skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first, when I switched to Ubuntu and saw dnsmasq I was a little happy. I thought I could finally have something lightweight and slightly more powerful than a hosts file plus more control over what happens with my queries.

But then I tried to search online and at least try to understand what it actually is, what it does or is supposed to do, or what it doesn't do and so on. Then I thought that running bind9 might be easier, at least I know what it's supposed to do.

I finally decided to leave it the way it came with my Ubuntu. Some articles say it's there to act as a dns cache and something else with VPNs while other articles claim the caching functionality is turned off by default. Really confusing for somebody who's not that experienced.
For the recent and soon to be college grads that want to start companies
> Do you believe I'm misinterpreting him

Sidra is a she, and yes of course you're misinterpreting her.
While other commenters are correct that manual QA is a mindset, there are readings that can help develop that mindset.

I have new QA engineers read the first five or six chapters of "Testing Computer Software":

http://www.amazon.com/Testing-Computer-Software-2nd-Edition/...

to get a feel for the mindset and methodologies and to help them understand what testing can and can't accomplish.

"Lessons Learned in Software Testing", mentioned by another commenter, is another good resource. Lots of good anecdotes:

http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Learned-Software-Testing-Conte...

Both are a bit dated in some ways ("Testing" has a section on filing paper bug reports), but the lessons and thinking are still highly relevant.
It just needs a change of the name or the initials and it's good to go..
This is assuming your hardware is supported. I throughly endorse it if it is.
I always have a problem with this argument, because the war started by both Germany and Russia invading Poland. Just because things went sour between them and in the end Russia helped defeat the nazis doesn't mean that the act of giving Poland away to the Soviet Union wasn't any less disappointing.
I'm referring to debugging my own stuff, not using other people's sites.
Semi-related. If you ever visit Warsaw (Poland). I highly recommend museum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POLIN_Museum_of_the_History_of...
http://www.polin.pl/en/

There is amazing/modern/interactive exhibition of 1000 years Jewish history in Poland. Most of it is very positive and peaceful. You are invited!
The future of UI, in most cases, is no UI. Let some AI study and understand you, and let it make decisions on your behalf.

Assuming for the moment that this is a desirable outcome, how would you train that AI?

Today we have a vast programming industry and software supports a huge amount of what we do, yet we still struggle to write non-trivial software that behaves correctly in all cases. That’s partly because even with precise and unambiguous programming languages, specifying exactly the behaviour we want turns out to be hard. It’s also partly because we sometimes don’t even specify what behaviour we want in advance, because we forgot to consider a certain case or didn’t anticipate a certain interaction.

What you’re talking about would require advancing beyond programming with precise technical instructions and into creating systems that can handle complicated but unanticipated situations in the way the humans running the system would choose themselves or at least consider an acceptable or desirable alternative. But how will such a system “study” and “understand” what is required of it in an unanticipated situation?

I’m not saying no-one will ever have better ideas than we have today for dealing with these issues, but I suspect we’re a very long way from achieving the kind of general purpose AIs you’re talking about. I can believe that within some of our lifetimes we will see systems that make educated guesses but are on balance more reliable than humans in certain specific cases, perhaps if the people working on self-driving cars continue to make good progress. On the other hand, that’s also a great example of something where some very smart people have been working for several years and with vast resources to handle a single situation that we teach kids to deal with after a few days of training, yet they’re still a long way from the kind of futuristic AI we’re talking about, which perhaps gives a sense of how hard this kind of problem really is.
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> Unless, of course, you propose for the public to feed them through the process, at which point we've got basic income, so we may as well get rid of the retraining part entirely.

Why are we getting rid of the retraining part? We still need people to be qualified to do those jobs.

Obviously we don't need to separately subsidize food and shelter specifically for students if we have a basic income, and a basic income is a Good Idea. But it isn't Not Capitalism. By all accounts it's more aligned with capitalism than the ridiculous system of "subsidies for everything but not if you get a[nother] job" that we have now.
> A small company cannot do it. Okay, so what?

So, have the state (or city) build the damn last mile. It's a public service, just like electricity and water. (If it's not a public service, maybe it should be.) Then have the state get the fuck out by leasing the lines (or the bandwidth in the lines) at some price (preferably without bulk offers, which favour big providers).

I bet prices would fall way faster with a scheme like this.

