skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're talking about features important for human model of cognition. No arguing here - for most of the people, using the features you described (and for AI systems built by humans and using the same features), the cats would look more alike than dogs.

>However, the vast majority of cat breeds retain the same facial features and shape.

i had cats for many years and with time learned to see the difference, and i'm sure that some people like judges from cat shows would see even more distinction.

It is all about model of perception (and we naturally think and talk like our, human, model is the [only] model) and how well it is trained.

>Dogs can vary between 8-80 lbs

btw, it is at least 2-180 lbs for adult dogs :)
They really like "Steam Machine" off Human After All, and they're looking forward to using it in a marketing campaign?
AppScale brings choice to App Engine developers
We run 40 processes on each with 16 cores and 24G of RAM.
Not being an expert in the field, I'm not really sure - I know we have films that block UV but not IR, but I'm not sure if the reverse is possible.
Appurify launches test automation platform for mobile developers
If you can find it in day time, it's a dog... Otherwise it's a cat.
This cought my eye:
> Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet.

Wondering if that'd include their entire product in source code? probably not, aye?
Is wearable technology changing the world? Your opinion
What do you guys feel about wearable technology and how it can change the industry?
I'm probably young enough to have experienced Enterprise PHP, which by all accounts (at least when Symfony2 was just released) seemed like the love-child of Enterprise C++ and Enterprise Java.
Connected for a second... but I'm in a room full of people quietly working. Looks very cool though. I've been using OpenTok for a while, and it's looking cooler/faster/cleaner every time I see it.
And why, exactly, do you think a brand-new 172 is the reasonable thing to compare against?

There's no reason to only examine new aircraft, but even if you insist on that, you can do vastly better. For example, a Pipistrel Sinus will set you back about $86,000:

http://www.aviationbull.com/sinus

Compared to the Terrafugia, you can buy that, plus two $30,000 cars, and still have $133,000 left over to rent more cars. Or, say, buy a house. The Sinus also carries more weight, flies faster, burns less fuel, has a better range, and requires vastly less runway.

It's also probably substantially safer in the event of an engine failure. I don't see a glide ratio listed for the Transition, but just from looking at its relatively large frontal area, low-aspect-ratio wings, and gigantic road-sized front wheels exposed to the air with naked struts, I'd guess it's probably in the Cessna range of 10 or under. The Sinus has a glide ratio of 27, meaning you can get quite far to an airport if the engine quits. It's actually a decently performing glider in addition to a regular airplane.

If you expand the search to used aircraft, you can get quite cheap. For example, Cessna 152s in decent shape can be had for under $40,000, and that's not even the cheapest option.
Looking at BLS participation rate data (which, unfortunately, only goes back to 1948), I have to agree with you:

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/latest_numbers_...

http://archive.is/Cdwzp

We have boomers exiting the workforce while unskilled/less-skilled workers are unable to find a job, and discouraged, they exit the workforce. This is compounded by rapid technological advancements that are slowly eating their way up the skills ladder ("software eating the world").

I know your comment has a much longer time scale in mind, and my data is of a much smaller and recent time period, but I believe the argument still stands: Mass employment is ending.

I don't know what the solution is, but we need to find one.
>> Working 40 hours per week would kill me. For me, work IS learning

I thought the same when I was in school (a year ago) and was completely into programming and computers. I took all the hard classes and spent 60-70 hours a week studying and doing projects.

But that came at the expense of a social life. Now, I'm in the workforce doing a cool programming job. But, I have exactly no cool friends and no social life to speak of. I had exactly 3 dates in the last year, all leading to nowhere. The loss of social skills and exposure to diverse people (most of my friends are programmers), seems to be quite narrow-minded way to live.

As the old adage goes "Work-life balance: Live to work or work to live"
Lack of access to capital and lack of ability to network with the wealthy are the largest; I could (and am in the process of) getting a better job.

Working a job, realistically, is only going to get me so far, though, without one of those two factors. For what would be a modest investment on the part of most people I'd consider "wealthy", I could open a start-up where I'd make a reasonable wage AND have an ownership interest in the value of my ideas.

Similarly, connection to people in higher status positions would let me get a better-than-entry position.
True, however if you want to use the WebRTC API it'll be charged, even 1:1.
1. A patent office costs non-trivial money to run. Particularly if you want it to run well and be staffed by examiners competent in their technology domains. Why should the non-patentable industries subsidize this cost (ostensibly via taxes) to the benefit of patentable industries? Why, when the cost is very closely related to quantity of work, should that cost be borne by anyone but the industries that hope to benefit from the work they're creating?

