skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question. Those electronics are actually rational purchases, considering their situation.

The total value of the entertainment devices is around $2500. Spread out over 3 years (the length of time they've lived there), this equates to about $70/mo.

These devices offer a lower-cost option than taking the family out to eat twice per month, cable television, or for each of the adults to go out to a tavern once per month.

In other words, $70/mo wouldn't bring great opportunity to them but allows a low-cost way to blow off steam. Gardening, cooking, or athletics would be nice recreational options at similar costs, but they don't have a yard, nor a kitchen, nor do they likely have the time for scheduled athletics if they work varied shifts. Hence, the electronics are by far the most rational choices for entertainment.
The human brain has specialized structures in it, it isn't a homogeneous mass from which all parts of human cognition emerge once you have enough brain cells (see elephant brain size vs. human brain size). If you've ever seen anything else designed by evolution, you'll know it generally tends to be a grab-bag of weird tricks all combined together in a way that somehow works. We don't know what all the tricks are, nor which are necessary or sufficient to create human-like intelligence.

There are also a lot of indications that ultimately you need some tricks (i.e. specialized portions of the architecture that bias the kinds of solutions the AI can learn) to be able to learn effectively in the environments we're interested in. For example, we know that there is a time dimension to agent tasks, and that objects don't pop in and out of existence, they tend to exist continuously. These are biases we are free to add to a learning system without worrying about it limiting the ultimate intelligence of the system.

In the limit, the No Free Lunch theorems indicate that there's no such thing as a general learning system that doesn't sacrifice performance on some kinds of tasks. The goal of AI research is to sacrifice performance on tasks that we'll never encounter in favor of getting good performance on tasks we care about.
100% true.

I was a FTE there a few years ago. If you were a TVC (temp, vendor or contractor), you got no access to ANYTHING. Security guards were always nearby the cafes checking people's badges and clearing them through.
I am okay with abbreviations, but I had to think twice for this one.
“Two and a half years ago I quit my last tech job.” (2016)
For the 16+8 routine, does anyone have an idea of how you're supposed to carb cycle?
What if the world's borders were open
Potential alternative to Upwork that sounds better:
http://gigworks.blogspot.com/2017/04/moonlight-work-for-soft...
Footprints of a Bibliographical Ghost (2016)
Nice, thank you for this! I would suggest ordering the events by distance from the typed location, instead of filtering with a perfect match.

This way the user only has to type one location instead of trying a bunch of places near him/her.
Other submissions:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842679

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-... (this thread)

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842822

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021610/irobot-roomba-ho...

Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale

Other sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A...

Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home

(Techmeme headline for the above: Roomba vacuum maker iRobot hopes to sell its users' floor plan data, seeking deals with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (I couldn't submit this Reuters source to HN).

Edit: formatting
I already up-voted you, but thank you again for articulating so well what I couldn't elsewhere in this thread.
I was a Windows user for 10 years. Now a Mac user for 11 years. Haven't needed any sort of antivirus yet. Just thinking back to my time with Windows makes me chuckle, when I had an arsenal of virus scanners, startup disablers, and registry cleaners on hand.
'religious view' was an epistemic reference.
Nice idea. The searchability is certainly nice.

For a much more complete listing (although with a somewhat different focus) you can also use the LWN community calendar, which has been around for what feels like forever: https://lwn.net/Calendar/
There were people that said "He wants to be emperor"...that does seem to fit in with Macron's comparing himself to Jupiter/Zeus.
They haven't "created an artificial monopoly around their persona". You've just created an artificial justification around your actions.

You're also not "basically forced to watch them".

HBO operates with a margin of 33% (1.7Billion income on 4.9 Billion of revenue). That's healthy, but it isn't "totally insane". There isn't much room to spare before they'd have to sacrifice quality. That'd be quite sad, considering the last decade is generally regarded as a golden age of TV.
That's what unions do, since companies have disproportionate power in negotiations
That quickly becomes single payer, since prices will be set to a price ceiling of whatever medicare (the gov't) sets it at. Good luck!
The ipad sounded like a menstrual product for about a year, then it lost that connotation...
Thanks! That's next, coming in a few days :)
My guess is similar, except that the distributor never actually pays out royalties; instead using Hollywood-accounting to funnel the extra money away into the contract for some captive film-rights service company owned by contacts and cronies.
> A replacement battery for my hybrid still runs a few thousand dollars and its only about 1 kilowatt.

kilowatt-hour is the measure of energy storage capacity.

kilowatt is a measure of power.
I still remember how happy i was holding the first Opensource Linux phone in my hands back in 2008 . It was fun to compile a basic c program using gcc . I remember my first hack of my life #1024 http://neofundas.blogspot.ie/2009/09/1024-hardware-fixdeep-s...
Also remember when at 6.30 AM in morning you have to type "ps -ef | grep -i alarm" , find the process id and then kill -9 id to stop the alarm and that too using the stylus. Definitely these commands will make sure that you will wake up 100% , a perfect alarm :)
They're going to keep doing this too until customers start treating internet as a right and utility until then it's just seen as a commodity.

