skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the author. I have just released the first alpha. I've been programming Scheme for close to a decade now after about the same amount of time using Perl, and I've written this to be able to like programming Perl 5 again, when I have reason to use it. It works pretty well for me for that purpose, although I guess I'm biased.

I guess the layout is pretty old-fashioned, and I might have too much text; I'm trying to cater to people who are not used to functional programming yet, but I'm not sure I'm achieving that. I guess it's also a rather difficult sell when many Perlers prefer to use the upcoming Perl 6 instead, and others decide to leave for a more proper functional programming language implementation.

I'm rather proud that I've managed to base lazy sequences on lazily evaluated linked lists, i.e. based on purely functional principles down to the cells, instead of using iterators as many function libraries for sequences for non-functional languages (like JavaScript or C#) do. Not sure how much it matters in practice, but at least you can write lazy sequences with this the same way you do in Haskell (see fibs and primes examples).

There are some good points doing FP in Perl 5 compared to some other non-FP languages (you can do optimized tail-calls pretty cleanly), and some bad points (you have to care about memory handling in some places). I've got ideas how to improve on both fronts but that will depend on the uptake of the project.
Here's the status section from the top. Don't want to post the whole mess so if you want anything else let me know and I will cherry pick. Also, installed extensions: ABP 1.9.3, Evernote Web Clipper 6.7, rest console 4.0.2, xpath helper 2.0.2 and a couple of standard Google shims.

Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Flash: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
How does this compare to Marvin, which was a decent successor to Stanza?
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After training, you could likely do this on a single node. You don't need that much compute for speech to text and then information retrieval.
Thanks for the heads up snug! We went with option #2 and added a page rule to cache everything :)
I am not a cook / chef, so I don't know exactly how to translate my understanding to proper words here. A lot of people prefer fresh meat over frozen meat for the true flavor of the meat. The meat produced from a lamb running around all day vs from a lamb confined in a tiny space are very different. If you just want meat like cheap McDonald hamburgers, cultured meat is probably okay (assuming the scientists are able to add taste to cultured meat, last I read a few years back they said the meat taste like plastic [1]...). Also looking at the meat produced in the lab, the meat look gross...

[1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
You're just repeating that it is awesome and useful without saying why. I think distinguishing public & private variables offers more support for structured programming and is therefore desirable.
> There's no need for Linux to be singled out.

But in this case, I think it's OK. I read the article as being of the sort, "If you're using Linux, and need to manipulate media, here's the command line programs you can use."

I think most people who are familiar with the command line on say, OS X, can easily figure out that these are available there as well.
A really interesting read, thank you!
Now I know that this is more of a tax than a ban, the proceeds of corruption bit sounds more likely. No one likes to tell the government about their undeclared income.
I recommend elasticsearch as well. Just make sure to firewall it off and be careful opening it up. Elasticsearch a few versions back had a remote exploit.
Couldn't you just use bitcoin? Good exchanges exist in China. LocalBitcoin works too, though it's more work to convert $50K.
This is one of those "computer science matters" things.

Learn your data structures. Learn what the storage engines use. Use the right structure for the right problem.
Dragon works offline, http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/22/nuance-dragon-dictate-4-is...
Electric Generation in Spain – Latest 24 Hours
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-11-02/china-s-mo...

Has it at .1% or thereabouts over the normal banking rates (but normal banks can't do it).
Why don't you tell us how they abuse the system, and we can talk specifics?

I've seen people buy bottled water with food stamps, but it's crass to assume they don't have a good reason when we know nothing about their situation.

Until you explain, I think it's fair to give your acquaintances the benefit of the doubt.
Right, these had no requirements for hardware support at all, because if they had had any nobody would have been able to run them. The release of these screensavers for Windows NT predated the release of Windows 95 by a few months, which is why I mentioned it.

Windows NT 3.51 also introduced the inexplicable animated cursors feature later included in Windows 95.
Interesting. Link? I would be interested in perusing your wares, sir!
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The essays look interesting. However, the site has weird scrolling, which is making it hard to read. If you turn that off your site’s chances of going viral will increase.
Is it just me or is the scrolling on this website really annoying?
To be fair, systematic data on experimental transfer programmes aimed at the extreme poor in developing countries is no better than random anecdotes for confirming or debunking stereotypes of lazy welfare recipients in developed countries with well-established welfare states. This study tells you a fair bit about extreme poverty relief schemes and precisely nothing about how the welfare state affects or doesn't affect people's behaviour in Western Europe and the USA.

