skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google+ is really its own thing, and very valuable as such, but Google keeps trying to make it into something it's not.

You see Google+ interaction where you expect simple comments. I often see Youtube comments in Google+ threads because the thread happened to start with a video, and therefore automatically becomes a Youtube comment for barely literate Youtubers to spit their bile at. Or I see a G+er accidentally post a Youtube comment as a nonsensical G+ post.

Google tries to treat everything the same, but they need to recognize that different things are different things. I don't want my G+ stuff on Youtube, and I don't want Youtube stuff on G+. You don't want G+ reshares in the article's comment section.

I'm glad they finally seem to be coming to their senses. Would have been nice if that'd happened a few years earlier.
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Maybe attributed to debt conscious millennial generation? I believe this is why financial management services like Simple and Moven that offer only debit cards are becoming more popular.
I guess this would be a good way to keep people that aren't hardcore enough out of my online metal community...
Relevant xkcd : https://xkcd.com/233/
Machine learning can save lot of time for us by automating the data analysis and recommending the actions which we would possibly act on. Learn to know more.
I think these people have read too much science fiction.

>First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

>John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider (1975), Bk. 1, Ch. "The Number You Have Reached"

Great book, though.
This only happens if you're using windows as administrator and your VPN runs directly on your box. If you're running OpenVPN on your router your real external IP won't leak.
The speed improvement for all file search is amazing. Searching the whole project as you type is a really nice feature.
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Before you bought your Model S, were you ever indifferent about a 50% difference in gasoline prices?
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You've had drone operators coming forward and exposing problems with the "program". That's a very good reason to keep humans close to these tasks.
> Are people still spouting "dotcom crash v2.0" nonsense?

Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9608422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7503066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9147958

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258798

http://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-w...
In modern economics the assumption is that marginal cost decreases for a while due to economies of scale, but then increases. It's a bit confusing, but consider this, at first you will devote the best resources to their best appropriate task. If you buy a factory, you'll buy the most cost effective factory and you'll hire the most cost effective people. As you expand, you'll have to maybe get another factory that may not be as well suited (if it were, you would have gone with it in the first place) and hire the second best person, and so on. This is called diseconomies of scale. Similarly, running organizations above a certain size creates plenty of inefficiencies that also contribute to increased marginal cost.

Both economies of scale and diseconomies of scale play a role. Think about it in the extremes. Would a company be able to produce 2x, 10x, 100x the product they currently produce now at the same per unit cost, or less? If not, then there must be some point at which the marginal cost is upward sloping.

I believe this is the reason that large companies don't necessarily lead innovation. For instance, a company like Facebook could have easily created a Snapchat, but it could not. It wasn't even successful imitating the product after several attempts (popularity, not functionality).

More:
http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/microecon...
Sure, but the case for this prject isn't "Neural network implementation in javascript that's 'fast'".

It's "FANN".js, where FANN expands to "Fast Artificial Neural Network", and the c implementation of FANN was probably the fastest when it was created.

Conclusion: FANN.js is "the js port of FANN".
You're right, author has rose-colored glasses. I almost thought it was a joke at first—2012 as the good ol' days? The internet ruined in the last three years? Come on.
Really? I only ever cook with extra virgin olive oil. I really can't tell the difference :P
They do mention canola (rapeseed) oil, and they also mention the temperature they are looking at (365F), so it can apply to whatever cooking methods heat oil to this temperature (frying, searing, etc). Use an infrared thermometer on your pans when heating oil, and you'll soon get a feel for what temperatures are produced by your usual methods.
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"So where are we in 2015?"

That depends if you keep using those big parties that use those ad systems or if you start to realise only the sun still comes up for free. And the rest, left or right, pay up.
Haha metal forums around the world are flocking to integrate to keep out 'falsies'.
We have bans on chemical and biological weapons. You don't say "but everything is made of chemicals. What are we even banning?" The law will create a legal definition and courts will interpret it. It's not the hard.
TL;DR : "The methods you call can get different parameter values than you passed in."
A member of the military might not have any problem at all with the "accidental" assassination of their leader, whether that leader is the president or the company sergeant. AI could easily provide plausible deniability.

I've been very critical of claims of the dangers of AI, but this isn't about AI - this is about giving lethal weapons to autonomous systems.

And that's just stupid. All software has bugs, and even if you don't have a problem with autonomous killing systems - I certainly do - it's incredibly irresponsible to build systems that could kill just because someone left out a semicolon or couldn't convert between miles and km.

