skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes total sense. Thank you for responding!

We've pushed clients to competitors' products a few times, I was young and thought that was silly. However those clients spread the word about us and we didn't even have much of a marketing department, it was all word of mouth. Gaining their trust was gold and a really good long term investment.
Glad some people on HN still make jokes.

I mean, yes, world class Risk players ;-)
I did a really crappy version of this in undergrad years ago, also with 4 watts. I also projected pong onto skyscrapers in Atlanta. I have several videos of this at http://lasers.io
They should try Tak. :)
This might be a case of correlation, not causation.
My first thought is the huge untapped market. Nigeria alone has over half the population of the US.
I make music and sell it. Not very lucrative, but it's fulfilling. Do you think my career choice is relevant to my distrust of the western obsession with identity? :)
>offers free loads to homeless

...hot?
Perhaps that's why I use Linux or OSX for any serious work. Windows really fucked up the sound subsystem. I can't get anything outside of "7.1 output, maybe 1 or 2 channels in" to work without horrible hops and skips. Like Microsoft never thought I'd be trying to record 24 channels at once.
Call it what you will - I know the word "hiatus" puts people in a tizzy - the predictions made in the 90's did not correspond to the graph of what actually happened.

I have no idea how you would describe 2007-2008 as the most significant economic event of the previous years. It's a minor blip at most.

Maybe it's just because I'm not in the US right now, but to me this seems far more significant:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/web-...

This is also something pretty significant, and predicted quite nicely by economics: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a9c9410604877c7529d1ea...
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Because managers are part of the corporate power structure, and the corporate power structure is the biggest determinant in the nature of internal discourse.

Never forget that companies are people and structure. Either the people or the structure are to blame.
From the same pollsters that predicted he'll lose the elections time and again?
I love that game. The simplicity of it is amazing, but the depth that came out of it. Purest game of skill you can find.
I am not surprised Google Glass was a product way ahead if it's time. It can still be useful in closed environment like a factory floor. To be really successful in the consumer market it needed an AI capable of identifying every object it sees which we haven't reached yet. I am personally of the opinion that augmented reality is the future of computers rather than virtual reality. People keep pointing towards privacy as the reason it was not successful which is I feel is wrong. They don't have the tech yet of making it truly useful in the consumer market.
Is it possible things will change? Of course. I was just trying to illustrate that, unlike Parse and Facebook, Firebase has a clear relationship with core Google businesses.

We will never be able to fully dispell these worries, but I think there's pretty strong evidence in support of Firebase's prospects. Our developers will have to judge if the value we deliver is higher than the small-but-non-zero chance of it going away.

I certainly think it is, but I'm pretty biased. :)
The only option mere mortals can get their hands on is Win 10 EDU, which has to be downloaded through schools IIRC. (enterprise isn't an option for us individual types) EDU can be managed with Group Policy, like Enterprise. Apparently Group Policy is the only way to configure it to stop snooping.
Meanwhile Snowden allegedly got access to classified info by convincing 20 people he needed their passwords for his job as sysadmin.
Their M100 model seems to be on sale, with the M300 up for preorder.
On Windows, you can change the presence of ads in Explorer to suit yourself also.
Here's a start:

http://wiki.c2.com/?ChessIsLife
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Your first example is based on moral philosophy, not sociology.

Your other two examples - as you note - are based on an explicit prediction. Now the question arises - are sociological predictions any good?

You can't simultaneously claim sociology is descriptive, and therefore can't be judged on it's predictions, and then turn around and use it's predictions to describe it as useful.
The number of responses to this post broadly implicating macroeconomics as psuedoscience are pounding nails into their own coffins considering macroeconomics and the applications of the study tend to be sociological in nature. There's no psuedoscience behind microeconomic analysis of market interactions at the lower levels; they very well model how markets, businesses, exchanges of value, etc operate.
I'm ~2200 and I wouldn't say it helps me much in everyday life.
I don't exactly have the surface book, I have the surface pro 3, but I'm able to dual boot with Xubuntu and Mint without too much trouble. Of course, it wouldn't be Linux if wifi wasn't tricky to set up, but touch works, Bluetooth works, the detachable keyboard also works.
We've gotten quite attached to the random login screen pictures in our house. At some point they started adding textual explanations after you clicked so you could read a little about what you were looking at. I was surprised how disappointed I was yesterday when instead of the usual explanations it was an ad for some Adobe product. I'm used to ads in the browser but this was personal somehow.
Thanks for the overwhelming support guys. The entire code is also available on github at https://github.com/viewportvr/daysinvr

You can also ask me any questions, if you have any.
You can easily find an overwhelming number of projects similar to what you describe on Github and across the web.

