jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The hallmark of real intelligence / creativity will always be that they are eventually unforeseeable and uncontrollable.

Imagine three different computers. Each one is an identical black box that connected to a printer, and every 5 minutes it prints out an entirely new work of art that, subjectively speaking, is quite nice to look at. You are told the following;

1. One computer is genuinely intelligent in exactly the same way as a human is. The clever engineers have replicated human creativity perfectly and given it the personality of a competent artist. It 'thinks up' just one print and prints it each time.

2. The next computer generates 100 different pieces and then pushes each of them to Amazon Turk for evaluation by 100 different people. It prints the one with the highest score.

3. The last computer has a set of reasonable rules based on a set of the sum of knowledge from Harvard University's Art Society. It uses those rules to pick the best picture out of 100,000,000,000 different pieces it generates completely at random for each print.

How can you tell the difference between which is which?

The point being until you see the result there is no way to know. You have no control over the 3 boxes and you can't see what's happening inside. As far as you're concerned each computer could be any of the different types. They would all be creating a new work of art each time but only one would be "creative" in the human sense, but they're all being creative in the sense they're creating, appraising, and choosing a new solution.
If you can't talk about Interstellar with somebody who doesn't understand topology, I will gladly do it for you. Maybe they're below you, but they're my favorite people because they're the people who will get as excited as me about how stars form and what happens when they collapse and how friggin awesome it is that the computer simulations in a sci-fi movie were so accurate that Kip Thorne thinks he can publish a few articles about them[0]. This is SO MUCH BETTER than having to talk to people about What the bleep do we know?

[0] - http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black...
It's essentially confirmation bias.
Sexuality isn't the problem. Whatever you find sexy is whatever you find sexy and there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is when media gets sexualized to the point where children grow up thinking only one way of looking at sexuality is the right way. It creates body image-related traumas that get reinforced in places like schools where kids are often taunted for not having the 'right' type. This should be fought whenever possible.
Maybe it's a test to see how well you can communicate? I would of given a very brief high level overview, such as...

A request is sent to Google's severs for their "new search" page. Google then responds with the necessary data in order for your Web browser to display the Web page . There's a lot more to the full story, but I can go into detail if you would like.

I would offer diving into the important parts related to the position.
You could console yourself in the knowledge that, if one is to divide the world at all, one must first divide it in two. The really trick is to keep dividing, and not get stuck at the first thought you have.
It's so rare today to find software that can deliver on its promises.
That's material for a great blog post. Please write an article wherever you can and share!
i'm pretty sure this happened to me as well.

EDIT: pg's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 describes the reason why -- they're being autotagged as "political" and a penalty applies
What point am I missing? Clearly, the definition of "scientific belief" used in this context is something like "belief held by people in the scientific community". The central point here seems to be that, while "belief" may have a connotation of something that is lacking evidence, it's in fact a far more general term that applies even to genuine knowledge.
I can respect their need for work. Everybody needs to survive. The issue is what they are willing to do to survive.

Are they going to actively participate in throwing their fellow citizens under the bus? Can you respect that?

Do you respect thieves, debt collectors (not the "call you on the phone" kind), domain squatters, or crack dealers? (Yes I did lump domain squatters in there. As a group, they are scum.) They are all just doing what they can to make ends meet. It doesn't mean one can't expect them to have some perspective on the morality of such methods of survival.

Every single citizen is responsible for the safeguarding of our collective rights and freedoms. There are no excuses.
RE point 6:

> It removes comments from where they should be, on the destination site.

Each place-of-commenting is its own community. You comment on HN because you want to talk to other HN folk. Generally, each community online has a particular focus. On HN you get a startups-and-tech focus, which is very different from what you get on reddit, or the Guardian, or NYT, etc.

Finally, the quality of each community is different. Contrast HN to reddit to reddit-when-it-started to techcrunch. Part of that quality comes from the software, some from the community, part from the moderatorship.

A blog is it's own community. HN is it's own community. There should be comments on both.
In the course of participating in a community or in an activity, it can be hard to avoid defining yourself in terms of that participation. "I am a Hacker News member," or "I am a poker player," become not only descriptions of what you do, but who you are. You become attached to that participation because it is part of your identity as a person. It's really easy to fall into this trap, especially if you don't have a strong sense of personal identity. I think that a lot of people, myself included, lack a real sense of self, of who we are, and we begin to define ourselves by what we do.

When you find something negative about what you're doing, or it simply disappoints you, or whatever else it might be, you end up projecting those feelings onto yourself. When the activity or community begins to frustrate you, you can either be frustrated with yourself or realize that you've grown beyond it.

