skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems unlikely that American military leaders would intend to bomb a hospital

while I'm not 100% sure about that (it seems unthinkable for a human being, but people's judgement can get pretty out of whack in wrong environment), let's assume for the sake of argument that your military leaders are sane.

even then, all it requires is the bare minimum of military leader people closing their eyes for just long enough.

and if you believe they wouldn't do that intentionally, then we'll disagree about that. you don't get that position without the ability to look the other way with laser-sharp focus. it's part of the job (and it's disgusting).

but they would say "you don't know what it's like". meditate on that for a bit. this world, huh?
MPEG-LA had a very long time to assemble their VP8 pool, but nothing ever materialized. The impression I got was that Google paid them for silence, in a way that let them save face. Regardless, it's a clear sign that patents are failing our society when it might be impossible to write a free video codec from scratch.
"A smart IM2000 recipient perhaps would not pull spam from the sender's server."

Based on what criteria? You wouldn't have the message headers/content, so you couldn't filter based on that. All you can filter on is the IP address. But you can already do that with SMTP by just responding with a 5xx code as soon as the sending server connects anyway... Or you could actually fetch the message and then spam filter it. But then, you may as well use SMTP...

What difference does it make which side initiates the TCP connection? If I was a spammer, IM2000 wouldn't concern me one little bit.
Thanks for that link!

That's an excellent tool from an excellent company. I had one of their circular saws (the hand operated variety, not the table model) and accidentally dropped it down a 39' roof. I fully expected it to be a goner but to my surprise it worked just as well as before the drop, the saw body had a little scratch from the impact but that was about the extent of the damage.

The Hole Hawg sounds interesting, I've never seen one but it is - like any other tool - judging by the story a tool to respect. I like tools like that, the ones that just do what you tell them to without any fuss.

The biggest drill I have here is a Bosch contractor version, it's 'only' 1150 watts, spins really slow but makes drilling holes in just about anything deceptively easy. I'm always very conscious of my position relative to the tool and I'm very careful making sure that if it would seize that I can release the trigger. The day I bought it I wore out my previous drill on a hole in a concrete floor, it just died and gave up the ghost. The blue monster took care of that hole in about 1 second, doing it's lazy and surprisingly quiet spin.

The contractors motto: don't force it, use a larger hammer :)
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> The teams are far larger than they should be. It’s a failure of architecture — the programmers don’t have the right libraries. I hope that machine learning will fix that problem.

This may have been a transcription error, but as written I can't make sense of it. Can anyone else?
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It happens in every area. If there weren't malicious programmers, we wouldn't have to spend CPU cycles on anti-viruses and firewalls. If there weren't for SPAM, e-mail communication would be more enjoyable, etc.

By definition, ~50% of the population has below average intelligence.
Thanks! I never expected that so many people would want to see this.

So now I'm brainstorming about the best way to publish more of these, enable crowd sourcing, and get other lawyers involved.
Yeah. My point was, he wrote an article titled "How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names", and then didn't even mention the existence of cctlds. Which is like writing an article titled "How to learn how to speak every language", and then pretending there are only 10 languages in existence.
Then you probably wouldn't mind if someone hit you while rushing through the city at 100MPH.
I think it might be!
From me being bad at arithmetic. Sorry.
Thanks for the correction, and additional information.
It would be great if they would be useful for somebody, but here you are just trying to impress would-be employers.
No. If you paint a picture using a borrowed brush, you still own the picture, as well as the copyright on the creative work.
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I don't really see that as a problem, that's how all popular protocols evolve.

If all exchanges have invented a liquidity-field, then there's
a good chance the next version of FIX will standardize it, no?

Imho the legal system is very much ripe for digitalization. Both on the low-end (where it pretty much consists of overhead), and even more so on the high-end, where the complexity of legal contracts between companies or states has long exceeded what any team of lawyers (much less a mere mortal) can comprehend.
Just for the alliteration: sending it to Sudan. No offense intended.
Amazon targets 1,114 'fake reviewers' in Seattle lawsuit
I never heard about Apple allowing hackintoshes.

The thing they DID begin to allow at some point is OS X running in a VM, on Apple host hardware, I believe.
TLS might as well be SIGINT enabled from the outset, just like many have assumed GSM was weakened from the outset to allow for interception. The key insight from the crypto stories we have been hearing is that the NSA is always one step ahead. Always. That is their business model and modus operandi. If you are looking to stay ahead of them, you need their budget, which is not going to happen unless you have State-like capital like Apple. And yet even Apple can not successfully encrypt without much fanfare and fuss
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It is really unfortunate that people down vote something that is wrong without actually saying what is wrong about it. I think it would help, though, to acknowledge that your opinion is unlikely to be shared with others and to append something like, "Can anyone explain where I'm going wrong?"

