skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initially you could just write Android apps. Every OS release broke the standard features more and more, however, and you were pretty much forced into their special programming paradigms, yes. For example, originally swiping emulated the d-pad buttons, but that was removed. For a long time you could pair Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and trackpads, but then they broke that for a long time. It may have been added back recently.

Modern era there is a "Mirror API" that's a very limited web based API for serving "cards" to the device and there's a a native SDK with a few hooks for registering for pre-selected voice commands and showing activities with various amounts of liveliness or graphics capability vs. static cards.

So if you are just publishing cards with standard menu actions you can write server side only in Python and several other languages and just communicate with Google's servers. If you want a more native experience you write in Java using an SDK originally based on Android.
2 days ago [Apache publicly disallows React](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881)! I thought it was pretty interesting to see a freaking massive tech company completely ignore and utilize
I think a better analogy is sneaking into a movie theater, for which there are a large number of "innocuous fun" articles out there [1] (although not featured on HN so much)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+sneak+into+a+movie+th...
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"It's a shame Duplicacy is not free software."

If the commenter meant no cost it's more reasonable they'd have said "It's a shame Duplicacy is not free". Or "It's a shame Duplicacy costs money".

Capitalising would have made it clearer yes, but I think given the language and the context (hacker news) I was justified. But the author, @acrosync, was also justified in assuming it meant no cost.
If it was right next to him, it might be faster but they might have found that it was likely to cause people to merge steps, and that lead to an overall lesser quality and accuracy in a system where those are at a premium. It's possible that what looks like an inefficiency was a purposeful bit of process engineering to hack human nature for a better overall end result. With step level verification through photographs, it's possible they might get similar results with this system but without the forced inefficiency.
Yes. The goroutine that increments i in a loop never has a chance to yield to the scheduler.

package main

import (
"fmt"
"time"
)

func main() {
go func() {
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
fmt.Println("hi")
}()
var i int
for {
i++
}
}

$ GOMAXPROCS=1 go run test.go # never prints anything
You're spot on about Google; they've moved forward from this approach and lean more heavily on domain-based information now. But they're a rare exception, and they have very little to go on when the domain is just "sendgrid.com" (i.e. the customer hasn't set up whitelabel yet). So we want to make sure we're always giving customers new or cooled IPs!
There are some exchanges that have tried this, but it's hard when the auction price cannot result in a price better than the NBBO (which is just one way the Reg-NMS has stifled innovation). They are having more success with this in Europe: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150906005008/en/BATS...
They don't have to be, though.
Yep. There's also external battery packs, which probably not a problem for some jobs.

However, there were some other issues I encountered in previous (early) Google Glass development that I wonder if they have been resolved:

- Google Glass devices were prone to overheating to the point of shutting down, so it was not possible to do anything terribly computationally intensive.

- Support for more corporate oriented wifi protocols (eg LEAP) was marginal; the Glass even had trouble making an initial connection to a hidden SSIDs on a standard WPA2 network.

- Barcode scanner support is based on camera image capture; unfortunately small barcodes were difficult to impossible to scan with the Glass as a result (both due to the need to position the code close to the camera, and the nature of the camera that made closeups of small barcodes very blurry).
This is really cool, but when this technology trickles down to burger shops, I would be worried.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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> why take a random walk when you can March along the gradient towards a solution?

Because your problem has no smooth/continuous gradient

Because your problem has a giant search space

Because your problem can do with a "close enough" solution

Try gradient descending a symbolic regression and we'll talk
Deep learning works best on images, video, text, audio and reinforcement learning. Most common applications are outside these domains, based on diverse types of business/scientific data. But, as they said, you can compose CatBoost with TF and Keras neural nets. It connects like a NN module.
You think someone at Amazon literally said "Ehhh we have a bigger army of lawyers, lets use it"...???

I don't believe it!
Ha! I interviewed at google and told them glass was a horrible consumer product and that they should have started with a market that wouldn't mind looking stupid (or skiers who already wore goggles so they wouldn't look stupid at all). The point I made to them was that they engineered an incredible device but hadn't validated the market. I suggested it would have been better to start with something like skiers because they already wore goggles and helmets. So, you wouldn't need to get the product so small to see how people reacted to it.

Needless to say, I didn't get the job. It was really funny to watch Glass (which is a cool technology) totally fail because it's a stupid consumer product. And, I'm no Steve Jobs. It was absolutely predictable that Glass would never work as a consumer product.

And, if you want to make it work for manufacturing, I think you'll need to scale up the form factor. Why wouldn't you make it a safety goggle too? Think about all of the engineering effort that went into shrinking this into a small, completely impractical, package.

