skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'm somewhat wrong, but I see no market for this whatsoever, besides as a learning toy for student AI laboratories, where the original AIBO is still popular. Can someone give me an example of a type of person of any wealth level or personality that would willingly go out of their way to purchase this? It doesn't clean the floor, so there's no practical function. It's not an MP3 player that follows you around or a Siri-like assistant, so it can't optimize your existing means of entertainment. The website advertises "love", but I see 0% actual connection with it, so anyone that claims this reason is doing it either ironically or perhaps due to certain object attraction mental conditions. If anyone wants to cure lonliness, this would seem to have zero effect. As a toy for children or hobbyist adults, it seems like a fun thing to play with and show your friends for a few days, but no better than a yoyo which is few orders of magnitude cheaper. For "tinkerers", it would be fun to program applications into it that use the sensors and motors, but if that was their primary market, it would advertised as an open development platform and they would leave out the pre-programmed AI. So what am I missing here?

If I was an investor, I would value this at no more than $0 because sales can't possibly surpass R&D. What reasons are there to believe otherwise?

EDIT: So it seems in this discussion I've learned that many believe that the love for dogs can actually be replaced by love for inanimate objects, which is a bizarre concept to me, but if the number of people who are able to do that is truly as significant as people are claiming, then I suppose I could see why this product could become successful.
A breaking change should not be made lighthearted. It can cause a lot of inconvenience for your userbase.
Training a pup takes a lot of time and effort
Kind of endearing.
From the description it looks more like a bot then employees.
Would be two bots in this case, very inefficient.
Subjects? But they're volunteer grad students!
I clicked on this just to see if perl is on top :D
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-is-now-the-no-1...
> I've already reached out to HN via email offering proof of ownership, so hopefully HN unburies this post.

dang,

would appreciate if you can at least acknowledge receipt of the proof that was offered by Alan. Of course you don't have to, but it would be a kindness to the community if you come back to tell us that you stand by your decision or have decided to walk it back.
Even better: telecommute.
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Lots of libs advertise 0 dependencies. I'm not fussed if a library depends on D3 though. D3 is 80k gzipped, this is 15k gzipped, ChartJS is about 20k gzipped. If you need one chart, sure, go for it.

But each of those libraries would be <5kb of D3-dependent code. With the added benefit that:

1. The code is much simpler and easier to understand and contribute to

2. Knowing D3 means you can modify the visuals, fork the library, and customize it without spending ages wading through unnecessary and unfamiliar re-implementations of D3 primitives. So many requirements I've seen involve tweaking visuals just far enough that a pre-baked library ceases to cut it.

3. Chart authors can rely on those primitives for a less buggy experience, given that they are tested and used elsewhere

4. D3 already supports IE9+, which this library doesn't

5. You have the power of D3 to build your own dataviz
Again?

I know several people that bought the first version of this robot dog, it had some very clever electronics for its time but it failed to find a market and became an expensive orphan. And now Sony goes back to the concept again. I wonder what is different.
Send a link to a Honeypot, observe FB bots checking, solved. Very unlikely to be humans.
Maybe send a link to something behind a captcha and then check if it gets solved?
Weather. Weather. Weather. I know it doesn't rain or snow in California but it sure does in most of the rest of the world.

Lack of larger transportation possibilities. Yes, there are specialized transport bikes, but they still can't pack an IKEA haul and are almost as expensive as a small or used car.

Infrastructure built for cars (i.e. everything far apart).

Increased accident risk.

Not everyone being able or willing to drive.

Bikes get stolen which is super annoying.

If I already have a car for all the aforementioned reasons, a bike is an additional expense.

Don't get me wrong, I commute by bike every day there's no ice on the streets, but few others go so far, even here in Germany where the biking experience is already much better than in the US (but still a long way to go from the Netherlands).
Or they could have written the app in .Net, JavaFX, QT, GTK, or any of the other perfectly good languages and frameworks out there
Definitely worth reading to the end. Some amazing history is woven into an unlikely startup story after succinctly covering the modern legacy of PowerPoint.

A company built on dreams of what I can only describe as a GUI enhanced "smalltalk machine" that could run on regular computers to enable regular people to do things, is also responsible for shepherding the earliest days of the now venerable FileMaker database AND created PowerPoint.

Amazing stuff.
What do people have against delphi? I thought it was a nice fast language with a decent UI builder for native(ish) apps. I've never used delphi as it is but I've got fond memories of pascal. I didn't realize it was even used enough anymore to have people dislike it.
Clearly there is a market need for 'facebook mask' which sends one version of the link if it is being read by facebook and one if it is read by the intended recipient.

