skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a talk here on the Big Data track on integrating Tensorflow with our Hadoop Distribution, hops.io. I haven't been before, but I've heard great things about it being a real tinkerers' conference - where developers go to actually find projects to work with and work on.
Sounds like the advice to be distilled from this anecdote is "start making games and meeting other people who make games."
Try this UK car rental site, absolutely insane: http://www.lingscars.com
Liquid hydrogen is the key. It's frickin' cold, as in liquid nitrogen is positively tropical in comparison, but the density is high enough that you just need slightly larger wing volume for tanks. Vacuum based insulation, which is what they use, is pretty light.

As I said, Airbus did a large R&D project on this and they concluded it's technically and economically feasible for passenger jets. I'm taking their word for it, seeing as they build airplanes for a living.
thanks to all for making this happen!
read the Ashlee Vance biography, his life.. its brutal!
Normally those bug me a great deal but because the page loads so fast and the focus is on resource constrained users the `read more' option doesn't bother me at all. I'm constantly frustrated by JavaScript `read more' links though, which take an age to render the rest of the text on mobile devices which is where I do an ever increasing percentage of my reading.
This is last alpha. Next release in pipeline will be first Beta.

Also I would cut BS folk some slack. They are maintaining most popular OS project on Github. The maintenance burden for previous release was unimaginable and terrific, effectively pulling them down until they decided to make harsh decision of ceasing work at Bootstrap 3 and focusing at BS4 exclusively.
> because stations have to pay Fraunhofer for its patents. Fun, isn't it? ;-)

Fun it is, considering that money goes all back to Germany! insert evil German laugh here
Oh how quickly the Steve Jobs era is forgotten. Remember the white iPhone 4 that was delayed almost a year after Steve announced it? Or when they changed from the 30 pin to Lightning? Or when they dumped the floppy and optical drive?

Apple is focused on the iPhone because that's where almost all their profits come from. It's annoying for us long time Mac users, but even Steve was focused on iOS devices when he died.

Update: also Antenna Gate, the fact that Steve didn't want any third party apps on iOS, the G4 Cube, iPod Hi-Fi, MobileMe (if you think their cloud services are a mess now...), iTunes Ping, etc etc. The list goes on.
Your last sentence is pretty much a summary of my attempt to understand the amplituhedron, and as far as I've gottan
I am pretty sure Tim Cook doesn't care.

He is still the CEO of Apple.
>His most effective skills are publicity and marketing, but now that he's reached the presidency I'm not sure how much more those skills can help him.

Did you see his tweet against the GOP's gutting of the Ethics Office? He still has the ear of millions of Americans and will continue to have that ear for the next 4 years. To think that he isn't going to be able to use that to his advantage is naïve. This is someone who has literally been shaping US foreign policy over Twitter. The "he's at his peak and can't do much more from here" line of thought has been brought up since the Republican primaries and it is as wrong now as it was then.
That book is really more about Jony Ive's legacy as a designer than anything else. It is mostly going to be appearing in libraries and the offices of other designers, not on people's coffee tables.

I think the "perception" you are talking about is just from gossipy tech blogs and people on Internet forums who have made a hobby out of getting upset about things like this.
Would have loved, Sure. Would have done, No.
Advanced Cash Crop Agriculture.

I've also always liked the idea of being a welder or machinist. Whatever it is, it must satisfy my need to tinker and experiment.
Great news! Anyone know when we can expect the next launch? I heard they're going to test the falcon heavy this year.
Get into motorsports in some capacity.
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If these are Regulation A+ offerings, which they must be to sell to unaccreddited investors, then shares are free to trade on secondary markets after the offering closes. These companies may even list on OTC exchange. Here's a good slide deck on it: https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/acsec-071916-otc-zinn-reg-...
This is the future of startup funding. Money isn't the big problem with VCs, it's the lack of vision and old boys network mentality.

