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Instead of the 1000s words, I wished there was a picture of the f* salad
Ask HN: Why isn't Polymer more popular?
It makes sense to me that some that allows you to use web extensions today--being that they're supposed to be what people will build web apps with--should super-popular, like Babel is for ES6.

It's also about 100 times simpler than React, and the fact that YouTube is built with it should guarantee that it will be stable/performant/good enough for any project (unless one is working on a site bigger than YouTube, I guess).

What's going on?
Does anyone else think it's utterly annoying I can not pause the video (or gif) or whatever it is? I can't even skip forward. What is this, NYT?
You are in a sales jobs so you are meeting lots of people. Ask them about their background and if they own a business, work in management or as a developer they or their company may have a need for your skills.

If talking to a Dev you can say you are a freelance Java developer. If talking to a non techie tell them you make businesses run more efficiently using IT. Get some appointments arranged and see how it goes.
This is a real problem for physics teachers - you want to find out if the students understand a concept:

Ask them to state it - they memorize the text book definition.

Ask them to apply it to a specified problem - they scan the problem for values of variables and look up a formula list to find one that has those variables.

Ask them to explain why their answer is correct and they form a grammatically correct explanation made by plucking phrases from the problem description and linking them to the answer with "so" or "because".

It feels like they don't understand but they actually can get a long way (ie. not fail) like that - it's certainly human level understanding, even if it's not what the smartest of us are capable of.

Personally, I think understanding is a continuum from special case memorization at the bottom, up to being able to link with a lot of other concepts at the top. There's no bright line between "truly understands" and "illusion".
start interviewing; no harm in that
tbh i think that germany is lagging in digital, its a shift that if they dont take right now could cost them long term. something that event merkel commented recently.

mobile internet is very expensive, 20 eur for 5gb, there is almost no street view, blocking content on youtube. high percentage of german startups are just copying ( famous rocket internet ). that are just some examples, that are not so great starting point to become leader in digital.
> With, among others, a file called 'Min-v1.6.3-win32-x64.zip'

"If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect"? Just because the build has a Windows target doesn't mean it's a supported platform.
Is it the question we should ask?

I'd prefer to ask another question: is it time to change our society, to go away from paid jobs? A job is one of the things that currently defines us, one of the first questions you ask someone you just met is often to know what job they are in.

If all jobs were automated, we could have more interesting occupations: taking care of our childrens, elders, neighbors, growing our garden, reading, art, etc. Many sci-fi authors saw the job being automated and society changing toward this. The question is how to we make the transition.
I agree. Yet, the first stage of problem solving is identifying the problem. Thanks to Scott Kelly, some problems were identified, and now it's possible to test possible solutions. If Magellan knew about the problems posed by scurvy a couple of years before he set sail I'm sure he would've preferred to figure out some ways to avoid that problem instead of risking losing 80% of his crew.
Some people I know that play the lottery just view it as entertainment. It's not really for me, but I can see their point.
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> A robot has no way of knowing if the coffee will taste good or contains rat poison

Eventually automated systems ought to be able to do this better than most people can. Why couldn't there be engineered sensors that could detect such things very well?
> "They were still wrong for not quitting, even though they happened to get their pay out."

That makes no sense. When someone plays the lottery they don't put their life on hold until they win. Nobody seriously plans their life around a big lottery win, most people just play it for fun, the feeling of anticipation just before the draw. After a draw takes place and they've not won, they just go back to whatever plans they had before. Gambling addiction is more serious, but many people are casual gamblers, including those that play the lottery every week. I don't play the lottery often, but I can see for most people it's a harmless activity.
Someone explain this part to me:

> I would be happy if Zcash and Bitcoin could serve as a gateway from an unstable currency (Venezuelan Bolivar) to a stable currency (EURO/USD)

How would this actually happen? Who is on the other side of this transaction? Who would want to cash out their Bitcoin in Venezuelan bolivar?

I assume the Bitcoin trades that actually occur in Venezuela are for USD and black-market goods, not for bolivar.
You also created the backend abstraction that let you customize a lot without real "raw TensorFlow". Thank you Mr. Chollet.
Here's an alternative perspective to consider: what if the artistry is in the design of the dishes, and the automated systems could be used for implementing that design. That could lead to good food being cheaper and more accessible to more people.
Banking on discipline in any human endeavour seems to be fool's errand. You will get more reliable results by improving the environment, systems and tools. This can be seen in how much checklists have improved the quality and reliability in fields like medicine. We are in a field where we can literally codify the checklists to enforce them.
It advertises itself as a smarter web browser, but, as you said, it's only "as good as any other browser".

