skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its maddeningly true that knowing to do all the simple things does not result in actually doing them in the heat of the moment. i'm interested if anyone has done some work on why that might be the case- what is the barrier that prevents the way we know we should be doing something from actually happening?

the simplest example of this disconnect from my experience is keeping my gaze on the golf ball as i putt, and not turning to watch it as i hit the ball. my guess would be the disconnect is that while doing any one thing consciously is easy, there are several things that have to happen at the same time for it to go right. if i have to spend my energy thinking about looking at the ball, it draws bandwidth away from other tasks like aiming, timing, tactile sense etc. so it needs to happen more automatically, which is what practice seems to create. i think the key idea is efficiency i.e. how little effort it takes to do something the right way. i guess you need to get your mind and body to do the right little things by default, not by conscious effort.

i wonder if the difficulty in getting yourself to do something "the right way" is that you unfortunately have an opinion about how to do it already. its like you have a bunch of little processes that already think they are optimizing the action, and you somehow need to convince them there is a better way. i guess the convincing comes from experiencing the positive results, but i can see how its tricky because you generally have to temporarily get worse to get better.
Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)
I always feel hesitant to even give my car to a valet, who will only have it a short time and won't take it far. I could never imagine renting out my car to a stranger.

Although, renting out my HOUSE to a stranger is even more disturbing to me, but people do it!
Sentences: A multilingual command line utility written in Go
I'd like to see these studies and how, if at all, they relate to the technical interview process. I would strongly guess "not at all."

Technical interviews are in fact technical. There is zero technical evaluation that happens in the first 10 seconds.

As for your specific points:
1. Yes, in fact, how you answer the technical questions will very likely be the deciding factor. That almost always was when I was doing technical interviews and on Google's hiring committee.
2. First impressions really don't matter that much for a technical interview... unless you're talking about the first 5 - 10 minutes of the technical portion.
3. For technical interviews, looking nervous doesn't really get people rejected -- at least not at companies like Google and Facebook. It could, however, make an interviewer more forgiving.
4. When candidates get rejected for coding roles companies like Google and Facebook, it's almost always due to their interview performance. It would be very unusual to get rejected because someone else outperformed you. They don't evaluate interviews that way.
5. Absolutely do not call off an interview part way through because you assume that the person is going to reject you. You don't know that at all. People's perception of their performance during a technical interview has no correlation with how they actually did. If you call off the interview because you assume you're doing poorly, this might just be your best interview.

Also, a single anecdote does not confirm a theory. It can align with a theory.
I just got an Amex replaced about a week ago and the 4th digit from the end was the one incremented.
So you want to reform democracy
You really need to qualify what those units are.

But also, again, if what what you were saying were true, why does it not show up in the atmospheric CO2 record?
I think there's a lot left unsaid here. It's a short Facebook post, and the author doesn't seem to be particularly well-versed when it comes to cars.
> they want the status of a modern country that's leading the world in important matters

Yes, their military spending and quest for a blue water navy is number one on that list.

They continue to use coal as the main source of energy because it is what the west did and its a know quantity, reliable, and cheap. They are increasing their attempts at other energy but a lot of that comes from their desire to stay dominant in all forms of manufacturing. If they can subsidize and crush the manufacturing in other countries (such as the US), they will do it.
1) According to the source article, a unikernel is a kind of library OS and I think you hit the right spot with

2) specialization. AFAIK the the concept of a library OS is from a time when single purpose computing was not on the agenda. We could argue a lot about the different ways of multiplexing and isolating different workloads and how maybe privilege levels were meant to solve the same problem as hardware virtualization but the spirit of unikernels (and library OSs) is to use language and program against an API that specializes to whatever ABI your target happens to be.
The name unikernel is used more in the context of specialized applications in the sense of what a UNIX process is supposed to be (do one thing) but I'd say the important aspect is still the use of language technology which then enables specialized code.

I'm not too familiar with OSv but I think the goal is to provide a runtime for off the shelf java applications. It should be possible to fuse an application with just the needed parts of libc and drivers, though.
He so regularly offends people that he has wound up shadowbanned.

He is an interesting person. If you're curious, http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer gives you a picture of his life's work and some of the challenges that he faces.
Alphabet Trying to Mix Heft with Startup Agility
I agree that the distinction needed to be made. However, this is a win for man kind regardless of the distance.
I hope for RISC-V to become popular. It has the potential to be a great open source ISA that anyone can use and extend.
I've got a VW Golf and I don't know what 'visors' are. Could you explain?
I think he is great, at least the games I've played, but I suppose some could find his writing slightly pretentious.

