skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The target market might not care or know what the OS is, but they'll want to use software they're used to: Google Maps, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Tinder, Skype, games, etc.

I'm just saying that whatever OS will be useless to a lot of people if it doesn't run what they want it to. One way to do that is to make it compatible with Android apps, which have already a version of virtually every major app.
Obviously I wanted the convenience of streaming an MP3 to the amp versus using a CD player.

I disagree that all solutions to this problem need the same complexity inherent in the Sonos and that the user experience could not be improved.
This is definitely a promising OS. The fact that they have a maps app is extremely important. I think they'll also need a WhatsApp app to be truly competitive. They could use a few other mainstream messaging apps too. The mbasic Facebook messenger should work fine on this OS.
Nice: it looks like the system font — for the Alcatel Go Flip and Nokia 8110 4G at least — is Open Sans. I've been using Source Sans Pro for most things lately, but I did always like Open Sans.
I'd rather not reward the parties which have control. Seems that may keep the status quo alive unless you fund any party. Then it becomes hard to define which parties to fund and which not to.
Assuming Google Analytics tying it all together.
This blog is excellent, and has a good "what to buy" and some similar projects eg
http://www.technoblogy.com/show?WNM

The ATtiny85 costs around $1 - it's amazing what you can do with it. I've made / adapted quite a few projects from there and other blogs
EFI Sucks (2012)
Corruption is a disease, not a wound that we can just stitch up. There are long-term consequences to short-term increases in corruption: The 'market' (so to speak) selects for skill in corruption, not for economically productive skill; the talented and innovative get pushed aside by the corrupt. In addition, those in power don't come from a background or framework of hard work and innovation - they don't care about or understand those things; those in power develop proteges similarly skilled in corruption and have a vested interest in maintaining a power structure built on corruption.

Many on HN have a vested interest in success resulting from hard work and innovation. You want to imagine that there's a free, mostly meritocratic market and that you can earn your success. You want to believe in the American Dream and Land of Opportunity. Those things didn't happen by accident or providence; generations worked very hard to provide it, and the only thing that will preserve it is us (and improve it - we should give something better to the next generation, just like our ancestors did). There's nobody else who is coming to save the day for you. That's the hope of democracy. The best news is, it's worked out really, really well in the past.
Will your order your food at least 5 hours in advance for free delivery?
I need your advice for idea I am thinking. Its a food order and delivery app where you can only order food atleast 5 hours in advance because of advance order you get it for free delivery and less price. So just wondering will you order your food in advance and generally what do you think of this idea?
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https://forkfind.lpages.co/forkfind/
To everyone commenting on the looming job-pocalypse that will be caused by the automation of trucks, please explain why much simpler transportation systems to automate have not resulted in wide-scale job loss. Last I checked, airplanes still had multiple pilots accompanied by significant ground control crews operating them, despite significantly fewer environmental challenges to their operation. Freight trains and subway systems - even simpler closed-loop transportation systems that have working fully autonomous examples in most major airports - still employ conductors. Why will trucks be different?
> Nope. I lost money.

At least your article got on the front page of HN. That should count for something.
I'm not a super Obama fan, but I will say that it would have made Obama's second term better as he would have been more responsive to his base. Trump has continued or intensified many Obama policies, which were in turn inherited from the Bush administration.

On the other side of the coin, imagine a Trump in his second term. If he seems to be acting against his base now, wait until he is free of electoral pressure.

EDIT: While he is acting against some elements of his base (e.g. the tax bill), Trump is making at least some evangelicals who can live with his public persona very happy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/opinion/sunday/donald-tru...
"A quarter of all working visual artists earn no money from their art, and another quarter earn less than $1,000 a year. Almost 90% earn less than $5,000 a year. Similarly disturbing figures can be quoted for poets, short-story writers, playwrights, novelists, independent filmmakers, pop singers, potters, jazz musicians, rock musicians, classical composers, art photographers -- for all groups of creative and performing artists."

"According to a Rockefeller Panel report commissioned to take an in-depth look at the financial realities of the performer's life:

"The miserable income of the majority of performing artists reflects both a shortage of jobs and the brief duration of employment that is available. In all except the small handful of our major and metropolitan orchestras, musicians earn an average of only a few hundred dollars a year from their professional labors. During an average week in the winter season, only about one-fifth of the active members of Actors' Equity Association, the theatrical performers union, are employed in the profession. Of the actors who do find jobs, well over half are employed for only ten weeks -- less than one-fifth of the year. For most opera compnies the season lasts only a few weeks. The livelihood of the dancer is perhaps the most meager of all."[1]

Now, that's today, with relatively few artists. Imagine a future where there's a flood of artists from all the people who lost their jobs to AI (assuming they all have some desire, ability, and dedication to actually try to make a living as an artist.. very unlikely, but such is supposedly the main hope for a future for these people). Now the wages of artists will be even further depressed as there will be a glut of supply (much like the glut of "photographers" now that everyone has a camera in their cell phone).