The only pull it has... is that it might be adequate.
The fundamental reason it can't tell if the drink is correct is that "correct" is in the eye of the beholder. You cannot trivially formalize expectations any random human would have of a drink made by human.

You can, however, force people to lower their expectations until they can be trivially formalized. That's what happens with tea/coffee vending machines. The dispensed drink is really bad, but it's uniformly bad, and since people don't expect quality coffee from a vending machine, they don't complain.
One should also ask the question: would you want to work at Google today. This is not the Google of 2002 ... or even the Google of 2010. 2017 Google is like 1999 Microsoft.

Lots of brilliant people working on heavily resourced projects ... but also significant bureaucracy and many political animals in what was formerly a pristine engineering "garden of eden".

You can see a lot of Google projects struggling now, and many startups in the same space as Google projects doing much better than more resourced teams doing the same thing at Google.

Nobody ever got fired at Google for spending all day brilliantly arguing on Google's internal newsgroups and not doing any real work. And it shows in Google's work culture. Imagine a person doing that at a startup ... or Amazon for that matter. They would not survive very long.

If you are young, and have many years of productive/earning years ahead of you, it might make sense to turn down a Google offer to try something a bit more "bloody" and hectic for a few years before you settle down in a comfy Google job.

There are many brilliant people you can learn from at Google ... but very few work very hard. And hard, productive work is a skill to learn too.
That was painful. It is one of those things that you can't just stop watching (I was expecting Sally to spin the salad) and I waited..and waited...waited.

Horrible user experience.

- Can't tell how long the clip/gif is
- Can't skip ahead
- Can't go fullscreen
- No sound

WTF.
“?:” is called the Elvis operator as it looks like an emoticon of him
Because there is no theory linking interaction of molecules to flavour yet, although there are some preliminary work from some labs on this (with beer)
> There is nothing interesting about the performance improvement that is a product of using a particular language, and particularly this language.

I said it's "proof that the language has potential and encourages people to try it out". But you seem biased against it ("and particularly this language"), which makes for a poor argument.
Title says it's "smarter"?
Can you give a sketch of how you would like these examples to look? Any language is fine; you can pretend that libraries for GPGPU, backprop, and gradient-based optimization already exist.

I tried to do so myself and couldn't come up with anything significantly better, but I've been writing Python for a long time and might just be stuck in a local minimum :)
I would classify 1gbps symmetrical as "stupendous". 50/50 would be "good". I'm paying too much for 50/10, and apparently being delivered about 15/5 (per my ISP's speedtest).
I like the idea behind Mill, and the openness of the talks, etc. That said, it's been a -very- long time without so much as a real demo. What gives?
Although a bit subtle, I think the line of exchange from top and down to here is amongst the best I've seen.
Removing the viewstate and using more ajax are merely a modernisation of webforms. Fundamentally you are calling for what webforms was actually doing, ie generating a UI, binding it to a database and dealing with the boiler plate code in between.

The problem with these all-in frameworks is that they are very good at giving you a fully functional and OK looking app in a few clicks. But from there they work against you. You don't want to expose everything in the database to the user, or you want to include some custom validation logic, or you are dealing with some data that is partially normalised, or you are mixing SQL and noSQL data, etc. And then you are fighting the framework to hack something together that the designers didn't intend. And after a few years you realise it is less work to do it yourself with a bunch of helper methods.
I bet you love Perl
If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this:

https://surf.suckless.org/

But at least the smart part may be of merit.
And we all know what HN thinks of electron, but at least bundling chrome with a browser seems reasonable.
Not for a minimalistic browser though, I think hence the branding as "a smarter browser".

Oh boy, I actually set out to defend the project, but now I realize while there's clearly been some work put into it, some areas haven't been thought out too well...

At least it looks nice and clean, that's something.

edit: corrected my wording in the first sentence.
Daaamn, this would have been great when we were trying to resurrect some ancient MFDs. We ended up ditching Scan to Email completely and moving to our FTP. Cheers OP, I'll keep this in mind.
Not sure how you think this is at all analogous. My internet connection is 12 Mb/s, which could be handled by any recent wifi protocol. Maybe get the facts first next time before jumping to unwarranted conclusions.
I think there will still be professional chefs for a long, long time, for all the reasons you give, and I'm fine with that. But short-order cooks and burger-flippers could be replaced without any loss to the culture--assuming that we can find a way for those people to live happily without needing to prove their worthiness through labor.
This is amused cynicism to your happy optimism.