Also, I'd be wary of Google being my ISP. They spy on me way too much already, I'd rather limit my interaction with them (I'm off Gmail, and use DuckDuckGo). Not to mention the obvious conflict of interest created by the vertical integration: they are ISP and content provider. To name one example, the temptation to make YouTube go smoother than Netflix is significant.
The Japanese writing system uses different letters for the same sounds, depending on their source - foreign languages and animal sounds use Katakana, not Hiragana. If it were intentional, it might be considered rude to foreigners to organize a language that way - grouping foreigners with the animals, based on their sounds.
Since economics is mostly a load of unscientific rhetoric and rationalizations to justify maintaining the status quo, a physicist is probably better qualified to predict the obvious outcome of the idiotic monkey dominance game he witnesses.
I think a better example might be the search boxes that have been added to launch menus (Unity, Windows 8, etc...). People would probably be more likely to start using that as a text interface than a few chat commands. Google figured that out a long time ago.

Text generally has a higher signal to noise ratio, but I wouldn't agree that interfaces are evolving that way. Text is typically a power user interface, but I it could probably be more effective for simple things too if it were designed well. It's faster to interact with (see Fitts' Law) among other potential benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
The answer to the "knowing what options are" is auto-complete [0], [1]. (Almost) nobody knows all the commands by heart.

[0] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm31/co...

[1] http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-System.htm...
Hm, is history important? There's wikipedia if you're interested in the 'history' of a specific algorithm. For the rest, most books I've seen have pseudo-code, which is easy to translate to code.

The classic textbooks are:

* "Algorithms" by Robert Sedgewick et al.
* "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al.

If you're extremely serious about algorithms, you might wanna go directly with the bible: TAOCP[1].

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
I also want to point out that the feeling of being sick/tired after your 'episode' is also very common. As I've been told by a doctor, this is due to your brain going in overdrive for a few days, and then crashing. Typically it results in a a deep depression.

It always starts out small like this though, and it's extremely common for a person after their first few episodes to still not believe they have Schizophrenia, so please don't trust yourself.

I should also be clear, we could be talking about Schizoaffective Disorder. Schizophrenia is sort of umbrella term. I find it's often used incorrectly. Lots of people who suffer still have prolonged periods of being completely normal and lucid, some even go into year long remissions. It's a complicated disease, and you've displayed the tell-tale first sign almost to a T.
> Are you replying to me?

Sorry, yes HN apparently has a limit to nesting of replies, so I cannot reply directly. I'm sure that replying a level up is bad etiquette, so this is the last time I will do it.

I will leave it at this. My position is that there is no sound philosophical basis for positive rights (the claim that one person is entitled to receive something that must be produced by another person). On other words, my rights are only to be left alone to satisfy my desired ends by my chosen means without force or coercion by another party.

This speaks nothing of what "society" or one's fellow man "ought" to do. Rights to no involve "ought."
I like Grokking Algorithms (pdf only, book done in december).
It's quite easy to understand and start with, compared to other algorithms books I have seen.
I found Art of Software testing to be a good guide on the subject. I recommend reading it.
Only 20% of road maintenance in CA is paid for by local and general taxes.[1] Probably less now that gas prices have dropped so much.

So even if it dropped to 0%, it would only result in a 20% shortfall that would have to be made up in the general fund.

Also of interest, if you look at the numbers most car drivers (gas and otherwise) operate at a deficit. They do more damage to the road then they pay in taxes and fees to maintain it. Pubic transit users, bike commuters, and those who do not car commute in general subsidize car drivers.[2] There was a similar study done on CA alone, can't find it at the moment. Also, remember, this doesn't even take into account the cost of health externalities due to car culture. It's purely cost of maintenance of the roads themselves.

At least with electric vehicles, we're subsidizing a mode of transportation that doesn't destroy air quality in urban areas and is generally less of a public nuisance.

1. http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-tolls-pa...

2. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/05/debunking-the-myth-th...
Yes, wealthy people have an easier time of it. That doesn't mean that a public defender is useless.
Thank you for that answer. My "hopeful" theory is that I did get hacked and maybe overreacted too much. However, if I am being honest, regardless I think it is likely amphetamine psychosis. I have been taking it for 3months but as month 4 started I began to take a bit more at times, possibly leading to these symptoms.

I think being somewhat paranoid is positive, but I need to have a better way to assess the underlying concerns rationally and not from a paranoid/worst case view.

Thanks.
A big source of the perceived slowdown partially comes from the grant-oriented, near-sighted, and incredibly toxic environment that today's researchers have to deal with.

Making something faster, cheaper, or smaller is incremental progress with immediate payouts. It's easy to sell that as a research project. But some newfangled warp drive? Flying cars? Self sustaining space stations? None of those things have any sort of short term payout, and so they don't get dollars. Or at least, a lot fewer than they probably deserve.

