skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real loss is radio shack extended distribution of these into settings like smalltown strip malls.

I live in an area that can be characterized as a giant suburb of 1 million+ people with no big city around it. There's one store in the industrial park with components and they've been around for decades, altho their ownership has changed hands a couple of times.

Real cities should have it better - I remember being in minneapolis and needing some bits for work and finding in the yellow pages a giant electronics store a few blocks from my worksite (downtown somewhere.) I was in a pinch in Cincinnati too and also found a local supplier.

These kinds of businesses are generally counter service, not self service retail.

A lot of people whine about paying $2 for five resistors because the same $2 gets you 200 at mouser. But you'll pay at least $5 for shipping and have to wait.
IANAL, but by my reading, the patent grant is intended as additional protection for both Facebook and the consumers of React. Facebook is free to register patents that may overlap in some ways with code that they've open-sourced, and you are free to use their code without fear that you'll infringe upon a future patent.

The 3-clause BSD license is retained in its original form [1] and makes no reference to the patent grant. Therefore, I believe you could fork the project and remove the patent grant in your fork. You would then lose the patent protection from Facebook, but they also could not revoke your rights to your fork of React.

That said, if your use of React somehow violates one of Facebook's patents, you're in trouble. The original version of React would be protected by the additional patent grant, but your fork wouldn't be.

I don't think Facebook is acting maliciously; I just think they're trying to provide a means to balance their (perceived) need to protect their patent portfolio vs. their desire to release OSS. If they start suing people that are using their open-source projects, it's going to undermine the (rather good) reputation the company has for releasing quality OSS.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/LICENSE
Yes they should.

Usually, I don't like making the 'slippery slope' argument, but it is quite appropriate here.

The dangers are real. We can allow nothing less than forcing IPSs to maintain complete neutrality on traffic type.

In your scenario, an ISP will determine that an organization is using their internet connection for this high-priority operation. The ISP then realizes that they can essentially extort the surgeon/hospital.

This is a mafia-like protection scam. "Don't want to pay up? Gee, it sure would be terrible if that internet connection of yours was to drop out at the wrong time."

Don't think this scenario is possible? I would argue it is probable.
That's their share of mobile web browsing. It measures usage, while the other numbers here are measuring share of unit sales.

There's always been a big disparity between the market share and web usage share of Android vs. iOS: http://blog.cloudfour.com/explaining-the-ios-and-android-mob...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Why do attacks that rarely happen to Uber users make it to frontlines of news outlets but the thousands of attacks that happen to regular taxi users arond the world every day do not even make it to the local news?
> In an effort to use a standard and straightforward structure, we provide this capital via an uncapped convertible instrument modeled after the Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) financing documents. In addition, Highland will have the option to invest up to $250k in the first $1M you raise in excess of the aforementioned $20k note.

1) The word "note" only appears one time on the page, so what does "aforementioned" mean? Is this a debt instrument?

2) The "Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE)" appears to be unavailable, or atleast is not linked anywhere in the document linked by HN (summer.hcp.com).
Yeah its a buzzword that describes a practice that has been going on for thousands of years. The term "mindfulness" may have been around for sometime, but I think we hear it more often these days because meditation is becoming more fashionable and trendy. In some circles, "mindfulness" is referred to as "presence", which is the term I prefer to use. Another good term for it is "stillness".
>you can totally get away with not casting shadows.

His entire point is that you CAN do this, but it all adds up to making it not look real.
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Learn to read separate statements as separate. Oh, and I was only using my particular situation as an example from which, perhaps, the US could learn a little bit.

In my particular country of residence, industries (including ISPs) are regulated quite heavily, and I hope I might be forgiven for thinking that this might have something to do with the rampant lack of monopolies in the ISP sector (in my particular country).

(I readily acknowledge that my original post was perhaps a little hasty and inflammatory, but one gets tired of this shit.)
The difference between a ball of uranium and a nuclear bomb is... a slightly bigger ball. Dangerous autonomous software is very easy to imagine. What if someone hid code in flight control software that activated at a given time and sent all planes flying into the nearest building. Software is only safe because we program it to be safe. The more capable and widespread software becomes the more dangerous it becomes.
usually players build multiple SCVs to speed things up. Is there a reason why there's only one mining?
NASA is building this monster rocket to shuttle astronauts to Mars
It would also tell them to develop minimum viable products -- which as commonly interpreted means slap together crap to test the market. Had they done this they would have been forgotten in short order.
That would be fall the human driver's liability and/or uninsured/underinsured coverage, which is going to be much less than comprehensive insurance.
There were many hobbyist computers on the market when the Apple II launched.
Part of the reason why they are cheaper is that they are made by many manufacturers with experience in large scale electronics production who compete strongly on price for most of their product lines. If Google had decided to launch Android by themselves with the electronics production capabilities they had at the time, it would have been priced like Google Glass. If they had partnered with a single manufacturer, it would still have been vastly more expensive than what they did.

