skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wonder why computers should be intelligent. In essence they can add numbers pretty quickly. If you interpret the result of many such additions in a certain way you get a text, a video or an operating system. Wouldn't it make more sense to build a machine for thinking instead of reusing one we built for calculating?
Sorry about that. I tried to make the page very minimal and probably sacrificed a little clarity in doing so ha.
So it served it's purpose.

Now instead of getting everyone outraged against benefit cuts for political action, you think that is fine but want reparation for the baby comment.

forgot the name of this discourse diatribe, but apparently it's effective.
Hi HN!

We're still working hard on finishing up the tech behind this, as well as locking in partnerships with a few more bakeries before we launch with a small group of early customers, but I wanted to post here and gauge interest among the HN folks in SF.

We have about 300 people on our email list so far, and will try to keep our launch small so we can deliver top-notch service, but please sign up if you are interested in this.

The reason we're so excited about this project can be boiled down to logistics. To simplify and streamline logistics, our business is modeled more closely to the milkman than the pizza delivery man. On Sunday, we send out a picture message with one bread choice for each day of the coming week. If you want any of them, you reply via SMS and we bring it to your doorstep.

Since our drivers can make one pickup and then drop off identical products to every customer, delivery becomes far simpler and cheaper.

Lots of smart folks are vying for the one-stop grocery delivery market, and we think it will become a war of logistics for who wins that massive market (personally, I'm pulling for Instacart). We're approaching a different and smaller (but still quite large) market, from a different angle.

Fresh bread is our first product because it's almost universally loved, and it arguably decreases in quality every hour after being baked. Eventually we hope to expand to still-simple, curated line-up of high quality, short shelf-life specialty foods (coffee, cheese, etc.)

Sign up if you're interested, but more importantly, leave us some feedback here. :)
I'm using salt-cloud which uses apache-libcloud. I've blogged a few times about it here -

This post shows how to stand up fleet of servers with Digital Ocean and salt-cloud:

http://russell.ballestrini.net/create-your-own-fleet-of-serv...

This post shows how I quickly setup a Sensu monitoring test environment:

http://russell.ballestrini.net/sensu-salt/
Your pointing to an article based on a Kaiser Family Foundation survey of employers for 2013 without any guidance on 2014 when the ACA changes occur for businesses. A study about a year that the ACA doesn't affect the group being studied is not very informative.

study: http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013-employer-health...
>I'm an asshole. I pray every day that I won't get anyone angry.

These two statements are in conflict.
How much would an iPhone have cost in 1991?
The point of all the data is to give coaches more objective information. To use your example: The data says run the ball. The stud defensive tackle has just started playing really well. Here's the beauty of the way this data can be presented: While there is a way to present it as "expected points," you can also present it as "likelihood of a given result."

In this case, the positive outcomes for the offense are a first down (or score, which would also be a first down). If the data says you will pick up a first down 51% of the time and you know the Broncos tackle has recently begun playing well, you adjust down for it, and likely decide not to run (and no analytics guy will fault you for it). If the data says you'll pick up a first down 85% of the time, you need a better reason to justify not going for it (is this new tackle the greatest of all time? Or just an upgrade on what they had?). Data is not best used as a replacement for a coach. It is best used to give a coach the likelihood of a given event occurring, and then let the coaches knowledge of matchups, injuries, and personnel issues adjust that likelihood up or down.
That sounds like you work at a fairly shitty place. I don't know you or your place of business but based on that statement there is a good chance that you are a lot better than you think and it's just time for a change as your current place is bringing you down.
That depends: is it supposed to be a random shuffle or a 'random' shuffle?

Believe it or not, some of us quite like it when we are randomly presented with two tracks in order.
How many servers on the Internet sit on the same switch on the same data center from your ISP's cable modem head end, though?
There is an oft-cited corollary, sometimes misunderstood as part of Godwin's Law itself, that whoever brings up Nazis first automatically loses the argument. In practice, it really does shut down discussion amongst even otherwise intelligent people, usually by preventing people from making comparisons in the first place.
"They almost never have examples(Is that some sort of rule?)"

They often have examples, though this is certainly better represented in some areas than others. One I looked at just the other day, man 7 aio, is 334 lines. Starts out describing the various aio functions and structures under DESCRIPTION, and has an EXAMPLE section: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/aio.7.html

Or, also off the top of my head, man 2 signalfd, 196 lines with example code: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/signalfd.2.html

Certainly there are man pages that aren't up to snuff (fix 'em!) but good man pages exist and many are great!
Can you not keep a reputation history for drivers that have a license?
Lawrence Livermore Lab to create the most powerful laser ever built
By "specs" do you mean size and camera quality etc. , or just processor speed?
Like many companies - they are likely self-insured. If that is true, then they pay the actual costs of the claims right out of their pockets rather than participating in a larger risk pool.