Now, I don't actually know much about type theory at all and came here to try to remove some of my ignorance. As such, I can't really help you much, but I will try my best. You might want to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory

If I read it correctly (and if it is written correctly), a "term" is essentially anything with a "type". So 1, 2 and 3 are terms and they have a type. A "function" is something that takes terms and "reduces" them to other terms. You can "apply" a function to some arguments in order to reduce them. So if we have a function, "myfunc x", we can apply that to 2 and have "myfunc 2". Both "myfunc x" and "myfunc 2" are terms, but they have different types.

Let's make a function that doubles an integer (let's call the type "int"). So "double x" is a term with a type of "int -> int": it maps an int onto an int. "double 2" is a term with a type of int. The term "double double 1" can be "reduced" to the term "double 2". "double 2" can be "reduced" to the term "4". 4 is known as a "normalized term". It can not be reduced any further.

Now, you may be saying "How is this different from what I said?" From what I can tell, the main difference is that a type is not a set of "values" (or normalized terms). Functions applied to terms also have a type. Functions with free variables also have a type. Anything that is a term in an expression has a type. So 1, 2 and 4 are of type int. "double 1", "double 2", and "double double 1" are also all of type int. If we had a function called "fortytwo" that just returned 42, it would also be of type int.

It may seem like a small (possibly insignificant) difference, but it really depends on your point of view. We can completely ignore the type if we want to. Many programming languages make that very easy. We could also subscribe to the idea that a type is just a set of values, like you said. We can write many fine (and many not-so-fine) programs with that point of view.

These views limit the kind of analysis we can do on the code that is written, though. The point of using type theory in computer languages is to help us reason about the code analytically. So my answer to your (unasked) question is, it doesn't have to be complicated. It proves useful to include all of the nuances that type theory gives us. Intentionally putting blinders on to make it seem simple, just deprives us of potentially useful capabilities.

Hopefully someone who actually knows something about this topic will chime in and correct whatever horrible mistakes I've made.
> Let's say we can recover 99% of energy that we put into humans back out, that's another factor of 100 right there.

Thermodynamics doesn't work that way.
SQLite databases are just as "easy" to send and receive. In fact, they can be compressed, which means they're even easier.
Less than 0.0000001% of the Sun's energy output ever reaches the limits of our atmosphere, simply due to our size and distance away from the Sun.

Long-term, energy is not the key absolute problem, but actually being able to get the technology, materials, short-term energy, and political will together to be able to harness the mind-boggling amounts of space and energy that's out there.
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Chinese VC firm wanted to create $1 billion seed-fund on AngelList
Global Interceptor for Ajax Requests in an AngularJs Application
We will never agree on the set of axioms.
Judging from the article it does:

The author is clearly Apple and they are not responsible just as in the BSD license:

The Capitan is AS-IS, of course.

Unlike BSD, there is no source and a bunch of other very restrictive limitations, which is what I was commenting about.

1. I can’t use the Capitan with illegal copies of anyone’s stuff.

2. Apple didn’t sell me this software. They still own it, in fact. I’m just borrowing it.

3. If I install more Apple software, those are on loan as well.

...

And so on.
> He (and Bush before him) assassinated people, assassinates them without trial or due process, while smiling and holding babies and making jokes at the White House correspondents dinner, and complaining about the gun culture and mass killings.

Reminds me, when I saw him interview with Jon Stewart a few weeks back, I was thinking "look at him, he's trying! such a nice man" (actually he was mainly avoiding making excuses).

Then I thought of the character of the Smiler in Transmetropolitan, and remembered.

Yesterday, part of a Nine Inch Nails lyric sprang out at me, and I had to think back of that scene:

"Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person, you haven't had enough to know what it's like."

A lot of powerful people explain away the cognitive dissonance between their promises and their actions with some variation of the above, in different words. And the others, I fear, are just clever enough to not say it out loud. And what are they supposed to do? Have you ever listened to the raving rationalisations of a heroin junkie? If you think that's of a fault in their person instead of a product of their environment, then I suppose you haven't had enough to know what it's like.

