skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second chart is all you need to look at. It can't be healthy for a society if only the top few percent see any income gains and for the rest incomes stagnate.
"They won't listen to users and keep building devices that have no market"

You just listed an idea according to yourself with literally no market data or budgetary notions. Of course you would do better than any of the companies that actually know what it means working this stuff

>And this opinion is shared by many of people I know

Unfortunately "people this guy knows" isn't a real market and has no bearing on whether a product would be successful or not

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
How the Growth of E-Commerce Is Shifting Retail Jobs
That's neat. I see the Xi. Does the ++ mean double, and the cc mean charmed? Having trouble parsing that, even with the sub and superscripts from the article. I guess more concretely, would a triple charmed (if that means anything) be +++ cc or ++ ccc?
I've been saying for some time that VR is the next 3D TV. I've tried VR systems from Jaron Lanier's original rig with two SGI workstations in the 1980s to the HTC Vibe. Technically, there's been plenty of progress. The lag problem has been fixed. The resolution is better. The headgear is still clunky.

There's still no killer app. You can play FPS games. Works fine, for people who like shooters. You can run roller coaster sims. Works fine, gets boring fast. You can visit Second Life. Kind of cool, if you like SL. You can visit High Fidelity, which is a higher-res Second Life where nothing is going on. Boring. (Worse, the High Fidelity CEO is now talking about "sovereign identity on the blockchain". If one branch of hype isn't working, pivot to another.)

VR conferencing? Working in High Fidelity and Second Life now. HF even has gaze tracking and facial gesture capture.

In the early days of VR, there was hope that VR would provide a more natural interface to CAD programs. Autodesk put effort into VR to try to make that work. Turned out that trying to do precision work in VR is not only difficult, but really tiring.

It's all been built, and nobody came. Best Buy is removing the Oculus Rift demo stations from stores due to lack of interest.
While interesting, it does not contain anything about real half-life, but is about the way humans deal differently with the remains of a nuclear explosion.
It's common for client applications to encode a client secret. Many API client apps use a model like this, for example Firebase calls their equivalent token an API Key.

The "secret" in this case is really being used to select a context. So the secret you'd embed in your copy of the app would differ from mine, and it would point to your database, not mine.
Yeah, but even if each user has their own dedicated IP, they can't bind to a privileged port unless they're root. So it's still a problem, no?
I agree completely by the way.
I don't think I could live in an HOA even if I was paid to. Those things are atrocities. To anyone in the market for buying a home, watch out for those and never buy one if it's under an HOA. You can find lots of horror stories about them online with a quick search.

A good tip for anyone suffering through one: they can't legally interfere with amateur radio towers, so if you're dissatisfied with having to live with your HOA, you can put up as big of an amateur radio tower as you can afford and they can't do anything about it.
I think the problem with hardware startups is more subtle. Unless you open up a fundamentally new market segment or find a niche application, your product is asking to be commodified. Smartwatches and fitness trackers were too obvious a category and Samsung, Apple, etc. were sure to swoop in and win. There really is no distinguishing feature for Jawbone or Fitbit. Other hardware startups like Anki are doing stuff that's niche and novel in areas unlikely to be ever entered by Apple/Google/etc.

The technology component of Jawbone or Fitbit was, even in 2007, very very basic and hardly novel. There is literally nothing in Jawbone or Fitbit that is super novel: their sensors aren't ground breaking, their algorithms are (presumably) meh, etc.

VC's hope that these companies will mature to become superstars and achieve the level of tech quality of Qualcomm, FB, GE, Intel, Google, etc. in their respective markets. This didn't happen with Jawbone or Fitbit.
Why don't you make a positive claim of your own in competition with the existing regulatory one? Obviously I'm using simple numbers to sketch a simple conceptual example. If you consider the burden if regulation to be so onerous, quantify that.
SF and NY
We were doing that in a high school course. Then 9/11 happened.

I suggested Delta.

A teammate asked his dad for a stock tip and invested the rest in a company none of us had ever heard of.

Delta popped back +25% or so over the next bit (from memory).

His company made some announcement and the stock doubled in value.

... I learned a lot about how the world works from that class.
They would likely get another big speedup by doing this. iDCT gets faster as you perform a "DCT downscaling" operation because you require fewer add/mul [1].

You could probably go for another speedup, independently of DCT downscaling, by operating in YCbCr before a colorspace conversion to RGB. For example, for 4:2:0 encoded content (a majority of JPEG photographs), you end up processing 50% less pixels in the chroma planes.

When you combine both techniques, you can have your cake and eat it too: for example, to downsample 4:2:0 content by 50% you can do a DCT downscale on only the Y plane, keeping the CbCr planes as they are before colorspace conversion to RGB. No lanczos required!

