skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like someone needed more sticky notes. "This drive is a backup of a secret government supercomputer. Do not mount as a share."

A la CERN: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/CERN-fir...
The designer handbag pattern is more interesting than a black 19" rack cover, but I'd also consider it a far cry from the truly unique industrial design of vintage Cray. Granted, modern datacenter infrastructure has a lot more constraints than 30-40 years ago, but there are companies today (like IBM) that do interesting things within the rack format.
Well, it's really not a complete work of fiction... it's a correlated value estimate based on previous sale, and other property sales in a given market over time based on factors of the home (size, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc)... It may well not be accurate, as there may be other features that increase or decrease value.

That said, I would posit that if you're selling for more than a 20% variance from the Zestimate, that you are probably over/under-valued for the market. Just because you have gold-leaf throughout your home doesn't mean that it'll sell for a million when all your neighbors are half that.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition

I may need a tattoo of this. (joking but only slightly)
Microsoft are seriously killing it in emulation these days.

First I was amazed with them getting Xbox 360 (PPC) games running at full speed or better on the Xbox One (x86) and now we have x86 on ARM.

They have some wizards working on this stuff.

Edit: I wonder if Dave Cutler is involved in this x86 on ARM stuff? I think he was with the Xbox 360/Xbox One.
I'm confused as well. Either this is a framework which I thought apple outlawed. Or it's a runtime which apple definitely outlawed.
So I take it you still need a mac with xcode to properly codesign and submit release versions of apps to the ios app store? I'm assuming the preview player ios app is just interpreting c# in debug mode? No way apple blessed microsoft's preview app with jit entitlements?
Deployed apps are compiled to ARM assembly. Bit of info here:

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/applicat...
HN is probably not the right target for this type of device. Either way we need Windows 10 on ARM to succeed for Intel to have more competition. I also do think it will be successful if it works at least as well as Intel's Atom-based Celeron and Pentium laptop chips, especially in emerging markets.

Intel shot itself in the foot by replacing the Core architecture in mobile Celerons and Pentiums with Atom, and also by starting to rename lower performance Core M chips to Core i3 and Core i5. This will make it easier for ARM and AMD to "catch-up" and even beat Intel at these levels, because Intel got greedy and tried to trick the market with lower-performing chips at the same price points as for previous (and more powerful) generations.
But it's not like gold. Gold is physical - it requires that you do something to obtain it somehow, and it's (generally) clear who rightfully possess that particular piece of gold at any given time.

Patents are ideas. Two (or more) people can independently come up with exactly the same idea, sometimes in very different contexts. The patent system rewards the person who files a patent for it first, and in fact, for the patent troll, it's particularly lucrative when other people execute successfully (which generally means they've actually contributed something of value to society).
For the things they showed in the video, deep learning is probably overkill.
The main thing is having a robot capable of surviving its initial failures, and then actually collecting the data.

I can't comment specifically on airborne drones, but at my lab we've demonstrated that a robot[0] with an extremely low resolution camera and a very simple model is capable of learning to avoid running into walls with about a minute or so of training data.
We use reinforcement learning with linear function approximation[1], and even though the robot sees the world through a couple hundred pixels, it's sufficient to discover that walls have a certain color and that if too much of your vision is "wall" you should probably move in a different direction.

The advantage of deep learning is that your agent hopefully learns to generalize, and so isn't fooled by changes in brightness/color or room layout.
If your task is simpler than that, you could just use some OpenCV filters to extract colors and textures and let the a simple linear model figure out which ones correspond to obstacles.

