skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool story. It's not vegan though so it's useless for me. Plus I would far prefer to buy from a company (eg Soylent) that has a vision of clean, futuristic food production, rather than a company that stupidly accepts the dirty, nasty way we make food now.
They've been able to do offline voice-to-text, for English at least, for the last 1-2 years, so it's possible. But I would tend to agree...seems doubtful that they could have best-in-class real-time translations....offline, right?
> I personally think its rather unfair to ask a for-profit company to compete against a tax funded service.

But if last-mile links are a natural monopoly (or at least demonstrably low competition markets), how do we get better broadband than we have now? We have data points from other nations that seem to indicate that publicly owned or open-access last-mile links create market conditions that deliver broadband more efficiently - both in lower cost and higher bandwidth. There is still competition - it just shifts to different market boundaries.
We did a lot of testing with actual homeless youth in Minnesota. Turns out, most homeless youth have a phone with a web browser.
How much does it cost living in the Caribbean ?
The reality is, computers are good at some things, humans are good at others (Remember how much effort it took google to identify cats in youtube thumbnails? Something any four year old can do?). Computers are good at sifting through large amounts of data. Great. Humans are good at detecting fraud. Combining them is best.

Peter Thiel writes about how fatal machine learning for fraud detection in his book, "Zero to One".

At Paypal, Max Levchin assembled an elite team of mathematicians to study the fraudulent transfers in detail. Then we took what we learned and wrote software to automatically identify and cancel bogus transactions in real time. But it quickly became clear that this approach wouldn't would either. After an hour or two, the thieves would catch on and change their tactics. We were dealing with an adaptive enemy and our software couldn't adapt in response.

The fraudsters adaptive evasions fooled our automatic detection algorithms, but we found that they didn't fool our human analysts as easily. So max and his engineers rewrote the software to take a hybrid approach: the computer would flag the most suspicious transactions on a well designed user interface, and human operators would make the final judgment as to their legitimacy.
The way you ask that eye question is not stupid nor unscientific.

Sadly eyes are used by creationists to ask a similar question in an attempt to discredit evolution. "The eye is so complex and it doesn't work unless it's all there so how could it gradually develop?"
> I've spent a great deal of effort trying to convince people around me to do things that are clearly healthy in the short and long-term… Eat vegetables, drink enough water, avoid artificial colors, preservatives and sweeteners, exercise proper precautions in workshops. It's futile.

Given this is all crap lucky you haven't convinced many people. This is really really bad advice at most points, nothing advice with the rest.

Even eat vegetables is meaningless. Chips are vegetables and so are potatoes which I also don't think are very healthy.
Why is my government delivering porno mags and religious pamphlets to my mailbox?

The government being in the delivery business is nothing new. Historically, it has worked out for the better more often than not.
One huge advantage of a self driving truck is it can easily wait 4+ hours for a tow truck to arrive for minor repairs at little cost. Or be swapped out for another rig and hauled off for more major repairs.
Like a row in a table. I/O instructions in S/360 (as I recall) assembler would fetch an entire record in a single instruction / cycle (the I/O devices are radically different and would support this - it wasn't just syntactic sugar around reading a word or byte at a time). So the time to read in a record, perform some operations and write a record back out is actually much more predictable based on clock speed than it sounds like it would be to someone from a PC background.
Publish databases to PDF with PyDAL and xtopdf
I didn't know about that! Thanks! I'd be surprised if yum didn't support something similar, but whenever I've had to build custom RPMs, it's been the old manual srpm download way. That said, on top of my to-do list is getting Spacewalk up and running, so that I can maintain my own package repository for RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux similar to what I do with Poudriere for FreeBSD.
looks fine to me http://imgur.com/MptXmgE
Yeah it looks like they did:

• Word Lens: Just point your camera to a sign or text and the Translate app will instantly translate the text, even without Internet/data connection. Currently available in: English ↔ French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

(From https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... )
Nature did a documentary about his raising and observations of a clutch of wild turkeys from hatching to release a couple years ago. Full episode is on pbs.org[1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-full-epis...
The government already does, for regional monopolies (power, water, sewer, transportation, etc.)

The problem isn't that the government should prop-up start ups in this specific industry to prevent a monopoly, but that the government should embrace communications as a regional monopoly - i.e. own the utility infrastructure and reduce costs for the entire economy.

Obviously they can't nationalize the current companies, but they can start building public infrastructure.
Sure, I put the design up on thingiverse:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:528114

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GWGUR6/ref=oh_aui_detai...

