skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writer's making a plea to be socially accepted. I'm explaining (a) why I think this is unlikely to ever happen; (b) the psychopathical elements I think exist in his argument; and (c) that the maternal / paternal instinct is as much of "a thing that can't be changed" as sexuality.

The reason for me to reply at all is because I wanted to capture these things civilly and rationally, even though I am appalled. He said his piece, I said mine, in an attempt to find an alternative to what another commenter called, I paraphrase: medieval and irrational.
2015: Year in review
Thanks a lot! I'll check it out again!
I am not the one asking, but seeing the community on HN, I thought it might be a good fit.
Watched Ex-Machina recently and I've got to drop it here:

I would not be wooed until the AI successfully seduce the human subject(s) involved.
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A better option might be to talk to product managers in your area in person.
This view is a bit too sanguine --- in general we really have lost the ability to engage deeply with printed matter. Those students who continually monitor facebook while doing their assignments are just phoning it in, and the poor quality of their work shows it. Declining academic standards are real. Students aren't getting an education for their money.

But.

The internet is the new Forum. What the students do there isn't inherently valueless. So while declining academic standards are bad news for the academy, they're also not relevant to whether the students are able to participate in their culture and in civic debate. The problem is that, online courses notwithstanding, the humanities generally fail to take online fora seriously enough.
> No one is proposing that the IRS be dismantled

lots of people propose this every year, including viable presidential candidates.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
The things the Egyptians actually verified hold true today. The rising of Sirius would correlate with the flooding of the Nile if not for the Aswan dams, for example. Things don't stop being true just because our opinions about them change: If something made a correct prediction, it will keep making those correct predictions within its realm of applicability.

I won't bore you with an exegesis of how accurate the current Standard Model is when it comes to making predictions about lepton and hadron behavior. I'll simply emphasize that the behavior it's good for won't change tomorrow even if all our opinions change. That means any new theory will have to make all the same predictions about all the same behavior, just like Special Relativity has to agree with Newtonian mechanics in the low-speed realm.

I'll close with an apposite link: "The Relativity of Wrong" by Asimov

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

> [W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
This is true only in aggregate.
In that case, you might have a bunch of fun combining your interests implementing this paper: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/papers/ahausner_SIGGRAPH2001.pdf

For rejection sampling, btw, there is an infinite variety of ways to do it. Rejection can be used to generate a Poisson distribution, by enforcing a minimum radius from other points, which has a somewhat similar result to a converged Lloyds algorithm. But you can also sample randomly from the 2d brightness function that is an image. You can also combine those two things to get well spaced points whose density is proportional to brightness, by enforcing a minimum radius that is proportional to brightness. (Or inverse brightness!) And best of all, it's ridiculously easy to implement. For an extra good time, you can learn how to importance sample that distribution directly, an alternative to rejection sampling that doesn't waste any points.

Glad to hear you're digging it, I love this kind of stuff! Send me a link if/when you get some results with Lloyd's.
Yep, progress bar and desired temp eta.

Maybe add a 'turbo' button too :-D
Get at least one, but hopefully two, signed publisher agreements for board game designs. I already have one prototype that's been getting playtested by a major publishing company. I've got two other prototypes that are probably two revisions away from being able to submit them to publishers.

I also want to make a 3D (and hopefully VR) version of my old strategy video game design, Proximity, and release it on as many platforms as possible.

Make a small app using Swift and self-publish that so I can prove to employers that I have Swift experience (I've tinkered with it enough to get a good handle on it but haven't finished anything) and maybe get back into mobile development full-time again (currently doing ASP.NET development). I have a good amount of Objective-C experience but no one seems to care about that anymore.

Finally, I have a novel with a second draft that's nearly finished that I'd like to turn into an ebook form, get some private readers, and do one more quick revision before sending it off to publishers. Because of how screwed up book publishing has gotten, I may end up self-publishing, but I know if I do that it's only going to make like, 100 sales at best, so I'd rather try to find a publisher first.

If I get all that accomplished next year it will have been a pretty good year. I got a lot started in 2015 but nothing got finished.
* Finish a book I have started a few days ago and release it under Creative Commons.

