skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article nails it.

I drive a Subaru BRZ. The back seats of it are so small as to be damn near useless. I'm only 5'9" and I can't sit in the back because my head hits the rear window. Even my 10 year old niece complains about the lack of leg room.

Now, if Subaru does research and finds that people are complaining about the small back seats and so they make them bigger, well they've done it wrong. The proper response would be to steer (no pun intended) those customers to a Legacy, Impreza, or WRX.

To make the car larger would destroy what the BRZ was supposed to be: A small, lightweight, inexpensive, economical, nimble sport coupe.
> and convince a hundred million people to install your software to feed you copious real-world training data that you can use to improve model performance.

That's actually the easy part. You already have the music. Distorting it by superimposing background noise is really not difficult.
> There is nothing specific wrong with industry people working at regulatory agencie

Sure. In the abstract. But in practicality, it doesn't pass the smell test. Just like if I committed a crime and my mother was judge of the case, there isn't anything specifically wrong with it. But there are potential issues of conflict of interest and she should probably recuse herself from the case.

> in fact, good regulation should include the input of the regulated industries (failure to do so was a causative factor in the bankruptcy of railroads in the 60s and 70s).

Of course regulatory agencies need input from the industry. But there is a difference between providing input and leading the agency. I'm all for input. I'm not too keen on former Directors, CEOs, etc of banks, ISPs, etc leading agencies that regulate those companies. Especially when we have people going back and forth between regulatory agencies and companies.
> Is photoshop harmful to the web?

Photoshop isn't on the web, but I oppose closed source in principle.

> Should they give away their source code?

Ideally, yes. If you do it is still your decision, but you still should be aware that if you introduce truly new concepts, someone will clean-room reverse them, and publish them.

> So, art programs kind of need source protection.

The Krita project begs to differ.

> I won't be making a web-version until this is the case. If you can crack NW.js source protection, let me know

Then you shouldn't make any build where the business code runs on the client. Even native binaries can be reversed, their functionality analyzed, and copied. Which is how LibreOffice/OpenOffice originally discovered how to parse the Microsoft Office formats.
Which makes complete sense. If you don't have experience in a job, it makes sense an employer might not want to hire you. I got an entry level job out of college because I had years of internship experience.
Yes, they became profitable in 2016 via mostly brand advertising [1][2]. The company has nearly 400 employees according to LinkedIn. With a very conservative personnel estimate of $125k/employee/year, that's $50M alone. Let's throw on another $25M for everything else and they need to be doing at least $75M+ in annual revenue.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/20/shazam-for-brands-user-...

[2] https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7526322/shazam-1...
I didn't read that much into it. I just attributed it to the racist assumption that all non-white non-US persons live like cave people, which makes it that much more impressive that they use any form of technology, whether it be remote controlled explosives or simply the written word.
I'm intrigued! Thanks for spreading the wealth!
Agreed. I think “learning to be social” is the opposite of the point of being social, which is only good so long as you’re trying to authentically connect with people. Seems like anything else is evil. And so authentically connecting with people shouldn’t require training! It should be as natural as being itself. That’s just my POV anyways...

The extent of socializing that should be “learned” is recognizing things that may be confusing or upsetting. Nothing more. But by god and by no means should it ever be learning to act cool and by god not learning to lie about yourself. Those are extremely antisocial behaviors.
Well, if you want to propose a new visa type for people who might become superstars in the future, you are welcome to do that, but if you engage with this seriously you will see that that's not really something to which there is an immigration answer.

We have laws on the books; an H1-B visa isn't supposed to satisfy all of your desires for human betterment. It's a temporary worker visa for a limited quantity of higher skilled immigrants, and was only made into law on that basis. It was never supposed to ensure that "no child is left behind". I would go to whatever country you are most worried about and work on education and legal reform there, if that is your overriding concern.
It definitely is more busted than other industries.

You'll never see an electrical engineer get asked to solve a circuit problem on a whiteboard.
Except they have no streaming API so I can't use it with my normal audio player software. I am forced to stream it in a browser. I'm out.
Surely this is because the systems are more complex that you would have no hope designing using pens and pencils, even with the largest team in the world.

As the capacity increases so does the complexity.
Engineer finds art in simplifying the complex
If you are a user who cares about such things, I think the onus lies on you.
A former Verizon employee probably has no more ties or vested interests in Verizon anymore. If they have stock or other interests then they shouldn’t be in those regulatory offices.
yes, but you cannot open a bank account. You can use holvi (https://about.holvi.com/e-residents/) but I haven't used it and don't know details on how it differs from a regular bank.
Spectral: A New Screen-First Typeface
Why do people assume HSR will not have TSA lines? All it will take is one credible threat. Indeed, given the inevitability of a threat emerging, it seems obvious that a TSA line will be part of the model from day one.