Note, don't actually do this it will get you in trouble and likely banned from facebook.
I was thinking they might have "overfit" by picking hyper-parameters that happened by chance to result in a high CV score but wouldn't perform well in a holdout set. I could be wrong though, that's just my intuition.
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I am surprised with c# vs java as well, but they are close.

I code c++, javascript and java these days, and i greatly miss my c# days.

Say what you will about microsoft, but i consider C# and the default development environment in vs superior compared to what's available for other languages. That with Resharper back in the day was the bomb.
Replace Aibo with a real dog in your text and you could claim the same - practically, having a dog (in the city) also makes little logical sense. Still, people have them
This plus Siri would be amazing.. I live in HK with very limited space and a lot of apartments that don't allow pets. Plus it's Asia so people will go wild for this..
I thought the main use case was a companion for elderly people, similar to paro. Pets in large cities in Japan are expensive and there isn't much room for them unless you're wealthy so it also makes sense as an interim gift for a child in Japan that wants a dog.

I didn't know, but it makes sense, that it is useful in an AI lab, but I think that is a secondary use the market found.
Used to, there were a ton of multi-chat-network desktop clients back in the day. Several still exist... Trillian, MirandaIM, Pidgin. Not sure what the mobile scene is like, but this problem was solved decades ago
The technical term for that is "effect size".
Tldr: Government debt isn't like household debt. If anything you should be worried about growing deficits outside recessions, and even that just leads to some inflation.

There is no need to pay off the debt, as long as it grows slower than the economy it is shrinking in real terms.

Furthermore it serves an important purpose as a "risk-free" investment of US dollars and as a tool for monetary policy through open market operations. In fact there isn't enough outstanding debt for the second role, which is why during the financial crisis the Fed expanded its balance sheet to include mortgage backed securities.

Finally any country with its own currency can't really default on payments, except in a technical sense like the "debt ceiling". Instead if the government continues to run expanding deficits then inflation will rise and smooth things out, statistically reducing the debt. Think of it as everyone who owns dollars pays off a bit of their share of the debt.

Severe inflation like in the 1970's or worse is clearly harmful, but deflation is more harmful than moderate inflation. We have been running below policy maker goals of about 2% inflation for a while, despite the cries from deficit hawks that massive inflation is right around the corner due to QE.
For $6670 a month (price for 1000 users), I’m pretty sure most people here can spin up two VMs in two different colos, and setup IRC servers or whatever.

99.99% uptime means it can be down for a few minutes a month, so all it needs to do is fail over properly. In practice, it will probably have many more than 4 9’s.

I think the real reason slack does well is ease of client + service setup, the brain-dead UI, lots of feature creep that a few people care about, mobile clients, etc, etc.

I’m not a huge fan, but it could be worse. At least they didn’t leak everyone’s password like hipchat did.
"I never felt the need to get a credit card"

IMO, credit cards are less damaging to you in case of misuse.

If your debit card is stolen or its details are stolen from websites, you are at risk of losing your money directly from your bank account and recovering it may not be easy. You're at the mercy of the bank to compensate you, and most banks insist on formalities such as filing a police complaint. Good luck with that if the misuse happens from some other country.

If the same happens with a credit card, you can dispute it without actually losing any money.
please don't hate Perl, it is great for one-liners from command line ;)

though I do wish the move towards Python in VLSI industry had occurred lot earlier
In Finland a phone call is all you need earned last year
Nobody is learning Braille anymore: only 13% of blind students read it now
This has already been discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15592960
No - dogs are a great companion and there is a lot of affection involved. OP's comment specifically called that out.
Why “ish”? The apps are fully native.
Ruby doesn't have macros and all the magic in its ecosystem is confined to Rails and the gems related to it. But most Rubyists are such because of Rails so that's understandable. Examples of the magic like features of Rails are ActiveRecord's auto discovery of db schema and auto creation of queries, or callbacks on the changes of status of db records. It's where programming in Rails becomes somewhat declarative.

But macros? A language with macros I'm working with is Elixir. Even the seldom used if then else is a macro there. Do people dislike Elixir because macros change the code at compile time? I don't think so.
Yikes, that's expensive, around $2000 for the base device, $900 for a required 3 year basic plan to make it operate (or $29/month for 36 months), plus $540 for the optional 3 year support plan. (ok, I cheated on the conversions at $1=100yen, it's around 13% cheaper that that based on the current usd/yen exchange rate)

Makes a $1000 iPhone seem cheap.
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Gold wasn’t picked as “the” original metal for coin, it was just one of many metals used. What they had in common that bitcoin doesn’t, was the value of the material the coin was made of. It wasn’t the idea that made gold coins valuable, it was the ability to melt them down and produce jewelry, teeth or other valuable things.