And so we get incremental progress on existing technology instead. If we want more new, then we need to finance it. And that means making investments with 0 return for 20 years. That means financing people who are coming around at things they don't understand with no certainty of financial return.
That is indeed a very insightful observation and I am rewarded by having considered it.
Not to worry. We're all figuring this stuff out together.
Being inconsiderate also isn't acceptable, but what can you do about it if not consider things?
Typing to Siri or Google is essentially a command line interface.
> For those who don't understand, gasoline taxes provide a large portion of highway maintenance revenue

This isn't true. They only provide 20% of revenue in CA and between 20-30% across the country. Taxes on fuel have not been raised for decades. Currently, most road funding comes from non-road related taxes.

I made a longer post above with citations.
Perfect hybrid between WhatsApp and Snapchat
It's not just about dealing with stress. Some drugs offer transcendence, others escape, some enhanced creativity, or the potential to learn more about yourself or the world around you, or a greater bonding with people you love, or greater tolerance, understanding, and empathy, yet others are self-destructive.

A lot depends on who the user is, what assumptions, pre-conceptions, and goals they have, how and where they use the drug, and which drug it is.

Sure, some may use a drug for stress relief or to party, but others use them to expand their mind.

Unfortunately, escapist, ignorant, and self-destructive uses are all too common in modern societies. It doesn't have to be that way.
Algorithms [Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani] (2008)

Algorithm Design [Kleinberg, Tardos] (2005)
Mildly off topic but re

>In the past, we thought the future of computing would look complicated: lots of buttons, multiple screens, and crazy interfaces.

... followed by a shot of the 1960's Star Trek ship's deck, then saying we're headed for command lines instead. Since 50 years have passed since that set was designed I thought I'd google how designs have changed. Here's the space shuttle

http://cdn.visualnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Discove...

and here's a modern ship

http://www.motorship.com/__data/assets/image/0020/705404/THE...

Still looks more like lots of buttons, multiple screens, and crazy interfaces than command line to me. Still give it another half century.
It's not much different to what happened at the beginning of the 20th century. A few firms have managed to gain a lot of market dominance and have leveraged that to grow even further.

If antitrust law were actually enforced suddenly all of this "efficient technology" would stop creating such big winners.
I don't understand how this is reacting to what I said...?

I'm not saying he wasn't a hero. I'm saying he's coming from a different starting point; and that he himself explicitly said he wasn't doing what the other two were (and didn't belong on the statue).

Victimization what? Who's a victim here? Whose superiority over whose?

I don't think anyone of any color/background/whatever is better than anyone else. I do think that if you spend your life benefiting from unfair systems (not just racism, all kinds of things in life are unfair), you owe the world some effort to right the balance.

-- edit: I thought of a better way to access this idea. Everyone seems to already agree to this implicitly when talking about money. E.g., if someone who builds an amazing business and gets rich, it's a bigger accomplishment if their parents were poor, they had a poor early education, etc., than someone who builds an equivalent business, but they went to the best schools, their parents helped fund it, etc..

I just apply the same approach to all the other areas in life where some people are simply born into unfair advantages; and extend it a bit to say that if you have a ton of resources handed to you by life on a silver platter, that's not the same as "earning" them, and (in my opinion) you need to make more of an effort before you'll be making a positive impact on the world.
This is a very dangerous assumption. Often drug use brings out peoples underlying mental health condition. Do not assume they are related just because you started taking Adderal recently. In the case of my friend, he attributed his symptoms to first time cannabis use in college, thinking if he just stopped smoking it would go away. It didn't.
It would be an interesting exercise to take a corpus of user CLI commands, and try to use the types and formats of the arguments to predict the command.
Regardless of whether the author is right, it's worth thinking about because it may well be the case that humans have a better affinity for graphic representations of spoken language than for pictorial representations of things in the world.

Ordinary people type web addresses into browsers...or heaven forfend, at least "microsoft" into their Google toolbar for IE8. There's a point at which information redundancy is overwhelming even for people who don't care about information theory or how the web works or anything else.

The WIMP interface was a great innovation. But it was built for a time when women were in the typing pool, entrepreneurs were called "businessmen" and managers were afraid of catching keyboard kooties. The meteor hit and CEO's type their own correspondence and answer phone calls on their direct line [which lives in their pocket].

There's a case [and a reasonable counter case] to be made that WIMP was the installation program for widespread computing. Once the important system is up and running it can be discarded. The degree to which this is plausible correlates to the inverse to which one sees WIMP as an end in itself. Yesterday, it was rounded corners on shiny buttons, today it's flat sharp corners. In the interim, people have learned from experience that pixels can't cut human fingers. A buggy whip industry would count this as progress.
I'll send a PR.
Isn't Tesla notorious for underpaying?
No, I think the book makes something akin to a moral point. That Our Humble Narrator was as much victim as perpetrator of the Better Living through Chemistry era.

