skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many large applications that can benefit from jigsaw

What is it you need from Jigsaw that OSGI doesn't already provide?

Personally I'm ambivalent about Jigsaw. My main hope is that they don't f%!# up and create something that breaks existing OSGI implementations. As long as I can just ignore the new stuff and keep using my existing OSGI bundles - until such a time as I'm ready to embrace the Jigsaw stuff - then I'm not going to worry about this too much. But if they break OSGI with Java 9, I'm going to be incredibly pissed.
1.) Remote work is harder on management - you need to be much better organized and misunderstanding are more likely then in personal communication. Most startups don't have an experienced management making it even harder. It is not that management elsewhere would be super effective, but they tend to have basic processes in place which prevents worst chaos. Many startups live in that "worst chaos" situation.

2.) Remote work is easier when you have fixed analysis, easy to split into individual modules. Startups tend to be in more chaotic "figuring out what we are going to do", trying this and that to see what works phase - making it even more difficult.

3.) Major appeal of startups is lifestyle - ping pong table, staying together overnight, going to pub together and so on and so forth. Remote workers don't fit into that.
The power of the expert is to limit public access to knowledge and scare amateurs of, thus raising his value by means of artificial scarcity.

And that is how it worked in the past. Todays problem is, that to become a expert, one has to sacrifice years of life, just to gather all knowledge necessary to understand and contribute to a field.
Thus barriers are not only no longer needed, the sheer mass of knowledge works as a paywall against amateurs. This ocassionally lowers, when a completely new field is discovered, but in general this principle holds.

To allow amateurs to contribute something usefull again, they would have to study in there spare time, spend a lot of time on the subject - in there free time and then they- will become experts without titles. Thank you for those, internet.
Interesting that this gets no comments when usually Google related news get some discussion.

1.5B a year(or is it 1.5B just to start Calico?) seems like a lot of funding to produce something so important so secretly.
And here I thought minecraft was going to kill Lego off...
Ahh. I remember doing lots of TI82/83 calculator programming in Z80 and never considering using a C to Z80 compiler since it was so suboptimal. C was considered slow and a memory hog.
Most of these (other than the sprite routine) aren't that bad. Every byte counted when you only had 26KB free.
I am still waiting for someone to scrape all the images of naked people on reddit/imgur and do some classification based on the subreddit from which the image comes from. (For those who don't know: a lot of porn subreddits are _highly_ specific to a certain topic which might help for classification)
Sure, I agree that both Docker and k8s (at some level, k8s probably had to have a lot of that complexity to interface with Docker) are overengineered, and that there are better containerization processes/runtimes.

But I still don't think containers are what most people want. People need/want ultra-lightweight VMs with atomized state. NixOS looks promising but I haven't used it yet. It seems to give you a way to deterministically reason about your system without just shipping around blobs of the whole userland. You can also approximate this on other systems with a good scripting toolkit like Ansible.
It is nice, isn't it? I picked it up from 'dang:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22overheated%20discussion%22%...
People started using machine learning as a term to differentiate the goal from actual intelligence. They're not the same. Early work in AI was generally about achieving goals (aka A*, blocks world, etc), which is not the same thing as dimensionality reduction or clustering.
If you look at the lego patent: http://npopson.com/images/legowallpaper/LEGO_WP_1920x1200_WH...

There's clearly not any air-tight seal. Most of the nubs on the top of pieces only have 3 or 4 points of contact with the piece they're connected to.
It would be nice to have a superoptimizer for Z80 in a form of web tool. You provide a C expression to it and the tool will return in turn the shortest code sequence. Demosceners would love it.

Superoptimization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization

I found this long abandoned project which is described in non-English, see the examples on the bottom of the page: http://www.ricbit.com/mundobizarro/superopt.php
They shut down the email address unless you were grandfathered into it :(
My "networking" became 100x easier and more effective once I ditched "networking events" (not that I ever went to many) and made "friends of friends" networking through hikes/biking/dinner/etc. my main mode of expanding my circle of friendly knowledge worker acquaintances.

Also you form actual friendships from time to time.
"You look like you are from far away" will offend lots of minorities, because it smells of racism.

> He asks what many have asked before: “Where are you from?” I tell him Miami. He laughs and says, “No, but really. Where are you from from?” He mentions something about my features, my thin nose, and then trails off. I tell him my family is from Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, next to Ethiopia. He looks relieved. “I knew it,” he says. “You’re not black.” I say that of course I am. “None more black,” I weakly joke. “Not really,” he says. “You’re African, not black-black. Blacks don’t hike.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/2170266/solo-hiking-appalachia...
Cool build! I'm really interested in the classification process:

1) What's the input image resolution?

2) How many classes you have?

3) How many samples per class did you need to achieve acceptable accuracy?

