skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a brain interface to computers and phones would be useful but privacy would really worry me. Hack someone's brain, and you get way too personal info.
Sometimes when I'm reading on my tablet, I think it'd be cool if it would just scroll when I get towards the bottom. Eye tracking might work, but I feel like you'd falsely trigger it sometimes.

Also, I feel like I think way faster than I can type. I can visualize the piece of code in my head before I even type it out. Imagine no more spelling mistakes :)

Brain surgery already seems very scary, as you have to stay awake during it. Then when they come out with new hardware generations, go under the knife again? Brain surgeries also are expensive. But I could see how something like this would make me 100x more productive than I am now. So if I created something really cool using my new special abilities it would probably pay for itself.

So I see a lot of upsides and downsides. I don't know if this would be something I'd want to be an early adaptor of, though. Imagine if the company supporting it went out of business, now you have this unmaintained piece of hardware in your head. If something like this was perfected, I feel like this would be an asset to have just for the productivity advantages.
The comment you're replying to is referencing the same "high performer" reasoning cited by Susan Fowler. Probably not endorsing the practice, just noting it exists.
Your intuition is probably based on millions of events happened to you and your ancestor (parts that are developed through evolution and social construct).
Yeah my bad, I didn't mean to suggest that their approach makes sense for everyone. I was just trying to support his point that reducing dependence on a single processor can be a beneficial practice.
The difference here is that Uber doesn't have much of value except their brand. Their industry has a low barrier to entry, their work force isn't tied to the company and they don't have much in the way of IP. Their ability to ride out bad press is a lot more limited than companies that can fall back on those things.

(well, they also have a giant pile of cash. But their ability to raise that cash is obviously dependent on what investors think of their brand)
Stripe supports virtually all credit cards as well as alipay and bitcoin. If that's not most of the world, what is?
Confessions of an asteroid hunter
I went through a front end dev book last year whose final project was in ember. It held your hand through setting up the development environment, and once set up I found I really liked working with it. And it seems like you could develop pretty fast if you got comfortable. I don't do anything on the scale that benefits from frameworks like ember in general, so I don't find myself reaching for it. But I thought I might as well register the fact that my experience was a good one.
I skimmed that buzzfeed article for examples, all the ones I checked were either right-wing outlets "conservative Daily" or articles containing speculation about Trump's/Bannon's plans, backed by recent factual evidence. Not fake facts.
Plus, "what's the capital of Australia?" is the kind of trivia that changes (not often, for capitals, but that's definitely something that happens). In the end, you're better off knowing where to find it when you need the answer rather than knowing a fact that might as well be obsolete.
This rings true. I just fixed our 5-year old Kenmore fridge - a 15A glass fuse blew after a storm. Of course it is soldered into the power control board directly without a housing, and the manufacturer lists it as an unserviceable part. They'll only sell the control board as a whole unit for $200+.

Despite that, a few minutes with a soldering iron and a trip to home depot, it's fine now (and has a proper fuse holder to boot). I think people are going to have to learn to get more comfortable hacking their appliances moving forward.
The filter bubble is relatively minor -- we've always filtered our social groups. The open bazaar Internet is a recent anomaly. Facebook's dark side is how outrageous lies spread faster than nuanced truth (regardless of partisanship), and Facebook's technology accelerates the difference
All I know is my dad's cousin who has been an appliance repair man for 50 years says never buy a front load washer.
I can't thank you enough, this is really great. I've attempted a lot of videos etc. I really enjoy Shai Simonson's stuff, for example. And it helps me think more about things like time &/ complexity, but I've really struggled to find a "path" so to speak. I start losing them and without an application lose interest. So thank you again, I greatly appreciate it.
Kashkari is a chump and my read of this is that he's sucking up the Trump administration who has been critical of the Fed for holding back growth to further his own political aspirations.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bailout-architect-...
Rail and the rest allowed it to persist.
All of those companies turn a huge profit.
I understand the argument, I just don't think it "promotes the Progress of Science and useful Arts". If you were to remove patent protections, the progress of science and useful art would not suddenly take a nose dive. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that patents stifle progress in art and science.

Also there's a big distinction between copyright and patents. You don't hear about copyright trolls as often; it's not as crippled of a system.
WinRAR and the infinite 40-day trial [video]
> whose interest it was to make you share memes

why would Facebook care about your sharing memes? Facebook cares about you spending time on the site (so you look at ads)
Thanks for commenting! I was afraid nobody would see this since I got in to the thread pretty late.

