skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benevolent dictatorship being represented by any pixel rendered image you find to be "benevolent" presumably.

Compare the r/places output to MDH and http://media.cntraveler.com/photos/56d0aee058d9a8773c109eb2/... and you'll probably establish a consensus for the "benevolent dictator" made art above the others?
Yeah, I agree that countries shouldn't start space programs purely for the sake of spending money domestically, but there are actual benefits to having a space program, and as long as you're doing it, there are benefits to doing it domestically even if it's more expensive.
That was the most surprising thing for me when I went to check out the Silicon Valley area a couple of years ago. I have no idea why so many people choose to work there. It looks like suburbia mixed in with a bit of industrial wasteland. I really enjoyed San Francisco but the commute must be hell every morning if you choose to live there.
Understanding the Limits of Deep Learning
Designers must understand the media they work in. Design involves tradeoffs and accommodations for practical limits. A designer who doesn't understand the capabilities of the systems they design for is destined to produce bad designs. You can't understand the limits of CSS unless you can work with it.

Imagine if Apple hardware designers depended on their manufacturers to tell them what's achievable with aluminum and glass. Instead Apple has a small manufacturing facility in their design studio so the designers can iterate rapidly and actually understand what is possible.
We'll get to find out soon with Westinghouse... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/03/31/westingho...
Design Patterns to Improve Your Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
This is one of many features i much appreciate in Mac OS X. Active corners is another powerful features that makes window managing and file moving a bliss. I find macOS much stickier than iOS. I can go without my iPad but not without my mac.
Disagree about VR. GPU power will finally reach the point where 3D is commonplace. 3D UI and 3D animations will be the biggest new trend.
Air New Zealand has a great secret Snapchat filter.  how to unlock it
Ask HN: Safety features in smartphones
Is iOS or Android working on safety features like bricking the phone display when somebody is moving. I would like something like that in a phone once my middle school kid starts using it.
Shocked Ash Thorp had anything to do with the remake, thought he understood the original film better than this. Taking his self initiated GITS project into consideration.
Being up front about it, and opt-in.
I don't think the latter is the job of UX. I think it may be the job of AI.

I'm imagining that a few decades from now everyone will have a personal AI "guardian angel"/personal assistant, which filters and defangs online bullshit, distills the most useful/effective information using its own context aware initiative, and presents it in a form that's customised to be ideal for individuals, given a lifetime of knowledge of each user combined with broader deep insight modelling to maintain an evolving psych profile.

Of course this could go horribly wrong. But it's an interesting idea which could be the basis for a Next Generation AI OS - something that isn't just about maintaining files, running processes on threads, and managing a GUI, but is which is psychologically sophisticated and maybe even appears more mature and informed than its owner.

Humans are more similar than different, and so are human problems. In the same way that online text has replaced dead media text in a literal way, AI could replace the content and insight of both dead media text and social learning with dynamic evolving summary models.
Having a corpus of live "test" requests for rebuilding an API is a compelling enough use case to justify infinite retention, in my opinion. Perhaps relevantly to your prior gig: "did we handle that weird Sony Bravia API call from five years ago in this redesign? Yes we did." I'm implying a little more structure to logging, though, because it sounds like you're thinking about random strings emitted from binaries (which I think are also approachable, to an extent). This overlaps with PII and such, though, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

More than once I've run the entire corpus of requests to a system, ever, through a dummy rebuild as a pretty great integration test. It's a powerful SRE tool. Spelunking through all historical data is just icing on that cake, honestly. As the author says, SRE is basically just an information factory; I'd be haaaaaard pressed to agree with you on throwing away a lot of information -- you don't know what you don't know until you want to know it -- and betting all-in on monitoring. Retaining logs is not the hardest problem SRE deals with, either, but SREs turn around and force unrealistic latency requirements on the query side (I see a lot of ELK deploys running into this).

You have to look at it as an Oracle. Oh, great Oracle of a pile of meaningless logs, cook off this map/reduce and tell me an interesting number that I can put in a Keynote for executives. Definitely not dashboarding from logs data. That's an impedance mismatch that Google gets away with because of the nature of their logging.
Not sure about the nuclear reactor non-sequitur, but with a physical device like a razor blade you can buy spares, buy 3rd party, or move on.

