skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mustn't have looked at Android watches in a while because they have some gorgeous round watches with much less bezel than the Pebble Time Round. I own a round Huwawei watch with a metal band and get compliments on it all the time. https://www.android.com/wear/

Pebble bezel: http://i.imgur.com/xllAVAu.jpg
I got a Moto 360 Sport for <$100 on black friday and at that price point it's proven pretty useful for me as a general secretary and meeting tracker. That said, I would say it absolutely fails that "good enough" test - most of its useful functionality just moves Google Now to my wrist. It is helpful to see if I am being urgently hailed during a meeting or while out of the office, but again, I can't fathom it ever being worth its original asking price of $300 with those limited use cases and its assortment of small, frustrating problems.
Just to be precise: If you need Javascript for something as simple as submitting a form, then there is also most likely something seriously wrong with how you program – unless you are using a HTTP method that is not GET or POST.
Lainchan is almost HN-esque. It's a cyberpunk board (sort of), and the moderation is a lot weaker, but there's an emphasis on constructive discussion which is refreshing.
>	How difficult is it to hack the electronic voting system the US uses for elections?

"The electronic voting system" doesn't exist. There are multiple types of machines, software, etc. throughout the US. Some of these have proven to have significant vulnerabilities. In addition, the local boards of elections likely have rollup systems which could be compromised as well. "Insider threats" are another possibility-- for example, throw out some portion of the ballots in a precinct that's strongly on one side or another. Voter- and registration fraud are some of the easiest hacks to perform.

> What hacking do you think took place during the election?

It's quite possible that some of each of these occurred somewhere during the election. They've detected some non-citizens who voted, for example.

The net effect of "hacking", and of innocent errors is likely insignificant, given the hard-working and careful volunteers who man the precincts at election time.
There are so many great subs outside of the defaults. Search around and you may find something that fits! I love /r/cfb and /r/personalfinance, to provide a couple examples. I think I've unsubscribed from just about every default.
Oops. That's what I meant to say: s/reduce/increase/
It's a bad thing to not work, unless the JS adds something fundamental. Like it's an actual web app that needs it. I run without whenever possible as the web is surprisingly fast once again.

Making me have JS on to show any text, or images, when it's just a news piece or blog post gets you a place in hosts and I'll never know if your site ever starts working sensibly. At least most single page SaaS sites work OK just with no Font Awesome icons.

My tolerance these days is quite low. It was rather higher a few years ago as there were fewer overall annoyances. Now we have paywalls, adwalls, sites stupidly broken without JS, every damn blog wants to present a modal subscribe when you scroll a bit, and Cloudflare wants VPN users to fill in at least 1 captcha every page load [1]. JS is often there just to bombard me with more annoyance, ads and the 24 analytics packages that every page now seems to want.

Often I find that the sites I visit often enough to trust a little, and would whitelist in NoScript don't actually need JS much. Most news sites for instance. Most product/service sites (though they lose a bit).

[1] Cloudflare decided on Thu and Fri that not only did most sites need a CAPTCHA, but if they used a CDN that needed one too, separately. That's a first. Cloudflare need to die in a fire. Or at least stop being so damn hostile to VPN users.
> Either the center has shifted on the total spectrum, or this statement isn't backed by reality.

Both statements are true (shifts in the center, including long term trends in a single direction) happen, but are orthogonal to the idea that a two-party systems results in both parties driving for the middle seize the median voter (it would just make that a moving target.)

OTOH, all of the examples from experience show that two-party systems don't actually have that effect, and we have good ideas why:

1. Engagement falls off as a party's position gets further from a citizens, and

2. Political views are rarely unimodally distributed to start with, and two-party systems tend to promote more of a bimodal distribution on the main axis of variation.

So, a big part of what parties position for is keeping their base engaged, not appeal to the center.
I signed up and they suggested I join the Fempire community.

I have to say I had high hopes for Imzy, but my experience was less than positive. I found it really quite slow and heavy (hopefully this has improved). I also found that the signal to noise ratio was really poor when I was a member, and a lot of the content was deeply polarising. That's not to say that one particular set of views are good or bad, but that it tended to reinforce the same views and ideas, creating a bit of an echo chamber filled with noise. (FWIW I've seen this to a lesser extent with Voat too, but that's an entirely different kind of animal).

I think the left/right dichotomy is going to exist for a while, especially in anywhere that supports political or politicised discussion. HN did it's best with a no politics week, hopefully that will take some of the heat out of what's a very emotionally charged time for many.
I'm gonna need data on that.