Lack of negative behavioural effect from conditional handouts as low as $4 per household per month really doesn't tell you much about the effect of subsidies designed to permit an at least borderline-adequate Western standard of living.

They're trying to fix different issues with different sized budgets.
As someone who feels he should be vegetarian but is ultimately not into vegetables enough to actually do it, I'm all for this. Put it supermarkets and it'll be the only meat I'll buy.
C++ “auto” considered (mostly) harmful
LinkedIn Groups – new design
But that's like saying that your telephone or PC does not communicate until you invoke it. Arguably, that may be the default mode of the devices, but it is not strictly true ("hackers", legal & illegal wiretaps, etc.). You're depending upon the device to behave as it should, but you don't have complete authority over the device.
You can also make rsyslog work on windows, doesn't mean it's supported or encouraged..

people seem to have this analogue of "you can configure away the bad bits" but in the end the bad bits are orthogonal to it's design and 'bypassing' them or hacking around them should not be encouraged- it should be able to be done by default.
Silicon Valley and Teenage Suicide
Some apps use this type of thing to link viewing profiles across TV, web, and mobile. There was a recent arstechnica article on the subject.
You don't need to wait for the cure if you're just going to clone. But it won't be the same person. A two year old is old enough to know and recognize and do all kinds of things.
> People lose conscience and then regain it and live on all the time.

Do you mean "consciousness" here? I assumed you actually meant conscience at first but this sentence doesn't seem to make sense with that word but then you use consciousness later which means it isn't just a spelling error. I'm not asking to be pedantic, but because I'm now getting confused about what you're trying to say in parts of your otherwise interesting comment.
That article was from 2013

I can't remember exactly, but I think it was Chamath Palihapitiya that funded a startup that does lab-grown meat.

The fascinating thing is that they realized it is so hard to differentiate the lab-grown meat from actual slaughtered meat.
I'll be right back and find that article.

Edit:
I can't find the article and I don't know who owns that startup. Most of the sources I find are from link where I am not sure if they are reliable:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/15/impossible-burger-our-test-tu...
http://www.techinsider.io/impossible-foods-cheeseburger-back...
Separation of powers is a feature; however, since we do have essentially feudal, warring states of government power, we also need to be aware of their infights and lies, and that they should trust the government no more than they would trust their neighbor, because the government is their neighbors.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that has less to do with nomenclature and more to do with oil, rather than working Alaskans, paying for the Permanent Fund. Plus there can't be too many people aiming to go through life living solely off the Permanent Fund.
I am working on Convox, an open source "PaaS" that installs in your AWS account in minutes.

There is no additional layer of complexity. It configures AWS coherently with a few cloud formation templates.

I'd love to hear your opinion on this type of installer.

http://convox.com
People might be interested in this video by @kcimc , where Kyle runs the pretrained model forward in real time on his laptop while walking around the streets of Amsterdam

https://vimeo.com/146492001

Something people don't fully appreciate about neural networks is that their performance is quite a strong function of their training data. In this case the training data is taken from the MS COCO dataset (http://mscoco.org/explore/). That's why, for example, when Kyle points the camera at himself the model says something along the lines of "man with a suit and tie" - there is a very strong correlation between that kind of an image in the data, and the presence of a suit and tie. With such a strong correlation the model doesn't have a chance to tease the two concepts apart. A similar problem would come up with an ImageNet model, where a similar image might be classified as "seatbelt", because there is no Person class there, and shots of people in that pose usually come from the seatbelt class. It happens to be the most similar concept in the data it has seen. Another example is if you pointed the model at trees it might hallucinate a giraffe, since the two are strongly correlated in the data. Or when Kyle points the camera at the ground I'm fully expecting it to say relatively random things, because I know that those kinds of images are very rare in the training data.

In other words, a lot of the "mistakes" are limitations of training data and its variety rather than something to do with the model itself, and it's easier to recognize this if you're familiar with the training data and its classes and distribution.
There's so much to good meat: fats, amino acids, natural flavors, curing, etc. I suppose to the McNugget crowd, this will be awesome.
There are plenty of mushrooms that can substitute for meat, it's just that none of them are being commercially produced.

If you had Calvatia Gigantea grown in the right soil and properly prepared I doubt many people would be able to tell the difference between that and chicken. Same with Laetiporus sulphureus, but grown on logs.

