skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree entirely.

Poetry is one of the purest forms of human expression. By human expression I mean the combination of ideas and emotions.

Even after the AI has acquired a language model and knowledge of rhyme and meter , and even perhaps a crude world model,
A robot writing poetry would need to know what emotions something would typically evoke in order to write about it.

For eg: to write a poem about a rotting pile of carcasses , or cockroaches it would require an innate understanding of how humans react to these things. What they might feel , the physical response and the visceral aspects of the reactions evoked.

You could machine learn your way through thousands of poems and understand how lots of things feel but to produce true poetry the machine would have to completely imbibe our ideas of beauty and self.

What objects are beautiful vs not beautiful , what sounds are harmonious vs dissonant and jarring , what kinds of faces are attractive vs ugly and so on and on and on...

For example , what would it feel like to fly ?

I'm not talking about the air rushing past , or looking down upon the world you whoosh past overhead.

The one word that comes to my mind is a sense of exhilaration. Freedom. Perhaps a fear of heights.And I bet that's what came to your mind as well. But would our AI poet come to the same conclusion ?

So this is not just AI Complete but an AI Insane problem. To appreciate and create poetry is to be human.
Interesting backstory. I didn't trust the app early on and now trust it less. Far as ISIS, only had to roll my eyes at the repeated pokes at Telegram playing a key role in ISIS and their "moral responsibility." Tell the U.S. military and covert ops community about moral responsibility so groups like ISIS develop less in the first place. Plus the bankers and oil traders funnelling the money with a lot less auditing than I get on a checking account or credit card. Or our friends in Saudi Arabia pushing hardcore doctrine and schools that creates the terrorist mindset. You don't media and government calling out for any of these to be disbanded, backdoored, or do a 180 on moral grounds.

Telegram can feel free to block ISIS channels to disrupt them. However, they're not the problem and shouldn't feel morally obligated to solve it. If Telegram blocks them, they just use another app. It's that simple. If anything, U.S. intelligence should be exploiting the presence of ISIS on an insecure app as a way to track and fight ISIS.
Maybe a CS degree isn't the right choice. Maybe it's design, art, math, music, journalism, anthropology?

Maybe CS is the right choice, and instead of working part time on Android apps, reading Knuth or learning Haskell or hacking an Arduino is a better way to supplement the classes?

Is designing and implementing UI's for Android apps your long term ambition?

My impression is that developments at interesting edges of graphics programming and neural nets depend on mathematical and algorithmic competence that comes from deep understanding. School is probably the most accessible route to experts, structure, and a socially acceptable excuse to invest time in those topics.

The second route is working at a place that values people's interests in those things.

Good luck.
Why are we still putting up with scam ads and fake news stories?
That's a good point - that would have been less loaded. (The question remains the same though, doesn't it?)

Also - your suggestion would have been a lot less douchey without that "laff".
>Would you sign something saying you'll give me $250k in cash one year from now if I work for the company?

this is classic ! :)
How to Write an Awesome Cover Letter – Tip #1
happened to be recently:

Manager: Hey you're here for the xx position right? You know, you sound like you'd be a really good fit for this new job that opened up, I just fired this guy, millennials amirite, so let's talk about that for the next hour.
I do agree with you, this is my story about the usual stuff:
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/chaos-monkey-bit-me-a-shor...
As well as this classic from SQLite3 guys:
https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html - As you can see, there are multiple ways to ruin your day.
It's amazing to see on one hand, some westerners, want to `heirloom' back to simpler times/aesthetics -- then to see this man who has strong dreams to get Nepal moving forward. Well, I guess it's interesting to see the cravings from the other perspective. Incredibly shot, too!
That's fine, but if you're that kind of founder you have to know your limitations and hire a top-flight COO to handle that side of things. If you can't, or won't, you're just another shitty founder-CEO whose company is going to fail.
Jadx is another great project - https://github.com/skylot/jadx
I am not debating this rather this is merely a contribution regarding tuition, room & board fees, from 1975-76 to 2014-15 adjusted for inflation: I averaged the cost out to 12.5% a year on average.

http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
Preventing inundation with pastes. This is less of a problem for a small project like this compared to one of the major sites, whose server architecture is probably more robust.
I don't get their hand-picking of a woman who went to law school and ran up a 100K+ debt and then never even tried to pass the bar or worked with what she learned. I get that the tuition was inflated because of the increased demand created by easy loans that have the ironic intention of making education more affordable, but this doesn't sound like a case that warrants a lot of pity.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a web-based self-publishing thing that dealt with excerpts, payments, links to similar work, and pushing to reading devices of all kinds (basically: android, iphone, kindle, nook)?

