skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if the market is inherently local or the combination with result in increased prices.

Market sizes vary. For airlines they look at cities or even specific airports. it doesn't matter that there are a million different airlines, if your merger creates a quasi monopoly for flights into and out of some cities. That's why in airline deals, you often see one of the two sell off routes to third party competitors.

But for chemicals and agriculture supplies--it's really an international marketplace. It doesn't really matter if they are the only US company as long as Chinese, Korean and German companies are active in selling in America.

Though the DOJ will undoubtedly look at the deal hard. Make sure things like distribution chains, retail deals etc. don't create a monopolistic effect.
>[...] such sadness, fear, pain and suffering is not present today.

[Citation needed]

While I'm on the subject: Germany has a radicalization hotline, that people can call and report any person they fear is about to be radicalized. Know what the most common caller is and who they report? Mothers reporting their sons. It's the same shit that's in this speech, just for a new age.
yeah, yikes. the road to hell is paved with...
> Why ask for donations if you are expecting to donate the money away instead of using it to improve your products?

Django is very widely used by Mozilla as far as I'm aware. By supporting djangoproject they are improving their (Mozilla's) products. This is not entirely altruistic on Mozilla's part.

I appreciate what you are saying and would agree if Mozilla were just looking around for worthwhile FOSS projects to donate money to without any regard for whether or not they were using or intending to use them to achieve their own goals.
As to being drawn out, I think that I would love to find ways to make it quicker. At startups, where you're basically always hiring, it's easier because you can hire on a rolling basis. At my last company if somebody was eager, they could do all the stages over one or two days and we could quickly make an offer.

In this case, though, this team had only one position to fill and hadn't hired together before, so we needed to see a fair number of candidates in a batch so that we could collectively calibrate. That took more time than I wanted.

I definitely don't think we were too selective, though. Good developers can quickly improve both a team and a code base. Bad ones can harm both in ways that are expensive to fix. I think a lot of typical selection criteria are bunk (e.g., fancy schools, fancy companies on the resume), and I'm not always looking for amazing technical qualifications. But I definitely think it's worth time to find people who are great fits for the job.
Signal (formerly TextSecure and RedPhone, now merged) isn't a social networking app.
Another more realistic potential threat is police relying too much on automated crime prediction. They are already embracing it:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/19/po...

An old thread on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185684
> If Flash Boys is full of ignorance, perhaps you could recommend a better book?

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
> Every time they tease it then don't act, the market takes a plunge.

Pretty sure the order of events is flipped. Last few fed meetings have been preceded by one sort of terrible economic news or another. (Last time it was the China slowdown.)

They've been indicating for a while that they would raise rates sometime in the second half of 2015, but it's been pushed off because raising rates when markets are weak could instigate an economic meltdown.
I think mostly not, although we did have a few interns from Code2040 this year. We do, however, have the fellowship program:

https://www.codeforamerica.org/about/fellowship/

That's a great opportunity for people with a few years experience to stretch themselves, being part of a small team that has a year to research, evolve, and deliver a whole system.
So all this will end with the red open-source AI Jaeger mech battling against the grey corporate AI Jaegers among the ruins of our cities. Thanks, Elon.
Either show my location or don't. Randomizing in a four-mile radius is both compromising and useless.
I'm very much for copyright change, but equating copyright monopolies with human sacrifice and genital mutilation is specious bullshit that makes people less sympathetic to the cause of reform. The injustices of copyright are a minor annoyance by comparison to other kinds of abuse and trauma.

because it requires an understanding of how information and culture are made beyond the average wit

Bah, humblebrag. Almost everyone I've ever discussed copyright with is perfectly capable of appreciating the systemic perpetuation of privilege that inheres in copyright monopolies. You're waving a bloody shirt for the moral equivalent of a paper cut; it's not OK to borrow the vastly more intense sufferings of others to make more of an emotional impact.
I think if you're going to claim that we're not taking one part of a philosophy into account, that part needs to be remotely possible, or you need to show how we can privatize the ocean.
From the title and the time period, I was expecting this to be something about encouraging the rich to have more children -- a common concern among interwar eugenicists. As it is... well, this was certainly eccentric, among other things.
> tried code reviews and peer programming ... no time for that so it fell on the wayside

You don't think that could be related? If you had a sane development cycle, that may have helped. Having QA would likely have helped as well, but a healthy dev cycle is a good start.
"With that said, it's nice to see cheap ARM64 development platforms becoming available, even if they aren't as open/supported as they should be."

