skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So make a service that emails people their saved albums. Send monthly incremental updates. Their backup storage will be their inbox, and restoring the data to a new service will be a couple hours manual clicking and typing.

The hard part is explaining to our mothers that their music app might become unavailable, that they should care about this, and that they should take action to mitigate the effects.

But on the other hand, consumers get locked in all the time, and civilization hasn't collapsed yet.
I wonder if Stripe could now cover their operational costs in a form of a loan and process payments from now on. Would be a great PR move.
A utility for running exhaustiveness checks on “sum types” in Go
I really don't think there's much difference between learning as an adult or a teenager. It's just that we have less time.

A few months ago I wanted to learn to appreciate and listen to classical music. I woke up an hour earlier every morning and read a book, listened to an audio course (Robert Greenberg's How to Listen to and Understand Great Music), and listened to actual music then and throughout the day. A few months later I can recognize the structure of most pieces and if the composer "broke the rules" (and why). I can't read music or tell which note is which (yet!) but I made a lot of progress.

Unless it's a particularly difficult subject, simple daily practice and learning goes a long way.
Perhaps, but they'll be available at all, and the device will be repairable.

I don't even mind that modern appliances break so often; it's the fiddly plastic bits and lack of parts that are the problem. Give us something made of metal with some screws and the damn thing can probably be fixed.

(re: the article topic, this is another thing that's kept me away from automobiles for the past twenty years)
Points, lines, and planes (1988)
Except that without knowing those useless trivia you won't even have the
chance to draw connections and associations between them, which is essential
for working with these "larger ideas" of yours. No, search engines won't make
up for simple lack of knowledge. You have to know what to search for in the
first place.
good question ...it would be very easy to fix such a problem.
I'm excited to see what new ways companies will find to call a bunch of if-statements "AI".
This discussion is useless without knowing how much those appliances cost compared to ones today. My wife and I just bought a house (after more than a decade of renting) and for the first time were in the market for a washer/dryer. I was expecting to have to spend a few thousand dollars, but turns out that you can get a washer and dryer under $1,000 at a big box store!

I suspect the market has optimized for low acquisition cost, and longevity is a side-effect. People these days move more, rent for longer before buying a house, and remodel their houses more often. I wouldn't be surprised at all if manufacturers were incentivized to make cheaper units that can be replaced every 10 years when the "start to look dated" rather than ones that last 50 years.
Oh please. Jeff Jones knew what he was signing up for.

To paraphrase Chris Rock, "that Uber didn't go crazy; that Uber went Uber"
I distinctly remember when McDonalds reduced the size of the buns. I don't remember the exact time (early 00s perhaps?), but I do remember being pissed off. A typical corporate "reduce costs" manoeuvre, but I guess you couldn't expect any less of McDonalds.
If you mean "1 Hire an investment banker or broker (1 month)"

then the article is saying that's the usual process to avoid.
Thank you for that. That makes a lot more sense. I admit my source for the combining was 言葉マン on NHK and I may have misunderstood some things :-).
Just to give a bit more detail with a blockchain you need some way to limit who can create a new block since you can change history by building a chain on an earlier block if you can create as many blocks as you want. In public networks this is hard since people can create as MD Danny accounts as they want so PoW which limits who can submit by resource usage or something similar is needed. In a private network you know all the participants so you can achieve the same result with something as simple as round robin.
Would anti-SLAPP laws be able to protect these former workers, or would those not apply since they have signed non-disparagement documents.
I'd love to see a store that sells buy-it-for-life style products that are probably more expensive up front but also built to last, all with robust warranties so you know the claims are backed up. A place you could go into and know everything in there was good. If you wanted the cheapest you'd go somewhere else but man, I'd shop there.

They could do appliances (stuff like SpeedQueen washers), hand and garden tools, kitchen stuff like pots and pans and knives... just anything that's solid and lasts and doesn't require ridiculous maintenance to make it so.

