skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does give me a direction, thanks a lot!
None of the above, really. It's cargo cultism. It's written by the people who implemented things that were architected by engineers, without understanding the engineering principles behind what they did. So they try to "recreate it" by building the equivalent of cardboard planes on the beach.
Well done!

It'll be interesting to see what space unikernels take up in the coming years.

I think there is still a lot of fruitful territory to be explored in this space as traditional multi-user, multi-tenant assumptions can be thrown out the window. I think a big, unexplored advance that unikernels might be able to offer is the ability for the kernel-part to peek into the guts of what its programs are actually doing (at compile or run time) and make broader assumptions about scheduling.
Netflix seems like a great company to work for. Recommend reading Reed Hasting's presentation on their culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
I'd love to see tho applied to low level (maybe even high level -though don't interact with them to know) government workers. They are totally about hours put in and very little about work achieved, few, few exceptions of course.
That's what I thought. Clojure is a "parasitic" language, meaning that it is meant to work with a host, so it should not be too hard to make it work with a Go environment. Plus, the fact that there is a very well working ClojureScript means that any "hard" deps on the JVM's original implementation should be gone.
Clojure is a sweet language to work in, but you just cannot create a small executable out of it.
Good question.

I would expect him to exhibit less reliably to stimuli. His behaviour is closer to a large switch(stimulus){} statement than the emergent behavior of human reaction to situations and stimuli.

One example: he was stepped on when a small puppy by a very old man from that point on and to this day, many years later, he has a major dislike of old people that he does not know well.

If the same thing happened to a child, I would expect the child to slowly, over time, question why they disliked all other old people when the old people they do know are kind to them. This would result in a change of behavior without someone explicitly teaching them.
This comment is unrelated to the subject matter and that’s why i’ve made it separate from the parent comment [0] that triggered it.

I couldn’t help but notice the ‘.cfm’ extension in the acm.org link submitted by @mockery [1] so I thought i’d google a bit to see what tech infrastructure acm.org was running because i found it interesting they’d be using coldfusion. The search led me to a project on github [2] who’s file appeared in the results [3] and made me aware of ‘citeulike.org’. I did a quick search with algolia to check if citeulike.org hadn’t been submitted on hn already. This made me aware of user @sharpshoot and led me to research him a bit and bookmark his site so I can read about how he ‘made it’ (i’m an aspiring entrepreneur you see…).

Anyway all this made me wonder if there is a software that automatically does what I had to do manually, how efficient it would have to be and all the ethical issues surrounding it’s existence. Thin line between useful and scary…

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288365

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292

[2] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser

[3] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser/blob/fe31d0ba6c8203364676a83911942dd4fb09e494/python/acm.py#L93
Damn, this is how you have fun. Both on the tech side and the marketing side. Much respect to Netflix.
Actually, Numenta is doing well.
They keep working towards understanding how a human neocortex works. It took academic neural net community more than 50 years to achieve "amazing successes". Compared to that timeline, Numenta is moving pretty fast.
Because to the CEO and the board and the shareholders the salesman contributes to the core mission of the firm (bringing in dollars) and the engineer just contributes to the costs.
The practical implications of this will be interesting - I'm expecting to see "Google WiFi" honeypots at stations that don't have this.

Also a possibility to see folks camped up at these stations hustling on Upwork etc - particularly in areas where mobile internet is not so reliable.

Also expecting to have EVEN MORE people walk into me as they stare at their phones...
Yes, it looks more like Google's free WiFi in Starbucks coffees.

By the way, Facebook renamed Internet.org "Free Basics" :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10277425
What could be done to encourage pharmaceutical research/progress?

Would something like demanding (say) at least 20% of the profits should go into research be viable?
I've always thought that Kuhn mostly repackaged the works Ludwik Fleck and used a different domain than medicine for the examples. That's a gross oversimplification but Fleck makes for an interesting read.
I think Kuhn/Fleck should be required reading for any scientist (with a grain of salt).

There's obviously the issue that Kuhn applied to Kuhn is somewhat problematic.
The reason that top salespeople make so much money is that they're pretty much fungible across industry (they can sell basically anything to anyone), so there is a lot of competition for top salespeople. In industries where profit margins are very high (financial products, enterprise software, pharmaceuticals), these companies fiercely compete to get the best-performing reps, paying almost up to the marginal profit from each rep.
Any ideas what they might be using to mill the wooden enclosure? I have a few projects that need enclosures and it's been a few years since I looked but the CNC mills were still thousands of dollars.
Yep. The medical industry is FUBAR'd and needs to be nuked from orbit and started over fresh. It's perverted at so many interdependent layers that it's impossible to unravel the whole thing piece-by-piece. We need to start over and regulate it tightly to keep it sane.

