skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will avoid the cliche about how sites like HN have one opinion.

But I do find myself wondering how many people here frothing at the mouth have, in other contexts, sung the praise of heavy government funding of science research. Or how many sing praises of government oversight.

This is it. This is government funding in science research, and government oversight. The oversight committee has the right to perform oversight. In any healthy country, eventually, politicians you don't like will be in charge of the oversight levers, as naturally as day follows night. (Unless you live under eternal single-party control, in which case you've got bigger problems than science oversight committees.)

There's no world where the government funds science research but just ships out the dollars with no regard for what happens afterwards.
Cool, but is there any way we can do this without sacrificing colour precision? Also, the author didn't say if the values in the array are in linear or sRGB colour-space, though I'd bet it's the latter.
Poked around and found this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/groove
12 months $99

Just click on the button.
Good idea. While you are at it-

Don't bias based on weight.

Don't bias on college/university.

Don't bias on motivation to change the world.

Don't bias on environmental/gender/racial activism or lack thereof.

Don't bias based on the presence of a lumbersexual-style beard.

Don't bias based on sense of humor.

Don't bias based on political opinions.

Don't bias based on social anxiety and bombing an interview because of freezing.

Don't bias based on age.

Don't bias against dressing well or wearing a suit.
Have you actually used the support numbers?
What can machine learning tell us about lady zombie ghosts and literature?
Java does not have a full FP story, so to bastardize newer code as though it does becomes unreadable IMO. The "and" was just for the example, since "..." wouldn't have made it clear. I do not find it more readable personally, but that is a personal opinion. Because other code eagerly returns (doesn't usually bother me in an imperative language) is a different problem with code path complexity that can be addressed elsewhere. There is still a practicality in normal conditionals and traditional linear paths.
>Are women better suited for this job?

Yes, practically all of the core traits PG describes are typical feminine traits. This is a nice piece because it explains how critically important the feminine touch is, and how easy it is to ignore that because most females don't care much about their personal fame, they mostly care about helping people and being useful.

While PG has described the utility these traits have in running a "family" of founders, they're also extremely valuable in running an actual family. PG has really written an ode to womanhood in general, and whilst reading it, I think most of us will relate as we identify similar things in our wives and mothers.

This is not to detract from Jessica Livingston's specific ability to apply these to the world of VC, which undoubtedly takes a lot of skill and knowledge, but I think it's important that we recognize the value from these types of contributions is accessible and often regularly enjoyed by those of us who are lucky enough to have such stereotypically selfless women in our lives.
My hometown in Norway this year took this even further. When spring came, they gathered as much snow they could in a big pile and covered it with white plastic. Then redistributed it out over the slopes this fall. Made it possible to start making snow earlier (making snow on hot ground makes it instantly melt).
Citing Paris Attack, CIA Director Criticizes Surveillance Reform Efforts
Are you happy with it? I like the idea of getting rid of the TV that I do not use, but I am quite happy with the performance and support that Swisscom offers.
There is nothing worshipping about it, PG is simply known as that around here because that's his hacker news user name (he founded the site, so I guess that short names were still available when he set it up ;) ).

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
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Wasn't OneDrive > SkyDrive > Groove originally?
At a cursory glance the music library they have is anemic, and they don't try to differentiate themselves from other offerings, so it just looks very mediocre.
Thanks, I read it twice. But as with the economists I link to, this happens even to women who are perfectly vocal. I submit that there is something else going on here besides her just being naturally quiet.
Here's an older piece by Jessica herself, on being a social radar, and the "mom" of the family:

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i-...

(I posted this partly due to the predictable reaction to PG's use of the word mom.)
The problems with creating a new template language
Announce ARMv8 (arm64) version of 64-bit PicoLisp released
Yeah, probably my favorite book on startups for that reason.
Surface Book (by Gabe from Penny Arcade)
Its really a shame that the most focused on aspect of blockchain technology became its price. I think thats going to change really soon.
From Google's side I think this is about mitigating the threat of iOS 9 native app search capabilities. iOS users will build the habbit of swiping down to search for anything. Their native indexing support means Facebook results will just start popping up. Where is google in this picture? Google search needs to work great with facebook content everywhere (web, mobile, etc)
Until Docker is more robust, I would avoid RancherOS -- although I quite like the simple appeal of it.

Docker still has issues where the supervisory process can be badly behaved and having user-level services in a docker supervisor within Docker doesn't fully insulate you from that.

Further, much of the functionality of Systemd is actually quite interesting in the context of a large cluster of machines and it remains to be seen if Rancher will fill the gap as well.
> "I can do it cheaper" implies that I can get my costs down lower.