Pronterface:

https://github.com/kliment/Printrun

It should be noted that we only used this for the tiny pitch QFNs and other small components that we couldn't do by hand, the easier components we did with tweezers. Once we validated the design with a couple boards, we just had a bunch more assembled over in Freemont CA.
But we're OK with letting them run water and power and roads and hospitals and sewage and ... , right?

Plus, they won't be "running" the Internet; they would be providing a link from point A (your domicile) to point B (the gateway or NAP).
Not going to music festivals and Burning Man.
Are you really stupid? Read Rob's blog. Everything I've mentioned is stuff he's discussed implementing. If you don't believe that he will or can do it, whatever, but he appears totally serious to me. I for one think he's visionary, and comparison with a crap product (Ensure isn't vegan, it has too much sugar) from the old food system is just stupid. What matters is someone seeing the potential and working towards that in the long-term - my main question for you is how can you be reading this site and be so blind to that fact?
Don't be confused. Paypal's Igor wasn't automatically detecting and taking action. See my comment. Max Levchin's original design failed.
“Dominator” vs. “Partnership” Cultures: A Profound Re-Telling of Human History
From the perspective of a non-American, it's sad to see you taking _another_ step away from laissez-faire capitalism. In what world is it reasonable to take money from people by force and use it to compete with private business?

If people want municipal broadband, let them form non-profits to provide it through voluntary donations. That should be legal, and if it's not, that'd be something to fix.
Judah, very nice effort. Two points of note for me:

1. When I click shelter it shows a very small nbr of beds available when compared to the nbr of beds shown when I click the Search icon on the homepage.
Also agree with cpeterso's comment on this.

2. It was when I clicked the Search icon and scrolled to the bottom that I saw the wind chill advisory and only then saw it on the main page under Urgent news. Perhaps putting this link (Alerts/Urgent news) at the top of the page will improve its visibility. Not sure how it's rendered on a mobile browser.

All the very best.
Very true. I'm a STEM grad, and till a couple of years ago used to have some sort of contempt for liberal arts.

It's only when I started to do technical writing that I let go of that attitude. It was quite humbling, to say the least.
A terrible aspect to this is that the criteria from utilization management often list a minimum tumor size or showing growth and that same technique is used.
I think it could be. I run a variety of email newsletters and get several people a year ask about Pocket integration (this doesn't sound like a lot of people but in terms of the overall number of such enquiries I get, it is - other services are never mentioned).
No, I'm talking about something which has the potential to be the world currency.
Yeah, HTML5 geolocation is used when you search for shelters near you. (Obviously, the target audience is homeless youth.)

If you reject the geolocation prompt, the site still works fine; we just don't order the results by nearest location.
Caffeine. You can continue summarizing as you are but afterwards you'll be able to recall better.
I'm pretty sure most people have taken the certicom patent on using this technique for "escrow" as pretty strong evidence that it was an intentional backdoor.

Esp. coupled with its insanely slow performance and NSA's failure to point out that the selection of the 'random' numbers could be used to backdoor the cryptosystem. (especially when they continued to fail to point that out and support the cryptosystem while embargoing the patent for national security reasons).

But indeed, I'm not aware of any stronger proof. ... but people go to jail on evidence less circumstantial than this all the time. How high a bar must be set before we can just say "backdoored" without a page of footnotes?
Mmm, I hope you got some value from him when he made this pearler: "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
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Gomorrah is easily one of the best books I've read (and re-read) in the last ten years. Saviano beautifully sums up why at the end of the article.

"This is the power of the non‑fiction novel, the kind of book I’ve tried to write. To tell true stories with the rigour of a journalist and the literary style of a novelist."
Also, if you'd like some light reading, Victor Allis proved a winning strategy in 1988: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~fernau/DSL0607/Masterthe.... It's a great read, I recommend it.
Ask HN: Is there a service like Stripe but for physical credit cards?
I'm interested in writing a custom POS for our business, but I've no interest in dealing with the hardware (like a phone dongle to swipe cards) or with dealing with a Merchant bank. Ideally it would be a company that provides the hardware to swipe a card (that would be compatible with tablets and smart phones), an easy to work with API, and handles settling the money to my bank account. I like how Square doesn't deal with the 30 cents per swipe, that it is just a flat 2.75% regardless, but that's because I have a lot of smaller transactions. They are all face to face transactions, so I want the lower merchant rate. Otherwise I could probably just use Stripe (didn't check ToS) but that's more expensive than Square, and Square's POS doesn't work well enough with our process.

Does anyone know if there is a provider that does this?
> Of course there is no real technical justification for roaming data charges that are many multiples of domestic prices.

No, but there are "technical justification" for why they charge more: It costs them more.