When an IoT maker adds 'cloud' to their product and makes it inextricably tied to the product's functionality, you have to be able to rely on their ability and willingness to maintain the cloud services for as long as you use the product.
That's a pretty big difference... 6% of the population versus 0.1%. For reference at the peak of the Great Depression homelessness in the US was around 1.5%
Wow. So Boston only had 7% of the tech job-growth in 2015. That explains a lot.
I get the gist of what you're saying, but I disagree. That's something like 7% of their population. Not 0.2%. I doubt we can draw a clear line on when a space program is responsible spending, but I bet 7% needing food aid is way over it.
> One being that everyone has an opinion as to how something should work. Unless someone has years of widely-recognized, valid experience/expertise in design, who's to say if one person's instincts are better than another's?

Test and measurement. The proof should be in the pudding. If one design converts better, signs up more customers, brings in more revenue, etc. than another, it should win. "Rely on designers' hunches" is not a repeatable process.
Dermatology, eye conditions, blood cells, tissue, viruses, urine, saliva, everything that can allow an app to give you a first diagnose before heading to the doctor.

I foresee in less than ten years we will have a doctor in our pockets. No, it won't cure us and it won't replace a doctor, but it will give us all the information we need to have a 99% certainty of our condition.

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Second batch for animals and their conditions.

Third batch, agriculture. Take a pic of a plant and tell me all the info, fertilizers, cultivation, etc, bonus for pest id and treatment.

Pocket computers should be able to diagnose every living creature.
They made it so that you could still use django's "render helpers" and things like the middleware directly, and just replace the 'render the template file' part.

Before you could always call a third-party rendering library, but it usually meant you wouldn't get things like the Django context renderers or template file lookup by default
I think you're assuming a somewhat redeemable codebase. For most I'd be guessing it's a choice between completely rewriting the drivers or a never ending game of wack-a-mole. Management will see both options as costing a lot and delivering zero value.
Payless ShoeSource is filing for bankruptcy
> Also, damn, that email from the CEO about his private Twitter. That's completely out of line.

It was a tweet regarding his company's platform, but using a competitor's. The e-mail really was not that bad, and that is what he should have linked. It would have been one thing if the e-mail was a massive rant-fest, and did nothing but berate him. I saw it more of "hey, do this instead next time" kind of thing.

> (also, curious note: this comment went from 4 points to zero in less than five minutes. Hmmmm.)

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I agree that being queer shouldn't be political, but as long as millions of people's politics are centered on being anti-LGBT, simply being out of the closet is a political act whether we like it or not.
I'd say at the very least, the heartbeat should be spawned asynchronously. As it is, someone DOS-ing your API could cause problems for every user.
As a Chicago-to-SV transplant for whom Silicon Valley was mecca, SF often felt lightweight, almost like a parody or cargo-cult version of what companies in Silicon Valley were doing.

I realize that that's not fair, but not more unfair than imagining that SF's culture is objectively better.
Actually, I live in the middle of my city. I grew up in NYC and a rural town and settled in a mid sized city.

The pattern is pretty clear, people stick around until kindergarten or middle school. At that point, 50% leave, 25% catholic school, 25% stick around.
There's no single f(x) for which finiteness of the solution set is independent from all axiom systems. (We can always just add an axiom saying f(x) has finitely many solutions.) Chaitin shows something different, an f(x,y) for which finiteness of solution set in x for a given y becomes independent from more and more axiom systems as y grows (because it encodes larger and larger instances of the halting problem). That doesn't disagree with my intuition at all, in fact it seems obvious.
The 2016 Panic Report
While we're at it, can we kill the fixed headers that waste 10-20% of my screen space on every page?

I already know what website I'm on, thanks.
Seems to me like a pretty severe underestimation of augmented reality. Even the most basic feature of simulating multiple, large monitors in one's visual field is enough to push it into the mainstream– at least among creative professionals like developers, engineers, and designers. The current technologies seem to be well within five years of doing that well, and we still haven't seen anything from Magic Leap or Apple. Based on the opinions expressed, I'd hazard to guess the author of this article hasn't even tried a hololens...
That type of data is hard to get and hard to release publicly. But if you play with the tool, you can see that across both HMOs and PPOs, San Francisco County is way more expensive than LA (even when taking into account a risk adjustment). So this may be indicative of a geographic market issue.

http://costatlas.iha.org/map?m0=TCCCOMP&p0=HMOPOS&m1=TCCCOMP...
> What happens​ if the company goes out of business, Or the company decides to terminate support?

I agree with you completely. Devices that rely on external servers are not OK. My house's automation uses IoT devices that host their own servers, and/or communicate with those locally that do. I had to build them myself since no company I could find offered anything like this. I'm not a snowflake either, other engineers have done the same.

