skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any NFL fan will want to read the chapter about Jerry Rice, as the book puts it:

As every football fan knows, Jerry Rice was the greatest receiver in NFL history, and some football authorities believe he may have been the greatest player at any position. His utter dominance is hard to believe in a league where the competition is so intense and conducted at such a high level.
MarsEdit is the client most people mention as a Mac replacement for Windows Live Writer, but after using WLW for years and then trying MarsEdit, it didn't hold a candle to WLW. It's shocking--WLW is a free tool that hasn't had active development since 2012--but true.
It's applications are virtually limitless. Everything from manufactoring to gaming to content consumption can change with a good augmented reality device.
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Magic Leap has a patent application for "contact lenses" technology [1]

Imagine if instead of having to put somewhat ridiculous and obtrusive glasses in front of your face, you could just use contact lenses that had this augmented reality capability.

It would be ... life changing.

[1] http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
What is Sovereign? It isn't googleable for me.
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Novelists have a choice: stay in and write or get out and promote.

Or, with the internets, they can spend a bit of their spare time between deadline crunches and occasional promo trips blogging, tweeting, and answering fan email and blog comments. Or even podcasting or commenting on HN (cstross, e.g.).
dammit, now I really have to learn how to put contacts in...
The link to convnet benchmarks is a 30 day old issue, with numbers that look significantly worse than native CUDNNv2. Are there more up-to-date numbers?

I'm really looking forward to updated CUDNN and CUDA 7.5 support. My machines are all configured for Theano, and I've been sorta waiting to try TensorFlow until I can install it without downgrading everything, as it was tricky to get things working and I'd rather not reconfigure things I don't have to.
What makes it "a tax haven in its own right"? Is it subject to different taxation than the rest of London or the UK?
What annoys me about the Quakers isn't quite what you'd thought; it's that the Quakers preached that no one should be violent (up to and including preaching peaceful resistance against military invaders), and then they turned around and practiced violence. It's like if Martin Luther King had sponsored terrorism.

If you're going to preach pacifism to others, you should be pacifist at home. As it is, the Quakers feel like they were using pacifism as a weapon...
"They have lost the right to manage software, so we the creators, will manage it for them - on a perpetual plan."

I hope we drive creators like this out of business. You don't get to make decisions like that about the user and if you do you should be punished in your wallet and with public denunciation. This is the reason RMS was and is right about GPL.

I am increasingly convinced that people need to start open-sourcing their life now before it's too late and they get too locked into and used to the proprietary walled garden ecosystems.
They have something: "a crowdfunding page set up for Sa'fyre and the Dolder family had raised more than $102,000 as of Wednesday morning."
Yes, exactly this.
This is an abstraction problem and can be fixed easily. The team has to build an interface for the non technical folks at the organization exposing the bits of the API that they deem necessary and appropriate and then handle the complex stuff behind the scene communicating back and forth with other parts of the stack.
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Title feels a bit faceitous because the article's use case is more akin to a key value store, vs nosql in the schemaless, mongodb/cassandra sense.

Good write up though.
Along these lines - is there an example of a technology company that succeeded after raising so much money without proving their product in the market?
Excellent summary.

I'm really happy that Apple open-sourced Swift in this way. However, most of the ~400 pull requests are fixes for single typos. I hope that managing the GitHub issues won't become too much of a burden for the main developers (those with write access to the repository).
They've probably already taken some money off the table. :)
Tea provides much of the alertness of coffee and a sort of well-rounded relaxation unlike the beam like focus and occasional jitters from coffee - consuming both is best for a highly productive day.
That's what I figured. I wish there was some SaaS-ish fund/Kickstarter where multiple small investors could go together for this kind of thing for a nominal fee.
I think things could get a bit ambiguous when you consider something like the Stalinist purges. Those would seem to be an intersection of self-interest and self-righteousness. Although their morality was not theistic, they clearly believed that they must prevail over those who had wronged them.
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Remember, in the era dinosaurs the arrangement of Earth's landmass was radically different. Could it be possible where we've sampled the ancestors, they were actually on the island and whose evolution slowed down, and then later we discovered it's 'descendants' from the larger continent?
Didn't people say the same about Google Glass before it came out? I know, I know - this is very far from Google Glass. But all we have is a really broad concept and some flashy demo videos.