I routinely leave all manner of expensive electronics, cash, passports, etc in 1st world hotels and have never once had anything stolen.
If it helps, there are probably wi-fi, mobile broadband, and cellular telephone providers that probably won't ask for your name or address, although you'll probably get gouged for bandwidth.
Surge in methane threatens climate targets, scientists say
You can use the code without regard to GPL, since you own the copyright. Of course, contributions usually require copyright assignment in this model, via CLA of some kind.
Quick rebuttal to both you and Paul Graham:

"Okay, we get it -- it's both position and velocity. But when people talk about "income inequality", trust me, that's exactly what they're talking about -- both relative income and income mobility. In other words, they're not as dumb as you think - they're just simplifying. Go that? OK, good. Because we'd really really appreciate it if you'd at least begin to acknowledge the core issue at hand. Instead of just throwing your hands up the air and saying, in so many words, 'Yes, salary differentials kinda suck but hey, anyone can, in theory, apply for a software engineering job at Google or a YC startup -- so it's all good.'"
Just wondering, when did you place your order?

I ordered a new 2016 Macbook Pro 1 week after the Macbooks released, and my order is still processing with a shipping date of this week. I'm sure it will process, but the idleness (no credit card charges) and lack of emails from Apple has made me think it's in limbo.
My feeling is that asking for a site that works without Javascript is like asking for a car with a manual transmission. Sure, it's possible to get it, but it costs more and a lot of models simply don't have it. Why? Because then you have to double your testing time -- you have to test every operation with and without (stickshift/javascript).

Almost no one wants a JS free website (or a car with a manual), so it just isn't worth the development effort to effectively build two versions of your car/site.
Agreed, and very well put. Who knew you could combine cynicisms like that? The mind boggles at the possibilities ...
I wish modern chassis, and indeed, consumer cards, would come with these support brackets.
O'Reilly's Fundamentals of Deep Learning
What does "the frequent state of affairs is fading" mean - I tried to get your meaning including substituting different words in case you wrote while distracted (frquent/usual etc) and I just can't get what you meant.

You mean usually (for most works) they fade, but not when talking about drawings?
Right. If interest rates are increased, that's a sign of a stronger economy and the market might go up in response. On the other hand, traders might decide the Fed is mistaken, the economy is not in fact stronger, and they'll react to the higher interest rates by taking fewer loans and the market will go down.

Basically, the change is already priced-in and you shouldn't worry about timing the market. Buy and hold.
In light of all the technical problems with regular VR, it should surprise no one that Magic Leap is in trouble.

Consider all the information about reality you need in order to pull this off at scale ( as shown in the video at least ). Yeah, it's possible get this information, but we're nowhere near having it right now. Of course this is before we even discuss the hardware problems, and it sounds like there are serious issues there too.

You have Google trying to make Daydream into some kind of Prada-inspired objet d'art, and you have all the headset manufacturers trying to port games to stimulate demand. The fact that they are spending so much time and energy trying to stimulate demand is the biggest clue that it's going to fail. Yet all the proponents think that the industry is just 1 'killer app' away from huge penetration.

The amount of resources being exhausted trying to stimulate demand tell me that there's absolutely no consumer thirst for VR in general. Early adopters don't constitute large, liquid markets. People in VR talk about game-sized or iPhone sized markets, but I see no evidence of this in the real world. How long did it take Oculus to sell 1 million units? How long did it take Sony to sell 10 million units of the PS4?

In Seattle, I hear plenty of people talk about phones and computers and apps and web stuff, but no one in my tech heavy circle of friends ever talks about VR. There are one or two graphics blogs based in Seattle that have mentioned VR stuff a few times now and then, but that's it.

People have said the exact same things about 3D televisions and VR. Yet I don't know a single person who bought one and I've never even seen one in the wild.

The tech just doesn't excite enough people.
What's your super bowl ad?
This seems to make a lot of sense if looked at from the perspective of a web advertiser.

I can't fathom how it makes sense from the perspective as a user.

Speaking as a user, I found my experience to be much, much better back before we had to download a megabyte of javascript just to asynchronously load some text.
>are insiders who leak carefully and strategically creating better public policy outcomes than the indiscriminate leaks that IT people have been generating?

the insiders aren't effecting policy outcomes whatsoever. they're getting snuffed out and swept under the rug.

throwing open the barn door is the only way the public gets enough information to clean it out.
> until you're back at a manageable load.

Nope. Gotta have the capacity at hand. You can't rely on getting it later when everything is fucked and you're already down.

Down = Loosing clients = Loosing money = NoNonononono

Source: Lost 4 million dollars last week because of that.