The quote is Hamilton wrapping up his argument in Federalist 68 (it's from the last paragraph not talking about the vice presidency). The point here doesn't support the decision of EC vs. direct voting, since no state had even close to a majority of the nation's population at the time. I read this more of him trying to remind the reader that putting thought into the election process at all is worthy of thought and effort.
Someone should start a company building all appliances this way - they'd be taken over and shut down very quickly.
A possible solution for your particular problem is to use the site operator, e.g.

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H.264 in context of MPEG is MPEG-4 Part 10 "Advanced Video Coding", published in 2003. It's probably what OP is referring to, since pretty much no one on the web uses the other MPEG-4 video coding (anymore), MPEG-4 Part 2, which dates to 1999.

MPEG-4 Part 2 was made famous by the encoders DivX and Xvid, but didn't see the magnitude of professional usage as either its predecessors MPEG-2 Part 2 (also known as H.262) and H.263 (which was a teleconferencing codec to which the widely-deployed Sorenson Spark, used in Flash 6 and 7, was fairly close to) or its successor H.264.

That being said, the MPEG LA maintains a (very, very long) list of patents [1] in the H.264 patent pool, with recently expiring patents (sometimes?) notated for convenience. Submarine and unlisted/uncovered patents notwithstanding, an interested party should be able to start with this list and research if they are truly necessary to implement decoding and encoding of H.264 as used on the web today.

[1] http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.asp...
"better for riders if rates stay unsustainably low"

Rates that are unsustainably low cannot be sustained, by definition.
I thought that might be correct. So I guess H.264 is still under patent?
See Lindy effect. Most things fail pretty quickly but things that last a long time tend to keep working.
Those are Facebook UI graphics, not emoji
In my assembler and technician days I stayed alert to visits by distributor reps: older but good databooks were likely to be found in the trashbins shortly thereafter, ready to be fished out and taken home.

These days, for a given part-number, Googling "part-number pdf" returns links to where datasheets can be downloaded. This is a distinct improvement: disk space is easier found than shelf space.
You've perfectly describes why I like living in the subburbs/rurally so much and could never live in the city.
Agree. Feng-hsiung Hsu, the chief designer of Deep Blue, the chess machine that beat Kasparov, once gave a talk at my university. I didn't go to the talk, but in the abstract, he stated clearly that he didn't think Deep Blue is AI -- it's just a search algorithm.

I don't understand why so many commenters here are so furious about the author's claim that AlphaGo is not AI. What qualifies as AI is really up to definition, and there doesn't seem to be any widely accepted one among AI researchers. The author of the IEEE article doesn't think AlphaGo matches his definition of AI. Other AI researchers may think otherwise. But that doesn't mean the author is trying to dismiss the achievement of the AlphaGo team.
Would be helpful to have your email here or in your profile
> If your thing is truly groundbreaking, keep it secret

That's kind of the point of a patent. It allows research into the open instead of secret so others can improve on it while the patent holder monetizes what he created.

without it, corporate research would be entirely kept private.
Most all end users can use stripe. A lot of businesses can't https://stripe.com/global.
I feel like this is being shilled too much. I see it everywhere on facebook, reddit japan topics and general.

Of course, generally speaking I am learning Japanese.
>¤We all know there's only one politically correct thing to say about urbanism, but there's a difference between being required to say under social duress vs actually is.

I'm not sure what this means, can you expand on this?
Can you point out which specific advancements in the last few years you are talking about?
> If your thing is truly groundbreaking, keep it secret.

The whole point of patents is to encourage disclosure.
There are plenty of reasons to be found for why people enjoy using Ember, but here are some of mine:

Ember is opinionated, and in most cases that is a great thing. Every other day there's an article about "frontend development is too confusing because there are too many choices", and Ember defaults to making those choices for you. It's not that dissimilar to backend dev, where you _could_ start off with just an http server, and choose your own authentication and bring in your own ORM and in many cases you would have been better off just using Rails. Yes, there are some cases where Ember doesn't fit and you shouldn't use it, but most frontend apps look similar enough and the frontend ecosystem benefits by Ember guiding developers down a well-trodden path.

Another thing the Ember community does really well is its open development process. Anyone can read and contribute RFCs and at any time I can see exactly what's in the pipeline for the future of the framework.
I wish people would understand that such a world means that new children have less and less of a chance at success.
I am sorry to hear this. :(
>The point of the article is to point out that the incidences of suicide in the military isn't disproportionate to civilians.

Note that for this to be OK, we should expect to see the same number of incidences in the military as one expects to see in civilians.

If we have a reason to expect lower suicide rates from military personnel (e.g. better health, less incidents of alcoholism/substance abuse, no joblessness, regular psychiatric evaluations, etc compared to the general population), then it's not OK.
A dryer is required by law!? I almost never use dryers in NZ. I couldn't imagine using one in Australia - even Melbourne is an arid desert wasteland by my standards.
Google is way way past that point. It worked that way 10 years ago and was exploited, so they added many more signals, generally far subtler than that.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but that's an interesting idea: Patents that last for as long as you can prove you spent developing the technology behind them.