Now that's some science-fiction I would read.
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm
Your comment begs the question: Do you fall for the marketing hype? And if not, then do you think you should keep quiet about stuff that works?

At the time, IMHO, PG was indeed smart to be one of the few using FreeBSD as opposed whatever the majority were using.

But he has admitted they struggled with setting up RAID. They were probably not too experienced with FreeBSD. I am sure they had their fair share of troubles.

PG's essays and his taste in software are great and the software he writes may be elegant, but that does not necessarily mean it is robust.

Best filesystem I have experienced on UNIX is tmpfs. Backing up to permanent storage is still error-prone, even in 2015.
Love No. 4.

Me and my friend (both business students) tried to start a business with having the Business Plan as our first step. It went to hell.

Now we started with validating the idea - selling! It worked soooo much better. More people should try that instead!
Not completely honest however. Before I joined, she overstated the number by a factor of 2... without clearly defining that that the company was making no revenue.

She's extremely stressed and there's a lot of pressure on her. I understand that and I commiserate-- the problem is that at this point, it's all just "playing house".
Hah! Thank you. I'm sure the actual barrage of acronyms were just as relevant!
How about focusing on a culture of getting stuff done? That's about the only thing that counts in a small company.
That's how it is if you use full size "hero image" on Medium. I wish Medium would allow its users to add the title in the foreground of the image.
I once tried drop shipping but the prices I was getting were worse than Amazon prices. I would have gotten better margins if I had just ordered on Amazon and shipped it to my customer. That said, this was for video games, which are already very low margin, and only one wholesaler would drop ship.
for me at least, I would assume the young male intern got in through nepotism of some kind.

Actually, I would say I would stereotype first on their credentials before their gender (since I would likely see their resume first before seeing them in person)
"...give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like..." [said Trurl the Constructor, to his friend Klapaucius].

Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:

"Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little
topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."

"Love and tensor algebra? Have you taken leave of your senses?" Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming:

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I’ll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou’lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love’s lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not -- for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Eclipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thy eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2ϕ!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "static metaprogramming" ? Google isn't helping me here.

Perhaps an example of a program or language that does this.

I see you talk about Lisp and ML a lot - are you referring to macros(1) to extend the language?

1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267862/what-makes-lisp-ma...
Why Crystal?
Seven million people haven't made a single student loan payment in at least a year [1] and the overall delinquency rate of loans in repayment is about 30% [2].

With the figure of student loans held by the Federal government going up exponentially as of 2008 [3] (and with tuitions soaring by 6% a year) the chart certainly looks "bubbly".

Investor Bill Ackman believes there will likely be some form of forgiveness as there is "no way students are going to pay it back":

When asked if he was concerned about bubbles forming in debt markets as central banks around the world continue to keep interest rates near zero, Ackman cited student loans as his biggest concern.

“If you think about the trillion dollars of student loans we have outstanding, there’s no way students are going to pay it back,” Ackman said. He foresees a future where debt-laden students protest government officials, leading to some form of forgiveness. [4]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/about-7-million-americans-havent...

[2] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/april/delinqu...

[3] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-17/washington-...

[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/04/13/bill-ackm...
By your logic it is hard to see how anyone technically competent could be promoted into management. Good luck with that.
If you're interested in real estate investment and willing to do trivial math, I'd recommend Frank Gallinelli's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Every-Estate-Investor-Financial-Measur... ) for the basics.

He comes across as a great guy (heard him interviewed on a podcast before I bought the book), has a really readable style (seriously, it makes real estate financials "light reading"), and generally seems focused on helping people (he was apparently teaching when a publisher approached him to write a book - he told them he wouldn't write the book they wanted because he thought it would be useless, but he would write them a book on what he thought would be most useful).

And absolutely: if you're from a comp-sci background, the real estate math is all trivial plug and chug. But it is worth learning the accepted ways of doing things so you can properly compare and model your properties.
In theory yes, but in practice it's much more complicated than that.
During the protein crave of the late 90's early 2000's we added protein to everything because doctors said we aren't eating enough of it.
Wheat protein was one of the easiest and the cheapest to work with which is now why we are now having to search for Gluten free dairy products which wasn't an issue 15 years ago.
After proteins fibers became the biggest crave so the food industry found another cheap source for them - boiled saw dust from pine trees.
Processed food isn't simply just ground nutrition it has some really really fucked up stuff in it (fucked up as in weird not indicatively bad).
Is it? I've heard several complains about bugs in FUSE.
Jolla to lay off half of its staff as it hunts for new funding
As a child, I recall several times receiving very flexible records as freebies. (Can't recall whether McDonald's ever did it with happy meals...)