4) How long did the training take? How many epochs did it require?
Data set no longer exists, Tinder probably sent a C&D. I did something similar with FB a while ago -- scraped all photos of people that "Liked" a certain topic. It's no longer possible.

Definitely feels wrong having such easy access to people's pictures; it leads to interesting questions: is your face PII? Do you have ownership rights to your face? What about facial recognition algorithms that use pictures you upload to FB, Instagram, Tinder, etc. to generate, e.g., Haar cascades?
Focing on your stress, avoiding inviting people over, it sounds like your problem is before your eyes. There will always be stress. How we see people depends mostly on how they handle it.
There is an advantage in layering components, or building new software on top of existing components.

However, a minor improvement or bugfix should be done in the component that is responsible for it. Creating another layer instead of fixing the problem is just creating more problems.
> sounds like a job for prime numbers!

And that's exactly how it was solved. The puffers are now spaced prime distances apart and that took care of that, it would be harder for a longer belt because then you'd start wasting an awful lot of space next to the belt.
I've transferred money between my Union Bank and USAA accounts multiple times for free. Wire transfers will get you, but if you do a regular transfer, it's usually free
Doing that forces you to focus on the trees instead of the forest. If you use an actual English word then you can compare gestalts, which is typically more important. That allows you to understand the emotional impact, etc.
You only need to be afraid they will use it in ways you may not approve and may not even know of.
Can't use MT from nl...
If you have a Bloomberg terminal, you get access to a message board much like Craigslist. If you want to rent out your yacht, that's the place to go.
Boring, used cars, picked carefully from Craig's List.

On the plus side, they've been super reliable, don't look bad and cost + maintenance works out to a bit less than $1,000 a year.
You may be partly right.

But self-driving cars will enable a sort of ad-hoc, on demand carpooling style 'mass' transit: something like ten-passenger vans that deliver commuters from similar downtown areas to similar home neighborhoods. If only ten percent of commuters switched to that method, taking ten cars off the road and replacing it with one van, the volume of traffic drops immediately to 91% of what it was. That alone, plus significantly smarter, denser, more efficient, networked AI driving, will hugely reduce gridlock.

And at some point as more jobs get automated, and the jobs that remain human-accessible become more knowledge-based and less presence- and specific time-based, we'll move away from the huge spikes in traffic at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., spreading traffic volumes more evenly out across the day.
What's the difference? And why does it matter?
Not sure why the downvotes, I asked a legitimate question. Oh well.
Banks really aren't that much better. My employer is based in the US, and it took around 3 weeks for their bank to setup the wire transfer to pay me here in Europe.

As such they sent my first pay cheque via Paypal. As it was a large amount my account was limited, but after uploading the documents and a quick phone call (their phone support are a lot better than their email and chat support), my funds were unfrozen.
Sorry, I didn't mean to start this discussion.

I just wanted to point out that Internet due to its global nature is vulnerable to attack on truth by actors with enough money and defined agenda. This kind of attack can be similar to spam/ddos attack in its nature. So basically exploiting Internet freedom.

If we don't build in mechanisms to prevent this, we will loose anyway. Even if it was possible to keep Internet free.

I see that the only positive result of my comment is that it motivated you and several Russian readers to create accounts here and take part in discussion. I hope we will have much more opportunity to participate in IT related topics. You guys are some of the best people in the field and we will all benefit from your expertise.
Why do people always say this, "a metric [shit] ton"? It's within about 10% of a regular ton.
If it helps, Circle is now usable for UK people. I think it's one of the few that makes UK<>US payments easy.

Square Cash is not available in the UK for example. The US has a much larger choice. Unsure about other countries, sorry.
I think a Golomb ruler would be a good start for spacing.
Show HN: Allign.us – Crowd sourcing corporate values
I've not heard of privacy.com, but I'll definitely take a look. This post has been useful for a lot of people, and it's been great to find a load of new useful services.
Yeah, that'll be really useful.
Wallflowers stand by the wall because they are afraid of rendering themselves vulnerable, which is perhaps the most important element in building meaningful relationships in life. I don't know what's the root cause of this fragility but I agree it's systemic issue, and one that can quickly morph into something nastier i.e Troll culture, Redpill misogyny, Alt-right hate, and ethnic/religious fundamentalism in minority communities.
Not many people are big enough to sue PayPal, and if they are, they probably aren't using it.
China, Russia, Eastern Europe,South America.
This is good for techie types like me who unintentionally talk down to people in ways like this.
Really, what I learned from this is that people don't focus on solving problems, but covering their own ideas/interests, which are somewhat misguided. I can change the circumstances (software instead of mining, servers/people instead of equipment) and it looks like any number of situations I've been in before that could be solved, if the people actually wanted to solve it.