Anyway, I think that this was not only predictable but it also shows a company culture where people can't tell the emperor that he's naked. It's not like I was the only person that took one look at glass and knew you couldn't leave the house wearing one. But, that message was pretty actively suppressed at Google.
This may be partially unrelated. If one of the reasons of you wanting to deeply know your co-founder is the fear of her leaving the company in future please consider having a vesting schedule with one year cliff. This will allow you ample time to know each other well.
Or kafkaesque how often these separate concepts are conflated in popular usage.
Your definition of a quantised auction is a bit different to mine. In my definition, you submit at the start and get an outcome at the end. You have no ability to modify the contents of the auction during the auction itself. I feel what you're describing is still a continuous auction... I mean if you can continually modify your order, or indeed submit at different times, at which point in time do you do your matching?
In Denver there is a program that supplies hospitals internationally with expired drugs and equipment that would otherwise be without. It's been going on for decades and saved many lives.
Short-order fry cooks, too. That's a different kettle of fish though.

What do you think regarding my position on heuristics/forming an idea in the mind of the reader?
Besides, why is it that democracy in government is common sense but workplace democracy is just crazy talk?
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Yev from Backblaze here - sometimes we jump-start the conversation by saying, "Hey, we're monitoring the thread if you want to chat." - but you beat me to it, I hadn't even noticed it was posted until I saw a tweet a few minutes ago by a HackerBot :D
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Some of this stuff is so obviously cool but remember the cost of efficiency. 30% time saved means one person does more in their day. This has a personal toll because working less intensively gave you time to think and physically rest. You're at it non-stop now.

And that also means you need 30% fewer employees to manage the same workload. That's going to be the trade-off here. How many people will have to go just to offset the hardware and software costs?

I don't know what I'm arguing here... I'm finding it hard to avoid quoting Ian Malcolm in the context but I think we have to remember there are definite downsides to treating people like underutilised machinery.
If this article inspires anyone to finally move to Canada, there's lots of startups here in Toronto that are hiring. Also Amazon is hoping to fill 200 more desks this year in their Toronto office and Google is nearby in Waterloo.

Happy to help anyone interested.
> Denmark, with a tax burden of 49.6 percent, stands atop the OECD index. It also happens to be a wonderful place to live, with a high standard of living funded by a diversified, high-tech, export-driven economy.

Denmark is NOT a wonderful place to live. It is a stable society where everyone is equally poor except the tax dodgers. Furthermore, the climate is more bleak than Seattle. This article makes Denmark seem like THE place to be. It clearly is not. Just look at where the economic migrants are flocking to. That would be Germany. Furthermore, this article is a blatant propaganda piece. "More government is good for you" is the overriding mantra here. There is no discussion of the downsides of increasing taxation on the population at all. Instead, it is a pure puff piece which is engineered to make Canada seem great because of taxation. The reality is that the Canadians are functionally isolated from the United States. They decide their own policies. They decide their own cultural norms and laws. If anything, it is the decoupling of that region from the rest of the legislative United States that fosters such a wonderful culture localized to north of the US border. It's not taxation that makes Canada great, but jurisdiction and their right to self-determination.
"What advantage does he get from waiting till the last possible moment? "

He gets more advantage from outside information sources.

You are correct that you cannot gain info from the bids that are happening on THAT market, but you can instead get bid/price info on OTHER markets/auctions.
You could just set rails or clotheslines outside the station for an external drone camera to travel along.
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Very cool, thank you for explaining. Is VPN the primary purpose or could it in theory be extended to work as software routers (as opposed to physical switches your traffic goes through) for all internet traffic once connect?

Let me know if I'm way off base in my understanding.
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This is aviation work, you always always always check the work you are doing with the manual. One mistake could be someone's life. The entire aviation industry is checklist and procedure driven.
I don't think I am following.

What would democracy, at its purest form, in a work place look like?

Would employees have voters rights over every single decision that would be made? That seems inefficient.

I don't think applying democracy to a workplace is crazy, I just don't understand why it's necessary.
Fair enough. Though as 'skinnymuch points out, if they're doing this regularly, then memory shouldn't play any role in the speed.
Here's a video that shows the actual thing moving in zero gravity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PntNBeJuRFQ
I ride a real bicycle, plain utility cycling as I have no car and trains don't go everywhere. I have never heard of this injury in the cycling context. I also find it hard to believe that a spin workout is likely to be of higher duration and ferocity than a bike ride. I do know people who go to the gym for spinning classes - fat and female with crash diets and constant snacking on diet foods. I wish I could say something different to that, so anecdotal. I have offered to help them get cycling to work but they don't have the fitness for that, realistically. It is an order of magnitude really.