----

0. An iRobot Create, basically a Roomba without the vacuum.

1. Incidentally, that means that if you don't require deep reinforcement learning, you can get simple obstacle avoidance up and running with like 5000 data points.
The problem in Zillow's case may simply be the legal system... And that will vary greatly from state/county to state/county. The real estate market is very protective of itself.
Was the SurfaceRT an ARM device? I have one collecting dust, would be nice if it got an update
That's not the point - the point is being identified as an entity by a unique marker that the RFID tag gives off. It's still an anonymous entity, but it can be deanonymized by correlation... with your face via video or whatever.
more accurately: Microsoft now lets Xamarin developers deploy, run and test their iOS apps on Windows
I am not sure there is a huge gap from dummy screen + keyboard + battery to laptop and your not going to be able to power a laptop screen from a cellphone battery.
can it mine bitcoins?
It does break things in the same way, because the tenet is that all statements are either true exclusive or false.

If we can follow sound reasoning such that some statement can be either true or false, based on the exact steps we take, that is exactly the same problem: a contradiction somewhere.

"This sentence is true" doesn't contradict itself, but two different ways of evaluating it contradict each other.

Researcher A assumes the sentence is true and comes to the conclusion that it is.

Researcher B assumes that it is false, substitutes in the value and also concludes that it is correct.

Neither has found a contradiction in isolation, but A and B's findings contradict each other.

In terms of electronics-based intuition, "this sentence is false" is like an unstable circuit: e.g. an inverter feeding its own output to its output. This might result in oscillation. "This sentence is true" is like bistable feedback: it gives us a flip-flop which "latches" whichever value we inject.
Have you read the gospels?

http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm

> Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

That's a conditional statement.

And I'd argue a despicable thing to say
They say that it's a dynamic translation layer, so presumably it doesn't make a distinction about where the code came for (except maybe you'll lose some performance optimization if they are caching translated code)
This might be a pretty great idea for a new insurance company. Could already exist though.
The same emotion you need to be most wary too. It's easy to get sucked into these Rage inducing news and waste precious time and energy over things that possibly have no relation to you and only make you feel worse. In words of pg, Life is too short to spend on such bullshit.
perhaps that HN is turning into a place where everyone huffs one another's farts, while the world burns.
Yes, I've enjoyed collaboration -- but almost always when it's reasonably coarse-grained, i.e. split a problem up then go [at least] several days without constant re-synchronization.

But still think the biggest satisfaction for me comes from self-sufficiency.
I had to test a couple of variations before being happy because the same colors are used in all types of terminal (I use regular cmd and Bash). Sometimes one color is great in one type of terminal but is clashing with another color, for a particular use case, in the other terminal!

http://i.imgur.com/9Dx79vq.png

(By the way, there is a color picker when you click a color)
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Lost Almost All of Its Lava Delta to the Sea
Yes. The RT devices ran ARM, which was one of the reasons for the locked down software policy (nothing else would run anyway).
Has anybody actually tried it yet? I haven't seen any results outside of this blog post.
You got it, the relevant piece:

"OS – C# is ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled to ARM assembly language. The .NET framework is included, with unused classes being stripped out during linking to reduce the application size. Apple does not allow runtime code generation on iOS, so some language features are not available (see Xamarin.iOS Limitations )."
By plain logic: if there isn't a formula for success, there isn't one for failure either.
Workeat – connecting tourism from a different perspective
A qualified guess would be that you can just install it, because the bootloader is Microsoft signed so it would pass the secure boot check.

Edit: Apparently Surface 2 isn't AArch64, so probably not.
This.

Given enough <x>, there will always be a <x> that will outperform / be correct / have predicted / etc in <x> area.
Ha-ha, Microsoft will do it again. For Windows on all devices!
R.I.P. EVS https://8bitlegends.com/edwin-van-santen
I don't believe so. As far as I know, unlike Uber, iCar never:

- actually broke any local law

- pulled any shenanigans with taxes or employment laws

- allowed nor encouraged drivers to operate with improper insurance

- messed with journalists

- used investor money to subsidize rides to the point no one could compete with their prices

Their one innovation was using GPS, which allowed them to avoid the need for training drivers in city kowlege (and the legal workaround they found thus let them operate under one company-wide transportation license), and to bill by distance instead of by time. The latter was actually a huge value for consumers, because it removed the price variation caused by congestion, as well as allowed the company to state the whole price up front, which made people trust them more.
I know I'm alone in the this but I find material design truly horrible and I'd love for it to go away.

