skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally. The problem is that a lot of "AI" discourse makes the automatic assumption that humans want to interact with quote-unquote "machines". Humans want better user experience and humans do a good job interacting with other humans:). What's missing in the ai-bot conversation is the spark of creativity. There is the assumption that "AI" alone will create value, when value creation happens when user experience is new and exciting.

I am doing something like that myself as a side project, not exactly as "AI" more as voice interface responding to voice commands that uses humor and character voices to reply. In way, the problem of bots is actually "AI".

You can create a more flexible and lively experience if you put "AI" aside and really think of how people interact and create responses that are not based on "mean" values, but on real conversations. You don't even need the whole AI backend, you can just use javascript, audio files with or without accompanying text. Because so much of the conversation is bland, having a "voice" will make a huge difference.

AI developers should consider collaborating with writers and comedians:)
13 DNS root zone named hosts expose terabytes of sensitive data worldwide
Wow, I don't game, so had no clue.

Steam's policies rather make piracy the smart option.

Sad :(
But how is he a charlatan?
> You're saying that as if there was a clerk reading the message at the other end. If a computer program gets a message it doesn't "understand", it's not going to "figure it out" either way.

Self-describing formats do make backwards compatibility a bit easier. With Cap'n Proto, adding a new field in the middle will break consumers.
How a Product Manager Quit His Job to Build a $2M SaaS Business
You can't be arrested for suspicion alone, and bump keys aren't illegal according to California statute, and I didn't find anything about local statues either. So unless they have a warrant out for them, those people are going to walk free. (IANAL)

Also... cars don't use pins, so they wouldn't have been using a bump key for a car, but possibly a jiggler or a blank for impressioning.
Tesla reports record car deliveries
I've been back on FiOS since we moved back to PDX last summer, so my last cable modem switcharoo was about 5 years ago in Seattle. It's likely they could've made it easier.

To that end, I've done the modem switch probably a dozen times for myself, family, or friends and I've never encountered any resistance from Comcast during the process. Though they did fat finger a MAC address or serial number one time.
It makes sense. Companies will use price discrimination to offer higher prices when they are able to segment the market. This would happen regardless of whether the lazy people were on aggregators or going direct. If they're able to separate the groups and one is more price sensitive than the other, that group would tend to be charged higher prices.
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This is an area that is definitely ripe for improvement. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic roadblocks are very high. I am also type 1 diabetic, and I test my glucose 4 times a day (the traditional finger stick way). Continuous glucose monitoring is exceptionally expensive, and uncomfortable/painful also.

A while back I read about a method that used a very small bioactive fluorescent dye tattoo, and a light sensor to measure glucose levels. It's not continuous, but it's painless (after the tattoo), can be done often, and is much less expensive than existing continuous glucose monitoring devices.

Another article I read described some Google research that involved an instrumented contact lens that measured glucose levels by measuring something in tears and sending the results using near field communications to a monitor device. This device provides continuous monitoring, (no tattoo required), and I am guessing that total cost would be less than existing CGM devices.

I haven't heard anything about these research efforts lately, and if they're still being worked on, it could be years more before they become available.
>Once you own your place, you don't have to pay rent, you can live on $500 a month. That may be covered by the unemployment help, so you don't have to work either and don't pay taxes.

At least in Washington, unemployment is limited to I believe 26 weeks. IIRC, during the big downturn this was doubled in a lot of places (perhaps nationally?) but at least here it is back to 26 weeks.
I get angry every time I read about floating point being discussed by people who don't understand how numbers work, but I am going to try not to rant and be constructive.

Think of if this way. You can express the fraction 1/2 in decimal (0.5) and binary because 2 is evenly divisible into both 10 and 2. You can't represent 1/3 in either but you could in trinary (0, 1, 2 - it would be 0.1) Now, why programmers feel the numbers you can't represent exactly in binary are somehow worse than the ones in decimal baffles me. I guess we are just used to them and anything else seems wrong. But they are just as legitimate.
When Drone Delivery Makes Sense: When You're Flying Blood to Hospitals
Speaking for avg Canadian city, avg property tax about 1.1%. Median home price is 285K, thus you need 261CAD for property taxes alone, add here electricity, basic house maintenance and you need 500CAD only to live in your modest fully paid house.
I think it's great that NBC is still running commercials for that even though the FTC is investigating for fraud.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/jellyfish-memory-s...
Advertising is a race to the bottom. The way I shop is I figure out what my needs are, I survey the state of the art, I narrow down some options, compare them (price, stats, reviews, company rep, etc.) and then buy.

Advertising, on the other hand, exists to subtly influence an emotional, impulsive, subconscious choice, and it's far more effective in the macro. The problem is that when your brain is engaged, you resent advertising and it has the opposite effect on you. Once you're wise to it, it just sours you on the whole thing.