I agree - it's completely disgusting to bring these costs up in that context.
Yes, exactly.

It's not really the insurers that are causing the cost rise, its the systemic imbalances and cost shifting - by taking cost shifting out, we can reduce the cost for each person who is actually paying.
If I was a woman working there...I would GTFO. Hell, if I was any female/male/other working there, I would GFTO.
Not if the price is so high. Just because advertising spends all day every day telling us that we can't live without something, doesn't make it true. In fact, my usual opinion is that the better the advertising, the less I trust what it says.
There is a related phenomena called 'well actually'.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
This is one of the reasons I decided to start up this blog again. I stopped blogging largely because I learned how much I didn’t know and felt I had no right to be telling others what to do when there are more knowledgeable people out there.

Thanks for that. I never started blogging although I wanted to, because whenever I write a blog post, I feel it's kind of obsolete already, because it has a view point that's too limited, too narrow. I "outgrew" my blog post in the moment I finished it.

Maybe by framing it as stories and experiences, they get more valuable.
At least here in Columbus, Yellow Cab does have an app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id628065359?mt=8 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apcurium.M...

With all the crazy laws surrounding taxis and liveries, I wouldn't be surprised if an app like that is illegal in some municipalities.
You have very different relationships with your parents than I have with mine, then.

It took 10 years for my mom to stop asking when I was going to get a "real" job.
I started using bitfinex recently. Other exchanges I've used have had miriads of downtime, and I just moved off campbx because their site is so slow (and their market cap has shrunk huge). The other plus is that their fees are often half of other exchanges, I went from a .5% comission on cbx for sales to a .15%.

Bitstamp is also good, I hear, but I just went with finex because their fees are lower =P.

I think it is important to use an exchange outside the US though, because I expect the fed to start going Orwell on any bitcoin company soon.
That's an extreme situation. I would disobey this law.
NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data
Sammy Screamer: A cute little movement sensor controlled by your smartphone
It's not just the CPU, they would have to provide Android drivers for networking, bluetooth, cameras, etc. ARM platforms aren't standardized like PCs.
Oh, indeed, that's definitely an improvement. Didn't realize I could put the 'progrecss' on any element.
Sounds to me like they are the ones lacking engineering professionalism...

But it's not uncommon. Programmers like to write programs; they don't tend to like explaining their programs. (HN users may not be a good representative sample; we clearly come here to discuss and explain things to each other.)
> Are you 100% on top of your every bill?

If I wasn't, I sure wouldn't blame anyone but myself for it. I wouldn't blame the company I willingly gave money to due to my own oversight. And I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't call me and ask me to stop paying them.
This seems like a bad idea.

* Why won't someone will figure out how to trigger the phone kill switch and start wandering round SF killing people's phones at will?

* Why won't the state/NSA/whoever kill the phones of its enemies (diplomats, foreign business people, "subversives")?

* and so on.
Humans have enough trouble understanding human language, especially in textual form. Context, body language, facial expression, shared experiences, cultural memes, power relationships, and internal motivations all play a role in how lanugage must be interpreted. Ambiguity, emotion, connotation, and double-meanings all play critical roles. It's highly unlikely (I would say impossible) that computers can ever be made to fully understand human language.

To the extent that humans and computers are able to communicate with each other, it will be via a cooperatively developed human-computer language that will be influenced as much by the computers as by the humans.

That shared compromise is true today via programming languages and the stilted way we must interact with Google Voice Search and Siri. And while those contours will change over the forthcoming decades, it will continue to be true for all time.

As humans augment themselves with digital computing power and as computer technology itself evolves, things will become very different, but the fundamental disconnect will always be there.
If using jQuery this would be better:

$('.myprogrecss').data('progrecss', 60);
Agree with you on the ass part. But to give you some information:

A) AOL most likely self-insures... Why? Exactly because of catastrophic events like this increasing your premiums for all of your thousands of employees, even though most of them are probably healthy and low risk. Insurance companies don't care! It's usually better to self-insure until you run into these catastrophic insurance events.
B) Agreed. It's disgraceful for any executive of any company to publicly share any type of individual insurance information. Also, borderline illegal.
Which has a more professional ring to it,"Hacker News" or "Programmer News"?

I would love it if there was an equivalent term for teachers such as "hacker", but I don't think there is. I want to avoid the traditional "teacher's lounge". If you've never been in one, they can be interesting places. It can be really difficult to have a professional conversation about teaching in a teacher's lounge. There tends to be an atmosphere of venting and releasing frustration over sharing professional ideas. I know that doesn't describe every teacher's lounge, but there are many that do fit that description.