Real people with small amounts of money can easily fund all of the great ideas in the world. Even big ones I think, like cancer research. If properly controlled (diversified, limited) it really could be the best way for people to invest maybe 10% of their savings.

We just need a lot more work done in this area until it's safe and simple for people and companies. This will be one of the many things that cause technology to accelerate even more in the future.
You are that flexible. If you were forced into making do with less you would adapt. What it really is, is the dream is not something worth pursuing to you, all things considered.
Cancer death rate has dropped again. But it’s still higher for men than women
http://brutalistwebsites.com
FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws
> The biggest example is backpropagation; despite how essential it's been to artificial neural networks, it really doesn't exist in the brain, at least not as simply as it does in code.

Do you have any links to papers or such explaining "at least not as simply as it does in code"?

EDIT: nvm, I followed the links in a wikipedia article on RELU to relevant PDFs...

For a while now this is one area I have been questioning - that we do use backprop, and maybe there is something to be learned from nature that might (?) simplify how a NN is trained (then again, nature might be doing it in such a way that is more complex than can be engineered or practical)...

> For now, we're all still exploring, some looking towards biology, some towards abstract principles, and it remains to be seen if one provides consistently better results.

It might end up being a combination; at least, that seems the direction so far to a point.

I want to thank you for your comments, though. I'm still learning this stuff (I'm working thru the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree), and you've given me some stuff to think about and explore further.
Can you scale this to help other carers? Maybe a domain-specific website promoting ideas and tools
The /r/SpaceX subreddit has a good launch manifest here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/launches/manifest
I've been using the non-cloud version for two years now. Works almost[0] perfectly on Linux with wine as well!

0.Browser integration works but the auto-submit feature doesn't.
The company you say is in "total disarray" still made $45.7bn in profit in 2016, and grew its share price by 10%. Those are the facts.

Outside of the technology bubble, most people don't know or care about many of the issues you cited, or what "loyal followers" on internet forums think. Major investors, who are the only people who could force Cook out, care about the numbers. And while Apple's revenue declined this year, it's still insanely good by any reasonable, and unreasonable, measure. Plus, it comes on the back of many years of growth, much of which was delivered under Cook's leadership.

If there's a continued decline of revenue and profits, then you might see Cook forced out in a couple of years, but to ask why he hasn't been forced out already only demonstrates a total lack of understanding of how business works.
I can't believe nobody mentioned this given the site, but http://paulgraham.com. It literally altered the direction of my life.
> Some people are so sure that because personal experience indicates that it hasn't happened that that is any indications of its likelihood of happening.

Nope, that's not it. People aren't worrying about it because it's emotionally costly to worry and the optimal strategy for emotional well-being is ignorance.

While it's true that the consequences of a nuclear apocalypse are much more dire on a global scale, the personal consequences are indistinguishable from a car crash, plane crash or...if we wanted to include a natural disaster, death from a dam failure or a volcanic eruption.

If a typical person worried about every possible way to die today, no matter how minute, that would truly be a miserable experience. Besides, in the case of nuclear apocalypse it is literally impossible to adopt a strategy that minimizes your chances of death in the case it actually occurs, barring moving to the middle of nowhere and digging yourself a deep personal bunker.

So the only reasonable strategy is to ignore it entirely, in which case the likelihood of it happening is irrelevant.
I use IntelliJ IDEA because that is what I used at work.
Elon said they're shooting for next week, rumor is that it'll be Monday. (Edit: I forgot that it was confirmed by Iridium, the customer, so it's beyond a rumor at this point.)

Falcon Heavy is said to be scheduled for a launch in about six months. However, it's been six months away for several years now.
SketchUp for woodworking plans. I've yet to try a few of the open source CAD solutions, I might migrate if I find a good one. For more artistic modelling I use Blender.

I also play games on Windows/Steam but I could live without that. Openttd and Nethack would do :)
http://www.metafilter.com/
AgileBits is doing the wrong thing here.

