skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jaron Lanier's "Dawn of the New Everything".
Beautiful description of his journey in VR and how Silicon Valley has evolved from the early 80s.
Hilarious how official company statements seem to ignore reality or even try to deny it blatantly. Feeding such bs to people will fire back, and denying that a problem exists shows Tesla has no plan to improve
Sorry, I don't understand, but wouldn't someone ( suspicious ) also have a photo of yours if they have the access to your account. They could easily upload that photo and pass the captcha test .. Or am I missing something?
Quality investment? Potential pitfalls with this model? Envion: Crypto Infra
Some of the most successful companies in the world, with a reputation for excellent customer service offer single channel support through cases only, because phone support is too inefficient.

Kudos to you for staying afloat for so long the way you did.
It’s exciting to see open source RISC-V gaining momentum on the HW world
I don't think fraud should be surprising when you have a 0 verification online open comment section where people seem to think that getting more 'votes' than the other guy would mean the FCC has to go that direction. It'd be like an election where you vote online with no verification whatsoever. I imagine by the end of the election the US's apparent population would be in the tens of billions, at least. Quite the voter turnout!

While I agree that that breakdown was quite interesting, I also think in the end trying to divine the 'true' result from a mess like this is probably going to be about as effective as diving your future from the tea leaves at the bottom of a cup.
Well said.

I've moved to altcoins for sending money, the transaction fees of bitcoin finally pushed me to another one.

I wish I'd buy a little extra to speculate myself, but I'm pretty impatient so I'd better not.
I write in a mix of python and C++ as well. As such, I've also gradually moved towards using conda. What's your dev workflow for the code that's not a dependency like? Specially if the code you're developing is C++. Do you make a conda package of it as you're developing? I've found that too much of a hassle to rebuild. I usually just use CMake with the conda environment dir as the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
Yeah I'm a bit sad about build systems.

I wanted to write a Postgres extension/fork, and was thinking "oh I'll just replace some bits with Rust".

Unfortunately everything is `make`, which is great when you're setting something up and have a huge process... but it's very hard to make some changes without figuring out the entire flow.

Someone that could somehow wrap make to make it easier to make incremental changes on existing projects could help fuel a lot more experimental changes.
Now tell me what is the point of hiring a junior developer for the median $118K if you can get senior for median $155K? Doesn't make any sense to me. The latter can work without supervision and provide at least 5x the output.

In offshore outsourcing, 10x gap between senior and junior is the norm, not 1.5x. And it sounds fair to me.

If i managed the Valley startup in these salary conditions, i'd happily hire as many seniors as i can afford (they are a bargain at this price and even in offshore destinations, many make about as much), and let each of them manage a few $1000 a month juniors or $3000 a month mid-level ones in Ukraine.

It strongly looks like there is a 'base' payment of about $100K just for being in the Valley, and real salary is $18K for junior and $55K for a senior :) And $100K just effectively works to cover the fixed costs like exorbitant rent - that's how the market put it. And about 10% of sub-$100K positions are taken by locals who own their homes.
Biggest owner can steal smaller owners money, maybe, depending on the POS design. But that would make no sense. I mean the biggest owners have the biggest stake in the integrity of the network, no? supply and demand can clear at X and at 0.5X, so that doesn't answer the question for me.
So you don't know. Cool.
Google releases mobile data managing app, Datally
Sure it’s true, but it’s a tautology to say it when something is at an all-time high.
Seems woefully ignorant to dismiss this concern especially post Snowden revelations. Theses are business records subject to mass surveillance with special access tailored for government agencies with rubber stamp "oversight"
Sustainable Productivity in EXtreme Programming
I don't think it's particularly cynical-conspiracy-minded to believe that Apple's messaging, here and in every situation, is guided by a legal team. That's standard practice for every major company.
>Why do you think that it's mathematically impossible for a company to find the money some other way?

Depends on the industry. If there's a lot of foreign competition and workers aren't mindful of the health of the industry, they can easily kill it off. That's what happened to steel production in the US.
> What am I missing?

The students don't know anything about the CLI. They might not know what a directory is or how to cd to it. They may have to install multiple packages. On certain operating systems they'll have to set some PATH variables.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be that easy, but due to failures in earlier education it's not.
That's like saying a house party requires friends to run it.
50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars
Like this: http://www.dubset.com/mixscan/#intro-2

My understanding is that Apple & Spotify have signed up to these guys with a view to correct payments for artists with user uploaded mixes [1].

[1] http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/spotify-apple-music-rem...
How does it compare to mbed-os?
When dealing with local clients, that is certainly a possibility (and indeed was the case with me at one stage). But when you have customers all over the world, you have to basically be on call 24hours a day (also the case with me).
Remove Ego from the pursuit of Truth.
Have you checked Multiling O Keyboard app? (I used it more than 1 year ago, now I use a phone powered by Sailfish OS).
Donald Trump retweets far-right group's videos
Paraphrasing someone else's excellent take:

Grandparent, to child, riding in an automated vehicle, "Can you believe, once upon a time people steered these?"

