skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the idea, but it feels heavy to me and like it may suit slower release cycles better. Maybe that's because MS is still shipping installed software tools (TFS in this case).

"We’ve done it 3 times now over the past ~7 years and have been happy with the results every time"

This comment confirmed it for me. I'm interested in companies who are using this model in a context where software is released continuously or at least multiple times per year?
Maybe the 'add value' paradigm can go to sleep. Maybe life could (should) be seen as something more than production. The existentialistic view on 'work' bothers me a bit
Any code available to play with? Looks very impressive!
Me too. But I suspect there will be much resistance from the establishment. Certain things just seem like they can't let go of the human due to existing status quo. We could have automated airplanes as well, but I think regulation is going to tend towards the conservative "we need someone to be in charge" view.

It's probably more deeply ingrained in society that a doctor has to be a person than a truck driver.
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"I'm not sure how you'd defend against this, "

Jamming, RQ170 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
Hacking the connexion from the drone to the pilot is doable, and has been done. You can take control of the drone itself and bring it back to anywhere you want. I've seen all that happen in a hackathon here in France, a few months ago.

Now of course, everything's going to be easier after all drone makers have legal obligation to provide backdoors for police.
>The reason for this is that the prospect of future wealth, rather than current income and working conditions, is the main driver for people to stay in the business: low-level drug sellers forgo current income for (uncertain) future wealth.

That's description of statups.
Yes, yes, no one is forcing you -- but you are being sold a bit, at least in America. And while there's nothing wrong with that, per se, the story you're being sold is that you just need to build a better mouse trap. That story, however, is a lie.

What I'm saying is a warning, not a complaint. I'm saying that you'll be told that you can be a hero if you slay the dragon and all you need is a new strategy. But if you look closely you'll notice that some adventurers come from a noble background and have a strategy -- plus a sword and armor. You are a peasant; you don't. The ones that came back, almost exclusively, had that sword and armor.

No one, I repeat no one, looked at the Page Rank algorithm and said, "I love the idea! Here's money to prove it." (Remember that statement about having to shove good ideas down people's throats.) No, instead, they looked at Page and Brin and said, "Stanford? Here's money to prove your point." That's the key. Without that reason for people to believe in you irregardless of the idea, you're in for an exponentially harder time. And even if you make it through, saying, "I killed the dragon without armor or sword," it will impress no one. You didn't notice the difference, why would anyone else? It will have been millions of times harder and no one will fucking care.

I'm an exception that proves the rule. After years of nosebleeds and broken ribs, my company is poised to explode. And yet it was easily the hardest, loneliest thing I've ever done. Yes, yes, no one is forcing you, but they're also not telling you the whole story. If you, as a sans-culottes, understand what I'm telling you and go to hunt the dragon anyway, God bless you. But I'll repeat what I said above: I wouldn't wish that journey on my worst enemy.
One thing to keep in mind is that these dongles only have 8 bit ADCs in them, so no matter how great your signal path, you will top out at ~48db of sensitivity (rough formula is sensitivity in db = 6x bits of ADC). A "real" SDR like the USRP B210 has a 12 bit ADC in it, which means that it will top out at around 72db of sensitivity.

Of course, the ~6 dB per bit rule applies only at the ADC's full (Nyquist) bandwidth. If the ADC is followed by a decimation and filter chain it can potentially do a lot better. Do these dongles perform their conversion at the final signal bandwidth, or do they digitize at a wider IF and downconvert to baseband digitally?
We did an investigation of a similiar idea and some of the initial challenges were:
1. How to track the cycles if you don't have predetermined pick up and drop off points.
2. How to let users know if a cycle is available and location
3. How to know when a cycle is in need of maintenance
We ultimately concluded that the concept would probably work best if it is very localized or community based so the users could assist in the running of the program.
It depends how good their mixers are.
I certainly missed the golden parachute. Even if I hung around until I was deadwood I would not have made anything financially. No academic in Australia gets rich just out of being an academic.

I don’t regret my time as an academic other than my last two years. I should have left earlier, but the security the job afforded my family kept me there longer than I really should have stayed. This is a mistake many people make when in a secure job when they have kids so I am not too angry at myself. It is an experience few people get to have so I am grateful to have had it.
This sort of data is not really notable enough for wikipedia.
Also just ordered one. This is the best HN thread I've seen in ages!
Use the cryptography based 2FA (with Google Authenticator on your phone). SMS is too open to social engineering, and as a second factor might actually make your account less safe.
Thought that this would be a collection of the insults that Jobs was famous for.