Advertisers could cultivate a lot more loyalty with me (and I assume most people) if they made honest pitches. You know, "hey you're looking for an x86 NUC with 2 ethernet ports, here's what we got, also here's some other socially responsible things we do". Anything past that ought to be banned.

You can see the effect this has. Look at ever increasing ad budgets by large corporations, or small businesses wasting precious resources trying to compete with the huge ad budgets, people's general cynicism about businesses and endorsements, etc. It has an undermining effect culturally and an entrenchment effect economically. It's honestly just all bad.
The Arris/Motorola Surfboard series have always been great for me. I think the biggest difference between the cheapest model and the most expensive one is that the most expensive one is capable of a theoretical max that is multiples of what Comcast even offers. So, it's technically more future proof. I've had the cheapest one forever and never had issues with it being slower than my pipe could deliver.
It's always possible to find exceptions, of course. But there are exceptional people from all walks of life.

Also, the wikipedia page makes it sound like it was all due to his merit:

His parents were Swedish, from the city of Malmö, county of Scania. Kelly was ashamed of his family's poverty, and vowed to return one day in prominence.[6] Johnson was 13 years old when he won a prize for his first aircraft design. He worked his way through Flint Central High School and graduated in 1928, then went to Flint Junior College, now known as Mott Community College, and finally to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Who granted him the prize? It's fortunate they were paying attention to his work. How did he attend college with no money? It's fortunate he managed to find a source of income. Nowadays college is prohibitively expensive for those in poverty who don't achieve a full-ride scholarship or loans. And if you entered the workforce and later decide to go to college, you don't qualify for loans.

It seems less useful to say that someone will become something rather than they might overcome X and Y to become Z.
It's extremely common in the US. I grew up poor and there were many times I was sick, sometimes even severely, and never went to the doctors. Even now I know people who are making 6 figure salaries and choose not to go to the doctors because it's just so expensive. They hedge their bets taking high deductible insurances, or sometimes going without, so they just avoid going to the doctors until they have no choice.
Cloudflare can be pretty bad. And some sites use blocklists that include known VPN exits, plus of course Tor exits. Some even include IP ranges assigned to low-end VPS providers.

It's pretty easy to block leaks, including DNS leaks, with firewall rules. At least, in Windows, OSX and Linux. For smartphones, you're better off using custom apps that have been confirmed as leak free.
"If I had a dime for every time I've seen someone use FLOAT to store currency, I'd have $999.997634"

https://twitter.com/billkarwin/status/347561901460447232
Normally it is a few days but I wouldn't call this abnormal. They have scheduled me so long out that by the time I show up I'm already getting better.

The decision on how bad you feel is Emergency Room $$$$$, Urgent Care $$ or Doc visit $. Also just because you pay more doesn't mean you get in either, I've been stuck at Emergency Room for 12 hours before.
WeChat’s latest feature aims to make it even more omnipresent
Your examples look more like you just disagree with him politically...
All devices going forward (especially isp routers) _should_ use only 5ghz.

Consumers should have to spend extra on 2.4 AP gear to support legacy client devices. 5ghz has reduced propagation and there are so many more channels available that it is actually optimal to use in dense evvironments. Mesh wifi is pretty much a requirement for a lot of users to keep the same coverage with multiple rooms compared with their existing 2.4 ghz network.
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This looks handy, although the size of Rust and Cargo and such required to make it work gave me second thoughts...

Edit: I've just learned of the alert alias in ~/.bashrc that does roughly the same thing.
Sorry, I should update it. All of those public endpoints went down a long time ago. People were donating the endpoint machines and they eventually just disappeared.

You'll have to set your own up on a server somewhere.
I'm just speaking to my experience with all different kinds of milk. I don't think I've ever had completely unpasteurized milk (is that legal in the US?), so every other kind.
> I just sometimes wonder if I write tests too often.

I try to do an extremely rough guesstimate as to the cost of not testing:

- Debugging sessions to reproduce latent bugs
- Debugging sessions to track down refactoring mistakes
- More thorough code reviews because you can't trust the testing suite to catch problems
- QA time to catch/reproduce bugs
- Costs of downtime when the bugs take out a critical system
- End user, customer support, and/or I.T. staff overhead in dealing with the damage caused by uncaught bugs, or working around unsolved bugs

My usual conclusion is that nobody I work with (nor myself) does enough automated testing.
This would have been a perfect example for the event domain I proposed to Apple. But they don't want it.
One other point, these cloud companies like Amazon and Google do a great deal of self congratulations for some pretty embarrassing architectures. Necessitating million server datacenters is as WTF to me as being proud of millions of lines of code when someone else is doing it with magnitudes less. 40G networking has been commercially viable since the top of the decade and 100G (or partial variants) for a couple years now while ENA tops out at 20G. They are basically asleep at the wheel because their architectures are predicated on poor assumptions, shirking understanding of computer architecture for 10s of thousands of SREs and "full stack developers".