If you need a downsample other than {1/n; n = 2,4,8}, you can round up to the nearest integer n then perform a lanczos to the final resolution: the resampling filter will be operating on a lot less data.

On quality I once saw a comparison roughly equating DCT downscaling to bilinear (if I can find the reference I'll update this comment). With the example above, it really depends on how you compare: if you compare to a 4:2:0 image decoded to RGB where the chroma is first pixel-doubled or bicubic-upsampled before conversion to RGB then downsampled, it might be that the above lanczos-free technique will look just as good because it didn't modify the chroma at all. Ultimately it's best to try-and-compare.

Lastly you could leverage both SIMD and multicore by processing each of the Y, Cb, and/or Cr planes in parallel.

[1] http://jpegclub.org/djpeg/
For sure. It's sci-fi dystopia with a smattering of Football hah!
Digital Ocean was smart to cut this short (the flock of brazilians from SoundCloud migrated there). Not all brazilians are like this tho - only the agilists.
1985. VPL Research, the first gloves and goggles maker. I knew some of those people.
Still though, if you pour orange juice into your keyboard and don't have the time/ability to repair it yourself, who's going to do it for under $35? I seem to remember that fixing a messed up one took 1-2 hours, but that was like >25 years ago when I was an eager whizkid and a new keyboard ran for $120 or something.
>SimpliSafe

We use SimpliSafe at work. It solves far more problems than the "commodity hardware" issue. It solves the alarm ecosystem and shitty contracts that legacy carriers like ADT trap you into. It's definitely a good model going forward, as you noted.

EDIT: Additionally, it solves a "boring" problem, which not many companies want to tackle. Yet there's tons and tons of stable recurring revenue in this space that requires almost no additional innovation. Just stability, no-bullshit, and good customer service.
Yes, but did you watch the section on fundamental constants? Even if he's a crank, his questions are valid, and metrologists who define away problems with fundamental constant measurements are to be questioned.
That was a PR masterpiece - making iDweebs, those silly earbud things with wires, cool.
kubeadm makes installing Kubernetes on existing computers vastly easier than it used to be (which isn’t to say it is easy now, just easier). https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...
Sad to see. I can't speak on their wearables, but I've owned a Jawbone Big Jambox for four years and continue to use it to this day. It may not be the best compared to other bluetooth speakers, but it's a great product nonetheless.
They already do, see uArm. At one point they were listed as a US company, but they seem to have updated their page. I have nothing bad to say about the experience - my robot arm arrived on time, it pretty much works, some niggles with the software but they seem to be fixing it.

No problems with Shenzhen companies running Kickstarters, after all they can probably have much better relationships with the factories than Westerners are likely to.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufactory/uarm-put-a-min...
I guess it shows how widespread GCS usage is among enterprises
It seems like the problem is whoever pointed them as successful... successful ideas, maybe, but not companies.
Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
The abstraction may be good enough functionally. My comment was a security not functional statement.

In the case you mention, your choice of abstraction may affect your threat model, depending on if there is shared state and what data may require isolation.
The 2D frequency response is poor because treating pixels as 'little squares' essentially substitutes Manhattan distance for Euclidean distance between pixel positions.

You have reasonable behavior along the orthogonal dimensions, but you're introducing a sqrt(2) stretch factor along diagonals.
For as long as I can remember and I've been using Reddit since about 2008.
There we go. :)
Between 1/10 and 5/20 or sometimes more from http://hypem.com/popular/noremix
Huh? You can open a Fidelity account with $2500, and buy any stock you want including US and Int'l markets.
Rhe iPod had demand.
Uber tipping is rolling out to 121 U.S. and Canadian markets today
Fair enough. I think they will be part of the future of computing, but saying they are "the future of computing" is probably hyperbole.
Are you considering AR as a separate concern, or do you consider that one doomed to mediocrity as well?

Personally I think that features like virtual workspaces (e.g. multi-monitor displays / overlays) and HUDs (e.g. vehicle navigation) are going to be game-changing outside of the entertainment industry, when the headset tech gets to where it needs to be; this will probably be better implemented as an AR overlay (a la Hololens) than full VR.
thank you for clarifying that you were not connected to the abuses of the unroll.me platform.

My anger is directed at the responsible parties, and I apologize if I have offended you.

If what you worked hard to build was twisted and abused by others then that is truly a painful thing.

may you find peace
That may be, though I do not think that is the case as the parent made a very narrow qualified statement.