^^This is the ultimate take-away, yes.

Over the past year, 64-bit ARM development platforms have dropped in price from the $2999 Opteron A1100 to the $79 Dragonboard, and now to the $15 PINE64.
The Chamley Judd result.
TDCC is also incorporated in Delaware.
What I haven't been able to find out is how an interest rate hike by the Feds will change consumer borrowing (mortgages, cars, etc.).

If the rate is going from 0% to 0.25% for the Fed loans, does that mean consumers will not see a rate hike, a rate hike of 0.3%, or multiples of that?
Adding to this, "the free market will decide" can sometimes be a cop-out, but in this case it applies perfectly.

There are reasonably low barriers to entry in this market, for the most part. If Uber treating its drivers as contractors rather than employees impacts Uber drivers in a negative enough way that they would prefer to work elsewhere, there is likely ample space for a competitor which offers a better deal for its drivers.

Drivers have little-to-no incentive to stay with Uber if they can get a better deal elsewhere (based on what I've seen, many already also work for Lyft), and users have little-to-no reason to stick with one on-demand ride app if there's another app that has more availability/drivers.

If cost-of-ride is the biggest competitive differentiator, the price of the ride will stay the same and drivers will be able to choose whether they want to work for a company which treats them as an employee but takes a bigger cut, or a company which takes a smaller cut but treats them as a contractor.
While #8 is useful, I've been writing a static analysis tool for JS in OCaml and it's been extremely hard to refactor when type inference is happening on function parameters. Mostly because I can't easily look to see whether I've refactored a method to use my new types.

But on the other hand, I think that's because (I at least get the impression) there's a different strategy for refactoring functional programs effectively. I haven't quite figured out what that is, though.
This is a really great piece. There truly was a massive shift in optimism for these systems when the New York and Chicago RFPs went out. I had my doubts about the sheer scale of these systems accompanying a smooth rollout and execution, but am thrilled to be mostly wrong.

I'd love to know what kind of engineering challenges and missteps occurred in regards to station uptime, load-balancing bike availability, and reliability. Sounds like they're on the right foot now, but the bike share fleet Management software was an open field for a while. I believe Motivate Co is hiring Ruby engineer in NY if anyone's interested.
the top two entries on the frontpage are about this already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720176
Can you clarify what you mean by the word "trolling"? I'm honestly asking the question because I don't understand what you object to.

If I understand what the term means to you I can avoid that in the future.
Have you ever worked for a fortune 100 company? The dev manager has probably never met the CTO. Im in this right now with my currrent job. I still keep my builds and test them longer than i should. Less broken shit gets through, but i regularly delay my qa ba's because of it.
The #1 thing I look for in a job ad is a salary range. I don't see one in the ad he links to, and I don't see any discussion of salary in the article. Without that I won't bother to apply.
Actually, it sounds like the main problem for the kind of project you were on was realistic timelines, not a QA team.

And I don't think an independent QA team helps to coordinate people and avoid buck-passing, IME, the more different teams are essential to delivering a piece of software to the customer, the more opportunities for buck passing, and the higher level of management the buck passing occurs at.
It seems like this could be huge for small/local fire departments and law enforcement. If your town can't afford its own helicopter with FLIR imaging, now you can get a dedicated system for ~$1500.

Imagine the benefits if there's a night time 911 call complaining of an ominous crowd gathering in a public place or a band of hooligans tagging homes in a crowded suburban area. Cops could scout the area ahead of time by just launching a drone from their trunk before putting themselves in harm's way. There may be some issues in trying to maintain radio/video contact during something like a high speed chase, of course.

It's interesting that DJI is specifically not targeting these markets with their advertising because of drawing attention from the government? Is the government concerned that the technology will somehow relay the imagery to Chinese spies? Or that it will report false data that would put people in danger?
Cloud providers are so much smaller than the aggregate consumer computing devices out in the wild.
Not to mention what is happening with the NSA, which is essentially judicial-hearing-by-algorithm.
Opponents of abortion don't usually claim that the foetus is a child, they claim that it's a person.
Who are the actual staff involved? What sort of things have they worked on and published before?
Shells & pits have sharper edges though.
Jojoba beads are a better replacement for microbeads from a performance standpoint because their rounded edges provide a gentler exfoliation.
They are, however, considerably more expensive than ground shells or pits because they aren't an agricultural byproduct.
Perfect timing as I'm about to start putting some time and resources into researching some good stocks and investments.
no there isn't, if you include time.