Sure, think of the impossible. But really, it's hard to get people to do what they admit they believe to be impossible. Not because it's impossible, but because they simply don't want to do it (and will undermine it at the next possible opportunity).
Interesting! If I wanted the account back I'd be tempted to fight back, but there's nothing to gain.
It's not a brain transplant, its a body transplant!
American Girl Dolls Play Kahoot
1) 640x242

2) the 1000 most common lego parts, 'other' and 'mess'. In the end the idea is to get to 20K classes and to sort directly into sets. This is very much a pipe dream at the moment but I think it is doable given a large enough set of samples. The problem is that you have to see all those parts at least a hundred times or so before it gets detected reliably.

3) too little :( The training data is still woefully insufficient but it is now good enough to bootstrap the rest. This took a while to achieve because without any sorted lego to begin with you have nothing to train with. So the first 20Kg or so were sorted by hand and imaged on the sorter without any actual sorting happening (everything into the run-off bin), then labeling the results by hand until the accuracy of the test set (500 parts or so) went over 80%. That was a week ago and since then it's been improving steadily day-by-day.

4) one training run per night, typically a few 100 epochs on the current set but, this will change soon. The machine is now expanding the training set rapidly with associated improvement in accuracy. This means that the training sessions are taking longer and longer but I'll be running fewer of them. What I'll probably do is offload training to one machine which will drop off a new set once per week or so and inference on another which is doing the sorting and capturing the new training data.

Checking the logged images for errors still takes up a bit of time though, but with the current error rate that is very well manageable. (Before it was an endless nightmare).
i said decentralized, not distributed. decentralization has plenty of room for centers, the point is not to have just one. having specialized service providers is fine, the problems start to crop up when we don't have real choices. for natural monopolies, i'd argue that a cooperative model would work well.
Articles subheadline: "On the internet, no one can see your Rolex" Perhaps they're on a different internet where pictures and video aren't popular.

I met some pretty cool people at the last ASMallWorld event I went to in Gstaad. Like any social event, some people will be interesting, some will be pompous, some both. You need to sort the wheat from the chaff on your own.

I'd much rather associate with great minds behind a common goal, than by status of wealth. Wealth isn't that great of a filter by which to group peoples' interests.

That being said, success leaves clues, and people who've earned their success financially often have lots of interests stories to tell and lessons to teach. Those that inherit their wealth, it seems, are soon to be parted from it.

There's a place for networking, and there's a place for networking with people similar to you. That being said, I think you're better off focusing on your mission, and letting people attract to you, than you are doing the jetset thing.

Remember these "clubs" are businesses, and they're there to make money on you.
Don't be shy, what's your tool?
Experiments without informed consent. While Tinder might have something in their T&C which requires that they're allowed to look at the data, it isn't ethical for third parties to scrape and use that same data without informed consent.

Interestingly though, I wouldn't think the same of an instagram scrape. Probably because insta is public by design, while tinder is expected to be local, requires a login and ostensibly is for the purpose of looking for companionship.
What weighs more, a metric shit ton or a metric feather ton?
half way through the article the writers let drop that the founder of BOAW's previous attempt was A small world.
Which failed as it became commoditized.
Interesting I had never heard of the term. Thank you for the pointer!
Pretty tasteless array name in there: `for hoe in hoes:` which exposes the base mentality of the coder.
So we are at large violently agreeing. :)

It is nonsensical because I know it doesn't. I grant that that is a learned thing.

I do question how folks thought that it could do this. If you pass it n bytes with no null, how should it pick where to start putting the nulls? Last byte is somewhat intuitive, but then the behaviour will lead to string corruption pretty quickly.
> If you play the Hitler card at least get it right.

NPD is a German right wing party that was founded 1964 and is nothing like the NSDAP that you meant.

Fun fact: NPD was not forbidden in Germany due to too much involvement of the Verfassungsschutz (German secret service for everything inside Germany) - they paid so much money to informants on the extreme right that they managed to build solid structures in large parts of the country.
If you're a hacker, I've heard good things about this:

http://ledger-cli.org/

I have no personal experience of it, and I would welcome feedback from other HNers.
Nowadays scraping is the Uber of data collection . You will be fraught with legal problems with the dataset and people will block you if you become a big enough problem.
We need to stop giving out our facial pictures freely. Just post the back of your head.

I had a relative who went to a dentist last week. The dentist wanted a head shot. I told her, just tell him no, and unless your going to just accept what my insurance sends you, I'll find another Wingnut.

Giving up our pictures is just crazy.

As to companies protecting data sets, there's always a work around. Taking a picture of the screen will always be available.
At argument here is only if it safer. Not if it is safe.

Think of it as the argument that sharper knives are safer than duller ones. Certainly not true for untrained users. But widely true for trained ones.
My initial response.
A big solar flare might do the trick.
> Moral of the story: rich people will always want to show off that they are rich.

I think you mean, "Some rich people are insecure enough that they want to show off that they are rich."

