skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from an MBP to an SP3 and I could never ever switch back. It's the best tech purchase I've ever made. It has its quirks for sure, but using my MBP now feels almost claustrophobic due to the limitations (evidenced by the fingerprints on its screen).

What made me switch was the realisation that using my iPad for productivity reasons would've been useful - even just for typing a document with a keyboard - but actually trying to use it was like a sick joke perpetuated by Apple.

So I got an SP3 to fill that gap, and within a week my iPad, MBP and desktop were all useless to me.
I never understand this sentiment: AMD is still putting in effort for a token market (Linux is something like 0.3% of computers if you don't count servers/embedded). Would you rather have them do nothing and leave the cards poorly supported?
I love my SP4, but after having owned one for a while, I would absolutely not buy one if not for the inking. It's just so goddam buggy. It constantly has some issue, whether it's the keyboard not connecting or some Windows chrome element glitching out, or failing to restart when I tell it to. It's still worth it to me though, because the ability to write and draw are super nice, and it's great for reading and highlighting documents. MS needs to drastically improve the Polish of their products if they want to win more customers from Apple though.
I'm hard wired for the "honesty thing" but started going out of my way a few years ago after a bad experience.

I interviewed with a company for a contract and I had told them I only had 5 days of experience in technology X. They hired me and then let me go after a week because they needed a true expert to fix something in time to ship. I said them "I told you I only had 5 days experience with technology X, why did you hire me when you needed an expert??!"

The manager responded "We just liked you so much!"

After that experience, I would tell them [interviewers] right at the beginning of the interview that I was going to try my best to "open my mind and let them peek inside" and give them any data they might need to reject me. I'd tell them, "It's going to sound like I'm trying to talk you out of hiring me but I'm really just trying to make sure we're a good fit." Somewhere in there I'd tell them the above story so they'd know why I was taking such an unorthodox approach (and offer them another cookie).

I'm a freelancer with multiple clients now. I have too much work so I guess I have the luxury of not taking jobs that aren't a good fit. That said, being so confident that you can be radically honest with a potential client or interviewer, also signals competency. A desperate person doesn't behave that way.
Having detailed discussion of "frivolous" topics costs the ability to be taken seriously as a source for less trivial information in certain circles.

Whether the tradeoff is worthwhile is left as an exercise for the reader.
Reminds me of a good essay - "You are what you measure"
It's just ConEmu packaged with some additional utilities like clink and a custom launcher. Actually quite nice since you can update to the latest version of ConEmu with no issues.
Why is this on HN? There are NO NUMBERS to back up such a click-baity claim.
I've been participating in Numerai for a few months now. (I've only made some beer money from it, nothing serious.) When you get the data, you have no idea what it is. It's just a file with ~70,000 data points, each of which has 21 features. Each feature is uniformly distributed between 0 and 1. All you have to do is make a binary classification of 0 or 1 (or, more accurately, the probability that the data point is in class 0 or 1). They don't tell you what the 21 features represent.

As far as you know, these predictions could be used to make currency trades, or stock predictions, or real estate purchase, or something more exotic. You really have no idea. And since you don't know what these data points represent you can't use any insider knowledge about anything to help you.
You know what's tiring? People getting out of their way to gratuitously criticize the collective effort of a coordinated group of passionate people who just want to have fun reinventing the wheel.
I'd like to echo this sentiment. In fact, this is the exact reason that I happily pay for The Economist. Even when reporting on topics with which I'm quite familiar, The Economist nails it in terms of accuracy.

For instance, recently there was a writeup on quantum computing in which they made a somewhat hyperbolic claim regarding D-Wave. This gave me pause; however, the point was clarified in subsequent paragraphs, thus restoring my confidence in their analysis.

Much like the parent poster, I too have dropped many of my daily news sources, but not The Economist. I've yet to find a publication which matches it in terms of coverage and accuracy--not to mention their exceptionally high-quality audio recordings of each edition (perfect for commuting!).
Hah, I have 2nd gen. I drop it pretty often too. Slippery black plastic back.
You can combine an EdgeRouter lite plus a 5GHz UniFi AP for a good BBC + Netflix streaming box. The EdgeRouter has an IPsec VPN offload https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/ERL-Performance-Testin... which I use with BlackVPN's "TV subscription" so my parents can watch HQ BBC shows.

EdgeRouter firewall you can write a small script so whenever the BBC app is running it and the Chromecast2 are automatically rerouted to the UK VPN, while everything else is sent over their regular provider like Netflix. This guy also wrote a php app that manually does this https://github.com/TravisCook/Detour though it's easier just to have a go app running automatically reroute the requests.