Like Matt, I spent some time making a living at poker, and like Matt I have been a Hacker News member for over 3-1/2 years (I just realized that there is only one day separating our join dates). I feel like I have a pretty good idea where he is coming from. When you find that the quality of your life is being diminished by something you're doing, and you have the power to remove yourself from that activity, then it is time to do just that. I commend him for having the courage to do that.

I know people will complain about him leaving loudly. Personally, I have also tried to quit poker and Hacker News, and in times when I have a lack of direction, I find myself wandering back into old habits. Quitting loudly is a small measure to take to give people the chance to help you stick to your decision, to hold you accountable.

Good luck, Matt.
I understand your article and benefits you seem to have received through GAE. But apart from sticking it through, I don't see useful message. I would like to know exact scalability issues you faced and how you leveraged GAE infrastructure to tackle them.
Movies, including rentals, and TV shows are already available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.
I've tried that years ago, but it never seemed to work very well. The accounts would tend to be invalidated too quickly.
You dream of them using a different word than "Tunes"? You need to read more fiction.
7AM in California? With no blogs saying that they've been invited to a special event? I'm skeptical it's something as major as a new subscription service for that reason.
However many people, especially men, do not allow embarrassing and painful tests done to them unless they're scared. They literally choose increased chance of death over those invasive exams.

I feel people should have the same right at the airline gate (aka flights w/o gropesearch/poronoscans vs flights with being offered)
It's even friendlier for NY.

And it's not an 'event'. I bet it's about streaming, and the PR effort will be based in New York (convenient for the big labels?), rather than in California.
Only twice as much as the top of the line Tesla Cybertruck.
Quickly reading through the code, it looks like the frontend is the bulk of the code. Which makes sense: Trello is really a pretty simple app; the UI experience is where the real magic is.
I cringed more and more as i read this article. I started to wonder if maybe it was an onion piece. Nope. I wish it was.

But, as for the actual tracking and all, I'd be ok with that. Maybe not with a girlfriend, but long-term girlfriend or wife? sure. But maybe GPS isn't the best solution - having access to the calendar though does help answer the "where are you" question. But it should never be to address issues of trust - you've got bigger fish to fry at that point.
They did some of the uploading, yes. But I don't recall if that was part of the reason why Viacom lost.
I agree! Eithers are cool, too. What I'm really excited about is that these sorts of concepts are starting to find their way into languages like Swift. Getting built-in support for Eithers would be super awesome.

In the meantime, you can vaguely simulate it with named tuples.

let response = (error: "Could not connect to server", success: false)

It's not quite the same, but at least there's an easy way to bundle your data together.

edit: I like Someone's suggestion to use and discussion about using enums as union types below.
the 1-up-manship continues
It'll be interesting to know. You can't make calls from the plane to transmit location. You can however, do it when you detect the luggage has landed, based on altitude and/or airport coordinates.
i7 16GB ram, latest chrome/ff/ie all work fine.. realize that doesnt help the cause but at least you aren't alone!
http://www.ted.com/search?q=Ramachandran

my favorit:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_...
My dad always said that "x is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure".

I tend to take self-professed "experts" with a grain of salt.
From YC's point-of-view, the ultimate aim is to be acquired or to IPO (which AFAIK has never happened and is unlikely to happen in more than a few exceptional cases). An exit the only way YC gets a return on their investment.

This aligns with tech startup culture generally, where the investors invest with the hope of someday making an exit, and only then does the founders' big payday arrive (the "liquidity event").

In this context, profitability is a secondary question to whether the company is still alive, growing, and on track to delivering the founders and investors a successful exit.
Dalvik is a jvm, just not fully compatible with openjdk.
Android is slowly migrating towards toward openjdk, I expect Java 17 to put them enough to shame to have to react
In the UK (where the beta is being launch) every disposal (buy, sell, trade) counts towards income tax.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-on-cryptoasse...
Signal is actively working on other identifiers than a phone number, but can you cite proof that no phone will be required at all? I got the impression that Signal will still require a phone number at signup to do SMS verification, and only then give you a way to provide non-phone-number identifiers to contacts.
I mean, it comes down to whether you trust Reuters.

I find that people tend to trust anonymous sources on issues that they agree with, and distrust on issues they don't.
But not the fact that it's going to be directly integrated into Signal. The CEO of MobileCoin is in here saying that he started it as a way to fund Signal, which from what I can tell, wasn't public knowledge until today. So he gets to monopolize a currency that was mostly worthless, knowing that it would be directly integrated into a popular application, greatly increasing its value. If that's not a scam, I don't know what is.
You continue to make a 1:1 assumption. Dilution can cause the stock to go down because of FUD of financial health. It can go up because of strong leadership and optimistic futures. It's not occurring in a vacuum where $1 is 1 share and +$1 to company worth.
Ha, snap. Makes sense that it looks at the dirtiness of the visibility_map while planning.
Are there lots of people who don't work at Google because of him? My impression is that he'd very well regarded in the tech community.
I think transparency and the ability to opt-in is key. With facebook, I realize I'm using a free service supported by ads and trust they abide by their end of the user agreement to use my information only in the ways they say they will. When they abuse that trust, I may choose to opt out of their service. I don't give them any information I wish to be kept secret.