Amex caters to this very well: they play the whole "prestige" thing but if you have a "higher-level" card for the benefits (platinum, black) they are happy to issue you an ordinary green one you can use so people won't guess your wealth.
One of the problems is that they're shipping dead trees. No way is this economically sustainable these days. They should have gone all digital and raised their prices long ago.

Let's do some math - how many subscribers do they need to break even if they pare down staff, go all digital, and raise their price a bit? Hand-wavy numbers for minimal viable staffing, but should be order of magnitude correct:

$ 600,000 Freelancers, $5K per article, 20 articles/issue, 6 issues/year
$ 200,000 2 editorial
$ 100,000 1 marketing person, online marketing savvy
$ 100,000 2 support staff (clerical, PA, etc)
$ 200,000 2 management/fundraising/operations staff
$ 100,000 1 webmaster/IT person
$ 100,000 outsourced services (HR, payroll, website hosting, etc)

$1,400,000 annual burn rate assuming a minimal staff to run just the online magazine and dump print (I acknowledge they have other expenses, but let's ignore them for now)

If you charge $60 for an annual subscription - very reasonable for the content - they would need 23333.33 subscribers to break even.

They got $1.2 million last year in grants, some $9.5 million in funding since 2012. If they can't manage to attract 24K subscribers with that kind of funding they don't deserve to stay in business no matter how good their content is.

I love their content, but they need somebody who knows how to run a business to be in charge.
Hacker News is the only elite organization I like hanging out at!!

All things aside, HN always seems to be so serious in its discussion about content, and I never get the opportunity to say how much I appreciate this place.
This is really neat and impressive.

>also it would take lots of bins and there are some details that are important to get right that are almost invisible to the camera).

I wonder if you could build something that would use a small number of bins (maybe just two) and multiple passes.

The first pass could just get an inventory and just show you what sets it could build toward (with emphasis on sets that are the most profitable, closest to completion, or your favorites). The second pass would split off legos that are a part of the set(s) that are trying to be built.

You could also pass along what you think was a completed set again at the end to check for mistakes.
>Busy beaver machines are, by definition, non-halting machines

Is this an error? I thought busy beaver must halt?
Some further explanation:

In the Weimar Republic (the German state between the two worlds wars) the Reichskanzler (head of government) was not elected directly by the people. Instead, people voted for parties. The head of state was the President, and it was him who appointed the Reichskanzler.

In January 1933, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Reichskanzler of Germany.
The controversy regarding Mendel is now out of date. It was mostly a clash of power from people who disregarded results coming from someone who was so obviously out of the system.

Dammit you're right about Pauling, it's a typo and I'll correct it. Thanks for it.

For their "amateur" venture into biology. The idea occurred to me while reading "the double helix". Watson consistently repeat that they were not insiders from the field. And more than the X-Ray diffraction results, it was the "stupid" 3D wooden models inspired by Pauling who helped to achieve faster and better results than the other teams. I'll add it also.
> You started by saying that ethical codes were responsible for stopping most/much of the bad things lawyers could do.

Would you care to tell me where I said that? Because I don't see that at all.

Reviewing the bidding, gregwtmtno, a lawyer, said maybe we could use a professional code of ethics like his profession had. SomeStupidPoint suggested that ethics didn't matter to lawyers, and his proof was naming some things lawyers did that he thought were bad.

My point was that one can't say that legal professional ethics is totally worthless just because of when they've failed (or at least failed to prevent things you dislike). You have to look at its successes as well as its failures.
"you wouldn't download an image"
Somebody being surprised that you don't know what a stack is is a super useful cue for anybody serious about a topic, telling them to learn something new.

This rule is therefore harmful to learning and IMO bullshit.
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I suspect the so-called Allied powers are trying to instigate a war, but we will not be provoked.

> i read gp as using quizzical as a verb

That reading of gp's intent, while plausible, still involves an in-apt usage of the word. At best, you might say "This makes me quizzical", but that would still be an awkward way to express your doubts about the validity of the argument.
whats the difference between this and using Chrome's built in responsive tools? (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/devi...)
PayPal told me I was 'violating sanctions against Iran' - an accusation I think I will never understand because I mostly used PayPal to buy stuff from HumbleBundle at the time.. - and upon showing them id they froze my account because I was < 18. It's been years since, and my account is still frozen, although I've attempted to get it back a couple of times.

Don't use paypal.
> BOAWs website doesn't look all that great + their iOS apps haven't been updated in 2+ years. I'm not saying it couldn't be an amazing community, but unless someone jumps in here and tells me they're a user and it's amazing, I'd be suspicious.

I agree, but consider the Vertu phones: really shitty old Nokias caked in diamonds. Even once modern smartphones came out they continued to sell $20K feature phones -- and some clowns bought them.

Personally, whenever I hear the words "prestige" or "luxury" I turn away.