Dropbox full access is stored on their servers and it's in clear text. Dropbox regular login/password is also stored on their servers, but encrypted via a remote master key.

If AgileBits is compromised, they can access all your DropBox files. Attackers still can't access regular login/password because of the lack of master keys.
What I coincidence; Painter, as in fences, was the first thought I had by just looking at the title.

Probably not a trade I'd take on for the long term, but if I'd be leaving my programming career for good today, I'd definitively need some activity that would allow me to remain active and earn a modest cashflow while I figure out what to do with the rest of my life. Painting is something I am more or less competent at, is relatively safe to do, and therefore would be at the top of my list.
https://daringfireball.net/
I feel you took my comment too personal. Is wasn't an insult to anyone.
It seems to me that in recent history; Every time the masses get easy access into something that historically had a high barrier to entry -- You get a huge boom and a huge crash.

Back in late 90's when everyone was starting a company with no product at all. Back in the mid 2000's when people were buying houses with no income verification.

If there is anything that is going to lead to the next bubble, this might be it.
> Wikipedia summarizes tha advantages, but my guess is getting rid of the vanishing gradients problem

Hmm - didn't think about that aspect, but that would be a big plus for backprop as I understand it! Thanks for the insight, and the link.
Is that better than making money in tech and then buying a politician?
Honestly, this cost is on par with other book-based photographic collections from small, bespoke printing companies (Such as Lodima Press). The real question is how many copies did they run. This will determine whether or not the cost is justified for the value you get from it.

As an example, a few years ago, I purchased a copy of Edward Weston's "Life Work" from Lodima when it was released. I think I paid ~$150 for it. They're now selling it for $1000 per copy because they have a limited number left.

If Apple printed thousands and thousands of these, then I doubt the cost is justified. But if it was a limited run, say less than a few thousand? Seems appropriate to me.
You must be from the UK. The "bubbling mud" is a property of the old DAB which also uses MP2 for the audio (an 80s technology codec).

Here in Germany it's all DAB+ which has better error correction with a more robust signal (and no bubbling). Radio stations in Germany also tend to use 96-128 kbit AAC/HE-AAC which sounds way better than FM radio.
Not limited images, but I like the craigslist ui. It's not visually attractive, but it's intuitive.
Muni ‘NextBus’ outage could stretch for weeks
is /river a concept or standard I haven't come across?
Next upgrade I'm moving to MS Surface or something similar. The dongle thing did it for me, which is pretty sad.

I was also a bit surprised to find out that 95% of the gaming market is still on PC [1]. Guess I was a disillusioned Mac user, but I thought Mac was bigger in games.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
This is a great video that explains the current thinking behind the cause of the explosion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcoTqhAM_g
That is probably one of my favorite sites ever. I learned so much from that. RIP Sheldon.
Tilikum, SeaWorld orca who killed trainer, inspired Blackfish documentary, dies
Edison works fine, their support is responsive, docs range from just alright to worse though.

I had a better time as a dev with arduino Yun but it was way too limited (memory and flash) for what I wanted.
For non-enterprise users, Dropbox's encryption is basically meaningless. If you have sensitive information you want to store in Dropbox, Google Cloud, iCloud, etc., I'd recommend using something like Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/ to encrypt files on the client side before uploading to "the cloud". It's open source for security experts to look through it and free for desktop OSs. I think they just charge something like 5 bucks for the iOS and Android apps.

For alternatives to the popular cloud services for the privacy conscious, there's a good list of open source projects and products on https://www.privacytools.io
I did that after saving enough money in Silicon Valley back in 2008. I lived on the top floor. It was called USA Books and was the 1st English only bookstore in Vietnam. Naturally it was tech heavy http://wordhcmc.com/news-latest/in-the-papers/usa-books. Every month we d host a get together and do a storytelling event like the Moth. Good times :)
I use a niche WM, so I'm kinda asking for trouble. I'm pretty sure I would not get any support from them.