"What? How did that work? Was that safe?"

"Oh, no, 30,000 people died every year!"
Agreed, but I kinda like buying food and shelter, and it's much easier to do so with dollars or euros than with barter goods or magic digital beans.
It would probably freak me out TBH! :) After so long working for myself from home, the prospect of being in a busy office with people milling about and a hundred conversations going on at once will probably reduce me to a quivering wreck under the desk! :P
> especially if remittance services start competing by using similar technology in their backends

It's not a technology problem. Transfers could be instantaneous and nearly free without a blockchain. The reason they are not is because of several reasons. Fraud prevention is one. Another is that the cash being held during the transfer is used for investments.

Bitcoin makes this faster because there is no middle man or regulations slowing it down, not for technical reasons.
> could voice somehow be a "progressive enhancement" to the web?

I have created my own TamperMonkey plugin that adds TTS to web pages. It finds text, makes it clickable, and when a user clicks a word, it starts reading from there, highlighting text as it reads it, skipping menus and chrome. I find this helps me better focus on reading. Unfortunately I can only stand one single voice and it's been stagnating for years (Alex from Mac OS). Can't wait to hear the WaveNet voice Google has been threatening to give us.
About what you would expect from a company with an $800 million valuation that pays its employees $2/hr.
Depends on what year I die.
Probably forgot the /s
You’re only 23 and you want to retire?
Thanks. I did try to coerce my customers away from phone support (by reducing my hours that I would respond to calls) and try to get them to use a ticketing system (Zendesk)). That worked to a certain extent, but still didn't fully eliminate those that were already used to phone support.

A ticketing system also helped with another big bugbear of mine - getting back to customers with long support ticket cycles, i.e. where I had to make bug fixes, test and deploy. I was frequently forgetting to get back to them to advise them I had fixed an issue. The ticketing system helped me to keep track of that.

Following up with customers was another mind loop that detracted from the freedom of mind I needed to develop good code.
Is that okay legally? Maybe parental permission is enough
Did you even read the comment you are responding to? It was about the Nobel in _economics_
Compile Idris to Vimscript, like you always wanted
Pretty sure that's been done with existing voice to text systems. So, yes :)
> And the brain mode for 'developer' is VERY different from the brain mode for 'support agent'.

This is something I can have trouble with even personally. I have noticed that when I get home from a long day of cold, analytical problem-solving, I mbrain bad at shifting my brain to empathetically listen and provide emotional support for my wifes problems.
I was trying to change my email address for the game Black Desert Online upon closing down all of my old Gmail stuff and encountered the same sort of thing!

> A photo of your photo ID card, taken in front of today's physical newspaper clearly showing the date, or over your screen showing your open ticket needs to be added as an attachment to the ticket.

> Please also ensure that the ID is a valid government-issued document and has not expired.

You can see it here: https://blackdesert.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/210745969-...

I decided it wasn't worth it for the cost of my ID being stored with no transparency as to how/where it would end up.
I bought an unlocked Android phone from Target, and use T-Mobile prepaid. They don't have my SSN, and didn't even have my name til I paid for some minutes via the website. (Now I pay by CC every month, but oh well, not real important to me.)
Then you fail to understand the incentive structure. The only game-theory outcome to a PoS system is a monopoly. That's the reason why there aren't any successful ones. Because they require trust.
First abandon your own positions, preferences, world views, opinions, etc.
Cool as hell. Is this flexible enough that it could realistically be applied to generic selfies and not just these very uniform photos?

Make this into an app and you could have the next Prisma!
Not been addressed in my experience. It's more like the other thread about rear ending - the Waymo is typically the only car going the speed limit in traffic besides some commercial vehicles and slow off the line and slowing at odd times, but I do see less of them.
Nice setup. I personally like to have three monitors, so the center one is in the middle and I don't have to turn my head.

ATM I have a fairly old 32" 1080p TV as my middle screen.

It becomes hard to find the desk space for three monitors when you get to a 40" middle screen though. I prefer having multiple monitors than a single larger monitor. I haven't decided how I'm going to upgrade yet.
If it is, it hasn't stopped DubSet [1] from licensing some tech to Apple and Spotify [2].

[1] http://www.dubset.com/mixscan/#intro-2
[2] http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/spotify-apple-music-rem...
There is too much fake marketing around companies adopting ML and AI today. We call this the "man behind the curtain" (wizard of oz). The rule of thumb is: if it takes minutes or even hours to OCR & data extract then it's human labor.

