skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea. I'm not Curtis. However, have you ever just wanted to burn it all down and start over? I mean all of it. lambda calculus, the von neuman architecture, all of it?

Urbit is a little bit like that. When he says clean slate he really does mean clean slate.

Which in a way is what makes it fun. It's so far out of your normal experience that it's delightful to play with. At least if you are someone like me anyway.
As long as the RFC is marked as such, that's exactly what it means.
An easier way to write coding tutorials
Hi, guys,

I'm developing this app that makes it really easy to write tutorials with code examples from github:

http://that-s-the-way-you-do-it.herokuapp.com

You can just grab a git file URL, paste it in the text editor and your code will be imported right away!

(other urls imported now are: lines, line interval, commits and pull requests)

The result is something like this:

http://that-s-the-way-you-do-it.herokuapp.com/docs/how-to-use-github-omniauth-at-your-rails-app

The editor also has markdown support :).

It's open source and you can deploy it yourself. Check the code here:

https://github.com/coopera/that-s-the-way-you-do-it

You don't need to login to write a tutorial (but it'll only grab code from public repos).

Do you like the idea? I'm running a research on this, so I'd be very thankful if you can provide me some feedback (and, yeah, you can be really harsh!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQW4TzelFw
Some more truly fascinating Parkinson's news this week about nilotinib, apparently seeming to cure Parkinson in small trials... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
Maybe I'm thinking about things wrong, but can't you have a scalar quantity to represent error for backprop at the end of a neural network (in a supervised regression problem for example)? That scalar error becomes a vector as it is assigned to various weights. I'm not trying to be obtuse, but it seems like the scalar reward in RL is also modifying countless variables in the Q functions of the state-action pairs that led to the final outcome/reward... Are those, by definition, smaller in number than the parameters of a neural network?
supervised learning: (after millions of operations you had just performed) out of 1000 you predicted label #136, but actually the true result for this input was label #25.

reinforcement learning: (after millions of operations you had just performed) out of 1000 you predicted label #136. That's not right, but I won't tell you what you should have done. Also, it could have been right, but maybe you had screwed up something in one of your last 100 predictions and I won't tell you what it was. Good luck.
FYI, there is a 12-month engagement with Google similar to the idea of boot camp, in which you will work for Google and get paid, and possibly getting a full time offer afterward.
Large taxes on transfers from US persons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
See also also: argument from fallacy, aka the "fallacy fallacy": claiming that a conclusion is wrong because an argument supporting it is invalid.
Adding novalidate to the form tag stops the in-built validation madness, but still gives the relevant keyboard on mobile browsers.
that makes sense. thanks.

EDIT: followup question: to what extent does DeepMind's Deep-Q learning address the problem of associating remote causes with final outcomes?
What makes you think it chinese protectionism would be a trade issue? Not trying to be sardonic, just curious.
You mean Medicare, not Medicaid. Medicaid already "negotiates" lower drug prices.

I think the Republican stance comes from the perspective that you can never really "negotiate" with a body that writes and enforces all the laws.
Obviously Drivers Are Already Abusing Tesla's Autopilot
Yes. He further argues that competition is bad because it has produced this state. ("Competition doesn’t produce variety, it results in commoditization until we are left with 23 identical variations of the same vehicle.")

He fails to note that there are actually many hundreds of other substantially different vehicles available for sale today.

He is also evidently unaware of what happens in the absence of competition: far from some sort of designer's utopia of unique individual self-expression, you get one vehicle to pick from, and you have to wait for 10 years to get one -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
"it can lead to crashes where a large number of the readers here may struggle to get jobs at any price for a period of time"

You mean because high salaries, over the medium term, may result in increased supply of developers?
The API is returning "title" : "A story about &lt;input&gt;" for me. I don't consider that correct encoding, as "&lt;" is not a special escape sequence in JSON, and expecting API consumers to either blindly trust you did their escaping for them, or HTML-decode JSON strings to use in another context, is silly. It is probably another symptom of something HTML-escaping the title when it shouldn't be.
Then it makes sense why the Republicans were fighting to renew the Ex-Im bank charter which basically gives hand outs to corporations.

Oh wait, that was the Democrats! The Republicans actually killed it.
I can't vouch for dolphin sonar resolving fine anatomical detail /in vivo/, but dolphins can recognize visually obscured objects using the ability [0].

[0] http://www.dolphin-institute.org/our_research/dolphin_resear...
Nearly Every USGS Topo Map Ever Made (2014)
To be fair, that's only true of one type of input; the file picker; possibly the color picker too...

The rest of the input types are just text values and some presentation. There's no technical reason for them to all be as absolutely terrible as they are; it's just legacy bloat.

That said, I agree, 'in general' web components probably aren't going to be 'the thing' any time soon; the polyfills are too rubbish, and the native browser support basically doesn't exist yet.

