skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OCR to a hashed directory structure. Remembering you need to preserve the scan of the receipt (otherwise people will assume illegitimacy) and a text copy that can be searched too.

There are some programs for iOS that do OCR (scanbot for example) but it's very much a hack and there is a definite space for disruption here.

Although more companies are allowing for email receipts which allow collation/backup. Unfortunately the format varies wildly and it still requires a fair chunk of manual work.
Perhaps, but I think the words are far less important than other means of emotional expression.

You could easily say that first line like you're joking about a friend, and the latter with the cold malice of hatred.
PRO WRESTLING TRENDS
For me, on iOS, I've _never_ had a Reddit AMP page actually finish loading / rendering. Broken since the start
You may soon be able to pay for things with Google Assistant
Staff should start work at 10am to avoid 'torture' of sleep deprivation
It doesn't help Lee Jaeyong that, unlike his ruthless father (who was somehow brutally efficient at making Samsung the most powerful company in Korea), Lee Jaeyong has the moniker of "Hand of Minus", after several of his pet projects that went nowhere.

Already some people are (somewhat jokingly) predicting that maybe his arrest would be a plus to Samsung...

That said, it was quite a bold move by prosecutors. Without the current scandal of president Park and puppetmaster Choi, I don't think they would have dared arrest Samsung's leader. (Well, the court may still say no to the arrest; we should wait and see.)
Actually the rail network in Tokyo transports far more people than the RER/Metro in Paris

Tokyo's metro population is 35 million. Paris's is 11 million. Each of them is served by multiple commuter and underground subway train networks. Comparing raw passenger numbers is ridiculous.

Density is a little bit [obscenity],

Density over the built up parts of a metro area, including offices, homes, parks, industrial and commercial areas, and roadways, tells us quite a lot about the basis of transit dynamics. Paris consistently packs a lot more people in the same land area than Tokyo.

No, even the stations, the network, the trains themselves are of better quality that the ones in Paris

Paris spends enormous amount compensating for its more difficult passenger base with space, maintenance, security, cleaning personnel, and more. That doesn't even begin to address the different demands for municipal investment and corruption in governance. Many collective projects that succeed in Japan could never do so in nations where citizens are less committed to cooperation.
3 reasons why 2017 will see massive cloud migration
Yes, organic farming will kill us all
I thought listicles were over?
The Relational Data Model
What's your opinion on this article and do you think things will get worse in future(regarding the relational data models)?

http://thehelsinkideclaration.blogspot.bg/2017/01/the-relational-data-model.html

Thank you
People can usually walk away faster than sea level can rise, so even if many of the piles of bones and pottery are now under water, the DNA of the inhabitants might not be. I'm hoping we'll soon be able to recover more of the early history of human migrations via DNA in living descendants.

We're apparently getting closer to being able to do an entire human gene sequencing for about $100. A $100 million project over the next generation or so could get us the complete genomes of a million people. Donated genomes could increase that number significantly. With enough data and improvements in algorithms, ever more subtle "shadows" of ancient people will emerge.

In addition, the ability to recover/reconstruct DNA from known archaeological sites will grow rapidly. The degradation of old DNA can be compensated for statistically, to some extent, by having many more samples. The number of samples will grow as the cost per sample falls, and the cost is plummeting.

In other words, we may not have to find a lot of new sites to experience a rush of new discoveries in the very near future. I'm looking forward to it.
In principle, low-orbit satellites should be lower latency than copper or fiber over long distance. The speed of light in vacuum being faster than in solids. In addition a satellite network could offer a more direct path (short distance) than intercontinental cables for many locations, further increasing performance.
China scraps construction of 85 planned coal power plants
Why you can’t let disaster recovery slide off your IT budget in 2017
>Without a real way to understand what's actually going on, you're just shooting at the darkness.

That's no more a reason to doubt spam links' effect than to doubt any other suspected metric, as all as "shooting in the darkness".

What are you gonna do, lie down and have the site end up as low as it can get? Sometimes you do need to fight in the dark, and gauge any changes you make from the reaction you get.

"I'm never going to say to myself "welp, our pagerank went down, time to use Google's weird tool to clean up the negative SEO attack again."" -- is not really an option.
Yes, of course I mean adjusted for actual volume played through the speakers [1]. In a quiet room (living room) the DT770s are great at low volume as well, but as soon as you add something like the office AC (white noise) the difference in lowest minimal volume where you can still hear all the detail is remarkable.

[1] Which for the DT770 is more bars on the iPhone, although I usually use a USB DAC/Amp to drive them.
The real "amp experience" is the reader mode in Firefox.
I don't think its racist for a French person to consider 'English' to not be a language proper. The French lady who made the comment made her case remarkably well.
Please, Carlin was one of the best comedians... And fuck me if he didn't swear his ass off.
> The job-market started being flooded by developers (most notably Java), that did not have any proper education anymore about the RDM. And the weird thing? They were somehow proud of it too.

