skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, here's the thing that I like about it... if google now had an API then you could build an app that talked to google now for you. I like the idea that I can host my own echo endpoints at echo.ranman.org and then have my own server make calls out to other stuff.

I don't really use anything amazonian besides a kindle and the echo (although I do really like the fire TV stuff).

I use a ton of other apps/stuff -- and many of those have APIs. If I could call out to those APIs with my voice and then get stuff back it would enable a lot of convenience and intelligence that's hard to do on just a phone (or if more apps supported making API calls via siri, google now, cortana, etc.)

I'm really excited to see what people build with the SDKs and I hope it takes off.
He means "Search for an employer willing to sponsor your green card". There is no direct route to citizenship unless you are born here.
You now know one. We do not own an Xbox/PlayStation-gaming system, or Roku/Apple TV-like streaming box in our living room. New LG TV came with "smart" features, and we use them (Netflix really) daily.
The data is taken from the Project Gutenberg 2010 DVD and includes 20,000+ out-of-copyright texts (typically before 1930 or so).
With 2 renewals of 3-year H1B work visa, you do not have much time to shop around for employers sponsoring permanent residency. It is a long process in itself , and usually companies want the employee to work for them until they file the paperwork. That means, you are not putting yourself out there for bigger and better options, even if you have any - since you're tied to the employer until they file. Also the author said it correct - it is extremely difficult for one to startup on their own - since it is not favorable as well on work visas. It just does not make sense that an immigrant having got their higher education in US, are asked to leave and usually the ones that leave may be ambitious, having hopped multiple jobs without tying themselves to one employer and gathered enough expertise in their fields, both academic and industry. Immigration reform in this aspect, is therefore, warranted.
Taig+Released+iOS+8.1.3+–+8.3+Jailbreak+Taig+2.0.0+Jailbreak
I agree with the author that the process is absurd, as many of my colleagues have gone through it. But, as far as I understand it, employer sponsorship is not the only path to a green card. One colleague and friend works at a startup, and he is pursuing his green card himself, through an immigration lawyer he hired. It is not cheap - with lawyer fees and all, I believe it's in the $20,000 range - and it requires making the case that you're a top performer in your field.

At the least, if you find yourself in the author's position, consult an immigration lawyer.
Nobody sponsors citizenship. They can sponsor you for a green card (permanent residency). It costs thousands of dollars (I have been told in the range of $12,000, without considering attorney's fees). But it locks you in with the employer for several years, and when you consider the amount of money that you can generate for a company, combined with the fact that you will probably get an average or below average salary to compensate for the green card costs, this is not an absolutely terrible deal for the employer. You have to have some valuable skills that justify the employer knowing right away that he/she wants to keep you for several years!
"George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany."

So this "helped him rise to power"?? Please. Why aren't we also going after: Coke, IBM, and any other company involved with anything in Germany (which is a lot).

I wonder how many mondern company owners should be jailed for helping bad people rise to power?

Oh yeah, they aren't hated like Bush....
Terrible analysis.

> We analyzed 2810 posts from Inbound.org and went as far as three years ago to get all of the posts that recieved between 30 and 577 votes!

You can't look at trending posts only, because then you hit correlation-implies-causation. You have to look at all submissions.

The visualizations are all over the place. Some lack axes, axes labels, values, etc. Additionally, error bars/confidence intervals are necessary since I know for a fact there's a high variation in the distribution of these particular statistics.
I've had an Echo for a couple months. I bought it for $99 as a Prime customer. Generally, I'm very happy with it, but I don't think I'd be as satisfied at the $180 price point.

Good:

- The hardware is really well designed.

- Being able to listen to NPR affiliates elsewhere in the country is awesome (Seattle's KUOW affiliate is bad, but my hometown stations of MPR and The Current are great).

- The Prime Music and Pandora integration is generally pretty cool, although the Prime Music selection is a bit thin at times.

- Timers and kitchen measurements are helpful.

Bad:

- The iOS app is absolutely horrendous. Imagine the worst web/native hybrid app that you've ever seen, now set your expectations down another order of magnitude. I cannot understand how a company with as many resources as Amazon—especially one that did such an amazing job on the hardware—could create such an utterly horrible mobile companion app.

- The Echo has trouble understanding my girlfriend (a complaint I've heard from a couple other Echo users)

- You call it Alexa, not Echo. The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such. Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying: "here's our big feature for iOS 5, it's called Siri, but you'll interact with it by calling it Yoko"?

- No really, the iOS app is awful. Like, I'll go out of my way to avoid ever having to open it.
Opening borders works for multicultural countries built on immigration. For countries that are based on a unique language, ethnicity and culture, it is damaging.
It wasn't a normative statement. Rather, it was intended to point out what you just did: if you want spy agencies to follow the same laws everyone else does, you're effectively arguing that there should be no spy agencies.
So are taxes whats your point? Companies that want to work in the US need to comply with US laws.