...but the issue is mostly module imports and the shadow dom being ridiculously slow and terrible with nested components.

Input types are inherently simple; there is no reason to have another component inside your input; simple web-components for the most common input types (text, textarea, date, number) seems like a very reasonable and plausible goal.

You've got to admit, if there was a simple way to get consistent cross browser responsive input tags, it'd be awesome.
Create More Web
Melbourne Car Wreckers – Car Wreckers Melbourne – Car Wreckers
> who doesn't want to write stuff like realtime 3D graphics

I love programming in my day job but I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic.

It's like saying, who doesn't want to work in hard math problems while extremely time constrained all day? There are people who would love it, but I don't understand how can there be an overabundance of them.
Apple forces upgrades with a devious anti-feature: version-locked apps, combined with no OS updates for old devices.

The system auto-updates your apps, whether you want to or not. Eventually, the newer apps simply refuse to run on older versions of the OS, and you can't get OS updates for that phone anymore.

The result is that to the extent that you care about using any apps, you have to buy a new phone, even though your old phone's hardware is still more than adequate in a technical sense.
Inaccuracies and overly-broad statements of this article:

Bob Moog did not invent the idea of a synthesizer. It emerged much earlier in the 20th century, from a mix of electric-powered organs and various other early electronics, with many of the inventors working independently. The boundary between "organ" and "analog synthesizer" has a gray area, and there were some unique pre-Moog instruments like the Theramin. Moog's contribution was to make programmable synthesis more affordable and standardized for professional use - but many of the "synth-like" sounds used in 60's and 70's records are organs with effects pedals put on them; small electronic organs had become affordable in the post-war era.

The distinctive-yet-samey sounds of the 1980's aren't entirely attributable to presets; the presets are a symptom of the underlying appearance of digital technology in music. Digital simultaneously opened up new realms of affordability and privilege - at the same time you got cheap tone boxes like the Casio VL1, you also had monsters like the Synclavier, used on "Thriller" and in many movie soundtracks, with high-end configurations billed in the ballpark of $500,000 dollars(1980's money). Digital gear also changed mixing in favor of extensive production, leading to the heavy reverb washes and gated snares everywhere. Using a "high end" sound was a status symbol, so it was flaunted even if that meant you were using the same orchestra hit as everyone else.

The reappearance of analog is attributable to the same backlash seen in every media market that has experienced a race-to-the-bottom in price points: Synth designers have decided to do an end run around the piracy/DRM/price-pressure issues by going back towards manufacturing. The sounds are "classic" now, and marketed as such, with a few new tricks added to keep up interest. Musicians often get into very idiosyncratic workflows and for some of them, working directly with knobs and patch cables is the right way to go.
You have to also factor in how much lost business this'll end up costing them. Might be a little, might be a lot, but it'll be nonzero.
I can give you one advantage from the generic perspective of a creator, in that I experience unbridled joy from using my own creations.

From my point of view, no other justification need be made, since no one is in any way forced to use, understand, or even acknowledge my creations.
> rely on your personal opinions and experiences

Here's an employment rate and weekly earnings chart from the US Department of Labor correlated by education level:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
Thanks. Wanted to indicate it wasn't entirely current. I've seen multiple gripes registered on previous posts ;-)
This reminded me of Orwell's Such, Such Were The Joys: <http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/e_joys>

My own memory of bullying was witnessing it happen to two classmates in elementary school.

Years later I read that when you are in danger in a crowd you need to point to a particular person in the crowd and say 'You! Help me!', otherwise no one does anything, as they expect somebody else to do something, or they even join in the violence.

The violent group behavior from our early days as a species are, unfortunately, with us still.

Another recommended book: The Dragons of Eden (Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence) by Carl Sagan.
You can't have merit and equality at the same time. You have to pick one.

As long as you strive for merit, and the more you strive. The more inequality this leads to.

Define the principles of the society you wish to build. If you wish to trade merit for equality, then you should also live by its consequences. Which is people going else where their hard work is better recognized.

Free market economy is a direct result of learning to live by the consequences of your actions.
This is why I'm so surprised that they released a watch. The smart watch market was tiny and extremely immature. To jump in when they did is very different from their previous winning formula. It will be interesting to see how it works out.
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released
Neither Thermographic nor SWIR cmeras can actually see through house walls, any internal heat source will be diffused, and bodies won't be picked up at all this isn't Hollywood.

Most modern CCTV cameras have SWIR mode for night operations.

Cell-interception is more easily achieved on a metro scale through carrier or base station based interception.
In any case Stingray is a brand name for an IMSI catcher made by Harris, they sell many other IMSI catchers to local law enforcement agencies.

Miami PD for example bought their hand-held version back in 2006.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1282625-06-11-29-200...