Similarly I doubt many people would be able to tell the difference between beef jerky and jerky made from Grifola frondosa, even in a side-by-side comparison.
Scaling up a site for Shark Tank
Rome enlists American falcons to hunt starlings
Obligatory reference to the first bootstrap revision from hell - first git commit of git! [1]

[1] - https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
Related question since this is an Israeli foundation. What do jews and muslims think about the kosher / halal-ness of eating cultured pork if there was such a thing?

I.e. do they consider the animal itself dirty, or its inherent genetic structure?
A catchy way to say it: If you build it, the governments will take it.
Because:

1) I'm not a sadist.
2) Lowering the barrier of obtaining answers leads to a higher level of curiosity and greater yearning to learn.
3) It allows an easy way for my kids to be exposed to more types of music.
4) It helps with piano practice.

And seriously, lay off the personal attacks. Echo isn't a replacement for a parent. This isn't about sitting a kid in front of a TV, this is about a wonderful supplemental product which kids can use at an early age.
Governments that maintain such shortsighted positions will eventually find themselves superseded on the world stage.
You and me both.

Interestingly, I have gotten some good calls and emails related to traditional print and media advertising. They actually do have information and can add some value it seems.

It's almost as if being able to supposedly target better, and I write that because I do question some of the methods and their real value, they feel they no longer have to work with you to maximize the AD. Doing that almost always makes more sense, and it's an easy, up front conversation too. If that conversation qualifies me in, I'm likely to buy an AD! But I'm not so likely to qualify myself, as there are just too many choices, etc...

I'm actually skilled in both, sales and engineering / tech and have held sales, pre-sales, and tech roles. (gotta roll with the punches sometimes, and I'm game.)

When I do make cold calls, I generally get good response rates as well as qualified lead rates. Helps to actually know stuff they may find relevant, or answer that quick question off the cuff. As for the relationship?

The big advantage is the relationship is often implied. Having shared domain knowledge almost always means a dialog that is worth having. All it really takes is a quick read on the other person, then just talk with them as one would a peer.

Some of these firms could really do themselves a great service by taking their callers and salespeople on a few tours, or through some education that can add that value. It's not specific domain knowledge, but it's pretty good. And their calls suddenly aren't quite so mind numbing too.

Win for everyone, IMHO.
Technically speaking the Amazon Echo does not listen to your conversations and does not transmit them back to headquarters.

The Echo has a low power chip-mode which is able to do "basic" voice recognition and wake the device when the correct phase is spoken.

So the chips itself is interpreting everything you say looking for the correct wake-up phase, but the wrong ones aren't recorded, and most of the device's logic in in idle/sleep/hibernation.

Now, that being said, when the device is awoken anything you ask it IS transmitted back to Amazon HQ. For example "ok Alexa, what is the weather today in New York," the "ok Alexa" won't be transmitted (that just wakes the devices) but the "what is the weather in New York" is transmitted.

Most of these articles focus on the Amazon Echo "always listening" and while that is technically true, there is no known privacy implications to it (since it isn't recorded/transmitted).
Cachet Version 2 is here
> foreseeable future revival attempts.

I don't fully disagree with you, but this is sort of begging the question, since cryonics seems to rely heavily on the chance of unforeseeable advantages.

On top of that, you seem to be committing the common fallacy of equating every minute of life as the same, whether you're suffering terminally in a hospital bed or watching the sunset with friends (this is also why people choose to be taken off the respirator or have DNRs). Using something like QALYs makes infinitely more sense (though switching to QALYs may not quite invalidate your point).
Ah, you're right it was slapt-get that I used; it convinced me that apt-get was really good, part of the reason I moved despite up to then being more familiar with compiling my own (yay for checkinstall) or using yum.
I am the descendant of a countlessly long line of meat eaters. I'll stick with the slaughter version, it has worked well thus far.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
https://crate.io Co-Founder here. We're participating in this game by working hard to build a fully distributed, shared-nothing SQL database.

In our vision, a app in a container is able to access the persistence layer like in SQLite - just import it. another cluster of containers - preferably having one instance node-local - takes care of the database needs.

The database is distributed and makes sure enough replicas exist on different nodes. it's easy to scale up and down, local ressources are being utilized whenever possible (no NAS/SAN like storage).
Oh, I should ask, just for a curio:

What do you think of high value stuff sent to you? We all get the usual gift card, gadget, or curio. Whatever.

But I've had somebody actually send me something I might consider buying. Not the product, just as a gift.

I called 'em. Looked like a $50 - $100 item, and I figured they were serious. They were.
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Basic income is a special case of negative income tax. The current welfare system resembles a negative income tax that has a very high marginal tax rate on low income earners (because welfare is means-tested).