Not that there aren't other important factors for Android's success, as even relatively expensive Android phones are quite competitive with iPhones in market-share. But even if you assume it is just price, that is an argument in favor of the multi-vendor strategy, not against.
I think it's, "we provide this capital via an uncapped convertible instrument" [which we won't link to or provide you with until some time in the future].
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The rules only apply to companies selling computer products to Chinese banks

That's a hell of an aside... almost enough so that it might belong in the title.
What is the best way to answer people like that, then?

I think it's specious for him/her to ask other people to pay more money when the existing funds are being managed so badly. Clearly he/she wholeheartedly approves of the current Federal budget, but it's not valid to assume that the rest of us feel that way. It's just another case where people cut the government some slack that they'd never grant to a corporation.
Sorry you feel disappointed (or are you just pissing on the competition?)

No, it's not the competition thing at all, though I can see how it might seem that way. I've been following Mailpile for a while with interest. We ship several installers for open source mail clients, and we even donate to some of them and contribute patches to them.

It's kind of an accident of history that we make a mail client; there wasn't anything comparable at the time Usermin came into existence (and on some fronts still isn't, due to Usermin's broader feature set, covering things like uploading and downloading files, file management, database access, system password changes, various types of user configuration, etc.). We don't really spend enough time on it for it to be an awesome mail client, and we don't have a good UI developer on-board, and we get excited when we can ship something else that is more awesome. Most of our users prefer Roundcube to anything else we support, and we're OK with that. If Mailpile becomes awesome, we'd be OK with our users liking it more than Usermin for most use cases.

I hope it wasn't too discouraging to read my criticism. It wasn't intended to be disheartening, though I guess I was harsh at the end (I've been following it so long, and with such enthusiasm, I'm a little frustrated it isn't awesome yet). I do think you'd be well-served to fight harder to get the UI really right and really fast, right out of the gate, before widespread usage. We're in the midst of UI growing pains (and really have been our whole existence as a project; Webmin is ugly as hell, but does so much more than anything else in its space that it still gets downloaded a shit ton, but it would make a lot of people happier if it also looked nice and felt nice to use).
These planning algorithms are pretty cool, and they got me thinking about AIs in RTS tournaments. RTS games seem like a perfect fit for human/computer pairs. Automation would completely change micro. The computer reacts instantly, has perfect accuracy, and never gets tired or distracted. It would enable tactics that no human could perform unaided. The human would have fewer distractions while making strategic decisions that current RTS AIs are terrible at: Where to build, where to mass units, defense placement, etc.

I looked around a little, but didn't find any StarCraft-equivalent to Advanced Chess[1]. If such a thing doesn't exist, it's a shame. The combination of better strategy and ludicrous APM would completely change gameplay.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
Consider the car has the opportunity to get checked and cleaned every time it refuels/recharges, I'd imagine the vehicles would be in decent shape. Until robots take over <grin>, I'd suspect that human labor would be involved at these stations.
"Smart" device adoption
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Why do people talk about the Neo900 as though it's a real product that exists or can be bought? Has anyone seen any evidence it's anything but vaporware?
I'm really surprised. G ventures puts ton of money into uber, uber makes a huge pre order for google cars, uber gets put into google maps.

And now this. I guess google is like "well we got the hard part, self driving cars. Why not just go after this ourselves?"

What is the thing google really wants? Is it more valuable to try to directly monetize all this vehicle traffic, or be the platform every else uses? Google could set up rev share, get access to all the vehicle data (even if they don't use google maps), and set google as default software in the car web experience.

It seems greedy, arrogant, and unaligned with their core ways of making money. They're trying to be vertically integrated player which can work if you control all supply but once Google introduces the tech how long is it going to take for a rival to copy, parents aside?
> One of the things we did with the Baidu speech system was not use the concept of phonemes. It’s the same as the way a baby would learn: we show [the computer] audio, we show it text, and we let it figure out its own mapping, without this artificial construct called a phoneme.

Eh? A human baby normally doesn't even start to learn text until well after it shows a complete mastery of every phoneme in its native language along with some basic vocabulary and a decent understanding of syntax.

