skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it!

I owned an Atrix with a lapdock, which was the first device to embrace this concept. Unfortunately, it was poorly handled by Motorola in the sense that you had to hack it to enable a full linux desktop, instead of what was basically a Chromebook.

What really made me give up on it was the fact that it never got updated, so you were stuck with Android 2. It was pretty useful even as a workstation and saved me as I used it exclusively for a couple of weeks, while my laptop needed repair.

I was already thinking about trying something like that again, by getting a phone that had hdmi output and i'll definetely take a shot on that! good luck to them!
Since Google uses Spanner in-house extensively, it is likely to be available for a good long time.
Been browsing this for a little bit now. Honestly, the creator doesn't sound like he has a clear vision for what the site should be and how it should function. The UI overall is pretty slick.
U.S. Court of Appeals to Decide Whether TSA Can Prohibit Body Scanner “Opt-Outs”
What did you charge for the work? How long did it take for you to do this? Was the price higher or lower because it was for Apple?
To be over-dramatic, there's a big push with the young end of the millennial generation for 'authentic' and unique experiences. Shallowly, that's why restaurants like Chipotle are beating restaurants like TGI Fridays with this generation -- all that fake schlock all over the walls turns them off.

Since Detroit is so cheap and has such a rich history, there's a ton of room for people to create cool little niche businesses that connect with the city's past. There are distilleries in 1930s-era factories and pop-up restaurants started by Michelin-star chefs tucked in little corners. There's a much different atmosphere when you're at a gin bar in an old neighborhood to a nightclub in the suburbs somewhere. And if you like the more traditional bar scene, all four major sports teams will be downtown next year, with a huge new entertainment district coming to the Red Wings / Pistons' new arena.

Beyond that, people like to be the underdog. Detroit went through worse than almost any other American city in history and is starting to come out the other side now. Many of the people moving (or partying) downtown are from the suburbs or the surrounding area and take it personally that it's still regularly trash-talked nationwide. There's a very positive "us-against-the-world" energy to the city and I think a lot of people feel a responsibility to encourage the "comeback" by supporting the businesses that are helping the area.
I just don't see the use case. For work, most people have a work computer and that's separate from their personal computer. Tons of people no longer have a computer at home, those that do are likely gamers, developers or artists that all have a huge archive of files they work with and require more power than a mobile device can supply. I wish these companies would stop trying and just make an open, mobile, general purpose computer for mobile use cases.
He "wasn't totally against" caffeine, not cigarettes.

people need to pay attention to their caffeine intake and how they do it, just as they do with alcohol or cigarettes

Note "as they do" as opposed to "as I recommend to do" or anything of this kind.

edit:

And have a downvote for your know-it-better tell-everyone-what-to-do-with-their-lives attitude. It's not that much effective and creates lots of ill will. Because I think I know what was your problem with this quote and what you would prefer it to be instead.
Thank you for telling your story. I think you are making very good points. I'm in favor of all the flashy development, and I don't think we should feel bad about building it. But the problems you cite here are the ones I worry we are neglecting, and I think your framing of the question at the end of your post is right on.
Congrats to the Graphcool team on the launch! You're part of what makes the GraphQL community awesome. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!
WTH is this trend where people splice garbage stock photos into text? It's gotten considerably worse these past few years
Looks cool! How does this compare to scaphold.io ?
And what are the specs for this node? CPU, RAM?
slang...
A small number of pressing plants produced bad discs during the late 80s and early 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_bronzing
Whut? Protos are clearly inspired by Warhammer 40k Eldar
It seems like learning is just generalized copying.

In this case, the arm still has to be shown the specific task, but is able to generalize across different block locations, textures, lighting etc.
Could someone more knowledgeable than me comment on what Selfrando is, how it's useful, and how it works.
Light crystals are a thing now
> "and threatening to fire me for reporting things to HR was not illegal"

That doesn't sound right to me. While perhaps not illegal, it is certainly unethical and uncaring.
Great feedback. We have some planned integrations between file storage and the GraphQL API. We want to make sure we understand our cost structure before we commit to a price point.
Indoor farming can only be more intense than outdoor if you power it with nuclear or fossil fuels...

Humanity is currently migrating into solar power. There's no way you will gain any area by adding conversions on the way through the plants. You get better reliability, easier pest controls (without additives), and lots of other things, but you can never gain in area use.
Winograd's still working in AI and Minsky died last year, so they (are, were) very up-to-date.

https://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/

Since both cooperated with DARPA at a high level they were aware of defense-related efforts which your typical AI grunt wouldn't necessarily see.

Also both are extraordinarily imaginative and bright, so it is more likely they could show you things they've done that you would not imagine.
Lamenting that a clearly inferior product dominates a market is not "moralizing".
> True but to be fair they're still fresh findings.