The one issue I had with it was Chromecast2 not initially connecting to the 5GHz network, which is solved by creating a 2.4GHz network, setting it up, disabling that network and then creating a new 5GHz one with the exact same SSID which the Chromecast2 will automatically connect to. The UnFi AP is so powerful covering the entire apt building with a good signal I thought about setting up the guest network and dropping a card charger on there to charge unlimited WiFi Netflix and BBC access for $5/month to the neighbors as the building has a fibre ISP w/'unlimited' bandwidth.
It's in the mainline Linux kernel now, it's hardly some proprietary obscure vendor thing.
In my experience, quite a lot of MacOS refugees who are upset with its stagnation are switching to Linux.
I work around a 5 min walk from both Apple & Microsoft stores. When my old Thinkpad laptop died, I went over to the Microsoft store and got a Surface Pro. Much more convenient than waiting for one to be delivered. The annoying thing with the Microsoft store is that you can't order online and pick up in-store. I did the same thing when buying my iPhone. Ordered it online and picked it up in store a few hours later. If you have the store close by, you can get your stuff much quicker.
> I think that sentence was talking about the experience at the store, not the device itself.

I would've thought so too except:

> Needless to say, I ended up returning the device and buying the new touch-bar 15" MBP a few days ago

I can't imagine anybody returning a device a few weeks later due to their experience buying it but :S
- looks nicer

- easier to customize (at least for me)

- runs super smooth (not that iTerm was slow or anything)

- I'd have to confirm, but a lot syntax highlighting and things that I just want to "work" out of the box seemed more applicable to Hyper than iTerm

- extensions (not sure if iTerms extension community could rival npm)
Yup Singapore. Had similar experience in Sydney when I lived there too.

I can't deny tho that both Apple and iStudio are great in regards to support. Something doesn't work, take it in, they sort it out ASAP.

Also: There's a real Apple store coming here?
The bias of the people need't bleed into the AI, since the whole point is that AI isn't constructed by experts, but inferred from collected data.
- We use a complex multivariate model to predict customer conversion and prioritize lead response
- We use text analysis to improve content for effectiveness and conversion
Among other things
Any idea where it might be going? Is is possible the evolution pretty much stopped with humans? Someone told me that AI/technology implanted into humans will be next movement for evolution but looking back that's not how evolution evolved no?
The author started running because he knew writing was a very unhealthy line of work that could lead to an early grave.

Those of us in technology should be even more worried.
If anything, it sure is nice to see that Microsoft might actually begin to become a real Apple competitor again. Competition is good!
Can you reword this? I don't understand the suggestion you're making.

I think you might be making a category error. Notability on Wikipedia isn't a reward earned by acquisition of fame; it's a level of status at which sourcing about a subject is likely to be reliable. The problem Wikipedia has isn't that no-names might get articles. It's that articles will be written about subjects for whom reliable sourcing is impossible, because no reliable source has ever deigned to write about them.

This gets us to a fundamental principle of what an encyclopedia actually is --- and to a project rule that is as old as "NPOV". An encyclopedia --- at least Wikipedia's conception --- is a tertiary source. It's a roadmap that summarizes and points to other, more in-depth sources.

By definition, if you don't have reliable sources to back the subject of an article up, it can't be hosted in an encyclopedia. The project's answer to this challenge would be, first create the reliable secondary sources you'd need to support an encyclopedia article, and then create the article itself.
This collective style has been particularly popular amongst independent coffee roasters in recent years. See, for example, The Pulley Collective in Brooklyn [1].

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/dining/a-collective-lets-s...
I would suspect AI/ML profits come largely from improving ad revenue at very stable companies.
I have a Raspberry pi that controls my Unifi Controller. Works great and here is the script to set it up:

http://www.lowefamily.com.au/2016/06/02/installing-ubiquiti-...
I'm sad to hear about this. The Breaking News app became one of the most used apps on my phone. The push alerts for emerging stories were always sent out before any of the other major news apps. This service will be missed.
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This should be the default terminal software for all IoT devices. >:)
Thanks, I thought they meant the world of Mad Max.
Can you say a little-more about the "sockets"? How do you implement this? I'm not even sure exactly what you mean, do you have an example? It sounds like a fun feature to implement so I'd love to hear more. Thanks
Did you read the article? This is about how Microsoft is saying the new MBP is so bad that users are switching to Surface en masse. It's entirely relevant to bring up the point that not everyone hates the new MBP.
I'd say perl, but you could debate whether "ignored" really describes it. Something in that neighborhood (perhaps under-appreciated) does. I see people doing a lot of ugly shell pipelines and contortions with sed, awk, and bash that perl can do easier. Perl runs everywhere, usually already installed along sed/awk and friends, runs comparatively fast for a dynamic scripting language, has great documentation, and chews up and spits out the problem domain of sed, awk, and bash. It has the same command line switches on OS X, Linux, BSD, and even Windows.
The bash shell that comes with Git for Windows is the best terminal on Windows.
https://git-for-windows.github.io/
> but given that most of every material and cultural need is already satisfied

Couldn't that be said in every point in history?

