skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how you can write a whole article on this, but the gist is they built something with low utility value. period.

If you look at it from this point of view, everything else is just side effect.

- It failed because it's not fashionable? => No. See bluetooth headset. Also see Crocs. If it's useful, people will use it.

- It failed because it waited 5 months to sell it? => No. See Apple.

- It failed because the excitement died off by the time it shipped? => No. See all kinds of films that succeeded WITHOUT any initial hype (such as the Matrix)

- It failed because it couldn't get any influencers to endorse the product? => No, see Snapchat. Yeah their original app itself.

- It failed because the content couldn't be ported over to other platform without cropping? => No. In fact, if Spectacles would have succeeded, Techcrunch would probably be blabbering about how the key to success is how brilliant its marketing strategy was, so that all the videos uploaded to youtube and instagram had the "signature snapchat crop", which got everyone else curious.

The only arguments I agree with in this article are related to its utility--how it's considered rude to be video taping someone else, and how it was limited to sunglasses format.

The rest is bullshit because they're one of those "MBA case studies" type after-the-fact interpretation, which in most cases are bullshit.

Just go build something useful and you will never have to worry about being "fashionable" or all the gimmicks. In fact as a tech company you should never see yourself as a fashion company. It's a myth created by ignorant media pundits who's never built a product in their life.
Past results dont predict the future.

The current boom since 2011 could easily extend for another decade, just like the boom from 1980-1990. If you felt there was going to be a correction then just because "its due" you would have missed the huge boom from 1990-1999.
It's very biased, so the people that get the UBI won't be able to afford nice things or to live in nice suburbs near good social/health/education services as people with earned money will be competing for those. Choosing not to work is choosing to not take part in society, social services are part of a society.

It still needs some sort of utopia to work, that's where it has some similarity to socialism, but there is no utopia.
But can you test it for under $1,000 in a way that meets legal highway safety standards? Seems like the classic "Why is it $500 a pill?" problem. These things take enormous upfront development cost that needs to be baked into the cost of every subsequent unit.

In-car technology is a largely untapped market but there's better opportunities than something that requires access to the vehicle's most secure, most safety-critical systems. I personally would love to see a startup that works with car companies to create infotainment systems that work as dumb terminals to cell phones. The web browsers and media players that ship with cars are woefully outdated in just a few years and never updated; imagine now if there were a simple standard ala Android Auto that just put your phone as the "brain" for a variety of tested, secured, "documented APIs" to your car's functions.
I've found the free Sleep Cycle[0] app to be very useful visualizing my sleep patterns, plus it lets you set a 30' window (free version; perhaps other options in the paid version) for waking at a near-waking point naturally.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube....

or

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id32...
Suing the daughter? I think many people will not think bad for the engineer getting fired, but I doubt suing the daughter would be worth the damage in reputation such a lawsuit would cost.
LOL. I'm sure your work improves lives greatly, most of the poeple on this site optimize click rates to hawk stuff people don't need.
This should be on the top. They did not even put a lot effort in their current presentation but already are millions "in dept".

As novel as the idea sounds, i doubt this is it this time but lets hope for the best.
I think what the comment was trying to say is that there is only one way to get an Apple experience and that's to buy Apple products.

For example, I can use Office on my Mac while I can't use Pages/Numbers/Keynote on my Windows desktop.
I bought a QOTOM-Q355G4 and installed linux on it. It is my firewall, vpn, apt package proxy, dns server, pihole server, check_mk server, maybe handle zoneminder (might not be beefy for that), am about to try home-assistant.io on it, so.... these little boxes are no longer simple edge devices, they have enough power to do other things. and I am using SaltStack to manage configurations.
Luther would have been at home in the Internet. He would be frequently banned and would have to use multiple accounts.

The bulk of his writings were private letters that were intended for public use.

He was personification of what is today seen as negative discussion culture. He personally attacked his enemies using very colorful vulgari language, calling them whores or asses and cursing them. He used fart, shit and ass frequently.

It was his philosophy. He didn't believe that only ideas should fight, he believe that people should fight and attacks should be personal. It was the only way to get truth out. It was his suspicion that if things are expressed with pleasant eloquence, it may be Satan's plot.

"Think what you will, so make in your pants, hang it round your neck,
then make a jelly of it and eat it like a vulgar sows and asses you are!"

-- Martin Luther, Against Hanswurst, pg. 187 of Luther's Works, Vol

http://ergofabulous.org/luther/
Anyone can predict there will be an inevitable downturn in the future. In fact most people think there will be one for sure. it could be 10,20, or 100 years down the line.