The parent made a specific statement about the security properties of various isolation mechanisms, equating them all from a security perspective.
Was looking through the comments to find a fellow yachting club member. Avast Matey!
Shut this stupid joke of a business down and force municipalities to do this once and for all. We all know how Uber was trying to be profitable. Hire anybody to do the job of a cabbie for less .
"This page is unavailable when linked to from news.ycombinator.com."
beware that this is only one side of the story.
I don't like double blind review, because it makes it hard to build on your own research. Often when working towards a result you can publish at a "big" conference or a "prestigious" journal you will publish these steps before your "big" publication. Now how do you refer to these steps in a double-blind review? You have to refer to it, and doing so means that either a) the reviewer knows exactly who you are, or b) the reviewer thinks that you add too little to that previous research which isn't yours. The only way out of this is not to publish any of your previous research until you are ready for the "big one" and that isn't good for anyone. So forget about double-blind, it just doesn't work. Neither does blind review work in my opinion, if you are making a decision that might effect my life in such a big way, I have the right to know who you are (maybe not in the real world, but in any kind of process designed to be fair).

The only solution is to make the review process completely open and transparent.
Trade on a platform with negative maker fees with post only enabled.
I'd be willing to bet that I could.
SoundCloud will lay off 40 percent of its staff to stay afloat
It is however definitely Turing-complete.
>if you don't think mental illnesses subside in molecules and physical structures in the brain, where exactly do you think they come from?

No ones knows for sure because no one can objectively explain the nature of consciousness and the mind in the first place. That is of course not to say that chemicals do not have a strong influence on the mind.

>Oh, and you kind of can diagnose certain mental illnesses post mortem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181616/

The study has no control group and therefore is not objective. If you read the Methodological Issues section, you'll see that this is essentially a study of the neurochemical effects of antipsychotic drugs.
The New York City Ferry Has Tips for the Subway
Sorry to come off as a fanboy, but I blew through hundreds of dollars on multiple generations of Jawbone bluetooth headsets that never worked well enough. By contrast, my AirPods work incredibly well.
> [...] that also redirects requests for ".well-known" which means renewal requests don't work

What issue did you run into with this? Let's Encrypt follows redirects both to HTTP and HTTPS and accepts practically any certificate for redirect targets when validating via http-01, including self-signed, expired and mismatching certificates (which isn't a problem since the initial request is plaintext anyway).
Why would you be sending gigabytes of data? You don't have to send the whole project across every time a change is made.
Oh wow, nice referral based redirect. Why though? jwz.org has some great articles, why the HN hate?
> Usually no more than 3 or 4 decimal places are possible

By that do you mean accurate to 1 part in 100 (3dp) or 1000 (4dp) or what? Since the scale of a representation is arbitrary, I'm not sure what dp means here.
I wonder what is the reality of organized crime being a part of the contemporary garbage collection and recycling landscape.

And I wonder if these two have had any cover from it.
My Jambox is a frequent pain in my butt, and I only ever use it with one device.
I'm under the impression Google/Android had pretty good success in copying the iPhone.
Do lots of other activities with other people and learn about the world.
Hi Mike!

Was talking with your folks about your project at various recent Langley weddings.

Kudos for a great idea, well-executed!
Part of the issue is there is a lot of dissonance behind the word "programming". People tend to conflate it with "Software development". I think it is more understandable if you consider programming in similar terms to what people mean when they use the words "writing" or "mathematics".

Writing, as an occupation is difficult not everyone can be a professional writer. However people can be taught writing fundamentals relatively easily.

In the same way becoming a professional programmer is difficult, learning programming fundamentals not as much. For whatever reason because of all this dissonance people think learning programming means immediately going out and developing software. Writing isn't taught by cranking out a novel.

You can go to a summer school aka a bootcamp to improve you're written English. I would not expect to become a journalist or an author or copy editor immediately afterwards. Maybe there is some dishonesty on the part of the people who run bootcamps I'm not sure...
To be honest, bluetooth was not that reliable until recently. With the new 4.x versions of Bluetooth, things are a lot more stable with audio devices. So I wouldn't blame Jawbone alone.
See also Booster Fuels, based in Dallas-Fort Worth (ay!) and the Bay Area. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/traffi...
> It powers a vast part of the internet including sites huge, tiny, and everything in between.

It's more like those vast parts of the internet are working despite PHP. Why do you think Windows is powering vast numbers of desktops? It's not for its technical excellency. ;)
Gimme one that will take non-standard trash.

I can already just call Got Junk and have them take most things. However, the canisters of paints and other crap that needs to be dropped at special locations? They won't take those.

Since I don't own a car (by choice), I'm essentially screwed. The disposal locations are only on very specific days with bad hours, and usually in the middle of nowhere.

It's the only thing I can't easily do without driving. Get me someone who will pick all that shit up and they'll get all my money.
Why did you continue to buy generation after generation of a product that you felt was sub-par?
That's the genius of going with ArchLinux - everything is unstable :)
Sounds like you might have some stories to tell.
With the exception of a Nintendo DS, 1 game, and some beer, all of my money from 4 years of jobs went to rent,food, and the tiny little bit left over went to tuition. Anyone going to college in the past 20 years was not paying for it all with a job you could hold while going to classes
Agreed. You shouldnt need a diagnosis to take a day off work
How do you recover from segfault? How do you know what data might be corrupted?
This existed 30+ years ago. Ever hear of Usenet?
Unfortunately, as the masses invaded the Internet, its popularity waned...
That's a great request (though I thought .well-known would still work through an http->https redirect, as long as nothing else messed with the request; we do a redirect on virtualmin.com and our LE renewals work OK...but, I'll look deeper into that).