Currently, IMO, the only reasonable solution to home automation is to do everything yourself, from absolute scratch. Commercial solutions are a combination of insidious spyware and stuff that will become useless when the company becomes acquired, dies, or gets mad at you and shuts down a server.
It's not hard to imagine how this might be bad in an alternate universe. But i still dont see how it is going to matter in this universe where Bob doesn't stop shopping at Target or DSW after a big breach and where Alice does not research WiFi chip security history when she goes to buy a toss away IoT device.
Something like Beaker? (www.beakernotebook.com)
I still haven't found a game which properly does a 3D UI, let alone a piece of productivity software. Even games which attempt 3D ultimately end up with 2.5D UIs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036353
Now I've spent decades in silicon valley; I've interviewed a lot in San Francisco, and I've gone to SF for the 'better' nightlife, and I think that the cultural differences are dramatic there, too.
When I interview in San Francisco? I'm often the oldest technical individual contributor, and I'm often the fattest person in the building. I also am the least stylish. I'm 35 or so, and have BMI in the neighborhood of 30; I mean, I'm fat, no argument, and I don't put much effort into dressing, but in Silicon Valley? I am pretty normal on all of those axis.
My experience with the nightlife is similar. I mean, well, most of SF still makes me feel fat, socially and stylistically awkward and slightly foreign. Most of the time when I go out in SF, I get the stink-eye for not knowing how, or not putting in the effort to figure out how to dress myself properly.

When I go out in silicon valley? I see other people in free t shirts still wearing work badges. Everyone treats me well, as long as I make a basic effort towards politeness. Nobody expects me to be stylistically or socially skilled, as long as I put out that basic effort. I go to my favorite bar, and not only are there no tv screens, I am not the only one reading.

Essentially, silicon valley is for people like me. This is both why people like me like it, and also why people in San Francisco look down on it.
Trauma is the leading cause of mortality for people under 40 years old in the US, however it is very poorly funded in terms of research dollars compared to things like cancer, HIV etc.

Datasets are limited and expansion with AI would be huge.

One specific application - determining cost effectiveness of placing tourniquets in public places - much like the idea of having defibrillators at the mall. And funding community training, see the "Stop the Bleed" campaign.
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Before Xi-Trump Meeting
seL4 is written in C and is formally proven correct. If you aren't down doing that kind of extensive work (and nobody using Linux, AFAIK, is), C makes me really, really nervous and should make you really, really nervous too.
Like Beaker Notebooks?
You mean Time Square at Causeway Bay?
This data doesn't come from Chargemasters - it comes from claims data, aggregated and averaged over all members, so it is real data showing what the average cost per member is over a year.
Doesn't apply here. 83(b) Election only applies to restricted stock. Because he was fired He can only exercise the part that vested, which is not restricted anymore.

With stock options you only file 83(b) Election when you do an early exercise.
Water Cannons, Tear Gas Repel Venezuela Anti-Maduro Protest
Interesting thanks!
> This is as foreign a concept from traditional networking and the seven layer OSI model

cough cough what? One of the major challenges for a CDN is predicated upon OSI layers 1 and 2: You need to establish POPs with routers and caching servers geographically distributed near major IX points (L2 peering fabrics, and crucial buildings that host the same IX points, where you can run intra-building fiber crossconnects for network-to-network interfaces to provide settlement free peering to major ISPs). The internet is physically built out of a great deal of equipment at layer 1.

In the case of Google, you need to have a team of people who care about things like cost-effectively building intra-datacenter 100GbE layer 2 connections between Google, and large content sinks (eyeball) ISPs such as Charter/TWTC or similar.

Hand waving around and saying "we've built some new software to improve how we efficiently deliver BGP sessions to edge peers" is cool and all, but don't mistake it for some radical change. It is all still built on top of things like 2 megawatt diesel generators, massive battery plants, DWDM line terminals, dark fiber, etc.
Forgot about this:

https://github.com/NeuroTechX/awesome-bci#brain-databases
Yes, I think that's it- thank you very much!
Our current world can be reasonably described as full-blown cyberpunk scene.
it doesn't necessarly need to be adult themed. /r/WritingPrompts/ subreddit has more than 10.5 millions subscribers!

* sorry about that, do you want me to write to your boss ?:D
> 1. What percentage of Android devices download apps exclusively from Play? They don't say. I, for one, have quite a few not so technical friends who sideload stuff.

I also have an anecdote to share. The only app I've sideloaded and helped others sideload was the one I created myself. Out of 10 teenagers who are the most probably to tinker, 0 of them usually install apps from sources outside of the play store.
Or no phone at all. I don't believe they have been made compulsory, so far.
Do NOT take Code management system, or bug tracking systems, for granted.

