us a one-month internship and some job-seeking help/training. That plus giving us more networking opportunities and people to learn with was a huge help for me. We also spent most of the time pair programming. There is a lot you can get out of a bootcamp that is hard to do on your own. That being said, if you are motivated enough, learning on you own is still the most cost-effective method.
You need a course in negotiation to get a programming job at $100k, not in programming.
nice to see a solar thermal plant that doesn't set fire to birds. Unfortunately they are considering the eye of sauron design for the third phase of the project. Maybe there are no birds there.

While it may only average 42 MW year round, 35 days of the year it produces nothing and it probably takes some time in the morning for things to heat up before any energy can be produced, so say 12 hours of darkness a day it produces nothing and the three hours of heat storage and three hours of morning start up time cancel out. Then it averages 92 MW when it is actually generating.

I wonder what types of adjustments have to be made to the design of the plant to endure being thermally cycled every day.
I have over a decade of experience, and have worked with:

- computer science and engineering graduates

- people with a degree, just on another fields

- 100% self-taught people

- coding camp graduates with varying degrees of computer science education.

From all of them, I have to say that working with the coding camp graduates was by far the most stressful. Some coding camp graduates come from computer science programs, some others come from zero... so you get a lot of variance.

Some are good, some others might show proficiency in some areas... but they might have a lot of important gaps in their knowledge. So you might want to make a 3x longer technical interview just for them, and start a broad conversation covering subjects they are expected to understand.

Now, if you come from a camp, or are self-taught, or even if not... if you want to assess your knowledge I would suggest the following book: the IEEE SWEBOK (Software engineering Body of Knowledge). It's a summary of topics in Software engineering, and points you to other books in case you want to learn more. Now, you can use this book to assess your strengths and weaknesses.
I think you might be reading too much into what I've said. When I talk about individual action, I'm talking about that in all realms: on the site, in person with other people, in their communities, what projects they work on, how they choose to engage in politics: How they can actually make the change they want to see. And that includes taking a stance on how to engage with Facebook et al. IMO the solution to "the public who assumes the platforms are to some extent trustable" has to center around peer-to-peer education of self-responsibility, critical thinking, and choice.
Bloomberg, Reuters, and Yahoo are all from around 10am today. All of this started at noon EST.

Reference: https://www.facebook.com/kaiser.kuo
Netlify is a good option, too, with continuous deployment and SSL. It's free for open source projects.
You are absolutely right and I can totally relate to both your experience and your neighbor's.

I don't program guidance systems for bombs, but I program marketing tools which are, in essence, tricking consumers into buying stuff. I dissociate myself with that issue by considering that any commercial relationship is based on tricking the other party into buying more stuff, but I would totally understand if someone objected that my software is not morally acceptable to them (and I would politely suggest that they go bother someone else :p ).

Further down the line, we could end up discussing if living in a society based on capitalism is "right" or "wrong". I would totally understand if people considered that as "not an HN worthy submission", but I think that inside a thread on the moral, philosophical and social consequences of AI, it could come up as a subject...and be down-voted if need be, not flagged as off-topic.
Because they're political comments on tech issues. They have given me new insights on numerous occasions. And I love all counterarguments, especially when they go against beliefs I hold dearly.

And it's not just about finding out that I'm completely wrong. Sometimes it's just a new light, and sometimes it's just the reminder that really smart people too believe some things that I didn't think were possible for a "reasonable smart person" to believe (if you don't think you need constant reminding of this, ... well ... haha ;-) )
I'm thinking it's a play on A(lex)a andlexical analysis[1]. That may be where Alexa got her name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis
> Direct imaging of planets is not feasible at an intergalactic scale;

Do you mean transgalactic rather than intergalactic? (It's pretty obvious we're not going to be imaging exoplanets in Andromeda anytime soon...)
Robotic Quadcopters Could Offer Zero G Flights on the Cheap
Reference: Kaiser is talking with XE and explains other outlets https://www.facebook.com/kaiser.kuo
"A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign."

YC company Reddit is significantly responsible for fostering this and other dangerous conspiracy theories. It's no wonder you don't want to talk about politics: you have become complicit in terrible things and nobody involved shows any indications that things are going to change.

Enjoy growing your community of libertarian psychopaths.
The last 300 years during which capitalism and tech have done more for the common man than any other ststem in the last 30,000.
App stores are kind of nonsense, and I don't see how they are relevant. People install all sorts of software. Windows users have to go find a proper web browser and install it in order to use "modern" sites. Rather than having giant bloated web browsers that need to be found and installed by end users, why not have web browsers that just do web browsing and are a couple hundred kilobytes in size, and then let people decide whether or not they want to bother installing the rest of the nonsense?
I have been working on my Anybar implementation on real hardware, so it works on everything and I don't have to worry about any particular DE or OS:

http://www.tnhh.net/mobile/posts/led-strip-for-your-computer...

Makes a good swag on my desk, too.
I already did my detox. Deleted my bookmarks to political news sites, unfriended some IMHO toxic people on FB and have generally refrained from commenting on politics, of any kind, since the election.

Kind of plan on staying that course.

Keep the political links, discussions, etc. It's not like I have to read them or comment on them if they appear.

And neither do you.
Reference: https://www.facebook.com/kaiser.kuo
I like the idea, but I don't see the rule to stand if something of importance happens this week.
To be fair, if I had a solution to this problem, I would offer one.

Well, okay: one solution, if there's no practical way around the asymmetry, would be to make it explicit in the guidelines. You could say: when expressing unpopular views, make a quadruple-strong effort to ensure your perspective is presented clearly, sincerely, civilly and humbly.