2. Negligence and fraud aren't problems in the patent system. What's the point of a bond against them?

3. Shorter terms are something that just about everyone supports in theory and then disagrees on in the specific discussion of: how short?
GG Windows
Alibaba Is Said to Move Toward an I.P.O. in the U.S.
Woo!
1. The posted code could change between when you read it and when I read it.

2. If you just cut-and-paste these three lines, then you are obviously not reading it.
Ask HN: `Ask HN: Who's Hiring` posts dead?
There used to be monthly Who's Hiring submissions - have we lost them to internet snarkiness?
The only way I would ever be "invested" rather than a wage slave is if I own the business, or it's work that I truly cared passionately about - saving lives, saving the world. Most paying work isn't like that at all.
Good Story! Your next startup should be one in which someone can easily add text on top of photos in their blog, and then allow readers to easily share those (nuggets of wisdom) photos on Social Media with the click of a button.
Business card ray tracer in Python
So at its peak right now, how many speakers are actively using lanyrd? Updating their profile, collaborating, etc?
Building for a 2-sided market in fashion
This seems committed to a "big bang" launch model. It's often more useful to give different perspectives on your product and your startup to different writers depending upon their audience's interests. This seem more about how to automate the mass email of a one size fits all press release. You are probably just as well served by a service like e-releases.com, including supplementary material, if you want to get the same message in front of a lot of reporters in a short period of time.
EA Exec Says Nintendo Has Been Usurped By Apple
Ask HN: How do you market your self-published book?
I recently published a book and while the initial feedback I've gotten is all positive, the sales aren't quite where I was hoping they'd be, or where I think they could be.

Things I've done:

Show HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6399339 - good feedback, but it only got to the top of page 2.

Reddit AMA - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mpx4x/iaman_app_developer_and_selfpublished_author_who/ - went over really well but I was mostly talking about my business and didn't try to sell the book much. Tough to market on Reddit without getting downvoted to oblivion. Stayed on front page of AMA subreddit most of the day though.

Mailing list / blog - I've been giving a sample chapter on signup to my mailing list for awhile as well as sending out an email to everyone on launch. I've also talked about it on my blog a bit, and there is a prominent link in the sidebar.

Things I've considered, but haven't had time for yet:

Guest posts

Podcasts

Press Release

More consistent blogging on my own site

????

Has anyone had a successful self-published book? What tips do you have? Thoughts on which of things I've been considering would have the best ROI? What other things might be better?

I debated linking to the book here as I really don't want this to seem like one of my marketing attempts, but perhaps conversions are a problem in addition to just getting more people into the top of the funnel. I'd love to get feedback on this page as well - http://buildanappbusiness.com/
NEW APP FROM PIRATES BOOTY FOUNDER Purchase and product sharing, big data
After working in front of a computer for 8+ hours a day, you need to have a good work/life balance.

When I get home, I stay away from computers. I even contemplated not having a PC at home.
Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX tablets: the full story
Uhm, why exactly should that be the case? I think you should think over your assumptions. Date format and date names are intertwined, you cannot separate the two.
(assuming you mean "workday")

9 to 5 with an hour off for lunch is 7 hours of work, or 35 hour workweek. This is pretty common in mainland Europe. The UK standard is probably 9 to 5.30, for a 37.5 hour week.
The difference is that failing to inspect your car before you drive might put you on the side of the road while you wait for a tow truck. Failing to preflight your airplane will kill you if you do it habitually. This is doubly true when your airplane folds up and you unfold it right before flight.

You absolutely need a flight plan. You do not need to file a flight plan, but you still need a plan. You need to know where you're going, how far it is, what the weather is like, what the weather is going to be like over the course of your trip, what your alternates are, what NOTAMs are in effect, etc. This step is, again, not optional if you enjoy living.

The price premium of these roadable airplanes will pay for decades of hangar rent and car rental, no exaggeration, so I don't see either of those as a disadvantage.
And this is why traffic sucks -- because people prefer to rely on anecdote instead of hard scientific facts.

The behavior you are observing is not zipper merging -- it's people being assholes and trying to skip traffic.

If everyone merged at the last second it would move better.
Yeah, but PS3 supported Linux not too long ago. 360 I figure is a dealbreaker. Shame we don't have the legislation or political power to be allowed to tinker with our equipment, especially EOL'd equipment.
From the article:

• Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project.