The flimsy records played just fine!
Its not just that shared mutable state is hard, I'm thinking of the whole reasoning apparatus you get at your disposal:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/12/equational-reasoning.ht...

That indeed seems very much like something that can be called the "right way". If all functions in a given subset of the code are pure I can even imagine a tool that combines hoogle with your function's type signature and existing types to suggest how to finish writing your function (its just a graph search with nodes being the types and functions as the links). edit: seems like I don't need to imagine it - https://github.com/lspitzner/exference

Rust's way seems to me like they encode all the tediousness of dealing with shared mutable state into the type system. This is good, I guess, if you need to keep doing what you've always been doing but in a much safer way.
Well, the blog's author is a Javascript developer :)
You're the one who responded to a question about education loans with the example of medicare. How are those more similar to each other than either of them is to mortgages?
Elite Dangerous is really fun with a Rift. It's not a novelty that you tire if after an hour, it's fundamentally a better experience. Taking of the rift after an hour or two in Elite Dangerous makes everything on your screen feel flat and lifeless.

It's like the difference between the color and black and white portions of the Wizard of Oz.
Hey thanks, on both counts :) Glad you like it!
I'll make sure to bring up the signup position to our UX guy!
Robert Reich: The sharing economy will be our demise
> soon becomes a pain when you have hundreds of cards to review every day

If you have hundreds to review each day then you've gone nuts adding new items too fast. I know, because I've done exactly that and have seen tons of other people make the same mistake. Adding something like 5-10 new items per day (max) keeps things manageable in the long run. I would suggest that if you're spending more than 10-15 minutes in review that you stop adding new items until your review is under control.

Another problem I've had that seems in common with others is that using SRS is somewhat addictive, feels productive, and gives you nice concrete numbers to gauge your "progress". Many people, like me, fall into the trap of spending more and more time doing SRS, displacing other parts of the curriculum.

> However, the characters I learned while living in Japan, in context, are still fresh in my mind.

So much this. I haven't lived abroad, but I listen to podcasts and other media in my target languages. Things that I've heard and looked up and then heard again multiple times are pretty much permanent now. However memory works, this seems to trigger "this is important and useful, don't lose it!"
Yes, I do think sshuttle is the right model for simple "poor mans" (or whatever) tunnels. I love how it works.

The problem is, it still does not work properly on FreeBSD - at least for name resolution. The ssh tunnel works fine, but your DNS goes outside of the tunnel.

So once again, let me state publicly - rsync.net will pay cash money for someone to fix sshuttle for FreeBSD. Just email info@rsync.net.
It seems that they were identified as the primary suspects just from surveillance cameras near the scene - I wonder how successful the case against them would have been without the bugging devices.
> I'm very curious to see what free learning and degrees online can do to change this. Khan academy, edx, udacity, coursera etc.

The mechanisms are there. It's the cultural perception of alternative education that needs to change. It's the same thing going on with academic publishing. Everybody seems to agree there's a problem with the standard systems, but nobody is going to jump ship to the new system so long as the new is perceived as less prestigious (and this perception has a direct effect on your career).
> I can quiz you and get some killer pointers for where to look next.

Sure, as long as the quiz doesn't involve how to use something in ways not spelled out in its README. Or issues and limitations in applying it --- also not in the README which is more of brochure from a fanboy perspective.

In other words, don't ask, "How did you use that to solve a similar problem? What problems did you encounter, and what were the solutions and workarounds? Would you use that again?"

Someone who knows about alternatives isn't nearly as useful as someone who has the inside knowledge to evaluate them in a relevant way (that is bang on).
I believe the killer app is going to be journalism, and not really VR but simply 360 video streamed from political and social hotspots around the globe. Political uprising in country X? Celebrity overdose/break-up/marriage? Observe in real time as if you are there via captured 360 video. For the technologists interested in virtual world virtual reality, it will be a let down. But for the majority of the public, 360 video will be VR. It will get more interesting for us technologists when multiple 360 video streams captured in the same space can be merged in a Photosynth like fashion to create a true virtual space one can navigate independent of any individual 360 video stream. That will be very much "true RV" and of actual places and actual events. Journalism is, IMHO, the VR killer app.
"you don't even have a culture yet, why do you care about culture fit?"