The problem is that Microsoft is constantly adding and/or changing the options, settings, registry keys, etc., and they don't exactly publish a nicely compiled, authoritative list of all of them.

The folks writing these scripts (or even just documenting the settings) are working by trial and error, reverse engineering, and so on, to find the relevant knobs to tweak and switches to flip to get rid of these "features".

If they do manage to get lucky and come up with a working solution, it's out-of-date as soon as the next update drops.

Like you, this advertising isn't a problem for me. I was introduced to Linux in 1995 and it's been my primary operating system (along with a few OS X "phases") since then. I have friends and family, however, who can't switch (for various reasons), and so it still annoys me to no end that Microsoft does this kind of stuff.
The writer got absolutely roasted in that article. LOL.

“Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you.”

(why does HN still not support decent formatting)
Wow, thanks. Already had a rough year with Apple. My MBP is about a year old and Apple already had to give me a new display and logic board for it!

I wanted to ditch my iPhone and Macbook this year. I still may after I do some more research on an encrypted Linux setup.
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I'm excitedly telling someone about this and reading the comments on the ars website where people say this was done before in the military and the thought suddenly came to me that we really need to find more excuses to play games like this in our tech jobs.

Is there some kind of training we need that awesome board games could help with?
How do I program something like this?
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Don't you have to worry about the route changing during a TCP connection, causing the destination physical server to change, severing the connection?
An Elo score of 1500 is not considered being "really good" at chess.

In real life, you have to make choices. Some choices preclude certain futures while enabling others. Sometimes you can make a sacrifice now in order to "win" later. Etc.

I am not saying that memorizing complex mating patterns for example can be directly transposed to real life decision making. Rather, realizing these exist, and appropriating the patterns of thought that make such analyses possible is what is beneficial.

You are right that we aren't "built to exhaustively analyze game trees", but this is precisely what makes learning chess a good thing: you get to train your mind to do that. Transposing that skill in real life is, I believe, beneficial.
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At least I'm not the only one...
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I can just picture some girl I know saying, 'that Zuckerberg is a real creep. OMG. He literally follows me everywhere.'
My instincts feel that way, but Apple Music announced they crossed 20 million paid users in 12/2016, 40% of Spotify's 50+ million. Anecdotally, discover weekly is a tremendous hit.

Makes you wish for functional public capital markets so we knew the real story.
Speaking of Steve Jobs, I assume most people around here have seen this clip but it seems especially a propos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJWWtV1w5fw

One of my favorite things about this clip is the historical context: pre-iPod, pre-iPhone, pre-Apple revival.
'Sync provider notifications' sounds like a useful API for cloud file services such as Dropbox or Drive to be able to communicate with the user. If that's what is actually for, and some other part of ms thought it might be a good place to push OneDrive, it will probably have the unfortunate effect of people turning off an otherwise useful part of windows.
Michael A. Wood Jr.'s story [0] is salient, as is his one of his proposed partial solutions to meaningful police culture reform: open, civilian governance. [1]

0: https://youtu.be/u5nPyf-0UMc

1: https://youtu.be/FZIrIMppCrg
Wow this is amazing. It really shows how powerful the app store has become.
I have Windows 10 Pro AND an Office 365 subscription and the damn thing showed up for me.
While I use and enjoy quite a few Microsoft products, I feel like there are just some baffling, ill thought out, and ham-fisted mistakes going on there with how these ads are being pushed out. They look tacky and I can only imagine they're doing more harm than good.

For example, the ads for Edge that now show up touting that you can stream longer with Edge. Really? I don't know anyone that that would convince to stop using Chrome. How about maybe something more basic like changing the logo, since every non-technical user that I know just thinks it's Internet Explorer and it's been pounded into their brains for years (and for good reason) to use Firefox or Chrome instead.
> ... but this isn't doing that ...

Yet.
My mom already had OneDrive installed and it was pestering her. I don't know what they want me to do. I went in and turned the notification off, but 98% of people won't know to do that and will accept a shitty aspect of the user experience.
Most of this already exists in tronscript:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/comments/5y2we4/tron_v10...

Edit: and also on blackbird: http://www.getblackbird.net/screenshots/
That sounds better than an interview, but a written test is not representative of many types of work. In most kinds of work you'd have days to work on a topic, access to reference materials, the ability to discuss with colleagues and ask for help, etc.

Test results probably do correlate with job performance, and it may be better than an interview (not sure) but it's say it's still quite a long way from giving an accurate answer.
The current hype of not treating people like rational actors - pop-science people citing Tversky and Kahenman, for example - is rooted in what is not controversial at all for anyone who truly grasped basic economics, so-called "behavioral economics."