Still you are right though about the cross platform thing
I have to second this. Got the 2GB version as well and it was a (big) downgrade from my previous router.
Same problems: DNS took ages, which lead to all requests/'the internet' feeling very slow. Switching hardware/going back improved the performance again, so I don't quite feel that the ISP or network was to blame.
Ben Franklin said it a while before Bruce Lee did...
I can't stand the Windows 10 Start Menu. I paid 5 bucks for Start10 [1], although some people like the free Classic Shell [2].

[1] http://www.stardock.com/products/start10/
[2] http://www.classicshell.net/
A semi-decent heart rate monitor (even a Fitbit) is all you need to track sleep quality, I think. It's also much more reliable to detect when you fall asleep vs motion sensors (alone). If I have a good nights' sleep, my heart rate plummets quickly and pretty much flatlines for 7 hours.

I can see the difference if I've been drinking alcohol, if I was woken up in the night or if I'm ill. All of these things tend to produce either an elevated heart rate, or a heart rate that slowly declines over the night (rather than a steep initial drop).

The study is cool, but is there a comparison to a control instrument that can actually detect REM sleep? My conclusion from that graph was that none of those trackers are any good at telling you at which point you are in your sleep cycle, but most are OK at guessing your bedtime.
Syntax is the paint, semantics is the bikeshed. Every interesting feature of this specification would still be applicable with a sexp syntax.
I would use the "dummy screen + keyboard" only when plugged, obviously.
Maybe you are describing the rumored Surface Phone?
The Island Airport(Billy Bishop) in Toronto is littered with adverts that are camera connected. Other than, maybe power management, looking at what is possible in OpenCV gives a good indication of what can, and probable is, being done. From tracking where you look to matching faces....

The problem is that this is an agency(of the government) owned facility.
About a third of FDA-approved drugs go on to have major safety issues
I disagree with the "whoever is in office part". I believe there are several contenders for the 2020 election that would ramp down.
This video is disgusting, I hate it and will share it with all my friends! ;-)
Oh I see. I think something like this has been done before and the results are usually messy. Although I do want to use algorithms and curate things in a more 'smart' way that I do now. A bonus point of doing it by hand is that I take in the time to understand the topic for myself and actually understand why that node goes there and not in some other place.
> being ruthless, luck, connections, and inheritance.

All those are important but then risk is also one way to get rich faster.
The point of the article is that these resources were exposed without authorization, intentional or not, to the public internet.
Win 10 Home is only $110 from Newegg or Amazon, and less if you get the "OEM" version. I forget the restrictions on the OEM version, but I think its intended for people building systems and reselling them -- I don't think anything stops you from using it on your own system, its just technically in violation of the licence.
Radio station spent two years advising listeners how to stash child porn
Death by Fire
I worked on something similar a while ago. First I also looked into building something more visual/map like but after many iterations I got frustrated by the lack of overview one had for more complex maps. So I pivoted to a more TOC/text based version. It was supposed to be community driven but when I finished my studies, the app lost the utility it once had to me. But it's still up & running:

https://owleo.herokuapp.com/concepts
Source: https://github.com/Gregoor/owleo

A startup that also takes the visual learning map route is Expii: https://www.expii.com/
What always blows me away is when people who've been watching their minds most of their lives and lived through the most amazing insights we can imagine, witnessing directly how the mind creates the world, how self is an illusion etc. (what neuroscientists can only state from intellectual perspective) tend to say: compassion is the highest form of wisdom.

Kristin Neff, the author of the research in TFA, brought these terms directly from her buddhist experiences AFAIK.
Karuna and Meta (compassion and kindness) are very important mind "algorithms" in the Buddhist framework that apart from social and behavioral effects also have quite significant cognitive function. It allows to see things so much clearer, when you understand how complex and interdependent the reality is and how little control over reality we all are.

