skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's capable of implementing and understanding many of the most fashionable tools in AI, I don't know what to do with the current economy. I think there is far too much attention being paid to the pie-in-the-sky research, and even though wealthy investors think the things that they don't understand and I do are capable of accomplishing things that they think can be accomplished and I don't, the problem is that they want to pay people like me to chase their dream. And while I do love money, I also love the idea of living a meaningful and fulfilling existence by pursing technologies that will advance mankind.

Can other people who've actually seen real promise in their AI research chime in and help convince me that we are actually on the precipice of something meaningful? Not just more classification problems and leveraging the use of more advanced hardware to do more complicated tasks.
Who went to jail for this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating
Brain plasticity and learning "power" aside, I believe the biggest difference between learning something as a child and as an adult is simple how conscious we are that we're trying to learn something and how much we self-reflect and analyse our own abilities and progress.

As a child we typically do things just because we enjoy them, and often don't have an idea of a goal or target, other than simply doing the thing because we find it intrinsically fun. As an adult however we become highly analytic, self-reflective and critical of both ourselves and others, and we start to do things with a consciousness and awareness of others.

Additionally, by the time you reach adulthood there's a high chance that there's a thing that you've done enough to be in a fairly experienced position with, so anything new undertaken as an adult will now be judged in terms of the things you can already do, which means it will feel difficult and you'll believe that you suck at it. Which you do, because you're a beginner, and that's normal and is precisely what it means to be taking up something new!

While trying to play the piano as a child I had no thoughts of achieving a goal or getting to a specific level, and I certainly didn't compare myself to others. I just did it because it was fun. By the time I was more conscious of enjoying it and knew that I wanted to learn more seriously I'd already acquired a basic level of keyboard fluency.

So, having bought a guitar a few weeks ago and finding that all of a sudden trying to acquire a new physical skill is actually difficult (particularly important to remember as a developer where often what we're learning is a variation on an existing technique), I keep having to remind myself that it only feels difficult because it's new, and it would feel just as difficult if I were starting from a younger age, except I just wouldn't be so darn self-conscious about it.
The Clean Code Talks – Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Testing
There are many examples of the mainstream media manipulating the news to suit their preferred narrative. I have written about this a bit, using the example of how the New York Times, and their associated fact checkers, pushed the false narrative that Trump mocked a reporter's disability. [1] There are hundreds of other examples, but you have to make the effort to get out of your bubble to see them.

As for the topic: Traditional media is losing its distribution to social networks, so it's fighting back with what it sees as its market advantage: The Truth. However, the new distribution methods allow users to find the truth in a different way from before. Instead of Dan Rather telling you the one true news, people collect their news from multiple sources and make their minds up. As with distribution, the mainstream media is set to lose this next part of the battle.

[1] http://newslines.org/blog/lets-talk-about-fake-news/
> Kalanick or you don't get to decide which laws are stupid and should therefore be broken.

Every person for themselves decides which law they should obey and which ones they should break.

> There's an established process for that.

And the process pretty much always starts with people deciding to disobey the law, and the law being adjusted later on to match public expectations.

> Also, 'jurisdiction' means something different than you think,

Yes, I meant to type regulation, ~corrected~ (ETA: not corrected because I can't edit anymore) with thanks
Looks more of a "This is the bus/train route I used to take and these are types of folks, places I saw." Very simplistic view of both cities.
Clearly you didn't get past the first paragraph.
Churn: the tool for Social Capital's framework for user growth accounting
Is it very hard to roll an in house solution in collaboration with a local bank?
Ask HN: What channel for early users for information management platform?
just gone to beta with loop the Smart Information Management Platform that extends the usability of your existing apps so you apps function together.

Rather than replace your existing apps, loop allows you to use them together so all your information is in a single place, networked and ready to be analyzed both manually and via machine learning and artificial intelligience. All your information, one place, connected and working together so you can work contextually and smarter.
Unless the world gets really good at recycling, this is also the guaranteed way to utterly trash the planet.
Human motor planning involves, at least, forward and inverse models for performing stochastic optimal control (at least, that's the standard formulation of the problem). An intuitive physics engine may be built into our heads, but whether or not it is, just running it forward doesn't seem to suffice for motor control.
Plus no OS to update or have hacked...
Probably just marketing hype.

Some numbers:

Modern DDR4 RAM quad channel: 50,000MB/s

Optane SSD: 2,000MB/s

Also nothing on the PCIe bus is going to have a latency of RAM to the OS, unless mapped as RAM.
Yeah, somewhat related when we purchased our first tractor we were shocked that a 30hp tractor can go well north of $30,000. A large part of the reason is they will run for 50 years with minimal maintenance. We ended up picking up a '81 29hp tractor that was still ~6k.