Sometimes they do, and it's not about "brodude startup"

If there are some founders and they share a vision/way of doing things that's their culture already and that's how the company is going to do things.

I'm not saying it's bad, quite the contrary.

What's your focus? What's your way of solving problems? How do you prioritise stuff?
Starfighter Zeroth Rule
That's a weird way to put it. The mass of the earth is ~6x10^27 grams, and the magnet is less than 10 grams.
A while back on here, I was arguing against common methods of programming for security-critical software in favor of high assurance methods. Those methods used mathematical specification, refinement, analysis, and so on to know everything the program could do in success or failure. The implementation was similarly provable due to how it was implemented: state machines. All high assurance that I could recall used interacting state machines (ISM's or ASM's) with modularity, abstraction, and careful interfaces. I also remember being surprised that "kragen" correctly guessed FSM's as what I was advocating.

State machines are very versatile. One can do provably safe transformations on them with suitable tools. One can derive them from functional languages where most of developing and proving work is done. I've seen several techniques of high-level synthesis for hardware that produce, split, optimize, merge, etc various FSM's to go from high-level function to logic gates. Many formal verification tools, esp easier model checkers, work well with them. All this makes them a powerful tool worth mastering and using more than we do.
Many owners of bars (and similar cash businesses) skim some part of the business's cash for themselves. This has two effects: first, it provides them personally with undocumented and tax-free income; second, it greatly reduces the business's profits (because you're not just keeping the profit, you're also keeping the cost), in turn reducing or even eliminating its own tax burden. As far as I know, this is illegal in every jurisdiction that has an income tax, but it's still a very common practice. If you were the owner, rather than an employee, of such a bar, that would make this an attractive proposition, even ignoring the cost of the card processing.

As an employee, it might still be attractive if you're in the habit of stealing from the owner. Obviously if there's any documentation that the drink was served, it won't work as the contents of the till will be wrong and usually that comes straight out of your pay. That in turn takes us into all the various ways the help can steal from owners, which is another topic altogether.

If one assumes that everyone involved in the operation of the bar is law-abiding, then your point stands. But that's less common than you probably imagine.
Sounds good. I love crystal too <3
This looks really cool. However, I have to wonder whether performance is the main reason projects use languages other than Ruby. I’ve heard a lot about Go, for instance, being an especially stable language, especially when it comes to error handling.
I'm curious how old it is. Mine was plugged in overnight Thursday. I got up around 5:45 Friday, worked all day, and then went to a Christmas party where I stayed the night (no charger with me). The first time it had a chance to charge was Saturday afternoon, and it was still around 30% or so.
Because the goal is efficiency, not having the government do everything.

In mortgages, student loans, and healthcare, the government is already heavily involved on all aspects of the transaction. They might be providing insurance for a mortgage via FHA, student loan guarantees for a federal loan, or paying via Medicare. Private servicers/insurance are, in these cases, usually an unnecessary middleman that exists mainly to make a profit. In much of the rest of the developed world, the government acts as a single-payer for education and healthcare, and is more involved in housing than in the US.

Having the government take over supermarkets would be less efficient - it'd be adding complexity to the system, not reducing it.
Many companies have built software products on top of this tool. I was heavily involved in enterprise apps for several years. It's a great tool
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During interview with founder:

me : I believe 'honesty is the best policy'

founder: Great! we need like-minded people like you.

(after few months)

founder: He creates negative environment within the team!
Most of the times 'Yes'
Bingo. Implementing features doesn't usually require it, but keeping an entire system in your head with all its complexity and chain reactions from making something work another way keeps me from moving ahead sometimes -- especially when it isn't clear what the best option is. A beer or two helps me pick one and keep moving, to discover the answer as I go.
Anki is what's getting me through med school
Can you comment on your latest approach in purescript-thermite to use lenses (focus, foreach) vs halogen architecture? Pros / Cons?
wow, they've all been from angel list for me too! i didn't realize the connection till now.
A lot of young founders are just enacting their dreams of having fun, getting rich, and being high status cool kids. Doesn't have a lot to do with the business. Fortunately those are the type of founders who fail terribly, although they still probably have enough $ to keep being a serial 'entrepreneur'.
Increased mortality linked to longer sleeping times: study