People will probably end up "packed like sardines" on HSR as well, as HSR will inevitably have to be made to be economical.
Same thing. I could get a sign-off to order a licence worth $500 or a 20$/month subscription if it's needed, but a donation of 5$ would be absolutely impossible; not just hard, but legally unacceptable use of funds.
Yes, the voting system makes it social media. It's not as manipulative as other websites, but it's for that reason I wouldn't class it as a discussion forum.
Partitioning in Apache Spark
I didn't say you can't do it - I said people don't really do it anymore. You can easily get a positive roi if you do it correctly, why do you think there are literal crypto factories built to mine coins?
The Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the U.S. As a Leader in Science
Perfect is the enemy of good. Because one thing is a bit iffy, let's throw the whole regulation out?

BingeOn initially had opposition, until T-Mobile gave customers option to disable it, and also opened it up so anyone who satisfied requirements (in particular had streaming that quality adapted to the bandwidth) could join for free.

Honestly I would support FCC stepping in and said that this can't be done even though I'm T-Mobile customer.
You can try http://www.spoj.com/ if you're more interested in algorithms-oriented programming contests.
We have something like this, not weeks but days. Linear programs, integer math, using IBM Cplex to schedule "people" to do "things" at the ideal time.
> Your use case, where a person intellectually chooses to be dependent on UBI because they don't really like working very much, is very different from the one I envision: robots take your job and you have nothing and so are forced into dependency.

I think that happened already 20 years ago, though not just robots but also centaurs (in the chess sense of people using computers/working in tandem with machines) have taken most of the jobs, even accounting for globalization.

I think the reason we aren't talking about it, in that way, is that it's still too easy to sweep the problems under the rug. It's still too easy to blame the people that are out of work rather than the labor market that doesn't need people.

A society is people. People being dependent on their society is somewhere between an oxymoron and baseline assumption. Everyone is dependent on the day to day cooperation of their society, in one way or another, even if it is "just" roads, and breathable air, and a political reality in which they can live their day-to-day.

I think we are far too stuck on "someone not working is taking away from me", because we see it as some zero-sum game, but robots and centaurs have changed the equations. The labor market is unfair and neither free nor liquid, and yet we are letting it ascribe morals to people, looking down on people working multiple jobs to make ends meet (because the labor market has no incentive to offer a fair price) or who can't find work because there isn't enough work to go around.

I think it is far past time to stop judging our neighbors by their position in the labor market. For me, a part of that is realizing that a global and broad option to leave the labor market is important, that we should celebrate that as a right. If capitalism needs more hands on deck, it can pay for them. It's time to stop assuming everyone should work, and let the market tell us why we should work (and how much it is willing to pay to let that work get done).

We don't really have an option not to work so long as our basic subsistence is tied to how we spend our labor. But companies don't have to do right by us, because they aren't our societies, they don't need us, they don't depend on us. The basic problem is that we are post-scarcity in the labor market, and companies have a "free lunch" by this "morality" that basic subsidence should be tied to some nominal value of productivity that they decide based on a quarter-to-quarter bottom line.

Why should society continue to give capitalism this free lunch? I think society should invest more directly in its people. I think this zero-sum mentality that to invest in a person who chooses not to work has some "negative impact on other people" hurts us as people, and is a bad excuse for society in general. The fact that there may be some people who decide to spend that investment solely on shortening their life with as much alcohol as they may acquire doesn't mean that a society investing in people has a net negative impact on everyone else.
Removing it opens other doors, like waterproofing and more room for hardware. Thinner phone maybe too. Bruh your users into the 21st century. It’s about ditching the guys who want you to freeze in place, which I know there are many of here (not to say you in particular are one of those)

Design, as the op even says, is not just (although it definitely also is) about utilitarianism! The world of successful products should at least suggest that to you, if you won’t take it as proof.
I just turned 39 but don't have the family bit (single, no kids, etc). I generally consider lazily doing PE problems and similar things as how I do take downtime to breathe. No pressure there, and my only goal is to learn some more math, but in a stubborn manner. I am only interested in learning it if I can learn it deeply so that it truly makes sense. I got enough of 'memorize this bullshit and regurgitate it later without understanding' in school. It's only since leaving school I've been able to ENJOY mathematics.
>It really is much more about math than programming

This is true to a degree. My first venture into Project Euler I was using Python, and some of the early problems involve manipulations of lists of numbers. These were almost non-problems using Python. Coming back to those same problems using C, they became a little more challenging.