"It's going to change content consumption in a limitless way" doesn't really mean anything. Based on past predictions, the way we consume content is supposed to have been revolutionized about 100 times by now.
It's not hugely important because it tells us little of practice use. I mean, k nearest neighbors, given infinite data, can model any function as well. In practice, single layer neural nets are not very useful and don't do a good job of learning feature representations.
What do you mean finance doesn't create value? Do you believe good decision making to be valueless? Finance is what determines capital allocation and ensuring that capital is allocated smartly is of huge value.
This. For Tasktopus[1], I started with Electron, had a decent prototype in 2 weeks[2]. Then hit some issues - very rudimentary print support, large binary size, hard to protect source code. Decided to switch to Qt/QML. Very pleased with the result.

[1]https://gumroad.com/l/ADWm/tasktopus
[2]http://imgur.com/gallery/NZzEFKX
It seems, to me at least, that a rather obvious driver of this rising mortality could be something that occurred long ago, when many of these at-risk white men were young and careless teenagers and 20-somethings.

And what could that be, in the early-to-mid 1980's, that was a game changer for many of these "victims"?

Well, of course, the most obvious driver would the be huge crack cocaine epidemic of the 80's that pretty much hit like the proverbial ton-of-bricks and caught almost everyone in my generation by surprise.

I'll admit...I got caught up it too...so much so I spent 45 days in an inpatient treatment center in 1985, and flunked out of a highly regarded Engineering university in east central Florida with only 17 credits to go (out of 195).

Who knows the damage I've done to myself and my body with all the garbage I've ingested over the decades since...
No, but the multiyear period where Perl 5 development stalled waiting on Perl 6 and much of the community moved on might.
Is that a problem? It sounds like what you asked for.
> What do you do with people who do not agree with this norm? Are you justified in using force against them?

'Eliezer once wrote a pretty neat sci-fi story dealing with exactly that issue. I highly recommend it; it gives a pretty nice workout for one's moral intuitions.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/

> There are plenty of implications for startups too, many of whom would not exist without a different conception of social norms than mainstream society.

Now this is a pretty good euphemism for describing Uber's business model. Thank you.
It's not a general solution. That solution is only for the minority of motivated people who aren't 'incredibly effing lazy'. Also that was one component of what I wrote and it seems weird to pick on it, considering that most of the solutions offered were technical. Not to mention that right now the manual doesn't even exist, I'm told that lots of people did in fact read the manuals that came with their Commodore 64's.

I would also argue that Windows is partially to blame on the error messages front. I know when I used XP it would be completely libertine about giving me totally useless error messages. In fact it would give me error messages in hex. I learned as many other people learned to just click through an error message the moment I saw one, because the expected value of reading was too low.
That's right - sorry, we've obviously got to improve our copy! The quota is only applied to downloads - you can create as many tracks as you like and listen to them for free.
If you can fit the technology into contact lenses, you can presumably fit it into a normal-looking pair of glasses anyway.
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> Whatever you call it, it is in fact an outcome, and one with a demonstrated influence on other outcomes of interest

Maybe, but if you optimize only this metric (enrollment) while disregarding all others (graduation), then you'll soon get ineffective results and the "demonstrated" influence will no longer hold true - simply enroll minorities, regardless of their knowledge or intelligence, and make sure most fail the next year. Will you be satisfied? Will it still correlate with the desired outcome?
Is there an example of a technology company that took billions in that had succeeded by their product?

Most of these companies that get bought for billions or multi-billions just have eyeballs -- and little to monetize them.
Hey, I'm one of the maintainers for clj-rethinkdb. There's a few things I can discuss here.

> You need to rely on a "query-builder"

One of the beautiful things about RethinkDB is it's query language. It is basically S-expressions but in vectors instead of lists. This pairs really well with Clojure as Clojure is made up of S-expressions too. All of the drivers do use some kind of a query builder internally (as far as I'm aware) to build up the query data structure, then they call run on it. This process is just a bit more explicit in clj-rethinkdb, and has all kinds of benefits, like being able to make partial functions, and compose ReQL functions really nicely.

