skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, never underestimate the power of the brand itself.
I'm surprised that you thought that the LEGO toys would be able to detect anything in the first place.
>“Cost-wise, it is much lower and performance-wise, much better,”

Having lower catalyst costs may allow for more installations that are used only intermittently. I know very little about the research in this particular field, but am not surprised that it's seeing more attention.

As intermittent renewable electricity generation continues to get cheaper and replace fossil fuel sources, there's going to be a massive interest in using the large amounts of curtailed energy in someway. California is currently curtailing GWh per day of solar, and there's still a fairly low amount of renewable penetration. The question isn't necessarily about storing hours of energy, but perhaps weeks or maybe even months.

Power to gas to electricity is currently only about 1/3 efficient, but depending on the cost curve of various battery technologies, there could be a big case for generating and storing a few months worth of methane mixed with hydrogen for winter months in the northern hemisphere.

I bet there are likely to be far more research into combining electrolysis with methanation (perhaps with CO2 that's already dissolved in the water) or even chains of carbon.

CNG automobiles, fueled with methane made from surplus renewable energy, might be a way for natural gas to be used in the future. We'll see if its ever economical, but there may be some great use cases for it.
>Why is there not more construction to increase the amount of housing in your city?

Many reasons, of course. But one is that, perhaps, builders see the demand being temporary and unsustainable. I'll assume the OP is talking about VanCity (which is the most overpriced market on the planet last I heard); is it really smart to build units in such an environment, when housing demand is outpacing all forms of economic growth? Wouldn't want to be the bagholder...
I completely agree. While DARPA et al have been involved with robotics (self driving cars, drones, etc), there should be a public AI project as well.

Why do you think the message was not received?
But we have become so divisive that it's all but impossible to agree on "common good." Geez, healthcare is pretty obvious as to being for the public good. And we can't agree on that. Now just imagine something less obvious. We wouldn't be able to get out of our own way.
Towards Automatically-Tuned Neural Networks [pdf]
Then they shouldn't be anywhere near 25%.
I completely understand your dilemma. In 1999 I was looking at my Sun stock which, if I had sold it, I was going to pay probably close to 35% of its sale value in tax. I sat on it.

Just before the Oracle sale when it did a reverse split to get back over $10 a share I sold it for less than 5% of its value from 1999.

That taught me a very painful but very solid lesson. You take profits because they are profits, not taking them puts them at risk. When Facebook went public its stock went down. When it got to about 1/2 its opening price I bought some. When the value of that holding doubled (100% return less taxes) I sold it. Had I kept it I would have more now, the profits from that sale helped fund a purchase of some Tesla, which I sold when it doubled in value. Which has helped in other purchases.

Translating that back to your situation, if you're in real estate and you have some solid gains, consider selling, getting the gains and then re-investing in additional real estate to continue to ride the bubble. By taking out profits over time you may not make as much as you could but you also won't lose as much as you could.
That has no value for Google. If Google wanted to get rid of JVM technology and idioms on Android then it would be better off with pure native language like Swift/Rust/Go. They all are quite further away from Javaism. Kotlin's great value is mostly because it is Java like and run on JVM.
In movie metaphor, Old Man Potter finally bought out Bailey Building & Loan when it went under in 2007, and now Bedford Falls is turning into Pottersville.

As far as I am aware, the FNMA/FDMC system only guarantees mortgage loans for properties with existing [appraisable] structures, so borrow-to-build lenders face significantly higher risks and lower liquidity. It's harder to buy undeveloped land and build a hovel on it from local materials, than it is to buy an overvalued 5-bedroom McMansion, built from twigs, bird spit, and a 10-year horizon for its planned obsolescence.
He was explaining his relevant perspective on the issue.
There is virtually no way this would be fp32. If it was, they could sell these devices for many more tasks than just machine learning.
It probably isn't with sufficient training. Taking a crack at it as a weekend project, it was non-trivial getting a decent i3 desktop up and running without a lot of cruft. Much of what you expect to just work, just doesn't. To be fair, I'm more native in debian or Arch to some degree, so that probably had a lot to do with my difficulties. Regardless, it made me give up and just practice better security practices for my debian installs until I have time to dedicate to a further investigation.
Special counsel appointed in Russia probe
Its not difficult if you buy something similar size to what you are renting and hold it for 5+ years.

The tax credits, inflation working in your favor (instead of against) alone is generally enough to cover the fee after 5 years.
Fiber is a waste of money at this point. I just got gigabit and it has essentially no marginal value compared to my only 75mbit connection. Most consumer hardware can't really do jack shit with it. The killer app is DSL reports speed tests.

Money is better spent on anything, but something like low carbon energy would be a much better use of it.

