skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it. Reminds me of the Vinepeek project (vpeeker) that was a Show HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120301

http://www.vpeeker.com/

Vinepeek/vpeeker is still functioning. Wonder what happens on Jan 17th, the day of the Vine app's shutdown?
My mom almost took it when she was pregnant with my sister. Pretty scary.
Apple has been on a yearly refresh cycle for how many decades?
I like this because it provides structure and some more concrete (yet still general) advice. Too much career how-to is wishy-washy cliche: crap like "do what you love" and "follow your passion" and "never stop learning". That's fine if you're looking for spirituality. Not so much if you're looking for a solid step-by-step structure to follow.
You will be able to buy an escape key dongle.
Woah woah woah, back up a bit. I never once said that all poor people are bandits. I said that keeping people homeless who then in turn tie up emergency services (because they can't practice hygiene, eat properly or go to the doctor until they're on the edge of death) is more expensive that you'd think, and that when a number of homeless people live in a given area that it impacts property values, not to mention the image of the community. I'm not saying they're malicious about it, I'm saying that's what happens when you don't have access to basic services.

This study shows that just giving people a home is not only vastly superior ethically, but helps these people get OUT of that situation and in many ways can be cheaper too.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but is anyone else having trouble getting around the WSJ paywall? The usual trick of redirecting through Google doesn't work for me any more, even with an incognito window or using another device.
Yeah, 17" is pretty much a prerequisite for me as far as laptops go. I was in the market for a laptop a few years back and considered the MBP but I ended up going with the 17" Asus Zenbook and have been very pleased with it. I'll admit that the MBP has a bit better build quality, but I'd say the Zenbook is 90% there but much cheaper, much better specs, and of course I got my 17" display.

It was only later I discovered that the newer MBPs don't play nicely with Linux, so I dodged a bullet there.
(creator here) thank you! yeah i think i masked the youtube logo during my failed attempts to get this to work on mobile. i'll see if i can bring it back.
I have. Fired up the terminal and started Vim. 5 minutes later I was convinced that my next computer will probably come with Windows. Really sad, too. I don't have to blow away the OS to get a decent experience on a Mac.
Seeking Digital Citizenry
Are you seriously complaining about Apple continuing to update Macs? They should be updating them every year!
Because Americans want to maintain their standard of living and can't do that if they are competing with a billion Africans who would be happy with half that standard.
Oh no, do they know what "yuri" means?
AIUI, 16GiB was the largest RAM configuration for the new MacBook Pros because the CPUs did not support larger amounts of low-power memory. So, a higher-RAM configuration would require using power-hungry desktop memory, and thus mean significantly lower battery life.

Is that a trade-off people are willing to make? I guess Apple assumed it wasn't worth it with the most recent refresh, but maybe changed their mind after people spoke out.
try this: https://twitter.com/Ally_Abrams/status/819924260005277697
Not to down play the usefulness of this, but be careful not to follow others ideas that your ultimate goal in life is X career plan. I have more of a "life plan" than a "career plan" since money and hacks/resourcefulness is pretty easy to the HN crowd relative to many other groups. Especially in the west, it takes talent to starve here.

A work/life balance is what some people enjoy, while others want a work/work or life/life balance.

For example, I am not interested in being worth X millions when I'm 60 at the cost of skipping >50% of life. Even money doesn't help with certain objectives (especially when you must trade time).

You have to balance what you want to have accomplished in life vs what you want while living life.
I know at least two people. Me and a friend of mine. Both of us bought the 15" touch bar MBP and later returned it.

- there were some issue with the keyboard on both of our MBP

I exchanged it for a non touch bar MBP instead. He exchanged it for an old 2016 MBP.
I thought it was only in permanently shadowed craters? If it's accessible and is concentrated enough, then you're right.
"we won't sell anybody else something newer"-guarantee is a whole new business model... probably not applicable outside of massive enterprise or government sales though...
Lessons learned growing a team for my side project
I'm really hoping this happens. I would consider upgrading my 2014 MBP if they did this. This year/model (2.8 GHz Intel Core i7) is still one of the top 10 performing models on Geekbench! [0] The bump to 32GB and leapfrogging 2015 desktop iMacs would seal it for me, assuming there's an option for no touchbar.

If the desktop-class RAM rumour is correct, that probably means they'll be beefing up the batteries to account for the higher power drain.

EDIT: I suppose this isn't necessarily correct - assuming that Intel can support LPDDR4 in new chips OR Apple can use LPDDR3 rather than having to take the approach that Dell did with the 32GB XPS-15 [1][2].

[0] https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks

[1] http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-la...