Zero or negative net costs are lower than positive net costs. So "I'll do it for free" (or even, "I'll pay you for the opportunity to do it") are instances of "I can do it cheaper."

> "I can do it for free" means that I'm ignoring any of my costs.

No, it doesn't; assuming rationality it means that the net costs are nonpositive, not that they are ignored (which would be irrational.)

Of course, it could be the result of ignoring some or all costs, but so could "I can do it cheaper" when there is still some charge for the work. There's nothing special about the zero charge case.
See the reply - have you tried? You need a phone number to get an email and you need a drivers license to get a phone number...
You don't work in "cloud", do you?

Scaling is solvable, but it is not solved. If you have to throw money/people at the problem, well, that means it is a problem, right?
> While that is certainly a form of discrimination on the basis of sex, it's not the same sort of discrimination which made black people scared for their lives in a sundown town.

Why not?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... would suggest that Vietnam is more dangerous.
I don't see "pg.com", for one. I don't care if it is a username or something. A particular person being referenced by "hn" is just excluding people from "the club".
I have no moral duty to provide anything to the government. I have legal duties.

Do those employees, who are based in the UK, pay taxes on their income?
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> Let's not pretend the comment that you're responding to was written in good faith.

I find little to disagree with in the comment in question. I've followed the rule, Never be alone with someone else's kid, forever. You always want another adult to be able to testify that nothing untoward happened. The Two-Deep Adult Leadership Rule is perhaps the core principle of the Boy Scouts' youth-protection program [1] --- which, it has been noted, could be described with equal aptness as the adult-protection program. The same rule is also followed by wise pediatricians, dentists, etc., not to mention by male physicians with their female patients.

I do agree with Jacques that the attractiveness of the woman is irrelevant: Less-attractive women (there are no "ugly" women) can claim sexual harassment too. And rumors can start regardless of the participants' attractiveness.

[1] http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection.aspx
Make that 4: Google Photos show up in Drive now, as well.
Tablet stand solves one of the iPad's biggest annoyances
Majority of Old South Park Trees Tagged for Removal
Why Optimistic Merging Works Better
> Um, no. That's not at ALL clear to a beginner.

But surely after like 10 minutes of doing anything with it?

I haven't even begun to learn Lisp, just know that it exists and can mostly intuit/read it when digesting articles on various CS-related topics. It's pretty clear that there's something more than that going on.

Otherwise a whole lot of things that make Lisp interesting don't make a lot of sense. Where does the meta-programming come from if it's all just lists? How can it not be horribly inefficient if it's really just lists? What's so great about lists if really all you have is just lists, anyway?

So I'm going to go ahead and claim that most people that are intrigued enough to want to learn Lisp, already know (or assume) this. Seems like a great hook to start, actually: What is it about Lisp that's so great if it's just made of lists?

Now from what I read in your comment, you got Lisp dumped on you in CS college? "Here's this thing you have to learn about" is a fine way to learn about stuff (so many super-useful topics I probably would never have touched if they hadn't been forced on me in CS college[0]). But without a personal motivation of "I read everywhere that this thing is so powerful, and I'm going to find out why", then indeed I can imagine how "everything is a list" can be a toxic thing to teach about Lisp, in particular to a class of students who are busy enough that they just want to pass the course. What if they forget most, except that bit?

[0] except for me, Lisp wasn't one of those. We got Haskell though. Except it came at a rather inopportune moment, switching curricula, had to tag along last moment with some friends for the assignments, crammed for the exam, somehow passed and promptly forgot what monads are again. boo, hiss. yes. And I still managed to learn a lot from it! :)
Since a few people are kind of getting on my case, I'd like to point out that I learned OCaml for coursework in functional programming and computational linguistics. I'm not suggesting it's useless or comparable to quantum physics in difficulty. I'm only pointing out the reality that the majority of software developers have little to no exposure to functional programming. Few of them will be prepared to commit to a new programming paradigm when there are so many other employment opportunities which use more familiar frameworks and develop skills more widely applicable in the job market.

I'd also like to suggest that, for certain applications, the most touted benefit of functional programming (the ease of proving algorithms behave as intended) is not especially relevant. I would even dare to suggest that, in some cases, it may be more rational to hire a "decent" programmer than a "great" one.

This is to say nothing about the specific language features of OCaml or the utility of functional programming in general, just that the benefits need to be weighed against the costs. In an article claiming that using OCaml provides a "competitive advantage" from a business perspective, I would have expected a discussion of both.
Sorry, kids: A real movement needs more than hurt feelings
Is it just me or did the article not mention her contribution to the sector with the SAFE note? One of the best additions to financing early startups.
Yup, I believe that's what they used. It's a documented feature, but one that I was completely unfamiliar with. I also opened registration, but wasn't monitoring new signups.

