skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typing on IRC is still pretty "in-your-head".

The idea is to replicate online, as much as possible, the experience of having a face-to-face conversation.
If you know what I mean, why are you correcting me? I haven't failed to communicate my point, and you're adding noise to the signal of the conversation.

I suspect you think this makes you seem more intelligent, but in reality, it makes you seem socially inept. Don't be that guy.
Keeping UX Simple with Anticipatory Design
It's been 20 years since I read "The Forever War", but the author's description matches my memory. (And I have read most of the other books she describes, and didn't see anything that was incorrect).
Embracing Conway's law
link to your project ?
CharityQ
CharityQ is a platform for online charity auctions of video talks with celebrities, experts and just awesome people.
What does this mean for Non-Profit organizations and individuals in need: The way to raise funds they need.
What does this mean for people who initiate an auction (Time Donors) or donates directly: Opportunity to help those ones in need.
What does this mean for people who participate in auction (Money Donors): Chance to get a video talk with an interesting person and contribute to social initiatives in the meantime. info@charityq.org
I've heard house mates talking when high on cannabis - while I was not high. They had incredible ideas and were really enthusiastic. The only problem was that it was impossible to make any sense of the ideas they expressed.
Information about foreign surveillance programs and details of NSA methods.

I never made such an argument. In fact, I have repeatedly stated what I think he should have done - reveal information about some obviously unconstitutional domestic surveillance - there's obviously no shortage of choices there.

Whether the US is weaker or stronger does not have anything to do with the question of whether Snowden broke the law. It might affect the judgment about whether he was justified in breaking the law, but that's something for the judge to decide during sentencing, or the president to decide when pardoning him. It's not an excuse for refusing to stand trial.
Ensuring a performant web for the next billion people
If we get hung up on every abuse of terminology we run into, nobody will get anything useful done.

At this point the name is well established. If it makes you feel better, just remember to tag "artificial" on to the beginning, nobody will mind.
I've been working remotely for the past fifteen years, five of the most recent being a full-time employee for a large company. Because of this I've grown very accustomed to sending emails that start with "Don't read this until morning". Eventually my coworkers learn that they're going to get late-night emails from me, and that I don't expect an immediate reply - nor should they. After all, email is meant to be asynchronous.

I personally recommend not checking work emails when not working. I certainly don't. It allows for a clear head when I sit at my desk ready to work. It also allows me to work at whatever hour I'm most productive without worrying whether my colleagues are going to jump out of bed to answer one of my off-hour work emails.
Vote for “Python as an Excel scripting language”
Terence McKenna - Culture is Not Your Friend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_lS6IuLeQ
Yes, sometimes secret negotiations are needed to get things done. Look at the recent budget deal in the US Congress. [1] The media and the public had no idea what was going on behind the scenes when Boehner announced his resignation. If Obama or key Republicans had talked about the negotiations, no deal could have been made.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9619214/budget-deal-congress
Atlassian files for IPO
Interesting how much of the prominent architecture is still in ruins (presumably from WWII era bombing) into the 50's and 60's.

I mean, I guess it makes sense, since there was a lot of stuff to repair and important infrastructure and industry was probably higher on the to-do list than Cathedral and Courthouse repair. But I hadn't really thought about how long the prominent war-time damage would've lasted.
2013 Slush startup competition winning deck and script: Weekdone
That's why we need new battery technologies sooner and why Tesla is investing big times in its Powerwall units.

If both utilities and the customers start storing energy, then the schedule will not matter much to anyone. Strong night winds powering the wind energy grid and the daytime powering the solar energy grid, feeding into the stored battery units 24/7.
Ham Horn (Rap Air Horn) Inexplicably Now Has 1M Users
Of course, most people don't buy. At least for me, I probably only buy something at ever 4th or 5th yard sale I go to. It's easy to walk in, scan the tables, realize there's nothing of interest to me, and leave.
Of course this is a free market, at least by colloquial standards. The premium end of this commodity (close to work, close to financial centers, etc) is more expensive. This is a feature, not a bug. Just because you don't have an endless amount of something at the exact same price, doesn't mean it can't be sold freely.

>Land is monopoly.

You are free to sell your home to whomever or buy from whomever. I don't think "monopoly" remotely applies. Monopoly would be if all property was owned by one entity, built up by one entity, and you had to deal exclusively with that one entity.
The Secret World of Ciphers
I couldn't figure out how to send a pm on HN so I sent you a message on twitter. That computer would be fantastic. Your kindness means more to me than I'm capable of expressing. Thank you.
> I believe NSA foreign collection generally happens for reasons that most people in the US support - tracking terrorist networks and counterproliferation.