It's taking the "blue screen of death" experience just a little too literally.
Or it says that there's an untapped opportunity for low friction, micro-transactions instead of "ads" or full-fledged purchases on unknown websites.

It's clear by now that ads are for lazy. If your plan is to monetize your site with ads, today just like 10 years ago, you lost.

Edit: surprised by the negativity on her reaction for _hacker_news. She's rebuffed by the $ and time investment for a single song ("unknown website, takes time to create an account, multiply by times she wants to buy a song). As she says:

> and not enough to pay to risk giving my credit card to an unknown third party.

This is a UX challenge, not some morale lecture.
There are plenty of opportunities to buy property from sellers who can self-finance the deal too.
I love it, I'd never register for anything again as the 5 or so times I clicked refresh every band logo was unreadable
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> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website.

While that's a fair decision keep in mind that Paypal started as an unknown website at some point.

I have used Paypal as a commerce before for my online game and I can't stress this enough... their policies are awful. I don't blame an independent artist for trying an alternative, even if it is an unknown one.
I don't use the phone. Pretty much ever. I want to know what's happening to my emails, online tracking etc.
Here's an interesting look at music prices over time.

http://theunderstatement.com/post/3377858909/album-prices
So the hack is a classic kiosk mode breakout, like you could try to do with poorly secured public computers. The wonder here is not in the hack, because it's just a set of keypresses and mouse clicks. The wonder instead lies with the the manufacturer who made a safe stupid enough to be bypassed with a mouse and keyboard.
Do I get the MP3 to keep forever if I pay? Most times, no.

Is that really the case? Most vendors selling MP3 format music are DRM-free.
>I think we would have much better justice system if less lip service was paid to "rights"

The only solution is for actual service was provided to rights. Anything else is unethical and will justify and necessitate extreme violence to overthrow.
Even if you adjust for inflation, you really can't compare the production costs.
You could just install a Galera cluster on DO and it'd function similarily, and tbh, that is possibly what they did.

Ignoring the benchmark BS [which is almost always BS] basically they are offering:

> With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver high performance and 99.99% availability while easily and efficiently scaling to up to 64 TB of storage.

Galera is quorum writes [basically], can scale to ~6 nodes pretty effectively [more than 6 you run into issues with write performance imho. This would be a 2/2/2 for 3 availability zone setup].

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...

Galera's synchronous write process means you want everything near each other geographically, so 3 AZs in the same region would make perfect sense.

> Along the way, they verified that each Amazon Aurora instance is able to deliver on our performance target of up to 100,000 writes and 500,000 reads per second, along with a price to performance ratio that is 5 times better than previously available.

That is literally the read/write ratio you'll see on a 6 node Galera cluster. Reads scale per-node [reads are local], but writes don't [every node has to perform the write + the replication overhead].

So yeah, you can set something similar up with any provider with 3 geographically near DCs.

https://www.digitalocean.com/features/reliability/

DO has that setup in NYC and AMS, at least I assume NYC1/2/3 AMS1/2/3 are different AZ equivalents.
I wish they would still take the “content, not Chrome” priority on the Desktop. I know that removing the URL bar is something that breaks the web for less savvy users, so I get the choice to make that option hard to find. But, a minimalist experience (e.g., cVim, a vimperator/penta alternative for chrom{e,ium}) almost requires this feature.

Since its complete removal, there is essentially no way to have a truly minimal browsing experience on chromium…
I spent a nontrivial amount of time researching my comment. What do you find hyped?
Beatport is premium service. iTunes is the cheap one.
Supply and demand? ie: There is a glut today, did similar market conditions exist in '62?
Have you ever actually done extensive repair of mobile devices? I'm actually glad they changed the screws; Phillips screws that small strip pretty easily and then you're actually locked out of the device. the newer style screw allows for more torque and lower chance of stripping by far.
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The part that stuck out to me was when the author talked about her desire to have a long-term archive of her favorite music, but wasn't willing to "wait for 2 days for a CD to ship". I can understand not wanting to deal with CDs or not wanting to spend money on less-favorite songs on the album, but focusing on the delay just doesn't click for me.
Reminds me of The Machine in Person of Interest.

(Spoiler alert for those who haven't seen the first 3 seasons.)

The Samaritan works like you described - turns data and metadata into kill decisions. The Machine just outputs a social security number of a "person of interest". Figuring out why is the job of humans.