• Some Nepalese men have alleged that they have not been paid for months and have had their salaries retained to stop them running away.

• Some workers on other sites say employers routinely confiscate passports and refuse to issue ID cards, in effect reducing them to the status of illegal aliens.

• Some labourers say they have been denied access to free drinking water in the desert heat.

• About 30 Nepalese sought refuge at their embassy in Doha to escape the brutal conditions of their employment.

I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title...
George Orwell: Why I Write
Well, actually the point of definitions is that you can just make them up, but if you're using a non-standard one you really need to say so. I do find the definition in the article pretty pointless (aside from the fact that it has way too many points).
Chute (YC12) announces native content rights management
The sample images are of two types: images which are mostly of the subject (cat or dog), and images which have a cat or dog in them, but are not necessarily focused on them.

In computer vision, these two types of images are traditionally handled separately. First, a detector for a class (like "dog" or "cat") is run across the image at all locations and multiple scales to find where the things are. Once you have the locations, then an image classification algorithm is run for each detection window to either confirm it, or to give you more information about the object.

The latter often takes the form of giving more fine-grained category information, such as what species of dog/cat it is. Both leafsnap [1] and dogsnap [2] take the form of this type of program; i.e., they both assume that you've captured a single subject, roughly centered in the photo window, and that you already know that it's a plant/dog.

Sometimes you don't have to run a detector even if the object is not the focus of the image, if the context/setting can narrow down the answer for you. For example, if you were deciding between dogs and airplanes, it would be pretty unlikely to see a dog on a runway or a plane in a living room, so just by classifying the entire image, you can do reasonably well. That's not the case here, as dogs and cats will, for the most part, appear in pretty similar environments.

So if I were attacking this problem, I'd first see how many images were of the non-focused type. If not many, I'd basically ignore them and focus on building a classification system. Note also that if you're constrained to make a hard choice between only two classes, that's a much easier problem than a more open-ended "what is this?"

As many have pointed out, deep learning approaches seem to be the current state of the art on classification tasks such as these. But deep learning requires a lot of training data to be effective. A procedure I've been hearing many people use to great success is to use the Imagenet [3] hierarchy and images to train a deep learning classifier (i.e., as if you were going to compete in the Imagenet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge [4]). Then use the trained network, chop off the last stage (which makes the final prediction), and replace it with an SVM trained on your specific training data. In this way, you'd be using the network only as a feature extractor.

I'm happy to try and answer other questions.

[1] http://leafsnap.com or see my project page for more details on how it works: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~neeraj/projects/leafsnap/

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/app/dogsnap/id532468586?mt=8

[3] http://www.image-net.org/

[4] http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2013/index
We were introduced to Kevin (their CEO) by YC for advice when we were raising our seed round. We worked a little with their business development team on an API integration project, then got to know their engineering team.
CI: Deployments and Static Code Analysis with Drupal/PHP
HNLondon Sept. meetup - live audio stream
If you happen to pull a contract with at&t in the US, you can unlock your phone with http://swiftunlocks.com/
I can confirm that many users of my father's generation (including him) are completely baffled by tabs. My grandfather, however, seems to have no problem. I don't know if that means anything.
Obamacare Increases Avg. Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women
Tactile feedback is essential to typing.
>> Make 10 Steam friends (if you haven't already)

Are there any HN groups on Steam? If I try to create a group named Hacker News, it's already in use. If I try to find it, no results found :-)
always reminded of the piece where comic-sans defends itself. curses a lot for a font, but is pretty funny.

"People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring."

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
Reflections on polling place design
As a parent, if these things don't come with time-based parental controls, that would reduce their appeal A LOT. Windows, for all its warts, is great this way. The Windows-based PC in the living room, running Steam, has time-based parental controls configured at the OS level. This works great for everyone involved, reduces effort and contention. Also, kids do really well on fixed timetables.

I've opened a discussion thread in the Steam Universe forum, on this very topic.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/0...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402775
Parley: Encrypted Email for Everyone
I don't know of R&R and a search comes up empty...anyone have a link?
iOS 7 Tech Talks
There's only a connection between the two if it's our 4x productivity plus same/increased effort that's actually giving us these things.