lets say that a general AI is developed and brought online (the singularity occurs). Lets also say that it has access to the internet so it can communicate and learn, and lets also say that it has unlimited amount of storage space (every harddrive in every device connected to the internet).

at first the AI will know nothing, it will be like a toddler. than, as it continues to learn and remember, it will become like a teenager, than like an adult in terms of how much it knows. Than it will become like an expert.

but it doesn't stop there! a general AI wouldn't be limited by 1) storage capacity (unlike human's and their tiny brains that can't remember where they put their keys) or 2) death (forgetting everything that it knows).

so effectively a general AI, given enough time, would be omnipotent because it would continually learn new things forever.
They both use the same daemon (guix-builder is a fork of nix-builder), so I think they could share packages given the hashing is the same. This hypothetical has not been implemented yet, I'd love it.

Their is an importer[0], but this is basic and just grabs the package metadata, it's up to the packager to implement the package still. Hopefully this is further automated in the future.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-...
yeah, i think a lot of people embark on this journey in their early 30's because things start to look bleak if you project your current behavior into the next decade.

it was basically the 'am i or am i not going to seriously be a lifelong fatass. like for real though.' point in my life. like you kind of know, if i let this slip a few more years, there's probably no going back.

i'm also doing weights with a trainer and that has drastically improved my general appearance, especially in my upper body/shoulders. simply losing weight would have produced a weak and skinnyfat version of myself.
From that chart and from what you're saying, it sounds like the labor-force-participation element isn't necessarily bad -- although we certainly do have malaise from other sources.

(In particular, there's how the dot-com bubble's about to burst again, for the second time in a generation. "Learned nothing and forgotten nothing," that's us...)
CFC's, leaded fuel, cigarettes...
There's such a thing as not wasting training or simulator time. That cops trained with such simulations don't then go all Terminator when they're out on the streets says something.

And as noted there are simulation suites which focus entirely on protection of 3rd parties, you're oddly enough never at risk, which was itself unsettling.
Keep in mind that you need to have worked for that given company for a certain amount of time for the L-1 visa (I believe at least a year).
Intelligence has solved all of our solved problem thus far, it's reasonable to assume that if a problem can be solved with intelligence, maybe it's a matter of doing the intellectual work to understand existence better or engineer something or in your case making efforts into making the cost-benefit tradeoff acceptable, then AI can solve all those problems. Since one of those problems is making smarter than human AI, AI can solve that one too, and thus be even better equipped to solve the others.

The problem of entropy is one I think AI might not be able to solve, but that's only using my laymen knowledge of human understandings of the universe.
The burden of proof is on the people warning us of the impending AI apocalypse. The fact is we are nowhere close to AI. We don't understand how the brain works. A review of the ML literature will also show we barely understand how neural nets work.
"Turn off your phone's WiFi."

1) What kind of self-respecting hacker would have WiFi active in a strange place in the first place?

2) What kind of self-respecting Hacker Cantina wouldn't be inside a Faraday cage to block all external EM signals in the first place?
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Doesn't GPG work in a similar way?
ML was there but at least when I started learning about these things around 8 years ago, the label "AI" was mostly used for symbolic stuff. Courses named "AI" taught from the Russell-Norvig book. Things like resolution, planning in the block world, heuristic graph search, min-max trees, etc. ML existed but it wasn't really under the label of "AI" as far as I can remember. I think it's something of a marketing term that big companies like Google and Facebook reintroduced due to the scifi connotations. But that's just my guess.
Most of these requirements seem like they were picked after the fact based on .Net's features. Things like a "rich ecosystem" are very subjective and easily rule out several valid options as part of this justification.

What happened to ever just saying "we want to roll with Microsoft's solutions so we did" ?
> The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO

For an organization with a single product (and, particularly, one small enough that the "top-level" QA and Dev manager are also first level managers), this makes some sense. Otherwise, this means that each product has no common level of technical management below the CTO, meaning it has no meaningful technical ownership.
Many blame the Great Recession on Greenspan because he kept rates too low and over-inflated the housing market.

It's almost impossible to judge the timing of these things beforehand, but 0% interest (free money), and Quantitative Easing (printing money) is bound to cause problems if it continues too long.
Selling ownership of fishing rights over tracts of the ocean, while it has flaws, would be infinitely better than the free-for-all we have now, where nobody has an incentive to preserve any fish stocks.
Yes, because a private entity completely owning natural resources like lakes and forests, will completely prevent those resources from being ruthlessly exploited. Those private entities would rationally take a long term vision, and certainly wouldn't exploit those resources until there's nothing left.