> I would have a problem with evidence that the NSA was [...] monitoring foreign commercial communications to tip off domestic industry

Then this might interest you:

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...
This was a great article, thank you for sharing (it was originally posted earlier this morning - but I didn't comment on the dup share)
Finance or Google/Facebook/Twitter/* are exactly not "disruptors". Do I need to go find evidence for what we agree on?
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Liberty,+NY/Rocky+Mountain,+...

Of course unlike the Hollywood sign, this is a place you wont be able to get to without a good map and some back-country navigation skills.
Interesting

Slack and Github investors will be watching this closely!
Will be interesting to see what the market thinks about a profitable company going public.

13 years from starting to going public, so those of you who join a startup going on its 4th year, something to keep in mind. You could have joined in year 5 and had your shares vest by year 9 and then be waiting for an additional 4 years for your liquidity event!

> https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000104746915...

Kindof weird that their CFO resigned in October, just before they went public. That's probably something I'd want to know about in more depth if I was going to invest.

I wonder if they delayed the IPO so this could happen before they filled. Seeing as they brought him in to lead them through the IPO process, this seems a bit of a weird time to leave, this is probably the busiest time for a CFO.

> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/atlassian-...
Tag Heuer Connected Watch
What do you mean by "alienware-like performance"? Even the higher end alienware systems offer subpar performance.
I wish they went more into the history behind SC1 [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fV5KADifY
I kinda wish they'd skipped the hat thing, because the resume aspect is pretty important. Explaining a gap in your resume is a reasonable thing for people to do when applying for a job.
Nile is a language built by Dan Amelang, a researcher @ viewpoints research institute. It is a language made for graphics rendering, it has the goal of having no incidental complexity.

2D vector graphics rendering as an example, takes ~10.000 lines of code using traditional libraries like Cairo (used by Firefox) or Skia (used by Android and Chrome). In Nile, it's 200 lines of code.

Check out this repo, and the pdf inside the readme https://github.com/damelang/nile
> ...our system has become increasingly hostile to "real" investigative journalism...

The burden of proof that there has been a degradation of information quality remains on your side of the court. This "lost paradise" argument may very well be right but it's far from evident to me.

I would broadly characterize media quality as always having been low on average throughout history. We had a brief period of oligopoly after mass media (the networks) monopolized a lot of what we call news but that period was more of an exception to the rule (and it certainly had its own problems).
Very true. To be charitable, the future is in personalized medicine, so if a vitamin C population subset can be well-defined then maybe there's something here. That said, cancer cells are notorious for expressing efflux pumps and in so doing frustrating treatment, and there's every reason to think that would happen here given the high doses and long time needed for therapeutic effect.

I have to say, the very first thing that came to mind when I read the article was Xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/1217/
Specifically, and unsurprisingly,

grammar(Anti-China trolls) > grammar(Russian trolls)
That doesn't make them hard to understand. Every column requires some context to understand adding NULLs changes very little.
Edit: I certainly don't mind sharing about our family's and son's struggle. Please don't feel bad that you brought up something bad or talking about it.

Unfortunately he passed away 2 years ago. We had an incredible supportive local community and few local organizations who's purpose was supporting local families.

I do highly recommend supporting St. Baldrick's http://www.stbaldricks.org/ for cancer research. Kids get the shaft in research money especially with only 1% from Cancer Society of America and 4% of the Federal Cancer Research Grants got o fight pediatric cancer. Any adult research is of little value to kids, but any findings with kids benefits adults in cancer treatment. So in 20+ years we have the first new chemo drug because of St Baldrick's research funded project paid off.
I recall a talk or possibly HN post I saw once, where they developed some software to warp photos like this to account for camera position and focal length.
This concept has been developed very well, imo, by people like Zizek. I honestly don't care much for his political follies or his real academic research- when it comes to discussing ideology, he's doing the best outreach bar none.

Here's him giving a talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0eyNkNpL0

A friend of mine also parsed it well like this:

> "I think there is something to be said to the effect that laziness is actually where we can find a lot of insight - as it's when we're lazy, when we cannot be bothered, or at least where we think it is not essential to focus our attention for the sake of the work at least, that we tend to defer to the implicit shared attitudes or beliefs about the world to do the lifting for us."
That looks incredible.

I don't see any safety restraints, though - sort of a "hold my beer and watch this" situation.
The surprising connection between you and a giant panda
Not "laughable" because it makes sense from their political point of view, from their organization point of view. That's the same as signing NDA. You can leak it, no one can stop you, but you can face consequence if you do. How often, god knows. You are applying for M16 (there is also M15). That's the equivalent of CIA.

It's a disclaimer and a warning more than anything TBH.
Are you for real? You imagine there's something good in any of the TP* treaties? It's not fearmongering when it's real hahaha.