Source: I spend over $1k / mo on medical bills, and I have "really good insurance". In the past my plan had been simply to ignore exorbitant medical costs and my credit got pretty disfigured that way. I've been rehabilitating it the last few years, but if I can get to a place where I don't need credit, you can bet that the first thing I'll do is ignore any frivolous medical billing. We have to stop propping up this disgusting system.
Public utilities which have monopolies set prices according to a regulated process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_ratemaking

Given the patents and difficult FDA approval processes, it might make sense to regulate drug prices similarly to public utilities.

I'm all for free markets. But when there's zero competition, you can't still treat things like a free market.
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> Sales reps make so much because they bring in so much more than they cost.

Almost. Engineers also bring in so much more than they cost.

The real question is if the money they bring in scales with the amount you're paying them. The reason salesmen can make so much money is because you can just pay them mostly on commission and take on practically zero risk of overpaying them. You can't do that with engineers.
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Theories of grammar that compile natural language to the lambda calculus are popular in computational linguistics. For instance, this won the best paper award in EMNLP 2015, the most recent top-tier conference in the field:

Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR

Yoav Artzi, Kenton Lee and Luke Zettlemoyer

http://yoavartzi.com/pub/alz-emnlp.2015.pdf
It's more of a visual brainstorming tool. It's kind of fun. There's some pseudo-science around it but it helps some people organize/visualize their thoughts (studies apparently show it helps).

UML is still around but really not much connection between the two. UML is for techies while mind maps are for everyone and not very structured or formal.
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This isn't a native app, that is a very responsive webapp. It uses nuclearjs and the polymer web frameworks, but the backend is all evented python.
Except if competitor A hires a salesperson who brings in $1M of sales from competitor B and competitor B hires a salesperson who brings in $1M of sales from competitor A, you now have the exact same revenues at both companies, $1.8M extra in salesperson compensation and an equivalent $1.8M drop in your budget for everything else, including research.
Why, it does. When you don't have a working product for a market, you don't pretend you do.
Careful.

Money going exclusively towards research that is focused on earning more money might not be ideal, sure.

But in a nationalized drug industry, money will instead go exclusively towards "research" conducted by those who are best at filling out forms and schmoozing with politicians. I think that would arguably be worse.
You could just use regular woodworking tools to get it done.

If you really want to CNC mill something like that then maybe look at the inventables x carve.[0] I got to use a shapeoko for a while which was the previous inventables CNC and it was pretty OK.

I would highly recommend looking in your area for a hackerspace that may have tools like these.

[0] https://www.inventables.com/technologies/x-carve
There are places to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
CNC would be one of the better routes. Like you mentioned, the cost is a barrier. Luckily you can rent CNC time at some hardware stores, university wood shops and some local hacker-spaces. http://100kgarages.com/ can locate you a CNC and answer any questions you may have.
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It could be fun, plus a recruiting technique, since it creates awareness around Netflix's culture, and I am sure they hire a lot of engineers.
This sums it up pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_sheep%27s_clothing
Thought experiment: Dogs tend to act guilty when they know they've done something wrong. If you get two dogs together, and one does something naughty, do both act guilty afterwards or only one? If only one, then is it not reasonable to assume that the guilty dog has internally models the situation as "I did bad thing, I am bad dog" but the other dog internally models the situation as "I didn't do bad thing, I am good dog"?

I'm not saying dogs sit around quoting Kant, but they're highly social animals and I find it hard to believe they don't have some internal representation of themselves.
You can check out the demo here: https://home-assistant.io/demo/
I worked in a US based office for a global company. The benefits were pretty awesome- down to them paying for my home internet, but our US based benefits were still quite weak when compared to our counterparts around the globe. The US working hours were longer and when I went on overseas assignments I found that their quality of life was higher than ours overall. It's quite depressing.

When I started looking for a job last March I realized that the monetary compensation from the offers I had were within a few thousand of each other but on only one of the interviews did multiple employees bring up that they were a true 9-5 and people actually get mad if you reply to emails after hours or do work during your off time. Their offer was $4000 less than the others and they didn't seem like they wanted to negotiate. I took it anyway and I now work 40 hours or less per week, I leave my computer at the office and I don't feel guilty for not having access to work when I am not at work. So even though I make a little less yearly, I am making quite a bit more per hour.

I wish more people in positions of choice would prioritize a true work life balance. Not only has it been great for my physical and mental health, non-developer employees get the same treatment as it sets a company standard.