Dovetailing a bit, back in the commercial UNIX and mainframe markets it is pretty common to have 80%-90% percent system utilization. In the Linux world, it's usually single digits. For some reasons (I guess it's more inviting to think holistically due to the base OS model), we are getting those 90% figures in the BSD community. See drewg's comment, WhatsApp, Isilon, LLNW:

I led the creation of an OS team, to look from first principles, where we were spending CPU/bus/IO bandwidth, and focusing on north-south delivery instead of horizontal scale. A team of 5, we are able to deliver significant shareholder value http://investors.limelight.com/file/Index?KeyFile=38751761.
If Left Untreated, Is Type 1 Diabetes Deadly?
"The ontology is made available by Google Inc. under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license." -- Github page[0]

Looks like the... tag names? and example urls have been released, but the videos and sound are under their respective licenses -- ie, mostly the standard Youtube license.

This is neat. Can a ML model developed on this dataset be used for commercial purposes? I guess, at minimum, the paper and tag list are provided as help for those corporations that would wish to build/use a private dataset for similar purposes?

[0] https://github.com/audioset/ontology
"MPEG LA is a for profit firm that has historically specialized in getting huge corporations in a room, the patents surrounding a technology all of them need, and getting them to agree on a standard code to be licensed to everyone: Apple, Cisco, Dolby, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, MS, NTT, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, etc.
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That's very kind.
They also historically have done everything they can to keep the pool alive by evergreening it, and allowing companies to evergreen it.
They also have done pretty much everything they aren't supposed to since the original BRL the DOJ sent (https://www.justice.gov/atr/response-trustees-columbia-unive...)
Brain study shows how slow breathing induces tranquility
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers' Buttons
A few decades from now, 30 - 50 years at most, doctors and patients, will look back at us and wonder, why we were not using algorithms to assist with diagnosis already.
You are absolutely right. The only reason I built my Twitter event bot back in the day was to bring business to the app. And it actually works.
TP-Link actually really isn't that crappy for the price point. Which was the gist of my entire statement. For sub-$100 you can get Routers that will keep up with (in most metrics) $200+ routers. Yes, these are generally pretty cheap and they may crap out sooner than some other brands but if you compare them to the same routers in the same price class I would be shocked if they were not considered at the top of their class.

That all being said, my entire home network is Ubiquiti. So we don't disagree on which is better of the two brands.
There are actually two trends:
1) Move to ETFs: Clients have been moving away from high-fee hedge funds into passive funds (ETFs) where trading is generally simpler.
2) Automation: There used to be a lot of analysts working on reports to monitor fund performance, tracking error, trading costs, risk exposures and so on. They are being replaced by software.
Hard to get through this article. It repeatedly insists that "everyone" uses aggregators, when airlines and hotels sell much of their product directly. In particular, Southwest does not sell through aggregators at all and they are the highest volume US airline. Personally I refuse to book through aggregators because I don't want finger-pointing between aggregator and airline if something goes wrong.

I stopped reading when the article said travel agents are irrelevant for anyone but boutique wealthy travelers. A large amount of corporate and government travel is routinely booked through agents, who receive a routine fee.

Hard to believe there is anything good in this article when so much of it in the opening paragraphs is facially inaccurate.
What's missing in product analytics
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
Detroit's Dan Gilbert the Father, and Gilbert the Son
Yeah, I get that. That's why I added the proviso about ecosystem damage. I'm talking about designed ecosystems that process human waste into soil, plants, fish, and finally potable water.
"The mandatory degree("credentialing") is starting, in my opinion, to look more like institutional fraud than any honest attempt at teaching people anything."

New age indentured servants.
The smart immigrants will generate companies that the elderly individuals to be retrained to work at.
The inside story of a failed Google acquisition, and a hospitalized employee
Oh good! I'll have to do some research at some point to find out if this is literally the same thing as the os_lock that the Obj-C runtime uses, but either way, I'm glad it's available now.
What's f2p revenue model means? Is there any example /demo of gamified chatbot ?
RDMA can be rather challenging for a cloud provider, as it typically requires a lossless fabric. Cloud providers don't want to enable flow control on switches (to prevent packet drops) as that has the potential to deadlock the entire network if a buggy or malicious VM stops consuming traffic.

Heck, I took our corp. net down a decade back by causing a test machine to drop into a kernel debugger with flow control enabled on the switches and the test machine. All of a sudden, my remote access to the serial console kernel debugger froze, and I was cursing the flaky VPN. Then a second later, I had the 'Oh Crap, that was me!' realization.
>Many students attend college for reasons other than being interested in tech - they want to make money, they want to enjoy being young before entering the workforce, people told them that going to college is the thing to do.