Everything in the world is pretty much done through compulsion of one sort or another.

I'm pretty sure that Kaspersky works for the Russian intelligence services (Eugene is an IKCI (FSB Technical Academy) alumni), and you can be sure that Checkpoint and other Israeli companies work with Israeli intelligence, and same goes for pretty much any other security vendor out there, if you are big enough to matter you will be in bed with some one.
"We strongly recommend that you do not attempt to evade the Pauli Exclusion Principle."
This is going to sound stupid, but after a while of shaving with a double-edged razor I found I could shave in the shower with no lather.

I just wait until I'm done washing and the steam has had a chance to soften the hair, then shave directly in the shower. It took a couple of weeks of shaving daily for my skin to get used to it but now I get it done with no irritation. An advantage of no lather/gel is that I can keep putting my face under the shower to keep the hair soft.

(I shave without a mirror, and then clean up afterwards)

This isn't going to be for everyone, and it certainly isn't as close as a gilette, but I can get the shave done in a couple of minutes.
But you have a limited power supply.
What is so bad about the iOS app? It hasn't bothered me but I don't use it very much.
Loudoun opens a ‘maker space’ for creative projects at Gum Spring Library
Here's a link to the actual TED talk, since mattyohe's link is actually to one of Google's promo videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk
They were planning to evaluate the reaction after they got caught and then determine whether to continue. Seems people forgot about the whole thing after a few months and I doubt it caused more than a blip in lost sales, so they're probably still doing it.
> In reality, all power is solar power

If you're going to use that metaphor, then really, all power is nuclear power, since that's how all that solar energy is generated.
Yeah, by no action I mean no substantial action that would seriously increase developer revenues like:

trial versions without hacky in-app purchases;

paid upgrades;

actual working app discovery;

etc.
Oh I think I get it, thanks (although I still don't understand what "threaded" means in this context).

The only downside I can see is that you'd significantly increase the size of the code. On a 64bit architecture you trade each byte for a 64bit address, effectively multiplying by eight the footprint in the data cache. A 256 entry LUT on the other hand will fit snugly in cache and the lookup shouldn't be very costly.

Also if I understood you correctly what you're proposing doesn't have much to do with the "computed gotos" extension.
https://twitter.com/cue/status/612824947342229504

The response was to taylor swift "and indie artists"
It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
Emoji are “mathematically” more secure than passwords
There are plenty of domestic groups opposed to open borders for high-skilled immigrants. Doctors, nurses, and others within the medical profession spring first to mind, and they are incredibly powerful politically. Ditto lawyers or really any other trade that controls its own barrier to entry via the certification process.

And let's not forget software engineers - just see what happens whenever H1-B comes up.
Yes, exactly! It's difficult for me to motivate myself to post a topic for discussion, because I really don't want it to be a discussion topic. I just want the ability to casually throw some thoughts out there, like I may do if I wanted to mention something to someone in a coffeeshop.
The Internet of Things You Don’t Really Need
This is a bit like saying that the people causing panic over Y2K were unwarranted because everyone checked their systems and sorted it out in advance. If nobody had panicked about it, then nothing would have been done.

Solar has become economical at least partly because the subsidies are working, by causing economies of scale in manufacturing, novel process technology, etc.

(However, the single biggest solar development that's a byproduct of the silicon chip industry is the reduced kerf diamond wire saw used for cutting ingots with the minimum of waste)
Emergency Patch for Adobe Flash Zero-Day
I use the Netflix and Plex apps on my Vizio and they work well enough.
Immigration is broken. But you cannot have open borders and a welfare system. It is completely unsustainable.
Meanwhile: "Developers are calling it quits on polyglot programming," according to a 2014 TechRepublic article.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/developers-are-calling-i...
Google's New Project Is So Insanely Advanced It Will Blow You Away
This article doesn't mention some serious problems that affect power grids reliant on renewable energies:

1 - The grids becomes vulnerable to the weather. There's no solar energy at night and it's greatly reduced in cloudy days. Wind power is unpredictable and closely matches the output of hydraulic power, so that the two sources can't complement each other. You can check Brazil in recent history to check the effects of droughts in the power grid.
In the end there is a need of conventional power plants always ready to backup the grid when the renewable energy is not available.

2 - The majority of losses of the power distribution network are on the last mile, when the voltage is lower and the current is higher. If every house and electric car become consumers and providers to the grid, most power movements occur in the low voltage networks. There's also the issue of batteries storing energy for later consumption. Lithium batteries have a 80%-90% efficiency storing energy.