Were the farmers losing their jobs in the early 1900s thinking to themselves, "man, I could really go for an interconnected network of computers right now"? I'd be surprised if it even crossed their mind. But eventually, with not having to work on the farm anymore, they had the time to sit back and come up with the idea and implementation. Now, in 2016, it is difficult to imagine living without it.

I find it hard to believe we've reached the pinnacle of human achievement.
(sustainable) profit
You may want to consider the possibility that you have generalized anxiety disorder. The symptoms are vast, constantly changing, and often different from person to person. Some of the things you've described like PVCs, digestive issues, muscle weakness, and obsessive thoughts are quite common symptoms. The best way I know how to manage this without pharmaceuticals is cold showers, believe it or not.
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Does it automatically recognize divisions printed by programs running in the terminal and use that to determine what text to select? (i.e. if I do a vertical split in vim, does it restrict text selection to one side or the other of the split?
This is my first sideproject using a serverless architecture, would love to hear any feedback you might have. Thanks!
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Why the hell are you moving to the US?

Are you looking for capital? You can get that in Europe. Are you looking for a larger market? You should be looking in Europe.

By moving to the US your going to create an amazingly complex tax and business situation that will just make things harder for you not easier. Hell most US companies want to MOVE some or part of their operations TO Europe for tax reasons.

After you capture DE, FR, the whole of the UK, AUS, and ZA then think about the US and think about going to Canada first.
Nah, for the most part what some are calling "fake news" is still the old-fashioned clickbait.

I can remember several scandals over the years from the big news agencies that would be considered "fake news" by today's standards. They range from just being wrong to outright fraud. This is nothing new, this crap existed before there were websites. It's just that people simply choose not to remember to continue their desire to have something whine about.

It is also an old tactic by people wishing to discredit those that disagree with their agenda, whether it is political or economic.
/r/movies calls this BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and the loathing for it is intense. Other clichés favored by movie trailer editors are a dubstep-like "bass drop" just before something explodes, and the creepy five-year-old singing an echo-ey, unaccompanied version of some happy classic tune to give it a tense, unsettling secondary meaning for a horror film trailer. (I first saw that last in a PSA for some sort of cancer research fund back in the late 90s; the song was "They Can't Take That Away From Me".)
I posted because I thought the idea was interesting, although I don't know much about OS design beyond the basics. I'm curious how IPC is done and haven't found anything beyond basic information. Is this a more QNX style of IPC?
> Every single thing you're describing here is catastrophic and world-ending.

I fail to see how replacing a Diesel engine that burns diesel oil inside its
cylinders with a Stirling engine that burns dried guano in an external
combustion chamber is world-ending.

Not to mention that old style diesel engines usually can run on cooking oil(!)
or ethanol(!), so the migration to alternative propulsion wouldn't need to be
that immediate. Transportation of goods critical to survival (e.g. food) could
still be secured.

And we aren't discussing the world where fertilizers disappeared. We were
talking about the world without gasoline.
If you choose to install this via homebrew, be aware that there are actually two hypers that can easily be installed.

This Terminal Emulator: brew cask install hyper

Docker Hosting: brew install hyper
Does anybody know if it's possible to pull a running configuration from a working AP back to a fresh Controller install?

I configured the APs here at the house with a laptop running UniFi that has since been decommissioned. Now that I've installed UniFi on the new laptop, it seems I have to re-adopt the APs to the new controller and start from scratch with their configuration. This is a huge pain. Is there any way around this?
Yeah the title bothered me...

>The proposal that one type of organism could descend from another type goes back to some of the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, such as Anaximander and Empedocles.[34] Such proposals survived into Roman times. The poet and philosopher Lucretius followed Empedocles in his masterwork De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution#History_of_evolution...

Darwin described one mechanism (i.e. natural selection) that drives evolution.
You think? I'll be on the lookout for carbonated caffeine water.
I might be wrong but this look like Bernard Madoff in disguise.

"Give me your money and trust my big black box that nobody understand!"

Then just to be more credible add some meaningless data point "We have 7 500 anonymous data scientists" because it is known, the less you now about people who write abstract model that manage your money the more you should be reassured.

"My son told me about anonymous they are a hell of good hackers!"
I did the same for new account registrations on my site. The humorous side effect was actually LinkedIn. That whole thing where you can auto invite everyone on your contact list... led to me getting several connection invites a day from users I had never personally met.
Perhaps Wikipedia should approach this from another angle: loosen their baseline criteria, and then treat "notability" like Twitter's "verified" tag. Let the debate be whether or not an article should have the notability checkmark, not whether or not it should exist at all (within reason).
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Almost all libraries have a save/load model function.
I think a lot of the real benefits from ML "at work" is more in just cleaning of data and running through the gauntlet of simplest regressions (before jumping onto something more magical whose outputs and decision making process you can't exactly explain to someone).