If the discoveries and investigation behind a patent took you 20 years, then you get a 20 year patent. If they only took you five minutes because you're advancement is relatively trivial (and yet somehow still qualifies for a patent) then you get a minimum of a year or something.

I'm sure that such a system would be just as game-able, but I feel like it would kill at least some of the most pollutant patents.
> Uber does, however, have obligations to obey the law.

The law does not state that you have to do certain things. It states what consequences arise from actions you may or may not chose to take, and get caught performing those actions.

UPS and Fedex drivers routinely double park on streets to make deliveries, and pay the fines. They have a fund to pay the fines with, and count it as the cost of doing business. The law doesn't obligate anybody to do anything.
Seems like a lot of the things that used to be a standard (e.g. metal thickness, quality paint coats) are now considered premium. Wolf for instance makes excellent appliances, but expect to pay anywhere from 3-10x more than a "standard" appliance. For using "older" methods/technologies. Crazy world we live in.

note: Same can be said about furniture. Arhaus/Restoration Hardware is way more expensive than say ArtVan, for the old rustic look that last's longer.
Sounds like you had some kratom that was sprayed with an opiate adulterant. I've been taking kratom for going on seven years almost every day (with short breaks once a month and a longer break in the summer), and I source my kratom directly from an Indonesian farmer cooperative. This is an unfortunate thing happening by unscrupulous kratom vendors: They'll sell whatever they get their hands on, and in order to give it a bit of a kick, they'll spray it with tramadol or some other opiate adulterant. This is actually what happened with the handful of hospitalizations and deaths in Sweden: These teenagers had gotten a hold of kratom that had been sprayed with strong opiates. It sounds like whoever darpa_escapee was buying from was adding a little something extra. Without any tests, it's impossible to say that darpa_escapee was buying actual kratom and not something completely different and much more dangerous. Which happens, and is one of the reasons that the kratom community is starting to push for more stringent controls (and testing) on the supply chain: So that people can know for certain they're buying kratom and not just some shit sprayed with dangerous opiates that gives them all the telltale signs of some kind of regular opiate addiction like darpa_escapee here. Sorry you had such bad luck with your "kratom" supplier, darpa_escapee.
Are they british? Do the UK have an immigration agreement with the USA I am not aware of?

Last I checked, Europeans need a H1B VISA to go work there and it's so hard to get it's bound to failure. Even if you get it, it prevents you to switch job and you can't negotiate and swap jobs to the top.

P.S. No place in Europe are charging $4000 for a one bedroom ;)
Wow, "very explosive" is putting it lightly. He could have very easily said something a little more sanguine, along the lines of "We had a difference of opinion, yada yada." The fact that he is trying to distance himself so strongly from Uber makes me think the stuff that will come out from the sexism investigation and Waymo lawsuit will be even more damaging than I thought.

My not-even-2-cent internet armchair prediction: one or more people will go to jail for the whole Levandowski affair.
>I noticed when learning to play drums with Rock Band that I immediately forgot the songs when the tracks weren't flashing by in front of me, so my "twitch game" skills were handling playing the game, while my "learning songs" abilities were seemingly switched off.

Rocksmith addresses this problem: when you reach a certain level of song mastery it starts making track invisible and if you make mistakes it puts it back on.
Ask HN: What macOS email client do you use?
I have tried Polymail, Front and others. I haven't really found anything better to replace Gmail on Chrome.
Is this true? I bought a (new) washer < 3 months ago that does not lock. Top-load, so maybe that's why?

I never understood front-load anyways. Topload fails safe. Front load fails in a giant puddle all over your floor.
I think the key insight that lead to its development is the realisation that, if you have a carry-lookahead adder/subtractor, P and G already provide OR and AND (along with their negations), and taken together without the carry lookahead logic enabled, give XOR.

An existing article about how the '181 works starts here and continues for a few pages:

http://6502.org/users/dieter/a2/a2_3.htm
AlphaGo is not AI in exactly the same way that Aldebaran robots are not robots. Seriously, what do those robots do? They are just one step above Disneyland's pre-programmed animatronics. If this dude wants me to take him seriously, he needs to show me a robot that solves a problem for somebody. Nao is just a waste of perfectly good servos. Or, alternatively, if he insists that Nao is a robot, then I think AlphaGo can be considered AI.