I noticed that i3 WM has Mathematica specific workarounds. Might be an issue with non-reparenting WMs in general.
http://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors
? Amazon and the rest have them every day. WHen did you try last?
Sort of doubting the veracity of this, but at the same time really wanting it to be true.
In Germany AM is already completely dead, the last station shut down about a year ago.
I have a relative that is an ibanker. His bonus was a little more than his base, but he's still somewhat junior (only a couple years in).

He basically lives off his salary and is building up a reserve from the bonuses that he will then plan to spend in a controlled fashion. The general sentiment of that industry though seems to be "you should earn enough to not care about money, and if you don't you probably aren't good enough to deserve to be a banker."
Why do I need a citation? Our hardware is an approximation. Think of it like this: Over the course of history we have built smaller and smaller tools, from dumb tools such as hammers and anvils that we could mold visibly. Then later we have tiny chips that do nano scale computation, requiring other tools to even see what is going on and build them.

But evolution started from the smallest thing possible/in existence; Atom, quark, whatever, and built up into the single cell, then multi-cellular and so on. It also existed in a physical world where forces are constantly applied to everything it does. Opposed to a virtual world which is basically a vacuum.

Given a few billion years and this hardware is now known as the human body, built up of trillions of bacteria, undecipherable DNA and countless genes, protein folding and so on. So yes, there is a ton of stuff going on we don't understand. The amount of variables are incalculable.

To think we can replicate all this with some nano scale transistors, and mathematical approximations, is just bizarre. At best we can create an approximation of life, something that mimics it but isn't truly conscious.

Consciousness is as real as gravity, we can't definitely point to what they are, but they absolutely do exist.
It's not legal to go out and raise a bunch of money from unaccredited investors. Companies will most likely have to get approved for Regulation A+ by the SEC before Indiegogo agrees to sell ownership, in which case the shares are transferable once the offering is closed.
Yeah - we'll probably end up getting rid of the cabinet entirely; there's no space (ceiling in the way) to move it "up" and it would be out of line with the other cabinets. It is a pretty useless cabinet anyway, since it is difficult to get into.
https://danluu.com/
Bringing our main app into various states (and also regular Selenium tests based on the same code, ideally in Clojure). It currently takes dozens of clicks and dozens of pages, all super repetitive to get to most places in the app (super long question / answer based interface). I should have done this years ago when I joined but the pain has finally become great enough that it can't be ignored anymore.
You're thinking of Wildman, not Human Resources. The latter was Uber Entertainment. Gas Powered Games went under in 2013.
That Tim Cook / Melissa Mayer comparison doesn't really fly. Tim Cook isn't an 'underdog' at all. He's worked for Apple since 1998. He's risen to CEO by ruthlessly optimizing Apple's supply chain over time and making them into the profit powerhouse they are today.
So long as you get a MacBook that runs Sierra you'll be able to run Xcode for some time.

Regarding dev devices I'd personally recommend getting the 6S at least so you can use all the latest APIs (specifically 3D Touch being the one you'll find in the 6S vs the 6) but if you don't need that you might be ok with something older.
I have heard this company does exactly that what you're looking for: http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2016/12/01/new-money-logicg...
Hmm I suppose after 8 months of work, the managers would be able to judge if you're worth keeping on at that rate or not. Personally, I'm not convinced the market value for a two-year programmer is $110,000 even in the Bay area. I see those stats for that salary and higher, but I guess I always assumed that was for people with more than two years of experience altogether in programming. (In other words, there are a lot of folks that have worked on single, large systems for longer than you've been programming in total)
> PRICE: $8,500