One of the most important lessons I learned from PE was all the computer power in the world won't outrun a good algorithm.
Industry Watch: Of serverless, back endless and codeless – SD Times
Also, interestingly, there are large companies that we know use our software heavily internally who flat out lie about using Homebrew in any form when we've asked for help with resources. It's a sad state of affairs that smaller companies and individuals are far more generous when it comes to supporting us.
> In the USA, welfare spending dwarfs farm subsidies by a factor of >50.

That depends on what you count as a "subsidy". Are all the roads, dams, diverting of rivers, etc counted as "subsidies"?

> Its effect has been shown quite convincingly in Massachusetts and China.

Modern subsidized agriculture in both countries has quite convincingly showed it.

Not sure why you are now moving the goalpost to welfare.
If you committed a crime and your mother was on the case, that would be a conflict of interest since your mother has vested interest in you.

If you have an ex-Verizon person they shouldn’t have any loyalty to the company. If they do, then there would be a conflict of interest.
>requires strong non-technical skills

You generally get those skills from working at BigCo Inc.

While you can read books about them and apply them more successfully than someone who didn't read, you still need raw experience to move on from a beginner.

There should be plenty of positions at BigCo Inc. that are only looking for technical skills. Everyone has to start somewhere.
The Internet Blackout for Net Neutrality Is Coming and You Can Help
It's possible, but not very ideal to have all the operations done on the server, and just serve interface stuff, maybe even as a streaming video, to the client.

When people paint, they want it responsive, no stream lag, no server hiccups. I must allow people to install the software on their computer. I would still like to protect the work I've done, because I'm just one guy making software, and I don't have marketing money. What would stop big companies from taking my source and spending more on advertising? I need source protection.
Cassini-Huygens wasn't purely NASA. The ESA and ISA were heavily involved. The Huygens probe was purely European in origin.

Doesn't really take away from your argument, but it's worth mentioning.
I think this can be fine, though. It's like in the rest of life. If people are honest about who they are, they tend to attract people like them, and push away people who aren't like them. In this way, you don't end up working for people you don't like.

Google will end up staffed mostly by comp sci college grads (as well as a significant number of non-technical people) who believe somehow that if they just focus on things that sound technically superior, one day they will build a good product that won't need to be shuttered. And this will continue for as long as their ad money doesn't run out.
It's not only the song recognition technology, Shazam also has video recognition and AR technology.
Soylent’s Next Chapter
I keep asking: where the HECK is Facebook?

Zuckerberg needs to forget about profits for a moment, and put a 5-minute blackout page instead of people's feed. And phone number Geolocated to their representative.

I guarantee this will change the winds of internet history!
The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game
I also strongly recommend 'Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists'...this is a really, really good book for those coming from a C.S. background.
The link is broken. I keep getting redirected to http://www.hillarypredko.com/kipple/1-the-things-we-carry/wp....
A tiny percentage of the time occasionally when a successful company makes a N-hundred million purchase of a technology and company and you don't understand why, it's because they have made a mistake.

The smart money, though, is on the main chance: you don't understand the purchase, or the problem domain, or both.

In this case I think you are overestimating the progress in NN and search, and underestimating the signal processing. Have you tried this with any significant corpus?

"Whack it through a FFT and do correlation " seems like one of the obvious solution to the toy problem version, but this is exactly the sort of thing that usually falls apart in practice.
Corporate masters implies he’s still under the employ and compensation of Verizon.

If Verizon is bribing him, they certainly wouldn’t need a former employee to do so. They can just invest in PACs or lobbyists, or even straight up bribe any elected official.
I had the "true frontend" case in mind: knowing sufficient HTML/CSS/JS that I can write complex client-side web applications by myself.
Really useful when the relative locations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania come up in conversation which is literally never a single time in my life.
I am currently 60% through the GT omscs program. I’d say it’s good for your money. So far I have been unimpressed with the quality of the recorded lectures both compared to other recorded lectures and on campus lectures. Group projects are a pain. The focuses especially in ML are weak, you really have to do a lot of work on your own in order to be competent in a specialization. Because of the lack of courses they offer I’ve ended up taking 3 / 6 courses which I didn’t need to take or enjoy taking. I’d say it’s best if you want to get a well rounded overview of some modern trends in cs rather than focusing on any specialization.
Because the value may change. If 'currentUrl' was a constant (eg. `const currentUrl = window.location.href`) it would capture the href at the start of the application, even though it might change later on (history API, pushstate etc).
Oh cool!

I've been working with a continuation-pasing style variant of Joy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_programming_language https://github.com/calroc/joypy) and tried it on the Project Euler problem 1: https://github.com/calroc/joypy/blob/master/docs/3.%20Develo...

I came up with a solution that generalizes to blocks of terms, but yours is much much nicer! Cheers!