It is no surprise to any classical economist that actors do not always act rationally and the foundation of microeconomics is not built on the unstable platform of assuming that everyone IS rational; but rather that treating actors AS rational is a just and fair way to act while also removing sources of bias.

It does not mean that rules on how to approach people should NOT be modified via analysis of behavior, but rather that a priori we should assume people act rationally in their own self-interest as a first principle and go from there, not assume that everyone is irrational and create a ten million line case/switch statement.
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What always boggled my mind was escaping data on the input side. Yet once it was quite popular. PHP even had option to do it automatically. What a weird idea. You escape data to prevent mistaking it for code whenever you use them in some context. You don't know the context when receiving the input.
A bit of interesting history about the es-345 Marty used to play Chuck Berry's Johnny be good in back to the future: http://bit.ly/2mHQzFG

Spoiler: The guitar also traveled through time
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Do you not see ideology in the statements on the economics department's page?
There's no limit to the amount of success you can achieve if you set the bar low enough!
Thanks for telling me, it looks like Debian is using GDAL v1...
Have you written up your experience with building out the anycast CDN? That would be extremely interesting!
Very strange that the deleterious effects of artificial light extending the day aren't even mentioned. The evidence keeps mounting, we now know that pRGCs exist, but the old assumptions persist. One isolated tribe in New Zealand I believe it was had wonderful health - until a hydro damn was sited there, and they were given free electricity. Diet matters, but light affects appetite, so what you eat will change as your light exposure changes.
>Keeping people in your ecosystem is important.

What if the ecosystem they want is iPads and iPhones?
PipelineDB (YC W14) has a lot of similarities to the technology described in this paper, and is open-source: https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb

Disclaimer: I worked at Truviso; I know the PipelineDB guys but I'm not affiliated with the company.
That's great.

Here's why most people don't: they like editing Word documents, using Bluetooth, playing AAA games, printing and scanning, connecting to external monitors, watching DVDs, and transferring files from their phones.
Indeed; I switched to Mac for 6 months after getting sick of trying to get things to work how I want them and be stable, on windows or Linux. Ended up being Just as fiddly, and needing to reboot at least once per week due to some kernel item chewing through increasing CPU. back on windows now; not perfect, but good enough for now.

My conjecture is that my hatred for any system will increase the more I use it, to the point of switching to another system, then the cycle repeats.
It's actually a much better analogy than you think. Machine learning (which is at least a significant part of AI) requires a certain 'critical mass' of computing power and learning data before it becomes powerful. We had neuron models in the 90s that were roughly equivalent to what we have today and they were deemed largely useless, just like the uranium in the article. All that changed was the data and compute power available.

As for 'critical mass', a defining characteristic of consciousness is that it's self-referential, so that seems like a fair guess.
The vast majority of these quotes are discussing what is basically a psuedoscience - and no better than sociology - which is macroeconomics. There is little to complain about when discussing and analyzing the science of economics as it regards market analysis and deconstruction of how people trade stores of value. It is in the application of public policy and cherry-picked public analysis that it tends to become nonsense.
It is highly likely than the company's PR agency is the one that writes this kind of articles.
The Amazon echo has a pretty good microphone array, and it still has a hard time picking up my commands if there's background noise. And the background noise in factories is extreme. Notice that in the article's photos, the operator is wearing earplugs with Glass.
No, it's my firewall setup.
I blocked ICMP for security reasons on my servers (:
Several years ago I was trying to solve the problem of voice recognition in a noisy environment. After brainstorming with some colleagues, we came up with the idea of using a throat mike. The only problem was that we couldn't find reasonably priced hardware that would work with commodity computers.
Yes!

CNAME is a solution looking for a problem.

Just use A records, everything is just better that way.
We had an (recent) iMac that just kept randomly crashing. Apple replaced most of the parts inside it, and it kept doing it. Eventually they have us new one. Kudos for that; random errors are a pain to diagnose and fix, but they did.
>"the allocation of scarce resources to greatest effect"

I'd say this is the goal of macroeconomics, not the entire discipline. And the application of economic public policy tends to be as psuedoscientific and bias-laden as sociology.

I say this as someone who is strongly educated in economics and worked as a private economist; I have a lot of love for the field in general.

EDIT: The goal of economics, broadly, I think is simply analyzing the allocation of scarce resources across a wide variety of market methods and conditions. Ascribing prescriptive behavior is not something at least half of the discipline is interested in.
Spotify has partnered with telecoms, newspapers, and others to provide bundled subscriptions -- inflating their "paid" subscriber amount.