Operating on a first party cell tower is significantly cheaper than operating on someone else's as a guest. Not only in the literal sense, but also the cost of tracking it, and setting up the contracts initially in 190+ countries.

However things are improving massively in the last few years. T-Mobile in the US now gives you free international roaming at 56K modem speeds (no overage), and 4G speeds for only a relatively small fee. AT&T's data roaming packages (that now include unlimited texts) aren't bad either.
The downvotes are asking you to moderate your tone.
Yeah, true. I feel disappointed whenever anybody tries to tack generics onto an existing language. You can never really tell if it is done correctly or not.
Reuben is a good hardworking kid, learning daily and humble at heart. We wish him the very best and pray that he makes a difference in the infosec space (for the good).
Really nice work and very cool
> The president is asking the Federal Communications Commission to preempt those laws.

Can someone explain this? The FCC is part of the administrative branch right? Don't they work for the President? Why doesn't he just tell them to preempt the laws?
Teaching a robot to ‘cook’ by showing it YouTube videos of cooking shows
Interesting... I'd be curious to hear which successful startup founders fit this pattern?
One of the exceptions being when ToS crossed the Galactic Barrier.

It took the Kelvans 200 years to get from Andromeda to the Milky way. It would have taken Voyager over 30 years to go the 30,000 light years from the Delta Quadrant.

Andromeda is about 2.5 Mly away, or over 80x the distance that Voyager would have had to travel. By this we can determine that the Kelvan ship was about 10x faster than Voyager.
Why not gh-pages ?
It's free and you can customize everything you want.
https://pages.github.com/
I use it to store my blog (made using jekyll)
Last time I looked, Rackspace (at least the Sydney, Australia centre), supports FreeBSD.
Some standards are made to be ignored
I do.

That quote doesn't just say that PC demand stagnates, it says it goes down, massively. It says that from X people who, at the time of that speech, use PC's, only 1 in the future use PC's.

And we're seeing that's not true even if X=2. And X was never supposed to be as low as 2.

What we are seeing is that a massive amount of computer USE moved over to phones and tablets -- tons of web browsing, tons of email browsing, calendaring, etc. Probably if you looked at the PC era and the post-PC era in terms of seconds in front of a screen or whatever instead of people, you'd see that 1/X ratio. But for people, it remains useful for almost everyone to have a PC -- even if they use that PC less than they used to.
Yes, products before soylent were careful not to mis-represent themselves and careful not to make unsubstantiated claims, unlike soylent which claimed it was suitable for everyone as a total meal replacement forever with no medical supervision which would return you to good health.
How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo to a layperson?
If you're in SF and haven't been the to Nike site run by the National Parks Service, you should go. It's site SF-88: http://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm

On certain days they actually open the bunker doors and will raise and lower a missile.
A previous discussion regarding samy.pl/keysweeper/ can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874620
Codecademy. New York City (NYC).
Looking for full-time software engineers.

Codecademy is a coding education startup based in NYC, focusing on teaching users the programming skills they need to get jobs. We currently have 24+ million users and a team of 19 total (7 engineers), and use a mix of Golang, Ruby, & Javascript (React.js).

If you're interested, we can do an informational coffee chat sort of thing or just start the interview process, so let us know.

http://www.codecademy.com/about/jobs/software-engineer
If (as I think the case is) YC doesn't discriminate on age at all, one might still expect a lower acceptance rate for higher ages. Allow me to explain why.

As much as we hate to admit it, our brains (like the rest of our organs) start to decline in our 20's.[1] We're not quite as quick as we used to be. We can't work as hard. We take a little longer to learn new things. In almost every discipline, crystallized knowledge more than offsets this loss of fluid intelligence. Eventually though, age catches up with us. Combine that with YC's very high bar (accepting the top 3% of applicants), and even a slight dulling due to aging would cause a discrepancy.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/4gi/age_fluid_intelligence_and_intel...
From 2013, only covers New York, no criteria how the top 20 was chosen or ranked, no links to those coworking spaces.
Where, precisely, does the problem with creative new programming projects lie? Maybe it's a reinvention of the wheel, but surely by now we all know that wheels are constantly re-engineered, with exotic new materials..
Unfortunately crashes on my Nexus 5 when trying to take a picture :(
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Or put a completely different way: Why would the people of Cambodia trust their government if they came out and said you should put some iron stuff in your pots?

This would be from one of the few governments on earth that are less trustworthy than the average american one. Perception-wise or in reality, does it matter? Anyway, this is an angle americans should be able to identify with. :)
FoxBase +/Mac - before MS got their mitts on this was sooo versatile and fun. Even at 1mb.