I look forward to making more addictive programs that make me and shareholders more money. I am eager to see the next evolution of UI/experience and code, where we manage to get ever stronger feedback loops in place.

The end goal is to make money and have a good exit. To find a way to part people from their money, for the minimum effort on our our part and the best competitive release of value from our product for their time.

There’s of course diminishing returns to product quality - I mean after all, who wants to be craigslist and just do the one job good enough?

No no. We will buy out the competition or interesting startups and then expand our reach and label beyond the core product which must plateau out eventually.

Then we leverage this cross platform ability to gain more market share and dominate multiple verticals which lets us disrupt other industries.

Because if we don’t do it, someone else will. And this also has such amazing RoI!

And look at the amazing value we unlock, surfacing relevant ads all over our network.

But hey, you know not enough people are clicking on ads, so let’s push them Harder, we could model ourselves like those old companies we removed. Let’s hire some tv execs for their insight.

As For the big picture - well I’m sure there’s someone else whose job it is to worry about that.

If there is a problem we will solve it ourselves, us being the duty minded, un-incentivized corporations.

Yup. The future is shiny and usefulness is incidental.
For non-experts in this field could you please explain why its scary if it works great for their use cases?
For a realist, the question is whether people with power benefit from your proposed change, or whether they are invested in the current system. If the system doesn't change, then robots may be detrimental.
> and get suggestions before you even start typing

I really don't want that!
Most people enjoy recorded music, but most people also like to see their favorite artists live, when they can. I think it's the same thing.
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Yeah... The Google Cloud Console and Google Accounts do that for one. I can't set up or use my U2F key in anything but Chrome. Hangouts similarly barfs when you're using Firefox because they believe the WebRTC support is missing (instead of checking). Works fine with GitHub though :).
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Also, maybe 10% of chefs view their work as art, rather than as a way to earn money.
That's a serious point of frustration for me. Having an option to use anaconda, fine. Forcing it on your users, meh. I already have a working system using virtualenv and pip, why force another on me?
Deepmind also failed to reach human level on a a third of the games they trained it on. And I wonder about the superhuman level. Superhuman compared to average gamer, or really dedicated ones? Because there are people who have played perfect games of Pacman and Pitfall.
Hey, thanks for posting Kenhub on HN. I'm one of the co-founders. Happy to answer any questions :)
Oh dear. That sounds sickening. (I'm due for a new pair of glasses and I'm in Western Europe).

Recently, I happened to visit a store to look for a new pair of frames (& glasses). The frames were so insanely expensive I had to ask the guy: "Why are they so expensive?". The guy's short reply was: "It's the brand". When I pressed further to explain, he couldn't say anything meaningful.

Moreover, the quality of these "branded" glasses from my tactile inspection felt subpar (as in, I was wondering: "will they even last a couple of years?").

/me is still on the look out for a reliable way to find something reasonable without shelling out an arm and a leg. (Don't mind paying for good quality.)
If an electric utility company did the same, with 'up-to 240volts' - they'd get their ass sued out of existence. Why can't the gov't establish standards for such things, like a minimum speed (from the IPS's own servers of course, you cannot expect that they control it all).
Giving the robot a disinfectant-level sensor, delivering an alert when it's low and refusing to operate if it can't do so cleanly, would be trivial compared to the rest of the endeavor, and will probably be required the FDA or equivalent, eventually.
This is by no means specific for HN.

For example, a popular German radio moderator and podcaster once said:

"If I want to learn something about a topic, and ask a question on air, almost nobody answers. But if instead I make a false (or naive) claim about that topic, I receive lots of replies correcting me, and might even get an interview with an actual expert on that topic."

[Holger Klein, paraphrased, rough translation]
If you want to get paid more than a one-time flat fee, don't sell your IP. It's that simple.
I believe the vending machine has greater work overhead and uses more materials than an actual human. Thnik about it: precut veggies stored in refrigerated (probably plastic) containers. Somebody has to supply and prepare the veggies. Some other human has to resupply the machine when it runs out of veggies. Some other human has to fix the vending machine when it stops working. Some other humans have to design the machine and assemble it, at least in part. With an actual human you'd only have to supply the raw veggies and the human worker would do all the preparation (using food processors), serving and processing payments. One could automate some tasks like payment processing or have two humans operate the salad bar: one that prepares and serves the salads and one that processes payments. This would avoid cooks switching between working with (dirty) cash and preparing salads.
Very helpful comment. Thanks @pizza

Opinions of a lot of people can help us form better understanding of external world(what others think about something). Isn't it?
Obviously we can find a few cases that are the exception to just about any subject above physics. I was also hoping that, on a place as entrepreneurial as hacker news, I wouldn't have to explicitly exclude big wins where your chances of winning don't substantially increase with increases in experience. Nor did I think I would have to explicitly include things that take up less than a percent of a percent of your life.
Without debating around the edges (because yes,in practice there is almost always someone winning and someone losing), a market model only works if profit is a function of a sufficiently competitive market, and not other structural, cultural, or political factors and barriers working against that outcome. And your implied equivalency largely ignores those factors present in the US.