Sometimes now I'd be willing pay more but either I can't even find the stuff that isn't cheap junk, or I just can't tell what's going to break and what isn't.
Cool. Good important work.
https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest - 8k stars
don't look any further, I bought a 3k washer and dryer combination from LG 4 years ago. It boasted a ten year warranty!

the paint, drum, motor, finish, everything looks like new. But, the controller board burned.

I know my way around electronics, mind you, I can see exactly what is wrong (burned transformer), but the whole board is covered in some gelatin that makes any repair impossible.

the power input board is also water proofed with the usual epoxy that you can chip away and do your repair. but the controller board gelatin thing makes it impossible!

oh, and that board not only is NOT covered by the ten year warranty (only the drum and motor) but not a single place carry it. even LG cannot provide me that part for any money in the world. discontinued they say. after 4 years.

if anyone want to pick it up and drive the pristine electronics with an Arduino, msg me. machine is in socal though.
A few people might have intentionally used the mobile version because it loads faster for them or more readily presents the information they wanted. I'm not sure I can think of a site that I currently use that way, but I think I've seen people do it in the past.
I always had this dream of starting a company where my disruption to whatever industry, say home appliances, or cars, isn't that I'm doing something new, per say, its that I'm engineering everything the company would sell with DIY easy access fixes in mind, and actually publish (and ship with the product) the repair manual so people can just order the parts (with some margin, nothing crazy i'd think) and be on their way. Sell it to the self reliant, tinkers, and generally just people who hate to pay the high cost of repairs on things.

I wonder, truly, if this would be successful. I have no way of even wrapping my head around how to get something like that off the ground.

I think if someone designed and shipped a car, for instance, that was completely serviceable by the owner and designed with that in mind first and for most, you could easily disrupt the car market for a very broad amount of people today.
I keep it in check now, but it has taken years. What was instrumental:
- discovering something I really love to do, programming
- realizing what my procrastination always happens when I don't understand what is expected of me

Taking these into account, I set up some nets:
- started a therapy to work on the why
- before starting a task, I try to identify all unknowns before running into them. If it comes from me and is not discovered while trying to accomplish the task, it's easier to overcome, and often not an issue at all
- I work in programming, so I have a very high incentive to do all chores quickly so that I can go back doing something I love (not always effective!)
- my coworkers/family know me and often check with me my progress on whatever I need to do for them
- I know how I procrastinate and try to justify it to myself, so when I catch myself doing it I start identifying explicitly what I am avoiding and what would unlock me, even if I can't stop procrastinating on the spot. When I regain control of myself later, I know what to do and its easier.
- I ask help when I am stuck for more than one week, and people has always helped me, for instance by doing the one bit I can't. Just speaking is rarely enough at that point
- I try to sleep at least 6 hours a night, I love so much having energy and a working brain
- I emphasis the positive consequences of my actions
- I choose to procrastinate when I am too tired, I won't be able to do something of quality anyways, so I can enjoy these moments almost guilt free

So in short, reflect on what is triggering your procrastination, and create various safety nets to catch yourself. If you have a problem solving mindset, it's quite fun to "solve" yourself.
Try also to discover some solid ground within yourself, so you can use it. For instance, I can't stand boredom and if I procrastinate for too long, I get so much bored I am willing to do anything to stop feeling it, even doing what I was supposed to do.
> if you iterate over a Go string using "range", you get 32-bit "runes"

It's often easier to use that for-loop with a break to look at the first character of such a string, as in...

package main
import "fmt"
func main(){
str:= "我是一个人"
for _, r:= range str {
fmt.Printf("%c\n", r)
break
}
}

Doing a str[0] prints the first utf8 byte of the string ("æ") instead of the whole character. The name of the official function is difficult to remember, and you have to put an import at the top...

import "unicode/utf8"
...
r, _:= utf8.DecodeRuneInString(str)
Do many people actually have a "desire for more features" or are most features just being crammed in in a bid to differentiate refrigerator A from refrigerator B?