People have been saying "___ is not AI" since Claude Shannon built a robot mouse to solve a maze. Then Shannon's chess playing program was "not AI". Humbug.
And yet with the slowdown of Moore's Law, I'm actually fine using a computer from 2012 for most tasks. I expect that using a 5 year old phone will eventually be just fine too. It's not like the 1990s anymore where everything ran perceptibly faster, with the exact same binaries, if you bought new hardware every couple of years.
Does this explain why it's easy to remember complex concepts using analogies as we're mapping new ideas to something we're familar with?
Oh, I agree completely about the value of the alleged high performers.
Vee too, mom
The RPi (its SoC, really) is probably a fine choice financially for the applications where it doesn't represent ridiculous overengineering.
Out of curiosity, what do you think that adoption will look like?
Don't forget survival bias.
Sounds like a combination of commercial optimization (aka race-to-the-bottom) at one end of the market with William Morris-esque fetishization of solidity and sensible/traditional design at the other end.
Anytime I do anything around appliance shopping, the ability to get information about what is actually quality is near zero. It's SEO'd, spammed, paid-reviewed, and marketed into the ground.

Mattresses are similar, but fortunately, there is https://www.themattressunderground.com/ , which is a high quality site. I bought a Tuft and Needle mattress based on my learning there and it has been spectacular.

Similar needs to happen for appliances.
Front load is better in every other way: easier on your clothes, so they last longer. Uses less water and less soap. Can take bulky fragile items like a down comforter or a tent.
It's a compromise. The framers of the Constitution had battles about that. Some of them thought patents were bad, some thought they promoted innovation.
I don't understand the obsession by the press, VCs, and even consumers for Uber. I know it has changed the dynamic of transportation for many people. I know it has changed the dynamic of self-employment for many people. I know it has changed the dynamic of regulation for many cities. Oh wait. Ok I get it now. All that said, it's remarkable that ride sharing is the pinnacle of startup valuation in this latest wave of startups.
> Not exactly leadership material.

The reason it's unpopular is because it's just that. An opinion with no inside view of the situation.

Many times, it's better to just bow out of a bad situation, if you're not given the power to change it, or if the situation was mis-represented to you, or both.

Chalking this up to not being leadership material is intellectually lazy and flip.
It's also not something you can build a production device out of...unless your margins are so insanely large that you can afford it and nobody cares.
You can still find scans of the databooks at archive.org (and if you have some, you are encouraged to contribute...), especially useful for information on obsolete parts whose datasheets were never available separately in digital form.
> Outside of the sexual harassment claims, literally none of this is different than any other huge tech company out there.

The Waymo lawsuit/Levandowski affair is clearly looking WAY out of the norm for any huge tech company, especially since it's looking more and more like Uber may have colluded from the beginning (discussed previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860890 )
This makes Laserdisc a completely open format!
As well as people in Chicago grilling steaks and going to ball games. In the winter?

Now if he said something like "eating a lassanga soupy mixture that you call pizza" I would have been clapping.
The only opportunity for people must not be to move to some overpriced city and leave their community to rot.

Our economy is becoming increasingly centralized and increasingly winner-take-all.

There are ever fewer highly overheated markets and enormous areas where opportunities are static or declining.

What's more, I'm still not convinced that we need 150 million software developers in this country, or even doctors, or certainly not lawyers. More education and embracing the "knowledge economy" may only work for some of us, for now, because the vast majority haven't piled in yet.

Also that contempt that the OP talked about? Your comment is absolutely drenched in it.
I'm not sure about human players, but it might be possible to build an adversarial neural network that beats AlphaGo (and only AlphaGo).
It is best you can do and it is horrible HN still doesn't have good and easy comment formatting.

Try posting small piece of code. You hear me HN?!
This is one reason I want to make the use of some sort of spaced repetition software a habit for myself. I can't think of any better way to keep learning new things than structured practice..
Wholeheartedly agree - except with the start-p lottery/F-U money.

What most startup employees don't understand that even if their start-up wins the lottery, they're not going to have F-U money. That's reserved for co-founders and investors. Maaaaaybbeeee if you're employee 1-20 at the next Facebook or Google you'll end up with a substantial sum. But the rest of the pack? You're .1% (if you're lucky) might next you $500-100k. Not enough to brag about.

If you have .1% and your company sells for $100 million, you don't get .1% of $100M. You get .1% of whatever's left over after the investors have gotten their 2-3x preferences, all debts have been settled etc.
How much are AC-3 license fees?

Like, should I be outraged at the fee built into TVs, or is it basically irrelevant?
>There's enough social awareness that people don't want to support a company run by jerks like Travis Kalanick.

I asked 7-8 of my non tech/internet obsessed friends what they thought of recent uber scandals and if they stopped using uber. I got blank stares.

all of my techy friends know about uber news but not one has deleted uber.

Very very few actually care about any of it, people have short memory and outrage fatigue is real.
The greatest feature of any app, ever.