What really rankles Jamal isn't even that he's a second-class citizen. He could deal with that. What rankles him is that everyone keeps denying that he's a second-class citizen, while in practice treating him as one.
Code you write that may be re-used by yourself.
But it's the same points over and over again. Every single time something about minimum wage or job automation shows up someone brings out the UBI horse to beat some more.
I built a 5-octave, 31-note-per-octave just intonation keyboard with pressure sensitive keys.

I've been working on putting together a thorough writeup, but for now there's just this video which I uploaded today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep52Vh6oAOE
The real problem, though, is that one time when the company is in the wrong over a bug in the AI. Then you basically have a faulty AI, and by extension, the store, falsely accusing the customer of vandalism or some such thing. Not a good way to go.

Maybe this is different, but my experience with recent tech innovations in brick-and-mortar payment systems haven't been positive overall. More trouble than they're worth.

This could very well be different, but the minute the store starts valuing the AI over the customer, I think the store is in for some trouble public relations-wise.
I wouldn't recommend Surge.sh. We've experienced a lot of downtime in production and we switched off of it.
[msft] Not sure. It's a hosted Jupyter Notebook service. A Notebook here is a polyglot, browser based, REPL on steroids.

See:

http://jupyter.org

Sample notebooks (html captures of runnable notebooks):

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/
> The thing is, the people who are being racist, misogynist, fascist, etc. are also being political. And so their posts will get flagged too.

No offense to the HN moderation team, but I have very low confidence that this is going to be how it works out. :/
No offense, but those certifications are pretty low value. The A+, etc solely exist because the federal government requires them for contractors.

Code bootcamps do provide some usefulness, and you could problably look at that syllabus and come up with a more portable ciriculum that you could teach to people with aptitude but without credentials.

It would be great to use something like this in civil service and other areas to give disadvantaged folks a way to get into the industry without a four year degree in CS.

It's bizarre though. Companies won't even look at CS graduates from state schools, but will hire someone who went through a glorified training class.
Nice! Too bad they don't offer one more bar for aggregated data.

That said, contributions to the snowpack will show up in reservoirs next year, so reservoir levels will be trailing indicators of final recovery.
Hyperbole aside, the Sahara does have such humongous solar potential that supplying Europe is a possibility... But I never hear anyone mention the mightily expensive necessary upgrades to the electricity grid - and more specifically the extremely long HVDC power transmission lines to the consumer regions...
> Houses are not that airtight. Long before a house gets airtight enough to maintain a pressure differential efficiently, the occupants will get ill as off-gassing from carpets and paints and wood finishes cannot escape.

They are that airtight. That is why they put in mechanical ventilation such as HRV and ERV. The houses are that air tight that off-gassing is a problem once they get down below 0.6 ACH @ 50 pascals as they do in passive house builds.

> If you run a large negative pressure in a typical house, you also risk carbon monoxide poisoning from sucking exhaust from the furnace into the living space.

It happens, I read this the other week.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyHouses/comments/5ec33i/the_big_...

> They use air pressure this way specifically because construction is not airtight. If you run a negative pressure differential (which requires a pretty beefy blower to accomplish and isn't very energy efficient), you end up pulling air in from all the gaps and cracks and porous materials, which means that contaminated air is not going into all the gaps and cracks and porous materials.

I understand why a negative pressure room works. The linked to Wikipedia page explains it. They are an example of manipulating air pressure to affect an outcome.

What I don't understand is what point you're trying to make.

If it is that the air tightness of a house coupled with a HRV is not sufficient to effect barometric pressure on a human body, then I already acknowledged that might be so. It also might be sufficient, which is why suggested getting an expert's opinion.
You'll just have to trust the moderators then. They're good people. Maybe they'll screw up a bit, but it's not the end of the world. Too much politics, OTOH, could easily lead to this site going down the drain.
Maybe this thread is not yet dead, seeing a reply a few hours ago. I did intent to reply, but life happened I suppose.

I am curious about your thoughts. Here is why I think it does address the so called hard problem:

The goals of these plans are evaluated by simulating the world and the body and future mental states. So the brain can measure, or "feel", the response, and thus judge the plans and compare them.

This constant self reflection and self prediction is what feels like something to the thing doing it. Why would it not?

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But in general I have some objection to the "hard problem".

We cannot proof something to be conscious. Probably we never can. The best we can do is find good proxies indicators of consciousness and good lower bounds for what can potentially be conscious, and what cannot.

But the opposite is also true, we cannot proof there is such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness. For all we know every program we have every written has had some kind of experience as it was running.

I agree it is reasonable to assume this is not the case. But I don't think you can proof this is not the case. Therefor the hard problem might, or might not, actually, be a problem.
> In any case, simple utterances of tribalism are already clearly off-topic on HN, whether they are centered on political ideology or not, so clearly an experiment of the type here must be targeting something broader (though apparently also narrower than the dictionary definition of poltiics.)

I think the better explanation is that a lot of tribalism is slipping through the filter, so the filter is becoming more strict for a time.
Google search on Wikipedia does a lot of that already.
Doesn't seem like a huge debate for me. R is written in a way that encourages thinking like a statistician. Python environment enables simpler ways to "productionalize" your code and makes it easier to "think like an engineer". Both can be powerful, and each has some corner cases the other doesn't. If you know why you need to use one use it. If you don't, choose Python if your more of a coder and R if your more of a mathematician. Then switch when you get bored! :)
the book at Barnes and Noble won't give you 10 best tools to get the job done and help you configure them. It also won't answer any of your questions when you get stuck. It will also not give you insight form other people asking questions you didn't think to ask. Of course today you can get most of that with a $30/month subscription to pluralsight or frontendmasters. so yah, 15k seems a bit nuts. I remember back in the day they had these bootcamps for html/css also priced in thousands