Lots of companies like Expensify, Bills.com, ReceiptHog and others use MTurk or services like MTurk to extract data from the financial documents. The accuracy is still not 100% guaranteed also the categorization is usually off since person categorizing your receipts doesn't have a history of your previous purchases and how they should be categorized in your business. This also means that if you are doing anything with PII or a healthcare company, watch out. These companies are NOT HIPAA compliant. They leak PII data. It takes 1 social hack to steal someone's identity.

How do I know all this? Because we (https://iqboxy.com YC W17) built a 100% automated solution for bookkeeping and expense management. You scan a receipt/bill/invoice and you get results in a few seconds. We have been offered many times to use those human labor services for "automated data extraction" but we believe it's not how this problem should be solved in 2018.
Between learning curve and dependency hell, I've never managed good results with Kaldi, Simon, or Sphinx. It's unfortunate; hopefully we'll get an easy to use option soon.
That image is racist.
If a workable version is ever created. I don't think it's a solved problem at this point.
You mean FaceApp?
> In your opinion, what is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin?

I use the 1:10000 rule (https://xkcd.com/1053/) for this argument. It is my opinion that the intrinsic value of bitcoin is far far greater than anyone really comprehends. People generally are too focused on people just buying and selling the asset, but not about the cryptographic proof, and incentive structure that perpetuates the network functioning. So when people like to ask what the intrinsic value of bitcoin is, I say :

You are thinking of the store of value property without the cryptographic property that secures it. You are talking about it as one would talk about valuable shells, and even shell sellers, and not the security that separates it from all forms of value exchange before it. To understand the intrinsic value of bitcoin it is good to use the analogy of an envelope. So i ask you : does an envelope have intrinsic value?

If I have a letter that I need to send securely, would I prefer to send it open, and ready to be read? Or would I prefer for it to be sent within the confines of an envelope? Now let's think... would I prefer to just leave an open envelope, or would I think it necessary to put some seal across it to ensure that it isn't opened, and read whilst en-route. Does a sealable envelope have more intrinsic value than an unsealable one? Hmm... but what if someone can counterfeit the seal? I need some method of ensuring that the message I want to get to that person isn't read, and preferably, isn't even identified as a message. That's when you need to get lawyers involved. Sounds expensive. There's obviously something intrinsically valuable about such a service, because many people pay oh-so-very-much money for it.

Now let's imagine we're not talking about letters, we're talking about money. Would you address a $100 note through the mail to your child for their birthday? You'd pay for a stamp at least. Would you encase it in an envelope that you paid for at the local post-shop? Hmm... bill in the envelope. Anyone will be able to see that it is money. Perhaps encase it in a card? What if it is $1000? $10,000? $10 million? Does the protection service of an envelope somehow decrease because the value of the contents of the package increases? It's the opposite, isn't it? Bitcoin is both the cryptographically sealed envelope, and the network to deliver it.

What say you? Is an envelope intrinsically valuable?
I mean that's basically what the original incarnation of angel investing (before it was institutionalize by funds and super angels) was about.

You'll still find people who only invest in friends' startups.
Capsule Networks are shaking up AI
> and how to replace that in the wake of Equifax. It seems like the winds are starting to align for us to have something like Aadhaar

That was the point of the Equifax hack. To push biometrics. They have been itching for the mark since way back. It's getting close.

Did you ever get the felling you're being followed?

Are you not familiar with the Revelations of St.John
The final book of the Bible, prophesied the apocalypse

He forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand
Or on his forehead so that no one shall be able
To buy or sell unless he has that mark
Which is the name of the beast and the number of his name
And the number of the beast is '6 6 6'

What can such a specific prophecy mean?
What is the mark?
The senator in question, by the way, is Diane Feinstein, a longstanding and very senior member of what passes for a "socialist" party in the US.

And how do we fix this ? Obviously this is the result of government being corrupt, and for decades in the pocket of a small group of rich people, regardless of who gets elected.

I mean, this cannot be fixed by more government regulation, since if it so much as forces these people to buy the land they use privately, it immediately gets repealed. Don't tell me that this organisation is going to really raise taxes on them, because ... it's not. It's just not going to do that.