Sure there's planned obsolescence but there's also the cost factor as well.
The number of industrial robots in Japan is actually dropping, whereas China is hockey-stick. (Source: UN report[0] released October 2016)[1]

I visited two Chinese factories this week, one for injection-molded plastics and one for metal. Both were essentially collections of very expensive automated machinery such as 5-axis steel boring CNC controllers and high powered laser cutters, with a few gantries, finishing/packaging and storage areas. There were as many people on computers working with 3D models as there were standing on the factory floor. In the latter case, the primary interface was usually a keyboard and mouse or touchscreen.

[0] http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/presspb2016d6_en.pd... (page 3, citing UNCTAD secretariat calculations, based on International Federation of Robotics, 2015, World Robotics 2015:
Industrial Robots, available at http://www.ifr.org/industrial-robots/statistics/ (accessed 19 October 2016))

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991293
>I disagree. Everything you listed a) can't be used for products, b) doesn't let you make progress beyond "oh look, I lit up an LED!".

Nonsense. This device: http://nanthealth.com/vitality/, which was a "big deal" to telemedicine folks (and is still a good product, please somebody reproduce it for cheap), and resulted in a MASSIVE exit for the people who founded it, was built around an atmega328p.

I would be good money that it was prototyped on an arduino.

This: https://www.industrialshields.com/ is based on an arduino. Like an actual, blue, retail arduino.

I've personally built one-offs for advertising installations (products for sure, but probably not exactly what you meant), that are full of arduinos.

>doesn't let you make progress beyond "oh look, I lit up an LED!".

This is wrong enough to make me think that you either don't actually know what a microcontroller is, or are being deliberately misleading.
competition based on price enabled by online price comparison. consumers buy lots of things based on who is the cheapest. even being $1 cheaper will win a sale. so it becomes a race to the bottom.
If the price is equal to the utility cost, then it isn't below market rate, but exactly matching it. The other prices are over market rate.
O'Reilly site lists 165 things every programmer should know
Shopify's E-commerce Revolution – Fortune.com
What other payment processor would you suggest?
> its sort of like saying lets take poison so that if we get sick we can stop taking poison and feel better.

Raising interest rates isn't poison.

Also, at the moment deflation isn't a bigger risk. It says right in the article inflation is slowly rising, not falling.
Dolphin Emulator Now Allows Wii Shop Access and Purchases
>My guess is that we'll start writing software very differently. It's hard for me to predict how, though.

This is huge deal. SSD's started it. It always seemed wrong for me to address memory through a disk interface.

The main issue is that the re-design of software for permanent non-volatile storage is huge. It goes back decades, and there are many design decisions that need rethinking.
How exactly is my ISP going to sell my browsing data anyway? How would they collect it? Wouldn't something as simple as OpenDNS/etc thwart much of those efforts? How would they even determine what is useful data and sort it out from all of the junk?

How is this better or worse than all of the data that Google and Facebook have been collecting on users for years now?
It's possible the technology actually is 1000x, but it would be really dumb of Intel to release it as such, instead of milking it for years slowly creeping to 1000x.
Some is really disconnected. It's either people who think privacy on the Internet or off matters or the politicians who think otherwise. Or maybe it's the lobbying that makes them turn a blind eye.
If this somehow backfires and their personal surf history gets leaked, I wonder if they'll sit back and accept it as casualty of business or retaliate against the same ISPs.
I don't know about that particular example, but refrigerators with ice makers are an obvious case of people buying appliances way more likely to break down.
Start with the data flow: what interacts with user, what interacts with other
systems, what exposes a remote API, what components pass data where, and what
data structures are used between them. You'll also need to document what
processes and modules/subsystems are there (cron job? job queue? other
daemon/worker of sorts? and then layout in the code). And build/deployment
process, especially with today's CSS and JavaScript compilers.
Fun fact: They still pay you (I hope). Also, by OP's line of reasoning they paid for the university to begin with.

But on the other hand, they are draining the talent. So, give and take.
this isn't new, big companies love to screw small ones. They are assholes at Braintree, that is well known, i recommend the guys at cargo to switch to Stripe. Those people are enterpreneurs like you..... hope the best for ya mate!
> Isn't there an element of survivorship bias to these statements? What about all the 1950's fridges that didn't last until today?

Right. If fridges made in the 50s routinely lasted 50 years I should have seen lots of 50s style models growing up. I didn't. Anecdotal, so take it FWIW.

He may have good points about declining quality, but I suspect it is demonstrably true that such appliances didn't typically last 50 years. In fact, it is the rarity of seeing such old appliances that make people really pay attention when they see one.

Perhaps also of interest, Consumer Reports regularly reports that modern cars are much MORE reliable than cars of old. (They have lots of data on the issue.) This despite being much more complicated machines than they used to be.