Your "fresh finding" was found nine years ago - this is even explicitly stated in the 2015 Siberian Times article.

All of the citations for the paper describing the "bracelet" [1] are for uncontroversial findings (that Denisovans existed, that they interbred with Neanderthals, etc.) - none of them make any reference to the supposed "bracelet".

[1]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1563011008...
There is no indication from the photos that they don't have windows, we don't see the direction from where the pictures are taken from. We only see that on one side they have storage.

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-...
The Cheesecake Theory
Reminds me of IBM's new building:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3037598/khrushchev-visits-ibm-a-...

I wonder how well the Apple building will age?
I worry that this could cause Slack to use a lot of memory.
Even for thicker client apps react native is a decent option as you can always drop down to native code if you need to.
ZeniMax: Samsung’s Gear VR tech conceived at id
Oops! sorry, right you are, small multiplication error, but what's a few orders of magnitude between friends ;)
You are wrong, at least if you listen to what people like Bruce Schneier and other experts say about password security.
Monetizing an editor was a solved problem 40 years ago.
Strikes me as a poor future when we use proprietary protocols on other peoples' servers to facilitate all of our communications.
And Gibson is still churning out books with the same ideas -- even sometimes essentially the same characters with different names.

Crazy rich guy driving everything from behind the scenes? Check.

Voodoo beliefs transplanted into modern/futuristic society? Check.

Cayce Pollard vs Hollis Henry? They are essentially the same character.

I still enjoy his work, but it's impossible not to notice the repetition, going from the Pattern Recognition trilogy all the way back to Count Zero.
I think that the request pipeline is interesting enough to warrant a little discussion. Graphcool is running its users' code on their behalf right in the hot code path of their mutation pipeline. This means they're able to run untrusted code in an isolated and low-latency manner.

You may have seen something similar before in Auth0 Rules [1]. That the two share similarities is no coincidence! Auth0 Rules and Graphcool's 'inline functions' use the same Webtask technology behind the scenes.

At Auth0, we're working on packaging up this technology to provide an Extensibility as a Service offering called Auth0 Extend [2]. Auth0 Extend builds on the familiar webhook model but removes the friction webhooks impose on user; no more standing up and managing servers just to handle webhook invocations. Auth0 Extend makes it trivial to transform a platform's webhook integration into an in-platform custom code editing experience.

Look for more details Auth0 Extend in the coming days as we make our public launch. Also look for other exciting imminent product launches from our integration partners.

Congratulations on a beautiful and functional product launch Graphcool!

1: https://auth0.com/docs/rules

2: https://auth0.com/extend
I agree, but... which ones would those be again? And are they generally electable based on on other platform planks?

THe problem here is that most of the public believes that security theater is real security. Unless that changes, most politicians will espouse their "firm positions on security" in order to help them get elected.

THe ones who "get it" tend to be in the independent/libertarian camps (last I looked) - and they don't get a whole lot of public support.
Reminds me of x.ai. Didn't it turn out that the "AI assistant" is actually made of humans?
One possibility for a useful energy source, in a dirty crowded moon system, would be chemical reactors. Rhea has a thin, oxygen-rich atmosphere, and if you have oxygen, you can burn almost anything. Titan's methane seems like an obvious choice of fuel.

It would be really interesting to compare the economics of shipping large volumes of fuel around moon system, to shipping them around a relatively tiny ocean.
> I've seen so many developers build giant unwieldy images because there's been no easy way to manage build dependencies that didn't end with bloat.

Uhm... What? No, there was, around two decades older than Docker itself. It's
just that developers avoid using tools that were written for sysadmins.

If you
build a binary package with your application and another one with your
application's dependencies, you avoid all that bloat you mention. Though it's
not sexy, because it's an old method and uses things already present in
operating system.
>Which community? There are thousands of subreddits. Are you talking about the people who use the default front-page subreddits?

It's less about the specific communities, and more about the overall "board culture" in my opinion. Every subreddit may have their own niche, but by and large people still ascribe to the same circle-jerk meme culture across boards that annoys the hell out of me. It's very similar to 4chan in that regard.
Greatest example, the Xerox Parc team knew bitmapped regions were impossible on that eras hardware, but somehow Jobs convinced the Macintosh team to build them in.
They don't appear to document this, save that they handle 10k QPS read or 2k QPS write and can deal with 2TiB of data. They also recommend that you have 3 of them:

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration
Microsoft commits $5M to ‘landmark’ United Nations technology partnership
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw
Google makes Cloud Spanner generally available
Berlusconi ‘flatters’ Emmanuel Macron with thinly-veiled jab at first lady
Absolutely nobody insists on only training for the last war. The only people who use that phrase are people who are convinced, beyond all reason, that we're making that mistake; or people who use it as a strawman to criticize arguments concerning priority and budget.
That's because the aesthetics are relatively easy to improve once the difficult technical problems are solved.