Then it has to be asked: who will be buying all of these artisonal products and services from the newly unemployed masses? There's only so much art the relatively well-off are going to want to buy, only so many plays they'll pay to see, and so on. Demand would have to rise tremendously to absorb all the additional supply if the already meager wages that artists earn aren't going to fall to virtually zero. Where is all that extra demand going to come from? The US is already not a place where art is particularly valued. There's no indication that that's going to improve with the advent of job-replacing AI.

[1] - From "Staying Sane in the Arts" by Eric Maisel
Honestly, the market is so oversaturated with PHDs who are switching to DS I don't see how anyone can transition into it from a different role. I'm speaking for myself as well as someone with a math background, most people don't consider a math degree and 4 years of applying math models as a data engineering experience enough to be a "data scientist". They just weed out anyone without a PHD.

But, what you're describing I would consider "data engineering" (at least how I have been hired to do it). Working through the business problems and pragmatically facilitating data, pipelines, databases, and models to solve those problems. It's less established and less "hot" but, IMO, it's a much more valuable job to most businesses.
What would be a good project after a simple blinking LED project with the Arduino?
I think Goog is trying to compete with Apple with quantity and, bear with me, not quality.

Famous quote: "quantity has a quality all its own".
Do you really think that people can survive earning 1/3 of the minimum wage?
They will be much better off just becoming beggars.
A difference in metabolism, risk taking, or perhaps both?
That's exactly what the Android One (and previously Android Go) standards where all about, they set minimum hardware standards and experiences. They then guarantee updates for two years, etc...
There are credible opinions about everything, including credible opinions from experts that the laws of physics won't allow quantum computers to ever operate at the scale we're talking about here.
Welcome to my weekend!

https://imgur.com/a/XxMUY

This is an AVR-based pong video game (Grant Searle), modified to work with BBC micro:bits as digital paddles - also operatable from phones via Bluetooth!

This is for a STEM/Code Club event at a local school, for a bit of retro-meets-contemporary fun, and a paddle programming challenge - let's try using the micro:bit accelerometers.

The breadboarded circuit will be made up on stripboard, but I'll take along the prototype.

https://github.com/linker3000/Microbit-TVPong
Sometimes the product have not been polished, or it's a concept, so you need to sell the product before even showing it. Once the customer has made his/her mind they are unlikely to change it. And then you work with the customer to improve the product to meet their expectations. Meanwhile if you would have shown the product/prototype without any selling they would have made up their mind and never come back or given any feedback. I know you are a busy person, and so am I - I just want to see the damn output, I don't have time to run it and see for myself even if it just takes 10 minutes. But if I'm not willing to do that, then it's very unlikely I'll invest in it anyway, even if it's very good.
When did New Scientist itself go full New Scientist? I've stumbled across New Scientist articles from the 1970s when performing searches on Google Books and it reads like a completely different publication.
Too bad they're dropping the ball
I really like the honesty about how he lost money buying youtube ads...feels like there's definitely a market for an self-serve "pay x amount a month" for "y results" app if you will.
An unfortunate part of experimenting with advertising is that it's expensive. Trying to find the right audience for the ad is very costly, to the point where I don't understand how advertisers can afford it.

I say this as a tinfoil-hat person: narrowing the audience is going to need a lot more info about the person. Particularly, their browsing history (i.e. remarketing). Knowing this would raise the conversion ratio immensely at the cost of privacy.
If you like this post, the rest of the blog is really good:
https://mfbt.ca

A lot of insightful gems on how to be better at leading in tech.

Also, their new book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0995964300
Come on, Core Leader Xi has a 120% public approval rating according to reputable state owned media.
What makes this any different than ETHORSE?
I've never had regular bulbs that were off turn on after a power outage.
The OED can not only survive the internet; it will flourish on the internet. We can incorporate the entire thing into Wiktionary, which, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461656 points out, is already in some ways more comprehensive and reliable. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, we have to go back to its first edition, and even the last volume of the first edition might still be in copyright.

I announced the project at https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg001..., bought a copy of the dictionary, and spent a bunch of nights at the archive scanning its volumes. https://old.datahub.io/dataset/oed talks a bit about the available data halfway through the project. I did eventually scan the whole thing, and since then other people have contributed other scans. So far nobody has OCRed it and imported it wholesale into Wiktionary.

