skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the most basic form it's a version of Minecraft that runs in an interpreted language called "Scratch" the interpreter runs on Flash which in itself is a virtual machine which in turn runs on your OS which runs on hardware. Sound really complicated and bloated yet? You can look at the source code by clicking the button "See Inside". (Be warned it may cause fan spinning and lag if you don't have a fairly beefy CPU)
https://outline.com/kngJrL if you want to read the entire article
The other day I saw a post on Facebook from a grade school friend saying that if I buy $X in btc on coinbase that he and I both get some for free via some incentive program. That's not what you want for some investment system.
Same make and model family [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mondeo
Good enough. Occam's razor applies.
> why is the default assumption here that I'm the only person I ever record?

Because your question was in response to OPs statement regarding screenrecording, and in that, OP is talking about video and audio for recordings he/she does, not of group meetings.

> Whenever I need to document a particularly complex task or procedure, I record a 10 mins screencast and explain the process + show the steps

Source: OP.
Thoughts on AI replacing coders by 2040
More like they use the fees from content providers to make service nearly free, then they'll be able to plausibly say that bringing back net neutrality will make internet service more expensive. Then, no one will want to bring net neutrality back.

Like how cell phones are "free" so it's impossible to buy one without a contract.
> The Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia would have had access to some of the best, but not anymore.

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Which they implemented using Shazam.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/19/siri-partners-with...
Quantum computer will be the Next Big Thing™ forever.
My wife and I have enjoyed having a Google Home in the kitchen. It's worked for us flawlessly playing music from Spotify, timers, random fact queries, even recipes with step-by-step instructions.

I imagine that the functionality will only get better over time.
The real curiosity is why you think there may be "societal consequences" based on your own personal experience? Isn't this quite similar to how "kooky evangelicals" behave?
France to ban mobile phones in schools from September
> If you have an ex-Verizon person they shouldn’t have any loyalty to the company.

Yes, and people should be good at all times and not lie.
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> Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful?

Just got a Home Mini; I find it pretty useful as a living room entertainment controller.

> All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful.

While I don't actually use mine for shopping yet, reducing friction for shopping you would do anyway is quite useful.

> The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home

Seems to work reasonably well with Google Play Music (and the playback controls are are acceptable if minimal for Netflix; haven't used media controls with anything else.)

> and can't even add reminders.

The Home doesn't seem to have trouble adding reminders for me.

> The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'.

While 8am is more likely, it's not impossible that someone would mean pm (people have all kinds of different schedules), and confirmation is better than assumption with alarms. So, so see this as doing the right thing.

> The only reason I use it is that it's perfect as a handsfree music player and that has its uses in the shower, etc.

So clearly you find it useful.
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Yes. I suspect this is the case as well. I guess I just don't like restricting my self to such an arbitrary process as the industries I have direct experience in or happen to know people in (lots of overlap between these two categories)
Google owns YouTube, and they adjust their search engine algorithms all the time to penalize blatant keyword spam. I don't see why they can't do the same for YouTube, unless they just don't care.
Then the obvious question is why don't we see a lot more of these plants?
I've got a couple of Homes, and I find them pretty useful overall but definitely not essential. Main things I use them for;

1. Alarm clock + morning briefing while I get ready

2. Music player (youtube music works really well, spotify doesn't)

3. Cooking assistant, setting timers etc

4. TV remote - saying "ok google, play xyz" is the ultimate in lazy and I love it

Eventually, and when they get a little cheaper, I intend to invest in a suite of smart lights which (probably?) go nicely with an assistant.

Having said that, natural language stuff still has a long way to go. Ultimately I think of them more as a semi-useful toy.
She doesn't take it to school. She's high-energy so usually she wants to play outside or play make-believe, so we haven't had problems with it crowding out other activities, though we keep an eye on it. She used to go to Montessori school. Her new school has a more traditional curriculum, though it still emphasizes self-directed learning. (Unlike myself as a kid, she actually wants to learn and do worksheets and whatnot.)
You don't pronounce 'zill' and 'zef-ess' as acronyms?
Unfortunately many people do not recognize this difference: "I don't personally like X" is exactly equal to "X should be banned by law for everyone."
Taking advantage of an emotionally vulnerable person, or as you put it "showing some cleavage, saying thank you or talking to you" is abusive. Just because you trivialize it (which you should feel ashamed for doing, very harmful attitude) doesn't mean its not abusive or wrong.
There are people sexually aroused by eyes as well.
I would assume that this would ultimately help google and facebook, they will be able to afford to pay for fast lanes while also making deals where their services are faster than new comers.
Obligatory Fight Club reference, "what would you wish you'd done before you died?"
There’s a fairly recent movie that explores this topic..
Lol I just recalled that I applied for a job there in 2014 when they had a position open in San Diego. Gmail turned the email I sent with my resume. It always bummed me out that they never contacted me back.
Uber charges Toronto customer more than $18,000 for short downtown ride
I saw the uncut version of 'The Abyss' at one of those. Very different experience than the standard release.
There's not any data either: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/screen-time-for-kids-is....
There hasn't actually been a reason for gold's value since 1933, when FDR took the U.S. off the gold standard. And gold has exhibited similar bubble behavior as Bitcoin since, eg. the 1980 bubble when it went up 5x in a year and then crashed 50% the next year, or the 2005-2011 bubble where it went up 4x and crashed by 40% over the next couple years.

