skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks so much for your comments - always love feedback. We've only announced the very beginning, there is a lot more that we have not commented on yet. We're surrounded by lots of brilliant people (not to mention Xavier Niel and I think we can all agree he knows how to build things) - it's not just me (Roxanne), don't worry :) Thanks again for your comments.
Just like others I installed Ubuntu on my mom laptop like 7 years ago. Transition was simple mainly because she was scared of computers all her life and different OS doesn't change much. All she need is some music CD playback, little of photo management and browser.

After many years the only problem ever occur was when she accepted upgrade proposal to Ubuntu 16.04 and then shortly after closed laptop so it's end up in half installed state. So it's would be smart not just setup unattended upgrades, but also disable all release upgrade suggestions.

Though I suppose for her ChromeOS could be enough too, but it's was too limited in offline mode and I not sure if she going to need new laptop anytime soon.
One of Enron's many schemes involved creating a logical abstraction layer across physically partioned grids.

I think the lesson learned from that scandal is to keep it simple. On a per grid basis, simply acknowledge that fossil fuel accounts for X% of power, and rally the community behind an honest metric.

Headlines claiming 100% "mission accomplished" will lull most people into a false perception.
I'll never forget the company I consulted at where the priorities were harder and harder to say with a straight face.

To get to the front of the queue, you had to mark your request "hot and urgent for the whole team"
So they are recompressing the files after applying the patches and hope that it's the same? Wouldn't it make more sense to work on having the signature work on uncompressed files?

Also it's kind of shocking that almost everyone is using deflate in with compression level 6 or 9. Why is 6 even used? Why does almost nobody use zopfli which achieves 3–8% higher compression rates. Why aren't other compression formats supported like lzma, brotli, etc.?
> Every time they want to support a new file type

Why can't you say "we never designed the system to support more than X file types, so if we want arbitrary additions we need to take Y time to change the system to support that. Thus far, there have been Q requests for changes, and in my professional opinion we could save time now, and in the future if we make adding arbitrary filetypes to the feature set this sprint".

This places the refactoring as something necessary to accomplish business goals, and save time/money in the future while providing better service to the internal or external clients using the software.
Good thing that social security number thing never took off I suppose.
SRI Demonstrates the First New Rotary Transmission Design in 50 Years
This may be the most laughably wrong statement I've seen in this entire thread, and that's saying something.
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> It might be worthwhile to bring Signal (or atleast the idea) to other protocols like E-Mail.

I like this idea a lot!
Secret salts; why do they slow down attacker more than they do me?
The APK signature is over the compressed file and needs to match.
Augur: Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems (2016) [pdf]
Why We Love React Native and You Should, Too
You can still have CNN hallucinate most likely set of next inputs.

And the kind of activity display you did later also works.
This practice is clearly not opt-in! There's no button "please spam me with all future newsletters we invent" you have set yourself.
Typesetting Markup Language (TML) – A Superset of Groff (2016)
'Best practices' and the inverted U curve
Except digital signatures. Those are still hard and much easier to steal or phish than crack.
There are unattended upgrades for that. Though you might need to add some dpkg options such as "force-confdef" / "force-confnew".
Well said, and I feel exactly the same way (as an interested observer)
آفر تور تایلند ویژه هتل های پاتایا ورود ۱ ژانویه ۲۰۱۶
Aha! They should fix that. :-)
I thought we weren't supposed to make generalizations here. Gasp, shock, horror!

Also, are you really taking the correlation route in the pseudo-intellectual argument for why there is a ban?

Because if we are just going by correlation: Any time security or privacy is a topic, people stop reading anything and just start speaking from The Heart (just look at the Google Trusted Contacts thread where a significant chunk of the posters have no idea what the app even is...). So clearly that topic should be banned too, right? I mean, there is a clear and obvious correlation between topics about security and privacy and people having emotional discussions. So ban it

In all seriousness: It is your product and you do with it as you see fit. Just understand that people used to love Google and Facebook until they decided (rightly or wrongly) that they were just a commodity and that they were giving their personal information and opinions to an entity that had no problems doing experiments to figure out how to better target them. And with crap like this, it won't take long for people to realize that the company built around knowing what tech to invest in may have an ulterior motive for hosting a board for Cutting Edge Tech (TM) and may be using the data for less than kosher reasons. And crap like this is a good way to trigger a burst of thought from people.
I don't think the author meant "WTF" to be a constant. It was defined to be whatever complexity index creation has.