A classic Jobism : "Everything you've ever done in your life is shit'"
Py4J is moving far far away from SourceForge
IIRC, it was the BFI_INT instruction.
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An observation I have made for quite some time is that 90%, or maybe even 95% of the developers I know are always obsessed with working on their own side-projects with the hope of one day turning it into a full-blown start-up, or at least making some passive income from it.
Many of my non-developer friends, never even think about this. Some of them are thinking about new ideas to implement in their job, but never with the same obsession that developers seem to talk about it.
(I am a developer as well, also obsessed with the idea of turning one of my side projects into a comfortable passive stream of income or maybe a startup one day)
What are our chances of getting, as a common thing, a physical space like the concept that influenced Elysium? As long as we're about value for money and efficiency, I can't see productive space like growing areas ever looking so clean and designed.

That concept transitions from growing beds to lake and so on beautifully. In reality, between a current manicured golf course and a public road or residential area, we often have razor wire fences catching garbage blown around by the wind, we have dog-at-dog strips full of weeds, etc.
ELIZA is, or at least was, actually used as a therapeutic tool: people would spend hours over a terminal, 'talking' to it. It worked because ELIZA wasn't a human and wasn't judgemental --- there was nobody actually there. And ELIZA is possibly the least convincing chatbot of all time.

So I can totally see how removing humans from the loop in certain jobs could be really successful. You mention doctors: I totally want AI doctors, which aren't going to get tired, aren't going to dismiss me as a hypochondriac, aren't going to skip routine tests because they're certain what's wrong with me, and above all, reduce the load on the human doctors so they get to concentrate on stuff the AI can't handle.

As for sport... well, actually, I don't want to do any of the things you mention, because I'm weird, but if you watch an episode of _Robot Wars_ you'll see people do exactly those things over what amount to a bunch of radio controlled cars.
Although this is very tangentially related, one may want to consider taking a multi-species probiotic also, based on "A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood" [1]:

"Compared to participants who received the placebo intervention, participants who received the 4-week multispecies probiotics intervention showed a significantly reduced overall cognitive reactivity to sad mood, which was largely accounted for by reduced rumination and aggressive thoughts.

Conclusion: These results provide the first evidence that the intake of probiotics may help reduce negative thoughts associated with sad mood. Probiotics supplementation warrants further research as a potential preventive strategy for depression."

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159115...
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Cryptocurrency mining demand for Radeon GPUs between 2010 - 2012 had improved AMD's revenue stream quite a bit back then.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/14/why-the-par...

AMD GPU mining rigs and some other hardware pics.
http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/mining-rig-megapost#more-3...
Why even bother with this? Terrorists can just blow themselves up in a festival/concert/subway/bus anyway.

In fact, you just need to leave a backpack with a pressure cooker with some nails and explosives like in Boston. No need for complicated technology and millions invested to try and counter this.
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I think social acceptance is likely to be the bigger holdback.

50 shades is an interesting example of this effect. Women supposedly weren’t interested in this area (not my personal experience), but get enough social acceptance and even an appallingly badly written book becomes a popular success.

Sex robots will face the same “icky” effect, but all it will take for them to become popular is social acceptance via a breakout event once they become good enough.
My previous employer failed after almost ten years of venture funding (mostly because it is pretty hard to make a good return on ten years of investment). We had a lot of technical debt. It did not kill us, per se, although I think it was correlated with problems in the company: a lot of things would have been easily resolved had we been less pressed for engineering time. We never had enough revenue to grow the engineering team significantly, and what engineers were there were often fire-fighting. There may have been indirect causal effects like causing good people to get frustrated and leave, or simply causing good people to get frustrated and avoid working on certain problems. We had a few people who flipped out and started repaying the principal (including myself), but they were taking limited engineering time from things that the company needed day-to-day.

It may be true that technical debt directly kills some products, but if it's bad enough that you can't get certain things done, even if what you do instead is also important to the business, the debt is a sign of bad engineering management (either in the past or the present). And bad engineering management will kill the product.
Object recognition for robots
Would you consider using Nail to not just parse content-formats like JSON, but (dependent/semantic) type validation on the values of the data itself. Some of this involves business logic as well. For example, let's say I encode some data in JSON. Well I can parse JSON well, but then I need something inside that JSON to be an integer. Ok, that's fairly easy. But then I need that integer to be between 10 and 20. Ok, we have a filter now. But then, I need that integer to be less than or equal to a value defined elsewhere, but only if that value exists, because it's optional. And then, finally if a certain business condition is not met (by contacting the database), the entire input must be considered invalid and discarded. All of this is a form of data validation, but it increasingly involves more and more complexity.
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Would it be really hard to fix this OTA for all vehicles, reusing (and patching) their own bug? This is a technical question, law might forbid doing this.
OS-9 was awesome, especially for embedded stuff.