But if you arent predicting when, your prediction isnt very credible.
I don't think it's likely. After crakacing down on Arthur Andersen caused 100,000 people to lose their jobs some people think the Justice Department and Congress are intentionally not going after corporate malfeasance, or at least not as strongly.[1]

[1]: http://www.npr.org/2017/07/11/536642560/is-the-justice-depar...
Regarding the alternative approaches section (which I'm assuming when complete will include an actual comparison to these alternative approaches?), another alternative approach you might want to mention is that improved mixnet approach that people were talking about last year, that once set up is supposed to be faster than Tor, or maybe mixnets in general since they seem to have a long history.

Edit: Riffle, that's what it was called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riffle_(anonymity_network)
DecentralEyes does just that.
I thought it faced a certain and quick death when it was launched.

The thing is expensively useless. And the design is very cheesy.

Surprisingly, at the time, I saw many articles praising it as "the most brilliant idea", feeling like total flattery. I suspect those were from their marketing team. Guess the market isn't so easy to fool.
brings over the point tho, which the above one doesnt

(Otherwise i fully agree, but the orchid one also looks like a badly implemented modern default theme)
> One important strategy that allows women both to create a safer exit for themselves and to increase their bargaining power going into a marriage is to develop relatively more market earning power—more market-rewarded human capital—than they would have in past decades.

This one is very interesting! Women are protecting themselves from bad marriage deals by getting work that pays more, thus increasing their value. Scandinavian countries are some of the most progressive in the world (equal pay with gender etc). Yet there is a increasing amount of divorces and children born out of wedlock in these countries.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
How AlphaGo Zero works, explained in one diagram
At this point it is either a magic buzzword to get investors throwing money at you or actually a smart thought of putting cryptographical proof into something. Usually its the first tho.
I think it's entirely fair to say that such a market could potentially be created, but there's a big difference in how you have to approach creating a market vs. filling a niche that you think a market exists for already. Teforia bet on the latter, rather than trying to convince people with money to spend who like tea (but are not Tea Enthusiasts) that this was something they needed in their life.
Interesting. Did some quick poking around.

Looks like the system adds a number of non-printing unicode characters into the string. In this thread title, for example, the textmark is stored in the phrase "mess⁡a⁠g⁣e⁣ ⁣h⁢a⁣s⁣ ⁢a⁣ ⁢h⁠i⁠d⁣d⁢e⁢n⁢ ⁠m⁠e⁢s⁣s⁢a⁠g⁣e⁣ ⁠i⁠n⁡side." (Thanks, textdiff!)

Specifically, it adds non-printing unicode characters repeatedly. I'd guess these form a unique series, which is mapped to a record in the textmark database.

If I wanted to automatically remove the textmark from a text, in order to steal your content, I would write a script to automatically remove any non-printing unicode characters that appear in it. This StackOverflow answer includes a script achieving precisely that task: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11598864/6226586
Time to embrace, extend, and extinguish this terminology: the only responsible encryption is an implementation which is built to be as secure as is known how to design. Backdoors are known to be insecure and are irresponsible.

I wholeheartedly embrace responsible encryption: designs which are both secure and easy to use.
Yes, no one wants to live in smog... even 100 PM2.5 is bad. It's just normal in northern China, especially in the winter.

Bay area air quality has been bad recently too, but complaining about it would show less empathy than our neighbors deserve.
Also, this reminds me of a Clara Labs (YC S14) project to hide unique IDs in unicode text: https://blog.claralabs.com/invisible-ink-a-simple-but-faulty...
> If companies are permitted to create law-free zones for their customers,
> citizens should understand the consequences. When police cannot access
> evidence, crime cannot be solved. Criminals cannot be stopped and
> punished. There is an alternative. Responsible encryption can protect
> privacy and promote security without forfeiting access for legitimate
> law enforcement needs supported by judicial approval.
>
> Technology companies almost certainly will not develop responsible
> encryption if left to their own devices. Competition will fuel a
> mindset that leads them to produce products that are more and more
> impregnable. That will give criminals and terrorists more opportunities
> to cause harm with impunity. Sounding the alarm about the dark side of
> technology is not popular. Everyone who speaks candidly about “going
> dark” faces attacks by advocates of absolute privacy.
>
> Some advocates are motivated by profit. Others demonstrate sincere
> concern about the benefits of privacy. They are not concerned about
> preserving law enforcement capabilities. Those of us who swear to
> protect the rule of law have a different motivation. We are obliged to
> speak the truth.
>
> The truth is that “going dark” threatens to disable law enforcement and
> enable criminals and terrorists to operate with impunity.
>
> Allow me to conclude with this thought: There is no constitutional right
> to sell warrant-proof encryption. If our society chooses to let
> businesses sell technologies that shield evidence even from court
> orders, it should be a fully-informed decision.