When I was looking into advertising there, it was $2,000. Guess he's doing well. I don't envy him though. Being a full time blogger has to be one of the most soul-killing jobs. All that keeping up on the most boring and annoying bits of latest information, and repackaging it, all the while trying to not look biased. I just couldn't do it even if I wanted to.
It honestly does not matter, since they're compatible. You're trying to make it controversial, but it's really not. My phone uses Lightning, but that doesn't make a bit of difference when I plug it into my car.
Thank you, this post and the linked post are very helpful, and confirm a lot of thoughts. I didn't think about the 1099s passing muster, will definitely look into that. One challenge I've had is that there doesn't seem to be a good way to search for accountants. Is there something like Zocdoc for accountants?
What's to forgive? This is way cool.
what is the compatibility store for third party components/themes based on bootstrap.

one of the things I love about bootstrap is being able to google "bootstrap <some component>" and get something that works and looks nice.

will these third party components need to be re-written and support multiple bootstrap versions?
> means simply that the relationship of current and voltage across the device is not a linear function.

That's not correct. An ordinary resistor will have a (weakly) non-linear V-I relationship as well. The key here is that in some small region, the V-I graph is "going down", whereas for normal components it's always "going up".
GB (and Google more broadly) are very interested in this intersection. So yes, there are opportunities to do awesome work here, albeit actually working in a wet-lab is more difficult.
I think Ive is a real driving force behind some of these decisions too. He's always trying to push design over function.
when they needed to get viewership instead of subscriptions. People don't want to pay for news, magaziness, etc.
As a non German living in Germany I think this is the best idea in this thread. German bakery products are the best and can be sold everywhere despite of their high end price.
Can't resist
http://www.theonion.com/video/george-w-bush-debuts-new-paint...
This doesn't include the data set for the value network.

This is critical, because producing that one requires implementing the full reinforcement learning. Even if you skip that and use the policy network, you still have the task of playing a few tens of million games.

Learning a value network as big as AlphaGo from public data does not work: you overfit to hell.

Which playout policy is this using? There doesn't seem to be any?

Looks like it's just a neural network player. There's dozens of those already. You don't need to credit AlphaGo if you're only using policy networks for Go: The critical research for that was done at the University of Edinburgh.
When I scroll down on that site, it fills my browser's "back" button with dozens of meaningless copies of itself.
I feel like appointing Tim Cook CEO was Steve Jobs' last, master stroke to secure Steve Jobs' legend.
For those outside the UK and/or are unaware, this is a real business. The owner, Ling Valentine [0], even appeared on Dragon's Den seeking investment of £50,000 [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/LINGsCARS

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtib4WZW_4M
I'd say the Avalanches is mostly hip hop. Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, I don't think they are any good or different that the other hundreds of artists in those genres.
Just the slides if you like that better than video: http://www.slideshare.net/nikita_ppv/php-7-what-changed-inte...
Project NEON, the upcoming incremental upgrade for Windows 10’s design
I am waiting for a Windows phone to make the jump. I still have an iPhone 4S and have exactly zero interest in upgrading.
Several instances of VS because I'm in enterprise abstraction hell.
The book took 8 years to make. He died in Oct 2011. He probably knew about it.
As someone said at 32C3

> The only website that loads on the Berlin underground railway
I listen to FM radio while driving, about an hour total every day. I can do this because I live in a town with great public radio (Oregon Public Broadcasting, All Classical Portland, and KMHD for jazz).

I have found that there's a strong correlation in the US between livability and good public radio, at least for my tastes.
Well, they’re not entirely. I recently bought a Nexus 5X, and realised I don’t have a single compatible cable – and had to buy some adapters.

Not everyone will have adapters easily available, nor will people want to deal with them.
I left a place a year ago where I ran the lab. I remember the satisfaction of my replacement converting all the VMs into "real computers", and then triplicating the VLAN network I had with layer 1 replacements.

I'm pretty sure if he could have unspooled cat5 to everyone's home, he would have gotten rid of the VPN server.
Interesting to hear. Even as a technical person I'm often a bit taken aback when a site's primary domain is a non-[.com, .org, .net, .gov, .io, .country, or .city]. For $0.88 at a certain registrar I could pick up a bunch for side projects, but even at that price I'm wondering if it's worth it.
Give the man his internet points already, they're well earned.