skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You still need people to make those decisions, and that is what corporate IT is about - it's about designing, implementing and refining processes, not really technology. The tech is a tool, not the be all end all.
I think that "cloud" will be a definite bonus to the SMB shop, and provide a wonderful amount of spare capacity to enterprise shops, but I can't foresee "the cloud" replacing in-house IT completely.

But it will replace the major costs of corporate IT - technical resources services. For example, today a large corp (let's use Gazprom as an example) will contract a big IT services company (let's use Wipro for example) to manage their servers. This specific AWS service can in theory replace a large Citrix farm. When I was internal at SAP for example, every employee had access to their very own remote windows desktop, which had the basic office software on it required to do anything they could do on their laptop. The overall idea of cloud isn't the technology, it's that it's shared services.
Building thrones at the top of the world is so fun!
Google has gotten big enough to where "don't be evil" is just a cute saying that people mouth with absolutely no conviction whatsoever.

The company can distinguish spam from legit messages pretty well from what I hear so there's clearly corporate knowledge of the notion of false positives and false negatives. But seemingly none of that made it from the gmail division over to the G+ division.
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How's that work on your phone? Tablet? Windows PC?

I can see getting Windows working; monitoring a directory for changes is possible, and of course Git is available. I'm not sure if PowerShell is up to the task, and I'm pretty certain a Batch file couldn't do the monitoring part, so most likely you'd have to write a console app instead of a script. Hardly as simple as Dropbox, but doable.

Mobile devices though? That's tougher, I think.
It might be a satire on filtering comments by "certain" words.
Researchers hack Internet Explorer 11 and Chrome at Mobile Pwn2Own
Well, not exactly. Negotiations between members of the Congress and the White House happen between parties that have already stated their grounds to the public. They negotiations themselves are secret but you know where each party stands.

At this negotiation we have no clue (we can speculate though) as to what the US or the EU were proposing in the first place. We will just be informed of the outcome.
Books don't have to be "turned off" during takeoff and landing. You don't have to wake up either if you're sleeping.
It also tends to be less data overall.
Same thing. That is what -S in gcc is for.

Other compilers offer similar flags.

And before you ask, Assembly manuals explain how many cycles an opcode takes and what are the expected side effects on the chipsets.
The fast moving spinners give the impression that the page is loading quickly.
crowdspring.com is around $100 minimum IIRC
Yeah! That's the guy! HOly moley moller.com still exists. EDIT: Wow, this has been going on since the '70s: http://www.downside.com/scams/moller/

The name "Discojet" is way more badass name than "Skycar." Just another sign of lowered expectations.
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I don't have great answers to the other questions, though I too am interested in them.

#5) [1] has a some python code and timings mixed in to the docs. One such example (stacked denoising autoencoders on MNIST):

By default the code runs 15 pre-training epochs for each layer,
with a batch size of 1. The corruption level forthe first layer is
0.1, for the second 0.2 and 0.3 for the third. The pretraining
learning rate is was 0.001 and the finetuning learning rate is
0.1. Pre-training takes 585.01 minutes, with an average of 13
minutes per epoch. Fine-tuning is completed after 36 epochs in
444.2 minutes, with an average of 12.34 minutes per epoch. The
final validation score is 1.39% with a testing score of
1.3%. These results were obtained on a machine with an Intel Xeon
E5430 @ 2.66GHz CPU, with a single-threaded GotoBLAS.

#6) The size of the NN is not typically num_features * num_classes, but rather num_features * num_layers where num_layers is commonly 3-10 or so. If you want a (multi-class) classifier, you first feed your neural network a bunch of examples, unsupervised. Then once you've got your NN built, you feed the outputs of the NN to a classifier like SVM or SGD. The idea is that the net provides more meaningful features than you would have if you used hand crafted features or the raw input data itself.

[1] http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/SdA.html#sda
Short form:My BTCs are for sale, the ones I found the password for. I'll be buying some more equities on the US and Canadian markets.

I must be terribly dull, but I fail to see why bitcoins have any store value at the moment. As a medium of exchange, I see their use. But taxes are payable in sovereign currency, and 20% of the worlds economy is taxed by 1 entity accepting only USD. Sovereign entities are not about to relinquish the power of inflating the money supply. And if I want to park money, I want to be able to pay my taxes with it when the time comes.

The p2p currency of exchange I get, as well as the distributed POW that has a reward priced in this currency. But what prevents a network of persons (or trustworthy entities) to clone it into one that has more legitimacy? What does BTC have over litecoins?

As a matter of fact, Litecoins are really more distributed as the proof of work uses a GPU instead of SHA256 that is now mostly computed by ASICs; GPUs are in every modern computer and the POW computation would not benefit from a significant speed up with ASICs. This is a better distribution platform if the breadth and width is what prevents a fork of the blockchain.