I find it baffling that such a distinguished AI expert would assert that phonemes are unnecessary invented constructs. Are there many who share the same belief?
IDC: Android at 84% (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp)

Strategy Analytics : Android at 85%
(http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/07/31/android-reached-reco...)
According to this:

http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=40...

40,000 in 1925 would be half a million at today's rate. No wonder the dude didn't want to change jobs.
There are too many sources and too many processes in world wide Maps data (Apple learnt hard way).
I doubt Uber has the capability to have decent maps solution in short term (1-2 years).
Where did you get this information? Looking at the HDMI spec what you're saying makes no sense, everything is just a data channel, there is nothing specific for input and output.

In fact if what you said was true they would need crossover within the cable which they don't have, so what you're saying is they null terminate 1/2 of HDMI's data channels?

Yeah, you need to explain this, it seems utterly at odds with all the information I can find. And I cannot wrap my head around the design of the system you're describing (i.e. the logistics of an "input only" or "output only" digital system).
> I think you overestimate the need for access to the OS for learning things. The cracking scene, demoscene and games industry was almost exclusively built on Windows. A lot of that was just as, if not more, advanced as what a Linux programmer does.

There was certainly a significant Windows (and DOS) demoscene, but to say it was exclusively built on Windows is about as far as the truth as one can get. Emphasis on Windows really only picked up in the late 90's; throughout the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, most of the demoscene, game development, etc. revolved around non-Windows platforms (particularly BASIC-running toasters in the 70's-80's, followed by Amigas and Macintoshes throughout the 80's and early 90's).

Windows 95 was the start of Windows becoming more popular for game development and multimedia production, but it took quite some time for Windows to displace the rest of the market (through Microsoft's monopolistic tactics, but that's another story). Until that point, there was DOS, but it was one of many contenders with relatively-equal footing only as far back as the late 80's at the earliest, before which DOS was more the purview of businesses buying IBM PCs alongside their IBM mainframes (in other words, about the most uncool computers one could possibly own). The reason DOS eventually caught on was very much because of how "open" (comparatively-speaking) it was compared to, say, Mac OS; the same subculture of BASIC programmers from the Commodore 64 days could make an easy transition to a similarly-minimalist environment requiring a lot of user intervention and therefore customization opportunity, much like how the world of GNU/Linux had been all the way up to the mainstream adoption of Android (and still is, though it's no longer an absolute necessity to be able to tinker with one's system like it was in the first half of the 2000's).

This isn't to mention that Windows didn't fully penetrate the educational market until well into the 2000's; most schools had a large quantity of Apple hardware still in use, thus influencing educational development. This was much stronger when the idea of a "demoscene" was still really relevant.

Now, the cracking world might have been different (I know DOS was a strong contender in the BBS subculture), but the latter two are very much not a product of Windows; far from it.
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I think the problem is that your passion is for dropping out of school rather than the project at hand. When I look at coders (or anyone) who has a passion for something they'll do said task even if they're going for hours without sleep or even forget to eat.

Also if the project isn't that complicated how good of a demo can it be to get you this undefined full time job? Honestly finishing school may help you more in the long run (unless what you're doing at school has nothing to do with your career).
I find it interesting that Google will probably mint a nice ROI from it's Uber investment and ostensibly dump it all right back into research for robotic cars (I get this isn't how it works, but the idea is novel). CMU has some of the most brilliant minds in robotics - It should be very interesting to see who wins this arms race.
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Yes, the evidence would be every Espionage Act prosecution under the Obama administration. Which are more numerous than the total of every previous administration since 1917.

If you could justify how that's not worrisome that would be great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
You pay to guarantee availability. The urgency of netflix is not equivalent to a surgery. The netflix traffic is a threat to the surgery traffic.

The ISP doesn't extort- the customer pays for service guarantees. This is already what happens today in MPLS vpns.

Savvy technologists are going to demand guarantees that other tenants can't disrupt their service.

This is in no way a mafia-like protection scam. There is a certain allotment of bandwidth available at any given time at any given link. You can allow for reservations so that some tenants cannot encroach upon your guaranteed bandwidth for that link. This shit is already happening all the time on amazon aws, azure, google app engine, etc. These are not new concepts.

Mafia protection is- pay us or we take you down. What I'm describing is- you pay so that a netflix premier doesn't disrupt your service.

I'm having a hard time understanding how you can feel a service like cloudflare is not mafia-like protection.
Well, I see the work being made on it by myself and already watched similar project (GTA04) reaching its goals. Plus that's me who you can blame personally for any delay with the Neo900 website content or newsletters... ;P (and if you find linked talk hard to listen, you can blame me for that as well ;])
> "I think it's unfortunate that anti-intellectualiosm has become so prevalent that you feel...".