ClarisWorks/AppleWorks - Before Apple got their mitts on it again.

Print Shop Deluxe Mac 68k - Remember when it could export AI/EPS?

Kooka - that project died with KDE 3(along with many other mature ones), still waiting for another as-friendly scan/OCR solution for Linux.

AfterDark screensavers - Loved staring at those screensavers..

Whole slew of Commodore/Amiga, etc games... Playing them on an emulator just isnt the same.
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I live in a post-colonial country where English is the official language but 90% of the population have another language as their mother-tongue.

There is therefore a lot of "broken" english spoken, and I guess I'm just used to correcting people (and being corrected myself).

Irregardless is one of those words that is becoming OK to say just because so many people use it.

Language adapts and therefore English is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but I'd prefer if the opposite were true.

A statement in a programming language means the same regardless of the education-level, ethnicity, or social status of the reader. I wish the same were true for English.

Instead we have nonsense like Biweekly, which may refer to an event that occurs either twice weekly or once every two weeks. Why should it mean the latter when we have fortnightly for that?

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Anyway, I like to correct people (in as polite a manner as possible) because I like being corrected myself.
Only through these comments could I even learn what this does -- build desktop apps in javascript. "NW.js lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies." does not tell me that... I thought it meant that in an ordinary web page I could 'require' node modules that used node APIs like stream.

It is all about desktop apps, right?
They are a fairly rare, hand-made British sports car. My mom told me they had a quite long waiting list (years?) to get one. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_%2B4
Questioning the merit of meritocracy. (2009)
Shipping and oil refining are different. If you apply capital to over come the cost barrier of entering those businesses, you can still access customers and potentially put all that capital to work generating profits.

With last-mile internet, if you lay in a redundant competitive network in a neighborhood - the capital efficiency of both networks goes down, with no mechanism to make that capital work more. You're limited to the houses in the neighborhood. So in that case you have high cost barriers, and natural monopoly conditions limiting how well that capital can be used to generate return...
It's not like the number of entire YC 2015 winter applications is super large. Why take a sample?
You want hardware to swipe a card, that's compatible with tablets and smart phones, but isn't a dongle (https://squareup.com/reader)? Or, I suppose, their POS stand (https://squareup.com/stand)?

Do you just not want to use their software? You want to use the hardware with your own app on a tablet or phone?
Caffeine is great!
I speak English, Spanish and Italian. I've been talking to this app for the past hour in those languages and translating to whatever languages have speech output. This is so amazing.
Before this they kept the Android app a lot more powerful. Are the iOS and Android apps finally on par now?
I can't speak for Apple but a number of other large companies in EU have done exactly this, I assume because they have no choice as they can't change the price of a subscription after it is active.
The reason may have been that they tend to grow slowly but considering her age it was likely to grow. Another alternative to monitor or surgery may have been radiation, but again age plays a part. In the end it is supposed to be an informed decision by the patient after exploring all treatments. In this particular case there may have been high risk of leaking CSF with risk of meningitis for example with the new approach used. But we do not have all the details, it's exciting though anytime there is a new approach other than craniotomy developed.
I don't think that the status quo matches that analogy. Close to 100% of tablet users are still PC users. Tablets are certainly more ubiquitous than ever before, but they're still mostly regarded as toys.
I designed the node-webkit icon some time ago. However, it would be a good idea to revise it, maybe create a flat version, which it started out to be. The icon is in fact a combination of the webkit icon (a.k.a pre-yosemite safari app icon) and node.js shape with the colors of intel. On my dribbble you can see the evolution of the icon: https://dribbble.com/Jeroen_Ransijn.

Sadly, I my harddrive crashes completely a while back and all files on my side have been lost. However, Roger Wang still has a PSD, and I e-mailed him if he could send it to me again. He said he still had it and would e-mail it back, but he probably forgot. I'll contact him again. So I can at least properly export the icon, and make it available as a download.

Any suggestions or feedback is always appreciated!
they appear to always be on gpio 23 and 24, which a comment implies is for making beeping sounds (I'm guesing two-tone?). I'm guessing it's just to play beep sequences after it has done X or Y.
I personally like AudioNote for class notes, for times when content comes at me fast. This way you can silently record them while you type for better recall later.

Another option is just to use an app like Notes+ or Apple's notes app.
Because some markets will tend towards consolidation ,especially things involving networks, because the economies of scale are so important to costs. So , left to their own devices, the unregulated market would always tend to a monopoly.
something must have been horribly, horribly broken on your freebsd installation or hosting environment, because there's no way any sinatra service takes 60 seconds to respond. And, your gist doesn't show a significant performance difference between linux and freebsd.