Really, we should focus on getting any broadband to areas that don't have any. Rather than upgrading people with cable internet to gigabit.
Former F.B.I. Director Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation
Top HN comment from similar article (4 months ago):

"pro tip: Use canned tomatoes instead of fresh whenever out of season; canners use varieties that have not been ruined for shipping, and seal at the peak of freshness."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520563

Dr. Klee's tomato shenanigans have appeared on HN a couple times:

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182279

also 4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254216
Indeed, Netflix announced streaming in 2007:

Source:
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20...
> And because I hate C I should run an operating system written in Rust or Ada or what? Don't understand what's so funny about that.

Do you hate C? You clearly like software written in it, ie Debian.

> Yes, as I said, for legacy reasons.

Starting a new software project wether it be embedded programing or programing on big X86-64 machines is not legacy software.
[other Firebase founder] It was painful to read the article[1] this morning, especially since I was one of the people responsible for dropping the ball on getting Home Automation the credit to cover the overage a few weeks ago. We're working with the founder to make sure he's in a better spot. If you have similarly serious issues, my email is: james@firebase.com

To address a couple of points that have been raised:

1. We're aware that as we've integrated with Google our support response time & quality has decreased. I'm working with our team to do better.

2. We know better querying and web offline are needed for the Realtime Database, stay tuned.

Finally, I hope you enjoy all the new features that launched today! (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/05/whats-new-from-fireb...) Leave a comment if you have thoughts/comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409
None of these issues are as bad as the XML ones. You generally don't need "defusedjson" like you need https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml

<!DOCTYPE external [
<!ENTITY ee SYSTEM "file:///etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key">
]>
<root>&ee;</root>
There is a bit! Digits is moving to Firebase Auth, and Crashlytics will be the primary crash reporter for Firebase.
How would this help people who wants to use Bazel or any other build system other than Gradle?
Um, Sundar Pichai is Indian and Fei-Fei Li is East Asian (plus the list is 50% women).

Or is "minority" only black and Hispanic now? These goalposts seem to shift so often I can never tell.
Isn't it the zoning rules that limit building densely?

The incentives of existing owners are against development.
You substituted salt for sugar in your morning cereal. Try it with neither, and no milk, which is actually quite sweet. If one drops refined sugar and adds fruit (e.g., raisins), it is still sugar (as far as flavor goes). There are very few foods that have no salt or sweetness (refined or natural sugar) that still taste good.
Yup they are just doing what big corps do at this stage of their lives - empire defense.
Most of which is not true for the average homeowner that isn't investing as they are immune to capital gains and income tax due to the homeowner exclusion.

So they eat ~8% (tops).

Landlords have to buy and hold because they eat the taxes.

Redfin caters primarily to homeowners so you aren't really their target market.
Construction is rampant and units that won't finish being constructed for another 3 years or more are already sold. The way I see it, there is plenty of construction but demand outpaces even that.

The other issue that builders are incentivized to build property for investors and speculators rather than for people to actually live in them.
He's explaining why it's preferable for him to keep it on the rental market. The question of sympathy feels almost vindictive. He's explaining the economics of his decision-making, presumably because implicitly others in his position will draw similar conclusions with regards to rent v sell. Yes, the economics here leads to a lower supply of inventory for sale.
GP mentioned money-laundering in context of foreign cash. Buying US real estate with money from overseas bribery/graft is the perfect way to legitimize wealth. Nobody in the US is going to check the overseas origin very thoroughly, and US real estate isn't as volatile as home-country assets.
>I honestly tend to wonder if the people who are complaining about the book actually bothered to read it in its entirety, and understand the information and ideas being conveyed?

I've always wondered if there was a psychological component to it -- as in certain personality types get personally offended by Wolfram's prose. I'm certainly curious if there would be any correlation between liking/disliking the book and some sort of Meyers-Briggs type personality assessment. Maybe it is an INTJ vs. INTP type of thing?
This makes me wonder, is it easy enough to write a kernel extension such that whenever any process that tries to open(2) my ssh private key, or any hardlinks or symlinks pointing to it, it checks against a known whitelist, and if the process is not in the whitelist, a dialog pops up and asks me for my permission. Is this easy to implement?

Frankly I can only think of a small number of processes that need to automatically access the file: backupd, sshd, and Carbon Copy Cloner. Everything else should require my attention.
>Remember the internet, gps, modern telecom all came from government research, or some combination of public and private money but was only declassified 10-15 years after its invention and use.

It's true that a lot of the funding was from ARPA, but I believe that the vast majority of this research was published in standard academic venues. I know of no results in these fields that were classified at the time of discovery and released only 10-15 years later as you claim (but I'd love to see references if you have them!).
What does it mean? Will I install crashlytics and my data will show up in Firebase console? Both consoles?
IMHO the boilerplate code is much easier to read than understanding the nuances of XML if I have to read a document.