The show features an interesting discussion about what happens when an AI following the first method (data -> kill decision) starts lying to you to further its own agenda. The same issue applies when you have a black box of sub-AI complicated analysis algorithms that make the decision.
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Presumably they get a small fee from the landlord when someone signs a lease. Whereas most rental agents are paid by the tenant (although in some cases they will get a bonus from the landlord; in cases where the tenant goes directly to the landlord, that bonus might take the form of a rent concession, such as the first month free).
I drive an electric car and fly piston airplanes. I don't see electrics replacing internal combustion in aviation in my flying lifetime.

Why? Weight.

The specific energy (energy per kg, edited per masklinn) of batteries sadly lags the specific energy of gasoline or kerosene, and the airplane carries that weight for the whole flight for an electric airplane. (My gas airplane gets lighter and lands as much as 1000 pounds lighter than it took off, meaning the landing gear, wing spar attachments, and brakes can all be lighter.)

Many airplanes are certified for a ramp, taxi, and takeoff weight higher than their approved landing weight. Electrics will be unable to take advantage of this and must confine their takeoff weight to their landing weight.

I love that such rapid progress is being made in automotive, and I'd love to see that adoption increase so we can reserve petro-based fuels for cases where their energy density provides a compelling operational benefit, such as in aviation.
The old middlemen make incredible amounts of money for approximately nothing, as far as I can tell as someone who has rented in/around NYC for 10 years, but never actually paid a broker.

I'd love having new middlemen that do about that same nothing for 20% of the price.
Researchers have found a new texting vulnerability in Android
Coding is easy. Software Engineering + CS is hard.
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"But what about the abundance of weapons? Or the ease of use? Or the accessibility of weapons in situations where you are emotionally unstable?"

The designer (in this case Kalashnikov) had no control over the abundance of his design or who gets access to them. As for ease of use, if you want to learn how to use a firearm (or any skills for that matter) you can. Ease of use is not a deterrent.
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If you don't mind sharing (and if you still recall) what was the payment service they were using?
> I would think it better that we have weapon systems that intelligently make an assessment as to whether their target is (A) a combatant, (B) a threat, (C) surrendered, etc...

The problem is that those intelligent systems will be overlorded by the same people overlording the actual military.

At least in our current situation a human has to pull the trigger and that person could be potentially charged for crimes against humanity which would make it thinking it twice and potentially resist to follow a direct order. You won't have that with a machine.
Don't items usually cost more if broken out individually?
Yes, assuming the US lets the GCHQ store US information. I'd say its more likely AT&T, Verizon, et al. just provide a "Prioritized Law Enforcement" API and sell access to the Government.
It is rare in WWW land, but not rare in P2P land.

Note: this is a simplified explanation. Some details are glossed-over/wrong. But it will give you the basic idea. In order for someone to be able to talk to your machine they need to know your IP address. In general, this if fine because you can just tell people your IP address. However if you are on an internal LAN then you have the same external IP address as everybody else on the LAN. There needs to be a way to route packets to you.

A P2P application needs to have some way of telling the outside world, "If you want to send packets to me, this is how to do it". Of course, LANs are designed to stop people from being able to randomly send packets from outside the LAN to machines inside the LAN for obvious security reasons. So if you do this, then you are compromising the security of your LAN to a certain degree.

As I said, P2P apps need the ability to advertise how to connect to you or else you can only connect outwards. In other words, if it were a telephone, you could make outgoing calls, but couldn't receive incoming calls because nobody knows where you are. So when you start up Skype or Bittorrent, etc, it usually uses some tricks to figure out how people can contact you and advertises it.

The problem with WebRTC is not so much that it has this capability -- it needs it. The problem is that it is accessible remotely and doesn't ask for permission. You can go to a website that will jam some javascript at you that gets this information.

You can't even turn it off in the case that you don't want to use WebRTC. Requests to change the functionality to prompt the user (or at least have an option to prompt the user) when this functionality is used has been turned down. Not a lot of coherent reasoning has been given (as far as I can tell), but I imagine that the implementation is difficult and they don't think the majority of users will care.

I suppose as a middle-ground they have offered this plugin. I have my own strongly held beliefs on this topic (which may be evident from what I wrote), but hopefully this is neutral enough that you can understand the issue, do some reading and form your own opinion.
The research can be found at http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-0000070.pdf and may or may not be thought to support the cited interview.

The authors see the Internet as a transactive memory proxy for a human partner and then worry about what happens if the Internet is not available. Their results suggest that the use of Internet searches, not just access to the Internet, inflates participants’ sense of personal knowledge.
Even if they are the new middle man, they should be able to have a successful business model on much lower commissions than an individual broker.
Nope... self control aside, I deny requests for notification privileges from all apps.
I'm just not following the connection from ads on the internet to a basic income.