I can't believe how long I bought into the culture of giving up a personal life to get a head at work. I used to put in 60-80 hour weeks and still feel like I wasn't contributing as much as I should. Now I have hobbies(!) and I think I solve more programming problems working in my garden than I ever did sitting in front of a computer.
Well, here's something that definitely has no market value: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/8-bit-binge-hack-puts-ne... ;)
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These two things have nothing to do with each other. Deep learning, despite the use of the world "neural", has nothing to do with neuroscience, and mapping the human brain is not the same as making an artificial neural network.
The choice might be "buy this or die" but it's the government that makes it "buy this [at exorbitant cost] or die".

In this case, not even due to a patent, but because you can't sell a generic without lengthy, costly FDA approval.

Essentially the government is telling sick people, "you can't take this generic daraprim from India because we haven't approved it, so pay Martin Shkreli $750 a pill or fuck off and die".

It's asinine and it's 100% the government's fault this is happening. If Martin Shkreli hadn't done it, someone else would have.
Thank you four your reply. I had my suspicions that might be the issue (the shorthand/differences between gsp/gisp in particular). I also played a bit with the simple factorial example[f] from gisp -- which apparently doesn't work with gps(c) (gisp apparently allows calling casts as functions [eg: (int ImNotAnIntButAfloat)] -- looks like gsp chokes on that.

After some tweaking I couldn't get [f] to work with gsp (but it worked fine with gisp + go build). Looks like both projects could use some more (esp. motivating) examples, and maybe a little more introduction/documentation. At least enough to encourage play :-)

[f] https://github.com/jcla1/gisp/blob/master/examples/factorial...
Or terrifying, if you consider that a simulation of his son's brain is, in a very real sense, his son. And that when he shuts that simulation down he's killing it.
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I don't think Baidu has that much advantage in its distribution channel to make MS drop Bing. If MS wants a fast way to distribute, it can use torrent like Ubuntu does. It's much faster to download a torrent with Xunlei(Thunder) than with Baidu.
... which was also the system that produced this:

http://crfblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2007112238img1...

Sure, there were problems. Abuses of power, cronyism, etc. But capitalism quite literally rescued the world from poverty, and continues to do so:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/wordpovert...
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OpenGL is super, super hard to get right. No vendor besides NVIDIA has gotten it right (and often "right" means "follow what NVIDIA does, not what the spec says"). Intel, Qualcomm, ARM/Mali (and Vivante, Broadcom, etc., ...) also all have similarly broken OpenGL implementations.

NVIDIA has sunk millions into their driver, to the point where major games developers only test on NVIDIA, NVIDIA is the reference point, etc., and it's super hard to play catch-up. They have a market share so big that they've convinced you that everybody who isn't NVIDIA is terrible at writing drivers.

All major consoles this generation use AMD-based GPUs, and they seem to work fine.
What if I don't want or can't afford seatbelts or airbags or accident insurance (not to be confused with liability insurance)?

Poor people end up taking that increase in life expectancy and just wasting it on walking and sitting on the bus because it's so expensive to operate a vehicle here in Canada.

It's your mother's place to tell you to wear your seatbelt, not the government's.
What i see is one guy giving his honest opinion during a public event.

He does not bring up the topic, others do. But when they do, he gives an honest response.
Another metric that fuels this is revenue per employee. It would take a hit if more employees worked less. I think it should change. To help perception metrics like rev per employee, they could simply change many of these metrics to be based off of revenue per work period, which may be a 40 hour block instead, and may have multiple employees perform it.

The problem is costs per employees are high, until health insurance is separated from work (like all other insurance is) then it will be difficult with costs per employee.
For another perspective (perhaps a more nuanced/less flattering one), NPR's Planet Money recently did a great episode on Netflix's work culture [1]. I'm not so sure I'd want to work there, but I'm sure it is great for some.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episo...
Shortages don't seem like they should a valid reason. Choosing to no longer produce a needed drug shouldn't even be a legal option - free market shouldn't be allowed to trump health. I don't know how you write laws to require a corporation to produce a drug they own, and perhaps that isn't the right approach; but it doesn't seem morally acceptable to let this happen. Capitalism should be taking a back seat here compared to the common good. "Manufacturing problems" just seems ripe for abuse. "Oh, we fired 90% of our production line, and now we just can't seem to pump it out anymore". Manufacture should have safeties and redundancies in place to prevent the sudden inability to produce whatsoever. It's unfortunate that money trumps all, even for the health industry.
There's too many variables in that to make a meaningful comparison.
How about funding this stuff publicly, where there is an actual democratic peer-review process? The only reason people end up working for pharma is because they can't get a grant. Just up the NIH & NSF budgets, and scientists will be free to work without profiteering assholes to worry about. It's not that fucking complicated.
IMO - better to have etcd drive Nginx/HA Proxy via confd. This is flexible, fast, and performant. While it could be a coo idea to push load balancing logic entirely to the client to eliminate a load balancing tier altogether - DNS isn't really designed for it.
At least remove the Google part. Maybe just "How we grew to 4M users" since they didn't bootstrap. They got traction and raised money.