We're still in the research phase, so polish isn't important (unless perhaps if giving a demo to an outside investor who isn't tech-savvy).
Hey, were you able to access? Site doesn't seem to be down from what I can tell. I'm part of the team at Sentio. Feel free to message me if you have any issues :)
I recommend reading the linked blog post about it. [0]

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/selfrando-q-and-georg-koppe...

There is also a research paper [1] and accompanying video [2].

[1] https://people.torproject.org/~gk/misc/Selfrando-Tor-Browser...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IikpczzNyas
It might be a misnomer, but "severless" has been very consistent: temporary fully managed autoscaled lamdas. It's basically the app layer as a service.
Mr. Dragon, if you have time later today can we go hunter/gathering?
I almost tripped over one of these last week! Then I stared at it as it rolled away, wondering if they were being remote controlled or had some basic AI and pathfinding. Sounds like a little of both.

I think it's a great start, but the clearly have a lot of work to do. They should start by adding a pole and flag so you can see it coming. :)
I don't have a separate computer. I only have one single computer for work and personal things. I use it heavily for both. If something happens to my computer and it goes down for a few days, I'm screwed.

I personally would love something like this. Just in case I need to get some work done off my phone. I do no want another computer.
Because your locally hosted DB will run circles around it. And for 99.99999% of the shops out there a single, local DB instance is more than enough.
Right. That's the choice cash-strapped startups will make instead of using this. And once they're experts at that particular problem domain, they will figure out how to make their first choice redundant/HA enough that they probably won't need what spanner provides.

I used Linux instead of Windows NT as a kid because it was cheaper and ran well on cheaper hardware. Then I became an expert at it. Then it became the OS I used for servers.

I've wanted to use spanner for years, but at this point, the longest my production SQL database will ever be down is for less than 2-3 minutes, and it's not worth more than the cost of a rack full of servers and a massive migration effort to theoretically shave off a couple minutes of potential downtime for me. If I'm going to go that route, I would probably just opt for something like DRBD. The way my current infrastructure is set up, it wouldn't add any costs for me to do this.
Every GPS chip in every GPS-enabled device includes the clock — by design, it can't work without it. So perhaps it is possible to quickly hack something from a cheap Android phone placed somewhere near the window?
This article is cribbed from https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-... which is currently being discussed at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14349147.

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to submit original sources. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They can easily tumble them using various services and buy Monero with it.
I really enjoy keeping a number of honey bee colonies in the summer on my rooftop in Boston. However, you lost me at "herbal medicine".
Shadow Brokers tease more Windows exploits and cyberespionage data
OK, Android is very close to a phone, Google might be able to support wireless keyboard/mouse plus a hdmi-screen out of box easily one day? Replacing the whole firmware is a bit intrusive for me at the moment.
Why? If you aren't using the feature why would it cause your slack instance to use more memory?
Can't see the content without signing up (regardless of email). Bye.
I wondered the same. I was actually shocked to see one on the street with it's camera still attached, moving unmolested past a bunch of people.
Thanks for your reply. So essentially VR doesn't affect the training phase per se, but simplifies the life of the trainer.
Can I ask which company it was? I'm making a mental list of companies to try to interview with once I graduate, and having offices sounds amazing.
Don't you dare. :)
>>Having a 1 acre garden as a hobby, is huge ecological violence

..context dropping..compared to the lawn or parking lot that might be there?
Amazon rewarding top-performing Alexa Skill developers with direct payments
This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new features. Maybe they're not correlated.
> There's just no way this will ever replicate wild herbs.

Why not? What environment or characteristic of plants grown in the wild is impossible to recreate in a controlled environment? Arguably, plants can be grown "in-season" all year round with technology like this, and be sold fresh the same day it is picked.

> Why is this artificial shit necessary? It's not.

Maybe growing food within the cities will help us to feed a dense local population, while at the same time minimising the impact on the countryside. Thus leaving the countryside natural for those who want to appreciate it.

Living in Britain, I despair at the eradication of the countryside. Natural environment has been almost exclusively replaced by farm land to grow food for our ever growing population, and we are still quite a long way from being self-sufficient.

Also, work like this will help if we want to colonise space.

> People don't appreciate the profound and beautiful foundations of "old" technologies

Are you the arbiter on what everyone else should be appreciating? Although you are free to appreciate and enjoy anything you like, other people such as myself derive deep pleasure from observing the constant onward march of technology and industry.
Something like this takes a while to build. They likely started before Nougat was released.
I think the parent meant that people having 1 acre hobby gardens are wasting space that could be more efficiently used by industrialized agriculture, and thus if you'd replace modern farming with family gardens, you'd destroy many more animal habitats.
ArcaOS 5.0 now available
T_D is a cesspool. It's like /r/conspiracy went full Saiyan. Nobody wants to see that shit.
It appears to be very expensive. I used their calculator and it says using 1 spanning node and 1GB of storage is about $657 a month.
I'm waiting for version 8 because of my religion.
I'm sure those SGIers now at HPE will be delighted to see so much being made of the UV.