The NSA is not transparent and I cannot opt out of being monitored. Therefore, I do no romanticize about the free service facebook provides, but cannot agree with how the NSA conducts itself.
I don't think these Chromebooks are sold in Google Store in any country.

(Google Store selection varies by country, anyway. Where I live, they don't sell any Chromebooks; I might have considered the new Pixel if it weren't for the hassle.)
Yes, this has always bothered me, too.

"Checkout the new Surface - it's only $500 just like the iPad, but unlike the iPad it comes with a keyboard, too!

Oh btw, you actually have to pay $130 more for the keyboard."
There's an entire generation that believes our government has completely lost representation of its own people, and will use any nefarious means in its power to subvert any rule it wishes to. The ostensible goal of security is questionable in both effectiveness and actual intention. In a sense, some branches of the government are viewed as a geopolitical corporation with an oligarchy in place of a CEO.

Google and Facebook, as contentious as some of us feel about them, produce products people like, and are voted into power by our direct and continued usage. You can't opt out of the NSA.

In the end, you're comparing an organization with a world-destroying military that regularly murders and imprisons people at all ends of the earth, to another that displays diaper ads that follow you around the internet. Not quite the same.
Then why the heck are we talking about introversion and extroversion with a straight face?

Seriously, they're antiquated descriptors. I was only pointing out how ridiculous it is to assume someone's lack of knowledge of terms.

They only persist because they provide a considerable amount of validation to behaviors of self-described introverts who desire permission for their personality. Most humans don't fall into either category absolutely.
Really? You don't think it's overpriced?
It seems you're more worried about your toddler having access to the button than the detergent and bleach it's next to. Why would one be out of reach but not the other?
> One issue I've heard from a couple friends that worked for the NSA is that they have no idea what they're working on.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/
There's a tradeoff here. While obsessing over small details can take you away from more important work, it's also something that you can build up an instinct in your craft for and the actual cost in productivity drops precipitously. IMO it's important to make a practice of these type of things and a culture of excellence can pay off in the long run, as a culture of cutting corners can often end up cutting the wrong corners.
Windows owns the desktop, laptops, kiosks, and PC games, yet it doesn't have developers, go figure.
That's actually VERY similar to the system I am setting up... but with an added secret component.
see an earlier post with some signup codes for the private test: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825578

as of right now I believe only 2 of the codes on that page have been used.
Still a noob programmer, but I'm a huge fan of SO. I've yet to find a thread with any real bickering or pretentiousness, and 9 out of 10 times find an answer.

It seems like they dominate search results also, which is why I'm surprised that Quora, which I've never heard of, seems to get more respect?
Looks good. I'm impressed by the design, and interested to see whether "high class" design (the oldey-worldey 1920s sort of feeling you have going on here) will encourage "high class" content. It feels somehow wrong to post a lolcat with all those fancy curlicues around.

Just a quick comment: I don't think the "each person in a thread has their own animal" feature is working correctly -- I posted a comment in a thread and got the same animal as an existing comment. In fact it looks like all comments at the same level wind up with the same animal.
It cost Google between $10-million and $25-million to buy SocialDeck a small Canadian game-apps maker. How much it costed for Zenimax to aquire the legendary Id software ?
#1 - It's a business card. People might want to remember who gave a talk at some point in the future.

#2 - In many cases, I've recorded or found a video of the presentation. Having the slides allows me to go back through once more.
Can we please not use the "stealing from a shop" analogy as it is not a parallel. Cloning and taking a copy of the groceries would be closer.
IP theft is not the same as literal theft. It's similar but this analogy is terrible brain food.
Reddit experienced some issues with Amazon a month ago that resulted in the site being down for almost a day. I'm pretty sure they're way below that percentage.
I would tolerate it because I think that's how he needs to act to keep the project from becoming a POS. Being nice/courteous often gets you design by committee results.

Also, I might be swayed by his credibility, but what he's saying sounds reasonable.
I've worked at a few companies and seen many people use standing desks as an alternative. I prefer sitting when working, but I take breaks after a set amount of time (i.e this part is going to take an hour, so I'll break in an hour).

Outside of that I try to take have separate time for real exercise. I don't like to mix the two up (treadmill desk).
No he did not benchmark. Thus my remark on no technical argument.