Another anecdote. Watching an 80s TV show with my not-yet-tween daughter, we came upon a part where a character hopped in a car and found it turned over but wouldn't start. My daughter asked me why it wouldn't start. She has to this point in life never seen a car not start! That was a weird thought to me, someone growing up in the 80s. (My daughter has heard of dead batteries possibly being a problem with cars from time to time).
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I grew up in New Hampshire in a very rural town with a population of 4,000. Rural life sat well with some of my peers, but I loved tech and quickly left through college enabled by my parents ability to point me in the right direction, which many of my peers didn't have.

Just because other people don't go off in the same direction that you did, does not mean they went in the wrong direction. New Hampshire has a large number of tech companies and new ones are always being created. Anywhere there is people, there will always be opportunity; it just might need to be created or found.

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I've enjoyed my life as I've explored more of America and ended up in the Bay...

YOU and others like you are the problem. If you leave an area to find more "opportunities", then you are not helping to solve the lack of them in a given area. We are at the best point in time to create a company or startup almost anywhere in the US, but too many elitists pricks think they must go to the Bay Area or other major cities just so they get a nice payout.

If you are looking for an easy out, then go help fund the next bubble but don't try to say that "..I would love to solve this problem..." when you and many like you had the power to do so.
Interesting, I didn't know! Although it makes a lot of sense now that you bring it up.

I don't think it changes anything though, because of git's integrity. Stop me if I'm getting this wrong but, if you wanted to attack a signed git commit through the gpg signature's hash, you would have to modify the commit object itself... which yields a different commit hash in order to be valid. You'd have to get absurdly lucky to have a signature collision that contains a (valid) commit hash collision.
60 minutes: some businesses have fired American workers and replaced them
It's one of the dumber features of the Euro dishwashers. All you need is a good macerator and no worries with periodic maintenance chores.
Don't ISP's enjoy some privilege for being a carrier? Aren't they not one of they start doing all this? Also, most people won't bother with <insert simple solution here> so ISPs aren't too worried about it probably.
Spoilers: the same way you did as a kid. Just with more attention.
See already recommended course https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Without small building blocks comfortably sitting in your brain there will be no larger ideas to focus on.
On a related note, I accidentally cracked the touch screen of my 8 year old Ford Radio/AC control unit. Cost to replace 4,500 GBP, which is more than the entire value of the car currently. Insane, because it basically means if you crack the touch screen, you have to scrap the car, if you want to claim via insurance.

Managed to get it replaced with a second hand one for £300, including labour.
The other thing that's discounted here is how people treat their products they've purchased.

I'm not saying that's the sole cause, but it surely doesn't help when filters aren't cleaned, things aren't replaced at their regular intervals, and other standard maintenance isn't done.

I'm comfortable with buying a used car given the maintenance paperwork and/or maintenance-related receipts are provided. But that's about it.

I'll probably never buy any used household appliance related to hygiene or food consumption -- washing machines, dishwashers, or even a microwave.
It's not like $300 models went away.
Why did they let them sign up and receive payments, though..?
Render Pipelines design in C++
I've got an LG direct drive. The bearings failed after about 6 years. The repair ended up being about $250(US). They replaced the stator, rotor, drum, and bearings (essentially all the moving parts of the appliance).
Here are some people left IT, 60 minutes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-u-s-jobs-vulnerable-to-worke...
Why vertical farming specifically? No doubt vertical farming will form part of the solution to feeding urban populations in the coming decades, but the area covered by open-air "horizontal" farming is immense. We just can't do construction on that scale, not to mention the incredible environmental impacts. Growing things with LEDs seems pretty wasteful when we have a great big star shining down on us all day. Vertical farming will bring fresh food to high-density populations for sure, it just isn't going to change the face of farming across the planet.

Although it's a much more difficult problem to solve being an uncontrolled environment, my company is working on this automation but for traditional farms (http://touch.farm). The first step is gathering rich data from different crops/climates, which is why we're starting by designing the cheapest and most usable ag sensors we can. If we can make sensor tech accessible to a wide range of farmers, we'll gain a rich enough dataset to start applying ML (and farmers and the environment win in the process).

tl;dr: vertical farming is great, but what we really need is innovation/investment in traditional farming.
Enjoyed learning this and playing with it. What would you recommend storing this sort of data in? Not too keen on going with the traditional MySQL.
Personally, I always go with icon and text if I can. I will still use a plain icon with no text in a few cases and if it makes sense:

•For the more universal ones like + and - and trashcans
•If I am absolutely constrained for space and dont have time to redesign
•If the target audience can handle it or knows it perhaps