Personally I usually perfer the least features possible mainly because more features = more stuff to break.
DNSSEC changes nothing about this particular issue. DNSSEC prevents (in theory) malicious third parties from injecting false data. Registrars and TLD operators retain exactly the powers they had status quo ante.
I think parts of it can be solved, by centralizing education. In my opinion Berlin (as well as Hamburg and Bremen) really does not need its own Kultusministerium, money saved there can directly be sent to schools. Maybe also the funding for schools could come from federal sources to a higher degree, but I do not know the exact situation.

Btw, the state you live in is called Baden-Württemberg.
Dartmouth is in New Hampshire, and neighboring VT has Middlebury, ME has Bowdoin, Bates and Colby and MA has Williams, all in rural environments.
Does Intel have a vk driver?

AFAIK, they only have a Linux one, but only for Broadwell and newer. Do you know something about the Windows driver?
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".
Miele is here, but they're known for vacuums and dishwashers, mainly. The Miele laundry appliances have tiny capacities compared to everything else sold in the US. My assumption is that Europeans wash clothes more frequently, in smaller batches.

Years ago, I bought a Miele dishwasher with cutlery rack; it was incredibly good. Other people have had mixed experiences. Service is difficult to find for Miele.
Storage Search is the best rabbit hole on the subject of RAM SSD that comes to mind. http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-ram.html

I mean, how else would you get 80 MB/sec? http://web.archive.org/web/20010613164621/http://www.mncurti...
I keep pointing out that Bucky Fuller calculated that we could pretty much take care of everyone on Earth while working ten hours a week if we just applied the technology we have in an efficient manner. (By the mid-1970's he claimed.)
Tis already happening. http://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-already-dec...
Stripe doesn't support Serbia.
Absolutely. It makes me cringe when the Pi-class processors get referred to as microcontrollers. They are most definitely not.

If they don't have RAM and ROM on the actual chip, and need an operating system for you to do anything with them, then they're microprocessors.

The SoC cost is not a way to differentiate them either, one of our current designs uses an 8-bit microcontroller than costs more than the Pi Zero!
IPython magic to use mypy within Jupyter notebook cells
I'm interested in this per my earlier discussion on machine learning in radiology (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571847). It's disappointing that you have to be in the Bay Area to participate. I'm just starting residency and don't have the time to drop everything and enroll in an incubator. I think I'm one of the few people with a master's degree in computer science and (soon) to have a medical degree. I can handle the technical and medical sides of a radiology informatics / machine learning business, but I'd need someone to manage the business, marketing and sales sides.
For another good article for programmers on Unicode, see this brilliant and excellent article by Joel Spolsky at https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
At the time I went to the state college I went to. People were paying for school almost completely out of pocket working minimum wage jobs and staying at home with their parents.

A pell grant plus a minimum loan can pay for someone to go to a two year college. In my state, if they work hard enough during the first two years, get a 3.0 GPA they can get their tuition paid at any state college to finish their four year degree.

Of course they can get all four years paid if they did well in high school. But students are still racking up debt to go to private schools and go out of state.
It concerns me as well.

But jobless people are a resource that entrepreneurs will find a way to utilize for profit. It's not that the technology will require new kinds of work, but that idle people will enable new kinds of companies.

I think that Uber/Lyft/Prime Now/etc were enable because of high unemployment / low participation rates.
What AnkiDroid cards do you use?
Looks like a nightmare for trying to adjust anything while driving as well. At least it's got a couple of real control knobs I guess.
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True, but it does not follow from them being number-crunching machines; that is not a useful characterization in this context.
As much as I disliked my time spent with perl several decades ago, the terseness did allow for some impressive "stunts" due to the amount of moving parts one ~80x40 window of code could present to the coder.

God help anyone trying to read that stuff after the fact.
I think you're misunderstanding macro-economic deflation vs. technology advancing.