There's certainly merit in trying to make people pay for externalities (offsetting carbon pollution for example), but you can't do that for everything. Privatizing everything might be an appealing free-market pipe dream, but unless we can completely/mostly stop externalities from happening, such an experiment would be a disaster.
That already exists using Wolfram tech: http://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/
Only if you never spend any of the capital. I expect having 10 kids there are a number of costs and debts that woukd need to be repaid so the actual interest received would be less.
Contrary to popular belief, the CCP is not ruled by a single paramount leader anymore, and not everyone shares the same vision or benefit from the same policies. There are forces pulling the government to different directions, just like different special interest groups shape US policies.

If a small group of people, especially the newly minted tech and industrial elites (as opposed to traditional military and party elites), learnt the more western way of influencing public opinions, they will use it as a competitive advantage over their political competitions.
Why is competition good for private goods and services, but bad for government goods and services?

The "race to the bottom" is the reason why we don't pay $3000 for a mid-range desktop computer anymore.

If the gov't cleaned up it's act I'd bet you'd hear a lot less of the "my taxes are going to waste".
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air can probably beat rubber tires.
Ask HN: Movie (or TV show) recap at any point in the movie
You know what is annoying? When you watch a movie halfway through and then stop. You come back to it a few days later but some of the details aren't fresh in your mind.

Wouldn't it be cool if Netflix had a recap service for what has happened so far at any moment in the movie.

Is it possible to pick up on important parts of video/sound/text(subtitles) and then automatically create a video collage or recap?
Which code of ethics? You're saying it as if there is and always been an objective code which says what is good and what is bad, and the choice is only to adhere to it or to be evil. I think in fact it's more like there are a tons of claims around, some true, some not, some important, some pretentious bullshit, some outright fraudulent - and one would have to navigate all this mess which also earning a living and maybe also working on stuff that is interesting. If you're unlucky, post-factum it may turn out the stuff you've worked on has horrible consequences - but I wouldn't say it is unethical unless you had full knowledge of what is going to happen. Which most people just don't.
E.g. read about Thomas Midgley, Jr., who worked on both CFCs and TEL. Both proved horrible in the hindsight.
An open version of the language exists for individuals to try on the cloud: https://www.wolfram.com/development-platform/
Somehow Japan seems to be an exception and they seem to like humanoid robots a lot more than Western countries. Even old people are comfortable with being helped by human-shaped robots from the depths of the uncanny valley.
Well the free-market is a-moral, and as humans we much prefer things to be moral; like not letting homeless people die or not letting banks swindle retirees. In limited situations, concentration of wealth can produce good things. Pure free-markets have never worked because they've never existed, probably because people don't want them to begin with. Obtain your free-market, socialist, communist, etc policy proposals at the government cafeteria. A well balanced meal is the best meal.
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the amount of time and effort I'm willing to spend to get start up stickers is probably about equal to the effort it takes to type in the address to mail them to. probably less.
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As I've said many times on HN over the years, there is currently no clear path to science fiction like "AI". To return your question, hopefully without being rude, is there any proof that AI capable of having a moral disposition will ever exist?

Andrew Ng (I believe) compared worrying about evil AI to worrying about overpopulation on Mars. Which is to say, the problem is so far off that it's rather silly to be considering it now. I would take it a step further and say that worrying about the implications of AGI is like thinking about Earth being overpopulated by space aliens. First we have to establish that such a thing is even possible, for which there is currently no concrete proof. Then we should start to think about how to deal with it.

Considering how hypothetical technology will impact mankind is literally the definition of science fiction. It makes for interesting reading, but it's far from a call to action.
I think a lot of it comes down to governments settling for crappy agreements. You do hear about businesses getting big tax breaks, then shutting down two years later. Smart agreements would allow the gov't to get some sort of restitution. Why not provide a future tax break? Put the taxes you'd normally pay in escrow and release them when the company meets it's obligations?

I just find the idea that private businesses are "taking advantage" of governments with these agreements. Really? A private company is pulling the wools over a sovereign power with the ability to create and enforce it's own laws?
It's more correctly known as a logistic curve. The Wikipedia page has quite a few references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
Ask HN: Do you have any patents?
Do you hold any patents?

I have a few ideas that I want to find out if they are a) patentable and b) already patented. Is the only way to hire a lawyer?

These would be along the lines of Amazon's 1 click to purchase patents or that other patent troll's shopping basket patent.

For clarity, I don't want to be a patent troll