It can be surprisingly tricky to get redirects right, because of how web apps behave and how web apps often take over early request processing in an htaccess file for things like nice URLs and special assets directories and such, and there can be surprising interactions between redirect rules, but I suspect we could make it work in the majority of cases pretty easily. I'll add it to my todo list.
I don't run a company myself but I would think that the enterprise offering would have some security assurances. Does Github say that its services aren't appropriate for purposes other than open-source development?

By security, though, I wouldn't expect the guarantees of financial data or whatever, but internal audit and access controls, i.e. not the scenario of "any engineer at Github" that the GP has inferred. IIRC, for example, at Google only specific engineers, such as SREs, are given uber-access to user data as part of their duties: https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fir...
The reasons that these products fail is usually feature creep. Whether due to Kickstarter stretch goals, or pressure from VCs, people don't know when to draw the line and ship. That's followed closely by underestimating costs and under-pricing products. After that you have the risk of developing the product you want, not the product that everyone else needs. I would never suggest anyone starts a hardware business until they've worked in one to get a feel for cost estimation.

This is no different to software, but it's a lot more problematic with hardware. Unless you plan very well, patching hardware is expensive and/or impractical. You're often much better off releasing a basic, but very functional product (i.e. your MVP) and iteratively addressing customer demands with later version.

The second is that selling complex products to consumers is really hard. If you sell stuff to industry the benchmark for smartness is often much much lower.
Mmm, what do you exactly mean by composite?

Most of well-known particles are composite of quarks (proton, neutron etc), so it's an exciting discovery indeed.

It would be yawn if if it was a composite of another particles, like Cooper pairs.
The best one can hope for from a NN is that it discerns a model within the training data. There is a way to more-or-less onjectively measure how well it has done this, if at all: if the model requires less information than the data it explains. i.e. fewer bytes. So, "compression algorithms" are a rudimentary model of data; we'd like to do much better than that.

However, NN tend to not be very space-efficient, and also don't usually "explain" the data (in the sense of reproducing it). So this test is hard to apply to them.

BTW: human creativity has much to do with expectation: how obvious it was to you already. So, people with different levels of exposureto some art discipline have different opinions on creativity... and as new styles become known, those opinions change.

Human beings also draw on other fields and experiences, not available in training data. Especially striking, to humans, is inspiration from common experiences that are not recognised as common, as in art that reveals ourselves to us; observational humour. For a computer to use this information, it seems it would need to have human experiences, a body, social interaction etc. Of course, this is a very parochial concept... pure creativity need not be so anthropocentric.
This is a presentation by Coraline given in 2013 at Ruby Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2TOY4lufIM
Svgbob – create good looking diagrams using plain text
Generating convincing profile pictures for thousands of fake social media accounts.

Or photo portraits of the "board members" for the About Us page of an autonomous corporation.
I commented on this below...
Does Robinhood offer an API?
I agree, I can't wait until we're all in VR desktop environments, which will I think open up really interesting new ways of personal computing and working.

Take for example software development. It has huge potential to improve how efficiently we can work together remotely. It is often difficult to communicate very well with remote team members, and to develop a rapport with them. But imagine if you could be pair programming right beside them, in a VR setting, pointing to some code in a floating IDE or something, and explaining to them how it works. Or you could pull up a virtual "white board" and start drawing maybe.

It could also go a long way to making work more comfortable. With your computer being just a VR headset, it would be easy to work in a laid back recliner, standing in your office, or even lying down.
Start with his short stories. One of the best, and one of my favorite stories by any author, is "A Little Fable": http://www.flashfictiononline.com/fpublic0012-a-little-fable...

Then, perhaps, "The Metamorphosis", before or after reading Nabokov's lecture on it.
I love my Sphero BB8. Cutest little toy I've ever had. I can't see them taking over the world though, that's a big round comparatively I would think
FPGAs are fundamentally analog, depending on if 'fundamental' means what was in the designer's head or what you actually fabricated. You are thinking about them and using them as if they were digital.

Adrian Thompson at Sussex University used a genetic algorithm to auto-design FPGA circuits in the early 90s. Since no one told the GA that FPGAs were supposed to be logic circuits, it happily used the FPGA as an analog machine.

Even an Intel i7 chip is an analog machine that approximately implements the i7 computer design. They throw away the ones that don't approximate it up to tolerance.