The first game I played by Adam was Photopia, and while it's not particularly interactive, I found it tremendously moving. It has it all, in my opinion: a moving storyline that doesn't necessarily tie all ends neatly, non-linear narrative, a novel point of view (it's not a big spoiler to say that almost every game segment is "narrated" from the point of view of someone who likes the main character, but we never actually play the main character), and some pretty clever moments (the maze, the exploration of the Red Planet). It's a game I immediately replayed once I reached the ending I finally had the full picture, because some scenes get a new meaning once you know what's truly going on.

Of course, the same applies to 9:05: it's amusing to replay it once you know what's going on.

More in general, I think the IF community is marvellous (I haven't followed it in a while, no idea if it's still active). To me, it was like a games rennaissance. There were authors truly exploring what narrative in games could do, and while there is a mandatory technical know-how -- some of the IF languages are programming languages after all -- it's way lower as an entry barrier than, say, almost anything with graphics, let alone 3D graphics. I think this "not caring about using the full power of the computer" was an advantage to game authors.
Beyond Market Fundamentalism
[2005]: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/03/21/spark.quiet.eye/index...
Meh. It's not like Berlin currently has actually a shortage of space to build. Remember, Berlin currently has about the same land area as NYC, at less than half the population.
This article was a great introduction. When can I expect the rest of the analysis? Feels like it just ends very abruptly.
As to spoken Japanese, this isn't hard to conclude from first principles, since the phonological structure of Japanese is quite spare. As few syllables are possible, the informational content per syllable is low. (related: I read a book containing an example intended to address the idea that Japanese is spoken faster than English -- an English sentence of six notional syllables such as "Smith's strength crushed six sleek ships" is going to take much longer to say than one such as "I made an apple pie", which is also six syllables. The second sentence has one consonant per syllable (on average), the first has considerably more. In Japanese, only the second kind is possible.)

The Japanese syllabary characters tend to be quite modestly formed; they have few essential pixels per character. The kanji, which carry large quantities of semantic information, require much more space to be legible.
This is a great tool to have for anyone on a team. I feel quite fortunate to be on a small team that, at first glance, does quite well in each of these five areas.

That being said it would be nice if Google shared more information about the gTeams exercise they do.
I just ended up using Heroku for an API instead. I was able to use the latest language version and microframework of my choice and still not worry about servers. Setup was way more intuitive than AWS. Testing locally was a known thing and easy. I found wrapping my head around testing API gateway to lambda to aws services a mess. Also all the IAM rules got confusing. I'll probably have another look after it has matured.

I've never used Heroku before and got a production ready API out the door in no time.
Maybe they did later on, but not when I created an account.
>It could have a huge impact on procedurally generated maps in gaming.

I think it could go far beyond just maps. A major immersion breaker in most open-world games is the lack of detail in the lives of non-player characters. It's impractical to manually create this content at any real scale, so I think that's an area where AI would shine.

However, that isn't terribly valuable without also being able to generate convincing conversation dynamically—and that's definitely Turing Test territory. It would also help to synthesize that output in the form of an uncanny and unique human voice, which is also hard, and probably squarely in the same territory.

That said, I think all of this could be accomplished relatively soon, and without general intelligence necessarily being solved.

Of course, once general intelligence is solved (and doesn't go sideways on us), it's a good bet that this kind of thing will be nothing short of incredible. I imagine the Holodeck from Star Trek might be a fair approximation.

As an aside, utilizing general intelligence within interactive entertainment mediums for the purpose of creating believable characters may prove to be highly unethical. Bostrom's Superintelligence touched on this, and it's quite interesting if not terrifying to ponder.
Matthew Flatt's talk on the new macro expander at (fifth RacketCon) can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWLveMNdzg

While the content of the talk is about the new macro expander, the presentation makes great use of Racket's pict module and the pict3d package. Really impressive!

Since first discovering Racket as a result of a Coursera course, it has become my go-to language for my side projects. While I haven't gone into very deep macrology, I'm more enthusiastic and a bit less apprehensive about it thanks to this simpler macro expander.
I absolutely love this product!!!!!!! Well done - @sourcegraphCEO
Yay!

I saw this article back in 2011. I wanted to re-read it a couple of years ago, but couldn't find it.

Thank you, HN!
The sun-visors, the thing you pull down to shade your eyes. The VW has a vanity light in it that you activate with a slider over the little mirror. I'm not quite sure what exactly would cost $1500 to fix (it's just a light...).
Podcast and book on the same topic, both recommended: http://freakonomics.com/2015/11/19/does-early-education-come...

http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Million-Words-Building-Childs/d...
And then you get to be in the middle of an argument over who pays. Well, what really happens is you have to pay so your car will work, and then you have to attempt to be reimbursed. What happens when it's not immediately obvious something is broken? eg someone who doesn't drive much nails a curb and screws your alignment, or leaves the parking brake on while driving around. Tolls and tickets are similar -- you pay, then hope to be reimbursed.