Still see this today, its a bit shocking and sad. The developers are one thing, but working at a few startups and seeing the complete lack of "respect" for relational databases has been eye opening to say the least.
Our 'mind' is distributed across our organs too :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system
Can you tell me how I can get people to pay me to write articles on my personal blog? So far I've mainly written about my interests in machine learning and science, but as a graduate researcher an extra source of income would be great /s
You can still find it, I just successfully built it for Linux this morning. People already have it running on Raspberry Pis, a platform Opera never supported.
Something can be bulk and spam without being automated.
Chinese president to defend globalization in Davos
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Launch
Free services for a broken mobile startup
Nice backstory, factually incorrect.

Applauding with an audience is not a part of a communist leader repertoire. Neither Brezhnev, Khruschev nor Stalin applauded with an audience. They always accepted the ovations for themselves. I suspect it might be different in China, but even then it has less to do with a philosophical view on how history unfolds and more with demonstrating fake humility to the crowd.
Will 2017 Mark the Death of PaaS?
Nice post with tons of great resources, thanks!
Prople in my family get quite confused when trying to share links.
I think you would enjoy listening Jordan B. Peterson's comments on the links between evolution and the stories of the Bible. It is very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos
http://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/12/podcast/
I don't like AMP, and I very glad there is now some push back against Google's implementation of it. Fast pages are great, but I suppose I'm missing the background on why it was necessary to do this, when anybody who can implement AMP could presumably have implemented "lightweight non bloated pages" without using it.

It's bad enough that I've had to switch to using Bing on mobile, despite the worse results, and I'm actually genuinely fearful for the first time about the openness of the web.
The easiest way of killing spam is to hit the spam-button in Thunderbird. Spam is always spam and I have more fun things to do than find some unsubscribe button. That will only mark my email as active and give a better price when selling it further.
Couldn't they do a "touch /.autorelabel" and reboot the system?

I think that is a reasonable sacrifice considering you lost access to your system.
wow I haven't heard of TCL for years (excluding TCL/TK of course), I used to run a large patient management system across a hospital system that was built on TCL and ran on top of Solaris (5 from memory). While the software itself was antiquated for the time (2011~) it was pretty solid and fast despite running on relatively low spec hardware for the number of clients. I remember the 'upgrade' path was a Windows app that other than providing a more user friendly interface what was essentially providing the same functionality with the addition of a mouse curser required a hardware of a factor of something like at least 40 times the performance to run at a similar scale.
- Appreciating constructive feedback as an opportunity to learn, not to become defensive

- Taking to heart how chance plays a large role on short term success but doing things right plays a large role for long term success (playing backgammon taught me lot about this).

- Exploring the unwritten rules of small talk and common courtesy.

None of these have come naturally to to me, nor have I fully mastered them. I see them all as processes, not goals.

Also:

- Having kids. An everyday crash course in many things.
Data-ism and the changes in decision making
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1236431

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1271998
You can load media via the Ethernet connection but it is limited by the performance of the Ethernet interface (10/100).

We offer the USB loading method as a faster way especially for the first time when you want to load up your entire catalogue!
An idea for a programming book
Josh Kaufman's Annual Review
The filters are fun, too. It might sound weird, but my SO and I will sometimes just snapchat each other over the span of a couple hours with weird faces from the filters.

Partially because we're doing long distance at the moment, but a lot of it has to do with how fun the filters are—and they're always changing them, too!
GIMP – 2016 in review
Whoops! I misremembered in my post above, data rates on the VLA should have been around 20 MB/s not 10 GB/s, but I can't seem to edit my response above now.
A week ago I found http://apollo17.org/ which has an amazing presentation of the photos, videos, and audio that came out of the Apollo 17 mission.

Gene seemed like a really fun guy to go to the moon with.
> For example, the URL bar says they are on Google but they are reading a Slate article. The web is already confusing enough, and AMP makes it worse.

Well, that explains why they wanted Chrome to hide URLs[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693995
پکیج تور ارزان کیش ورود ۱ بهمن ۹۵
> It may also mean you’ll use your garage for something other than a car.

Clearly, the person who wrote this is not a Californian. In suburban California, garages are mostly used as storage lockers for the detritus of our consumer culture.
You should be able to get this from the city. For example, it looks like Portland has a website:

https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permits/NWC-1ST-SW-WASHI...

Title insurance companies also collect that information, so there should be a way for a motivated buyer to get a feed for the data.