A good chunk of those 50m aren't paying $10/mo; they've expanded their partnerships (in part) to inflate that number.
I'm not totally sure that it's correct to group the artist with people who think lazily about AI. If the artist was trying to literally suggest that this trap would work, then, yeah, that would be silly and misinformed. But I think he was just being cheeky and using this as an example of a rule outside of its context being rendered meaningless (which is explicitly declared to be the point of the work). That in itself is a worthwhile point in a deeper way (because your model always fails when you hit outliers you haven't trained for), and I kind of liked that the visual form was of a car-summoning ritual.

Or maybe the artist is just a lazy anti-AI person and I am giving him too much credit. But I wouldn't say it's a foregone conclusion.
Ah, makes sense. The article's photo even seems to show the operator using those controls. The article mentioned voice commands specifically though, so I was reacting to that.
I prefer DRM-free stores and musicians who release there.
Now you've got two problems.
Is this not the main criticism leveled at big press outlets during Obama's administration? That they were too easy on reporting and justified it by saying you need to be to get the scoops.
If anyone thinks Spotify has leverage over record labels, I would challenge you to compare Spotify's operating losses year over year VS. Apple Music's operating losses year over year.
Your comment doesn't address what I said. I did not claim that being non-humble was "evil", and effectiveness is orthogonal.
Do you need 1000 days of training to properly dress hair? Because that's the average training required to acquire the license.
> "Because once you sell those 7%, you’ve spiritually already sold all of it to the God of Growth. You don’t get to take it back. You won’t even think to. This will be your world. Make sure this is really where you want to live."

There's some good advice here, about reflecting on your motivations and pursuing a more relaxed business model if that's what you want. But the quote above sounds incredibly over dramatic. Going through an accelerator program takes a few months out of your life, and you get a lot of advice on how to "go big" if you decide to pursue that path. If you decide otherwise, well, no one can stop you. You haven't given up control over your company. Worst case scenario, you spend a couple months exposed to a different perspective on how to grow your business, and can choose to ignore it completely if you so desire. Doesn't sound all that bad to me.
So do I, but the ones on Spotify sound a lot better. Unfortunately, I'd bet most people favor listening to the music they want over supporting the digital freedoms they endorse.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-hous...
I prefer the convenience of having access to an effectively unlimited music library, on demand, for a flat cost per month.

I can see how it would be a fun hobby to curate your own collection, but for me it's really hard to beat services like Spotify, Steam, Netflix - DRM or not.
> That's a major exaggeration.

It's an opinion shared by many. Including myself.

Personally, for my gaming box I've moved back to Win 7. When 7 completely runs out of support, hopefully I've lost interest in the Windows only games.

Everything else either runs OSX (desktop), or various BSD.
I'm curious to know if there is a correlation between climate change deniers and playing outside as well.
Assuming they're on a network you control, probably around as hard as upside-down ternet.

Wait, what if you were to redirect the download links for the automatic updates to a Linux installer? Assuming Microsoft's security is still as lax as it was during the XP era, you could get this to work without much difficulty.
> It is no surprise to any classical economist that actors do not always act rationally and the foundation of microeconomics is not built on the unstable platform of assuming that everyone IS rational; but rather that treating actors AS rational is a just and fair way to act while also removing sources of bias.

No, economics is a predictive social science, not a system of moral philosophy; the rational choice model has nothing to do with how it is just and fair to treat people. It was the dominant model because despite being self-evidently not fundamentally correct (it assumes a number of things, like perfect knowledge of future outcomes, that no one believes to be literally true or even plausible) it was believed to be an approximation that would predicted results better than any alternative model available at the time, in general and in a wide array of specific cases.
Can you elaborate on that? What are their losses?
So, I see this argument over and over again with re: to Google, but what I've never seen is Google closing shop on anything in their GCE offering. This certainly doesn't mean it's not possible, but I'm not sure comparing the discontinuation of one-off products to any of the GCE offerings is fair.

It's absolutely possible I'm being naive here - just one person's take on the situation.
Right, except in terms of neologizing I was referring to contexts where many individual texts are trying to establish a new term. So if you are trying to parse Science Fiction texts, yes there are "terms of art" that don't appear outside of that field (eg. "blaster"), but often there are terms that don't appear anywhere else, not even in other works by the same author.

Other pathological cases are business books trying to coin a term or twist existing words into new meanings (eg. "cloud"), verbing nouns (incentivize), nouning verbs (likes, learnings), and so on.
Jawbone Bluetooth headsets actually contact your jaw to use the conducted vibrations to cancel background noise, similar to your idea. Disclosure: I worked on their first generation Bluetooth headset. I'm not certain the current generations still work this way.
But advertising/"telemetry" preferences seem to accidentally get reset every few forced upgrades.
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Sweet! How many people are contributing?
OP claims that the same other wrote a "worry about it" piece a year before.

https://mobile.twitter.com/wellerstein/status/84169090329099...

So basically, clickbait through the ages.