skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, me too (the game part, anyway). I memorized all the correct answers to the questions in LSL through trial and error, lol. Good times!
It looks great and simple. Looks very useful, congrats.
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Wrote this in the other thread:

Here is an Amazon comment left by Wright.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVvsxDOVAAANOD-.png:large

"Silicone" Valley? "Assumed to the centre of everything"?
Color me skeptical that this guy is Satoshi.

(source: https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/674393417019883520 )
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Andrew or David? We've done some work with you before (Vector 5).
Yes, but did you hire the recruiter?

I think they are usually hired by the companies, or "loyal" to the companies, because that is were the money come from.

Would be a fun experiment to hire somebody to sell yourself. Then again, maybe that is what is usually called a "personal coach"?
"Your request triggered a firewall alert."
Same story in Bulgaria, except 6502s instead of Z80s.
And where do those employees find the money to sue the corporation?

Don't forget that it doesn't prevent the creation of toxic working environments.
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It's not a technical.problem -- people using a service offered by another with conditions in violation of those conditions is a social problems for which remedies have been available for some time. It's one of the major types of things for which the civil.justice system exists.
"Don't make the mother an enemy"

What does that even mean?
Civil courts, and the laws which they apply, are both products of government. It would be extremely odd to characterize them otherwise
The 'resources' section of the post has 2 links, e.g. www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/e/03-547.pdf goes through several rather clever transformations of (spatial and/or time) variables to improve accuracy.
fewer errors ;-)

Proving your point!
Just me or does that guy seem to lack humility, I don't know something about the way he wrote that.
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I never knew Firefox OS existed. Maybe they should've marketed it better?
I suppose it could be referencing the fact that the mother buys the games and allows her kids to play them. Making an enemy of her means no game time?
So Google without good AI would be still as good because of the neat interface? Self driving cars would be just as good without good AI?

I get what you mean, and it might be true for a lot of products. But there are also products were good AI is the core.
Actually cartoons have definitely moved towards acceptance and understanding of feelings in the past few years. Shows like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Gravity Falls come to mind.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785.
That is such a smart long-term strategy given their target audience that I'm amazed I haven't heard it before.
Man, wtf are you spouting. You imply that MS/Intel are out to get the Russian government or something? The only thing Russia is dependent on when it comes to IT is the English language, lol, and that may be more of an advantage than disadvantage.

Struggles to get out? Well, hey, good luck with that, maybe you'll get out and never be able to visit Reddit, Imgur, Hacker News and other Western shit.
There's a misconception here: deep neural networks are used to learn grammar models, or the features for grammar models and so on, but the predominant model of natural language is still based on grammars.

Google "Stanford parser". This is a state of the art natural language parser and like all parsers it relies on a grammar. The grammar it uses is a dependency grammar, a different grammar than the phrase structure grammars proposed by Chomsky and also one that is built in a probabilistic manner, but a grammar nonetheless.

Also, it's really not the case that you get better performance out of neural network models of language, let alone "human like performance". We're very far from that still.
is there a book that outlines the analogy between corporates and nature?
Finance companies do have incredible technical and regulatory challenges that require good programmers. There are a number of strong programmers who work in finance and are indeed attracted to some of the challenges around finance. I have worked across a number of banks and each has had its own challenges and I have worked with talented and motivated programmers working to solve these.
"I do not want to be your posterboy. I am not found and I do not want to be."

Why oh why can't journalists just respect his wishes!

"People love my secret identity and hate me."

It certainly seems that the Australian police aren't on particularly good terms with him at the moment.

If the Australian government takes control of the Tulip Trust bitcoin stash, the world has to deal with a cryptocurrency being managed by politicians.

Whoever gets them, I hope that the bitcoins remain off the market until at least 2020 as Kleiman wanted.

Which makes me think - could the bitcoins from Kleiman be considered "inherited", and thus subject to inheritance regulations?

Another hypothetical thought: when the original bitcoin creator mined the first bitcoins, they were worthless. They only gain value if someone else projects value onto them. They're not being used. Imagine they're a form of trading derivative (e.g. stock options): the right to trade in future. Are those taxed? Anyhow, it seems very complicated, and confiscating personal computers with a whole host of other files seems extreme.
Meat, especially ground meat, greys pretty quickly. Supermarket meat is typically chemically treated to stay red longer and look attractive on the shelf.
A great article about how a self organising company actually gets organised!
> And where do those employees find the money to sue the corporation?

