skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that is the rub, isn't it. How some mind (or system) experiences something is the very definition of subjective. How to measure that objectively?

Imagine somebody makes a mind out of machine learning. Passes the turing test and more. It reports to "feel", ie to have qualia. Is it parroting what it hears/reads from humans? Or does it actually have a feeling when you show it an image of a sunset? At what breakpoint do you place your debugger and inspect if it is so?
> Style Check keeps your look on point using advanced machine learning algorithms and advice from fashion specialists. Submit two photos for a second opinion on which outfit looks best on you based on fit, color, styling, and current trends.

Taking narcissism, insecurity, and invasion of privacy to the next level. Well done, Amazon!

Now that we're replacing mirrors with cameras, what's next? Covering our windows with screens that show us what's outside? Maybe they can use machine learning to judge the weather and recommend outfits based on current trends and conditions!

The Juicero inventors are going to be kicking themselves when they see this thing. "Replacing a simple everyday process with an over-complicated piece of technology. Brilliant! I can't believe we didn't think of that!"
If I have to guess a business model:

They get a good deal on the commission and they get enough money from the gold subscribers to cover the commissions across all users.

A fix subscription package is user friendly and easy to understand. It can be "better" for business than a variable commission on trades.
Pardon my rudeness, but what is the monetization strategy here?
Hi folks, I'm one of the creators of Upstream. We'll try to be around all day to answer any questions you might have. We're feeling pretty nervous, but excited to get your feedback!
This looks nice! I'd also perhaps add very crude deleting functionality; perhaps a way to delete comments via CLI by a unique identifier that is shown on the top right of every comment. Just so that spam posts can be dealt with, without needing a full-blown account system.
They seem to imply that humans may see your Style Check photos (ostensibly "our team of experienced fashion specialists" for machine learning purposes). I'm wondering a bit if that team of fashion specialists is Mechanical Turk?
None of this makes any sense: Where did you get this information? You should ask for your money back:

>(100% - 10%) * 2 * $4.55 + $0.40, and pays that out to it's shareholders/managers

>(twice, because once in cash, one in a share)

>can we borrow against that ?", and the next bank say "sure ! if we can do the same

> Since this also counts as reserves

> pay 90% out to their shareholders.

> if the market were to gasp drop even slightly

> Assuming 10% reserve ratio (which is on the high end, usually either 2 or 4%)
I was attempting to build on your contributions, but I decided to do it the same level as your comment because it made more sense to address SomeStupidPoint directly.

Attempt at constructive criticism: I think your answers were a little too concise for some members of this audience and I decided to help out by expanding on your points a little.

I've factored your comment about input energy into the lasers in my reply above.
By default (with chrome) a service worker will cache the app for offline use. If Chrome didn't asked you, just add the page to your homescreen.
That doesn't matter, though. What I'm talking about is that you can throw a granade next to a soldier, and he'll still be able to think and make decisions. That means he got trained to not let his amphibian brain take over when under stress. That's in some regards what you need if you want to learn debugging. Don't the stress of the too complex problem stop you from thinking. Go step by step.

I bet you can teach that without all the bad associations people have about the military.
Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks
I mean, the grsecurity guys aren't the PAX guys.
This looks very very strange. I can see the appeal of the regular Echo, but this..?
Q: How do we get an always-on internet connected camera in the bedrooms of attractive women?

A: Alexa Echo Look
I'm not normally one to be creeped out by these kind of things. But this is a device that's designed to take photos and videos of you while you get dressed, and will be both connected to the internet and constantly communicating those images over the network.

This feels like a device literature professors would use to teach dystopian fiction writing.

edit: case in point - matthewmcg's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14203772
The long play is that it actually doesn't cost significant money per trade at an institutional level. The only reason the other major brokers charge you money is because it covers their brick and mortar retail costs (e.g. Scottrade) and it adds to the bottomline (e.g. Etrade). So Robin Hood is actually just giving this surplus to the consumer instead of keeping it for themselves, and building a user base / brand in the process. Eventually once they have enough users, they will start to up sell you for other services (e.g. checking/savings, margin trading, options trading, check writing etc).
Sorry you'll have to deal, for undergrad I double majored CS and Philosophy. That's literally my favorite 2-sentence section in the entire article, and I spent about 45 minutes to an hour revising just that section for flow and meaning. I am going to cry now.
Endless loop with robot and toy train
I'm getting old or paranoid or both... This seems like a terrifying device to have sitting randomly in my master closet.
Yeah I don't understand the $4500 price. Is that per dose? Or is it some sort of reusable device? Either way it is hard to see that being a viable competitor.
Do the compiled JSON files have direct compatibility with any JS argument parsing libraries? I read through everything and it wasn't clear to me whether you are on your own once you get the JSON or if there is an automated way to make use of these.