This seems like a potentially giant hassle to avoid a cab or uber or train ride.

edit: also, from their insurance policy [1], if a renter damages the vehicle

In the event it is practical for FlightCar to repair the vehicle prior to
your return, you authorize us to do so, using solely quality licensed
establishments. FlightCar will cover the cost of professionally repairing
your vehicle to its original condition, or, in the event of total loss, up
to the vehicle’s cash value.

There are several huge problems. First, if you have a 1st party warranty, using an unapproved repair service can void that warranty. Goodbye 100k bumper-to-bumper warranty. Second, there can be a significant gap between blue-book value and what it costs you to go purchase a similar vehicle, particularly to purchase one right now because you don't have a car anymore. You agree to fund that out of pocket.

edit2: one more multi-thousand dollar problem: car tax. In CA in particular, I think I paid somewhere between 7.5% and 10% of the value of the car. On a $20k used car, you're going to also self-insure the $1.5k to $2k you have to pay to buy the replacement car.

[1] https://flightcar.com/insurance
Ask HN: Cartodb intelligence
The past few days I've been researching on available mapping solutions and cartodb always pops up as an location intelligence solution. As far as I could understand, cartodb is very similar to mapbox. What is their value proposition as a location data intelligence solution rather than a mapping & visualization solution?
We are all a little more dumb now for having read this.
> There's a reason money transfer takes a few days.

The reason a money transfer takes a few days is because ACH is based on SFTPing back and forth fixed-column ASCII text files.

In other countries there is not this delay.
Google Books: The Secrets to App Success on Google Play
Fair. Still, it's a collaborative effort.

A lot of deference was assumed before Chevron, especially post-FDR, and as a result, Congress + agencies began exploiting that deference more and more, to the extent that it became somewhat codified in Chevron.

The peril of stare decisis is that to be dutiful, SCOTUS must endeavor to abide previous decisions even when those decisions abdicated on matters of law. The net result is that the process is often exploited.

Government's a big system, and I'm as wary to assign a central figure for blame as I will be hearing my uncle Roger describe any of his crackpot theories over Thanksgiving dinner this-coming Thursday, but I think it's naive to say that the government isn't getting away with things on occasion -- the discussion really is how often, and how much we should care. To that discussion, I don't aim to be instructive, as my own caring would likely be considered excessive by most, or perhaps overzealous.
I went through official support channels with my blocking issues. They have since been resolved.
Dark Matter Dominates in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
I think the problem with these systems is that "good enough" should be much more "gooder" than it is, due to being a solved problem for most cases.

For example, if you happen to need a unique ID for each card, and you roll your own "random id generator" you might happen to encounter pitfalls that would've been solved by using UUIDs.

Or you try to get some sort of hash value from the card info (to verify validity or whatever) and instead of using a known hashing algorithm you try to roll your own.

And I would guess a long list of etceteras.

So when a system that should be for the most part trivial to implement correctly is full of these holes then people like GP will start poking around and ultimately start finding a lot of issues that would make it actually not "good enough".

I mean sure, keys are just there to keep honest people out, but if you can use a standard key that would foil both honest AND a few opportunistic dishonest people then why are you instead trying to use your own "custom key" that happens to be much easier to defeat? Especially if said standard key is not really that much harder to implement.
Star Wars is onboard with Slack shouldn't you be too
> I think AI-generated art is an industry waiting to happen.

It has been happening for a while:

http://www.pamelamc.com/html/aaron_s_code.html
https://www.wordseye.com/

It would be interesting to see how you can do machine learning approaches for the kinds of descriptions WordsEye handles using rules, like "the man is in front of the wall." How do you learn to generate an image from that kind of description? You might need to have some kind of learning in abstract 3d space, you might not.
A dream come true - https://www.quantopian.com/robinhood
My experience with Google spreadsheets in a business environment setting is that it served to compensate what is missing in our logistics software.

It seems to be a go to tool for quick fixes, implemented without high level planning. Although I do not know for certain, it is apparent that most formulas and templates on google spreadsheets were created by low-mid employee initiatives.

In other words, employee Z is fed up of X feature lacking in our logistics software and would create a template to address this.

The problem is all the data is segregated and not assembled under one point of view. However, the google search function reduces this weakness significantly.

From my personal point of view, our organization loved it.

Organization profile: Large business,~500-1000 employees

To answer your question, yes it had become a data warehouse, only on niche data segments, that were not addressed in our main tool.
Tango Lays Off 9% of Staff Following Failed Move into E-Commerce
Chrome 46 on MacOS.