[2] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/10/31/macbook-pros-lack-of...
The Big Apple Circus, which has only used domesticated animals for years, is liquidating. The Ringling Bros. closing would have eventually happened, with or without the protests.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Apple receives criticism if they don't rev fast enough, and if they rev too fast. IIRC, there were rumors that 32GB updates would be coming four days after the most recent release on Oct 27.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/31/macbooks-2017-price-cuts...
Awesome – always interested in programming-related art. I was struck by the result in the article not for its novelty but for how similar it looks to a space-filling Hilbert curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve.

If you're interested in generative art you might like http://inconvergent.net/.

If you're interested in experimenting web-as-medium you might like reading/contribituing to my digital "zine": http://freezine.xyz.
In a sense the problem with XMPP is that it is too simple. If you are willing to type some XML you can log into a server and have a basic chat session over a telnet session. Hence the requirement for extensions to do anything else.

The alternative is to try to anticipate everything anyone would want to do with a protocol. That has problems as well. The XMPP approach is to accept everything and aggressively ignore everything not supported. XML is quite compatible with this approach.

XMPP uses the XML as the framing. An approach that could actually be considered clever if one is striving for simplicity in a protocol.
I have to say it feels like the founders want to have their cake and eat it. They want the money that comes from an IPO but they don't want to give up any control. Facebook is the same, Zuckerberg has the majority of the voting shares but a lot less than 50% of actual shareholding. This seems to be becoming increasing common with tech start ups.

If you want others to invest and take on a financial risk then they should get an equal and fair voting share. If I was the stock exchange I would ban this kind of crap.
I am no longer a Mac user, but might I suggest remapping the escape key to another, it really saves a ton of time. Personally I use "hh", which makes some vim users cringe, but let me tell you, it's so much faster than escape.
The problem that I have with most 17" laptops is the stupid number pad. It forces me to type with my hands off-center from the screen, and it drives me insane. The old 17" macbook pro was basically the only one to do it right.
>> If anyone could be called such, the fathers of AI would belong to Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943, who came up with the model for an artificial neuron

The work of McCulloch and Pitts was seminal in the field of connectionism, itself a sub-field of AI (and the field that encompasses neural networks, but not machine learning in general). The Pitts-McCulloch neuron was only one of their many contributions. Pitts in particular later published a great deal on inductive inference, which is more straight-forward, Good, Old-Fashioned AI.

AI goes way back, with the work of Turing and Von Neumann, and even Russel and the Logicians- not a Ska band, but a group of mathematicians who wrote about symbolic logic: Hillbert and Gödel being the most well-known among them. We have digital computers today, because these gentlemen (and some ladies among them) came up with the maths that enabled it. In their time, "artificial intelligence" pretty much meant a machine like the one we're using right now to communicate.

There was a small army of bright personalities that followed in their wake. Just off the top of my head (and completely arbitrarily; most of them are my personal heroes of AI):

Marvin Minsky
Roger Schank
Mark E. Gold
Dana Angluin
J. Ross Quinlan
Peter Norvig
Eugene Charniak
David H. Warren
Daniel Jurafsky
Robert A. Kowalksi
John McCarthy
Steve Russel
Christopher D. Manning
Terry Winograd
Edward Feigenbaum
Geoff Hinton
Carl Eddie Hewitt
Richard O' Keefe
Pat Langley
George F. Luger
Ryszard S. Michalski
Seymour Aubrey Papert
Judea Pearl
Fernando Pereira
Steven Pinker
Frank Rosenblatt
David Everett Rumelhart
James Lloyd McClelland
Stuart Russel
John Rogers Searle
Rodney Allen Brooks
Claude bloody Shannon
Paul Smolensky
Gerald Jay Sussman
Richard S. Sutton
Katia Sycara
Leslie Gabriel Valiant
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik
Norbert Wiener
Joseph Weizenbaum
Paul J. Werbos
James H. Martin
Hinrich Schütze
Ehud Shapiro
Stephen Muggleton
Leon Sterling
Alain Colmerauer
...

I've taken care to list all those people with as much detail in their names as I could find on wikipedia. This should help you identify them and read about their contributions to the field, which I strongly suggest anyone does before attempting to discuss the history of AI, in any detail and at any depth.
Nice. Some email recipients will be creeped out or annoyed by this tactic, but their negative response is far outweighed by the positive response from someone like OP. Too bad for the company that he didn't name them in the post — that would have been a real coup. Think of the backlinks!
The fundamental problem with decentralized messaging these days is push notifications. Apple, at least, makes it very hard for you to deliver APNS notifications without running a centralized server. XMPP and IRC will never work as well as a centralized service until the notification architecture changes.
People are free to not buy the stocks. Clearly the tradeoff hasn't dissuaded Facebook shareholders.
It's pretty amazing that you managed to convince so many developers to work on a project that is so already so saturated. Did you have any help?
Good site, but don't you think it's a tad sleazy to use these people's videos without at least letting us click-through to their YouTube channel? I mean it's the absolute least you could do to give them due credit.
It's been hit or miss for me. Last week I was having issues, and I don't have any with this one. Perhaps it's related to cookies or other browser cache? Or perhaps server-side fingerprinting?
best small company insurance I had was when we were using ADP for everything (TotalSource, maybe?). I think my background checks and things even say "ADP" even though I was working for a regular small company.