I think there is a problem with how gyms give this false impression that a mad workout in the gym will somehow work. If you genuinely care about the health of your colleagues and want to ease them onto fruit and cycle commuting then it is hard to do so and be heard. People go for the pretend of the gym and stick with the alcohol. It is not that they don't know they are lying to themselves.
I wonder if there would be room for a public key / dual encryption for the video produced that both the doctor and the patient would need to sign off on to view the video, or something like that, to add some kind of viewing trail/authentication/authorization.

I mean, who's to say any given doctor's office doesn't have a hidden camera/microphone somewhere anyway.
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Maybe Amazon has a separate cross-licensing agreement with Facebook.

Maybe Amazon isn't concerned if Facebook infringes on any of their patents. Have they ever enforced "one click ordering" or any of their other dubious "innovations"?
Mac is horribly slow when using the gui. Last time I had to I realized it was faster to copy the stuff I wanted off a disk and just format it rather than wait for files to delete.
I got to know about the Curl language and tried it out some when it came out. (IIRC Tim Berners-Lee was involved with it in some way, and I later read that the tech was sold to some Japanese company). They had an IDE called Curl Surge (IIRC). I thought it was an interesting and potentially useful language, specially for web apps.

But (with the caveat that I did not try Curl out for long), not sure how similar Curl was to Rebol. I thought Curl was a bit like Lisp, so AFAIK the only / main similarity with Rebol might have been homoiconicity (if I'm right about them both having that property). But could be wrong.
Yeah. Seems like when the main site went down, the scene never got things back on track with a proper aggregator or central site.
I used to use attic to backup my personal Debian systems, since upgrading to the new stable (Stretch) release it is no longer available, so I switched to borg.

I had to juggle a few things around, but it works well. As does obnam, which I use in a couple of other places too.
In theory, sure.

How's that working out for us?

EDIT: Meta, I will never tire of hearing people be all, "But markets!" as if they aren't just as corruptible as any other human institution — if not more so.
I have seen it! That's why I made a reference to obsessing about our memories. I am a huge black mirror fan.
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Such as? Interested to know, please see sibling comment by me.
Noted. Again thanks for the feedback :)
It was reserved for part 2.
It seems like you and Stripe may not be a good fit due to (at a minimum) significantly different values and perspectives on standards of organizational communication.

Patio11's response is stated at a reasonable level of abstraction, and he even explains why he does so. I can understand if that's not your style, but you might want to consider that some people consider his comment to be a very clear reply with actionable information.
Per http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...

If you move from San Francisco to Austin TX, you can take a 45% pay cut and live the same, I don't think this accounts for income tax which comes out to probably brings it to a 50% pay cut.

So I would say 2x
You have to acquire (at a cost) a number first to do that.
The only solution is to fix the economic incentives so that drug manufacturers want to make less wasteful medicines. Same with preventing planned obsolescence. The only solution is to encourage more competition.
Thanks for the response.

Couldn't ExpressRoute (and not familiar with AWS VPC) in theory be configured at multiple global locations to handle internet traffic?
Can confirm, working at a major bank which "uses slack". Our channels are completely dead, everyone still emails each other stupid crap like "Looks good!".

Give it a few more years, big institutions are still full of people who are just getting the hang of email.
It is a cruel fact that 365 is so poorly dividable (prime factors are 5 and 73). 7413 is pretty much the closest we can get. I imagine having one extra day in the calendar is easier to swallow for most organizations (and people) than five extra days. And of course 7 day week has the advantage of familarity. 10 day weeks sound somewhat heavy, I suppose most people would have 7 day workweek and 3 day weekend. While 3 day weekend sounds nice, you also get about 30% fewer weekends. The 7 days of work would be fairly radical extension, can't imagine that being popular among anyone.
Just from looking at my own mail servers and mail headers, Gmail will happily both send and receive mail over IPv6, and has for years. Same with Outlook. Oddly, despite Apple's push for IPv6 support, iCloud doesn't seem to have an IPv6-capable MX.
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I assume this wasn't the first time that person has done this task, with or without Skylight. And maybe the statistic is based on an average of them doing this task multiple times, both with and without Skylight? And the video we see is just showing an example of each?
This doesn't take pipes into account...