And if LTC became too expensive, volatile, etc, as an exchange medium, GPUC could be an alternative, ad nauseum.

Basically the point is: there seem to be a decreasing return on the network effect of a p2p unit of exchange, not the opposite(as for the fax machine, or facebook). This law of diminishing return, IMHO should bring to an end sooner or later this bubble caused by people failing to see the difference between a unit of exchange and an asset.
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We have a shared Aviation Authority in EU in the form of EASA, so this isn't something a particular European country could do on its own.
It's fascinating to learn about all of the hidden bytecode implementations scattered about and a bit alarming that some are so complicated. As for most common, when counting up the tally for the JVM, you must include all Blu-ray players too. The interactive menus on a Blu-ray disc are implemented via a java program on the disc.
I think you're on the wrong site. That lie was for the greater good, so it's ok.
How does this DRM even work? What if the battery can't communicate with Renault, because you're in a country or region they don't have coverage (for example the mountains)?
Building a Multi-Purpose Docker Image
You can 3d print springs on even the cheapest hobbyist 3d printers these days [1]. Some 3d printed springs exceed the performance of traditional designs of the same weight [2].

Battery chemistry is indeed a different kettle of fish however.

[1] http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:39963
[2] http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2012/04/3d-printed-spring-exce...
If bitcoin clients ever adopt the zerocoin protocol then there wouldn't be anything to track:

http://zerocoin.org/

Although they seem to think that the protocol should not allow anonymity for some transactions:

http://zerocoin.org/q_and_a#what-about-money-laundering
I have no doubt that they do. How do you think they compare, numbers wise, to other topics?

I'm not so sure I think it is the semantic web that is at fault. Seems that it is as much consumption as anything else. The web, search, and related technologies are all keyed around what people are actively consuming today. If you have trouble finding something, that is mainly because not many other folks are also looking for the same thing.
people bash google because it's becoming a waste land. There is no aversion to change, in my opinion. There's aversion to bad decisions.
I usually just zoom in to the page to make the video larger :/ Is that any different from selecting the large option ?
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> Wouldn't that imply a worldwide, secret pilot conspiracy

No, it would only require similar delusions. That happens all the time.
"Death of Bittorrent"? What a terrible linkbait title.

Somehow, "File-sharing through sites such as BitTorrent has plummeted in North America" = Bittorrent dead.

Meanwhile in Europe and elsewhere, Bittorrent usage continues to grow[1].

Not to mention the likes of Bittorrent Sync, aka Dropbox like service, synced using Bittorrent technology[2].

I believe growth in Bittorrent-derived technologies has huge potential, analogous to how Bitcoin-esque technologies have huge potential[3]. (even though Bitcoin has many flaws and Bitcoin itself may fail like Napster, it will spark creativity, based on ideas that Bitcoin brings together - Digital Signatures, Peer-to-Peer networks, Proof-of-Work meaning no central authority, and a Distributed Ledger).

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-traffic-drops-in-america-...

[2] http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

[3] http://startupboy.com/2013/11/07/bitcoin-the-internet-of-mon...
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This is a very heart-warming story from this little country that I am from. Lebanese have long shown their ability to innovate and excel in the face of adversity. Sadly, today, we are at the mercy of politicians and religious extremists who just don't get it. Lebanon will always overcome.
A lot of the hype has been around using Watson as a medical decision support system, so yes, they do need peer-reviewed papers before "throwing it at hospitals". In medicine, you can't "see if it helps" without a controlled experiment. It's just too subtle to see when it's not helping, and also too late.
A good question that neither this crap article, nor the BBC article it links to on the specific BitTorrent claim, makes any attempt the answer. One would have to go to the single source of the claims - Sandvine - to figure it out. The closest the BBC article comes is this:

The latest figures suggest that, as well as its share falling,
there could be less overall BitTorrent traffic on the network.

Could be. How helpful!

Obviously an article proclaiming the "death of BitTorrent" in describing a protocol that continues to represent at least 7% of all traffic is pointless linkbait. If that's "dead", I wonder how we should characterize marketplaces (3.95%) and gaming (3.41%)? The web is clearly on its deathbed at a mere 10%, as well.

The BBC article suggests that BitTorrent's decline may be because "The use of 'dark nets' such as Tor and encrypted digital lockers is growing in popularity." I think that pretty much tells us all we need to know about how useful and accurate these articles are.
With my design skills the best I can come up with is a text logo in Gimp which looks really really bad. I've seen a lot of sites that show up with such a logo and it does not look good. Maybe to the technical HN crowd a logo doesn't matter, but a lot of people would be put off with a bad looking logo and that would definitely affect feedback and validation.
If we put aside the ego-bashing and dick-measuring, the good side of hyping-out a technology would be to find it's limitations.

So, the articles will slowly turn from "why X is great" to "I don't want to move to X because...", but the meta-message is that you get a survey of tool usage.