I never thought about it like that. /s
By your own definition, how are kids with iPhones cool? They're the choice of old people everywhere. Every teen I see has some sort of jazzed up Android (phablet).

It's like the Porsche 911. Great car, but definitely not cool. 3/4 of the people driving them are of retirement age. Definitely not cool by any stretch of the imagination.
I will not mourn the death of paper checks in the USA. I still have to pay my rent with a paper check. Le sigh.
The main design goal of cryptocurrency protocols and the like is immutability, so that the protocol operates according to formal specs and not according to the whims of economic stakeholders.

This is why the Finnish central bank's paper on Bitcoin called it a 'monopoly without a monopolist'.

I think the immutability of these kinds of protocols is certainly an improvement over the total control that economic stakeholders have in a centralized server-client architecture, with respect to power distribution.
Beware of Windows/MacOS/Linux Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger
How about something simpler first like a robot that picks up dog crap?
Maybe it‘s because they released sunglasses in November. I don‘t know California but here in developed Europe nobody buys sunglasses nowadays, because there is no sun.
It is 100% less likely that you'll run into out-of-date docs wrongly describing the types of the input arguments and return types. Of course the code might still be obtuse but the type declarations are a form of documentation that the compiler ensures is still up-to-date.
That is true, but I feel obliged to point out that tobacco is an incredibly difficult and labor-intensive crop.
This "Most restaurants are largely unwilling or unable to provide a well-executed delivery service. I'm more than happy to pay an additional gratuity for the logistical system these delivery-services add." is why there's still significant headroom in the space; to invest and drive more efficiencies. It's like my pals in the digital ad space who talk about 8% as the best conversion rate they can achieve.
Please don't break the HN guidelines like this. If someone is wrong, it's fine to explain how substantively, so we all learn something. It's not fine to call names, which teaches nothing and makes both you and the community look worse.

If you don't want to take the time to write a substantive reply, posting nothing is a fine option as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No we can't. You're right that copying pictures is not the goal - and that is my point. Simply copying pictures would satisfy the "adversarial" side of the DNN inference most efficiently and within the constraints of the GAN architecure. We would consider it a hack or a cheat because the problem is poorly defined, hence the paradox.

Human level AI is the goal (at least mine), so every time we see something unexpected or a "failure" in ML it's worth thinking about the "failure" mode when compared with how a human could hack the system.
Apple fired the engineer whose daughter released a video of his iPhone X
Why are most “high-productivity” software and knowledge jobs in cities where land costs are high? I would argue that it’s because that land is productive! At least LVT would incentivize people to move to areas with cheaper land, or to increase density.
Engineering at this level would require a somewhat intelligent engineering team and so I'm assuming this is their starting point and that they are expecting to significantly lower the weight.

Having the engine there if these weaknesses are managed effectively would be quite disruptive to the industry. Maybe they won't make it work, but they obviously think they can.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

-- Pitt the Younger, 1783 (shortly before becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain)
Sure. Zukerberg is right now in China, not for tech rollout but to navigate the politics. 42 countries currently block parts of open internet and the trend is growing. In India the people successfully defended net neutrality by pushing back on facebook’s free offering. So on…
> If history is a guided then generations of tobacco execs can strike it rich by killing people, before the gig is up.

You know, some people like cigarettes, despite the health effects. No one is "killing" you, if you decide to use a product even though you are aware of the risks.
as someone considering if I should adopt service workers or just wait for the next shiny thing can I just ask - if service workers were on iOS today, would any of you still have other reasons NOT to adopt it? thank you in advance
Money laundering & bribery
“This distinction is interesting and important...”

...and will be at the eventual inquest I’m sure.

https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do that with?
Apple is its own film studio, creating and telling stories about itself. And people camp out to be the first in line to experience the next episode. No spoilers, please.
I tried this, because my first thought was that this was much the same as the first example. Certainly Haskell doesn't have a variadic addition function by default but I don't think that's the biggest concern here (variadic addition is easily just summing a list). The surprising thing was entering both an "integer" and a float to be read. You certainly can parse floats from input, but this: `(+) <$> readLn <*> readLn` doesn't do it, even though at first glance it seems like it should. If you wanted to handle fractional values, you would have to hint to the type checker that you wanted to do so. I do think that this example is perhaps too specific, and highlights only the specific topic of dynamic number conversion which is, depending on the situation, both blessed and cursed. I will concede though that if you want dynamic number conversion Haskell isn't going to give you that easily.
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Such people are a minority of smokers around the world, and given how addictive nicotine is, probably fooling themselves. The average smoker is in the Asia Pacific region, India, Indonesia, and Africa, and is impoverished. In those regions as elsewhere, socioeconomic class and education correlate with the lowest numbers of smokers.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments here?
Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]
You can already do that with the Sort By filter (Carbs % - Per meal (lowest)): https://www.soylent-alternatives.com/#narrow=default&sort=ca...
Check out cjdns for a less stupid, less blockchain BS take on fixing the internet.