1	412 11.4191% sudo
2	301 8.34257% curl
3	197 5.46009% cd
4	182 5.04435% cat
5	163 4.51774% git
6	138 3.82483% ll
7	125 3.46452% man
8	116 3.21508% npm
9	79 2.18958% echo
10	74 2.051% jq
It might be puffy, but it brings up points about how disastrous the attitude about tax cuts in the U.S. is.
> "Much of the surrounding road and rail infrastructure is in even worse shape (the trip from LaGuardia Airport to midtown Manhattan being particularly appalling). Washington, D.C.’s semi-functional subway system feels like a World’s Fair exhibit that someone forgot to close down. "

Yes, those low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC are great examples of how more taxes will solve everything.
You sound like you live in a country where evidence of a pre-existing condition isn't a huge liability. In the United States, a recording of you admitting you've been sick for a while can literally bankrupt you (well, not while we still have ObamaCare but a repeal is too likely for us to let our guard down).
Ha yeah that's not gonna work.

Well, I say that, but thinking long term, it does kind of seem inevitable. Somehow we're going to have to come to terms with having every embarrassing moment of our lives outside of our home being recorded. Unless the UN comes up with an effective digital bill of rights this is an espionage disaster waiting to happen.
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Or maybe they're exaggerating a minor issue to make the product look better like a late night infommercial.
Seeing how gradient descent is such a pinnacle of deep learning, I can't help wondering: is this how our brain learns? If not, then what prevents us from implementing deep learning the same way?
Also it's kind of a long post, maybe folks are reading it before commenting? The title doesn't really give too much away :D
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I'm sure there are very strict rules about having anything flammable or explosive on board ISS, which pretty much means you can't have a drone that can move under its on propulsion both inside and outside the station.
Sure there is. The idea isn't to quantize to arbitrarily long times, but to make it long enough compared to the time of information generation and more importantly, communication. Otherwise you may as well give up the notion of a common market. The number may not be a minute but it sure as hell ain't a nanosecond.
Human-centric workspaces and robot-centric workspaces are vastly different due to different capabilities of humans and robots. Using those glasses to improve reliability and speed of a worker on a "low-skilled" checklist-following job may be cheaper than redesigning the entire workspace and workflow around industrial robots. This would make sense as an incremental improvement for tasks already done by humans.
Think outside the box. Think 3D agriculture. Aeroponics.
True fact. I wonder what the median credit card debt is.
This thousand times. Socialism is an illusion. People should be able to pick their poison but please do not try to put one system above other.
Regarding logic and DL, there is NeSy workshop in London
http://neural-symbolic.org/
A very science-fictional (or anti-science-fictional) passage from Proust is:

> A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of the Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

R. A. Lafferty has a delightful short story with this very premise, appropriately titled "Through other eyes": https://archive.org/stream/Future_Science_Fiction_47_1960-02...
Why can't this happen to me? haha
It's not the sedentary lifestyle that causes rhabdo. In fact, your average couch spud probably can't get rhabdo. Their heart and lungs will give out long before that. They'll collapse into a puddle before their arm or leg muscles are even fully warmed up. As others have pointed out, it's often the very active and fit who get rhabdo. It's the hyper-macho hyper-competitive types. The people who brag about how sore they are, who look down their noses at people who don't hit lift enough weight, hit the gym often enough, etc. Maybe those who post in public forums about how unfit everyone else is. I see there are people right here, in this thread, humblebragging about how they got rhabdo. Those are the people for whom no level of fitness can match their need for validation, and push themselves beyond any sane limit.
>It is a stable society where everyone is equally poor except the tax dodgers.

Funny. The family friends I have in Denmark are among the wealthiest people I know. Would you consider yourself as far as someone who lives in Christiania?
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Awesome tool, Nikita! This is a great step into organized, open knowledge.
With high intensity ballet training certainly, with a
good teacher form keeps improving.
but in this case it is probably tied back to you ... (the credit card used to pay Twilio...) So it is not really a burner phone in the traditional sense
I agree with you fully. The United States has HUGE problems, and taxes are nowhere near the biggest issue. The United States suffers from enormous cultural heterogeneity, leading to distrust, corruption, and political gridlock.
I don't think they actually work just eight hours a day. There's a lot of maintenance work to do and it's not like there are many things to do on your free time. Although now that there's the full six-person crew, the schedules are probably less tight.
For a horse, you are another smaller horse.

I can't speak for horses because I have little desire to be around them, but it would take some solid evidence to convince me that a dog doesn't know the difference between humans and dogs. Perhaps a dog doesn't bucket me into "human" or "dog" (though I'm confident that they have some concept of categorization), but they sure heck don't think I'm a bipedal dog.

As for "horse people", well, I make no apologies for that lot. I think there's something in horse dander that makes the owners neurotic.