"Historically they've been wrong" REALLY? your claim for that is what? The only reason we have income taxes, is because of the first world war. It was sold to people as a temporary measure to pay for the war. Before that, government was paid for with import duties. You think people are better off giving up half their income and in some places, more than that? That's just income tax. Add all the other taxes up and it's getting to be a 100%. Those taxes will be going up further as a result of this 'free' trade. The lost duties have to be made up somehow and it's not like anyone is straining to balance a budget.

"but they have an activist voice on the web."

Accusing someone of doing what you've done, is one of the oldest tricks there is. You see shithead politicians do that everyday. YOU, what you preeching is the commie I'm sorry, 'activist' nonsense. YOU WANT to be impoverished. Because that's what it's the globalization of, poverty.

With the collapse in commodities, Canada is considered a third world economy by most investment banks now.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-02/money-floo...
Check out Dynd.
Source for Tumblr original on Github:

https://github.com/gaurav/tumblr-backup/blob/master/as_json/...
I can't seem to figure out how to contact people directly from HN. I already messaged the anilkg. If the Chromebook is destined for the recycle bin anyway, I could probably find someone in need of a laptop that can't afford to get one.

In fact, depending on how it'll hit my SSDI case and health permitting I really want to start up something where I collect every unused/broken computer I can get my hands on, refurbish them as needed and give them to people with disabilities/low-income and the elderly. (I taught a 67 year old who had never used a computer before how to use GNU/Linux last year. He loves it)

Thank you for the offer. As stated previously, the generosity I've encountered means a great deal to me. I really feel lost in life without a computer to muck about on. Especially considering I just lost my best friend to an opiate addiction; she didn't die or anything. She just can't put anything ahead of getting high. I had to leave because she turned abusive and I wish her all the best.
Sure, now. 4 years ago, not so much.

One might even conclude that one person inside Google had written a brawny and influential paper that was right in a lot of ways, but wimpily dead-wrong to apply to GPUs.
My reply is at http://lee-phillips.org/replyToMarks/
After it appeared he began to scramble to fix the errors in his markup that I found, silently. He's having some difficulty understanding the spec, however.
That's exactly the kind of behavior a lawful, civilized society is aiming to prevent.
Except, ya know, during the 6 months of winter :)
Note that I am not the person you were originally discussing with.

How else am I to interpret "If you win, your side is and always was right. If you lose, the opposite."?
Is this why taking Vitamin C is good when you start to get a cold?
With regards the 'semigroup with identity', depends what area of research you are in.

Semigroup researchers would naturally talk about many extensions to semigroups, such as 'with identity'.
Well, it won't get funded by a company unless there's a profit incentive, however there's other funding avenues for clinical trials like this. Besides applying for grants (which is extremely slow and extremely time consuming), research institutions often have small amounts of funds for running a trial in house, especially for something like this which only involves a few gene tests and an inexpensive treatment.
Generally, the relationship between a map company and the local government isn't adversarial. If the government tells the map company "the speed limit of this road is x" or "this bridge has a height limit of y" or "this road is access-only for heavy trucks" then the map company will just take that as true.

After all, if you can't trust the posted signs because of residents putting up fake signs, what is the canonical source of information on what's legal?

If the local residents have got the local government to change the legal status of the roads, which is what the article makes it sound like, you can hardly blame Google for doing what the government tells them to do.
So for fun, let's say they're assertion is legally valid, that the scans (not the original images) are copyrightable. What stops me from then taking screen caps of all their images, or copying the framebuffer from my graphics card or something (effectively "scans") and copyrighting those?
Ah good looking out.
If we follow this rabbit hole too far, we'll end up trying to answer questions like "What is a game?" and "What is art?"

But what you're describing is what I want. I want more immersion, I want the focus to be on the what the gamer experiences and giving them something meaningful to do.

But when you plug your brain into the NeuralCube4000 two decades from now, what are you going to get?

What I want:
You're in a tilled field at the edge of a forest. Beyond the forest, you see the peak of a mountain escaping from the trees. You look to your left and see a farmhouse, and the farmer is starting his day at work. A fawn leaps across the field and birds take flight as the deer breaks the treeline.

At this point, you're going to want to do something. Chase the deer, climb the mountain, beat up the farmer and take his gold, whatever it is you want to do, the game should encourage and reward your action with feedback.

What the games industry is likely to give me:

You're dropped into a dark room.
A disembodied voice speaks: "You are Reginald Brisbane, a young farmer from Bastogne in the 14th century. Your father perished at the hands of brigands when you were seven and you were sent to live on your uncle's farm, but you've never stopped nursing the need to avenge your father's death, and you're now ready to seek it."
Then, you're in a tilled field at the edge of a forest...