They are quite often used in raids to pin point a specific house or an apartment.

Local police units have had this tech since the late 90's, in many places this was used in counter-drug and counter-organized crime operations, you had patrol cars with IMSI catchers that would drive through a neighborhood catching all cell-id's and matching them to known numbers of drug dealers and gang members.

So no this isn't really new.
Heh. I work for a marketing agency that works with one of the major automotive brands and that brief is the kind of thing we see with every vehicle launch, model refresh, etc. Nobody wants to build a car for old, boring conformists.
You'll trigger the wrong on-screen keyboard on mobile devices. There was talk about an inputmode attribute where you could specify "numeric" to instruct the OS to present the appropriate keyboard to the user without changing the input's behavior, but it isn't supported anywhere AFAIK.
That's already happening, somewhat, notably on Wikipedia, where the increased availability of public-access journals means that papers published in them are more likely to be cited. This tends to drive a virtuous cycle of more citations in Wikipedia => more references to public-access journals. Enough that Elsevier are attempting to counter this via offering a (very limited) set of free accounts to Wikipedia editors to its own journals. Previously discussed on HN.

Ultimately, I suspect we'll see a dynamic emerge by which pressures against for-profit publication and increased alternatives will hit a tipping point. I first started hearing about the public-access publishing world in the late 1990s. A decade and a half later, it's a thing, though still small.

And figuring out how to compensate both research and editorialship remains a challenge.
"but overall the culture is harmed by so many people jumping into software development just because of the money. It has also lured many who would have chosen banking, etc."

You've got this backwards. People who would have chosen banking are the ones who are attracted 'just because of the money'. IMO most people who become developers do so because they're interested in software/tech, but most people who become bankers do so mainly/exclusively because of the money (and perception of prestige).

"...and must instead focus on deadlines and other business metrics driven by fundraising."

This is not an issue for bootstrapped startups. For funded/fundable startups, being beholden to funding cycles is the flip side of getting access to capital.
How Will Cameron Like about the 'Guo Li' from China– ZTE Axon Elite Smartphone
In your example, we might be able to say that the speaker is referencing one person with a variety of identifiers. The sentence does nothing to establish the "sameness" of a person, but it is a good example of how relevant who makes the claim is. If I randomly uttered that sentence, it'd either be weird or obvious, or maybe a non sequitur. If the Lord High Chancellor says it in 1952, that causes the statement to become true.

But in the more usual sense, if one wishes to evaluate the truth of that statement, where do you start? The "over there" maybe establishes the referent to a person. The name and title then clarify a commonly understood identity for the person. We can then decide if it is, in fact, that person.

But say we already knew that we were looking for that specific person, the Queen of England. Then, the only fact we're trying to evaluate is the current location of Elizabeth the Second. Is it over there? Why yes, yes it is. Hellooooooo!

The mathematical concept of identity is not nearly that simple. Under multiplication, the identity element of the integers is the number 1. And many mathematical expressions share equivalence relationships, which is more in line with your notion of sameness.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), we can't rigorously encode the relationships you've described with any known mathematical techniques.
A 1982 double murder and two men accused, convicted, and exonerated of the crime
This reminds me of when I was in the Navy -- at one point I had lived with hundreds of other guys in a ship's berthing and at another duty station I mentioned to a coworker that I could determine someone's race from their sweat. Of course, they called bullshit on that statement (as I'd imagine most on here would) and we tested it out with 4 guys (1 black[1], 2 white[2], 1 hispanic[3]) who sweated into the same size shirts, and I was able to identify them with 100% accuracy. Another time, I walked into a cubicle, wrinkled my nose, and said "Man! It smells like an old deck of cards in here!". One of the guys standing next to me then pulled out a rather well-played-through deck of cards out of his pocket.

One of the reasons people give for the difference in smell are the difference in foods that different cultures eat. I definitely know this is not the case, as everyone on that ship was eating the exact same food, and their smells were extremely distinct.

I understand that lack of science applied to my specific anecdotes, but I think there's something to be said for having a keen sense of smell, since people are already geared towards smelling other people's sweat to determine immunocompatibility[4].

[1] A black person's sweat is the one I can identify with absolute certainty, as it's completely unmistakable for anything else

[2] A white person's sweat smells like a distinct type of onion to me

[3] I couldn't really identify his race if it were just this shirt, but had that one by process of elimination.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_compl...
>correlation does not imply causation

It sure does. It might not prove causation, or it might not necessitate causation, but it very much implies it.

Somehow people forget that "imply" means: "indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference".

In this -- the dictionary and everyday sense -- correlation DOES imply (suggest) causation. It just doesn't secure it.
Sanskrit too, right?
Ants are less diligent than previously thought
This does not change my stance that your perspective on the necessity for a college education to program well is occluded.
That was a fun read, and now the million dollar follow up question: What can be done to improve the situation?