I have looked, my entire career, for an online discussion forum for teachers that avoids this mindset. I haven't found one yet. So in trying to build one, I am looking for something that connotes a more professional mindset. I am also well aware that a name is just a name, and what matters is the actual community that I and the moderation team develop.

That's why it doesn't have ads and affiliate marketing or require an email address

This is an interesting issue. I am only thinking of requiring email registration to cut down on duplicate accounts by trolls. I have always assumed this feature of HN creates more spam. I know HN has some strong anti-voting ring, anti spam submission algorithms. Any thoughts about whether requiring email registration would make less work for these spam-fighting algorithms? Is no email required just to make it easier to sign up, or to intentionally allow anonymity?

I have no intention of emailing users other than for registration purposes; that said, it would be easier to skip email registration altogether.
The best use of data is to give coaches a high level picture of what the likely result of a given play call will be (trusting sample size to even it out). You hire a coach to then adjust for those other things. However, if the data says that 99% of the time a given play call will have a specific result, coaches shouldn't try to be the exception (unless the game situation demands it). There is a happy medium here. The Rays have figured it out pretty well with Joe Maddon, the NFL will get there too. No one thinks a machine should call all the plays (yet). We just think machine learning and big data should be leaned on as tools the same way that film is. Don't forget, Bill Sharman was considered a nut for watching film in the 1980s. Imagine coaching without now.
> is there a popular asset where the market has "low liquidity and crappy technology"?

Yes, real estate.
This highlights the fact that Uber and Lyft are not disrupting so much as exploiting regulatory arbitrage. That is, for all intents and purposes they are taxis, but they are attempting to ignore licensing, regulatory and fee requirements
Well, in the individual market it is quite bad: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/NATL-ACA-328-Averag... http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/12/05/obamaca...

Given what has been happening with Medicaid, I don't see this a temporary phenomenon.
Not sure I'm a fan of wrapping libraries like that one. It tried to abstract things from you, but on the the other hand, you need to know the implementation details of each provider to understand the behavior of the library.

Maybe I misunderstood what it does?
Yes 87% is quite impressive, but that remaining 13% is all important. The errors sadly propagate (as above); more importantly, the errors tend to strike randomly also.

eg. A human might not be expected to know too much medical terminology, hence could easily get names/locations/functions of muscles and organs mixed up. Whereas a computer might be brilliant at that, but then suddenly not know what a door knob is (door handle? door knob of butter? etc...)

So ultimately to make a computer seem intelligent the problem is two-fold: Getting a high percentage of right answers, whilst also getting the "right" wrong answers.

Afterall, we don't criticize a human too much for not knowing something like the exact geographic location of a small African nation. But we definitely would if they thought that it was on Mars! It's exactly the same with computers, they're just far more likely to make wildly incorrect mistakes than understandably incorrect ones. So finding a way to mitigate computer mistakes, to make them milder, is every bit as important as eliminating them entirely - a potentially impossible task.
Well, it's open source, but past that, it allows installs from outside a store, has far greater user customisability, better notifications, a better desktop separate from the app launcher menu, and is far more hospitable to users having full access to the hardware they actually own.
How to Train Your Mind to Think Critically and Form Your Own Opinions
I've seen you say this twice in this thread. Care to provide some evidence supporting this statement?
And then it bounces back
A few points to compare the two:

- Jetpack Joyride is way easier. I think something "unique" about Flappy Bird is how difficult it is.

- It's extremely easy to start a new round in Flappy Bird (and it happens quite often). Die on the first pipe? Tap again to jump right back in. You don't even need to hit a button, it's pretty much tap anywhere on the screen.

- Sharing high scores with friends is way easier. "I got a 22 the other day." is way easier than saying "I got 108,000".

- The high scores are more meaningful to other players because they will know exactly how Player1 got that score. The 108,000 in Jetpack Joyride is ambiguous because the score is a function of distance, coins, kills, etc. Remember back in the day, hearing about some dude's cousin that made it to level 55, and how seemingly impossible that was?
A showcase of new user experiences
IBM reportedly considering sale of chip manufacturing operations
You're running a hypothetical munitions factory whose sole client is the government and you're worrying about the ethics and morality of having to comply with the laws of that country?

Let's worry about the morals and ethics of operating that munitions factory before we get concerned with "unjust" laws.
There are real, absolute limits on what you can program a set of transistors and logic gates to do. Changing those limits will require changing what a "computer" is. At which point, we'll probably call it something else.
Yeah that's the angle I was going for with this so it's just super simple to add it wherever you want it without having to worry about layouts etc. or borking your elements.