Often from lawyers who work on contingency and then take the bulk of the damages.
> 3D Pokemon MMO

This is massive multiplayer IRL

Which I think is much more interesting. Imagine kids coming back from vacation and trading all the pokemon they captured in foreign countries.
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/about-us/financials/

here it says that 31% of the funding comes from government/corporate support;

Also they don't seem to be making that much money; them bloody capitalists are rather poor themselves. I guess Dora is doing better in terms of finances - they must have more limited expenses.

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/wp_install/wp-content/uploads/...
Read http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ to know more about him, or at least how he is perceived by other people.
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I've read HN for several years and thought it was a good source for news regarding programming/developing/upstarts and general new technical stuff. I had a hard time to read all interesting articles that was linked to.

But now, most high rated articles are none of those areas. Usually there are one or two articles worth reading.

Top today for example are:
Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer (seattletimes.com)

How cash is carried across Congo (economist.com)

The Human Hemisphere (radicalcartography.net)

China's Gold Army (bullionstar.com)

Guide to the Largest Ocean Carriers in the World (flexport.com)

etc.

Sure these articles could be fun to read. But then I rather find them in some other forum such as reddit. But these articles has fairly little to do with "Hacker News" to me.

Just saying...
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"Does anyone want to bet as to which will gain self-awareness first: Wolfram Alpha or Wolfram, Stephen?"

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As the articles say, he has been under investigation for a while for his bitcoin mining work (which as far as I can tell is not under dispute). The Australian government has decreed that all bitcoin "investments" should be taxed for capital gains [1] so he could be up for a huge tax bill on his paper "profits" even if he was just mining back in the early days.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Gen/Tax-treatment-of-crypto-c...
http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie...

It seems like when you put everything together that Craig Steven Wright + Dave Kleiman + unknown associates = Satoshi. This honestly seems like a much simpler conclusion to me than the alternative which is that someone (whether a group or a person) went to the trouble of concocting extremely elaborate and convincing evidence for the purpose of framing Wright as Satoshi.

Hopefully the media didn't out the wrong guy this time (although in retrospect: I'm not even sure why Gwern thought it wise to send the leaks to the press. I would have thought that he would sympathize with Satoshi wanting to stay anonymous given that he writes under a pseudonym himself...)
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Yeah, I agree. In the meantime there is an awesome re-implementation in Python called Mathics.
It's also fun to hack some of the not-yet implemented Mathematica commands (I did that last summer).

https://github.com/mathics/Mathics
I am working on it. Do you want a preview?
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Thanks, this is our culture. We're strongly influenced by the nature.
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I'm writing from my buggy, crashing ZTE Open C... And this is the final straw: I've had it Mozilla.

It's not me, it's you. You were the symbol of informatics progress in the right direction, but now you're just another pusher of one size fits all crapware. Hope this changes again because we need a good guy in this space.

Now to finally remove the slow, crashing behemoth that has become Firefox...
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I don't know if that would help, but what I really like about the it is how close it feels to the whole Xerox PARC vision of software development.
One thing I'm curious about is how he actually ended up homeless. Before the conviction, it seems like he was doing very well (BMW, townhouse).

Why did he not have sufficient savings to survive after he got out of prison?

(Not trying to blame him for anything, trying to plan for my own life. I strive to maintain sufficient savings so that I would never be homeless even if I never worked again.)
True. You need the money upfront.

It's happening to me, I'm moving to Berlin and needed some money to do it.
A mathematica license costs $2745 or $1000/year for “professional” use, $300/year for “hobbyist” use, or $115 for students. Every serious university in the world and a large number of technical businesses need to pay for site licenses.

If it were open source, many more people around the world would have access, but Wolfram’s cash cow would dry up.

Thankfully, open source programming environments keep improving, and between R, Python/Numpy/Scipy, Julia, etc., platforms like Mathematica and Matlab become less relevant every day.
I'd not heard of Twoo before, but they've just landed on my list of companies not to be trusted. Their response is almost worse than the lack of SSL.
> Because the code executes on an unknown machine in an unpredictable physical environment, many features we might expect to see in a programming language are missing. This might be what he meant by "shallow".