{"type":"currency", "unit":"euro", "amount": 10}

feels easier to understand than

<currency unit="euro">10</currency>
Maybe it's a regional thing? Most banks here (Ireland) issue debit cards by default and most people don't go out of their way to get a credit card, so they'd be cutting off a large chunk of their customer base by banning debit cards.
Advocating a Manhattan Project for General AI without corresponding propaganda for AI Safety Research is unfair and reckless, even if you disagree with the premises of AI safety research.

Edit: see below. Especially if you disagree with the premise.
Consider the incentives of municipal representatives.

Faced with a choice between a change in zoning laws that would allow more construction (thereby preventing price increases that would benefit current holders of real estate), and maintaining the status quo with the effect of driving up the value of their own holdings as well as the value held by any homeowners who voted for them, what do you think they are going to do?
There was a couple of pieces of news:

1. We're merging Digits into Firebase Authentiation

2. In the future, Crashlytics will be replacing Firebase Crash Reporting to become the default crash reporting tool in Firebase.

Hopefully this gives an idea of where we're going.
Translating that back to your situation, if you're in real estate and you have some solid gains, consider selling, getting the gains and then re-investing in additional real estate to continue to ride the bubble. By taking out profits over time you may not make as much as you could but you also won't lose as much as you could.

There is always the possibility you will lose more by moving the funds. Like if Facebook had fizzled, that move would have lost you money.
>>The price? $400 or so

Wow. The price is quite good. Is there some website you bought this from? How many cores?

>>But a 24-core new workstation would be much more expensive

Tell me about it. I've been checking the prices of a dual 24 core workstation and it is around $7K.
Curious which country you're living in where that list of stuff doesn't translate to either "built privately" or "built & run by government, has notoriously horrendous service levels".
If Manning comes out and says that she is comfortable with the use of her prior name (there is a reason that in the trans community that prior name is referred to as one's "dead name", you get me?) and prior gender assignation, then sure, go for it.

Until then, I'm afraid that there's not really a whole heck of a lot that's respectful about your disagreement. Trans folks as a whole overwhelmingly evince preference for not having their prior name or gender identity thrown around and trans folks very regularly remain in the closet publicly even when they are out to friends and family, making your assumptions based on...well, not a whole heck of a lot. Unless you've read something I haven't (totally possible, but you'll forgive me if I doubt it), you have no idea of timing or the propriety here and so the presumption of her gender identity at that point is kinda actually really mean. You may have good intentions, but you're pissing in the pool and you should stop.
For better or worse this truly is true.
Wow, that's a strangely aggressive reply from one of the contributors on that thread. And then he said:

> 99% of the time these hash changes are innocent

That's actually not very good at all and proves they shouldn't just trust hash changes! Very odd
Show HN: Cross-platform file opening in Vim (with NERDTree integration)
Hey guys! I made a couple of plugins for Vim to scratch an itch I was left with after moving from Sublime (which I still come back to for a couple of features). I hope that I can share this and help some others to feel more comfortable trying out Vim and not having to abandon everything that they're used to, not to mention that being able to open files in your graphical file browser is useful in many cases.

https://github.com/erichdongubler/vim-file-browser-integrati...

and

https://github.com/ErichDonGubler/nerdtree-plugin-open-in-fi...
The CEO?
This is because Google is really pushing the image of being the "place AI is happening." They're doing the same amount of ML stuff they've always been, but it looks bigger because they're focused much of their marketing on it and attempting to associate their work in people's minds with the kind of "AI" that's just futurism for now.

I think the reason they're pushing so hard, actually, is that they're in a dogfight with IBM (i.e. Watson) over who enterprises will call if some VP gets the idea that they want to "solve problem X with AI."
I can't envision S3 ever wanting their secret sauce to be out there in the world available for everyone to potentially compromise and figure out. Merging the metadata together would be a complex task that would require significant engineering effort on all sides, especially given none of the components were ever designed with such a task in mind, and everything is highly tuned towards the actual types of workload they typically see. Pushing things through the front end API would be the quickest and easiest route for all parties concerned. That's what it's there for, and scaling will be a known quantity. Regardless of how impressive the Snowmobile is, and the quantity of data it stores, the bandwidth it would consume putting in to S3 would be a drop in the ocean compared to their usual workload.
> There are a lot of languages that "have safety".