Mass production and technological advancement reduce prices, sure, but whole economic deflation makes debt's real value increase, basically exponentially punishing people holding debt while favoring lenders, where as inflation obviously does the opposite. So, the majority of people with a mortgage, car or student debt get screwed during a deflationary event.
Isn't it so difficult to grasp that you need a blockchain only and only if you want to avoid trusting someone in a (meaningful) transactional system? And you're ready to pay the price.
Keith Packard also did a number of talks at linux.conf.au over the years about various bits and pieces of the machine
You didn't really answer my question, but I think the answer can be inferred: A law Uber finds unuseful is any law that costs them money. Why do you trust Uber with this power? Why would you trust _any_ corporation with this kind of power? They are not and will never be your ally. They are only out for themselves. Laws at least are meant to apply to everyone. You may agree with their individual decisions, or you may be against the individual laws they choose to violate, but the overall idea of "it's OK for them to break the laws I agree are bad" doesn't work when they start breaking ones you _don't_ agree are bad. You cannot and should not give them that kind of trust.
Do people still listen to Limbaugh? He's on in the middle of the day in any market I've ever been in so he was never even competing for either of the drive times for me. I moved completely to podcasts a few years ago anyway.
How far along are you with the guitar? I bought mine in 1996 and have been trying to learn it on and off since then. I still don't know a single song, other than the little toy songs in the Hal Leonard books (and only if I have the books in front of me). It's incredibly frustrating.

I bought a second guitar a few years ago to keep at work and I use it during times when I need a break. Even though all I do are scales and nursery rhymes, it's still pretty relaxing.

I've had two different teachers, I've used games like Rocksmith, I've done online self-study courses (Justin Sandercoe seems like a wonderful person), bought the sheet music for my favorite records, etc...

My kids, on the other hand, made progress on their instruments (piano and violin) unbelievably quickly.
Windows 10 is nowhere in the Top 50?
No, in my case, the axle, steering, and bumper sank into the snow and were encased. The motor simply did not have enough torque to turn the wheels. To get out, I had to excavate the entire front of the truck and then dig out a path for the front wheels to roll backwards.
Thats always the assumption isn't it? That they already did the research and found no demand for x.

I think if I have learned anything from Silicon Valley though its this: Never assume that these assumptions are categorically true, or that they were undertaken with due diligence.

Perhaps it is true, and there is not enough interest in this to justify it happening. What if, though, they didn't do the market research properly? Or steadfastly, it actually didn't happen at all?
Trump is tame compared to Indian  prime minister Narendra Modi
I got the sense the same situation exists for pilots when I read about Germanwings flight 9525.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
Hi kolbe, have you seen this research paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature1...

They train a model that translates signals from the motor cortex to directly stimulate the patient's forearm muscles. It is the first case of a quadriplegic man being able to control his arm directly with his mind.
Mozilla has https://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/

Feel free to contribute!
Given the OpenAI initiative and the explicit intention of "democratizing" AI, it seems they're interested in funding application, not more research.

I think the results seen from deep learning along with recent developments in commodity hardware(GPUs have made major leaps in the past two years) to run them in a reasonable amount of time has kicked off a frenzy. IMO it does seem a little overhyped in the same way the internet was -- its a tool that enables ideas beyond our imagination, so VCs throw money at companies on a dart board hoping one takes off. In the end, the internet was a revolution but it wasn't as quick as everyone thought.