Oh.
Ooooh! Thanks for that one!
It's in the map image, though barely visible.
I think the interesting part is the programming model and not the amount of RAM. This computer has no separate storage area. If you want to manipulate data, you can do it in-place instead of reading it into a RAM-like working memory and then writing the result to a disk-like storage.
Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics
Sentio CEO demoing the "SuperBook": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVRw0xWVAo
Especially with the rapid adoption VSCode is seeing. This seems kind of like the wrong move at the wrong time for Atom.
Know Your Company Knowledge Center
In case people don't do the math, you (seem to be) are suggesting that Spanner should be $9/month. I certainly argued for a "shared Spanner" mode, that wouldn't give you a dedicated setup. The benefit is that the minimum "install" would be super low, allowing you to start on a slice and move upwards (like many teams at Google!).

The reality is that $8k/year isn't that much for a company. You can all share it, get quite a bit out even the smallest deployment and so on. However, compared to the work to slim down the minimum deployment for Spanner, this was honestly a reasonable outcome (that is, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to see the team delay a year to build a shared multitenancy version).

Additionally, Spanner does things for you that MySQL et al. don't. Having an automagic Regional (and eventually Global if you'd like) database without dealing with sharding is worth $8k/year even to me. So even if it could fit on $10/month of hardware, I don't begrudge them for charging a service fee, rather than saying "This is how much cores, RAM, disk and flash this eats".

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and obviously have a vested interest in you paying us :).
This is simply absurd.
Not sure this makes sense because if you can learn from one example, then you can also learn from one single simulation (assuming you have a model).
Would cannabis have passed this point if it could be openly, legally transported across state lines and national borders? I'm very skeptical.

The supply chain there is not just weak, it is actively antagonized by various police forces. My guess is that if cannabis was 100% legal, the indoor grow operations would not make economic sense; we'd just have giant farms or greenhouses in mexico or the southwest.
My 12 yo daughter loves sci-fi movies and we just started watching the Alien franchise in preparation for Alien: Covenant this weekend.

My plan was to show her Alien, Aliens, then Prometheus. I hadn't even planned to watch Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection (or any of the spinoffs like AVP). But after reading this, maybe we should at least watch Alien 3.

Any suggestions?
Oh nice move. I'd do that but Id take out a rainforest with my collection. ;)
The movie also shows a female hero without putting a thumb on the scale. Compare Ripley's descent into the Alien Queen's lair vs. that time the girl kicked a whole Velociraptor out the window using gymnastics
If handoff risk were inversely related to shift length then one would expect European hospitals that adhere to the EU Working Time Directive to have significantly worse outcomes than both US and UK.

Is this the case? Or do they not adhere to the working time directive?
This, IMHO, is the real revolution of the one-two punch of AI/VR. Training robots in VR and then using them to produce in a real time environment that maps well to the VR env.

Humans interact in the VR env (with oculus/vive/etc) to train / configure the robots and assembly line.

Once complete, the factory line is built IRL.
"And, of course, the final version is designed to be integrated into the doorframe—heaven forbid you would bolt something on in Apple’s headquarters."

Just like water/electricity hidden in concrete beams I wonder how much of a nightmare maintenance of the building is gonna become? A simple door handle breaking already means replacing the whole door.

I guess it's just in line with their usual product philosophy, just gonna be a tad bit difficult to source a completely new $5 Billion ring if some part of this one breaks.
How does everybody feel about this compared to Firebase?
That's been the present for the majority of most people's lives. Even with email there wasn't much, if any, time where the majority of people ran their own servers.
tl;dr seems to be a more advanced form of ASLR?
TL;DR on first link:

- They're not hardy (trees need support, apples are thin skinned, and they ripen at different times)

- A university holds a patent on the tree (only $1 per tree, tho)
Yeah but to use a word like "lament" or "inferior" you're kind of already moralizing.
Do you not remember viruses in the 90s like the ILOVEYOU virus? Plenty of hackers wrote viruses that maliciously destroyed data just because they could.
Hope so. Screen Hero was really well done.
Apple Plans Laptop Upgrades to Take on Microsoft
How does it compare to the free C++ compilers in building large projects like you described in other post on 30 vs 5 min?
Another interesting never-realized Alien film is Vincent Ward's version of Alien 3. Among other thing, it was set on a space-monastery made entirely from wood (looking like the interior of a medieval church, and powered by windmill), and the main monster was a an Alien-Sheep (made by incubating in one of the farm animals). The set-piece would have been the Alien attacking our heros in an indoors wheat-field.

https://alienseries.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/wooden-world-vi...