It's precisely the opposite of a medical evaluation. It's a reductio ad absurbum on the idea that there's a potential Utopia within us revealed by drugs. Drugs apparently make you a new man but the new man may not be perceptually ... congruent with the old man.

I think he's describing the collapse of the experiment that included the Summer of Love.

"And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Can the medicos provide structure to ameliorate this?
Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line" has this bit:

> Americans' preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I'm not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I'm not even going to make snotty comments about it—after all, I was at Disney World as a paying customer. But it clearly relates to the colossal success of GUIs and so I have to talk about it some. Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two.

There's so much expertise in animation, games, 3D, physics, illustration etc while most UIs are boring, boxy, and slow. The UIs inside of simulated computers in computer games are cooler than the actual UIs!

I wonder what will happen with virtual reality UIs. With movement tracking you could really get next-level point and click. I want my IDE to be a VR spaceship mission where I write code with some kind of sign language syntax!
So write something for us, be that libertarian! The strongest sign of a robust ideal is that it stands up well in discussion and dissent.
Which is better, but still 48 pixels bigger than it should be.
Since it looks like this article is trying to treat a controversial topic substantively, let's see if we can do the same. If you comment, please stick to the substance and avoid dismissive comments and rudeness. We should all do so anyway, but when the topic is polarized it can take more conscious effort.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. We had several strong candidates reply to our postings on the "Who's Hiring" and made a great hire about 10 months ago. That team member is still with the company and is providing great value!
Two years in a row.
Workers fail unloaded goods
Of course you can say no. It still means Bob is an asshole. Bob, unlike you, has many more options. He deliberately chooses to take advantage of your lack of options, even though behaving like a normal, decent human being and helping you for free by simply giving you the goddamn extinguisher would entail no great cost to him.

People like Bob are not out there to help others. They're out there to win.
http://barabasi.com/networksciencebook/
That's the first that I'd heard of this 'strong trend in contemporary black counter-culture that opposed race equality and integration' in the years around 1968.

Any references where I can read more on the subject? I looked up the black panther page on Wikipedia, and it referenced black nationalism undertones existing in its earlier phases (until around 1964). Still, I couldn't see that it was a trending force.
Uh, isn't that what makes a difficult problem... difficult? I don't think there's any redefinition going on. I'm not sure I've ever heard somebody say, "this is really easy, I can't figure it out."
This is an accurate description of the legal US grading system as of March 2, 2015 (under 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627). For anyone interested, here's a link to the official USDA guidelines (grading is §52.5962 on page no. 2, which is actually page 4 of the PDF):

http://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/MapleSyrup...
This is something that I don't like with so many mobile apps. The options are evident by looking. Tinder has swipe left, right. Pinch to zoom. Buttons are just text, etc.
Are you sure you're not equating:

A) "It would be [more] ethical to offer a better deal."

with

B) "The person offering this deal is ethically worse than those who never interacted at all."

You can endorse A) without endorsing B), and it's B that the author is criticizing (as the CIE).
It's not just about winning. It's about making it as costly as possible for the other side to win. The Warsaw Uprising was a horribly costly victory for the Germans. And in the case of the Polish Jews there was no downside to fighting back.

And it's certainly not out of the question that a better armed Jewish resistance could have organized transport for a lot of Jews out of Nazi hands.
Such blatant institutional racism in Australia in 2000! So sad :(
Oops. Dunno who voted you down, considering I can no longer correct the typo this post adds value :)
You don't love it when software soothes you during loading screens with cuddly inspirational messages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7747768
So by the way, this is the OS that I run on my computer and it provides the scrollbars that I like. If I don't like them I can change the window manager (and I run X11 so yes, I can do that) to something that I do like.

The designer of that, or any, website does not know what I like, or what works for me and best suits my abilities. They should certainly not attempt to change it based on what they want and what suits them on their device.

actually, I'm a bit flabbergasted when this kind of thing happens, I really am not sure why I would want to allow any application (much less a page on a computer the other side of the world being shown by that application) to change the way my computer interfaces with me.
Assuming a CLI is on parity w/r/t usability as a GUI, which takes a shorter amount of time and less effort to construct? GUI certainly.
Over in Haskell-land, hoogle will perform fuzzy searches on type signatures. Having something like that at hand in the shell could certainly be neat.