If your local grocery monopoly started rationing out milk to 250ml sold per day there would be protests, investigations, and 10 minute time blocks for it on the nightly news because the people would demand it. The internet just hasn't had this moment yet and it sucks because the momentum for this moment is building but it hasn't reached critical mass. I don't think this moment will happen for another decade at least.
Inspired by https://medium.com/@shazow/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc and ngrok, I made this SSH server that assigns a public url for each remote port forwarding request you make. Start a web server on 8080, then try this:

ssh -R 80:localhost:8080 serveo.net

It's an attempt to make port forwarding as easy as ngrok or localtunnel, but using the SSH client you already have.

Also includes HTTP inspection and replay like ngrok.
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 Update 2 RTM – Brian Harry
You should have picked www.getupstandup.com as the domain!
Spring Security 5.0.0.M3 Adds JWT and JWS Support
Is there a difference between the two? See my other comment. I'm suggesting they have bad peering agreements and choose not to do anything about it. Most likely they are waiting to extract money from YouTube. Seems like net neutrality is in question again.
Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
There's always at least one person in every electric car thread saying "but it doesn't work for me!"

Many city dwellers who own cars don't park on the street, but it really varies by city. There are a few on-street chargers out there, maybe there will be more in the future if people advocate for them.
Oh no I don't think that's typical what works in politics at all, I think that's what would be beneficial in actually governing.
Until you can go on a road trip in an electric car without a lot of thinking about where and when you'll fuel up they are not going to make headway as primary vehicles.

People buy cars in order to have a fast mode of transportation available with good uptime. The prospect of having a hr delay every several hundred miles in the middle of an overnight trip to see a dying relative or in the middle of a cross country vacation is a prospect that will cause many non-urban households to retain fossil fueled powered vehicles for longer than some would like.

The HN crowd will buy electric econoboxes and fancy Teslas while they run the SV rat race but when it comes time to raise kids in teh suburbs and really put on the miles the convenience of range and fuel time will cause many people to have at least one in the household fleet.
> I'd have to be pretty loaded to want to spend 500% the price for minor convenience.

I bet you do it too. Ever order a pizza for delivery rather than make it yourself? Or buy a book rather than borrow it from the library?
Obviously air pollution is the main thing to tackle here, but even noise pollution is a nice benefit of electrics. When I test-drove the Tesla Model S I was excited for a quiet future.

ICE cars simply produce far too much noise. They've disrupted my local downtown area, making it undesirable as the 18-wheelers roar by. If not for the emissions damaging public health, I'm surprised to see municipalities tolerate this scourge of deafening noise.

And the death of artificially-loud pickup trucks will receive an ovation from myself.
Other submissions:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842679

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705 (this thread)

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842822

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021610/irobot-roomba-ho...

Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale

Other sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A...

Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home

(Techmeme headline for the above: Roomba vacuum maker iRobot hopes to sell its users' floor plan data, seeking deals with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (I couldn't submit this Reuters source to HN).

Edit: formatting
It is interesting that people go straight to single payer in their mental model when they think of changing the healthcare system. Germany has a multi payer system (although the government does provide a large % of the total funds) that seems to work for them. Why do so many in the US look to single payer systems as the ideal model?
> If you've ever seen anything else designed by evolution, you'll know it generally tends to be a grab-bag of weird tricks all combined together in a way that somehow works. We don't know what all the tricks are, nor which are necessary or sufficient to create human-like intelligence.

That is precisely the core of my interrogation. The papers mentioned in the article seem to be about "hand designing" the weird tricks; shouldn't the goal be to build a system that enables the emergence of these weird tricks without involving human design?
I haven't seen any word on that yet, but it would likely require iOS 11 to be jailbroken. I only know of one jailbreak project that supports NFC on iOS, and only on iOS 10.

http://cydia.saurik.com/package/net.limneos.nfcwriter/

Description
Supports iOS 10.0 to 10.2

NFCWriter for iOS!

$3.99

Use your iPhone's NFC Chip to its maximum!