Even if you're on a multi-million / many-year project.

Dante missed several circles....
> I'd point to things like Helicobacter pylori causing ulcers. Decades of dogmatic thinking.

This is tangential, but huh? H. Pylori was never to my knowledge believed to be the only cause of gastric ulcers. It is definitely correlated and eradication resolves the disease for some patients. Eradication also reduces stomach cancer risk by about half.
Why does moz://a need to post this? This reads like a MacRumours post.
Whether the substance of this is true or not, it seems unwise to have posted it. It probably felt good to write, but now there's a real risk that future employers will perceive it as a negative signal. ("If we hire this guy, will he air all our dirty laundry in public if it doesn't work out?")

I have thoughts about whether his perceptions are accurate, but I mostly just want to say: kids, if you're thinking of writing something like this, probably don't. Go out for drinks with a friend and vent one on one instead.
Relevant to this discussion about 'entropy and life' is the relation between the second law of thermodynamics and the purpose of life that this article presents : https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/03/scientific-concepts...

Original article : https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27023
It is important, I think, for outsiders to understand. The sort of person who is happy in San Francisco might not be happy in silicon valley, and the person who is happy in silicon valley might not be happy in San Francisco. In fact, I suspect most people that are happy in one would not be happy in the other.

This isn't to say one is better than the other, but one is almost certainly better than the other for you.
That is good feedback! Thanks!
We are still exploring selling ideas. We are currently integrating Sherloq with the coral project, which will allow companies like The Washington Post use our service. We are also exploring online games and integration with big social networks, where we can help the companies moderate content generated on their Facebook page, for example.
Also we are trying to contact Clever, that will allow us to offer this service for schools.
As I said, lots of possibilities. Currently trying to get as much feedback from as many users as we can.
What is it that sucks about Terminal.app that iTerm2 fixes?
REST doesn't have a uniform interface in practice, either.

I haven't read the dissertation so I can't really comment on the hypothetical REST (though it is on my reading list now, and not that it really stops anyone else), I can only comment on what, in the real world, passes for a "REST API".

"REST" principles certainly sound nice on paper, but for the most part, it's clear that they're completely implausible to realize in a wide-scale, meaningful way. After over a decade of pro-REST propaganda, people still can't even tell if their interface is "RESTful" or not.

The parts of "REST" that have worked are the two simple basics of HTTP: GETting a resource to read it, or POSTing a resource to write it. Nothing else has really stuck or can be expected to have a uniform meaning (and even POST's behavior will vary, with some doing an upsert-style operation and some accepting it only for new writes and using PUT and/or PATCH for edits). 200 OK means it worked most of the time, but sometimes people will return a plaintext error with it. 404 might mean that the resource is not found, or it might mean that the route is not found/no longer valid (or that it was called with invalid or improperly encoded parameters). There are a bunch of esoteric codes that are used to mean a lot of different things, always depending on who the implementer is.

So the "uniform interface" is just that everyone is using HTTP, to mean all sorts of different things. In practical terms, it doesn't really amount to much, except a lot of blathering over whether something conforms with a theoretical ideal that everyone has already demonstrated they're unwilling to conform to.
- You're tired of people constantly being offended by everything.

- You like commitment and people who can make up their mind.

I hear these a lot, but this hasn't been my experience at all. The people I meet are rarely offended and don't flake out on me.
Doesn't inspire confidence in the platform...
I can't tell if this is satire?
So... what I'm reading is that a whole new attack vector for angry teenagers will be to mess up your display in a way designed to make you puke?

Thrilling.
One potential problem with this - the question of liability, and who is responsible for diagnostic accuracy? In this case, for some "Lab on a Chip" device providing a patient directly with diagnostic information without the vetting of a human doctor, liability would sit with the company.

IBM's Watson at MD Anderson Cancer center did not work out real well for them. In other words, using AI in the realm of medical diagnostics is very difficult.
It's the 409A valuation, not the funding amount, that matters. 409A value is usually much much less than the funding round.
http://www.geektime.com/2017/04/04/matrix-org-brings-cross-p... provides another take on this, fwiw, highlighting that the battle for an open VR web has to happen right now if we're to avoid a closed and fragmented future like we have today with instant messaging.
The interview mentions "the catastrophic flood in 2100" in the context of the book, so it sounds like the book includes a runaway problem at some point.
Agree. Here is a rant from me expressing the same sentiment from a while ago https://jcooney.net/post/2008/06/08/Data-grids-lack-of-imagi...