As someone mentioned it ended up on the CoCo III eventually, where it'd run rings around IBM PCs of the day.
DX has some cheap RTL2832U based dongles ⌘ http://eud.dx.com/search/RTL2832U
Optimal self-assembly of finite shapes at temperature 1 in 3D
I wonder what it would be like if it were possible to add new dimensions to the economy. If we reward ecological, service and aesthetic contributions in a similar way we reward the exchange of scarce goods and services in the economy today... I wonder if anyone has put serious thought into how that could be done.
I still get a couple of thousand every month from my TSR projects, mainly http://www.watermark-image.com but some of the other TSR products are getting some traction.

The TSR LAN messenger has been getting some traction because people are scared of the privacy concerns with public chat clients.
http://tsr-soft.com/products/lan-messenger/

The TSR photo manager gets a purchase every know and then, but to be honest I don't promote it much.
http://tsr-soft.com/products/photo-manager/

All income frome those TSR projects is funneled into a new SaaS project http://timeblock.com

(My main income is from my consulting business.)
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This all reminds me that I need to upgrade my motherboard to one which actually supports VT-d. I would really love to boot Windows virtualized on top of my ZFS array, rather then have to cold-boot between OS's.
Too bad there are no details about the algorithm. I'd use something supervised, for how it's described in the first part it looks some sort of bayes
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There's a difference though. With a startup, you're practically working for yourself.

In academia, you end up having to do a lot of ad hoc work for other people.
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Think I read that Google Auth falls back to SMS, so that wouldn't help.
Yep. I've spent ~1k dollars on steam and i've gotten games refunded within days, even though they dont have to according to their TOS.
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I can't find it now, but I seem to remember seeing some option to pay for priority in the account recovery options when resetting one of my accounts in the past.You could always try it on one of your accounts and see.
> The oldest profession is not going to be replaced with robots until those robots are mistakable for humans

It already has. It's the internet. Sex crimes go down when internet access goes up. It hasn't 'replaced' it 100% but that's the point with a lot of this stuff it is slowly reducing jobs without creating new ones.

I really don't think it'd be impossible to create a machine that cuts hair. Or making coloring hair at home/in salons easier.

Even if it's augmented by a human if it's 50% more efficient there might go half the jobs. Use robots so the staff need little to no training. Hair cuts would be cheaper so demand would go up, but jobs will still go.

In a failing economy paying to have your hair cut is an unnecessary expense. Things can start to fall pretty quick.
I think it's a deeper personal reaction, not a social thing, you're confronted with something close to a human that is not one. It won't work unless for a few people.
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It's a great model. We're embedding caffe as well. One thing I'd like to clarify though is that other neural network frameworks can also allow you to setup networks as well via yaml, json and the like.

Ours supports yaml/json. That's how we allow people to setup workers on spark hadoop (that then delegate numerical workloads to gpus or a lower level blas)

Pylearn2 also supports yaml.

Caffe has a lot of good ideas that are worth extending especially to the industry.

Our intent is for people to not touch java but pure bash.
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Excellent.

And clicking in the spectrogram window (launched ffmpeg from Gnome terminal so extra graphic window appears) jumps the playback to the appropriate % of the track.
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PhD programs in the sciences (e.g. bio, chem, phys) in the US also come with a salary/stipend that one can live off of.
This was a little weekend project.

In case it isn't obvious, you can move around in the x, y, z axes. Controls are explained in the bottom left.

I was actually looking into isometric rendering on canvas for a different project and then thought I'd make a little demo with it. The idea of creating a painting tool only came by accident through a bug that didn't clear the canvas and I thought it would be useful.

I thought isometric graphics are quite amusing when it comes to impossible objects. [0]

Maybe this is also useful for someone making a game based on an isometric map.

FYI: I've set up a GitHub wiki page in case someone wants to share their creations (just copy the link). [1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_object

1: https://github.com/jomo/jomo.github.io/wiki
I was watching a show, Orange Is the New Black, and it occurred to me how easy it is to get people in line to serve any sort of agenda. All you need to do is control the things people might want. Once you do that everyone just falls in line to do whatever you want. They will spend their days toiling away at whatever idiotic agenda you have come up for them. And it occurred to me all of society is like that.

A few people control all of the resources, and we are in line to do their bidding and drive the entire system. Without these people we'd just be either hunter gatherers or farmers. With these people in charge we're just there to do their bidding. The bad part of all of this is the progenitors of these ideas are long dead, but the system that they created chugs along continuing to make us do what they wanted to do in the first place.