Also, their software is actually really helpful at thinking through ideas. I don't mean to knock them. But the title is wrong and takes away from their achievement.
but the example in this article required more workers hired, so output per worker clearly wasn't maintained.
TLDR:

800 scientists: We Jelly JO! How come one asshole gets 1.3B euro for his project and can decide how to spend it? Lets collectively shit on him.

There is no substantive critique cited in this article, only scientists whining about management structure.
That's a weird couple of sentences, given that the Netflix prize was entirely trying to improve their core business?
What kind of embedded devices could this be booted with?
If I worked at a start-up that got sold and I walk away with even "just" 100K I'd be very happy. I wouldn't worry myself about the billions someone else got; especially when those people were part of the original founders carrying the core risk. Fun tech jobs, six figure salaries, flexible schedules, and at least in the San Francisco Bay Area working at a start-up is barely a risk if you're developing skills & connections for the next job.

And then they complain they didn't get more than 300K when the company sold..... people need to broaden their perspective.
I think having a potential recurring source of liquid surface water is a big deal for both human and automated missions. It's rocket fuel and the stuff of life for us squishy things and not having to take so much would dramatically lower the launch weight and make long term habitations possible.
There is still incentive to have high prices, even if the organization is "non-profit" or governmental. At some point, that money reaches someone who has the authority to spend it, and that person is always going to want more money and be incentivized to get it. This happens whether the beneficiary is a government appointee or not.

A free market is generally considered superior because the element of competition keeps the vendor(s) honest. If it were illegal for others to make drugs, I would expect the result to be much like it is now for companies that hold patents on drugs; charge as much as possible for as long as possible, until you're forced to bring the price down by competitors.

Anywhere you find exorbitant prices you'll find high barriers to entry. These are specifically designed to keep competition minimal and make it so once competition does clear the hurdle and enter the market, they won't have much interest in shaking up the existing structure too much. The government saying "only we can make drugs now" is a pretty high barrier to entry.
Both google.com and google.com.cn are blocked, along with all other country specific Google domains.
"demanding"? this is an industry which fires us if we ask for a raise, or hint at collective bargaining, or even if the 'big hit' has just been discovered and research is foolishly seen as unnecessary for a while. this is an industry where foreign work visas are rife, with threats of the jobs being declared 'unnecessary' if extra hours aren't put in (with the poor folks having to return to their original countries). this is the industry which tries to offshore as many aspects of the process as possible. there is no "demanding" anything, unless you already have another situation lined-up; and even then they threaten you with NDAs and non-competition clauses.
> But I fail to see how a single profession could be so much more complex then say quantum physicist.

I am neither a doctor nor a quantum physicist, however, I suspect that having minutes or seconds to make a literal life or death decision does, in fact, require a bit more training than the days or months a physicist could be afforded while designing an experiment or writing a paper.
Some of this is being addressed via the W3C Annotation work, http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/. We can have open annotations on closed content.
Not so ridiculous when you consider retail or call center jobs that require someone to be present during business hours.
Since brain has to work in a noisy environment, it is unlikely its function depends too much on details. Neurons can't depend on effects we don't know about, because if effect is large, we would know about it, and if effect is small, brain has to work with noise that size, so it is not necessary for us to get it right for its function. (It's a different matter for its exact output, but that's for later.)
There are certainly more important metrics than mere presence though, aren't there?
Well I would say it's complicated: we're talking about an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, an army of researchers and a network of institutions with discoveries made all around. Also, simply increasing government budget frees scientists to do work (great!) but does nothing about the "profiteering assholes" that already exist, they can still play around with drug prices for profit simply because people are hostage to their drugs. Offloading all work to government may have perils too; markets are usually more quick at adapting with price signaling, and overall efficiency is usually higher in those organizations (less bureaucracy, more agility).
Corrected ;)
I've often thought about this idea. It could be as simple as `#pragma jit` before a function call. If you're about to call a function that chews on a big dataset for several seconds, it's probably worth the effort. In particular I'm thinking of hot loops with an `if` statement or function pointer / virtual call.
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