Now, clearly both of these scenarios were written by me, but one was written to encourage interaction, and the other was written to tell a story.

Which one do you want games to be? I think I've made my desires clear.
Feeding the robot chef
Bitcoin: A Speculator’s Dilemma (Infographic)
i really wish people would stop calling multidimensional arrays tensors.

there is already well defined language for this. multidimensional array is fine, psuedotensor is fine. tensor is confusing if you have any previous background with tensor calculus before the word became machine learning flavour of the month.

still. this does look pretty cool overall. processing large volumes of data is becoming increasingly less specialised and more generic, which can only be good. :)
Those stickers should be illegal. It's pettiness at its worst.

Edit: illegal to use on people's cars/property that is.
I was being facetious. There is no "remaining money" because the total cost of that work was $1.
> Are “no negotiation” offers hurting candidates?

No, strong candidates ALWAYS know their relative worth in the marketplace. They naturally gravitate to the most competitive offers. But some employers still take a backward view of talent as a 'resource', rather than intellectual capital. These guys put-out unsophisticated, low-ball offers to marginal, even desperate job-seekers just fill seats.

Relative to the company's "no negotiation" stance, there are almost always exceptions. On this subject, Stuart Diamond is masterful > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZo6Lx70ok
So is infertility in astronauts still a problem? I could be totally wrong, but I was under the impression we haven't solved the problem of increased radiation negatively affecting fertility in both male and female astronauts.
That's simply not solving the problem. Yes, you get the money, but you're not getting all of the benefits of living in a major hub. You're missing the times you meet a valuable contact on the train, or at a house party, the free or cheap events and seminars, the chances to see someone important in your field and ask them questions directly. And that's not including all the non-business benefits of living in a socioeconomic hub: good places to eat, public art, etc.

Certainly it might be worthwhile to trade all that for lower rent, but don't think you're getting the same thing for less money. You aren't.
I would say that interviewers actually try to get any information they can.

Like what was the biggest struggle you over came?

How will we know your dependable and you'll come to work with sniffles?

Since your greatest strength can be your biggest weakness, "What is your greatest strength and how did you use it your life?"

I have hired dozens of people and whenever it was with someone else they figured they needed every bit of information to make sure they don't get in trouble with highers a dud. I must have stopped questions a bunch of times when it was personal information that my co-worker was asking.
Right, which is why I initially said that sum types (disjoint unions) are missing :)
Although this is flawed and kind of silly, the hypothesis the study tries to support does just kind of make sense in a pure common sense way.

My wife is a survivor and she'd would never show that side of her life during the interview phase of employment. It just makes sense. Once you get the gig, and has more meaningful relationships with the people she would likely share. It's kind of assumed you never get that personal in an interview.
How are you, a giant panda, Prince, and TNT related? A surprising bacterial link :)
It's got my vote. Added a tweet in case that helps too.
I don't know how you can dismiss an entire country because of one person's move.

You can't, at least not without appearing foolish.

You can certainly discuss trends in education and work crossing that border, but they aren't simple or one sided.
It's only really the first paragraph directed at you and your point, I suppose I should have made that more clear. The rest is more generally blasting out at an extremely annoying trend I've seen online which is more to do with siliconc0w.
British citizen here.

Completely agreed.

Currently researching jobs and residency procedures in other countries.
Ask HN: Why isn't all stock trading done by algorithm?
I can't understand how a human, even with heaps of intelligence and education, is better at predicting which stocks will go up/down than an algorithm that can look at all the data in the entire market. What skill do stock traders use that can't be replaced by computation?
Pobox acquired by FastMail
Agreed, this is huge. I've been thinking along these lines for a while, but more focused on traditional programming systems. The approach of programming via data-flows and visually representing those is going to be enormous in the coming decade, IMHO. Especially in asynchronous and heterogenous programming environments.

Actually, it feels like I've been "scooped" somewhat. However, at the same time it's awesome to find that many of the core assumptions I've been working in formulating for traditional programming systems are actually already being used by other top engineers/researchers at Google. Thanks for posting about the whos-who of systems research. I'll have to check up on their research more!

I think there is a lot of room left to apply this approach to a lot of existing systems outside of machine learning. We're working on releasing a prototype in the coming months at our new startup (vexpr.com) based on applying these same data-flow principles to normal programming projects. Actually this might give a huge boost in presenting the underlying approach to systems engineering to audiences.
Maybe just create a new bracelet that means "open to random conversations" and hang out at coffee shops. Yeah, that seems like the easiest solution.
You mean a S-1?
> the server is recording the MAC addresses

I believe WiFi routers have options for white-listing devices by MAC address. Probably being done automatically in your building.
Vitamin C correlated with dead of tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation in mice
Perhaps per calorie? But then I wonder how you would define an "operation"