Yes, and in the past twenty-five years these languages have stolen away 90% of developer mindshare from C and C++. The only niches that have held against the onslaught are those that thought that language-enforced memory-safety imposed runtime costs that they couldn't afford, coupled with a complete and total obliviousness to the actual cost of memory-unsafe code--especially over public networks. By the time that the internet (née Internet) became ubiquitous, Ada's name was already mud due to its prolonged standardization process, and it certainly didn't help that there existed no freely-available production-quality implementation until the late 90s. Even if Rust weren't here, Ada just isn't positioned to capture mindshare from the modern crop of developers weaned on dynamic languages, because not only does Ada not provide memory-safe dynamic allocation without a GC (Rust does), but it also doesn't have accessible documentation (all the books that I can find cost money, unlike Rust's free book, and all the standard API documentation that I can find is in PDF format only, unlike Rust's generated HTML docs with built-in search), and it also doesn't provide a package manager (which also kills C and C++ for people who started programming with Ruby/Python/Node), and it doesn't have any of the modern niceties that people expect from languages in this decade (I can't find anything to indicate that Ada supports any kind of closures that don't have to be hacked together manually, and its support for first-class functions seems dubious).

So let me amend my earlier pithy statement: Rust has hype because it's a language with modern amenities that has memory safety with no garbage collector. Nobody's disputing that Ada is safe, but Ada's lack of hype today is not because its safety is deficient, nor is it because programmer's don't care about safety. :P

> With static analyzers and valgrind even C has enough of memory "safety".

Citation needed. :)
Because it doesn't seem like an imminent existential threat yet. The USG generally only acts at scale when there is a huge big scary thing pounding at the door. Unfortunately at that point it's probably too late.

The USG is so big with so many different "rice bowls" that it can't efficiently coordinate between all of them - especially not for future facing projects.

It's true that there are pockets of research and innovation in ML across the USG, specifically the DoD, however it's nowhere near at Google/Facebook scale.
I've never had this relationship with books. With stories, yes, and with nonfictional texts, and to some extent even with whatever of an author can be found within his words. That's the magic and the pleasure that's kept me reading nonstop since my mother got me going when I was two. But the physicality of paper has, past earliest childhood, been little more than an encumbrance. I read my first book from a screen at...ten? Twelve? Something like that - and I've never wanted to go back to paper; I now only do so when no other option exists.

I've heard similar statements from others who began reading in digital media at a relatively young age. I wonder if that's what makes the difference? Certainly it makes as much sense as anything else I can think of offhand.
Someone convinced the CIA to drop a big fraction of a billion dollars on AWS, like 3-4 years ago. So it appears to be within the realm of feasibility.
Also, accepting donations and sponsorships opens you up to being sued for profitting from copyright infringement.
Hedgehog – The versatile educational robotics controller
Not sure why you think you're disagreeing with me. Everything you said lines up with everything I said. Especially regarding independence as a critical element for innovation. Totally with you.
Imagine all memory is a big array. A pointer is just an index into that array. A pointer dereference is like accessing something at an array index. A pointer to a pointer is array index to a location where you'll find another array index.
If I'm invested in NVDA should I sell? Is this is a real competitor that will remove NVDA's AI leadership?
Standard practice in lead-generation these days :) You want to devote your efforts to the most potentially-rewarding opportunity.
Then again, it may be Chicken Little sky-is-falling time:

"[on Calculated Risk, housing economist Tom Lawler estimates] that US existing home sales as estimated by the National Association of Realtors ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.56 million in April, down 2.6% from March’s preliminary pace and up 1.5% from last April’s seasonally adjusted pace. Unadjusted sales as estimated by the NAR last month should be about 2.8% LOWER than last April’s pace, with the “adjusted/unadjusted” YOY growth difference reflecting this April’s lower business day count, as well as the different timing of Easter (April 16 this year vs. March 27 last year.)

On the inventory front, local realtor/MLS data suggest that the monthly increase in the number of homes for sale last month was slightly higher than last April’s increase, and I project that the NAR’s estimate of the existing home inventory for April will be 2.00 million, up 9.3% from March and down 5.7% from last April."

EDIT: link: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/05/lawler-early-read-...
I agree that cheap-but-intermittent renewable electricity calls for differently optimized electrolyzer designs. Optimize for "cheap to manufacture and maintain" so you can afford to use them at a low duty cycle. If that is the underlying objective for this research, it's great, but doesn't come through clearly in the linked report. They mention efficiency in the headline, efficiency 7 times more in the body, and cost only twice, only in the body.
Thanks! Are there any plans to move historic data from fabric to firebase or will I need to reconfigure and start clean?
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents, or partisan ones. I know that's hard to resist when another comment takes a drive-by swipe, but the resulting discussions are invariably so low-quality that it's important to.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14362943 and marked it off-topic.
What? His success reflects nothing on anyone else and doesn't have anything to do with sympathy. He/her is saying that current real estate rules aren't helping incentivize rational decisions to sell. Why would anyone do something that results in a worse (read: not the best) outcome for them?
if you disagree with the premises of AI safety research

Which I do, so I disagree with your premise.