And I think you're right. I just removed the loop attribute from all the <video> tags, and CPU usage quickly dropped back down to normal.
A Square Pop, and a Drop
Well thanks for the compliment. But note that thermodynamics is a delicate subject, that was too simple an argument to be exact. I'm still planning to figure out the details of this kind of problem myself. From my light reading it seems the theories for this subject were fully developed only recently actually, namely non-equilibrium thermodynamics and information-theoretic thermodynamics.

What I mentioned is a natural extension of information-theoretic arguments to computational hardness assumptions; they're the same assumptions that allow safe encryption methods in spite of them being 'broken' in an information-theoretic sense (which doesn't consider computer limitations). Without those limitations only variants of the one-time pad are secure and public key crypto (which relies on integer factorization hardness) is impossible.

Some basic readings if you're interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon#Recent_progr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_hardness_assumpt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_feature_learning
Are IPOs the New Down Rounds?
Security through obscurity hasn't been a powerful or useful paradigm for at least a decade now. The only thing that it provides now is more time for malicious users to exploit security holes before anyone notices.
So a super mosquito... humm.
Mp3.com Founder Talks Radio Search and Copyright Lawsuits
I wonder, though, how much of IQ's heritability is cultural.

It would work like this: My parents were poor, and had lower IQs. They didn't have time to read to me or talk a lot to me or spend a lot of time with me. They were too tired, just trying to make enough money to keep us all fed.

Now I've got kids, and I'm repeating the same pattern, partly because I'm tired from working too hard, and partly because that's the pattern I saw growing up, and so it's the default behavior for me.

Note well: This account is fictional, not my actual experience. It's not even anecdotal evidence for my position. It's a hypothetical explanation of how cultural baggage could be inherited between generations in a way that could affect IQ.
I believe you're wrong on both.

On #2, you are assuming that the fact that The President issued an order means that it must have legal force. The truth is that The President can issue any kind of orders at all. However some aren't enforceable.

I'll grant you half points on #4 though. It is reasonable for Congress to pass laws that happen to affect speech (for instance a law against fraud would do so). But laws directly restricting speech are a different matter. Where do you draw the line between the two?
Hmm, I'm very surprised that magstripe readers don't have sensors that detect physical presence of a card, even to this date. But regardless, the main point for me was how trivially one could downgrade the security by setting the bit about Chip/PIN capability off.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away
Sensationalist title. I don't think the difference between people with rich and poor backgrounds is the size of the word gap.
For those asking, here's the breakdown of the costs:

Sun visor (x2): 238.78 + 78 service
Coin drawer: 215.43 + 195 service
New key: 272.60
Key programming: 97.50
Sales tax: 85

Total: 1499.19

Of course, this is an official VW dealer and this repair could probably be done more cheaply elsewhere, which I'd be happy to do. But the issue with FlightCar hasn't been about price, it's been about whether they are willing to cover these things at all.
The .pth imports a file which at module scope registers a search function with the codec system. This function checks if the name is 'quasiquotes', if not, return None otherwise return a custom object that defines all the methods needed to turn bytes into string objects or go the other way. Because it is a pth in the site-packages, it gets executed at interpreter start. If you wanted to chat more about this you can email me with the email on my gh page. Not sure how long hn threads normally stay up.
500k is enough for retirement? are you going to live in a cheap city?
Had a bad experience on the renting side including poor customer service and shoddy operations - can't even imagine renting my own car, just look at their Yelp reviews. One of those concepts I really wanted to be great, but just hasn't happened. Sorry you have to deal with this.
That Wikipedia article is TERRIBLE, and badly mistakes the research on the topic (which I follow regularly in a journal club of behavior genetics researchers). Here is a better read on the topic, opposed by ideological point-of-view warriors on Wikipedia (I am also a Wikipedian):

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...
Show HN: A Swift Playgrounds-Like Live Editor for QML
Looks like it'd cost you $650 for that, San Francisco retail price. Agreed.
>Musk could simply congratulate Blue Origin and leave it at that.

Thats not his style. Plus I'm pretty sure SpaceX is pretty pissed at BlueOrigin for allegedly stealing staff. So can't say I'm surprised at the snarky response.
There's the performance issue on startup, then there's the cost issue with the typical case. With the "round up to the nearest 100ms" pricing, your example ends up overpaying 20-50% for the _typical_ case. If you have any serious use of your app, you are better off with DIY on EC2 or using Heroku.
Getting accurate information on the carbon footprint of nuclear energy is hard. The best paper I have seen on this is Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Nuclear Electricity Generation [1]. Their range is from 9 to 110 g CO2-eq/kWh by 2050.

1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012....