But because budgets have to balance, the current system has the advantage that it can have lower marginal tax rates on higher income earners.

Whether it makes sense to impose an especially high marginal tax rate on poorer people (and a lower marginal tax rate on richer people) is a complex question. But to claim that basic income solves the problem of incentives is wrong. Basic income just moves the disincentive effect to a different segment of workers.
The lack of solar is completely baffling. [EDIT] I was referring to solar on average.
I really don't like the small talk bit. I don't want to chat about football, the weather, or necessarily my kid. I love him to death and I think he's awesome, but I'm usually busy at work. I want to get information, find out what's actionable, and get back to work.
> The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

"Shall have the power", "to promote the progress".

As far as I see it, that's all we need to drop every single copyright law now founded on actual research (just about all of them) and swap them out for something else entirely, if we find something that has a better effect for society.

And I disagree entirely on the view on Youtube and Pandora. You may not like their position, but as far as I can see they haven't destroyed anybody's creative career. We shouldn't be building intellectual minefields and be petty and territorial.
There is no solution here. Who decides what I can and cannot declare with the select? If it's not me, then how will this other body of control make sure to include all possibilities in their API, which satisfy my requirements that even I don't know yet? And of course, how will these features work together? and then also be efficient?

.. aaaand we're back to where we are today. Pointless article.
Rats: Your guide to protecting yourself against snitches
I used to be more of a grammar nazi but in my old age I came to view with suspicion emails or texts that are written "too perfect." It signals a person who has too much time on their hands or allocates their time poorly, and is insecure about letting a few mistakes through.
It's still not kosher/halal if its made from the cells of a treyf animal. Both religions already have a concept of how pork-derived things aren't religiously acceptable, and pork-derived cultured meat would obviously be an example of that. (Note that the meat they're making here really is chicken; its just a chicken cloned in such a way that only the breast grows.)

That said, kosher/hallal beef "bacon" does a brisk business in NYC, so who knows.
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Lack? It's around 10% during daytime
I agree with you and there is plenty of room for technology to address some of these problems, both in facilitating the creation of music and getting it to the right audience.
I don't think he's suggested anything of the sort; tried to discredit the study, yes, but he hasn't characterised his anecdote as a "study" much less an authoritative one.
I see a bit over 12% during a big part of the day. The yellow/orangeish part.
Huh. Well that's a fairly serious bug that someone should track down and document widely. I'll see if I can reproduce it on my OS X machine.
You're also the descendant of a long line of either oppressors or oppressed (white in America=long line of oppressors). You aren't using that to excuse stealing land from your Mexican neighbor, today, I would hope. So, why use that as a reason to continue the environmental and ethical disaster that is eating meat?

If you want to keep eating meat because you just don't care, say so. Don't excuse it with "the way my great granddaddy did it", because there are plenty of things about the way great granddaddy did it that are morally repugnant to us today. Unless you are also supporting slavery/segregation, returning to no legal interracial or LGBTQ marriage, a world without child labor laws, a world with no vote for women, etc. you really shouldn't use that excuse.
Very well done. Here is a similar thing for Ontario
http://media.cns-snc.ca/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectricit...
Having made this drive numerous times, I tend to cut diagonally from Albuquerque->Lubbock->Austin->New Orleans in order to take in some Hill Country on the way
Lighting which slowly increases in intensity in concert with an alarm clock.

Home lighting which is activated by a motion sensor but doesn't blind you or awaken others but helps prevent you from stumbling through the home in the middle of the night.

Lighting which could be coordinated with media controls.

Simply more economical way to move or add an additional light switch than hiring an electrician to do it the old fashioned way.
Good for all of us. It'll drive down the cost of meat and eliminate the need to dedicate tons of resources to raising livestock (if you read the article, it claims half of all land mass is dedicated to livestock and their food. it also claims that 1/3rd of our fresh water goes to that as well). If you don't see this as a win for everyone, you aren't thinking hard enough.
The times are presented in the viewer's local time. For me it looks like solar peaks in the middle of the night.
JS;DR - Javascript; Didn't Read.
This is a pretty miserable example of PL advocacy. There may be good reasons to use Go. The attempt to make the case here is lazy, and largely uninformed.
Neat looking visualization. Sorry for the nitpick but personally a straight line (rather than circular) plot 00:00 - 24:00 will help see the peaks and compare high-low better. The time could you also show by time of generation rather than local. (it is weird to see peak solar at 0200 hrs )