Gold still has that value even though it’s price has been inflated and corrected many times.

Bitcoin on the other hand has no real world value outside of crime because it never evolved to a real currency. Which means that the only way to gain a net value on your investment, is for orher people to come in and buy bitcoin after you.

Which means you’ll also have to sell it before those people too.

I’m not telling you not to buy bitcoin. It’ll probably go much higher than it is now, but it will some day go to zero because it lacks any innate value.
An idea of an autonomous cyber pet detached of any clouds and vendor infrastructure appeals to me a lot.

But what Sony offers is a kind of a tentacle of a huge corporation.
good point!

I guess it really depends on the environment in the team and the way you frame it though.
Most companies operating at scale are developing distributed systems, not everyone open sources them or offers them as a product though.
I wouldn't be able to claim the same, because normal humans can obviously love dogs, while normal humans cannot love Aibo. Therefore it makes perfect sense to own a dog, even if the other points (MP3 player) are irrelevant.
プリっと doesn't mean pure but something like... Round, soft-looking, but firm.

The final sentence means: "Before you even notice, you'll find yourself playing with the pup filled with adorableness you've never experienced before."

Edit: came up with a more accurate one: "Unprecedented adorableness, that makes you want to touch it without a second thought."
That's why you are still not an investor? (partly kidding).

Not only the world is 7 billion different human beings but Japenese and people from SEA have very different cultures and purchases from the typical westerns.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd be interested in buying it if: it was cheaper. solid enough that my real dog doesn't break it.
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Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYDpbLQ-To
Exactly that! When the street will be congested with a lot of bikes then things will change. Right now people prefer cars even if it is bad for them for multiple reasons.
Americans 'evenly split' over need to regulate Facebook and other big tech
I also deal with MLS data and, on our end, it's in pretty good shape.

Of course, there is a whole department devoted to keeping it clean and consistent, so I don't have to deal with issues that you do.

Now that you mention it, perhaps we should provide an API for MLS data access.
Isn't the point of research to advance science one step at a time, not go from "does this look promising" to "yes, it works perfectly 100% of the time" in a single quantum leap.
The post I replied to mentioned working a lot. You dont work from home in Japan.
There is an easy circumvention for this: make a digital passport coupled with the distrusted root CA. To have any official means manually installing the root CA.
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Perhaps this is planned with Aibo, which would be very cool, but I didn't see it mentioned on the webpage or press release, and it will be very difficult to make a 190,000Y sale on an iPhone alternative with fewer features that doesn't fit into your pocket. If it sells, there needs to be more than a reason for a Siri-like feature, but I still don't see it.
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Heck, still is. C# is a nice, pragmatic, practical language, and the VS/Resharper combination can't be beat anywhere, period. I love how lazy it lets me be.
OSX 10.10 MBP 2015, Chrome (latest). I was using just regular ol' English. Changing to Korean works as expected though.
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595705
In the same spirit I have a hate for LaTeX. The dazzling errors together with the unclear syntax makes the language very annoying to work with.
Microsoft despite all their efforts clearly takes the lead on disliked technologies. Poor guys.

Given the typical “developers use Macs” mantra you see echoed everywhere, it’s interesting to see OSX so clearly disliked too though.
I think it was just asking you to register for Dropbox. If you close that popup the PDF is already open behind it.

Here's a link from my server that should just work:
http://prefrontal.org/files/papers/Bennett-Salmon-2010.pdf
They are probably from Belize /s
> Is this in the context of traveling there as a foreigner

I specifically said that no, it's not just me. I have seen and heard locals talking about this happening to them a lot. I'd say this happens even less likely as a foreigner because people will just strike a short conversation with you if they can barely speak English and that will stop there. Between locals it can go on for much longer.
It's a burden on the DNS resolver side. 4096- or 8196-bit key operations aren't exactly cheap - and the time taken for the public key operation grows superlinearly with the bit count (depending on the specific variant of the modpow algorithms in use, somewhere between O(b^1.585) to O(b^2)).
The wiki page for the US Defence Budget has graphs[0]. One shows the per-capita expenditure appearing to trend downwards over the very long term[1] but still showing an obvious bump for the gulf war and the 'War on Terror', another highlighting a doubling of spending since the after the Gulf War in absolute terms[2] and a less pronounced jump when adjusted per capita[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

[1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1792_201...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InflationAdjustedDefenseS...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PerCapitaInflationAdjuste...
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CBS doesn't care about optics...relatively very few people will read or get interested in this. Plus, megacorps do a gazillion worse things each day.