Exponential backoff is to prevent cascading failure (and retry causing DDoS), that is a failsafe in case of failure, but an excuse for failing.
Some of the web sites that only work with JavaScript manage to make even the fastest computer slow to a crawl while it spins up its fans. No matter how fast a computer, one badly written program can still manage to slow down or hinder other tasks – even when that program is running on a web page.
I meant to write bisect---I was in the middle of an actual git workflow and accidentally wrote this instead. :)
There is an episode of Song Exploder with the composer: http://songexploder.net/arrival
You could safely take say 3% 150k and leave the rest invested in a tax efficient way which would grow.
To me, the chain from developer to senior to lead to principal etc is mostly driven by the desire to change from being "reactive" to "proactive" and offloading other people (higher and parallel etc) in the chain.
"Apple" and "limited resources" does not go together.
I'm less knowledgeable about parallelization, so wouldn't want to make a recommendation. But I've used each of those a little bit, and would gently suggest that OpenMP might be a good starting point for exploration. I was impressed by how easy it was to incorporate, and the performance seemed good to the extent that I used it.

My naive first impressions were that MPI was clunky, required expertise to get good results, and should be reserved for when you need to run on multiple machines; Cilk was slick, had a nice syntax, but as of two years ago was still for early adopters; and OpenMP was a happy medium of syntax, support, and performance, making it a good default if you were trying to utilize multiple cores and processors on a single machine.

pthreads is the underlying thread implementation used on Linux, and the others are higher level interfaces that run on top of this. You should understand the basics of how pthreads works for intuition on how the others will perform, but unless you need something out-of-the-ordinary you probably shouldn't implement anything with it directly.
I think that actually for performance reasons (for an entire system, not just a web page) it's reasonable to require JavaScript to be enabled.

For example, having a page that provides 90% of the information statically (potentially to a level deemed functional without js) is great because you can heavily cache user-unrelated content. Then use JavaScript to query for user-specific content and fill out the page.

This functionality may be needed for important features (paywalls, adding to favorites, etc). That said, if you really wanted to work around not having JS enabled you could make it work -- but you need to optimize where you put your efforts.
I don't have anything particularly negative to say about the competition, but if you're looking for a completely free and open infrastructure to build on, I don't think anything (besides IRC, but IRC has it's own problems) comes close to Matrix at the moment. I'm very impressed with the project so far. That said, with a reference server implementation in Python, and few native desktop applications available, there is plenty of work to do.

Edit: Matrix already works great as an IRC bouncer for networks which have been bridged.
IDE and local dev environment are primary. I'm currently saddled with a proprietary SVN-based enterprisey monstrosity that costs me 10 minutes a day at the absolute worst. It sucks, but we can easily live with it.
Instead of charging for access, they could be charging for promotion. You could be paying them to review & analyze your work and essentially supplement it with materials that aid in understanding and sharing (and thus expand your work's ability to help and influence people.) They should be help, not adversaries. They could offer publication tools by subscription and knowledgeable advisers.
If memory serves Apple didn't actually use MST for the 5k iMac and instead developed a custom timing controller which allowed them to get the 5k resolution working over a single stream.

It's the same reason why, for example, Windows sees it as a 3840x2160 panel as well.
Same for me. I retired at 42. Once I spent the first few years with my new daughter the misses got sick of me having too much fun at home and kicked me back to work after just over four years of retirement. The only difference between now and then is my tolerance of fools. I have been working for start-ups as a senior engineer and like work as much as ever. People do treat you quite differently if they have no strings attached to you. Mainly pros, some cons.
I am pretty sure homomorphic encryption is not being used. In fact, I suspect that no real encryption is being used.

Isn't it the case that if I just removed the labels, and renormalized all my data to fall in [0, 1], then what I end up with looks a lot like what Numer.ai gives you?

I'm not aware of any homomorphic encryption / structure preserving schemes that have homomorphic evaluation on ciphertexts equivalent to literal multiplication and addition of ciphertexts, and this seems to be what they want you to do to train your model. (unless I'm misunderstanding how to interact with the "encrypted" dataset)

EDIT: seems like most people think they are using Order Preserving Encryption, which allows one to compare ciphertexts with the "less than" predicate. This makes more sense looking at what they give, but I never saw anything where they say "only do comparisons on the encrypted data."
The article explained they dropped into the red in 2015 so I'm assuming that means they were profitable in 2014. Curious if they were profitable in 2013 as well.

They originally launched in 2012 so I don't think your "couple of hours" are likely fair.
First ‘water-wave’ laser created
Um, what part of unless you get a copyright assignment or a license permitting relicensing from all contributors wasn't clear?
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Erik Meijer is the first name that came to mind when I heard Delft.
I meant human resources - there's not a ton of Engineering/Product Management talent sitting around even if Apple has a ton of money to pay for it.

If they did have unlimited resources you would have seen more attention to Mac product lineup and they wouldn't have gotten rid of the Airport unit after not updating it for a while.
I understand why people disable it, if they choose to then they should expect a crappy experience. As long as the basics work (Forms submit etc), I am not going to pander to ensure that everything degrades perfectly.