* Finish up a paper I've been working on for the last couple of months.

* Get a contract extension.

* Finish up the reading challenge for the next year (I've failed miserably this year with 16/25 books).

Also, I have two projects in my hand that seem more than interesting and I can't wait to start them as soon as the holidays finish.
If you are smuggling you don't go through border crossing stations. You go the illegal route.
The site has gotten so much better over the years, adding the ability to have shipping at checkout was a major hurdle. It has seemed like they've really been investing in development over the past 2-3 years. Everything was a bit stale and then really started to show signs of life. A lot of it's is like Wiki since it's user submitted and curated but man if it isn't slicker than other options. It also destroyed early sites like GEMM.

I've always been a big fan of their transparency and support as well, you can get downloads of the entire database, freely available, on a regular basis with no hassle. They know it's not about the data, but the community and experience.

Weird seeing them on HN, seems like 10 year old, moderately profitable companies aren't as common around here.
From August: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/08/18/inside-lyft...
That's a lot of pieces just to build web apps with JS.

It wasn't that long that we didn't need any of this stuff and I'm not sure that anything people are building with Angular/Ember/etc. is sufficiently more advanced than what came before it.
Last year, January 3rd, I started to rewrite one of my iOS projects thinking it would take some one day or two. The last 10% has taken the whole year. Obviously not working on it every day, and "burn out" is included.
Silicon Nanoparticles Could Make Magnesium the Next Aluminum
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A nice little coda to CISA being passed in the omnibus bill.
> It is my understanding that he was beaten by police officers, and the randomness of the twitter feed was the result of head trauma

Unfortunately that does not appear to be true.

The cause of death is not known at this stage, but it is not
believed to be suspicious. A spokesperson for Docker said
it was a "private matter."

According to the San Francisco police, officers were called
to Steiner and Union St in the city at 11.30pm on Saturday, December 26,
following reports of a man trying to break into a home – that man was
identified as Ian Murdock. He reportedly fought with the cops, and was
given a ticket for two counts of assault and one for obstruction of
an officer. The techie had been drinking, according to the police logs.
A medic arrived to treat an abrasion to Murdock's forehead, and he was
released so he could be taken to hospital.

A few hours later, on Sunday, December 27 at 2.40am, police were
called again to reports of Murdock banging on the door of a neighbor
at the very same block. A medic arrived to treat him for any injuries.
Officers then took Murdock to the county jail where he was held in a cell.

Murdock was bailed later that day, on Sunday, after a bond,
said to be $25,000, was paid. He died the next day.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_f...

It's clear something may have been wrong prior to any incidents occurring (why was Ian out in the streets alone, very drunk, trying to break into a home?).
I've had good results with SSE in just the situation that GP describes: client actions come in as POSTs and the results of those are communicated to everyone via SSE. In most cases we don't even care about the 204 or whatever. If it's not on SSE then it didn't happen. b^)
Perhaps more important to note: are, and its not a secret.

Members of government in general have very little expectation of privacy when it comes to their communications, to the point that it's a significant issue with Hillary Clinton's private email server that the mail is unrecoverable in some cases for auditing purposes.
eating better especially when I eat out and helping others to eat better.

Trying to finish bestfoodnearme.com and give it a new look with pictures to help in this endeavor.
> Kids today can listen with one ear, read with one eye... Do their research with one tab and chat on Facebook with another.

Can you code with one tab open to Facebook chat? Because the overwhelming consensus here on HN is that coding requires concentration and lack of interruptions. So does learning.

Technology doesn't change the basic biological processes of learning, and the fact is that technology has proven itself to be a fantastic failure as applied to education. Remember the "multi-media in every classroom" shit that failed in the 1990's? Same thing with iPads today. Research even shows that taking notes on a computer doesn't help you retain material as well as writing it on paper. Until we invent neural downlinks Matrix-style, educational technology peaked with the invention of the printed book 500 years ago.
> Elected officials represent the will of the people in a democratic government.