Is there even a single place that catalogs or demonstrates such inconsistencies? Could anyone demonstrate the ways in which HTML elements are inconsistent across desktop and mobile browsers in a compelling enough way to draw the attention of all the browser teams out there?
Transactions in USD must be cleared in NYC; the US' position is that banks which don't play ball re: money laundering lose access to the US financial system.
We've Spent Billions to Fix Our Medical Records, and They're Still a Mess
iOS SDK can't handle our scale.
"Lately, we’ve been wondering if there is an end to this pattern on the Internet and mobile. We think it is possible that an open data platform, in which users ultimately control their data and the networks they choose to participate in, could be the thing that undoes this pattern of winner takes most." Urbit?
If you're trading equity to an outside entity in exchange for cash or it's equivalent, then it's not really bootstrapping. Or to put it another way, wouldn't cash to spend on the startup for more than just housing be better?
That sentence is not talking about MWI, it's talking about wavefunction collapse interpretations.
You can already DoS to some extent. Carriers hate this type of traffic and will often block on number. Plus people call those numbers back like crazy, so many channels can get tied up answering.

On 2, you're exactly right. When dealing with dialer traffic, we found that the more we blocked traffic, the worse stuff we'd end up with. The FCC could start fining companies for this traffic and it'd clear itself up rather soon.
Actually, 1985. Windows 1.0 had the exact set of APIs which later expanded to 32-bit and subsequently 64-bit.
If you feel it's boring to learn how to authenticate your users, from a security point, you should probably not do it.

Meteor.js has a very beatiful way of solving this and I strongly recommend everyone who wants to authenticate users but don't want to know how it works to try Meteor.js.
There was a fantastic protocol that really could have replaced much of the problems that OAuth has, while providing its users more privacy: BrowserID, aka Mozilla Persona.

Sadly, it got effectively gutted by the Mozilla Foundation due to lack of use, and even Mozilla has stopped using it most places in favor of Firefox Accounts.
Bring back Mozilla Persona: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
Another important lesson is not to take decades before trying out things end to end. According to second hand report, the API to connect a UI to Xanadu was very complicated, way too complicated to expect wide adaptation.

Another lesson is to avoid too long a stealth period.
I for one, am very happy about this. Difficulty with centralized logins encourages sites to maintain their own ID system, which, along with mailinator and tools like 1password, allows people to trivially generate separate logins/email accounts/passwords for each site that they visit.
> map anything you wish for your sound synthesis in a DAW

1) It's a pain to set up, and unless you'll bother to populate your default project template with every VST you have (and if you have Reaktor or Kontakt, with every virtual instrument inside that VST), you'll have to do it every time.

2) Doesn't get you the full feel of the real thing. Instead of a knob that has min and max positions and is in the exact position you expect him to be, you have a plastic thing that will not give you any real tactile feedback.

3) It omits a lot of sweet limitations of physical gear. With real synths, I personally prefer simple machines that you can, or better, have to patch from memory: (1) every time you set the sound up, you're forced set it up a little bit different to your liking, so the patch evolves over time and (2) you have to get imaginative in a live situation, and sometimes play the synth while you're in process of going from one setup to another.
VR needs high immutability to minimize suffering of its inhabitants.
(this is from the sidebar in /r/synthesizers, there's lots of other good sources:) http://thesynthesizersympathizer.blogspot.com/2015/03/buying...

Good knobby starters (analog or virtual analog) Mini/microbrute (except there's been QC issues), bass station II, MS20 mini, ms2000, Radias, jp8080 or 8000, SH201, ... Roland made a few others 5-12 years back which i can't remember.

tho for many people, it's easiest to borrow a mac with Logic Pro, which has some nice synth models (or ableton suite, which has at least a couple plugins). And borrow a controler with lots of pots, encoders and faders, Novation SL mk 2 or maudio axiom (i think both come with software premaped to Logic or ableton analog/operator)
Frozen Bubble Kingdom: Free Mobile Game for iOS
OAuth is for authorization, not authentication.
>It's not an absurd expectation that a system only does exactly what it's told to do, and only when told to do so.

Now, you listen: most simple (non techie) users don't know what they need to "tell browsers to do" in the first place, aside from loading webpages.

We had what you propose and people were stuck with 10 year old IE6 versions, tons of viruses from old exploits and plugins, etc.

Now we expect modern browsers to be evergreen and to keep themselves secure. That's part of what browser developers are implicitly "told to do" -- and people jump to those browsers (e.g. Firefox when it pioneered that evergreen thing and then Chrome).
"By homogenizing the style across all brands, every brand sells more because the decision is easier." Every brand sells more? That would mean that the homogenized style makes people buy a car who would otherwise not have bought one. Makes no sense.
How can an article on history of synthesizers not mention a single drum machine?