Without knowing how much more there is to know about biology, how can we expect to see certain features or not? What about tasks that are supremely efficient in biology but resource intensive "in silico"? I'm having a hard time fathoming biology as shallow in any way. The fact that it's bootstrapped and live, that you don't get to restart the computer or cut the flow of information makes it all the less shallow to me, unless I'm misunderstanding how that word was used.
Making just shy of $100k in Seattle could be tricky to build up a lot of savings and live in a desired/fancy area with an expensive car. The median home price is well north of $500-600k.
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Thanks for sharing:) I read this because of my concern with our Mother nature, my interest is to find out what are the other resources of energy that will help minimize the problem with our global warming.
Im the co-founder and this is inspired by the tech driven co-living concept of HackerHouse based in Silicon Valley. We are trying to build one in the eastern surburb of Paris near of the 19th and we've already been already approach by major actors of the french tech industry. Will you be down to live in a HackerHouse to bootstrap your company or your Software Developer Career?
and then he would get stolen his fiat immediately
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Have a cup of coffee and then try reading the parent comment again. The parent very clearly attributes the blame to the Russian states political decision to "halt development of their own original systems and start to copy".
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So you want every developer to produce rpm, deb, msi, depot, bff, pkg, dmg, <place missing package format here> taking into consideration OS specific paths and configuration settings for every single library, specially for packages common across OSes?!!
Can you briefly run through how this will engineer an inflationary spiral? With no information on the replacement ratio this offers vs existing social security costs, and no indication of how it would be funded in a full implementation I can't see the inevitability.
And I believe in gravity influenced perception. Verticality isn't wired the same way as horizontality in our minds.
Thank you "wisdom of the crowds"
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Well that sucks.

I desperately want to drop Android and was hoping Firefox OS would continue to mature and improve.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10696362
All it does is git clone tagged network git repos and invoke swiftc.

No support for tests yet, beyond ignoring folders called 'Test'. It can't even support local file paths at the moment.

Certainly, watch this space, but there's hardly anything to be excited about here yet.
Is the language itself that interesting anyway? I think 99% of the appeal is the algorithms and datasets they provide, which I seriously doubt they would ever open.
Yes, and HN is so much better because of it.

This is not "Startup News" anymore. I wouldn't read that.
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Bizarre that this opinion got downvoted, but I agree. It would be nice to have a thriving ecosystem of mobile OS's. I'm a WP user also and will be going Android for my next go round, maybe iOS after that. Would have been nice to try Firefox OS after that.
I wrote a bookmarklet for this a year ago and have since been using it every day: http://www.sagargv.com/proj/flathn/
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The article is useful because it outlines many different ways in which to monitor the performance of a system, many of which are better than just looking at the mean and P99. However, the main thesis that "an average of a percentile is meaningless" is just plain wrong. If the distribution is fixed, then averaging different P99 measurements will give you the best possible estimate of what P99 is in the population (as opposed to your sample.) If the distribution is moving (you're making performance improvements or your user base is growing) then a moving average of a percentile will move with it.
I forgot what the guidelines were so looked them up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
You're right, though if he's very capable at security stuff, there's probably also other types of freelancing work that he'd be capable of doing.
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I suspect any savings he did have would have gone to his legal defense. It's an all or nothing thing, you wouldn't hold back if you were wrongly accused and had everything to lose (as demonstrated).
If I had an ongoing investigation into someone suspected of tax evasion and suddenly the internet at large revealed his identity, I'd be sure to raid asap - Wright was probably not aware that the tax office was investigating him, but I'm sure that if he is Satoshi and sits on a million BTC, and his identity is revealed, I'd try and GTFO. Which wouldn't be in the tax office's interest.

Not sure if the above makes sense. The two are probably related.
So someone programming in Java at IBM or Oracle with a mostly academic experience would be all but completely unhireable by YC companies.

Incidentally, it was precisely that kind of programmers who built Watson at IBM, possibly the most impressive software of the past decade, which is not only both academically and technically challenging, but also brilliantly packaged and marketed and probably very lucrative to boot.