Always look on a bright side of hype, tu-dum, tu-dum-tu-dum-tu-dum.
So you are saying ror was a fad? Honest question
>I would say that the determinism or non-determinism doesn't really matter.

It's kind of (very) important for information theory and computability theory. If the universe is deterministic, a sufficiently small physical system can be exactly simulated by a sufficiently powerful Turing machine.
Like so many things, the answer to this question depends on what exactly you mean by it. There are certainly philosophical games you can play to show that either answer is "possible": brains in a jar, malicious trickster deities, recordings on repeat, and the like. But if you're asking about what the best available scientific evidence supports, there is absolutely compelling evidence that this question must be answered in the framework of quantum mechanics. (There are experimental tests that can distinguish between quantum and classical predictions, and their results are unambiguous.)

Within that framework, the most natural interpretation of this question might be, "Would it be possible in principle for a conscious being with perfect knowledge of the current state of the universe to predict the outcome that they would observe for any possible experiment?" Quantum mechanics answers this with an definitive "No." Even very simple systems can be prepared in a "superposition" of two possible states, in a sense that represents not just our ignorance of some underlying truth but a true mixture with measurable consequences.

On the other hand, you might intend the question to mean "Given complete knowledge of the current state of the universe, would it in principle be possible to predict the future state of the universe?" If we leave aside issues of "observers" and "collapse of the wave function" for the moment, quantum mechanics clearly says that the answer is "Yes". (The mathematical property involved is "unitarity of time evolution".) If you begin with an electron in a superposition of "spin up" and "spin down" states and make a measurement, then a few moments later your experimental apparatus will be in a specific corresponding superposition of "detected spin up" and "detected spin down" states.

But where you go from there depends on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics. The traditional Copenhagen interpretation says that once an observer looks at the measurement, the superposition state (the wave function) "collapses" to one answer or the other probabilistically, so determinism is lost. A "many-worlds" style interpretation would instead imply that the superposition of both outcomes persists in the state of the universe, but any particular instance of a given observer will see an outcome consistent with one measurement or the other (and the phenomenon of "decoherence" prevents those instances from interfering with each other in any meaningful way in the future).

[Edit to add a disclaimer: There are weird open questions related to quantum gravity and black holes that call the unitarity of quantum mechanics into some doubt: a study of effects like Hawking radiation that arise when studying quantum fields in curved space-time might suggest that information about the state of the universe is lost over time. My impression as someone working in this field is that most people expect deep down that unitarity will be preserved in an ultimate theory, but there's no way to be sure until we have one. Also, LQG folks may be less confident of how their model would ultimately answer that question than string theory folks like me tend to be.]
Can't you just zoom in to make the video size larger? That's what I usually do :/
There were good reasons to switch to Java. In some contexts, it was clearly better. Most of its bloat hadn't happened yet. It had an axe to grind, but it was a popular axe back then.

There are good reasons to switch to Go (mainly: fast compiles, WYSIWYG syntax, tooling, standards, a good library, and static compiles). In some contexts, it is clearly better. It isn't bloated, and unlike Java, the authors don't seem inclined to make it so, nor do they have any axe to grind except simplicity.
Exactly! OP here, let me know if you have any questions on this.
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The "Take Action" link opens a modal giving three options:

1. appeal
2. change name

I forget the third... The appeal asks for links to prove your name like other social profiles, plus an option to upload 1 document (e.g. photo ID / passport). After submitting you're told to wait and find out the outcome of the appeal. They also link to the rabbit hole that is Google "help" pages.
That was not a critic toward Go. Quite the contrary.
Yes but the cell towers also have directional antennas, not wanting to waste any of their total allowed transmission power beaming it into space...
Has anyone used any YouTube competitors? Ms. Hart wants to stream her videos through bittorent, but how much trouble is using vimeo instead?
Nice Idea man.. cool. loved it.
Might be to avoid that very, very bright background.
I feel like this is a bit overblown. If I stop paying lease payments for my car, it will get repossessed, and rightly so. If it's not my car, then I don't have some special rights that say I should be able to do whatever I want with it without paying the owner.

The "evil government" scenario is maybe a tiny bit more compelling, but really if the government is trying to quash protests then I think we have bigger problems. It doesn't matter whether you control your car if the government controls the roadways. I'm picturing the following scenario:

Hacker: Haha! We have hacked around your evil non-free car software, thus preventing you from locking down the battery charging system! Now we can all drive to our protests again!

Evil Government: Okay, we'll put up a roadblock.

Hacker: ...oh.
Maybe - but I still has this photo of me leaving the office building during a fire holding my PC's harddrive. The whole workstation was too heavy sadly.
The "too many handovers too fast" thing might have been a problem in the '80s, and I have never heard of a documented case of that.
Even cheaper solution: $15 at Home Depot gets you 4'x8' showerboard. Which you can write on with dry erase markers. You have to be a little more meticulous about cleaning than a true white board, but it is definitely cheap.