Indeed, the theory that a competitive market can actually deliver socially efficient outcomes could almost be said to be predicated on the idea that yes, you can push down profits substantially without quality deteriorating, because market outcomes are not driven just by profit making motives on the producers' side, but also competitive and structural considerations that determine the nature of competition and consumer demand, competition, and substitutions in that market.

So if the US healthcare system generally delivers worse outcomes and costs more (and that's something I generally take to be true), I think it would be a mistake to come at it from a simplistic point of view of an efficient market already operating and saying that any cut would worsen outcomes, because your opponents position is not predicated on the US health care system being a competitive market. Indeed, we need to take into consideration all the other structural qualities driving healthcare delivery and outcomes in the US market. And compared to most other countries, these differences are usually quite substantial: everything from your political process, to where and how health care is typically purchased and received, how your insurance market works, to your social security and labour laws.

There is nothing, in even basic neoclassical economic theory, that implies a market is optimal, in either supply quantity or quality, by maximising producer profits or surplus.
There should be a early death or inusry due to slow processing, a penalty payment..
I'd say you have it kind of backwards. Tensorflow is best for research and developing novel ML solutions, scikit-learn is great for solving normal every day ML problems with normal everyday ML algorithms.

Scikit-learn however doesn't do deep learning. That being said most problems faced by mainstream tech workers don't actually have huge data sets or need deep learning and for those problems scikit-learn is great. Tensorflow only really comes into its own if you have/need some combination very huge data sets, very deep networks, a novel or non-standard network configuration and a large cluster of machines to run your learning on. If you want to apply a standard ML algorithm in the standard way on a 'small' dataset and aren't super constrained by performance then scikit-learn is almost always a good choice.
No idea. UK games company, so UK data protection act also applied, which I think actually forbids retaining any more than strictly necessary.
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The protection entries have ranges. The bounds are in bytes, but the range can be massive.

Imagine you load a 7MP image which takes, say, 21MB of RAM. That would be 5184 4K pages in a classic TLB. In the Mill's PLB, that whole part of the address space can be in a single protection entry.

Then, there's a big difference from how things can be organised in software vs hardware. The hardware PLB has some number of entries, and it will check all those entries in parallel.
That's probably why humans start hitting vending machines when they just gobble up the cash and fail to operate properly.
Based on Electron. So this is Chromium, but with less features?

EDIT: It also claims less battery consumption. May I ask some proof?
Unless you just eat stuff grown by you or very small-scale farmers, robots are already touching your food. From the combine harvester that picks it up, to the conveyor belt where it's selected, cut, washed and pre-cooked [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC32345D87EF2F305
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I work with a lot of OO code (ORM) that regularly contains references on objects to other objects. How would that "security model" behave wrt the map of reachable objects in relation to the object passed... let's assume by reference.
I figure this scenario would be somewhat similar to the problem of "/.." paths in URLs on web servers.
> And I imagine we'll be arguing that's not 'REAL' intelligence even afterwards.

When Data walks out of a lab, do you really think people will argue that he's not intelligent in the generalizable sense that humans are? Anyone who has watched ST:Next Generation agrees that he is.

> The achievements we're regularly producing now a days dwarf anything those speaking of chess=intelligence times could have even imagined.

I'm pretty sure the AI founders like Marvin Minsky could imagine Artificial Intelligence being generalized over various domains. I forget which one predicted the by the year 2000, an AI would be able to read all the world's books in an intelligent manner. McCarthy assigned a student to solving the robot vision problem over a summer back in the 60s.

Problem is that they underestimated the difficulties in getting a machine to perform tasks that are simple for us, while thinking that tasks like superhuman chess would be the difficult challenges. They had it backwards.
I think it mostly comes down to user experience. The best user experience is usually going to be specifically tailored to an individual application. It won't be very generalizable.

Apps created with ui builders (or even with just a constrained set of ui components like bootstrap) tend not to have good ux since every workflow has to be shoehorned into an existing abstraction. It's convenient for the programmer (and the budget), but not for the user.
When Zooko says that Zcash "is a kind of money that doesn’t come from any government or company" he is only 90% correct...