It really is as simple as other posters are saying: when there are more buyers than sellers, the price goes up, and when there are more sellers than buyers, the price goes down. The reason for there being more sellers than buyers could be as simple as people losing interest and moving onto the next shiny thing. You can't eat either gold or bitcoin, so in the absence of continued attention, there's natural selling pressure.
These all look fantastic, but "appsperiments" is a horrible category name. Really hope that was Verge being silly.
If each one of them wants to buy one book... you've got 16 million in sales right there! I don't see anything wrong with this line of thinking.
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Should the people who discovered a way to start fires have come up with a way to prevent arson? Could they?
Ask HN: Is anyone actually using an ICO project?
Is anyone out there actually using a system, protocol, or project that has its own token?

Like is anyone backing up their NAS to SIA, or using one of these tokenized media distribution companies?
Cam someone explain why this comment was down-voted?
very nice .. was not aware of this work :) thanks for the pointers
An interesting counterpoint to the standard arguments equating support for Net Neutrality with support for Title II classification of broadband providers, from Ben Thompson:

https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/

> Allow me to state this point plainly: I am absolutely in favor of net neutrality... The question at hand, though, is what is the best way to achieve net neutrality?

> Any regulatory decision — indeed, any decision period — is about tradeoffs. To choose one course of action is to gain certain benefits and incur certain costs... equally difficult to measure is the inevitable rent-seeking that accompanies regulation, as incumbents find it easier to lobby regulators to foreclose competition instead of winning customers in an open market.

> A classic example of this phenomenon is restaurants: who could possibly be against food safety? Then you read about how San Francisco requires 14 permits that take 9 months to issue... and you wonder why anyone opens a restaurant at all.

> This argument certainly applies to net neutrality in a far more profound way: the Internet has been the single most important driver of not just economic growth but overall consumer welfare for the last two decades. Given that all of that dynamism has been achieved with minimal regulatory oversight, the default position of anyone concerned about future growth should be maintaining a light touch. After all, regulation always has a cost far greater than what we can see at the moment it is enacted, and given the importance of the Internet, those costs are massively more consequential than restaurants or just about anything else.
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Right, but "<incredibly young child> does <thing child didn't actually do>" is a tried and tested clickbait method that seems to work every time. That's what they were going for.
I started pursuing a PhD application on this topic, speaking to a couple of potential supervisors, before losing interest.

Ideas: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/multimedia-trust-and-certific...
I think what you're describing is cookbook territory, and perhaps there's a niche for that (though some languages like C or Python have a huge scope). I'd like to see a website that curated libraries with cool examples.

The problem with a cookbook, IMO, is that it doesn't really teach you anything about the language. You could write some really cool (short) image processing code using OpenCV, but would it really help you learn C++ or Python? I suppose you could pick the top 10 libraries/frameworks and go from there.

But.. on the exercise front, there are certainly nifty ways of solving problems in some languages that aren't available in others. Python, for instance, makes a lot of programming challenges very simple with the standard library. Similarly stuff gets a lot more readable if you use C++11 onwards.

I agree there isn't much point if you already know the language inside out (though it's useful to keep sharp), but if you're learning it can be a great way to discover useful constructs like Python's itertools.
It's not really about the cut they take, but more about the fact that they take over the sales channel, and from there take a bigger cut and eventually drive your margins to zero.
2x-10x better when they claimed 1000x isn't "just that good". ESPECIALLY not when the write endurance is so abysmal.

The fact they don't come out and say, in the review, the hardware was furnished by Intel, and instead you have to actively search out the link you just provided, in and of itself is troubling. It's common courtesy and pretty much industry standard practice to list conflicts of interest at the start or end of an article like the one posted...
Is this really necessary? Can't you just buy a standalone projector and attach a Chromecast to it?
Obviously they are not identical, but my point was about the social discourse (good or bad, valid or invalid, etc) around new things that disrupt or "bother" established parts of society, and are then vilified in the media, and as a result become even more controversial..