We had regular big-company style plans (80% coinsurance and opt-in 100% coinsurance) with very reasonable rates and good coverge compared to what we've had after going self-insured.

I think they took a cut of everyone's pay.
Venus Smiled, with a Mysterious Wave Across Its Atmosphere
MacOS 10.12.3 beta includes new Display Brightness energy saving recommendation
Thanks. I'd like to make some comments on the paper
- it is very readable, even for non-ML folk

- first author was an intern at Google. Cool for him to have a project like this handed to him.

- paper is quite long and I don't think it would ever be published in a reputable journal. The content/length ratio is too low, for one

- another reason I think it would not get accepted is the lack of novelty. What is being done here is a basic interpolation scheme (which explains the "10-100X speedup over SotA) but with weights determined by a lookup table. The table itself is learned beforehand by analyzing a large number of other images.
The article merely touches the economic benefits. There is also another elephant in the room which wasn't mentioned - fast way to transport army. All the bullet-train rail are capable of transporting tanks. This will allow overnight transfer of army to any city in China.
TPCast?
New cpus will support LPDDR4 which is available in larger capacities. No trade off
The FDNY fight fires aggressively. I know of other fire services where the number 1 priority is firefighter heath and safety, ie above that of the potential victims of fires.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Saying "we make aggressive interior attacks and perform primary search" is fine, but you don't do that when you see signs of imminent structural collapse on arrival. All firefighters take risk, but it's a calculated risk. Now granted, the line is somewhat subjective and different departments do have different policies but still... I don't know of any department that preaches the idea that you display no judgment at all, and wantonly waste your life.
Using https://encrypted.google.com/
to avoid AMP is a great tip. I'll be doing that, does anybody have more information on what that URL is for?

Is it possible to set it as default on iOS/Android somehow? AMP really frustratingly breaks link sharing, and I'd like to totally avoid it.
Oh no. We're not going there. My hands are not so small, and I've got the rattlesnake-like "hit esc" action down. Thinking about the command keys again sounds like a great way to discard all of my productivity for about three weeks.
Maybe I should explain better. I think with a project receiving so much opposition both from the government and citizens, I imagine Liu would have to use extraordinary methods to push it forward, which will hurt the power players hard (especially those who created the opposing voice).

The embezzlement and favours are usually just an excuse. Most people with power (at least in China) get away with it even if everyone knows about it. It only become important when someone who don't like you gets more power.
Bill Cosby was pretty funny in his day
Yes I had a lot of help from a mentor. That warrants an entirely new blog post which I will write later.
President Obama honors scientists and engineers
Consider reading "On Bullshit" by Princeton's Harry Frankfurt. A distinguished moral philosopher, he regards bullshit itself as evidence of disrespect, not calling it out as such.

https://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/bullshit/pdf/on-bullshit.pdf
Yeah, I'm not a numpad user myself, but I never really noticed the hands off-center issue, my brain seems to adapt without much distraction.
His words as he left the moon for the last time:

"We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind."

Amen. Some day.
> As an ex-Amazon Affiliate myself, I disagree because the incentive to post those links is not aligned with the reader's expectations.

Please don't project your behavior onto others. I take book recommendations seriously. I actually really enjoy it, people have told me IRL that my recommendations helped them a lot.

> Notice how this is the biggest list of recommendations in this thread.

They are all books that I've read in the last ~4 monthish (not all in entirety). Just FYI I'm not sure how much money you think I'm making off this but for me it's mostly about the stats, I'm curious what people are interested in.

> Do you think that's because the author is very knowledgeable

I'm more than willing to discuss my knowledgeability.

> or is it because he has an incentive to post links?

It's the biggest list because due to circumstances I have the luxury of being able to read a ton. I own all the books on the list, I've read all of them and I stand by all of them and some of these are really hidden gems that more people need to know about. I've written some of the reviews before. Just FYI I've posted extensive non-affiliate amazon links before and I started doing affiliate only very recently.

Furthermore, HN repeatedly upvotes blog posts that contain affiliate links. Why is that any different?
yup the logo is supposed to be clickable but i think i put up a mask while trying to get the new embed api stuff to work, i'll have to check what that was about.
It's not super hard to imagine. It's not like awesome jobs grow on trees, or that they're giving them away at the airport. If you're one of the few people in the world who can simply point to their ideal company, declare "I shall work there!" and then [poof] you're there, then congratulations on your good fortune. For the rest of us, finding the next rung on the ladder is an endless struggle, and there are not a lot of practical "how to" resources out there.