Likewise IE8 - fuck those guys
B-Movie makers can be very lazy.
Just about every action movie that I watched in the synth heavy 80s had the explosion from the Amiga game "Firepower"

Check it out and then try and watch an Arnie Schwarzenegger movie from those days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G4ngPXGGgw
As others have said, there are great ones about various niches. People tend to really know each other over time (in a more personal way than your Reddits of the world) and thus find themselves more accountable to each other--but it is still as anonymous as you want.

You get too big of groups or absent or poor mods and things tend to fall apart. Tens of thousands of users is no problem because most users are mostly lurkers anyways.

Quick plug--low odds here, but if you by some chance happen to know the board game Heroscape, have a look at www.heroscapers.com/community for a well functioning, respectful, fun (not modern looking) niche online community. The game has been cancelled for years, but there's still a good chunk of us active. Lots of site activity takes place in various private sections of the site devoted to various projects so you don't see everything happening but the public stuff is representative of how people treat each other there in private.
Isn't it a little irresponsible to make that claim while operating on VC funding with no monetization strategy?

I don't mean to imply that you yourself are being dishonest or that you will go back on your word at some point. I'm sure you have noble intentions and want the best for your users. But it might be beyond your control.

If the company gets sold or goes public, you could have drastic changes in management and their philosophy. You acknowledge this outright in your privacy page, under the "OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION" heading:

https://discordapp.com/privacy

Discord has a policy in place that explicitly says they can do whatever they want with the information without limit, including selling it or transferring it without consent. This directly conflicts with employees' public claims about intentions.

The difference is that one of them is a legal acknowledgement end users must make before they use the software and the other is a 'feel good' thing to hear on someone's blog or forum post.

If they just wanted protection against an accidental slippage of data then that privacy page could be changed substantially. Instead, they pave the road for the explicit sale of data at a later time.

Or, if they wanted to leave the option open in the future they could say "This privacy policy is subject to change" and give users an opportunity to opt-out when it changes without historical data being subject to undisclosed future use. But this weakens their value in an eventual acquisition by someone who wants to monetize the data.

As it stands right now, in an eventual acquisition or even just some internal shifts of philosophy in the organization, all historical data is up for grabs for any potential use.

Discord really shouldn't have employees state that they will never sell users data when they explicitly allow and plan for that option. It may not be intentional dishonesty, but it comes close.
That's awesome! I'm so glad you like the watch you have. However, in the future please keep in mind that just because someone has a different opinion than you doesn't mean that they're less up-to-date than you are. I've had hands-on time with just about every Android Wear watch released (including the Huawei Watch), and none come close to matching the Pebble Time Round's svelte 7.4mm thickness (save for the original ZenWatch which I also owned, but sadly that had a rectangular display).
I'm not sure if you understood me. I don't think it's a good idea humor your clients. In fact, I think if could hurt you if they ever get wise to you bullshit.
I'm going to assume he didn't want to continue with it anymore otherwise he certainly would have done that.
> Apple’s emphasis on fashion and Pebble’s on productivity and third-party innovation were costly detours—the smartwatch market is rooted in health and fitness.

Over the last few years, I noticed store catalogs giving much space to fitbit, and little to pebble (or apple watch).

Perhaps this is a crude exoscope, for viewing outside the bubble/RDF? Like Buffett observing people still actually using American Express, outside Wall Street's gloom.

Those catalogs now include iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy S5 alongside the flagships, suggesting "good enough" and flagships have overshot...

Where will the tech, talent and investment go, if smart phones and watches are good enough, and VR/AR is a wash?
I get that in academia there is a standard publication path for thought and insight in the form of scientific papers.

It's a cool thing.

Scientific papers are not everyone's cup of tea though, and somewhat inaccessible (to publish for) for older people or those outside of academia.

Surely there is a middle ground between "JavaScript for Dummies", "Studies in Global Illumination" and "Computation on the modular hypersphere"

Actually, I'll be frank. Academic papers are designed to be inaccessible. Not all, but the majority. I've read plenty in Comp.Sci, and all I can say is that going out of their way to be obtuse seems like more than a fascination. I think it is called "Job Security"

Heck for the longest time, academic papers were behind paywalls that were WAY more inaccessible than Elsevier.

So there is that.
This would probably work better with a thinner, smaller smartphone.

https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Sports-Armband-iPhone-MyBand/...
I didn't get a clear sense of what exactly 'chip-scale' would mean from reading the article - presumably on the order of centimeters?
Interesting perspective. I work in Manufacturing and have created similar models in the past and I was in the MIDS program but I dropped out. Like you it was too expensive and had other misgivings as well.
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