However, I still disagree with "O(WTF*N)", because "WTF" almost certainly depends of the number of rows in the table (large tables take longer to index than small tables), and that number becomes lower in the multi-tenancy approach, because the individual tables are smaller.
squeak/pharo

Corman Lisp/Clozure CL/SBCL
Common Lisp Interface Manager https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM

meta emu: b-em/atomulator/elkulator/rpcemuspoon/ep128/amstrad cpc/fuse/stella/atari800/hatari/vice/uae/apple II/kegs/basilisk/sheepshaver/vmac/psx/pcsx/mess/EACA Video Genie etc. A lot has compatible FLOSS ROMs included.

sky is the limit: Stellarium
A better move might have been to ship it with a USB-C/Thunderbolt cable, and a small adapter for USB-C -> USB. That way it still works out of the box, they get to keep their dongle eco-system and it pushes the new USB-C standard and accordingly both the Macbook and Macbook Pro.
The headline might as well read "Circle announces imminent closure"; unless they have some real winner of a business model they haven't disclosed yet, that's the end result here.
yeah, people who know basically nothing aren't much of an issue, because they have no habits

The harder people to move over are ones who have ingrained certain things like "I need WinRAR to open this kind of file", and not being able to independently research for alternatives. People with mid-level computer experience, but not much experience in new environments suffer a lot on these transitions.
> Chances are you have a color blind person in you office, just run visualizations by them really quick.

This is a great check, but I also recommend trying things just in greyscale as a simple test and installing something like Color Oracle [0]. Also, most of the problems can be solved by looking for an already existing solution, like swapping your heatmap colour scales for viridis [1].

The most important thing is recognising that these kinds of issues exist and pro-actively looking for good current solutions (the same applies for things like trying to ensure your site works well with screen readers).

I'd love to hear of more tools or other things that can help if people have suggestions!

0 http://colororacle.org/

1 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/in...
I think the point was to romanticize but temper it with balance.
Generally, space travel needs some sort of better engine to matter. Order of magnitude or many better.

A real breakthrough.

Maybe something out of left field in physics. Or maybe just tossing old fashioned hydrogen bombs.

Current space travel does not scale even at maximum efficiency possible.
If page 33 depicts the working of the brain on a very high level, the world model (or simulator) residing inside the agent must contain a model/simulator of the agent itself.

Could this give rise to self perception or consiousness?
> Also, are you really taking the correlation route in the pseudo-intellectual argument for why there is a ban?

Since dang sees all the user flags he probably has a better idea of which discussions get flagged -- which discussions trigger heated arguments.
It's a case of bad UI rather than a dark pattern, if you click 'disagree' it always remembers the decision, the checkbox only affects the 'agree' button.
Of course that's correct, but we're talking about users that consider their device broken when an icon is not in its place. All they will perceive is "I cannot watch this video because Linux".
it won't take long for people to realize that the company built around knowing what tech to invest in may have an ulterior motive for hosting a board for Cutting Edge Tech (TM) and may be using the data for less than kosher reasons.

Would you expand on this? What ulterior motives do you have in mind? What do you think HN is using the data for? Most of the data is available through the API, so pretty much anyone can use the data for whatever purpose they'd like.
It would help if they provided native language support, to start with.

Forcing people to learn foreign languages to talk to their devices is not a good idea.
> So they are recompressing the files after applying the patches and hope that it's the same? Wouldn't it make more sense to work on having the signature work on uncompressed files?

I was thinking the exact same thing when I read that portion of the article. Trying to recreate the exact APK seems entirely irrelevant.

All the user (and developer) cares about is that the installed product is identical to the one the developer submitted via the Google Play developer console. This is much more easily achieved by generating a signature on the decompressed content. It also gives Google greater freedom to change compression algorithms etc.
Exclusive interview with Robert Scoble “The future of VR is on mobile”
Vinyl is great. I'll never forget that moment in childhood when my parents stopped me from dancing in front of the stereo system because it might make the cartridge jump out of the groove.
Ask HN: Can Machine Learning Be Trained to Predict How Will I Look After 10 Yrs?
Just getting more curious on ML possibilites, if I train a model with thousands of potrait photo samples of people at age 20 and their photo at age 30. Can I create a model that can successfully predict how someone will look at 30 when given the photo at age 20?

Since I don't have any mentors on this area. I am very interested to know atleast what this specific problem area is called in Machine Learning. Are there currently any frameworks you know that can do this?
> IMHO the main question is whether you take responsibility for your situation or not. ... Calling depression an illness you give up your responsibility and give up also your power over it.

Except the terrifying thing about depression is that you don't have any power over it. It takes your ability to make decisions away. You can't take responsibility over it, because you can't take responsibility over anything --- it's just not physically possible.

> A brave new world of lack of responsibility...

Be very careful; you're extremely close to saying that if people have depression then it's their own fault.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the IRS going after Coinbase[0] and them seeing the writing on the wall trying to avoid that issue or minimize any potential "wrong doing"?