God forbid people have an instrumental interest in getting one of the few decent jobs available?
Only if HN had RemindMe! 365 days "April Fools upvotes".
It doesn't really matter. The important point is that there is a percentage, not the exact value of it.
People don't matter, money does. The economy works for money, not the humans it was created to serve.
Creating a treeview in React
Interesting theory, however the Trump states are welfare states at the federal level. How should the blue state voters feel about supporting the ignorant and uneducated?

Unless personal responsibility in your view only applies to sex? I'll also add the same people who you say are so angry at supporting bastard children seem to take issue with providing universal access to birth control and the choice of abortion when necessary. Doesn't seem like a winning strategy to me.

> Holding people responsible for their actions is cheaper than bailing them out

And Plan B is cheaper than raising a child.
Fraud. The word you're looking for is fraud.
Hard to quantify. Some specific scenarios:

- It won't work in a loud bar

- It will almost always work in a car where you're the driver and there's a backseat conversation or the radio is on.

- It's fine with street/sidewalk noise.

- Not-terribly-loud coffee shops, stores, etc. are also usually just fine.
Who thinks that $2000 for a transatlantic trip is a good deal?

I just looked at Google flights and most offerings are under £400 return (GOA-JFK). Even in mid-august I struggled to find flights above £600. Either that guy is flying business (management consultant, maybe then) or he seriously got shafted on price.

Just had a look - premium economy is £900, business is almost £2000.

EDIT: Interesting, it gets a lot more expensive the other way around. Though Google does suggest Milan as an alternative route, which drops the price to £400 again. It seems like the hop from Genoa to the international hub makes the difference.

Or you could get a train from Milan, which is only 85 miles.
As with many things - fear that the AI will be wrong (no matter how less frequently this happens than with doctors) and a desire for a human to blame if there is a mistake. If a doctor makes a misdiagnosis and kills the patient as a result it is less bad than if an AI makes a misdiagnosis and kills the patient as a result. It's the one thing I don't understand about most of society.

Same with self driving cars. Self driving cars could be proven to be 100,000% safer than human drivers - but until it is legally mandated people will prefer humans behind the wheel because "what if the self driving car runs a red light and kills someone?" ignoring the hundreds and thousands of humans who run red lights and kill people.

>why we were not using algorithms to assist with diagnosis already.

On the bright side - we increasingly are! I think it's more an issue with budgeting and legal issues that it isn't as widespread.
What platforms exist for bad artists to monetise from their art?
Most startups in Malaysia use services like S3 storage and host their databases elsewhere, which are not based in Malaysia (usually Singapore, Japan, US, etc.) At my first startup job my boss insisted to never store any data in Malaysia because he was kinda paranoid. If a Malaysian startup does that is it still a concern for international users?

I'm Malaysian and I'm wondering what the perception is for an international user if a SaaS business is known to be from Malaysia.

For the record, bigwig companies like Grab had its roots in Malaysia. Only when they started getting big they moved to Singapore, perhaps due to such perception issues, and also talent.

Anyway, I've lived and grown up in Malaysia, and all I can say is that while the system ain't perfect, but daily life goes on with normalcy and I'm not so sure about the FUD portayed in comments.
Did you know that fetal viability outside of the womb now starts right after 21 weeks (although with a currently still low chance of survival)? At some point science will probably start figuring out the mechanics of gestation and - eventually - synthesise the whole process, at which point you could call it 'the end of woman' as well. What's left then? Maybe "The Matrix" was quite realistic, only, we're building it ourselves.
It's been this way for a long time. It's often cheaper to book directly from the airline than through an aggregator so it always pay to check (and use a tool like http://matrix.itasoftware.com to also look for fare prices)

It makes sense, it's not in the airlines or hotels best interest to give lower prices to external OTAs and by providing better fares on their website they cut the middleman. It's also the reason why hotel chain tend to not reward user with status and points if they book through an aggregator.
I can tell you that the aggregators were totally useless when booking a hotel in New York.

"$99 for a room!" Great!. Erm, for tonight. Only. It's "$299 for every other night". Not so great.

Eventually it became clear that staying in Connecticut and taking the train in was a huge improvement.
The lifecycle of aggregators may have some parallels with the fall of high-frequency trading. Eventually, the technology barrier to entry falls, incumbents fight back and the ecosystem rebalances.

Two topics missing from this article are AirBnB and low-cost airlines that fly to smaller airports. AirBnB does not compete with aggregators and cannot be shut out on the supply side by hotels. Do low-cost airlines (like Norwegian) benefit from customer discovery via aggregators?

Do aggregators change prices based on geographic location of the buyer? The article mentioned an experiment with higher prices for OSX buyers.
You responded with no argument or evidence. Glad you at least acknowledged they don't care about their own citizens and have a terrible human rights record.