Hacker News: mattlevan

New comment by mattlevan in "Show HN: Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for macOS"

mattlevan — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:17:02 +0000

This product doesn't look to me to be compelling enough to switch away from Finder and ranger. I use Finder when I want to browse pictures or other rich media and ranger when I just want to browse source code and other text files from the command line using vim-like hotkeys.

New comment by mattlevan in "Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?"

mattlevan — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:31:03 +0000

It matters when the tool you're using doesn't respect your privacy, yea.

New comment by mattlevan in "The Myth and Magic of California Style"

mattlevan — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:20:47 +0000

You can't blame him. SF is a giant leftist bubble.

New comment by mattlevan in "Leaked Snapchat emails: Anti-gun group told to pay or NRA ads may appear"

mattlevan — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 22:56:46 +0000

Why is that? Is Everytown's message so shoddy that it can't hold its own against a ten second NRA ad?

New comment by mattlevan in "The rise of the useless class"

mattlevan — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:04:37 +0000

Ha. I think just about everyone with a pet has thought of that..

But, if actually given the opportunity, I doubt most people would take it!

New comment by mattlevan in "The rise of the useless class"

mattlevan — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:03:06 +0000

Agreed. It'd be quite difficult to measure whether or not someone learns something new, anyway, because of the variety of things available to learn (large and small). If we're talking about learning entirely new skills, though, yea, obviously a cashier will probably not need to learn any significant new skills over the course of their career.

As always, people who do make learning new things a part of their life's rituals will generally be more successful than those who do not.

Nice username, by the way.

New comment by mattlevan in "Expanding Fact Checking at Google"

mattlevan — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:11:57 +0000

Expanding fact checking at Google?

Fine.

DuckDuckGo[1] it is for me, then.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/about

Taser has started its own in-house AI unit

mattlevan — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:59:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.vocativ.com/402771/ai-body-cams-cops-google/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670257

Points: 33

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New comment by mattlevan in "Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future"

mattlevan — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:00:19 +0000

All of the subjects you mention at the end of your comment, especially memristors, are indeed the focus of neuromorphic computing. It's a nascent technology field, but there are plenty of papers available on IEEExplore or ACM Digital Library to satisfy curiosity! I'll take a look at the survey paper I wrote a couple summers back-- if it's decent I'll edit this post with a link.

Edit, links: Paper: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiU3RxSHZSNFh2cEdv... Slides: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiSE1ET2ZTb09aNFBP...

New comment by mattlevan in "Standing up for what's right"

mattlevan — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:24:07 +0000

Because the list of countries was drafted by Obama's administration.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187

New comment by mattlevan in "Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself"

mattlevan — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:13:25 +0000

After reading, I think it's obvious that the author has seriously overestimated the impact of the technology. It could have had as great an effect as the author's tone implies but I'm not sure the evidence is available.

New comment by mattlevan in "Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often"

mattlevan — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:09:23 +0000

Light weights to build self esteem.

New comment by mattlevan in "[dead]"

mattlevan — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:01:43 +0000

I believe you're right. He won't stop it. But he also won't let it dictate his actions, unless he's really foiled us all and every character of his every tweet is meticulously data-driven. I doubt it though!

New comment by mattlevan in "[dead]"

mattlevan — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:41:20 +0000

I haven't read the entire article, but I find it a bit ridiculous that the author claims that "big data" is allowing the "rise of fascism" in the 21st century. Trump has been known to give the metaphoric middle-finger to big data analytics and marketing [1]; on the contrary, almost every move of Hillary's campaign was dictated by the "advanced" big data engine called "Ada" [2]. While Trump "spent a fraction" of what Hillary did on ads and technology, he did run a paid Facebook strategy [3].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-da... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11... [3] https://cambridgeanalytica.org/news/press/1380

New comment by mattlevan in "Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)"

mattlevan — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:35:43 +0000

Awesome cheers!

New comment by mattlevan in "Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)"

mattlevan — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:03:47 +0000

Off topic kinda but I have to compliment you on the rig (the AK and watch are cool too). Mind providing some more details on it, what truck is it, how'd you find it, mods, etc.?

Btw, you should start a blog!

New comment by mattlevan in "To Obama with Love, and Hate, and Desperation"

mattlevan — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 03:17:25 +0000

Wouldn't he have quickly shuffled the US into signing the TPP, then, rather than boldly rejecting it (which was confirmed by WikiLeaks/Asian press today)?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/823036353986359296

New comment by mattlevan in "To Obama with Love, and Hate, and Desperation"

mattlevan — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 03:09:46 +0000

He wrote a "Contract with the American Voter", you know.

www.track-trump.com

New comment by mattlevan in "To Obama with Love, and Hate, and Desperation"

mattlevan — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 02:58:10 +0000

Sad that HN allows obviously hostile comments like these to remain...

Anyways, Trump listened to America. He listened quite a bit.

He not only visited and spoke to hundreds of thousands of people all over the country, but he held multiple (7 was his max) rallies everyday near the end of his campaign.

He also frequently sent long, detailed surveys (with both multiple choice and text box questions) to gauge public opinion.

On the contrary, Hillary was the candidate who failed to interact: from the lack of press conferences to lack of media interviews to lack of rallies to lack of presence in many states, Hillary's loss is arguably a direct reflection of her failed engagement with American people.

Edit: Here come the down votes.

New comment by mattlevan in "Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year"

mattlevan — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:10:21 +0000

To be fair, though, even if he had displayed a "pattern of deception [and] a lack of integrity" in his handling of federal grant money is not a valid argument against his climate science.