I'm 40, have been working in technology for close to 20 years, and have had the great fortune to have stayed employed for most of those years, but for the entirety of this I've considered myself "underemployed". I've woken up each day thinking "boy I could be doing so much more if only I wasn't limited by [ ROLE | COMPANY | GEOGRAPHY | BOSS | ETC ]. Don't get me wrong--I feel grateful that tech is one of those careers where you at least have a chance to improve where you are, but these opportunities are still few, far between, and you have to pound the pavement to find them. You do need to plan and you need to ask the right questions of yourself. I like this article because it provides some structure for your plan and helps you to think about the good questions to ask yourself.
It will be $39.99 and if you buy a 3rd party one it will pull up a modal dialog box that says "This peripheral is not supported and may not work properly."
Reminds me of Agent Smith's speech on the failure to build a utopian matrix. Can we ever find solutions to problems that only manifest later? In other words, if we can't get to utopia by iterating on locally rational decisions, we may need AI to help us. Convincing ourselves to follow its advice may introduce new problems.
Well for next time, maybe you could do this thing called "testing" or "QA" before you put a product out there for hundreds of people to use.

EDIT: sorry I know it's negative, but while you're posting stuff about "oh I'm tearing up", what I'm seeing is some guy who wrote a website that steals people's videos without attribution. I realize you didn't "intend" it to do that, but that's what it's doing, and I don't have the psychic powers to know what you "intended" to do with the site.
Fair enough, but I've heard similar reasoning espoused from other vim users who were reluctant to transition away from arrow keys. Perhaps you might find the productivity dip worth it in the long run, but I am not unsympathetic to the cost of shaking the routine up.
Are You More Than Okay: The State of Mental Health in Tech in 2016
Lost a lot of respect for them when they received so much funding and support to end up kick out by the HTC vive with a better headset, controls and no DRM bs.
It works great on IceCatMobile and is open source - so it has my support!
DV is better than no certificate because it guarantees no one is MITMing just you. It could hypothetically be possible an attacker MITMed both the CA and you, but that's quite hard.

EV has the security benefit over DV in that you can use HPKP to pin EV CA public keys, so no DV certificates will ever be trusted for your site.
Persistent infection keeps immune memory sharp, leading to long-term protection
I'm not sure that evidence of stone tools means that these were human animals. Many other species can conceivably use stone tools.
An article, in which the author spends a good amount of space explaining why the title itself is not true. You're right, you can't win. Maybe I'm just bitter that I spent a good chunk of change on a new system that isn't any more impressive than the 2012 model I was replacing. Doubling down on RAM mid-generation really makes people like me pause when considering a purchase of what was supposed to be the newest and best.
1. DDR4L Not finished yet.

2. Intel wont support LPDDR4 until 2018.

Unless the Intel or the memory industry works with Apple in tandam, I dont see how 32GB can be achieved without,

A. Apple making their own SoC or switching to AMD.

B. Simply switch to same clockspeed model of Kabylake while using Desktop memory. The increase in Desktop emory power usage will be offset by Kabylake's power saving.

or C. The return of 17" Macbook Pro.
The location of ancient capitals probably has more to do with the importance of trade and food production than avoiding coastal storms or flooding.
An idea: trending low view videos from uploaders with not many subscribers or not many total channel views.
The murder investigation that put the first female district attorney on the map
> You have to balance what you want to have accomplished in life vs what you want while living life.

This is a great phrase, I find it very insightful. I've never thought about it like that, but I can tell this is a phrase that will alter how I think about my future/life. Thanks for that.
Amtrak could make a killing with a service that sent you via high speed rail and sent your car via regular rail either before or after you departed.
If you actually look at the data of how often the MacBook Pro gets updated, this is perfectly normal and expected: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro
Inventing details out of thin air to make a low resolution image look more detailed feels like cheating to me.
I'm not sure there is a more natural way, but if you install DuckDuckGo as default search engine, then searches which use their !bang syntax to redirect to a Google search are via encrypted.google.com. Example:

!g search query

Leads to https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search%20query

Of course, this also works if you type this query in at duckduckgo.com

Edit to add: I guess it is a matter of time before amp pages also appear on the encrypted subdomain; another incentive to switch to DDG now.
Cómo optimizar y mejorar tu Crawl Budget
Which model is the 17" ZenBook? A quick search came back empty.
People can handle a lot of context. It'd be totally unsurprising if the people you interact with professionally swear a lot more in other contexts.
That's why I've never seen any AMP pages! I've been wondering about this forever -- I thought Google must have figured out I wouldn't want them somehow. But any Google searches I do are usually through DuckDuckGo which use the encrypted link.
Anyone who spent $3k just a couple months ago is either tech savvy enough to know the Apple's potential revision cycle or too rich to care. Either way I'm not shedding any tears. You have 30 days to return the machine.