Ignoring those, you could also ask the landlord for a copy of any recent building inspections. Smaller ones might not keep very good records, though. This is probably the easiest option.
You mean Switzerland of course? Elsewhere is a republic. They fare as differently as there are countries that employ it. And each has a different flavour.
iSkysoft Video Editor – Video Development in EASY Mode
Medium and the reason you can't stand the news anymore
We have a great kit for people new to Raspberry Pi. It includes high quality accessories (like the official Raspberry Pi worldwide power supply) and a getting started booklet.

We also throw in our Blinkt! addon board so you can do some GPIO connected projects right away.

It's not the cheapest kit but we believe it is the best!

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-starter-ki...
So we ban paypalsucks.com?
Samsung is a profitable company. This would potentially be a big economic problem if it they were cooking the books, but from what I've read that's not the case.
Yeah, I'm tired of not being able to load Reddit from Google SERPs on my phone. Really tired of it.

Time to give DuckDuckGo another try I guess...
Naturally they do.
Phone numbers are not always anonymous. In India and I am sure some other countries as well, you have to give a photograph and a government ID to get a SIM card. And that is why I am hesitant to use Signal: I want to talk to you but I am not sure if I should give you my number?
I was under the impression iMessage has end-to-end encryption?
I don't understand why AMP needs all the extra shenanigans. Why can't it just be an optional CDN by Google, transparent to the users?
A non-technical guide to staying safe online, for friends and family
I should have clarified that I looked around your blog and based on the other in-depth content there, I figured it was a genuine post. It was just that my first impression was that this might be native advertising -- which says more about how the rest of the internet is nowaways as opposed to anything about your writing style or blog content.
While I actually receive the same emails (today my LA machine will be rebooted at 11am UTC, like yours) and I hate it- they're correct in that they are following SLA.

SLA only covers things outside of maintenance windows. Normally this is fine because you can have a conversation about when the maintenance is; and get prepared for it.

This is not the case with vultr. They're more of the "do as you please" style of management, and they don't directly peer with any ISP- so.. not ideal for many people.

If you have the coin then I recommend joyent. But VPS's are an industry that are racing to the bottom and it's hard to justify the cost of $60/mo for something you can get for $5/mo with occasional outages and networking problems.

shrug You get what you pay for.
Google is abusing its powers. The search rank is our currency and Google has pushed AMP sites to the top for some while. So, everybody is now building weird AMP layers for their sites. We went from a free to a proprietary mobile web in just a few weeks. And we can't do anything. It feels like the times when the Internet Explorer tried to rule except that more people were complaining.

The open solution to a faster mobile web would have been so easy: Just penalize large and slow web pages without defining a dedicated mobile specification. That's it. This wasn't done in the past, slow pages outperformed fast ones on the SERPs because of some weird Google voodoo ranking, heck sometimes even desktop sites outperformed responsive ones on smartphones. If they had just tweaked these odd ranking rules in way that speed and size got more impact on the overall ranking there wouldn't have been any reason for AMP—the market would have regulated itself.

I'm wondering who at Google is responsible for AMP. Who created AMP's random specs (no external CSS but external fonts files, preference for four selected font providers, no JS but their JS, probable ranking preference of Google cached AMP sites, etc.). Why did they decide on the spec themselves and not as a part of an industry group? Again why didn't they just tweaked their ranking algorithm and btw, they could have also made Android's Chrome faster, it's still significantly slower than iOS' Safari. I'd be happy if this person could comment on the abuse of power (Sundar Pichai?).
I have - and I distinctly remember doing it myself as a small child and being corrected by my teacher. (I'm English by the way).
Have you checked your content blockers?
Who says it's a sign of poor judgement? Profanity only indicates a lack of respect if you're intentionally insulting someone, and believe me, there are plenty of ways to insult people without swearing.

If a team can't stomach a few "fucks" now and then, they probably can't tolerate an honest review of their code either. I've seen enough teams who'd rather give themselves a congratulatory circle-jerk than face the fact their code was a steaming pile of shit that was nigh on unmaintainable.
I'm not sure about the HN rules on this; shouldn't the title be "Show HN: [...]" when posting something you made yourself?
But how could you know what links are real and what are not if not even google knows it? If you are trying to get legin backlinks at the same time then this would be almost impossible.
At what price?

I've had my 15" MacBook Pro for 3 years now, it was top spec at the time (MBP15.4/2.3GHz/16GB RAM/512GB SSD from invoice) and cost me £2,199.

The new model, picking the highest spec (Touch Bar/2.7GHz/16GB RAM/512GB SSD) is £2,699. Totally not worth it.
But what will happen to support for the Theano backend?
Assuming the 10000 hour rule of gaining expertise and toning it down, because in a job you cannot just do deliberate practice for 10K hours :-), I guess a single fulfilling profession for 10 years, where you learn, become good enough to extract mileage out of it and then moving on to a new career, should be plausible.

