skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder where github is going; from a month ago: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
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As someone pointed out in the thread on Github, the term "Git" is also an offensive term. Who's going to start the petition for Github to change its name?

Slippery Slopes Indeed.

From Wikipedia: "Git is a mild[1] pejorative with origins in British English for a silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person.[2] It is usually an insult, more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat.[1][3][4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)
From the username I noticed the creator is also the owner of http://park.io --- a cool domain dropcatching service for .io, .ly, .to, and .me domains.

The one time I had a support request it was dealt with promptly by the founder himself.

Be careful though --- I got the bright idea to be an amateur domain speculator... So far I've spent a cool $1000 on 10 domain names and am now discovering flipping them is harder than I thought!

Shameless self-plug for anyone who might be interested in my portfolio: http://cerebral.io
Do early-round investors bank off of later ones? I don't really know anything about fundraising, so my perception is that money it just getting shifted around from one investor to the next.
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> One way you could fix the system is to punish the trolls for knowingly peddling invalid patents...

Most "patent trolls" spin off separate legal entities for each patent they're using. This is to minimize losses if a suit goes wrong and they end up having to pay legal fees. So, trying to punish trolls would be extraordinarily difficult; you'd have to figure out some way to explicitly link all of these entities, which is something the trolls are already specifically trying to prevent.
For a company that ran a heavy Scroogled campaign, the irony is amusing.
I don't trust my livelihood to the need to say offensive things, either.

You're trusting your livelihood to the idea that other people won't willfully misinterpret innocent phrasing on your part for their 2 minutes outrage.

And typically, when one's brain stops understanding analogies, that's a pretty good sign it isn't working at all. So get some rest and think about it when you're in better condition.

Aww, your argument is crap therefore there must be something wrong with me. The laziest of intellectual assumptions: he disagrees, therefore he's incapable of understanding. I understand your argument well, you don't understand my argument at all and there's something wrong with me?
I feel the same way about ignoring content that is packaged in a user hostile manner. However, the sites that do it do not care whether you or I read the site, they only care about revenue, revenue, revenue. If they lose 85% of their audience but get better revenue, that's fantastic for them.
I find it interesting that no one picks on the phone being as fast as the laptop. Its not exactly true either and the phones are fast but not that fast.

Its a mix of safari perf, Network latency, memory, cpu/bus... And of course the biggest contender, the website itself.

In the past a slow app would be blamed for being poorly written. Now its as if you cant write poor js.
So was Word Lens doing this before Google even bought them? Because Word Lens worked fine, locally on a phone, long before Google was doing it's whole deep learning thing.
And you thought you didn't know where it went, you sly rascal you.
Besides being too broad, it tracks only a few items. I outlined five possible states above for how a company deals with a subject, a sixth would be "unknown". The EFF just has a star, which considering their goal, which is similar but not quite the same, is fine. They are looking to encourage companies to change by influencing the consumers as well, but I think they are going for a more emotional influence, while I am espousing a more informational influence. Make it easier to see the specifics in a more granular fashion so consumers can be informed.

Additionally I'm not entirely sure how to split out all the different things to track with regard to privacy, which is why I think it's a big project. But I see a need, and I think someone could do well for themselves filling that need.
Source: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

Because mobile.
It would appear that empathy is not your strong point.

No, most people don't need to work in an anechoic chamber.

But any distracting noise adds to cognitive load, and since you're being paid to use your cognitive abilities, productivity suffers.

If you're paying people to do something and then making it harder for them to do it, the problem is not with the people.
Would be great to see a more in depth article about this, and maybe even some open source code?
If you have foot pain from feet that don't match the standard shoenshape, try gap lacingm
Merely clarifying parent's post on what is construed as offensive (when it is directed at someone, especially to incite a reaction).

As I've mentioned in my other comments, I get that the author is just having fun... But:

- not everyone will see it that way

- it will reflect poorly on the author and GitHub

So, in short, just be careful of what you put out in public. If we can all agree on a code of conduct (and maintaining civility), then we shouldn't be having this conversation ever again :)
The word actually means to impede.

So it became common usage as slang against people who were considered dumb, when it started to get callous it was used as slang against the mentally disabled. But it has just about universally not ever meant mentally disabled and I have literally never heard it used for that ever. I've seen it on some memes.

You're advocating for the banishment of a word that doesn't mean what you are advocating banishing it for.
Really??

ECC RAM and redundant PSUs alone should be unquestioned advantages over standard desktops.

Not to mention hardware raid controllers, IPMIs, designs that allow fans and other parts to be serviced without downtime... :P
I'd take Thrun's course on autonomous robots.