Obviously smaller government is also not the answer. But ...
I honestly think that focusing on asynchronicity is almost completely the wrong way to go about designing neuromorphic systems. One thing that engineers almost never focus on, but is a well-researched vital aspect of the brain, is the concept of firing frequency and synchronicity: "cells that fire together wire together". This aspect of synchronized, timed firing is so strong that it creates neural oscillations on a large scale that are consistently characteristic of different brain states (brain waves) and widely theorized to be important to how information is encoded in the brain. It's also very commonly observed that, for instance, the intensity of a stimulus is encoded not in the amplitude of a particular neuron's response but rather in the frequency of a neuron's firing. This oscillatory activity has been shown to be active at all different levels of organization, too. There's basically an entire dimension to how the brain works (in terms of positively and negatively interfering wave patterns localized in different parts of the brain, with neurons that serve to speed up or slow down a continuous pattern of firing) that people looking to reproduce its function usually totally ignore. They think of neuronal firings as discrete calculations, when really they're transformations on an ongoing pattern of activity that's evolving over time. I feel this way of looking at the brain is far more consistent with how biological processes generally function: the point is not that each neuron is accomplishing some precise operation independent of the other neurons, but rather that with a large enough population of imprecise neurons firing individually an overall pattern of useful activity emerges.
Open Source Graphic and Web Design Studio, Four Years Later
My reading of the blog post is that it'll be released in Q1 of 2018. Until then, they're giving a few FPGA stand in boards out. The dev board itself will also use an FPGA to implement a few SoC peripherals, like USB and HDMI.
Yeah that would be consumer fraud against merchants. No?
Yea, I understand the historical stability and trust. But why not hedge against the off-chance fiat currency goes belly up? We have the ability to do so now with crypto. In my opinion, any prudent investor would use it to their advantage. It’s not all or nothing, it’s a hedge.
These notes are wonderfully detailed and compact. Please do this for all my meetings!
What was annoying about it?
If like WD you need 1B cores in your products each year .... and you're paying (number pulled out of thin air) 25c a core to ARM - you're saving $250M
RISC-V doesn't directly help with any of these concerns.

But it is an alternative to ARM, and has a governance model that parties interested in open standards might be more willing to join.

Right now, ARM CPUs on the low end have little standardization at the SOC level. They have a few cores from ARM, (what you think of as the main CPU, maybe a GPU, maybe a low end micro for power management, and a couple more for realtime tasks). Then you have the non-ARM IP in the form of image processors for cameras, video decoding, etc. The SoC mfg is responsible for gluing together all these parts, and every mfg has their own proprietary take on the process, meaning a different initialization sequence, different firmware layouts, etc.

The SoC mfg's goal is to ship a product. It isn't to define a standard, and since there is no standard to follow, 'anything' goes.

Because ARM costs enough that it isn't viable to do a SoC layout you aren't going to ship millions of the chip, academic research (where the seeds for standards are often planted) just doesn't happen.
The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)
Because my startup's tools are used heavily in the dyslexia and ADHD communities, I have found that phone support is a very helpful thing to offer. Some of our users have difficulty reading/deciphering our instructions, but they have no problem once we provide directions verbally on the phone.
The US economy expanded from subsistence farming to superpower mostly because of high quality coal and oil reserves, an excellent river transport network, and excellent topsoil. Ideas about monetary policy don't figure. Might as well wonder about the monetary policies of the Mongols.
Anything promising 161% annual return is obviously a scam; there's no need to investigate further.
It definitely limits the freedom of both the author and user, by restricting the means in which the software may be distributed and the limiting author's right to add additional restrictions (the "all distributions must adhere to these restrictions but can't add more" clause which makes it incompatible with the Apple App Store, for example). It's "Free" in the Free Software Foundation sense but not really in the way some people think of "freedom."
What I'm curious is how he markets his apps and what kind of revenue target he goes for.

I know just posting something on the app store is not the way to go. As an iOS developer I know it's tough to be a solo app store developer successfully.
Does this allow nested virtualization?

ie the ability to run VMs within an EC2 instance?
> why do IoT devices have to connect to the cloud?

to allow a "secure" connection (plus all the snooping and reporting).

as near as i can tell, there's no way to concoct a device to run on a home network which an average consumer's browser will be happy talking SSL to.

(if anyone knows a way i'd love to hear it.)
I wonder how the current Go 1.9.x compares to v1.7.3 that was used in the article (which BTW will become one year old tomorrow - happy Birthday!)
If you've actually got the EDA expertise for something like that, I can introduce you to people who can get you the funding. Check my profile and email me if you were serious.
'Are there no prisons?'

'Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

'And the Union workhouses.' demanded Scrooge. 'Are they still in operation?'
I think there is a growing dichotomy of companies. The ecosystem I'm exposed to, 6 figures for mid-level seems normal. I'd only imagine the very early stage startups would fall outside that. This is in Boston proper and Cambridge. I do think median ranges start to fall outside the main metro area as you get to the 128 belt though.
Just a personal anecdote but I have tried installing Snapchat app on my iPhone about a year ago or so. I have spent about 20 minutes tapping and swiping around the app to try to figure out how to use it. I couldn't get how it works and was so frustrated that I have uninstalled it.

In addition to UI being most confusing and impossible for me to figure out, it was also super slow on a mobile network in Asia where I was at the time, near unresponsive.

If I, as 25-30 years old tech person cannot figure out how to use your mobile app, you got a problem. I completely understand why the user base growth has completely flatlined. I assume there are a lot of people similar to me.

I am very bearish on Snap.