I definitely agree that only icons is a bad design choice in most cases. I would go with plain text rather than a plain icon if I had to choose.
We put a new ecommerce site live on Magento2. We were short on time, so to make everything go more smoothly we chose to move our payments to Braintree as they have an pre integrated checkout with Magento2. Of all the things I thought I would be sitting up all night sorting out, I really didn't expect it to be Braintree, but it was. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh to Americans, but the fact it was thanksgiving did not interest me in the slightest, as we are at work that day, and so are our banks. If you want to sell your service in the UK you should be available 9-5 UK time. Braintree's 11 am opening time, was the most infuriating thing when I could see customers failing at the checkout. Other US companies I speak to have operators on from 9am our time, even if it is 3am over there. We already have a high volume Paypal acocunt, and I had to call everyone I could to pull strings to get them to answer at Braintree. Turns out the account I set up with them some weeks before had not been pushed live, except they told me it had, so we only had the introductory level of payments.

Their integration with Magento sucks too...Set up all of the anti-fraud tools and you will barely get a payment to go through...
Like others are saying (and actually the article also mentions), it's a very subjective view. I've also lived in both cities and had quite different experiences. To me, SF/bay area felt more like a rat race and my friends had a better work/social balance in London (note that I didn't work in finance). And while it might look like in SF are "working on causes they relate to." To me it feels more like people in SF find they have to be on some sort of mission. Just having a job you like isn't good enough. You need to change the world.
Yep. Bought the washer and dryer and they are nice. Went with the electronic controls though. And also top loading washer to avoid moisture/mold issues if door left closed.
Close, I linked to a list of supported currencies.
Is this based on memristors? That's pretty amazing. I thought hp owned that.
You can register and run business in UK while still living in for example Poland. Guess that was business account.
Opening a business account when not a resident isn't hard. It's personal accounts that require proof of residence.
The only reasoning is due to past life habits and inclination.

I suspect there may be other explanations at least as plausible.
HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE I MADE in 31 Months on YOUTUBE?
Have you never rented or something? Landlords don't expect tenants to take care of the appliances and buy the cheapest crap out there.
> The Toyota Hilux isn't available here. They claim the Tacoma is the same truck just engineered for American emission's standards. I'm not buying it.

The Tacoma is a pretty sturdy truck, you see lots of older ones running around along with legions of Taco fans. They aren't available with a diesel engine like the Hilux, but the Hilux diesel wouldn't work in the US because of emissions and not being for ultra-low-sulfur diesel.
> it might hold some water if there was inflation, but there's not. deflation is still a bigger risk.

I've always wondered if the worry about deflation is overblown. We still have a lot of things that people and businesses buy that have inelastic demand which will not change regardless of whether or not we are experiencing deflation.

Also, when looking at expenses related to computer hardware, it has been going down relative to its capability. That hasn't led to a delay in purchases from either consumers or businesses from what I understand.
The problems with mongodb
> For non-cryptographic uses, this could speed-up a lot of things, e.g. even git
Not mentioned is that LG and Samsung have been caught colluding before.
Are you claiming that Jeff Jones applied for a took a job with Uber just so he could resign 6 months later to create a controversy?
I was under the impression that this is the opposite. It's a 'disk' (ram disks are just storage that can store files, so I'm pretending disk means it stores files) like a SSD that's fast enough to act like ram?
> My problem is that I tend to get really interested in learning something, work really intensely at it for a while, then get bored and move on to something else, leaving dozens of unfinished projects in my wake.

This isn't necessarily bad, just that the thing you learned wasn't actually something you needed to learn. I don't mean that negatively though. For example, I use JavaScript and Python at work. I recently read a Haskell book and learned enough to do its exercises. I won't use Haskell at work any time soon and I don't have that much time for personal projects... so was it a waste of time? I don't think so, since I enjoyed the process of learning and a lot of concepts will stay with me.

If you want to do project X and can't focus on learning what you need for that, that's a problem. Otherwise, you're not much different from figures such as Theodore Roosevelt who'd read books on a thousand different subjects every year, for fun.
Funny how it ends with "my very individual perspective (I worked in London as a management consultant whereas in SF I worked with a startup)" ...which was entirely obvious throughout the whole piece.
can you imagine cracking LCDs in this car? (not a concept btw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZpBy_5xAA

Skip to 0:30
And you will save a lot on heating.
People forget that old tech is not known for being efficient be it electric appliances or cars.
1. Corrosion 2. Electrolytic caps. 3. Vibration. 4. Flexing due to thermal cycling. 5. Electronic designs operating near their limits, resulting in increased failure rates.

It used to be everything in a hostile environment (hot/wet/corrosive) was potted (dipped in epoxy) and in an enclosure. Now they have bare boards. Electronically controlled motors and very limited protection circuitry for the ICs. Just not built to last. No commonality in circuit boards so parts are very expensive (possibly by design; they only need parts for warranty repairs, after that they don't care about cost/availability).