> The documentation is also quite incomplete

clj-rethinkdb follows the official JavaScript API quite closely. There were two options: create minimal docstrings in Clojure and leave the main documentation up to RethinkDB, or copy all of the documentation into clj-rethinkdb. There are a few issues with the second approach, the most obvious is how to efficiently copy it, but also that different versions of the RethinkDB server support different functions and options, so we'd need to keep compatibility notes, e.t.c. A really nice approach is in https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs/issues/710, and https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs/issues/803 but that requires more work.

All of that to say, at the moment the best option is to read the JavaScript docs first, then look at the Clojure docstrings for argument order or special notes.

> now that the official java client is out, should I use this from my Clojure app or keep using the other one?

It makes a lot of sense for clj-rethinkdb to take use of as much of the Java driver as possible. I haven't got any news yet, but it's likely we'll be at least poaching the connection and request/response handling.

I'd be happy to jump on a Hangout or text chat in https://gitter.im/apa512/clj-rethinkdb to help you get over any speed bumps using the clj-rethinkdb driver. Hearing a first time users experience would be really good.
"... as more of the world is explained — and ends up being not so divine after all ..."

I don't understand this sweeping statement by the author (who seems between the lines to be struggling with her own issues of faith and belief, and hence had to write a book about how gullible humans are).

Is she saying that something, once explained, can no longer be divine?
The usefulness of generics is easily demonstrated by Go itself — it has generics. It's only available to a bunch of magical functions (new, make, len, append), types ("chan", "map", arrays and slices are all generic types) and keywords ("range"). But it's there, in plain view.

Nobody can objectively argue that these aren't useful, or that they could have been implemented in a non-generic way without destroying the language. Wouldn't the utility transfer to the developer's own code?

As for "let Go do its thing", I would argue that it already has been done: Plenty of pre-existing languages don't have generics. The lack is always felt, including in Go's direct precursors (such as Modula-2 and Oberon, languages that people later hacked generics onto because their real-world ergonomy as designed by Wirth wasn't great).
> Is there a reason to learn Perl these days when we have Python?

Yes, the GIL - global interpreter lock (in python) is a reason if you are doing multithreaded stuff in a scripting language (which i think is a bad idea by definition because suddenly you are debugging problems in your program as well as the interpreter/runtime)

Perl 5 has an interpreter instance per thread, so it doesn't have a global interpreter lock. It will have other problems with threads though - you can easily run into deadlocks for example.
The thing NW.js offers is access to node.js libs through JavaScript. This isn't available through the native webview (for good reason! Very much a security risk)
> All the "we are a family" bs that any company pushes is generally crap.

And don't forget the all-too-common practice of the hiring manager saying (or strongly implying) something to the effect of, "I'm a bit troubled by all the questions you seem to have about compensation, especially with regard to how much your options would be worth if you only worked here for a few years. I really got the impression that you were committed to our mission and a good cultural fit."
Apologies for veering slightly off-topic and the pedantry.

Is 'cyber' actually used by technically competent folk now?
It's been cropping up alot with the 'cyber' crime, 'cyber' attacks happening in 'cyber' space recently, needing improved 'cyber' security skills.

Usually the term's reserved for either mass-media outlets, or people trying to scare you.
It's not a very hard problem to solve though. Just fix the typos, and don't introduce (many) new ones.

The people contributing those fixes are doing so because they want to contribute, and typo fixes are very easy to be certain about that it's an improvement (without a chance of introducing regressions, etc.).

Of course, as the easy-to-fix problems are eliminated, focus will shift to finding more meaningful ways to make improvements, or just using the language which has fewer problems as a result.
Ah, the oldest profession in the world: Fleecing Rubes.
When your product has been featured in nearly every science fiction movie of the last few decades does "the market" really need to be proven?
>What I never understood is why in these days we are not able to have a product that would be spread on the teeth (let's say a yearly application) to protect them from most of the major aggressions.