It's especially telling when you look at the natural progression of these mind states that one is encouraged to develop: Compassion -> Kindndess -> Symphatetic Joy (appreciating wellbeing of others) -> Equanimity.
Yes you have to compile with a mac to deploy to itunes connect. No it compiles C# AOT to arm assembly code.
> interests of a system that is an aspect of the very thing that keeps you poor int he first place.

Seems other way round to me. It is the restrictions on organ trade that is keeping poor.
Yeah, they left that part off didn't they? Xamarin != Native iOS.
For any Microsoft insiders with knowledge about this, a few questions:

1. In the talk they claim that they get "near native" speed from the translation. Can we have some real number of what can be expected? What about warm up time?

2. Is the x86 translation layer only available in user space, or can x86 drivers be loaded for hardware that doesn't have arm drivers yet (or the manufacturer doesn't care about making them)

3. Are there any plans in the future for supporting x64 code as well in the translation layer?

Edit: One more:

4. Are there any plans on supporting Arm v7 in the future, e.g. with Surface/Surface 2 support?
> Among the few things I appreciate about religion is how it tries to bring our lives into perspective by incessantly reminding us of its end.

Religion doesn't do that. Philosophy and thinking does. Religion does the opposite of what you claim. It teaches us to ignore death because there is an afterlife, etc.
This would be more plausible if the companies in question spent more on R&D than marketing. Also, there are plenty of other ways to fund drug research besides the exorbitant system we use today.
I'd guess something like Quantum Insert + targeting unprotected connections. Which I'd imagine there are still a lot of out there (circa pre-2000).

I'd be curious if there's any older network gear that provides a hash-based rather than connection-based security model. It seems like the thing that might have seemed like a good idea to a military 40 years ago.
I am guessing that, even if Blackbird motions to dismiss this lawsuit, Cloudflare will nonetheless file IPRs against each of Blackbird's 37 or 38 patents for which sufficient prior art is discovered.

This appears to be more than a strategic move for this particular case on the part of Cloudflare. Cloudflare is hoping to build a reputation as 1) aggressive, 2) vindictive, and 3) successful. Believe me, other NPEs will take note and will think twice (or thrice) about suing Cloudflare out of fear of multiple defensive IPRs aimed at not only the patents in suit, but all patents utilized by the NPE in past and current litigation and licensing efforts.

The NPEs, generally, have very low risk tolerance when it comes to actions which may invalidate their money-makers. Thus, Cloudflare is hoping to get blacklisted. Just look at how successful Newegg and Rackspace have been with this strategy.
At's an algorithm based on available data... it may not be accurate, but that doesn't mean it's too wrong. Also, if you put in expensive features, doesn't mean your house will sell for twice as much in a given neighborhood. Pricing is fairly collective with main factors being property size, home size, bedrooms/bathrooms and some influence on features, namely pool, garage(s) etc.

That doesn't mean it's entirely wrong, unless there are manual tweaks happening to shape specific markets, which may be proven/disproven through discovery. Aside from that, there's the legal aspects in different states and counties in terms of what a licensed/unlicensed seller is allowed to do.

I would say that if the market is more than 20% off in terms of actual sales from the Zestimate, then there may be something up... The Phoenix market seems pretty accurate to within 5-10%, which is pretty reasonable.
- https://managewp.com

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A friend pointed out privately that a more realistic target for this kind of firepower is IPSEC VPNs, which overwhelmingly use finite field Diffie Hellman. So there's that.
You'd want win2k with font antialiasing, but yeah.
I dunno, I never got past the option for three TBs of ram. At that point jealousy overtook me and I had to click away.
Ask HN: Web Components for production?
Hackers, I'd like to use Web Components (&Polymer 2.0) to build an e-commerce PWA. Do you think that's a good idea?