This has got to be the height of irony. See my posting history to see why you're Oh So very wrong.

Goodbye, I'll stop replying or acknowledging you from now on.
The alumni page reads as such: Harvard, Harvard, MIT, Harvard, Harvard, CalTech. So, question, is there any point in applying to something like this if you didn't go to Harvard, MIT, or another similarly high-profile school? Is the alumni makeup simply the result of who applies, or is it who is chosen (perhaps some kind of signaling used by the gatekeepers), or something else?
Meanwhile Google's core search business is looking increasingly vulnerable.
OK, but doesn't it follow that the kids would be more productive if the teachers know the OS and are able to help out?
Microsoft already does this under it's Government Security Program. The backdoor stuff is up for debate though as obviously no one knows ;)
Every single time there is a big discussion thread about Uber on HN about half the commentary is about self-driving cars and how various decisions are being made now based on the inevitability of self driving cars. Every time this happens I always wonder why nobody seems to recognize the obvious fact that self driving cars have nothing to do with any of this stuff and won't make economic sense for a company like Uber in any time horizon that it makes business sense to take into account now.
I think you're being overly literal. "The text" is obviously "the meaning" or "the object" to a baby, but it's the same idea.
I'm sure this has been discussed on a different (uber/lyft) thread but being a nyc'er and amazed at the prices of taxi medallions through the years, I'm glad to see this bubble finally popping (prices are still insane mind you)!-- now if we can do the same for the cost of higher education... With google coming into the fray, this can only drop further.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/upshot/new-york-city-taxi-...
They give away their mini cell sites now for home use.
Or, perhaps they are knowledgeable enough about cryptocurrencies to realize that what they were previously planning to do is actually unlawful.
Google Maps tried to route me down a staircase in San Francisco for several months, told me I could turn left on a major street that you have never been able to turn left on and decided my address was not only in the wrong part of town, but in a completely different zip code at one point because someone had created a "business" at my address and set it to be in a completely different place which made it pretty much impossible to order from any service dependent on them like grubhub or eat24hours.

No one has perfect data. At least when I update OSM, it updates relatively quickly as opposed to Google Maps which took months to get updated after reporting the errors.
Based on the past, in 2 years Google will have shut down their Uber-esque project.

Meanwhile, Uber will be spending money researching their core business and will keep pressing on with shipping, consumer-focused products.
> bcrypt or (god forbid) your secure hashing algorithm of choice doesn't care about input length

bcrypt itself accepts a maximum key size of 56/72 bytes (depending on stage) as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt#User_input

To a user it may not matter (they won't know what is being truncated) but from a systems design POV you should limit the unnecessary. Why let users POST 1MB text strings to your server if you're just going to discard them?
I forgot! I did a thing called "Autypes" which was a language for automating driving ticketing commands with lists of data. There was a server task and clients.

I wrote a program to transfer the Tickettron ticket inventory for camp grounds onto our system when we bought them.

I wrote a program that could reseat a show in one therater over two nights into another theater on three nights. It had to sit them in the same relative spot and not break-up parties and it had to deal with handicapped seats.
That's Scratch 1.4—normal Raspbian comes with it built-in, actually—the trouble is Scratch 2.0, which is fully flash-based.
Complete mastery? I don't think so. Parents read books with children before the child can speak.

As Ng noted, phonemes are artificial constructs. If they are necessary for a particular language then they should be learned in the same way other constructs are, not imposed on the learning algorithm from the outside.

Are phonemes imposed on human babys? Maybe if you were raised by Hooked on Phonics[1], but I'd wager that most humans did not have the idea imposed on them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics
Licensed maps are great for GPS units telling a human where to go, but a self driving car needs much more detailed information that most likely only google has.
> There is no way you don't benefit from the GPS system if you are a US Citizen.It's an infrastructure technology that means your roads are safer, your package delivery cheaper, your maps more accurate, your emergency services more effective; and a million other subtle benefits that you would have difficulty quantifying.

> As such it makes sense to fund it from general treasury; and to charge taxes on everyone in proportion to the benefit they get from society ( represented as income, including capital gains ). Since public infrastructure benefits the whole of society.

Yea, duh. If you actually read my comment, there's no disagreement with this: in fact I tend to be more inclined to public funding of things like GPS and transit than most people (whether on HN or in the population at large). I was disagreeing with the contention that paying for something by taxes is the same as charging for it. The way the incentives and the burden falls is NOT the same for those two approaches. You're talking about whether or not this SHOULD be done: an entirely different discussion from the one being had on this subthread.
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