I feel like this is where we are headed with social media now.. That's all..
There are slight UI hints and overall content creation experience that drives the quality of the dialog.

On consumption side, even if someone creates a long and thoughtful well-balanced post, on Facebook it's likely to be hidden with a "see more" link after the first sentence or two, so long and thoughtful doesn't get as heavy of distribution as short, witty and too often simplistic.

On creation side, the single-line text-field does not encourage a long and thoughtful point-by-point debate either, it's designed for "omg, lol, this sucks" type of feedback.
It’s treating partners as objects for gratification rather than as humans. So it’s dehumanizing relationships.
Because we all know advertising and scantily clad women do not mix.

With less snark, advertising as an industry is famous for “sex sells”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_advertising
Or they want people to go to their site. Not everything sensationalist is automatically bad.
Expanding on that a bit - IMO a remaining gap is a Chromecast audio-like product with a microphone, that can take commands as well as play content through audio out. But I understand the market for that may be limited to people with expensive home audio setups.
> I wish Google could publish server software for Win10 so that I could cast to that as a Chromecast target rather than go via the Chromecast Audio. However I understand there's probably DRM reasons why efforts for this to happen were shut down.

Audio-only Cast devices do not support DRM, so I don't know why audio casting to a desktop PC would be stopped by DRM concerns.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/audio
General "wisdom" is to only show the last 10 years of experience on your resume. This is for a variety of reasons, but it largely is because there is an age bias. It makes it harder when you have things older than 10 years you want to show, but the X-Y year doesn't matter more than "spent 3 years working on OSS project doing ..."

There are certainly things that try to weed out inexperienced as well, but there are also people who simply would rather hire a younger person because they have a perception that somebody older would be harder to train (right or wrong).
Personally, the only person I know that uses Apple music instead of Spotify or GPM works at Apple.
Yes, and also now you're dependent on the middle-man. And they will dictate your margin.
> In fact for a lot of people that's the definition of a mid-life crisis: Suddenly waking up, realizing that you've been wasting your life slaving at a job you don't like, to make money that pays for things you don't own which you only have to offset how shitty your job makes you feel

Another obligatory Fight Club reference.

> “ Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. ”
NC State offers nearly the entire repertoire of CS-level classes online (discrete math, C programming language, computer organization & assembly, data structures, algorithms, design patterns/OOP, operating systems, automata, etc). Videotaped lectures and proctored exams. NC State transfers well, and they are credited no differently from an in-person class. No special asterisk or transcript annotation lowering the value of the credit.

However, you’ll have to get the vast majority of your bachelor General Education elsewhere (Rio Salado online CC, ASU Online, etc) such as English, Humanities, Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc.

https://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu/
It's pretty obvious what GP meant. The concept of crowd-sourcing small chunks of work as a service is not the same thing as a hoax which involved a single person masquerading as an automaton. Amazon chose a clever name for its service that is memorable and references humans fronted by machines.

Asserting otherwise is an example of the etymological fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy.
As a video editor, I'd say you are close. imho, to me it doesn't say that Rob was making his leadership of the company all about the product (you'd really have to go back and look at past photos to see if this is true) but more that he is now fading into the background of the company, while Bryan is "focused" on future of the company (looking towards the viewers right which is typically the future). Although many decisions like that in films often tend to be happy accidents (or subconscious choices), it is pretty clear that they are deemphasizing Rob.
The comparison between qbits and classical bits is somewhat specious.

qbits allow up to twice as many 'states' per bit when compared to classical bits.[0]

As for the public excitement, that will depend on someone making something exiting with the x bits available.

[0]https://youtu.be/w5rCn593Dig
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Good time to start a Soylent competitor if you’ve been thinking of it.
Maybe that's it - you need a partner. Successful restaurants often have that - a business partner and a chef partner.
It's even more limiting. A 5 qubit computer can get the expected efficiency of a quantum algorithm that needs a working memory of less than 5 qubits. That's it. Furthermore, the scaling is entirely different - a 8 bit computer can simulate 16-bit calculations with a limited number of primitives - e.g. a 16-bit multiply can be made with four 8-bit multiplies; but the quantum operations don't stack that way; you have to "read" the values in between, collapsing all the quantum states.