At some point I hacked together a web service that would show you the page image for a given word (perhaps after a few tries), but I don't have it running now. https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407 seems to be a downloadable program that does something similar.

It's really unfortunate that the past century of work at the Oxford University Press will be lost and have to be redone. Such is the price of copyright.
> One Wiktionary contributor did a better job

If we define "better" by speed, then every HN comment is better than every book ever published, and all the blog posts on climate change are better than the scientific research. I find it's the opposite: The things that take longer to publish are usually better.
Good post, some nice lessons there for someone entirely new to this.

Perhaps a missed opportunity was not advertising the domain name during the entire video. Often a user may not have the volume up and so perhaps providing a textual call to action in the first half continuously would help with conversions?
People inexperienced in online adversities often think that they can pay for conversions. That is not the case. You’re paying to get your message out. Very very few people will immediately act because of an ad. But if you hit them enough, they may later convert.

Tracking those late conversions is imprecise. This does not mean advertising is useless. But it is not generally a game for those with a tiny budget or a short time horizon.
Can you explain the concept of revisionism? I've seen it before, but don't know what it means.
I wish he had crossposted it to steemit as well, because I found it really valuable and my upvote there is now worth ~$40.
Something like the Live Trace tool in Illustrator but for simple shapes? Would be really interesting to try to build that.
Our property manager (standing in for the owner) inspected our rental every 3 months for the first year, then every 6 months after that. If we'd've trashed the place, they can start the eviction process straight away. Do you not have the right to inspections?
Inside American Giant's Supply Chain
> the OED is primarily a work of historical scholarship. Anyone in the market for a dictionary so that they can look up the meanings of words would be better off getting something else

I couldn't disagree more strongly. I use it to learn the meanings of words and there is no better source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461549
No, it makes much more financial sense to not work and earn 0 while getting income with begging or criminal actions than work 10h/day for 1/3 of minimum wage that is for sure not enough to survive.
Existing quantum algorithms have not yet been found which have reduced NP-complete problems to polynomial time. (See [0] for a pretty comprehensive list.)

IE, I was talking about quantum algorithms we have, none of which have done so, not stating the impossibility of such an algorithm.

I am not aware of a proof that comments on whether or not such an algorithm is impossible, however.

[0]: https://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/
Not sure what that is, but probably not -- it should be able to detect simple geometrical shapes (and label them), lines/arrows between shapes, and ofcourse text. Perhaps I'll try to build that :)
Are you familiar with this scan+index? https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407
In addition to security. Linux and BSDs were not as polished usability-wise as Windows NTs before early 2000s.

Just my humble opinion.
Great read. I am in a similar place with a small business. We have a commercial and animation and are considering doing YouTube ads. It sounds like it might be worth doing if the service is profitable enough per user. Really appreciate this detailed writeup of his experience.
I wasn't, no! Which scan did he use? I've added that to my comment.
Ask HN: Possible to publish a paper without graduate degree?
Forgive the naive question, as I know many of you have at least one graduate degree.

One of my favorite courses during undergrad was one on how to read papers and journals, and the vigor that goes through them.

Not that I fancy myself as being on the same level as those in professional research, I have a niche where I’ve tossed the idea around of beginning the years long approach to increasing the boundary of knowledge in a very tiny way with a paper. Is there any chance of it even getting read though without a PhD? Let alone, published?
Thanks, I went to college too and was fully aware of the formal definition of O() notation. That doesn’t change the fact that colloquially it’s far more common to use the phrase “constant time” when referring to time complexity rather than timing attack resistance.
And perhaps spying through Google searches and chrome? I guess Google never spies on you except by proxy via analytics - but then, if they correlate views on YouTube with analytic hits, that's not really true.

Anyway, the above, as well as:

> If that still doesn't make your campaign profitable, there are broader exclusions and bid adjustments you can make based on age, gender, device, location, parental status and household income.

Really stood out to me - if anyone needed further evidence that Google is still an ad company, and that the free services are about driving ad traffic.

It'll be interesting to see how GDPR affects this. I suppose the sad truth is that Google/alphabet has built a ton of cash on the back of user data, and now no-one else will be able to that as this particular form of business becomes illegal.

But Google is big enough to shift into other growth markets like media manipulation/lobbying and defence contracts etc.
DeepType: Multilingual Entity Linking Through Neural Type System Evolution
Mainstream users use their cameras A LOT. It's a very important upgrade every year imo.
I think what they meant was hardware standardization and commoditzation driven by PC clones allowed linux to target a cheap standardized hardware platform that IBM had no legal standing to control after Microsoft started selling windows separately, etc. Or something. I was still in diapers, but if you don’t believe me, Neil Stephenson explained this in ‘In the beginning there was the command line.’