TL;DR - AI is becoming a tool that can be used by anyone.
Architecture: Designing a News Reader iOS App in Swift
Miele is available, though not at more commodity stores like Best Buy. We replaced our awful 3-year-old waste of a dishwasher for a Miele and have been happy. In terms of cost, the original (Electrolux?) was like $800 and the Miele was maybe $1100. But the Miele has less capacity and is louder. Which I'm OK with in exchange for reliability and sound construction, but if we hadn't gotten such a lemon before I might have had a harder time justifying it to myself. When my fridge finally dies, I'm sure before its 10th birthday, I'll probably replace it with a Miele.
Yes! I absolutely agree. The store could also offer repair services. (Gasp!) I wonder where a market for such a store would exist, though.
My fellow engineers in the early 80s used to collect so many free databooks that we joked we heated our houses by burning them.
I haven't left yet, but like a lot of people in here I've left the "high end" game in favour of something a little cushier. In fact I'm actually back at Uni part time studying something completely unrelated in the hopes of eventually getting out all together.

So basically I left the Service Provider realm, and moved into local government doing predominantly SysAdmin work. It's pretty good, I get paid more than what I should, long contracts, lots of leave and entitlements, and they don't care if I duck down the street for an hour or two here and there to go to lecture or tutorial. I still read HN because there's useful info from time to time, and getting into fights in the comments is always fun and somewhat beneficial to what I'm studying.

Reason for the change in my case is I've simply got no interest in technology. The only reason I wound up in IT in the first place was because I got a free TAFE course on it, which lead to a job. Without tooting my horn to much, I'd say I'm pretty good at what I do, but I just don't care at all about it.
> Every person for themselves decides which law they should obey and which ones they should break.

Corporations are not people. And even if we're only talking about Kalanick, while one may choose what laws to break or not, that doesn't exclude one from prosecution for laws one has broken. You don't get to pick and choose like that.

Your basic proposition here is that rules you don't like shouldn't have to apply to you. Society cannot function that way.
Yeah, but not if Trump gets rid of our cash too and replaces it with higher denominations with his face all over it.
In Buffett's case he doesn't dig into accounting minutiae much because he if trying to buy businesses worth several times what he pays on a discounted cash flow basis and the accounting minutiae don't affect that much. Where he has screwed up it's been because the basic economics didn't work such as at Dexter shoes where they couldn't keep up with Chinese competition.

Likewise with internet stuff what counts is whether you bought facebook or friendster. The accounting minutiae not so much.
Geohot’s new automated-driving device can only be redeemed by coughing up data
No, America was rural before rail and the highway systems, as was the rest of the world. America has gotten progressively less rural since its founding as fewer people have had to be directly engaged in farming.
Do you have a site about your project?

I'm interested in synths (and teensies) and would be interested to see it.
I remembered it wrong too. Not even OpenGL ES 3.2 is mandatory, only if you claim that the device is capable of high-perfomance VR. Otherwise, OpenGL ES 2.0 is fine (but 3.1 lib and stub symbols must be available).

Source: Android 7.1 Compatibility Definition Document

Chapter 7.1.4:

Device implementations MUST support both OpenGL ES 1.0 and 2.0, as embodied and detailed in the Android SDK documentations. Device implementations SHOULD support OpenGL ES 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2 on devices capable of supporting it.

Chapter 3.3.1:

Note that device implementations MUST include libGLESv3.so and in turn, MUST export all the OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack function symbols as defined in the NDK release android-24. Although all the symbols must be present, only the corresponding functions for OpenGL ES versions and extensions actually supported by the device must be fully implemented.

Chapter 3.3.1.1:

Device implementations, if not including support of the Vulkan APIs:

- MUST report 0 VkPhysicalDevices through the vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices call.

- MUST NOT delare any of the Vulkan feature flags PackageManager#FEATURE_VULKAN_HARDWARE_LEVEL and PackageManager#FEATURE_VULKAN_HARDWARE_VERSION .

Chapter 7.9.2:

Android handheld device implementations MUST identify the support of high performance virtual reality for longer user periods through the android.hardware.vr.high_performance feature flag and meet the following requirements.

...

- Device implementations MUST support OpenGL ES 3.2.

- Device implementations MUST support Vulkan Hardware Level 0 and SHOULD support Vulkan Hardware Level 1.

....