3 - Since we are talking of the environment, rare earth metals have a very pollutant and energy intensive extraction process which in most cases is not accounted in the environmental cost of solar panels.

Replacing the majority of energy production by renewable energies will result in an net efficiency loss. I would rather support a balanced production with nuclear (fusion?) power plants providing the fixed needs of the grid and renewable energies making up the rest.
Thanks for the correction on his status w.r.t. Pandora. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he's disinterested then. But, calling them out for having straightforward royalties?

BTW the direct quote is:

"Nothing here to suggest Apple treats artists more fairly than anyone else."

Apple was going to pay as well or better than everyone else (actually a touch more, but no big deal) before agreeing to pay royalties when it isn't collecting revenues.

And again, Apple has no free tier -- Pandora's free tier (95% of users) generates very little ad revenue and that's presumably where artists get their 46.5%. Spotify has over 25% paid users (and is losing money paying out 70% of revenues).

Here's a quote from a somewhat misleading blog post ranting about Pandora's royalties:

"Here’s an idea. Why doesn’t Pandora get off the couch and get an actual business model instead of asking for a handout from congress and artists?"

Apple created a sustainable model for musicians in the age of Napster/Limewire. Now it's trying to do something similar in the age of Spotify/Pandora, and it's doing it with a (potentially) sustainable business model that pays at least as well as anyone else. But until now it wasn't just giving money away.

Let's put it another way: Pandora, Spotify, et al are trying to build businesses by giving away stuff that isn't free, and have the temerity to complain when a company that has an actual business model (buy stuff for X and sell it for more than X) tries to compete with them.
I suspect the post you replied to was sarcasm.
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One nice advantage of the iOS ecosystem is that installing a new app is risk free. I have a relative that uses an iPad as their primary computing device. They install new apps all the time, as opposed to their laptop, which they are afraid that they will mess up.

Apple made a new market, and is charging for access to it.

I believe that you're still free to sell your apps on Android or jailbroken iOS devices, direct over the internet.
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Did you read the part in the article where he his legal forbidden from starting up a company or even working at a startup?

He should have just stuck with the job until he found another one that would support his green card efforts. Switching careers part way through he should have known was risky. The lack of information that is presented on him for his reasoning besides "Well they weren't sponsoring me anyways" seems pretty lack luster and not well thought out for someone who is well educated and as intelligent as himself. This article seems like a desperate plea after making a mistake.

I hope he finds a legal way to stay in the country, or come back but the article was pretty whiny about something he already should have known.
> "It's lunch time, want to see what's in the neighborhood you haven't tried recently?"

Since you might be more up to date with what echo can do.. could it work as an ad-block for TV (mute, switch channel)? Perhaps using 3rd party API for tagging ads.
One of the nice things about M:N is it decouples concurrency from parallelism. That is, your application can spawn as many inexpensive green threads as the task requires without worrying about optimizing for core count or capping threads to avoid overhead, etc. With Go 1.5, underlying system thread count will default to the same as the system CPU core count.
I'm confused as to whether that means "if you build a plant today, your de-amortized annual running costs will fall" or "in 25 years time, the projected lifetime cost of a solar plant will be half of what it is today". The latter is .. not useful today.
Well I'm not sure about never. I'm sure it's going to happen someday, it's just going to take longer.

As for your 2nd comment, I thought I had covered that with: "But yeah, anywhere else it makes sense."
I think this happened right before @stake "acquired" L0pht, but I'm not sure how lucrative that really was for them.
Can someone explain this sentence to me:

"Consider now the subsequences starting at the smallest natural number: inclusion of the upper bound would then force the latter to be unnatural by the time the sequence has shrunk to the empty one."

The previous statement asserts that inclusion of the lower bound is preferred because the sequence then starts with a natural number (so for a set 1<=x<12 the sequence starts at 1 instead of 1.000000 .... 1 in 1<x<12). How is inclusion of the upper bound forcing the "latter" (what is he referring to by latter) to be unnatural by the time the sequence has shrunk to the empty one.
(See the sibling comment with a "10." in it for context.)

3. Completion of the Flyspeck project. What's the densest way to pack a huge number of oranges into a huge box? Every greengrocer "knows" the answer: hexagonal close packing. (Actually, if you have too many oranges they will get squashed. Better use cannonballs or something.) The first person known to have conjectured explicitly that this is best was Johannes Kepler (better known for his work in astronomy) back in 1611.

In 1990, a guy called Hsiang claimed to have proved this. It was (and is) generally reckoned that his proof had holes in it. One of the leading critics of Hsiang's proof was Thomas Hales, who in 1998 announced his own proof. It was a very computational proof: Hales reduced the Kepler conjecture to a statement about the minimum value of a function of 150 variables (presumably describing how the spheres are arranged; I don't know how this works, but I remark that Gauss proved back in 1831 that the densest arrangement with the spheres on a regular lattice is the usual one, so there's probably something clever going on), and then proved that there are "only" 5000 or so genuinely distinct configurations, each of which gives rise to a linear programming problem (i.e., optimization of a linear function subject to linear constraints), and then solved them all with a computer. This is a bit like the famous Appel-Haken proof of the "four colour theorem", only much worse.