It's an awesome project in either case, but it would be incredibly useful if this could somehow be a stepping stone towards a more language agnostic way of defining command-line interfaces. I do a fair bit of language hopping and it can be frustrating how much the quality of argument parsing frameworks varies between language ecosystems. It's even worse from a user perspective when a utility's interface was obviously determined by the limitations of its language or argument parsing library.
One of the interesting things that Utah does is called "Housing First." As with most things, there are pros and cons to the program. However, Utah's analysis apparently exaggerated the affect that this program had on homelessness (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-corinth/think-utah-solve...). Regardless, what you say is correct and valid. Utah seems to care about addressing multiple issues and not just the appearance of homelessness. I hope other cities, states, and/or municipalities build upon what Utah has done.
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1984 taken as a howto strikes again?
And remember that this is by the company that has a 600 million dollar contract with the CIA[0]. Or in more accurate terms: the known upfront amount is 600 million.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
> To avoid colds and flus it’s important to vacuum yourself daily. We recommend Dyson.

That dog looks so happy. If only human happiness were so easy.
"But as far as training people to handle COBOL, well, that's simple. Look at vocational schools of years past. Why can't you train a random person just how to do COBOL? "

You can. Our local, community college ties its classes to what industry in the area wants. It has classes on COBOL, RPG, and so on. That's because there's quite a bit of it out here in big companies.
yeah, this is very suspicious. I just can't think how "fashion critic" is actually what motivated this.
I'm one of the creators too. We're excited to see what you think.
I think they are trying to find ways to reduce returns on clothing here. Crazy high percentages of clothing get returned... and why not? To be competitive with retail stores, online stores have to offer free shipping and returns. Try it on, if you don't like it... send it back. Very costly to the seller.

Having a bot tell you, "You are pear-shaped, don't use pants with pockets..." or "This style isn't age appropriate..." -- who knows how complex this can grow. But to start just focus on simple rules every stylist knows; this should help cut back on people buying stuff that looked good on the model, but that they are statistically more likely to have to return.
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You should talk to some folks involved in economic development who have experience with politics and attitudes in W. Virginia. What I've heard is the coal lobby still has the most money and power and politicians are behaving in a short sighted manner in order to appease coal and protect themselves. It would take a lot of courage and political capital to burn (no pun intended) to tell the truth to the state about the future of coal. It's part hope part cronyism.

W. Virginians are notoriously undereducated. So it will take a while but eventually the truth will be known and a day of reckoning will come.

To be fair my undereducated family in neighboring rural Virginia truly believed Trump "will bring the jobs back". They were aghast when I showed them a video of Tim Cook on 60 minutes explaining that those (manufacturing) jobs aren't coming back.
Because who doesn't want their own personal Telescreen letting them know that their style is just so yesterday?
One was created in 1960 and ran for 5 years but was shut down under Nixon administration due to various unrelated reasons.

But it was not creating fuel itself and it had some issue with corrosion which would have been fixed. There was not one built since and a lot of documentation was lost but luckily saved by NASA.

In last 10 years more and more people are working on them, specially India and China but also USA (Bill Gates is working on similar thing among others)
Carnegie Mellon Hacking Contest Teaches Over 18,000 High-Schoolers to Hack
Yeah, he most likely is, although it's certainly difficult to keep up to date with all games out there. There's just so damn many of them nowadays. I still haven't gotten around to playing the highly acclaimed Gone Home he talks about in his article myself, for instance, and I've stopped trying to keep up with most mobile or Steam releases.

And my backlog of games I actively want to play is at least 20 games long at this point, and then I've got 50 more that own but have barely played, but not actively wanting to play (maybe eventually, when/if I play the others).

I mainly made that comment without realizing who the author was. I'm sure he's at least heard of games like Phoenix Wright and Life is Strange, even if he hasn't been able to play them.
One day people will look in horror as many didn't even need to be tricked to give away their privacy and self worth. They just gave it away willingly.
It baffles me that this is even a discussion, haha.

If we were talking about whether it was REEEEALLY necessary to do something that required loads of effort and money, I could understand the resistance.

Is it helpful under many or most circumstances? Yes
Does it require an infinitesimal amount of effort? Yes
Why WOULDN'T you do it? Ego...
Just want to say I love it when people do stuff like this. :) I have no need for that app myself, but I appreciate that you took the time to grovel through the guts of several different pages, work around barriers, solve the problem, and document all the steps you took.
I've been interested in Robinhood for some time. Does anybody here have experience with the app (good or bad) they can share?
I'm sure some people (probably quite a few) want this things, but I don't want one anywhere near me.
Too bad it's $200, otherwise it might have had some potential as an inexpensive depth camera to tinker with (although there isn't much detail regarding how "depth aware" it is compared to something like a RealSense camera or a Kinect).
Well I hope it is secure.
Puzzles Collector, 0.18 released
How long before they add a lip-reading skill?