I've heard some good arguments for as well as against a basic income. I've never heard ads on the internet as one of them.
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This is why I think solutions like IPFS are the future:

http://ipfs.io/

(tl;dr: go get github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/cmd/ipfs)

Basically, the day will come when any single one of us will be able to serve our own content privately from our own machine without requiring a massive infrastructure investment, nor any kind of fancy participation in what is, essentially, branding on steroids (Internet of today), but rather all it will require to sell and control ones own art is to publish it yourself with cryptographic certainty that there simply is no middle man any more.

Its the third party that degrades all art - those who have to carry the stuff from place to place in order to pimp things for the artist. Get rid of this, and give the artist direct and completely control over where and when and to whom their art is delivered, and we produce the utopia that many of us artists wish we had. It is unbearable to have to go through a third party to get to the masses; to have direct contact is the ultimate goal..
The linked article doesn't mention anything about things "not being good for you". It simply says that if you burn the oil it might not taste very good.

Nor does it say that Olive oil has the lowest smoke point, except Extra Virgin.

Which is just as well: the idea that olive oil is particularly bad for cooking is utter nonsense. There's no evidence for it at all. If you have can link to a peer reviewed Chemistry or Medical paper that says differently, then I'm willing to change my opinion.
A member of the military would have a major problem with assassination of her own leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_an...

Usually if a leader is assassinated, the assassin is a member of the country's military.

The US is comparatively rare in having had no coups since independence and only one civil war. The US also has very strong indoctrination against this kind of thing, but individuals are just as vulnerable as robots to making the wrong decision if they are fed false information. Such as endless attacks on the legitimacy of the president's election, birth certificate, allegations of being a foreign agent, etc.

The US is of course not above assassinating foreign leaders, conspiring to have them deposed, or providing arms to military coups against democratically elected governments. Allende is probably the biggest example.

Edit: and of course there's always the risk of a single rogue individual, from Dr. Strangelove's " Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper" to the very real Ford Hood massacre. In fact, Dr. Strangelove should be required viewing on this subject; not only is it darkly hilarious, it's all about setting in motion destructive partly-automated systems which cannot be countermanded.
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I think it's not that simple. Companies like Nestlé do have to care about environment for alot of reasons.

Thats basically why they hire people who have these skills.

The lack of license re-evaluation resources is sad and tells alot about how much some govs actually care about the environement.

Strangely nobody would care about nature if oil was flowing in these pipes.
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Because it increased the knowledge of the domain you were developing for.

Which is precisely the article's main point. You can do those things because that knowledge will help you as a developer. That's why you can do those things, it doesn't mean you should do those things.
> > provide some collateral

> Is that really necessary with a 25-50% down payment?

It's not necessary at all. First of all, a car is not going to be adequate collateral for half (or three quarters, or more) of a house. If it is, you are spending way too much on your car.

And yes, 50% down payment is untenable for the majority of people in the US, even those with upper middle class incomes. Hell, when my wife and I bought our first house we used the FHA and only had to make a 3.5% down payment. In our low cost of living area that meant our down payment was less than what I paid for my first car (which was a decade old when I bought it). No collateral was necessary for that, either.
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On Google+ you have always been able to choose whether to share publicly or only to specific circles.

And the Youtube integration was also the immediate end of the real-name policy (which was really more an "no unusual name policy, because people got blocked for having an unusual real name, whereas plausible pseudonyms were left alone).

But you're right; it was a stupid policy, and they should have known that right from the start.
I can't stand brokers, especially in NYC. I hope this app wins, however this article reads like a press release.

Also, founders, please please please stop using the Uber for X nonsense. This app doesn't deliver an apartment to your door and collect payment in a frictionless process. Find new metaphors. If the VCs can't understand your product without calling it the <unicorn_name> for <your_vertical>, then find some VCs that are smarter or figure out what you are actually selling and how to explain it clearly. This product could simply be: "an app that eliminates the real estate broker." Uber for rentals is just dumb. Did the founders graduate from TechStars yesterday and that was how they were coached to talk to the media? Über didn't call themselves the Y for X and Facebook didn't call themselves MySpace for X. That use of other companies to explain your business is just lazy. Still PR rant aside, I hope this app succeeds. I'd love for the majority of residential broker-bottom-feeders to join the buggy whip makers in the unemployment line.