The exact same is true of the Graal team at Oracle, who have made what is probably the biggest breakthrough in compiler technology in the last decade, and might well power many important technologies in the near future (Ruby, server-side JS, R) as well as commercial Oracle products.
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It's the evolution of the community. When Reddit first started, it was mostly tech related; however, now it's filled with every conceivable topic you can imagine. I find HN to have much better comments than what you would find in Reddit.
There are guidelines for HN - the guiding light is "satisfies ones intellectual curiosity"

The link is at the bottom of the page.

The problem is ... Whose intellect?
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Oceans are the new frontier. Will we see floating cities, deep mines, etc, become a reality ?
Software is transforming so much of the world that a modern discussion about "hacking" almost has to include these items. Maybe there could be some kind of tagging / category feature
The longest ones are approx 400 m long. The Nimitz class which is the largest aircraft carrier class in the world is 333 m.

As to standardisation then no. A certain number of each (typically owner specific) type is built, and within that type the vessels are more or less identical.
I said that I care and that I hope that I am not a customer of businesses that track me and contribute to google's tracking. In that case I am 1 in 1000 and if a site doesn't work without GA and I don't have to use it (as in to file my taxes have to) then I won't I will purchase from a competitor.

EDIT
Most people do notice and do care this has come up in countless conversations. They just accept it as a necessary evil that they can't do anything about and accept (wrongly) that they as a individual can't change the world.
See my comment above re:

https://github.com/ianmiell/alert-on-change/blob/master/READ...
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Please suggest tool(s) to make task management and communication effective within team and customers.
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Actually since the earlier 90s there are mathematical proofs showing how to generate infinite velocities using 4 objects. (In the Newtonian framework)
It staggers me that if you unloaded the largest one at Southampton Dock and laid all the containers end to end, the line would stretch to London. That's at least an hour on a fast motorway by car.
> One is that A/B testing can only lead to a local maxima in the best case scenario.

What you mean is: it can only lead to a local maximum in the worst case scenario. Even blind guesses can occasionally lead to a global maximum, and A/B testing is better than a blind guess.
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What info does Google get on your customers in exchange for your free use of their service?
As an adult, it is really tough appreciate shows that I have enjoyed as a child when a remake of it appears. Just don't seem to get the same sense of excitement when watching it.
Would be great to hear some feedback :)
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Both PS4 and Xbox One network documentation is bordering on useless. I've had a case once where the method copied straight from documentation wouldn't work, we spent half a day debugging it, no dice - we sent an email to a developer support address, they got back with "oh actually, it's not implemented, sorry".
Here's a list of the longest ships - I was surprised to see how much larger the largest cruise liner is to the largest aircraft carrier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_longest_ships
In a roundabout way, this is related to the big data world we live in, even though background checks & credit checks are not new.

From the perspective on a motor insurance company, for example, they don't need to serve everyone. If they can classify the world of potential drivers as high, medium & low risk, that's enough. Whether or not an individual falls into one of these categories "incorrectly" is not important, they're average figures and as long as they are "correct" for the people who take out a policy all is well. For an individual that ends up in the "high risk" category, it's inequitable and unfair. They might share characteristics with "truly" high risk individuals but not in ways that actually affect their chances of causing on an accident they just happened to be in a statistical cluster.

The BMI is an interesting example too. Weight bands for height works fine when looking at a population. You can fall into an obese weight/height band by being heavily muscled or broad bodied. Mike Tyson at his youngest, slimmest prime would have been classed as obese and very obese later in his career. Possibly "extremely obese" between matches. This is a good example because you can easily se how BMI works well enough for evaluating insurance risk but not for being "fair" for our puny human defections of fairness.

We are moving to a world of more data and more data based decision making. Online advertising for example, has transformed a big industry to one that is mostly driven by data based decision making.

The side effects of this will be many. There are certainly efficiency gains because that statistics are predictive. Having been arrested or serving time is probably predictive of risk, even if a conviction is overturned. There are also feedback loops that we don't want, biases and "traps." A homeless person is obviously high risk in that he shares measurable characteristics with other homeless people and they (almost by definition) actualize those risks.

There are real society-affecting risks here. It could become more expensive to be poor, as credit and financial services becomes a bigger part of how we purchase things.
I get your point. The notion of designating a broken implementation as "the standard" makes me queasy, ever since IE6 happened.

But still, I would have much preferred if the GP would have started their comment with "yes, but" instead of "sorry, no". That would have made the distinction much clearer.
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