Linus stipulated that the number of CPU instructions retired stays the same, so there will be no sizeable improvement of performance. That's hand-waving, not a benchmark. Somebody else posted a micro-benchmark showing better performance in his particular case.

((in the glibc discussion)) Linus stood for users in the short term (works here and now). Not for good development practices (read manuals, fix bugs, use modern hardware facilities -- here HAS_FAST_COPY_BACKWARD CPU feature).

EDIT:

nb., the ratio of instructions retired to CPU clock ticks depends on caching issues & such -- thus a particular memory access pattern will perform better than other. That's indicated by the HAS_FAST_COPY_BACKWARD CPU feature.

EDIT 2:

I'm aware I'm making risky remarks here; Linus have worked at Transmeta for several years, so he knows way more about CPU design and internals than I do.
How exactly does visa-self-sponsorship work? Is it required that you've had a company-sponsored visa before applying for self-sponsorship (or can you self-sponsor your first visa)?

How is it determined whether you are allowed to self-sponsor?
I'm not a RoR boy, but sometimes watch RoR screencasts to pick out good points. Really surprised that RoR was using its own JS library and has not adopted any other dedicated js lib out there
Drupal for example, initially had its own js lib, but then adopted jQuery officially many years ago

Edited: I must have misunderstood the RJS's purpose. Thought it was a JS lib, but it's not, it's just a way to generate JS code. And so i learned RoR's been using prototype. Sorry RoR fans, my bad
Or you could just use RailsInstaller - http://railsinstaller.org/
He wasn't suggesting that all Reddit's problems are due to Amazon services, he was using Reddit's down time today as a data point illustrating that the uptime guarantee claimed for the service has not been kept this year (in fact a whole year's "permitted downtime" as implied by the 99.95% SLA may be eaten on one day). Presumably Amazon will be handing out some refunds and other compensation (assuming the SLA isn't of the toothless "it'll be up at least 99.95% of the time, unless it isn't" variety).

Perhaps the Reddit admins decided that "up to 0.05%" downtime permitted by the SLA would be acceptable, compared to the extra expense of using more of Amazon's services (and any coding/testing time they may have needed to take advantage of the redundancy depending on how automatic the load balancing and/or failover are within Amazon's system) to improve their redundancy. By my understanding the promise isn't 99.95% if you use more than one of our locations, it is 99.95% at any one location, so the fact that Reddit don't make use of more than one location is irrelevant when talking about the one location they do use not meeting the expectations listed in the SLA.

I'm not saying Reddit's implementation decision is right (I don't have the metrics available to make such a judgement) but it would have been made based partly on that 99.95% figure and how much they trusted Amazon's method of coming to that figure as a reliability they could guarantee. If I had paid money for a service with a 99.95% SLA, unless the SLA had no teeth, I would be expecting some redress at this point (though there is probably no use nagging Amazon about that right now: let them concentrate on fixing the problem and worry about explanations/blame/compo later once things are running again).
Like come on, this is the stuff we've all dreamed about. The future is fast approaching!
Why do you say it is carefully worded? It seems like a basic description of how the internet and how browsers work.
The argument I'm trying to make is that it's not the job that's boring, it's the programmer that refuses to find something interesting about the job out of the mistaken belief that it's tedious or that it's a solved problem. It's not a solved problem. If it were solved, there would be a software package out there with a huge community, loads of extensions, that you could just use and be done with it. You wouldn't need any programming talent, just a guy smart enough to run an installer. Blogging is a specific case of CRUD that has just such a software package, Wordpress. Even so, Wordpress isn't the perfect solution to all instances of the blogging problem. Maybe you want a static one, maybe you want one in Haskell. Each combination is quite interesting in its own right. Hell, there's lots of things that Wordpress could be doing better.

There's lots of things out there that are half-solved, like the more general case of CRUD. Here there are frameworks that allow you to solve specific CRUD problems, but each specific instance of CRUD, for it to really be solved, needs its own software package just like Wordpress with a huge community and easy installer. The vast majority of them don't, so you can't call them solved. That means there's still interesting things to learn about them.

Remember 2048? I remember a lot of people saying it wasn't a terribly interesting game. Bullshit it's not! I'm building a Ruby library to run the game, (didn't like any of the ones I found) then I'm going to start building an AI engine to solve it using heuristics. When I play 2048, I've gotten up to 8192 a few times, and would love to be able to program an AI to play like I play. To build tooling to help me visualize my AI programming and watch it operate. 2048 is plenty interesting, if you don't think so, it's you that's the problem, not 2048.
One of the creators of VRML is currently working on a follow-up targeting VR on the Web.

http://www.slideshare.net/auradeluxe/glam-35009205