I would classify something like this blog post as ML, would you? http://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/How-Do-Developers-in-New-Y...
You seem to be implicitly saying that the F-35 is obvious government waste without backing that up.

Setting aside the debate about the suitability for purpose of the F-35 (no one can have a knowledgeable debate about this in public anyway, because there's just no data out there!) is the very real problem of an aging TACAIR fleet. Any significant cuts to the total buy, or stretching out the buy over more years, just makes for more problems. The airplanes the US uses to fight its wars are old and getting older.

I don't really want to hear much discussion of "Let's curtail/cancel the F-35!" without hearing a corresponding discussion of "Here's what we'll do to maintain a viable TACAIR force".
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> set the world on fire.

Yeah i can smell the bonfires from here...
That may be true regarding physical encyclopedias, which are, of course, limited by space and weight (ha!). With an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia, though, those limitations are gone.

I'm looking forward to seeing Infogalactic give Wikipedia a run for its money!
We use Convolutional Networks for semantic segmentation [1] to identify objects in the users environment to build better recommendation systems and to identify planes (floor, wall, ceiling) to give us better localization of the camera pose for height estimates. All from RGB images.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jonlong/long_shelhamer_fcn...
Fails my standard "Too many clicks to understand what this is" test.

Posted link has virtually no description of what the project is.

Going to the root of the github repo has release notes and with the most detailed description as "HTML/CSS/JS Terminal" but burned into a PNG file.

Best description of the product is on "hyper.is" in an animated GIF form.

People working on project like this need to understand that without a reasonable textual description of their product, outlining basic features and benefits over other existing systems, that the uptake is going to be very, very low.
I used to contribute a lot to Wikipedia back around 2004-2005 (I did a rather large rewrite of the article on photon mapping). But in the following years, almost every edit I made or article I wrote was reverted or deleted, so I just gave up. Maybe a better version of Wikipedia will come along at some point, but until then I am no longer making any contributions.
is the take-away: bias is not in the initial conditions of the net, but in the implementation of the neurons and its structure;

closing my eyes makes my eyes insensitive to the state of the room, it does not make the room empty;

randomizing my network makes it insensitive to the biases of the AI, it does not mean there are no biases.

I'm finding it hard to figure this one out...
This reminds me of "Trajan Pro, the movie font": https://studiobrow.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/trajan.jpg

Once you see it, you'll see it everywhere. So, too, with BRAAAM--it seems like you can't get through a preview of any "action/adventure" movie without several BRAAAMs these days. Lazy, but also apparently effective.
This a very popular canard.

It's true that an additional article on Wikipedia has zero marginal cost in terms of compute, bandwidth, and storage.

But every article on Wikipedia imposes maintenance costs on the project, because every article is an opportunity for error, and it's the responsibility of every member of the project to eliminate those errors.

You don't have to spend much time on Wikipedia to get a visceral sense of the validity of this argument, whether or not you agree with it. It is kind of a miracle --- not a small one --- that Wikipedia exists at all. It is one of the great achievements of the Internet writ large. And it exists in spite of:

* Enormous numbers of articles written as advertisements designed to piggyback off Google's preference for Wikipedia articles on its first SERPs

* Enormous amounts of casually malicious spam and vandalism, some of which is purposely designed to avoid detection as long as possible

* Enormous amounts of agenda-driven bias working continuously to turn Wikipedia articles into advocacy pieces for one side or another of a given controversy

The point of the notability standard isn't to reward people for fame, or to save hard disk space. It's to put some reasonable boundary on the subjects for which unpaid editors should be expected to mount the often-tedious defense against these forces.
Regarding the Anki import, this Vim plugin might be of interest:

https://github.com/tbabej/knowledge

Beware, highly experimental, and the documentation is lacking (reading the tests would be the best idea to get a feeling how the syntax works).
Just Google "Great Programming Language Shootout"
> So, what do we do when human labor is less than the resources to keep said human alive? Sausage/glue factories for them as well?

To continue your analogy, "put them out to pasture". It could be argued that what is good for us as a people, is not always good for our conscious. What to do?
You know what's tiring have to over time be forced to use or maintain people's poor decision to reinvent the wheel.
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Aren't there organizations that exist to solve all sorts of problems? Cancer, Parkinson's, world hunger, disaster relief, malaria, clean water.

The point is that there are plenty of resources and it's just a matter of building up good organizations.
what the... is that supposed to be piped into cli programs that don't have a -y switch?
You'd be appalled at what gets sold online as acceptable adapters and chargers.
Yes, what about the case where the child is hidden from the view by a street parked car.

My point is not a specific example, but the importance of general intelligence.