The mathematical details were extremely intricate. A lot of very smart mathematicians looked at Hales's proof and reported that they were 99% sure it was right but couldn't be more confident than that.

So Hales started a project "FLysPecK" (= FormaL Proof of Kepler) to verify all the details using automated proof-checking software. (So there's a tenuous connection here with the "univalent foundations" work, but I don't think there's any more to it than that both are related to automated proof-checking.) And, after more than a decade of grind, the Flyspeck team has declared success and (assuming they haven't messed up) Kepler's conjecture has definitely been proved.

What next? Well, presumably by applying proof-checking software to a real serious mathematical problem the Flyspeck team has helped to improve it and make it more useful for other real serious mathematical problems.
Jim Croce should have written the lyrics "If I could save time in Klein's bottle ...":

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimcroce/timeinabottle.html

Eternity ... looping. Doh!
I think it's fallacious that deeper understanding of system would guarantee data safety. I have no idea what the most of the software and hardware on the n devices I use actually do. I know they are targeting large masses of end users so I can trust the industrial process that created them. What is needed, I suppose is educating that all data that is not backed up should be considered volatile, and digital goods such as kindle books are for consuming but not for collecting.

That said, I don't mind consuming digital volatile goods - there are very few books I re-read and I usually acquire paper copy of those.
I don't think that's a fair statement, at least based on my own experience. When I'm investigating how code arrived at a certain state, I'm looking primarily at the code.

The commit messages are nice as indicators of intent, but I don't rely on them. The real change is in the code, not what somebody remembered to write in a summary of the change.
I don't know the specifics but from the linked thread at https://bugs.python.org/issue4753 :

Having a jump table in itself isn't special
(the compiler does exactly that when compiling the switch() statement).
What's special is that a dedicated indirect jump instruction at the end
of each opcode helps the CPU make a separate prediction for which opcode
follows the other one, which is not possible with a switch statement
where the jump instruction is shared by all opcodes. I believe that's
where most of the speedup comes from.

So I don't think you can conclude that the compiler "probably doesn't" generate the jump table, just that you might do a better job yourself if you know what you're doing.
Talk with Armin Ronacher about Flask, Microframeworks, and HTTP2
Shortcuts for navigating nested associations
Doesn't Clojure already have optional static type annotations like Common Lisp? I thought it did when I looked through the tutorials.

In Common Lisp you can define pretty much any type (with deftype), you can define algebraic types and even value dependent types. Once you add full type declarations to your code, you will get warnings for inconsistent and violated type declarations.
Can't wait to see what the new team does
All of the grading teachers tests started with Common Core, here in NY state at least which was an early adopter. Each state is probably implementing it differently.

These aren't tests to grade schools, these are testing the kids against Common Core curriculum that they haven't been taught yet to grade teachers on how they are doing.

It has nothing to do with NCLB. There is direct linkage to Common Core curriculum and rollout. I have teachers in my family and kids in the schools that this is happening in, do you actually have kids in school?
The Confederate flag flying over SC doesn't mean what you think it does
It is a bit limited if you compare it directly to something like Google Now (or OK Google?). But I think once more developers get involved we'll see some cool things. For instance, a frequently mentioned feature is "What time does McDonalds close?" which Echo currently can't answer. But perhaps pretty soon we'll have a Yelp app which can do that.
It's basically a web view embedded in a native app shell. The user experience of the website it opens is designed to approximate the iOS user experience, but completely fails to do so.
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What's with the Buzzfeed style titles?
Typical. I guess someone needs to implement the functionality as proprietary website then Mozilla could add it back in!
Some people just aren't very good coders. No language will make their programs run faster. What will are books like effective c++, effective java and refactoring.

The fastest language only makes sense when the code is written by an expert.
One of the biggest values I get from a smartphone, and I suspect the vast majority of otherse are with me, is the fact that it connects me to the global repository of human knowledge. Cutting off the internet would neuter it to me.
Using Python to Programmatically Map Where Sex Offenders Can Live
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Those who don't want the wages for "highly-skilled" jobs depressed to sub-lower-middle-class levels?
Researchers explain why you can't remember anyone's name in Game of Thrones
You’re being secretly tracked with facial recognition, even in church
damnit this would have been useful in my Signals I course...
Training cycle for airline pilots is surprisingly short, less than a year if I'm not mistaken. It's just expensive because of all the gadgets involved.