Personally, though, I might well take give up a car & A/C, live on fresher/less processed food, sleep in a smaller space but spend more time outside, spend more time with paper and less with electronics, and listen to/play live music vs digital recordings. Particularly if I was only working 11 hours a week.
You're assuming costs have remained the same for goods and services consumers demand. The cost of electricity is plummeting due to renewables, digital services and IP have zero marginal cost, Moore's Law, etc. People are eschewing cars, and in the next 5-10 years cars will be a service, not something you own.

The issue is there are still inelastic demand services that need their costs driven down drastically: Education and healthcare. I'd also suggest petroleum being displaced for transportation as well. Reducing the cost of these services reduces the amount of work needed to consume said services.

I argue an 11-15 hour work week is still possible as technology and innovation continue to move forward.
So in this case you would buy the phone at the discount rate with a two year contract and then immediately be able to unlock it and move to another carrier or whatever?
I've tried this. With standard PV panels going over 2:1 is not advisable. The panels will live a lot shorter and if you go higher than 2:1 they will break (wiring will de-solder, the plastic bits & pieces will melt and they sometimes simply stop working). I've tried watercooling as well (with very thin panels) and that works better but the lifespan reduction is still significant, you can see month-to-month performance degradation (as compared to a control that is running on 1 sun).
From my experience, it's based on body language. So: not the superficial appearance of the dog, but its movement and 'greeting' signals.

And, of course, cats move in a very different way to dogs!
Seems to be down :( getting a heroku Application Error
In Made-up City, Smuglandia, obviously.
I'd sure like to see a picture of the unclassifiable dog/cat!
It requires supporting documentation?
Thanks for your reply, and I stand corrected regarding calling the work a copy-and-paste job.

Out of my curiosity, I was wondering whether you could explain why pydev was chosen to be the base work.
I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title.

You need to read more on the subject then. They have a very different definition of human rights in that part of the world. http://www.bing.com/search?q=maid+abuse+arab+countries
I doubt/hope it won't be true "flagship" title with Steambox/steamOS exclusivity. However, maybe they'll do a bundle similar to xbox where if you buy a steambox you get HL3 included? HL3 could definitely be Valve's game that makes the steam box a major player, similar to Halo for xbox. Valve feel free to hire me.
FPS games kind of suck on a controller, due to a lack of precision. At the very least, you can't compete with anyone using a mouse.

A trackball, on the other hand...
Note that these are both approaches to do "fine-scaled visual categorization" (FGVC), which assumes you already know you're looking at a dog/bird and want to identify which species it is. This is increasingly becoming an important problem in computer vision, and in fact we just recently held the 2nd FGVC workshop [1] this year to encourage more people to work on these sorts of things.

The kaggle competition is for determining if it is a dog or cat, so it's a bit unlikely that one of these approaches would directly work (although they might be adaptable to the task). See my other comment [2] for a lighter-weight approach that is likely to do just as well, if not better.

[1] http://www.fgvc.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446309
So uninstall the shopping lens or do not use desktop search to find things to buy... this is not a serious usability or even ethical criticism
Local (Boston) news aggregator using tweets as article sources and ranking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310234

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310240
SF is not for the jobless
Why must I stop working because other people don't like their jobs? The title tells me to "get a life", but maybe I like working 50 hours a week.

I'm getting incredibly sick of people defensively justifying their own perceived laziness and then trying to tell me to work less. No, I fucking like my job, work is play for me.
This is shocking... how? The arab empire was built on the slave trade. The whole of Dubai exists solely due to external workers, from engineers to the bricklayers.

This should not shock anyone.
Scribblenauts would be interesting in a big 3d environment like Myst
I've seen unlocking services like this, and they cost money. Shouldn't it be possible to do this for free? Aren't they just exploiting some weakness with the unlock codes to generate their own?
I don't have a car, so I always use public transit to go to and fro the store. My biggest joy for GSE is ordering heavy/bulky items, like laundry detergent and paper towels--and not having to lug them onto the bus! It's a very convenient luxury indeed.
But was he right? Was the feature easy? :)
Sounds like modern day slavery to me
2014 Oculus Rift expected to ship widely demoed and lauded next generation experience.

Nov 2013 Sony and MS start shipping new consoles.

Oct 2013 Apple likely to announce and immediately ship $129=$199 A7X based console killer.

Sep 2013 Valve announces beta opt in for SteamMachine with zero details on product.
I'll bet this will be their 3rd announcement.
Not 'slaves' but serfs (no quotes necessary). Since we're moving back to feudalism, we should start getting it right.