I'd then implement it on a physical system - I'd focus on something other than Arduino, which doesn't translate well, and do it on RaspPi or similar.
After all that: Why are you still a facebook user? The users have a much quicker way to resolve these issues than the courts.
You want for profit entities governing and writing our laws?

Wow.
Sometimes a small portion of a round is used to buy out previous investors or sell some founder/early employee shares, but that's not the point of a round like this. If it's not for growth of the company, that would be a bad sign.
UiWebView from fb/tw is really the biggest pain point on iOS when most of your traffic come from social media.
The only way I foud to escape it is to add a little bit of js to perform the following :

- test if the browser is an UI webview
- if yes redirect to ftp://(mysite).com
- safari will intercept this uri scheme and try to open the ftp link.
- serve an html page over ftp than just contain a small js script that redirect to the original url.
- the user is back to the original page but on safari and can now browse more modern web content (webgl games?)

This is tedious, broke the back button and glimps for half a seconds beforebuser can access my content. I will loved to not have to do it anymore.
"XII Realistic Paintings of Marble Statues. My Jaw Dropped at Number IX."

"A Wolf Suckles Romulus and Remus. What Happens Next Will Blow Your Mind"
Yes I am, as any proper dev I am building my own ;)

The interesting part is that instead of building a project management tool I (unintended and accidental) invented a new way of working and doing projects (now it is called TimeBlock)

I told other project managers, business owners, personal efficiency experts and Makers about the method and people started copying it in more than half the times I told about the method, to the point that 6 other business were using the method before we had written a single line of code.

This way of working has made me and my consultancy business employees much happier and we even had CEO's question if we hid something from them because the projects ran so smoothly :)

Mail me or go to our website to learn more http://timeblock.com
Yes, you definitely should.

'Shadow profiling' ought to be 100% illegal.
Thank you. This attitude helps.
AH == a16z
Based on the video, is security the root problem? Sorry, but that is a problem in every programming environment. Security is hard regardless of using C++, JS, Linux, Windows, etc. Therefore it is not terribly relevant to the question: is JS capable of emulating native functionality and should it?

For that question, the root problem was definitely JS itself historically but the language deficiencies have largely been resolved by ES6. In my opinion, the only major language deficiency is handling int64 and larger numbers which will hopefully be resolved by "value types" in ES7. Then use a React-like framework on top and building applications feels "right", at least to me.
It is that simple but the more complex story is that when the number of hidden layers exceeds 2, training becomes difficult. Also convnets for example cheat by having the connections between layers be incomplete bipartite graphs (not every node is connected to every other node), usually chosen because of some physical property - for computer vision nearest neighbors - eg.
Economic productivity is usually defined as the value of what is produced. Again, my point was that if you have some measure of productivity P such that decreasing sum(P(employees)) increases P(sum(employees)), your P is not a good measure.
Could I make a case for "app constellations were always a kind of dumb idea"?

For the most part, they're a solution in search of a problem. A designer wanted to make a really clean interface, and in service of making a really clean interface, they killed the genuine synergy of a multi-functional app.

The only case where app constellations really make sense is where the original app was really, genuinely, for-real several apps in one already, with no significant crossover. Even then, unless your customer base are either:

a. Already naturally segmented into people who use functionality X exclusively and those who use functionality Y exclusively.

or

b. Really heavy users of both X and Y such that they'll "pay" the cost of downloading both apps separately.

then it still doesn't make much sense. If you have a function in your main app that people, like, kind of use every now and again, then if you separate it out into a different app, they'll just go without that functionality.
It's one thing for the friend to 'leak it', quite another for FB to then use it outside of anything tied to the friend.

They have no business propagating that information any further than the profile that supplied it.
The fact there are two camps (GG and anti-GG) means there was a split. What's the difference between the two camps? Ideology and nothing else.
To expand on this some more: for a long time, thanks to Cybenko's theorem[1], people just used 1 hidden layer in their neural networks (also because computing was sloowww..). So, your typical NN architecture was input_layer --> hidden_layer --> output_layer.

Eventually, people realized that you could improve performance by adding more hidden layers. So while theoretically Cybenko was correct, practically stacking a bunch of hidden layers made more sense. These network architectures with stacks of hidden layers were then labelled as "deep" neural networks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
haha, thanks for using park.io! I'm glad you were pleased with the support, it is important to me. Best of luck selling the domains - you have some nice ones
Interesting to see that Bessemer Venture Partners isn't listed as participating in this round. They've been involved in all the previous funding.
Can you expand on why you say the usability is terrible? I understand people didn't like the Win8 start menu, since it was only accessible in full screen and would hide your desktop entirely, however I never heard any one give a reason why they would think tiles in general are terrible.