Anyone out here who has done that, much like Tarzan, holding onto the one career while switching to another? I have not yet given this a deep thought, but it looks cool to have multiple professions in a one lifespan but am not sure how to do it. Or is it that as life/age happens and we just have to stick to 1 career/profession. Any thoughts appreciated.
As man who has been diagnosed with heart disease (as well as an alarming variety of other medical problems) I find myself quite unwilling to be appraised of the date and time of my death. Everyone dies. I am not one of those dogs who wants to live for ever. But even I, quite comfortable with the idea of my own mortality, do not want to watch the clock tick out the remaining hours, minutes, seconds of my life - let it remain a mystery. Unless of course you can fix the problem for a price, a very low price, which I can afford.
We probably have a dozen laptops, maybe more. All are PC's. A handful are for travel, which means they have smaller screens. All others have 17 inch screens.

A large number of PC laptop manufacturers don't seem to have any trouble selling the larger models. I'm sure it comes down to who and what they are being used for. My guess is that at least three of the categories are gaming, CAD and graphic arts.

Not sure why Apple can't justify making them. It is likely true that it is a smaller chunk of the overall market. Apple stopped making products for those pushing the limits a long time ago. They are a consumer electronics company looking for massive markets. It makes far more sense that they'd prefer to sell smaller sizes that might appeal to the vast majority of the users they want to capture.
Did your parents cuss while giving you hell, because that might be why you are cussing today. Also, do you have kids? Do you give them hell for whatever reason?
I like the final sentence. In order to be a superpower, you wouldn't need anyone to take notice. It would be apparent and obvious.
As a night-owl, I'm aware of the pain I have to go through to wake up in the morning and get into work.

Forcing the morning folk to stay at work later is not the solution, the solution is to use async communication as much as possible and allow for that where you can.

Most people can operate in silos, which is where the flexi-time idea comes from, core hours to do meetings and the other time to sit and work.

Shame flexi-time isn't as popular where I work.

(core hours are 9-5, so you can do 8-5 or 9-6... not very flexible)
> \shrug\ You get what you pay for.

Totally.

> SLA only covers things outside of maintenance windows.

Meh... I would disagree with that. If you are going to say you have a 100% SLA then to me that means that you have already solved the "maintenance window" problem. Every other VPS provider has a 99.999% uptime SLA specifically to address the maintenance window issue.

I realize that 100% uptime is not a thing, I am just annoyed that they advertise it.

> If you have the coin then I recommend joyent. But VPS's are an industry that are racing to the bottom and it's hard to justify the cost of $60/mo for something you can get for $5/mo with occasional outages and networking problems.

Thanks for the recommendation. Race to the bottom for sure. If the services hosted on my VPS actually mattered then I would not have a single point of failure :D
Modeling Paying Behavior in Game Social Networks[pptx]
Come on, if you take out of the map the biggest 6 companies of any country, they will be in deep trouble. Exceptions could be the US or China...

Every European country has it's handful of companies that have consolidated and by their supply chain drive a huge part of the economy.
Ask HN: How are game remasters made?
Do the devs need to rewrite the game? Or is the source code there and waiting to be compiled again with newly made graphics?

Obviously the answer is partly "it depends", but interested to hear some facts.
we wouldn't be in space at all if it weren't for the purpose of bragging.
Great stuff. I'm looking forward to 2.10. GIMP is my tool when I want to edit photos or create Christmas cards.

Even though I hear this quote ringing in my ear, and I can't seem to shake it, mainly because of who said it:

"Yet I think that a few programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, will always be superior to competitors like the Gimp—for some reason, I really don’t know why! I’m quite willing to pay good money for really good software, if I believe that it has been produced by the best programmers." [1]

[1] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Monitoring Thrift RPC Framework Using Netsil AOC
Looks like a nice toy to play with for vim users. I already want to write a macro for it
Democracy and Republic aren't mutually exclusive. I'd call rule of law with a democratic constitution (written or unwritten), political representation (direct or indirect), respect of human rights and civil rights to be the elements of modern liberal democracy.
Great share!
There has been always a lack of engineering ingredient from machine learning literature. This is a must read.
Given the choices, I'd much rather see legalized, but fully transparent political donations. That way, voters will at least know which of the parties are more prone to Chaebol influences.
It happens on my Firefox 52 on Debian. I also have ublock origin installed.

Maybe you use some strange fonts?
Tech people think, x means get me out of this experience. Regular people think close this "pop up" displaying where I clicked to cause this "pop up" to appear.
You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off.

This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.
its nice stuff
Engineering in software startups
Recalls an old blog post by antirez: http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html