So for quite a few algorithms there are no efficient ways to stretch the size limit, you're back to brute force. If you have a quantum computer that allows you to e.g. break a 128 bit keys, then factoring a 129 bit key takes twice as much time, a 130bit key takes four times as much, and a 256 bit key takes 2^128 times as much time.
One of the dirtiest aspects I've seen in this whole NN debate has been the very ugly behavior of NN proponents. That, as much as anything, has eliminated any support I might have had for NN.

Pai digs in and fights back against racist death threats? Good for him. Shame on anyone expecting him to back down in the face of that.
> given that they must expand their appeal to younger, more diverse voters

They gave up trying to appeal to more diverse voters long ago and are becoming increasingly desperate. So desperate that in the last election they took hacking assistance from a foreign adversary.

> why are they choosing this hill to die on?

They're not. Almost no one outside of our bubble will think about this when they go to vote.

On the other hand, this move may be expected to result in substantial campaign contributions from those who stand to benefit.
in germany you can just use an receipt for stuff under a certain amount. no need for a special invoice, etc. the receipt only needs the total amount, the date, effort or product name, vat percentage.
well of course for a donation you need a document that you actually correctly donated, etc..
The control that this guy helped FB absorb?
mtmail already composed a better answer than I am capable was, and has pointed out that what you ask was not the question I replied to. Your question, though valid, might have been better asked as a top-level question. Your other top-level comment implies a position that you’ve already taken (and hence the downvotes for that post). Asked as “can some clarify whether or not...” rather “I assume bad things about Google, it’s up to you other folks to dispute it...” can go a long away toward getting a useful answer and reducing downvotes (thereby reducing your chances of an answer).
Only one meal a day? What do you mean?
I never said it was irrational. I believe it's extraordinarily rational, if a bit narrowly scoped. I'm a big fan of depressive realism.

However, I also believe that this can be accurate of your life (let's be honest, it's accurate of 80%+ of people's lives) and yet not be a cause of constant misery. This seems to be the case for many people, who have much harder jobs than the average HN type and yet are quite happy. I think getting to that state is a route worth exploring.

Unexplored areas of the psyche and rational situational assessment are not at all mutually exclusive. They get along just fine.
> he'll be the perfect scapegoat when this is over

Reminds me a story, where there was an official who had an arrangement to receive a payment for every day in prison (if he ever ended up there as a scapegoat for actual criminal overlords, whose crimes he was covering up).
You missed the sarcasm
I've done the same recently. Haven't seen colors on my phone for a few weeks now.
Yes -- give it a try. My iPhone 7 Plus was nearly out of storage space, and also rather sluggish. Much of the storage space was being consumed by internal Apple files according to usage details within the Settings app.

After doing a full backup using iTunes, then resetting the phone to factory conditions, and finally restoring the iTunes backup -- my storage space returned to normal, and the speed increased dramatically.

I suspect that over time, internal files accumulate (e.g. log files & upgrade restoration points), and this accumulated cruft gradually consumes space & degrades performance.
He categorically stated [t=10m] that "150 [people], and they are all men, run the world".

Watch the interview.

https://youtu.be/PMotykw0SIk
This talk excited me as if I had learned a new programming paradigm. Sometimes I come up with little problems in the shower, not unlike this one, but then when I sit down with pen and paper, after working with a few examples, I hear a little voice saying like "what's the point on working on this? I'm no mathematician, and this is probably just a footnote on some 1000-year-old mathematics textbook anyway."

To see Knuth work methodically through this seemingly trivial problem and get something out of it was enlightening.
Perhaps it would be helpful to find a safe place for them to be inaccessible for a minimum amount of time, probably measured in multiple years?
use a mailinator.com address if you want to quickly browse something :)
> profession neutrality

What even...?
Fun with Random Numbers: Random Projection
The rhymes and illustrations look great! Is there a board book edition?

Other great STEM and computers books for kids:

"A is for Array"

"Lift-the-Flap Computers and Coding"

"Computational Fairy Tales"

"Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding"

"Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction To Programming"

"Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things"

"Rosie Revere, Engineer"

"Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine"

"HTML for Babies: Volume 1 of Web Design for Babies"

"What Do You Do With a Problem?"

"What Do You Do With an Idea?"

"ABCs of Mathematics",
"The Pythagorean Theorem for Babies",
"Non-Euclidian Geometry for Babies",
"Introductory Calculus for Infants",
"ABCs of Physics",
"Statistical Physics for Babies",
"Netwonian Physics for Babies",
"Optical Physics for Babies",
"General Relativity for Babies",
"Quantum Physics for Babies", "Quantum Information for Babies", "Quantum Entanglement for Babies"

"ELI5": "Explain like I'm five"

Someone should really make a list of these.
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