I personally love the concept. I spent some time on Windows Phone too and the live tiles were the best thing about the OS. Also, you can unpin all of them on windows 10 and resize the start menu to only keep the app list (but I have no idea would anyone would do that).
Ok then, where is your proof that they are? It's perfectly possible to have world class researchers who don't use machine learning to do exactly what you claim it does.
I see no mention of it, but I'd be surprised if they didn't use some form of knowledge distilling [1] (which Hinton came up with, so really no excuse), to condense a large neural network into a much smaller one.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
Also, folks are right RE: languages - you'll need to pick up C/C++ as well, and likely a little Python/alternative scripting language.
Considering the very significant accuracy gains deep learning has achieved over previous approaches (and across a number of fields), it's certainly not a simple fad. Having worked in computer vision for a good 8+ years, deep learning is basically amazing.

Deep learning is a form of representation/feature learning.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding we're having here is that people on the left side of the political spectrum believe the solution to all answers is more government control. The idea that the government isn't the beginning and ending of social control is outside of their realm of understanding.
The trick - having only one connector. For normal macbooks they will probably have multiple USB-C (for power and other stuff), maybe one USB-B, a card reader, video etc.
Look, I know standards are pretty low in the advertorial mill that laughingly passes itself off as tech journalism, but does no one proofread even the bolded attention-getting text, much less articles, any more? Current lead-in to the source article: "As a Google Google company, Motorola's Moto X design wow'd reviewers and consumers. Now part of Lenovo, Motorola's and new supply chain extends its proven design with very competitive prices."

Motorola was "Google Google company"? "Motorola's and new supply chain"?

The article's not much better.

Why not just link to the official announcement blog post from Motorola [0] rather than something that's just as much of an ad, contains less substantive information about the products, and is less readable?

[0] http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2015/07/find-your-perfect-...
No it doesn't. Only works on win10 (phone, PC, tablet & surface hub for the moment, but they are expanding it to hololens and xbox one).
Look at the survival rate for marriages. I'd strongly theorize that the inability to predict the outcome of a merger is not limited to arrogant businessmen and somewhat less strongly I propose that the general public don't seem to do much better or worse than businessmen.

I wonder if there is any way to train people to design better mergers. It would seem that MBA schools and pre-marital counselors both are not terribly good at it. That means you could sell them a checkbox to help them out. Insert stereotypical "sounds like a really difficult job in other words the perfect crazy startup idea". Maybe gamified somehow, either entirely or some component? It might just be a lack of empathy, surely that can be trained? Or lack of critical analysis skills? Good luck with this startup idea. I'm sure that some liberal arts degrees have considerable research on this general topic, although I'd ignore the religious studies and b-school documentation for purely pragmatic reasons.
Yes, I suppose the fact that they're only scanning a cone in front of the airplane is highly relevant if they're not flying in a straight line.
Love this service -- beautiful site, simple docs, simple API, great concept.
Waarom+infrarood+sauna+kopen?
Pannellum supports Google Photo Sphere XMP data, so it should work with any photo sphere without any extra configuration.

Note: I'm the author of Pannellum.
Not at the same level. There are many concepts Facebook is optimized for that code is very poor at expressing. Like fear for one's life at the hands of SWAT teams spuriously called in, for example.
At the moment it is illegal for them to do such a thing (at least in the US) for black people are a protected group (civil rights act etc).

Other than for a small number of reasons due to protected groups, businesses generally have the right to refuse business to anyone for any reason.

Do I think Facebook should be allowed to block black people? No.

Do I think Facebook should be allowed to block pseudonyms? Yes.
The article mentions algorithmically generating the training set. See here for some earlier research in this area: http://bheisele.com/heisele_research.html#3D_models
If your machine was OEM preloaded with Windows 7, you can rest assured it has a product key.
Everything is a tradeoff. Cognitive load decreases productivity. Open communication and easy collaboration increases it. The argument is that it makes up for it. The current popular opinion on HN is it doesn't.

I'm sorry I don't have empathy for bullshit rare disorders like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
You seem to be missing the point: venture capitalists raise money to generate fees. How you classify what they do with the money left over after fees isn't all that important because the primary business is fee generation.
It was interesting to hear how they knew dolphins to live about 30 years...which is pretty accurate (it's usually 20 years, but some have been known to live up to 48 years).
This is a fair point, and thanks for the advice, but the form warns you before submitting[0], so I doubt it is actually contacting the payment processor. Anyway, I can't be bothered since the card works everywhere else.

0: and I don't recall, but it may not let you submit.
SQL, as a language, will always win. There is no more elegant way to work with sets, and you can't work with data without thinking about sets.