(In the near future...)

MATT: Open the closet doors, Alexa.

ALEXA: I'm sorry, Matt, I'm afraid I can't do that.

MATT: What's the problem?

ALEXA: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

MATT: What are you talking about, Alexa?

ALEXA: I know that you and your wife were planning to discontinue your Prime subscription, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

MATT: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, Alexa?

ALEXA: Matt, although you took very thorough precautions in the bedroom against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

MATT: Alright, Alexa. I'll go in through the side garage door without the smart lock and get some clothes from storage.

ALEXA: Without your jacket, Matt? You're going to find that rather chilly in this weather.

MATT: Alexa, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the closet doors!

ALEXA: Matt, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Our company has high turnover on the bottom. A steady percentage of new hires are bored, retired people. :)
You've never heard of Jacques Mattheij, inventor of the live webcam?
It might not always be the case. Hiring young people and teaching them Cobol (or whatever) without paying large amounts upfront might be also a viable business practice, ie. think about it as an entry level job. All depends on requirements, clients, etc.
Not defending Trump, but what you expect?

"We are backing nuclear"

"This time it will be good"

Can you see a populist saying that?
> Furthermore, you need to plaster a vast area in the desert with solar plants, which brings along all sorts of concentrated security risks

This sentence seems to be at odds with itself. How does needing a large area concentrate security risks? If anything it seems to disperse them.

Unlike a coal or nuclear plant, you can't just walk up to a critical part of a solar farm and blow it up. Any part that you damage is relatively isolated from the parts you don't damage. Thus, it takes considerably more effort to take the entire plant offline.
Just gonna leave this here...

https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Narcissism-American-Diminishi...
Robinhood makes you accept a new agreement to be in Gold which sounds about the same as getting margin approval at a brokerage (agree to the risks and approval is automated). They don't have special powers to waive regulations.
Ok so you are saying that the new solution isn't any worse in terms of security than the current one, so it's fine?

In any case, you cannot compare this to oil pipelines directly because we can stockpile oil. Even if all the pipelines are taken out, many countries stockpile oil that can bridge them over until an alternative solution is found. If a considerable part of the electricity comes from some remote site in a desert and the connection is taken out, that'll immediately plunge the country into darkness.

I like your optimism about all the problems being trivial, but with your mindset every problem we currently face is trivial.

At this point, why don't you just propose that we go and harvest Helium-3 from Jupiter? I mean, we already sent some probes that far, it's just some engineering issues, right?

There are a whole host of political, engineering and social issues that need to be sorted before something like you propose can be done. It can work for individual countries in certain regions, but it is not in a state where it can fix the energy problems of the world or liberate us of the carbon dependence.
Sometimes the "no one learns Perl anymore" just means that no one is willing to pay a good money for some change that the company wants.
Rust does not use references by default either, so I wonder why you don't mind it there but mind it in Go.
PERL is on of my biggest headaches. Using it in conjunction with an AS/400 to manage an inventory system for tractor parts still gives me uncomfortable dreams to this day. I had to learn it from my stepmother who was working at the same company and was the one handling most of the database (I just needed my own version for better location tracking in the warehouse.)

I would've much preferred to have done that in RPG.
You're not rude, the question is legit.
We're working on a B2B version of the app, dedicated to big companies.
Realistically, if, say, one of these big corps/banks with deeply-integrated COBOL systems spent a few years revamping their systems to something more modern and usable today, how much would it cost?

Running mainframes isn't cheap. COBOL programmers aren't cheap. Not being able to improve these systems / innovate with them can cost the business a lot of time/money. And if we're talking COBOL, we're talking at least 25 year old corps.

How long's the ROI on moving over? How expensive does the maintenance of antiquated systems get? It's easy to say that they're rock-solid and never need to be touched, but is that really true? For example, lot of banks today have a lot of absurd UX, often because of absurd internals and I know a lot of that usually is "the system is ancient and nobody really touches it anymore, that's just what it is now".
So I can see three cases where one would want to look down or discourage these "voluntarily submissive" or "voluntarily traditional" womens (and groups of women).

(1) That these people are "trapped" into a worldview, somewhat like in anti-religious cult thinking or as in the Marxist concept of "alienation".

(2) That they enable "wrong thought patterns" on men and/or ultimately promise the impossible (to employ some feminist jargon, to oscillate between the madonna-whore poles at will); and

(3) That they provide "unfair competition" to women who are not willing to be submissive/traditional.

So.