"""
Between 0 and 990 inclusive there are sixty-six "blocks" of seven terms each, starting with:

[3 5 6 9 10 12 15]

And ending with:

[978 980 981 984 985 987 990]

If we reverse one of these two blocks and sum pairs...
"""

The Advent of Code 2017 includes a puzzle involving a "spiral" memory grid and I had a similar thing where I was able to figure out a simple mathematical way to solve the puzzle: https://github.com/calroc/joypy/blob/master/docs/Advent%20of...

I'm not explaining it well 'cause I'm all excited to show it.
Apple already had a music service too (itunes).
I don't see the a contradiction between these two ideas. That last sentence, about this contributing to insiders' perception of being an elect few, describes the same kind of mentality that allows hazing to persist in organizations that do it.
Laying the track isn't the hard part. The hard parts are securing right-of-way; eliminating grades, curves, and level crossings; and keeping the track-way secure from people, livestock, wildlife, and adverse weather.
+1 for the elimination of news. I've found one useful tip for that on HN - never read an article when you click on a headline - bookmark it, so if you really want to, you will read the next day. Probably 90% of stuff I was reading before, fall in that category.
Because they have to keep the assembly line moving they make these dumb packages. If they had to hand build each option they couldn't make cars as fast and cheap as they do now. IF they made them modular to accommodate for this on the assembly line, the price would go up. This is why I don't care for or put much effort into specking cars. I get the minimum and work around the lack of features by adding them myself.
So, how about repackage the app on cds?
Fun fact: for maximum compatibility our vendored portable Ruby 2.3.3 was compiled on 10.5 (hence these fixes).
Definitely an omen, this has been occurring frequently recently. When bitcoin inevitably collapses as the hype subsides, its highly likely that Coinbase will go down due to the overwhelming amount of users all trying to sell on the exchange at the same time. Can easily see a situation where bitcoin loses 50% in a single day and people are not able to get out by selling their coins.
Stop trying to politicize this.
My issue with it was that it got too good.

I used to use it to identify music in shows or soundtracks, but it started just saying "Breaking Bad Episode 4" which while more accurate was less helpful.

Shortly after that everyone else had music discovery natively anyway.
>Involving the rich, IMHO, is a 'tragedy of the commons' issue - it's generally not worth for any one of them to get involved, since that doesn't provide a meaningful return

It's unfortunate your analysis of Circles cryptocurrency not solving for _value_creation_ is not near the top for further discussion by more than one person.

A very similar currency proposal (Group cryptocurrency) also didn't account for sustainable _value_creation_ that I discussed with its creator on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501355

Both the UBI cryptocurrency proposals are flawed because they get the wealth-to-money cause & effect backwards. It's the wealth creation (the value of labor / food / calculating the stars to predict floods / singing poetry / catching fish / etc) that causes money to be worth something. The Circles whitepaper using concepts like "validators" and "transitive exchange" doesn't solve the value creation.
> You had to install Flash

That's a choice by the browser, just like wasm.
Broken “Export Default” in JavaScript
Believe they sent out an email to users giving advance warning that this was likely to happen.
I was asked this at Intel
I remember the first time I Shazamed a song. It was during the flip phone era and it was honestly the most magical thing to me at time. I had always wanted something like this, and here it was at my fingertips.
> What would stop big companies from taking my source and spending more on advertising? I need source protection.

If your threat model is a company with billions in of dollars in revenue, then source protection is useless.

NW.js protection can be cracked, too, requiring maybe one or two man-months more. For a student reversing it, this is annoying, but not a problem.

For GoogleAppleAdobeZon? They dont even notice the cost difference. You can be Snapchat, have unique features, and have it all obfuscated — and Facebook can still copy it all in weeks.

The question isn't "will Adobe be able to copy my app" — the answer to that is always yes.
You can boost a potential candidate's compensation by 1 to 2 million dollars, just by choosing a suitable location outside the bay area! At no cost to yourself!

This should become an increasingly hot strategy, as all those young engineers at google and facebook begin to age and start thinking about having families.

Then again, if all you want is young interns that'll work for free, keep hiring in SF.
Site seems down (HN effect, I guess), but this article is related: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/10/shanzhai-futurism.html
Coinbase temporarily disabled my buying last week when I tried to link my bank account in GDAX and it error'ed out twice. Their support continues to be abysmally unresponsive.
Don’t you think that’s a pretty close minded (or so it seems) perspective? See my other comment for the rest of my view! Don’t want to spam after all.
I know, this may be unpopular in context, but are there any updates on the Estonian ID-cards?

News as of November were that they were (temporarily) locked-down [1] and are to be reissued until next March [2] in reaction to the RSA related security flaws [3] in the libraries bundled with the Infineon chip. Is this even an issue, or is everyone using a phone app, instead of the cards, anyway?

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/03/estonian_e_id_lockd...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41858583

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/security_flaw...