CBS is doing what it can to settle the first case, so maybe both sides will drop them. If that 24sports site had run it by CBS lawyers I'm almost certain they would have told him not to use his images. But in the end they were used so CBS has to defend itself.

To me using photos of a photog without permission is 100 times worse than posting a screenshot of a TV show but lawyers will milk it.
We were doing testing for an fMRI experiment that we planned to run with humans later. So, yes, all of the stimuli were presented to the salmon. It only felt a bit ridiculous at the time...
Sometimes it’s harder to share the information gathered from the first bot with the second than just doing the operation twice.
It's amazing how attached some Japanese people were to the old aibos.

A report on a guy who specialised on repairing old aibos: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qxk3g/there-is-o...

Shinto priests hold Aibo funeral services from time to time, here's a recent article: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201706090040.html

Flats are small, not pet-friendly and people are old and lonely, there's a good market for the new one.
It seems to me that elderly people would not see a connection with this even more than young people would. A robot dog with zero ability to make people feel connected with wouldn't solve the problem at all.
We don't do Azure and .NET Core is meaningless for us, as it doesn't have GUI support and EF Core is a tiny subset of EF 6.

As consulting company we are not bound to a single language or platform. When we do UNIX projects we use programming languages that are better fit for such platforms, and that isn't .NET Core.

For us .NET only matters for Windows related development, and there F# keeps being the black swan since its early days.

No tooling support for Windows Forms, XAML, Blend, ASP.NET, EF, WCF and now not even .NET Native, because for some strange political reason F# is separated from the .NET development group, and never considered on the decisions of the .NET platform as such.

With C# and VB.NET our customers on Microsoft solutions can be 100% sure their code is safe regardless of what Microsoft thinks to do next, at maximum they would need to re-write parts of it.
Just because he ruled it out doesn't mean that it's not a factor.

People become attached to lots of inanimate items, and can feel emphathy for robots [1] [2], though perhaps not as strongly as with living creatures. US Military soldiers can develop an emotional connection with bomb disposal robots. [3]

I definitely sympathize with this dog-like robot slipping on ice:

https://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?t=1m23s

Even though it's clearly a robot with no attempt to make it look or act like a dog.

I can definitely believe that people can become attached, even fall in love with, their robot dogs.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/human-empathy-for-robot...

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/02/robot_hum...

[3] https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots...
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You run the whole training process on the complete data. Including feature selection.
They're quite big now in the imaging market (cameras and sensors).
> Interesting that these are cash settled vs being settled in bitcoin.

That is interesting to say the least. There are people claiming precious metal prices are being kept artificially low using a similar way. Formally the futures have to be settled in metal but for some reason deliveries from vaults never match (i.e., they are considerably lower) the those implied by the futures standing for delivery.

Now for that to work with BTC the futures market has to get really big (in PM they say it's like 100 future oz vs 1 real oz) and they need an unlimited bankroll. At that point one can short the hell out of the futures and cash-settle if the sell avalanche doesn't affect the price as much as required.

Not saying those "conspiracy theories about PM manipulation" are true (I have no way to know) but there is evidence that looks "quite extraordinary" to my eye.
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Huh! When I click "Cancel", the PDF disappears and then there's just a centered box saying "This file is password-protected. Bennett-Salmon-2010.pdf · 0.94 MB". However, the Download link works just fine and lets me download and read the PDF. Dropbox is weird.
Could it not just have been that parser or whatever it is called? Like when you post a link it gets title + some kind of picture. So obviously if it visits that link automatically it is going to show up as visitors.
My reddit use dropped off completely when they began censoring free speech and claiming it was good for the community.
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Well, yes. My dislike of PHP took a steep dive right around the time I didn't have to use it anymore. It's obviously way easier to dislike something you use, and even more easy if it's something you have to use.
I think you are right, and I'm sorry you encountered this injury, but I would hate to see this thinking become an impediment to progress for cyclists. 15 miles at 10mph is just 1.5 hours of pretty leisurely exercise. 20mph is reasonable for a fit rider on a dedicated path with just an inexpensive steel-frame road bike.

About your pattellar tendonitis: I developed that when I was trying for an ambitious marathon goal. It took 1.5 years to go away -- in my experience nothing helped except the time. You might want to try getting off the bike for several months and picking up something else,
like swimming.
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> But an alternative often doesn't exist.

Python, Julia, Matlab, Java, Scala don't exist for doing what? Are there specific R libraries and functions that aren't reproduced in other languages?
I didn't ask them to have costs or a website.
Anything would be good to replace real pets, there are way too many of them, it's consuming a lot of energy, resources, pollution, and damaging ecosystem