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/11/30/cour...
What I think is missing in term of data analysis in Excel, is a pivot table that can work on a relational dataset in a SQL server, without downloading the whole table as a join as a first step.

Use case: the data is too large to be downloaded and held in memory on a client computer. What you really want to happen is for the aggregation to happen on the SQL server. So that the pivot table would generate SQL code dynamically for the SQL server to do the equivalent of what the pivot table would do with in-memory data, and would only download and display the result.

SQL is useful to developpers, but you can't expect business users to write complex queries.
Warms my heart: http://www.cryptopals.org/
I find bsdiff works fine on concatenated files, because it searches for common sections over the whole file, rather than a traditional diff which just searches in order.
The other problem is that groundbreaking ideas take increasingly more genius and luck.

This has always been true.

Therefore any kind of work aimed at making peak mental performance better would be the most important, to start cascade of improvement and fuel it.
They had an incentive to doggedly seek IP so that they could remain as entrenched as possible. They didn't plan on actually profiting from it in most cases, they just wanted to be the first ones there so that nobody else could be.
But you still need a paper/offline version, for when they call to tell you that the Internet is down.
Show HN: A short song composed and produced entirely using machine learning
Dear Silicon Valley, Please Help Secure and Automate the Cloud
Auto update is the default and I'm sure it's what most people is using. I disabled it many years ago to prevent app abusively add permissions and to prevent crashes. It was pretty common for new versions not to work properly on many devices. I remember checking the reviews before updating. This hasn't happened anymore for at least a couple of years and Android 6 solved the issue with the permissions but I didn't lose the habit. I'll download the full update. Furthermore I keep the phone in airplane mode at night. I want to sleep.
Tinder experiments: man, if you are not hot don't waste time there
Circle doesn't have a spread. There is only one price for both buy and sell.

I'm guessing they were just burning VC money.
How can you reduce app development cost?
Nah, we don't even need AI to optimise such problems we made away.

There is enough will, but said waste is also known as marketing and pandering to the human tastes.
I've really enjoyed this comment thread because I started feeling like everyone was shipping their side projects but me. Turns out I was only seeing the highlight reel. Weirdly, the fact that everyone seems to have problems with this, encourages me to keep trying to work on it.
Based on my Siri experience, I imagine a chimp pulling strings in a control room. :)
Lol, technology for you. I just sold my old Epson printer a few weeks ago, hopefully it's new owner doesn't get plagued by this.
I wouldn't assume it must, although it would be neat if it did. There are many ways to get agents to react to situations without self-awareness. In fact, the agents themselves can be decomposed into many otherwise incompatible sub-agents. See Minsky's Society of Mind.
Basic SQL is pretty easy to pick up, especially if you're motivated to get something done. You can get a lot done knowing how to work simple JOINs, WHERE clauses, and some aggregate functions.
Win10 choked on my 7990 and an onboard NIC two or three months ago. Same machine with Linux Mint? Totally fine out of the box. After about 2007, I just stopped having hardware problems on Linux. I fully did not expect to start having hardware problems with plain jane hardware on later versions of Windows, though.
If only they spent this much effort in getting Android OS updates to consumers.
The Libertarian Utopia That’s Just a Bunch of White Guys on a Tiny Island
It's [OC] so thank you - and I'm not ashamed to admit that during the first few hours after I posted it, it was up/downvoted a bit and it even got to -1 for some time; and that at that point I cried a tiny little tear inside, filled with essence of the programmer's existentialist anxiety...
Is this basically something like git? Isn't it crazy that something like this hasn't been implemented until today?
Clever, putting your users to work, to improve your product.
What most of home users need now is a browser and it works well on Linux too. I've installed Linux Mint for some of my family members and they are are doing fine. As a bonus, I don't have to clean their systems from tons of malware, crapware, countless browser bars and viruses anymore. A slightly bigger problem if a said person needs office programs, because going from MS Office to Libre/Open Office is still not straightforward for most users.
That's a great example of how even some of the most influential minds are fallible. Lamport is sort of the god of distributed systems, having invented vector clocks, paxos which is how there is any sanity in modern data centers (chubby, ZK, etcd, etc... are based on the core ideas of this), TLA+ for reasoning about correctness, so much great stuff. Check out some of these!
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
They can do that, but it'snot cheap for them. Giving the government total, automated access to your communications - and that's what we're talking about here IMO - lets them (and you, admittedly) avoid the whole beating scene. In real terms, it would drastically change the balance of power.
I just got a new hidpi linux laptop. It indeed works good enough on its own, but when I plug monitors in of varying resolutions it is pretty atrocious.

My current work setup is currently 2 1080p monitors, so to work around the weird scaling I just set the laptop display to 1080p when I am docked.