We should treat addiction and abuse like the health problem it is, not a criminal problem. And we should start with the power elite.
Plenty of long-time HN users engage in motivated reasoning and intellectual dishonesty for ideological reasons. At times, it's positively predictable.
Nutritional "calories" are actually kilocalories (kcal), which leads to occasional confusion when trying to do calculations that relate food energetic content to other things. For example, I had a book relating someone's calculation that you should be able to diet by drinking scotch and soda because "the body must furnish 7400 calories" to raise the drink from 0°C to body temperature, which would presumably dwarf the energy input from the liquor and indeed from whatever else the drinker consumed all day. (The author agreed that this "didn't work" but didn't understand why not.)

The problem turned out to be that, while the body does indeed furnish around 7000 calories to heat up an ice-cold beverage, the drinker is consuming 2000 or more kilocalories daily, including around 100 from the drink itself.

So, you should lose a factor of 1000 for the definition of nutritional calories. But the numbers in your calculation are so staggering that this barely affects your point, which is that human population isn't close to being fundamentally physically limited by energy inputs from the Sun.

I think you're basically right conceptually, but should give more weight to the difficulty of adapting to some kinds of environmental change. There's no guarantee that human beings can invent everything we need when we need it, and some changes are difficult or impossible to reverse. So even if some limits aren't at all theoretically insurmountable, humanity could fail to surmount them because things that would need to be done can't be done in practice in the required timeframe.
Is there a visualization showing this?
Well, the point of antitrust law is to prevent cartels and monopoly abuses; companies of all sizes can be guilty of such. My guess is that he's saying that EU law tends to crack down on large companies even if they are only the largest (not single) player in a competitive market, while leaving alone the SMBs that collude to corner a small market.
Austria's drone law basically is making differences by weight and purpose of flight. I expect it to be similar. Heavy drones and sith purpose of filming require a flight picense light which means you are aware of regulations and will follow them.
A drone strike or other ways of covertly assasinating Snowden always felt like the trope USGOV should follow if this was an action movie, but it doesn't make much sense in the real world. Mysterious death would only piss off the public even more, and right now the situation is perfectly OK - Snowden is marginalized and harmless. He lives in a far-away land, whatever damage he could do he has already done, no government will ever let him near any data again - he's just a John Doe with no relevance to anything. Not pardoning him keeps it that way.
Me neither.

I remember one of the educational toys my school had, which I played with when I was 5 or 6. We called it "tens, hundreds, units" [1]. There were many 1×1×1cm "units", 10×1×1 "tens", 10×10×1 "hundreds" and a 10×10×10 "thousand". You could fill the hundreds and thousand with water, the thousand obviously being 1L.

The British National Curriculum [2] says children
- In year 1 (age 5-6) should be able to count centimetres
- In year 2, recognise place value, choose appropriate units (cm/m, g/kg, °C etc) and use measuring tools for these
- In year 3, to add milli- to that,
- In year 4, convert between centimetres and metres, and other units (time and £ and pence)
- In year 5, to convert between milli-, centi-, base, and kilo- measures. Calculate square areas in cm² and m²
- In year 6, volumes in m³ etc, and converting everything, to three decimal places.

(This hasn't changed since the 1960s or something, so it's a shame the country won't get rid of road signs with miles and yards on.)

[1] http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts/Products/PD1723354/Base...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curricul...
> Humans don’t just extract from a fixed set of resources, but can create new resources through invention.

Perhaps I am being pedantic, but that sounds like nonsense. Sure, humans invent stuff, but they don't invent the resources. They invent new ways to access previously inaccessible resources, or extract accessible resources more efficiently. But they don't magic more resources into being.
As long as the OSX VM runs on Apple hardware, it's allowed.

Apple does not put any legal restrictions on what OS you choose to run on Mac hardware, you're free to install Windows on it (but then you'd better be complying with Windows' license terms)
What does you ama platform provide? I need to know more about your website before I sign up and in.
Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm
That's bizarre, especially since as far as I can tell, the voice synthesizer hasn't been improved in years. (the command 'say hello' sounds something like 'yellow' to my ears)
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I suspect that at 7 billion now, if the world population rose to even 100 billion, we'd find a way to survive. It would be a very different life experience, but it would still be life.
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Why is such a model more skewed for software than for music?
It enables a person(celebrity probably) to create a room(We verify him currently by mail). Other people(who want to ask him questions) can join the room and start asking. There will be two separate threads for answers and questions to reduce the noise and give clarity. Its very simple actually, I wish I could post a screencast. Please check it out !
> Really, the only thing you need to teach before Computer Science, is reading writing calculating, some maths, some physics, and that's about it.