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Terminal Forever
> But if you arent predicting when, your prediction isnt very credible.

It is the exact opposite: if you are actually predicting "when", then your prediction isn't very credible. Perhaps you meant useful instead?

Anyways, all we can do is watch external forces. When will the Chinese asset bubble pop? When will the fed raise interest rates? If those things happen, will that take other markets down with it?
doesnt DJI spark have follow me, and selfie gestures?
Developing Android Apps Right on Your Chromebook
Different scales. When the Bay Area hits 100 PM2.5, that is considered really really bad, heck, just being above 30 is considered bad. 100 in Beijing during winter is a good day, you don't have to go outside with your mask on.
Suppose that audio captchas could be solved with 100% accuracy. Then what? How do we make sure that visually impaired users can still access the internet / solve captchas, but robots cannot?
Reveal.js used with R's version of markdown makes for a really nice setup. Fully contained html if you want, online/offline. Lot of support from community and slick features.
You've crossed into incivility in this thread and broken the HN guidelines by calling names. That's not ok, regardless of how wrong someone else is. Indeed, assuming your position is correct, it's important not to discredit it by commenting like this.

Would you mind reading the site guidelines and following them scrupulously when commenting here? We're trying for a better outcome than scorched earth followed by heat death, which seems to be the default for internet forums.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you like that book he wrote one about applying those ideas to this exact problem! https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Cybersecurity-Ri...

I've never managed to make the effort to apply his ideas with much rigor but they are definitely appealing and possibly better than the alternative of "maybe nothing".
Show HN: Babydux / Paper-thin, fully typesafe Redux for babies
I think the drug analogy still fits.

Like drugs, there will always be a "black market" but the "legalisation" lessens its strengths and effects.
Yes, such analysis without data is just BS. I would have liked to see following data:

1. Was snapchat users advertised about this product frequently? If not then its failure in execution right there.

2. What was the conversion rate if they did?

3. Where there any user studies for people who did not convert? What was the distribution of their reasoning? Price, battery life, availability?

4. Was the video/photos uploaded through these glasses carried the advertise for the device itself?

5. What was the influence ratio (friends buying product after one friend bought it)?

The thing is that this idea like most ideas was good but execution probably wasn't. The whole trick behind blockbuster product is to understand failure in execution, fix them and reiterate. Never stop after the failure.
The author says these are Venn diagrams, but he omits saying what the domain is. Are the members of these sets programs? If so, then he is saying that a program may have any combination (including possibly none) of these three concepts of quality, but a given program (or whatever the elements are) either possesses a given quality, or it does not - the model, as presented, does not allow for degrees of quality. In this interpretation, as large as possible a sweet spot would simply mean that you have many programs having all three qualities, and if that is not optimal, then the model is not complete.

To be clear, I don't think this is what the author meant; I suspect either I have guessed wrongly about the set's domains, or he has just chosen a flawed way of expressing himself.
That doesn't sound like something that should be happening. Perhaps there is an error in the email targeting logic. I'd be happy to help get it looked into and see if it can be fixed.

If you'd like to take me up on my offer, please file a support case in the usual way to report this issue; then ping me at my work email address from the email address associated with your account to let me know you've done that. Ideally, explain what you did here in the support case, and provide the full email headers of the email that you expected not to receive (or at minimum, subject line and date). That's what will likely be needed to pinpoint the account and the problem. I'll keep an eye on it and do my best to ensure it's driven to resolution with the right people. We should expect follow-up and further communication to occur via the support case. I'll preemptively ask for patience since certain issues can take a bit to investigate.
You've just described Articulate Storyline and/or Adobe Captivate.
> Kids are easily distracted, so if you point a phone at them it'll completely throw them off whatever cute activity it was they were just doing - probably because they now want to play with your phone.

True that! Thanks for the idea, I am tempted to pull my Looxcie out of retirement and see if it is discreet enough to avoid notice.