As pre-seen in 9to5mac

Features:

-Read most common tag types

-Write tags

-Host Emulation Mode with limitations for now

-Manage and save your tags in one place.

-Perform actions based on your tag's contents.

-Read/Write NDEF messages

-Display information about your tags like Manufacturer, Tag Type, Serial Number, ATQA, SAK, Memory Size etc.

-Supported tag types are ISO 14443, Mifare , ISO 15693 , iCode SLIX, all of the NTAG series.

-Supported protocols are ISO 14443 and Mifare.

-Host Emulation Mode currently only allows you to set a custom Serial Number to your device and emulate a tag's serial number, no tag content emulation yet.

This new achievement enables you to use the NFC chip beyond iOS's limitations.

A professional must-have tool for IoT experts, NFC researchers, hobbyists and all of you that make good use of NFC technology.

Research for more Tag types and protocols is constant.

This is the first time that NFC chip on iPhone is used to this extent.

Check the screenshots and...
Enjoy!

Limitations:
- Supported devices are iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus.
- iPhone 6 is under testing and not yet supported.
- iOS 10 only for now, still working on iOS 9 compatibility.
Other submissions:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842679

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842822 (this thread)

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021610/irobot-roomba-ho...

Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale

Other sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A...

Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home

(Techmeme headline for the above: Roomba vacuum maker iRobot hopes to sell its users' floor plan data, seeking deals with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (I couldn't submit this Reuters source to HN).

Edit: formatting
> I think that's quibbling. If votes to abolish the rule for a case are available, it's reasonable for a single suspension vote to be possible to.

A suspension is both procedurally (or textually) more complicated (it either requires changing the rules twice, changing the rules to add a suspension provision and then acting separately to exercise it, or changing the rules to include a tailored exception that applied only to the case at issue) and more politically fraught (rather than publicly defending the case that the general rule is outdated, it requires legislators to defend that the rule is generally valid but should not be applied to the immediate case.) It's very much not the same thing as abolishing the filibuster for a well-defined class of cases.

This is particularly true in the Gorsuch case where the recent Democratic action to remove the filibuster from other Presidential appointees made applying the “nuclear option” to Supreme Court justices much less “nuclear” than it had seemed previously when it been considered.
I am (anxiously) waiting for the "have you voted yet?" reminders Facebook has been using to get people to the polls in recent elections to turn into "have you voted for the Zuck yet?".
Clojure Applied by Ben Vandergrift and Alex Miller. That and Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits).
The link between imagining and deep learning is rather in the opposite direction - it has always been obvious that imagining possible outcomes before executing would be useful, but the novelty is that deep learning has allowed them to actually make "imagination" that works.

MPC is an useful concept if you have a predictive model that's at least vaguely close to the actual behavior. In some contexts (e.g. modeling of particular industrial systems) programmers could build such a model, but in the general case that's absolutely not feasible, the world is full with problems where, practically speaking, you can not manually build a forward model of the system under control.

So this article is about initial research on systems that can construct such a predictive model/imagination from experience, with a proof of concept that the current deep learning approaches allow us to build systems that can learn such predictive models (which wasn't really possible before) and further development of this concept seems to be the way how we can actually apply things like MPC to problems where we won't build a forward model ourselves; and in the long run, that means pretty much all problems.
For me it was not translated. Though it should have been to Dutch as well.

Perhaps because I used it on my mobile phone.
My favorite theme in the whole world in 2017? Out of any other startups?

Heroku.

By far. They call it "Purple".

URL: https://purple.herokuapp.com/

They're overhauling it (see https://purple3.herokuapp.com/)

The caveat? It's not open source and only used internally.

Would love it if they open sourced the primitives mixins/font sizes/white spacings/forms in their new design spec.

Their documentation is also the cream of the crop. Highly readable, and pleasant.

Their product is also solid. As someone who has contributed to config managers and been through all the cloud stuff, it's a relief to just `git push heroku` and have everything just work.

Not sure who leads them, but they're doing something right.
XPaint used to be decent, but at some point it got really buggy. You have to save after every operation in case it crashes. Someone ought to go to town on it with valgrind or whatever.
There's more to startups than just hiring immigrants, sheesh.

Our VCs are hilariously risk-averse for the pennies they give out.

Our digital infrastructure sucks, you need to be in the Toronto core if you need a fat internet connection.

Your labour pool is spread out over all of southern ontario and the transit system is brutal.

At my last job, 2 developers left for the states because they "couldn't deal with winter anymore".

The market salaries are 50% less and the canadian dollar is worth 20% less than the USD, so you'll take a ~70% paycut if you move from the US to Canada.