Moreover, what should I use for Business logic? The SHOP demo by the Polymer Team is pretty dope but it lacks a backend (something I have no experience with.) In fact, I want to build the application with guest checkouts only. I'm also inclined towards Aurelia but I haven't seen a SHOP like demo for reference.
Alan Kay at Startup School [video]
Frameworks are fine.
I use HOCON at work, tripped up today because linebreaks matter! (no way to do a delimmited comment)
Are there not online services for this? (Or is that outlawed?)
Explanatory videos come in a few flavors, many of them bad:

- Blipverts, like this one. Pretty, but useless. Typical use: Ads, Kickstarter videos.

- Talking heads with PowerPoint. Boring. Typical use: online courses, TED talks.

- Long single-shot videos of someone doing something complicated. Boring, but useful. Typical use: how-to videos.

- History Channel style. Video of important stuff with occasional interpretive graphics and explanation. Tough to balance but can be done well. Expensive to produce. Tends to oversimplify.

- Classic industrial film. See anything from the Jam Handy Organization. The Internet Archive has hundreds of these films. Good at getting concepts across. Blah by modern standards. Narrated, but not much talking head time. Minimal animation of details. Many stock shots.

That field needs some design work. If the goal is to explain (not sell), the industrial film model, modernized, has potential. It takes more production effort than a blipvert or a PowerPoint video, but less than a History Channel video.

Top of the line in explanatory videos: "Victory through Air Power" (1943) [1] This was made by Disney for one purpose - to convince President Roosevelt to go with heavy land-based bombers as the main weapon in the Pacific war.

[1] https://archive.org/details/VictoryThroughAirPower
Best exercise for your brain
That's right you car isn't actually just an under leveraged asset that can double as a ride for hire/taxi...it's actually under leveraged nuclear waste disposal business.

And your kids underleveraged child labor to be exploited in the sharing economy...hey you're just a tech company nothing to see here.
I think it does since MS did a big overhall on their windows architecture, phone, xbox, and desktop all run the same base services just with different GUI's. Technically an XBOX could make phone calls but has no GUI or hardware for it.
We're also not a supercomputer advance away from breaking SHA2. There are hash-designing cryptographers who believe we may never break SHA2 with conventional computers.
I'd be very interested in a Windows 10 phone if it has automatic updates that do not depend on the carrier, to avoid the Android situation where only certain phones get updates on a timely basis.
Ditto this, on android.

I have Messages, which i think is Google's... and i only downloaded it because the apps from Samsung, Verizon, and Facebook went to war in January (on my phone at least) and somehow I ended up getting texts in either the samsung app or verizon but never both, but group conversations in facebook messenger, but only the verizon app would actually allow picture messages to be viewable if i sent them to my mother.

I also have Allo, because a (<-- not plural) coworker and I were curious about it. I think it solved that they didn't have facebook but did have apple, or maybe not i don't know. I also downloaded Duo and haven't opened it since, and I had hangouts, but i'm so very angry that Google screwed that up yet again. I have zero confidence in Google products fulfilling any of my needs completely ever again, and I really used to be the Google-champion of my friends... sigh.
And when they do, they usually kick the ass of their opponents

I'd love to see that video.
I also have my own facial recognition open sourced as well.

https://gitlab.com/crankylinuxuser/uWho

Runs on CPU only, realtime 1280x720 @ 15 fps.

Is it creepy? Sure. But anyone can run it. I was looking at a rewrite to work in CLI with a web interface instead. But the core loop is the magic part that makes everything work nicely.
Interesting - something they should have done rather than the orphan WindowsRT, in my opinion.

I wonder if this ends up being the inheritor of Windows CE for embedded ARM-flavoured devices. I also wonder if this means that the Win10 ARM kernel has the full Windows API - so if you built an ARM PE executable that could run natively. I suspect 95% of the pieces are in place for that but it's not yet been productised.
I agree, I haven't said otherwise.