Also, I think terrible security and user experience applies to Android now too.
Probably to maintain the sense of boundedness of the withheld.

How big is the secret they're hiding? Is it of unlimited or limited length? Your technique would obscure the sense of scale.
There are actually quite a few applications around that attempt to do this.

Some examples worth trying:

- PICO-8: A 'fantasy console' that you can code within itself in Lua; absolutely amazing, not the least of which because you can inspect the source of every game made in it and there's a huge amount of games you can explore from within a game browser inside PICO-8 itself. There's also a version for Raspberry Pi: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

- TIC-80: A PICO-8 like, a little more powerful. Runs standalone, in the browser or on Android: https://tic.computer/

- LIKO-12: Another PICO-8 like. Runs standalone, in the browser or on Android. At first glance it seems like a more powerful LIKO-12, like one of the more powerful late-80s home computers: https://ramilego4game.itch.io/liko12

- BlitzBasic / BlitzMax: https://github.com/blitz-research/blitzmax (and see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC). Blitz was amazing. The thing that always impressed me about BlitzMax in particular was just the amount of actually completed (and often commercially sold) games made by people with the platform. Incredibly impressive. I never got to try Blitz BASIC on the Amiga, though I have plenty of fond memories of AMOS BASIC and the Blitz experience on PC very much reminded me of that.

- Monkey2: From the creator of the Blitz languages. More powerful than Blitz. See http://monkeycoder.co.nz/ (and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_X).

- FUZE BASIC: I haven't tried this one but only heard about it because it has an upcoming release on the Nintendo Switch. Looks very much like that late-80s computer experience though. It looks like they even make a Raspberry Pi-based computer around it in the style of the BBC Micro: https://www.fuze.co.uk/

Needless to say, there's no shortage of these environments out there :)
Carriers don't tend to sell Google's phone. Verizon seems to be the only carrier selling Google's Pixel, and they have a locked bootloader on that version.
In my experience it doesn't matter what you use to make an app with as long as it fits the use case. I've seen great web apps and horrible ones. I've also seen great native apps and ones with horrible experiences equally. It's all a balance act of using the technology you know best and which covers your needs best.
Interesting essay. I really resonate with the honesty point, when the CEO especially has honesty issues the whole enterprise can go to hell in fairly short order.

I have also been in these conversations where really it's the investors who want someone "with experience with these things" and the founding staff is being cajoled along. A couple of times this worked out to an advisory role at the board level. It lets the founder get advice without feeling compelled to take it, and it lets the board feel like they have access to another point of view that might let them see things they are missing.

The key though is that the executive team has to internalize that they and not their engineers or sales or marketing people are holding back the company. That can be tough, especially if your CEO is short on self awareness.
If you want to know the meaning of words hundreds of years in the past, the OED is a good choice. That question is relevant to almost no one. If you want the current meaning, the OED is a poor choice.
This safety feature is far more important than being able to go all the way to max instantly.

But it could definitely be a one-way catch for quick turn-off:

___ _____

0 \_| Max
Just found this YouTube playlist on electronics basics on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA9B0175C3E15B47 the videos from the usaf training are particularly good. Person who made this playlist has a lot of other good ones too.
Yes! Conferences in CS have increasingly begun to adopt a double-blind approach to reviewing papers, meaning that you won't know who the reviewers are, but neither will they know who you are or your credentials.

This way, as long as your paper is well written and clearly presents a worthwhile idea, there is no requirement to having a graduate degree.
No analog headphone jack - no thanks.
That problem is simply because you're writing to the card continuously.
Make your distro run from RAM and you're fine... that is what most embedded devices do, stick it all in an initramfs.
sounds like the point is it is not corruption at all in the eyes of the law, it is perfectly normal and expected and sanctioned by the Supreme Court even!
You are making the same mistake as the author. People are endlessly creative and will find productive uses for their labor. I'm not ignoring the fact that people won't face disruption in the labor market, however it is very naive to assume that all of the work that will ever need to be done can be done by AI. People will not be pensioned off at 23 they will just be doing jobs that were not possible before, just like they did with every other major invention of the past 250 years.

"everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H Duell 1899.
Even with the card mounted readonly. (Source: recent experience)
Like another poster here, I work for Red Hat and we sometimes implement OpenSCAP as part of OpenShift (our Kubernetes distro) to do regular CVE scanning of container images. My colleague Andy Block has a repo to demonstrate this capability.

https://github.com/sabre1041/image-scanning-signing-service