The people who control the resources don't even know why they do what they do. They do it because that's how things are done. It's the right and moral thing to do.
I think this article is reaching a bit. There are some interesting things about this drug dealer model though. Why do the bottom rungs agree to play this game? I think the dynamic manifests in a lot of highly aspirational industries. The money, prestige and such going to the slim top layer can act in lieu of benefits going directly to participants.

Many one-on-one sports are examples. Floyd Mayweather might make close to $500m in career prize winning. The "contenders" who fight him (apart from big names like Manny Pacquiao or Oscar De La Hoya) under him will earn ˜1% of that. Beneath them, "journeymen" (maybe the top 25 in a weight class) fighters often make something like that $3 an hours wage.

I suspect acting is often similar. Music, stand up comedy and arts in general. The possibility of attaining the prestige and earning of Tom Cruise keeps aspiring actors in gyms and auditions, trying to climb the steep ladder.

Apart from all that, there is definitely something in the zeitgeist about universities and academia. I think they are in for a tsunami of change sometime in the next generation. This is just one example. The weird entanglement of research and education. The trading on Prestige. The dynamism of competition under them (non academic education, bootcamps, online learning, etc.).
Betting on the future is a pretty common tactic in all aspects of life.
Is it just me, or does the photo in this piece quite obviously show protesting Uber tech/marketing employees, not drivers?

If that's the case, and in fact Uber mainly services the relatively affluent, and not typical Bronx residents, then this is a pretty disgusting and disingenuous piece of marketing/lobbying on Uber's part.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946668
Id also be worried about the house of commons you could hop a drone over the Thames to the Veranda one would hope the the security services have thought about that scenario.

I am surprised that todays terrorists haven't tried to emulate the IRA and use timed diy mortar's back in the day they very nearly hit the cabinet at no 10
This observation holds in environments where the resources are tangible and controllable by force (i.e. owning the only oasis in the area or controlling oil fields). It does not hold in decentralized environments in which people can create value on their own.
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I agree. Leaving this out completely avoid the question of why people at the bottom play along. Academia ticks a lot of boxes for some people. Some boxes are even monetary.
Ever heard of break out of the 9-5 jail? The 4 hour work week? And other things that are possible, but difficult to highly unlikely in a highly competitive system where most of the capital is held by a few who make employees of those are looking to be free. Entrepreneurs usually end up as employees of those with capital and if they work really really hard and get really really lucky. They can leave the jail and enjoy how much ever little time they have left.
a situation I could be in that would be improved by me
shooting at the police

Two situations:
1) a situation where you believe there's a reasonably chance the police are going to shoot you and cover it up. Shooting them keeps you alive.

2) you have committed a minor crime, for which the sentence is sufficiently harsh that you are willing to add murder to the crime to prevent being sentenced. If a cop attempts to apprehend you and you shoot him, your situation is improved in that you are not apprehended and may not have to go to jail at all. Ratios of punishments for different crimes matter as well as the absolute value.
> I have never been to the US, and although a trip to California would be an obvious to-do in my profession, the main reason I don't consider it is the death penalty.

Don't kill anyone and you'll be good.

Or perhaps you're actually concerned about false conviction, which is a different problem and no less bad when someone spend the rest of his life in prison
"Liking" or "Trapped"? I don't know psychologically how does this work. Even though i have a credit card, i will always pay all the outstanding to avoid debt. Personally, being in loan makes me feel scared.
What happens when we create a "computer" that doesn't have to be sentient but is good enough to do the following things

- Manage a company.

- Complete tasks that have value.

- Follow all laws.

This would be a corporate entity sort of like the automated bitcoin entities but instead it would be a corporate entity that is dependant on the following.
- Can it power itself

- Will its check clear for the next month since it has to power itself

- The things the computer can't do can it hire an outside contractor to do it.
Good question! Each iteration of the model occurs for one unit of time. Because of this, we can directly compare distance and velocity.

Like if velocity was meters per second, and distance was meters, since the velocity update occurs for one second, we can compare the two.

I'll clarify in the post, this confused me too when I first started reading about the model.
"long-term benefits to society" is one attitude. Surely you have better argument in defense of your field or humanities generally. Can you elaborate a bit on the kind of attitude you talk of?
"Companies tend to cling, designers tend to think long term."
It's more of an offer-and-demand thing. If you don't treat veterans well (and, I mean, get your expectations a lot lower, not look at their actions too hard, and so on), no one will do that job. I know I wouldn't.
"ELIZA [was] actually used as a therapeutic tool"

Can you provide a reference for this? I've only ever seen it referred to as a toy, an oddity; never an actual tool.
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