Point being, might as well just buy a laptop with equal or lower resolution to your external monitor(s).
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> This is great for games like Hearthstone

Nope.

Hearthstone is a Unity game, and the issue (for mobile packaging at least) is Unity creates a giant bundle of all the assets, so it's a single binary file which tends to greatly change from one release to the next, even with per-file diffing you're not getting any improvement[0].

Other developers get around that by downloading assets separately from the main application bundle à la Supercell. I don't know that Supercell uses Unity, but they do follow that pattern, they have an application bundle of code & trivial assets, but most of the assets are downloaded at the loading screen.

Checking on my phone, Hearthstone is ~2GB with 10.5MB of "documents and data" (= a ~2GB base app bundle), clash royale is ~450MB with 336MB of data (= a ~100MB base app bundle), jetpack joyride is similar with ~330MB split between a ~90MB base bundle and ~250MB "documents and data".

The default unity approach makes sense for rarely updated applications (Monument Valley or République), it's an absolute bear for dynamic frequently updated on-line games like Hearthstone.

[0] IIRC per-file diffing is what apple does on the appstore, it does not work at all for HS
Fun machine that will cut your family and friends tech support time completely:

An iPad.

/thread
Those are identification. Carrying a passport doesn't let anyone listen in on my inane banter with my friends.
> What? In 2016 "out of town" means "not reachable"?

The text explicitly says David's signature was needed. Unless they have an e-signature setup, or he can locate a fax machine, it doesn't matter how "reachable" he is.

(That's assuming that "out of town" doesn't mean "on vacation", in which case "not reachable" is in fact quite reasonable.)
Out of curiosity, what profession/role do you suppose can make good use out of all that real estate?
Well, there's the "mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men" angle ...

(Borges, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius , probably piling on the known historical puritan dislike of mirrors because of sinful vanity.)
Very interesting set of slides

It seems the current state of prediction is only slightly better than the state of image recognition pre multiple level NNs

There might be still a theoretical jump that's needed
Thanks for all that info. It's really nice to have both source material and a reasonable summary.
this is an excellent point. This model has to be recursive and may be depth of recursion has something to do with self-perception?
Uber is profiling users based on battery level information?
They still do this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3613126/Travellers-b...
What's the #1 selling watch?
Wait, no one else here does this?
How do you manage to engage an internal Google team on an issue?

From the story: "We are working with Epson and internal Google teams to root cause this issue"

I've seen many help forum threads go unanswered, after days and pages of postings.
Funny how after a few messages the author is brought to discuss SGML:

> I'm not familar with SGML, but will have a look.
See Animats' answer [1] to a similar NN suggestion in this thread.

There are some research groups trying robotic control with black box neural networks (pixels in, control commands out), afaik with limited success so far, particularly with this many degrees of freedom.

Deep learning has yielded some really incredible results the last 5+ years, but those results have been concentrated in a few areas (computer vision, speech recognition, game decision, ...). So there is a tendency to think NNs can do anything, but really a) setting up a NN to work with a problem is non-trivial (architecture design, data collection, data labeling, feature selection) and b) very much an open research topic for many problems, ie not guaranteed to work at all.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13121158
Create a viral video, they notice when a lot of people are complaining about things vs a loud few.
> Lying in this way is ethically questionable at best (and highly entertaining), but, unfortunately I had no other way to get the required data.

I like the researchers honesty. :)

So in regards to OKCupid, there are people who do ethical research (not creating fake profiles) like this guy did with his Python scraping:

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/

And not so ethical research, like this girl who created fake profiles (and also refuses to date non-jews -- which is the whole 'are preferences racism?' question that can take multiple blog posts on its own):

https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_datin...

Additionally, the way I use Tinder is that I swipe a like before the image loads in rapid succession (hopefully before the image loads and thereby minimizing my mobile data usage .. but even if I'm on Wi-fi I still do this. It's just easier). The researcher's 1 in 115 statistic feels about accurate from my own empirical observations.

I'd say I'm well over the 100 range or rapid swiping before (if) I get a match. It usually takes 2 ~ 3 days for a single match. From what I've found, you get 100 swipes per 12 hours. I wouldn't get on more than once a day, so I'd say my match percentage is probably 1 in 200~300. I'd be tempted to measure it, but I'm way more lazy than this guy .. and lonely.
All of my computer science friends who have moved their parents to Linux (myself included) report that they are happily doing with their computers what they used to (sans downloading and running random malware) with much reduced "tech support".

Hell, when I introduced my mom to ubuntu ten years ago, Linux wasn't even as desktop friendly as it is now.

Not to say that it's the best choice, but it's plenty usable and user friendly.
So write to HBO support then and complain about their shitty software, it has nothing to do with Ubuntu.