Using :after means you don't even need to factor it as an element into your existing design, you just place it on top.
Nice, a kill switch in every phone. When there’s a big demonstration/revolution we’re just gonna kill all the phones out there with a simple data packet.
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My actual solution is a combination of careful guesswork and a set of macros that write to a region of memory that is not zeroed at reboot. I use them to mark function entry and exit events; in lieu of an actual stack trace, this lets me progressively narrow down where the problem is.
From what I've read on the net, using the NDK is not an ideal way to write Android apps. It's fine if you want to write an OpenGL game, but it doesn't interface well with the Android API.
Thinking Of Quitting? Remember the sun will rise
When I was serving my community, for 0 pay for the record, I was not looking for reasons to lay off teachers. We took the money we had coming in, looked at our cost increases for the following year (utterly dominated by healthcare), and laid of the number of people we had to in order to pay all our bills. No, it wasn't 15% of the workforce.
I was gonna say, "but Rdio is free and ad supported now", but yeah, still feels like "Free* 1000 AOL minutes!"
Sorry, my bad, that is correct.

Thanks!
Imagine if the governments in the Ukraine or Turkey had such a kill switch. They could instantly disable most of the communication between people protesting against the government.
And the reason it took until 2000 was inertia. It was a completely symbolic repeal of a law nobody had enforced for some time. I’m not sure what your point here is.

EDIT: Grammar.
Delete bucket – with streaming keys – provided by Riak-Admin repo
You are talking about the future of bitcoin, he is talking about the present.

There may eventually be a time where trading in bitcoins is productive, but for now it is a bit risky.
Canada Day 2014 Launches our New Canuck Anti-Spam Law
We don't painstakingly plan and build babies, so no, not quite.
This is called the "price elasticity of demand" in economics. Here is a good list of factors that affect elasticity of a good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand#Det...
I believe I learn nothing from failure, and a ton from success. When something fails, I don't know if it was a bad idea, bad execution, bad timing, the wrong people, etc. When something works, I generally learn a ton and it inspires other good ideas.

It is not until you have racked up a bunch of failures and successes that you realize an idea braindump isn't particularly helpful. When someone starts offering a braindump of ideas, I generally assume the person just hasn't had a bunch of success and failures that are relevant.

I think the author's change is natural, as you can't say "Here is what worked for us..." until you have actually had some wins.
If carriers and oems can't prevent rooting or custom roms, why would they be able to prevent unauthorized locking of phones?

There are bad ideas, and then there ideas that only a legislator would advocate.
Or just have the driver type in the fare manually from their meter?
Dong Nguyen, Creator of Flappy Birds, Responds To The Haters
It is just a version schema. A version is dictated "stable" when tests pass or confidence in the code at that release is high. They could have easily started with version 1.0.0 and currently be on version 1.13.2. The version number doesn't directly dictate stability.
Maybe I'm a leech like another askHN post talked about (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196455) and don't know it or how to fix it?
_why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby in Clojure: Part 1
Sony whistles past the PC graveyard: Buh-bye-bye Sony PCs
Nah, I probably have finished reading before going to the code. :)
No Azure support? Really? But has support for various minnow providers...
It's nothing new. It's been going on for _years_ with Sirius XM, even on luxury cars.
Question: How easy is it for, say, a minority of large holders to stave off drops in value? For instance, if I am holding ~250k BTC and notice an oncoming sell-off, how easy would it be for me to trade back enough in order to reinstate confidence on an exchange?

Is it a viable enough scenario to make it plausible? I'm not a BTC holder, so I'm curious as to how easy the market is to "prop up" in short term panics like this.
It doesn't matter if it is an app or a phone call there is a culture in the Taxi industry of just ignoring calls for a pick-up in certain areas that they view negatively. Uber and Lyft don't discriminate like that.
I hope Tesla won't bundle crapware you can't uninstall.
We do not actually know if it physically is spinning. What we know that it behaves like it is spinning.
Sounds similar to what Microsoft did a few months ago: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s...
Atlanta introduces bill to shut down Uber and Lyft is not an appropriate re-titling of this article.
No. It's really not obvious what it is you think you're adding to the conversation.
Agreed - a simple "Do you mind if I write this down? This way I won't need to bother you again next time!" wouldn't have done any harm..
That's one of the core high-level AI debates going back decades, whether a fundamentally different hardware substrate is needed for intelligent machines, or if it's instead more of a 'software' problem. Biologically-inspired AI tends to want to build things that look more like networks of neurons as the hardware substrate (among other things), while some other branches of AI find existing computing hardware to be generally fine as a substrate.

Imo it comes down to more of a pragmatic question than a philosophical one, though. Unless we actually discover a super-Turing computational system, any machine will be doing some kind of computation that in principle could be performed by any other Turing-equivalent machine. Of course not all Turing-equivalent machines are equally easy to build everything on top of, which is where the "equivalent in principle" part falls short. But alternate hardware models (assuming not super-Turing ones) don't in themselves get you anything that in some inherent or philosophical sense can't be done by a pile of NAND gates.