There wasn't any harm to it, but it's definitely something that can slip by an insufficiently wary admin.
The New New York Skyline
When do you think colonialism started? Christopher Columbus? The British Empire? Check out these pre-Islamic colonizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_history_of_the_Roman_...

What were those expansionary battles? Hellenistic terrorism?

Saying Islamic imperialism in the 1000's was terrorism (like they were the only ones doing it!) is like Richard Dawkins levels of tone deaf racist hyperbole. Do you want to be like Richard Dawkins?
CEO's response can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3sz5jq/how_chi...
Any guys here who identify with Jessica's personality?
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Doesn't seem like that's an Android phone.
Wait so in 2007 they bought groove the "slack of its time" (which sucked ass, IMO) then they killed it fairly quickly ($50k down the tubes) and now they've killed Zune to use the name Groove for music instead of a dev tool.

If there is one big difference between apple and Microsoft, whomever is naming products at Microsoft is terrible at their job. (Yes I agree that groove is a better name for a music service than Zune, but still - there just doesn't subjectively feel like their product names all live within the umbrella of a single company)

As much as we made fun of apple when we expected the iWatch - all the other products with the prefix-i at least we knew what it was they were peddling.

AFAIK, I'm not too familiar if Apple has made these errors in the past? Have they also recycled names for products completely different in nature?
I think the 4004 was a 10um (micrometer) technology and new we have 14nm (nanometer) transistors. So the individual transistors are 1400 times smaller in linear dimensions. So you could plausibly pack 1400*1400 = 1960000 or almost 2 million of those into a same sized die.
Yeah I got excited because I thought this was something about them improving OneDrive for Business.
This headline has gotten this a lot of attention, but why? The original iPhone came out 7 years ago. A computer (and phones are small computers) with specs that outdated are really only priced based on materials cost.
Hi HN,

I would love to get your feedback on this project (design, content, business model, pricing, etc.)
Xilinx Bitstream Format Library. Easily read .bit files from C programs
John Urschel: Mathematicians Are Just as Cool as Football Players
The Google app now understands you a little better–complex questions welcome
A Human's Guide to Words
Joins are absent from the documented list of features and examples on the initial README but there's "limited support" for joins as described here: https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/wiki/Join
Don't have much experience with Presto, but I have used Hive to query Elastic Search.

It works very very well for full-table-scan analytics-type queries. I expect PrestoDB would be similar. But when it comes to queries about smaller and smaller pieces of the full dataset, it becomes less and less likely that these types of connectors perform well. Predicate pushdown is rarely well-implemented in these types of "run SQL against any big data" systems (Hive, Presto, Impala, SparkSQL, etc). A simple "select * where id = 1234" will often do a full scan and filter within the query engine, rather than push the point lookup into ES.
Is curl block able for outbound requests?
She did also miss Live Coding[0] - or maybe she didn't interview the founder. After reading that thread, it's hard to believe that YC has a magic filter of bad people, which is basically what PG claims when he mentions the "Social Radar".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476
> But this has much more to do with the unlimited printing of debt (the real story) than the IRS market swap spread

I don't get how U.S. debt is the driving factor. The rate of federal net debt growth has actually been slowing over the past ~3 years as the federal deficit has shrunk, i.e. the arrow is pointed in the right direction.
It's important to recognise that a lot of the model runs are done on super-computers, and the runs themselves aren't always easy to replicate from a practical point of view, because of things like resource limitations and configuration issues.

I certainly agree that things should be open sourced, probably allowing for some kind of embargo system for publication, but we shouldn't allow a rhetoric to develop suggesting that people should be making things easily replicable, because that essentially means making very portable and resource-flexible code, which is not trivial, even in less complex domains, as I'm sure many people on this forum recognise.

As an example, many models make use hundreds of cores via MPI (along with preposterous amounts of RAM), and whilst I am no expert, I get the impression that porting such things to more commodity hardware is essentially impossible.

As an aside, I have seen more bad-faith practice (i.e. manipulation of results) in industry than in science, and have spent approximately equal periods of time in both.
Thanks for writing this. I've been reading your essays for years and Jessica's name has never entered my radar. It really means something, to hear that not only is the female cofounder a central part of the team, but that we've never heard of her because she avoids the spotlight. It makes me think twice about stories of companies that don't seem to have any women in them - perhaps they are there, but they've been written out of the story.
Important tip for dealing with journalists: they aren't there to write your story. They'll be writing their story. And what that story is has a lot more to do with what they and their readers find interesting than what you want readers to know.