On top of all that? If you're running a business here, most of your clients will be from the states anyways. Our population is roughly the size of California. So you'll be travelling there anyways for conferences and big sales.
Something I find rather intimidating about toptal is their top 3% advertising, when I think of top 3% work I think of, say, writing an RFC of a widely used internet protocol, inventing a language and writing its optimizing compiler, automated air traffic control, debugging live code on nuclear reactor SCADA systems, that kind of stuff. I'd be interested in work at a calmer more laid back environment like only top 5% or top 10% job responsibilities. Its possible everyone there is massively underemployed, but probably not.

What I'm getting at is there's nothing wrong with a site that matches brain surgeons to brain surgeon jobs, unless you'd be chill getting an ophthalmic surgeon gig, where do I go? upwork is famous for posting gigs that would pay $125K in SV but the dreaded "average pay rate" is reported as $9.81 or whatever.

Possibly "top 3%" is meaningless in the sense of "ninja rock star" is meaningless and anyone who can fizzbuzz is by definition in the top 3% of human species programming talent.
That is roughly all U2F is. It is a per-origin key pair that is registered with each site and used to sign challenges. At some point browsers themselves might implement something like Soft U2F, at which point, they basically will have "improved the UX of client certs".
I had a similar experience with some nurses that showed up during my daughter's birth. It was an in-network hospital, pre-approved by the insurance company. The provider that sent the out-of-network bills included a letter with word-for-word what to say to the insurance company (along the lines of "no in-network option was available to me"). I called and opened a grievance because my plan had no out-of-network coverage. Strangely, the insurance company accepted one out of two bills from the same provider. The second bill they passed through against the deductible which I was able to get reimbursed from my employers HRA. Needless to say, this year I moved back to a plan that included out-of-network benefits.
The screening is only useful to test for build algorithms and very unrelated to your skills.

So prepare for irrelevant questions before get in...
You can do I think all of that with the built in Snipping Tool. Except you can crop while taking the screenshot, so you save a step.
This is pretty standard, isn't it?

The people who clean my company's office don't attend our town hall meetings, eat lunch with us, or take part in our 401k.

They may be working at Facebook, but they work for their own company.
The US tax code also rewards people getting married, typically when the partners have very different incomes (see marriage bonus).

Marriage penalties and bonuses are a consequence of joint filing combined with a progressive rate structure. They continue to exist because to get rid of them would require giving up either join filing or progressive rates, and it is very unlikely that people would go for giving up one or both of those.
GIMP is the only one I'm familiar with, and it doesn't "just work". There is a definite and steep learning curve, including why you can't 'just save an image' like you save any other document.
So, in other words, iOS is insecure and vulnerable to malware.

Governments don't have special hacking powers, they mainly have money and manpower.

It's true, iOS might raise the bar a little bit compared to some other systems, but IMHO it's misleading and dangerous to claim that it's invulnerable.
Nick Craver had the most funny tweet on this subject today:

"They’re killing MS Paint in the Windows 10 Fall Update. We’re trying to migrate our design team to alternatives now."

ROFL... had to read that one twice.

https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/889578012273934336
That's really cool. I had no idea Web MIDI API existed to allow stuff like that (though it appears to still be Chrome-specific :/ ).
Good idea, thanks.

Updated my profile with an email. Don't have resume in order yet. But have done plenty of Clojure, front-end and back-end work, made several iOS/tvOS apps that ship on the App Store.

If anything comes from this, great, but I'm not betting on it, so I'm going to focus most my efforts on the suggestions to give try toptal, upwork, and freelancer.com a serious try for the short term, and to build a network for the long-term.
Mike Ash has started posting again after a long hiatus:

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/

The URL is very misleading, his blog is about Objective-C (and now Swift) internals, in a very loose way like an "Old New Thing" for Apple's tech stack (w/o the insider knowledge parts, he's not an Apple employee).
Isn't this racism or something like that? Discrimination at all levels.
And the same is true on GitHub. You can use app based TOTP without SMS.
Note that the TPU used 8 bit integer math, not even floating point.
I don't buy the noise argument. Above a certain speed, wind and tire noise far exceed ICE noise. The pickups I've seen are mostly due to the use of course off-road tires that buzz as they go down the road and the motorcycles won't give up their not-super-legal aftermarket exhausts until people collectively agree to stop running them over.
Indeed, there are benefits to both systems depending on the situation. My point is that a significant percentage of Canadians are very dishonest about the shortcomings of our particular system....so when non-Canadians read things like "'long wait times' narrative is complete propaganda FUD", they have no way of knowing that the person is not telling the truth.