That's a sealant, which is something we do have. I've had a few of my biting surfaces sealed, and it seems to have cut down on the number of cavities. Just once, though, not every year.
Consider that Latin distinguished between equus [horse] and caballus [horse of low quality, old nag]. A Roman soldier who fought mounted on a horse was an eques. Latin never died out -- it is still with us today! But the Spanish word for a knight is caballero, a person who rides... what?
Episode Synopsis: Lisa Enckell from Approach joined us for a conversation to discuss their new project Approach. We started with a chat on how she started from a theatre producer and journalist to her previous role as the vice president for marketing in Wrapp working between Sweden and San Francisco. Then she shared how both her husband and her will be traveling across the world to live in 10 countries for 5-6 months that have the largest economic impact for the next 20-30 years, while spending time working with the startups and doing some angel investments in these countries. We also discussed her experience with the first stop in Indonesia and journey across other parts of Asia such as China, and finally wrapped up with her thoughts on women in leadership and gender diversity in work.
Part of the appeal of FF7 is the soundtrack. Make that dynamic, and you would've ruined FF7.

It's a good idea that makes sense for a lot of games. Just pointing out a counterexample.
It is a very niche market...But if you look back in technology history, you'll notice that the tech always seems to come before the applications.

There has already been usage of Oculus Rift headsets during surgical procedures and medical consultations, so that patients don't have to fly halfway around the world to see the specialist for their extremely rare disorder or whatever. I can see contact lens-based augmented reality being very helpful in a surgical procedure.
But in your examples derivative product depends on creative input which was put into original product. Music generating AI can be replaced by other AI created by different people but on the same principles so it produces similar music. Binaries produced by gcc don't bear GPL license and Adobe can not dictate license on pictures created in Photoshop.
Webkit renders your content blury if you translateZ or translateX
Sorry. What is the book you referring to?

Is it this one? Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
Yeah. There used to be a time, not that long ago, when people would routinely get their first dentures as a wedding gift.
The rules are different for different styles, and they're hard to get right, because musical structures are holistic, and multi-layered. The domain of interest is at least as long as a phrase, and can be as long as the entire piece - which means that potentially every note is related to every other, and the data structures you use have to understand how and why.

I'm finding the tunes the least successful element here. They sound like a fairly naive Markov sequence/chord spine mashup, with none of the character of really good tunes.

The sounds/production are much better. The drum parts are midway between the two.

>I find an interesting parallel between 1/2/4/8 repeating beats/parts in songs, and binary...

There's more to it than that.

Good algo-comp is PhD-level work. Kemal Ebcioglu, who made one of the best efforts to date, had to add a lot of hand-rolled heuristics to an expert system that was trying to produce classical counterpoint. He was last seen working for IBM research on compilers and architectures for parallelism - a very smart guy.

It's easy to underestimate how hard the problem is.
Do you need to demonstrate any kind of working model in order to patent something? As far as I'm aware, you don't. I look at this as an aspirational patent - frankly, exactly the kind of thing you'd see from a company with so much money they can spend all day dreaming.
The contact lenses themselves wouldn't. Patent suggest something external would send light at the lenses if I read right
If I were doing this, I'd be interested in finding ways to find out more about what people like and don't like in the generated songs and then use that to improve the algorithm.
Children committing crimes using computers is a real problem and should not be disregarded. See the last portion of "Reflections on Trusting Trust".

That said, this webpage is dangerous and misleading for a lot of reasons, but I'll try to focus on the problems that are actionable:

1. The "warning signs" the article enumerates are almost certainly not significantly correlated with youth who commit cyber crimes. In other words, the warning signs are probably just some made up bullshit someone with arbitrary biases came up with and put online. (Even if it accurately describes every youth convicted of cyber crime, that still doesn't mean that it's remotely likely to be correlated with cyber crime.)

In my mind, there's no material difference between teenagers who bully geeks and the author of this article -- both are identifying people who are different from them and then bullying them for being different. The only difference is that the author of this article has fooled themselves into thinking they have a justifiable excuse for painting with a broad brush.

2. The focus on computer security in the alternatives is misplaced. Especially considering the "warning signs". Far better to find the kid some bright mentors who match them intellectually in any field than to focus arbitrarily on computers -- much less computer security! A socially isolated student who's teaching themselves to program is not likely to do much more than roll their eyes if you explain to them that they could spend their life configuring firewalls and installing AV.
"In homogeneous groups, whether in the United States or in Asia, the opposite happened. When surrounded by others of the same ethnicity or race, participants were more likely to copy others, in the wrong direction. Mistakes spread as participants seemingly put undue trust in others’ answers, mindlessly imitating them. In the diverse groups, across ethnicities and locales, participants were more likely to distinguish between wrong and accurate answers. Diversity brought cognitive friction that enhanced deliberation"