In particular, that piece came out at a time where the general public was discovering that women in tech get a heap of bullshit that men in tech mainly don't. I'm surprised that she was surprised that telling a story like that got attention; it seems like an obvious thing for a PR person to have prepped her for.
Looks interesting. Three feedback comments-

- display pricing according to browser locale

- allow social login (Google, FB etc)

- Enable TLS (MUST HAVE)
Innovation vs. Execution
I just wanted to mention that I did read your reply, but I've yet to take the time (and some time would be needed) for a proper response to what is a bit of a wall of text (in the context of HN, at least, I'd say). I may eventually do so, despite the somewhat patronizing tone of your message.
Taxes are not a moral matter. Taxes are a legal matter.

Governments are amoral entities. I'll clarify because the last time I said this, it was misinterpreted...

Governments pass, enforce and obey laws. It is beyond the scope of government to determine morality.

It's not legal for a group of us to say "Give us $X percentage of your income, under these rules, or else we'll send men with guns to take you away." but it's perfectly legal for a government to do it. Morality isn't the concern here, legality is.
I think they are using navies stokes to generate the dataset to learn from.. and the regression forest learns how to reproduce what navier stokes did with a bunch of smaller timesteps, but learns to do it in a single timestep.. which sounds amazing so I'm probably wrong
Per wikipedia 4004 has 2,300 transistors. A 18-core Xeon Haswell-E5 5.5 billion, so that is about 2.3 million of them on 22nm and 661mm2 of silicon. In that features went from 10 micro meter, to 22 nano meter! A scaling of 10,000 in 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
I'm confused myself but thanks for debating. I was wrong about the 0% reserve ratio applying per account rather it is the sum total of all accounts held by the bank.
> Smith has the right to subpoena the emails.

Government officials, exercising their office, do not have "rights" from their office, they have "powers". Its important to distinguish between those concepts.

Smith has the power to issue subpoenas, and Congress has the power to impose consequences if it believes that valid subpoenas from its officers have been denied (there are some options for judicial enforcement as well, but they are both less likely to be legally available and more practically difficult to apply if they are available against executive officers, so are mostly irrelevant.)
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Intel's ever-changing TDP
It is interesting and important that we refer to these masks as "artwork." Many of these older designs also have "signatures" etched into the silicon.

I claim that this notion extends to code, as well, and rightly into many other engineering and scientific projects (I suspect the pure math community might agree, i.e. by my reading of how they view their own discipline).

As an informal definition of art, I offer creativity within some bounds, i.e. the rules of the medium. Often, the tighter the bounds, the higher we elevate the end result (e.g. the most praised sonnet, or work of classical music). Here the bounds are pretty constrained: bug free, implements the ISA, manufacturable, and competitive and profitable.

As with many here, I am frustrated with my work when it is reduced to "turning the crank," but I suspect many writers (e.g. your Reuter's journalist) feel the same; and of course, we could introduce other examples from other disciplines. If working on a ground breaking project, then I can focus on that and derive some satisfaction from my contribution to that end.

Finally, my point: I submit these masks as evidence of the artificial dichotomy between the liberal arts and engineering disciplines. There should be more acknowledgement of the art produced on both sides of this divide, and more crossing the aisle (so-to-speak) from the thought leaders in this debate. Of course we need to train our next generation to work with these machines, and of course we should not kick the traditional liberal arts out of the curriculum. Sheesh. But I really would like some push back that claims our ground, i.e. technical achievement of this kind as art.
So if he was referred to as 'Paul' when there are millions of Pauls then you would have no problem with it even though then you'd need more context to know who he was but if he's refered to his particular handle on hn, on hn then that's excluding people from the club? It wasn't as if membership of that particular club was forced on you and it's not as if it is a secret. Lighten up. For that matter, plenty of people here are only known by their handles, so if you see a reference to some person and it does not make sense to you at first it's ok to assume that is a handle. We also don't do @xxx and such around here (at least, not unless someone indicates a twitter handle).
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It's just a name, calm down. Everyone has one.
It’s Humans, Not Algorithms, That Have a Bias Problem
I think most people even call him PG in person. PG is as much his name as Paul Graham.
First: Flash? Really MS?

Second: Cannot find a way to take MS up on their 30 day trial w/out entering a payment form.

Third: Nope. Just Nope.
CEO reached out to me via email as well a few hours ago to acknowledge the security problems and promise to implement encryption.

Our email thread and my comments can be found here: https://www.larrysalibra.com/tantan-responds-promises-encryp...
I still use a Zune 30GB player. When my original one finally stopped holding a charge, I got a refurbished one for under $100 on Amazon to replace it. The sound quality is pretty decent, which is the main thing I care about, and the Zune software is okay - a bit less loathsome than ITunes in my experience.
Meh. I'll take "too many syntax options" over "too few stdlib functions" any day. (I'm looking at you Lua!)