Ex: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Thrifty-White-32-sq-ft-...

You can still cut it to size and put some frames on to get it to look "nice" too.
Ask HN: How do you get clients as a one-man dev shop?
Hi, i run one-man dev shop in Poland and have problem with getting clients from abroad. I do web applications in Php/Yii framework and Scala/Play framework, also front-end development. For now i was working for Polish clients, but i want to try to get clients from abroad. How could i find clients (omitting odesk/freelancer etc.)?
I'm 30 and didn't really understand it, but I work with teenagers quite a bit. My generation was very excited about putting things online, permanently, a monument to our selves. Things like blogs, facebook, even twitter are pretty much permanent; you're putting your information and ideas out there for anybody to see. What I gather from kids now is that they don't care about permanence so much as connecting with people. So they're leaving FB for the most part, for ephemeral services like Snapchat and Whatsapp (another one I don't understand). They like the idea they can communicate with a single person and have it disappear. They won't be haunted by a bad picture (or naughty ones) the rest of their lives. They don't have to "think" about what they're doing (which I see as a problem, but they think this way). Nothing's permanent, so it's all about the raw conversation.

That said, as a tech guy, every one of the kids I talk to says something like "but I wish it did ___" or "but I'd really rather use ___ if it worked a certain way". I believe Snapchat is successful for maybe one more year, tops, until some other startup gets even more in touch with the latest trends. I would have taken the $3bn and run. FB's and Twitter's days are also numbered, judging by the teenager beliefs today.

For those wanting a good idea (I don't care about this space enough), teenagers are really interested in micro-celebrity. Some of their favorite bands, actors, etc. are local to them, are generally not big hits, etc. but communicate individually with them (even through Snapchat). One of Twitter's big reasons it worked was because of big celebrities communicating directly to fans. Kids now seem to not care at all about big celebrities. If you can find a way to even more easily connect smaller celebrities/bands to young fans and allow personalized interaction, you just found a potential next big thing.
Rephrase middle as middle of season and it may make more sense. How many people downloaded every episode of a tv show then decided they didn't like it after watching only one episode? More generally, you can only stream as much as there are hours in a day. You can download a lot more.
I think they refer to people just downloading a few seasons at a time, only to watch half of it (or less), I know I've done that in the past (though I don't use torrents, but that's besides the case)
I've always wondered how investors allowed that to happen. They collude in every other matter, why not this one? FB needed investment to survive, so one of the terms could've been "give up your power."
I mostly use YouTube to watch channels that I subscribe to. I already disliked when they switched to their new "feeds" view that makes following channels very tough (sometimes videos are missing, the list only goes so long, but I want to watch something far later, also no real control over what goes into your list in the first place etc.). That made me write my own feed view[0].

Vi mentioning torrents made me wonder: would combining torrents with something like flattr and a reasonably good ui plus maybe a choice of where to host comments (reddit etc.) be something that I should be working on?

Since torrents eliminate the hosting overhead, there is no real extra cost that content providers would have to pay here. Probably the only question is whether people would support something like that through flattr, but it seems to me like patreon[1] is doing pretty well already. And the model to keep content at a "release early to paying members, then to the public" makes a lot of sense in general. The only real problem I can see is that YouTube does have the benefit of being very accessible - automatically converting videos for mobile devices etc..

[0] https://github.com/daviddeutsch/yt-sanegrid/
[1] http://www.patreon.com/
I did the exact same thing. I didn't even realize it was unrelated until I read this comment, I just figured something was going over my head.
Reminds me of my friend who once said. "I understand calculus but whenever I see the little snake (integral symbol) I don't know what to do"

But following up on your comment, the difficulty of math is that it is build on foundations. If you miss something because you were distracted, that hole is going to be an impediment over and over and it will create more holes until it is very difficult to make progress.
Even if the YouTube comments will be of higher quality in the long run, there is one functionality problem that I am wondering how Google will resolve. That is, enabling Safe Search on your Google Account will turn on Safety Mode by default in YouTube [1]. This in turn will auto-hide comments. This makes for a very poor user experience for those who wish to see comments by default but also keep their Safe Search on - something that was possible prior to the merge.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084?hl=en
Reddit? No hateful comments there then ...

Guess at least you can have moderators.

Sounds like Reddit need to add a video distribution system, it would be quite a thing to pick top vloggers and add them in to the current mix.

I wonder where Vi Hart stands WRT her content. Can she remove it from YouTube. Could she remove it via a copyright infringement claim?
"Complete discharge can happen even when the car is plugged in if it isn’t receiving sufficient current to charge, which can be caused by something as simple as using an extension cord. "

Just to clarify the conversation.