Maybe not even. Alan Kay & co, with Scratch, used to teach physics and Science (with a big S) with the aid of programming. One of my favourite example was the teaching of Galilean physics by filming the fall of a rock. The reported result was that without the computer, almost no child could understand how it worked. With the computer, almost all children were able to derive a model by themselves —I suppose with some guidance.
I think it's use-case is when your data is more structured than what Berkeley DB can handle but doesn't really fit neatly into tables. Not using SQL as a query language is a plus in some scenarios too, particularly if your data manipulation needs are a bit more complex and you don't have the room for importing and using a full ORM (which is a "Vietnam of Computer Science"[1] anyway).

[1] http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Compute...
Other than "nostalgia", there's also the fact that life in general is more likely to survive a changing environment if there is more variation. If there is only one species, life is much, much more likely to die out, even in the short term. I personally don't think that's important, but a lot of people do seem to have strongly held positions that the continuation of life is important for some reason.
I'm in the class. He really said this. The CS183C videos are posted online about a week after each class, so you can watch it for yourself soon.
One question that I have if there is so much energy then why is life not using more of it? I guess there are a bunch of other constraints on life other than the sun's energy so my point is off.
Lots of talk about modeling in this thread - how's Blender for other applications these days?

In particular, how's its animation capability (both UI and features-wise)? Does it have decent importers and exporters for industry-standard formats (I'm thinking FBX and Alembic)? Can it handle mocap data well? Does it have any 3D paint / texturing tools yet?

I'd love to move away from Autodesk if it's possible!
I think all the HN love is giving this web server a rough time.
What stops Pinterest being sued by the magazines/photographers whose photos are being ripped off?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10407399 may have more to do with it.
They place restrictive rights on the usage of the software and retain the ability to revoke your license. BSD does not, ergo it is different.
(from Yosemite's license, but I can't imagine that Apple have improved it):

C. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND APPLE AND APPLE'S LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS “APPLE” FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8) HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

D. APPLE DOES NOT WARRANT AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN, OR SERVICES PERFORMED OR PROVIDED BY, THE APPLE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE OPERATION OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY SERVICES WILL CONTINUE TO BE MADE AVAILABLE, THAT THE APPLE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES WILL BE COMPATIBLE OR WORK WITH ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE, APPLICATIONS OR THIRD PARTY SERVICES, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE APPLE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED. INSTALLATION OF THIS APPLE SOFTWARE MAY AFFECT THE AVAILABILITY AND USABILITY OF THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE, APPLICATIONS OR THIRD PARTY SERVICES, AS WELL AS APPLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

+ the usual warnings about not being suitable for use in nuclear facilities, aircraft or air traffic control, life support & weapons systems.

(I wonder if they'll be adding self-driving cars to that list?)
I'd call that Information Retrieval, not Machine Learning. Indexing documents doesn't "learn" any more than a file system storing files, and TF-IDF and BM25 are simply weighting functions.

But of course, it's an interesting topic. If you want to learn more, the first edition of the most widely used textbook is free:

http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
The article doesn't really explain what the e-residency service actually provides, but links to another article with more useful details:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/lets-all-become-e-residents...
The problem is that in order to operate as a startup, as the whole point of the e-residency is, it's not that easy.
Getting a bank account as of end of September is quite hard, border line of impossible. Without a bank account, no startup can be setup properly.

Other than that - very good idea and probably the execution will be even better in the near future.
Nothing stops you taking the advantage of both.

Kitchen cupboards, appliances etc are designed in multiples of 300mm, which has factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 60, 75, 100, 150, 300. The smallest part is still in mm, not awkward fractions of an inch, and the whole wall can be put in mm: 3880mm. That's easy to understand, but 152 inches is less so (who uses inches for something that long?). 12ft 9in is presumably intuitive for those familiar with imperial, but annoying to convert as soon as it needs dividing or multiplying.

Also, imperial units didn't have much staying power in the ex-British Empire, apart from in Britain.
I think in China case only bans selling weapons and other defense-related items.
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Your parents were lucky. They are probably also hard working and intelligent but unless they were lucky they could not have escaped from the poverty you describe (unless you're missing some details like having helpful rich friends or family etc). It's too easy for something to go wrong e.g. an illness or injury, a car accident, a broken appliance or two and your knocked back down again and if you have no money and no income you can't recover.
The DMCA.
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Can anyone provide any insight on why E-Residency would be good for businesses? How about startups in particular?
I don't understand how practically all commercial software can get away with claiming that it isn't fit or warranted for any purpose. Apple's product demos and website advertise the OS performing lots of different tasks. If I bought a Mac and found I couldn't use it to browse the web or store photos, surely Apple's marketing is direct proof that they are warranting that it should be able to do these things?
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