I really like his point about the original breakthrough of SQL being the ability to abstract the way the data is stored from the application, and the language was just a natural outgrowth.
It's based on Three.js, calling it "WebGL" is false advertising. It's like calling a Unreal or Unity based game "DirectX". Also it's already 5 months old and neither the website nore the Github or ChromeExperiments call it WebGL.
paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/circuit_finger.pdf
good luck hosting this. Are you blocking any filetypes?
Yahoo reveals Livetext, its new silent video chat app
Neural networks, and the plain old trusted logistic regression :) handles raw, continuous data better than the other learning algorithms. For example, if your inputs are images or audio recordings, it's really hard to do classification with decision trees or random forests as you'd need to construct the features manually. What would be a feature: color densities, color histograms, edges, corners, Haar-like, etc.? The promise of multilayer neural network is that given a lot of data, the right network structures, an appropriate learning strategy, and a huge farm of GPUs, the network can automatically learn the right features from raw data in the first layers, and utilizes the features in later layers. The big advantage of this approach is that you abstract away the domain problems (hopefully), and focus on picking the right network design, the right learning strategy, collecting a good data set etc. Neural network training is also easy to parallelize, so Google and the like can leverage their huge infrastructures.

Now if the features in the domain problem is more well defined, like credit ratings, and data is sparse, and domain expertise is available, decision trees are perfectly valid options.
I'm glad to see that Microsoft is no longer recommending one toolkit to third-party developers (WPF, WinRT) while using another one for Windows itself (DirectUI). With everyone using the same toolkit now, we should expect to see more consistency, especially in areas like accessibility that don't get as much attention.

Edit: I wonder how long it will be until DirectUI is completely gone from the shell, or if that will ever happen.
What I should have said was, "not once did he come forward and say it was him, while Ellen Pao was taking the heat". Of course, once Ellen stepped down and Yishan already exposed Alexis, he admitted it.

For the sake of this discussion, I personally don't care why Victoria was fired - that's not the point. The point is that Alexis purposefully let someone else take the blame for a decision he made. Either it was a shifty business strategy, or he's a shitty person. In both cases, it doesn't reflect well on him.
You mean like WinRAR installers inside a .rar file?
People will soon pay a lot of money to be de-anonymized.
The citation/case-law to use is those that define the terms distribution, adaptation, and derivative work.

With GPL, anything which isn't client side code should be fine, especially since legal advice from GPL authors have said that SaaS and GPL do not put any additional requirement on the service provider.

AGPL talk about using the work, and here the law as I have read it defined that you got to be a lawful owner in order to be permitted to copy the work into RAM. In order to be a lawful owner of the copy, you got the be in compliance with the license. How you do so is up to you, but the perceived consensus seems to put that responsibility on the SaaS provider.

Since we are talking about an SaaS API, what count as the program is sadly a grey zone. For example, Linux based operative systems has commonly a command line API but it isn't a single program. Ask yourself (or the lawyers) what a nontechnical layman would consider as a single work and what they would consider as multiple separate programs working in unison. I suspect it highly depend on what the API do, how data is flown, and how the internal source code is laid out.
Better be careful posting this. You don't want to be labeled by Matthew Garrett as a rape apologist[0].

[0] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18505.html?thread=693321
The State of the On-Demand Economy
Unfortunately, native interface is too bugged to serious use yet. When trying to "Follow TCP Stream" it will crash with big streams (>20mb) and several tools are missing.

But for quick or simple auditing it works great!
And both of those uses are examples of consumption, not creation.
The submitter user name shares many letters with the author of the article, so that perhaps explains why they chose to submit it over any alternatives.

They submit a lot of their own articles but I guess they are generally topical and not overly frequent. I'd prefer a more direct statement about the relationship between the submitter and Network World (either in the teaser comments they post or their profile), but there isn't much of an attempt to hide anything.
I wish I knew why Apple's top quality engineers didn't embed or bundled a USB-C to 60GHz WiGIG Dockinstation. Having only a single USB-C port is absolutely cool, if you have a wireless 7GBps dockingstation.

Is there some reason why Apple doesn't promote WiGIG?

Here's an overview over the technology:

http://ultrabooknews.com/tag/wigig/

http://www.slashgear.com/intel-wigig-docking-station-in-2015...

http://www.cnet.com/news/60ghz-tech-promises-wireless-dockin...

Personally I wish they used Ultrabroadband-Radio (>500MHz Bandwith). There are numerous reasons fellow RF enthusiasts will recognize in UWB radio. But I am happy with whatever technology allows me to have a cable-free desktop 😌 This is the reason I loved the original Ubuntu Phone (with it's powerful specs).