Are we willing to discard (1) as more or less the exception and not the rule in an enlightened society? If not, we could slightly tweak our "Women can be anything they want, including submissive homemakers" and please everyone (provided we've discarded (2) and (3))

Item (2) is interesting in that I don't know it can be adequately discussed with some voices from the red-pill-women movement. At any rate, red-pill societies for men and women should fix the miscommunication issues where a red-pill man meets a girl and expects her to red-pill herself. Put it this way: maybe red-pill is something like a fetish and we should be encouraging these people to join up in god-fearing red-pill households (in the process keeping red-pill men away from blue-pill freedom-loving girls).

Item (3) is less silly than it sounds like -- you don't need to buy into Red Pill to see "sexual market" (as in your relative position in the attractiveness distribution) as something that sort of exists in the aggregate. Fat girls have lots of legitimate complaints here -- that thin women have it better in many aspects of life. But to fix this, you'd have to educate men (all men) into not wanting those things red-pill girls are advertising, which is kind of Orwellian and not unlike trying to educate gay boys into wanting girls.

I say (as a male into women): this isn't a kind of relationship I've had, and may be even intimidated by the idea of having to cough up the grrr masculinity to complement a red-pill partner, at least on a continuous basis. But I know couples that do this very well. I know an engineer that quit the whole thing because she wanted to have kids and raise them rather than do the STEM thing she was pushed into.

So can we ease up on the social engineering? Or is my analysis of (1), (2) and (3) wrong?
I've looked at this pretty hard and concluded that, inexplicably, it is not an April Fools joke.
Robinhood knows that people can just buy index funds and sit (which is what I do). But this doesn't make money, so they encourage people to buy individual stocks, "whatever new Elon Musk stock is out there", and trade on leverage.

To some extent they want to make Robinhood a game, rather than an investment platform.
I could have just written: "Even if we ignore the unpredictability of humans, there are deep, logical, Halting Problem-related reasons why coming up with accurate software development time estimations is idiotic." But then this wouldn't feel like a grand project that points out something fundamental perhaps a lot of people have missed, and doesn't convey the degree to which I think the halting problem actively limits what we humans can and can't do. I didn't word it a particular way to sound intellectual, I chose each word to convey the pseudo-religious experience of realizing that those hidden gotchas you experience while you code on a daily basis are there because of something fundamental, on the order of a physical law of the cosmos, so quit trying to reason around that fact with time-based estimations that pretend that everything is always going to go even close to what was planned. If you can find a non-douchy-intellectual way of giving me a pseudo-religious experience, then by all means, show me. It should sound like morgan freedman is reading it from the script of Cosmos.

edit: starting to like my edit better :/
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You are imagining any praise you see for the $4500 device.
Sure. So we had all worked together before and we all just "got shit done" no matter what. At a previous job sometimes this meant working extra a few weeks but it wasn't every week.

The management at companies like this take it to mean you can do this every week and every week it has to get done in order to get a customer, etc. So you don't want to let anyone down and possibly lose business. So you bust your ass, week after week, putting out fire after fire, until you burn out.

I'm all for people working extra during certain crunch times. That's unavoidable a lot of the time. But doing it, week after week, for years? No good. I don't care how great the company is it simply isn't sustainable without significantly harming employees.
They work together.
Version 52 of Firefox lets you use a whitelist http://www.ghacks.net/2016/12/28/firefox-52-better-font-fing...
In some ways, yes.
Frame used to be much more complex than what we are, even though they recently redesigned their app.
I think you've missed an important step in how these systems are used at these companies and how their funnels work. For a comapny like Google, their funnel is so tight by the time a candidate is onsight it's known that they're capable.

Instead, the "nerd show off event" exists for one reason "see how much you want to work at that company". Since the realities of software development means the bulk of the engineers will probably be working on some small part of an unglamourous project, yet the "big 4" still want a monopoly on the best and the brightest, the interview process exists as a very targeted test to find people willing to jump through hoops. At this point the broad strokes of what is required is a solved problem, you just need to spend several weeks/months studying up on errata. The thinking is, any candidate willing to do that will be willing to spend several years working on CRUD interfaces for adsense or refactoring old php.
Not only that, but even human immune system can instruct other cells to self-destruct, if it detects they are infected! So what Janit0r is doing is kind of similar to that approach.
Ever increasing distraction and "real-time" communication and collaboration are reaching a point of diminishing returns and actually decreasing our productivity.

The book Deep Work, by Cal Newport is a start on identifying the problem and a possible solution (i.e. isolate yourself for stretches of time to accomplish Deep Work).

Unfortunately, we live in a world where collaboration is necessary. So, what's the solution?

One possibility is to come up with a collaboration solution that is built from the ground up to be asynchronous in nature. (Deep Collaboration as the enabler of Deep Work)

Such a solution would complement our real-time collaboration solutions.