Only if you assume that the voter is rational and informed.
If you deploy websockets in your application, either make your application can use some fallback like long polling or make sure you don't have any enterprise customers. They tend to have pesky proxies that mess with traffic. Sometimes websockets simply doesn't work, but sometimes they initialize correctly but no data passes through(!). It's a mess.
A similar system is already available at the Wir bank [1].

For a short analysis, see [2].

[0] http://wir.ch/ (Their website is not available in english)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-WIR-Bank-work
Is it better or not, for Indians, to have this or not? It sounds like a significant advantage to Indians, and to Facebook, for this to go through.
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> I've always felt that one of the more corrupt aspects of the UK security state was the exemption granted to Parliament from the kinds of intrusions other citizens lack protections against

The Wilson doctrine was recently found by courts to not having any legal force [1]. As it should be, as it was just a promise made by the then Prime Minister, which was never put through parliament. What is more astonishing is that MPs have believed successive governments would adhere to it - and ensure the security agencies adhered to it - without the force of law.

Astonishingly Theresa May then claimed in parliament that the Wilson Doctrine "remains unchanged". Which I guess is technically true, in that it has never actually applied, but at the same time it was double-speak of the highest order.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Doctrine#2015_Investiga...
So? There's no shortage of places where hundreds of people gather, where it wouldn't be out of place to have a large package or bag. Adding a few more at airports really isn't a big deal.

Not that I agree with all the "security", but that argument against it isn't very convincing.
Why do androids sometimes give us the heebie jeebies?
Read my second sentence, the one that starts with "My guess is that...". That's just a guess though.
WW3+EARTH+IN+PERIL,+-+YouTube
Sure, but even that doesn't work when there's the right combination of being too weak and the shelf being too heavy.
I don't know. I'm only 26. Still it hit me harder than Jobs' death. I used to own a PowerBook in high school / first uni year. At that time I was already using Debian on my servers. Since then I also use it on my laptops.

I chose Debian because it is technically awesome, and also because it is politically awesome. Be it the Debian manifesto, Debian's social contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines, the way the Debian project is organized (e.g., the use of the Schulze/Condorcet method for electing the project leader), etc. All of this is the result of the work of the many people in the project/community that Murdock created with his ideals.

I thought that would count for something for everyone, especially among HN folks.
There is absolutely no reason not to disclose the number of outstanding shares. Failure to do so means the denominator in the equation can be anything. One or one billion. At that point you have to value the entire option nonsense at $0 total, or even negative given the tax implications. It takes all the truth out of the statement "our cash compensation is below market because of our generous option grants." If I can't figure out the monetary value of the options at the given strike price, I have no way of knowing if they're generous or not.
Please, let's don't do this. Is it an Internet thing? "why hasn't Obama said anything yet?", "why did the Muslims not distance themselves?", "why is there a national holiday for x but not y".

Symbols are cheap, but not very important. Let's not make the absence of symbols into a huge thing. State your grieve, I'll grieve with you, but let's not get angry at other people who don't show their grieve the way you expected it.
I'm not arguing for his post, I'm just offended by your casual implication that "nothing but a managerial role" is an insignificant contribution to the software world for a project like the linux kernel.
>>Quantum mechanics ... allows us to describe elementary particles and fundamental forces, to understand chemical reactions, and to construct lasers, transistors, and computers.

What? So much for purifying the discussion. I know a little about the history of electronics and do not remember any discussion of quantum mechanics by those building the first computers, lasers or transistors. These were rather practical inventions based on easily observable experimentation.

The field of quantum physics certainly allows us to better understand how and why these devices work, and to improve them, but it is not responsible for their existence.
In other words, acknowledge that someone did some work, and actually ask if they're using the latest version, and vitally - acknowledge that they read the correspondence and that upgrading will address the issue.

"Update your software" is often a BS answer that can introduce many other issues or breakages in production systems. Without a clean "downgrade" path (which many companies don't provide) you run a risk of introducing more problems.
Direct link to Github: https://github.com/getguesstimate/guesstimate-app
I'd like to expand my knowledge in machine learning/AI. I am not that great at math so this will push my boundaries a bit. I am on chapter 2 of this: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap2.html

Ultimate goal is to be able to intuitively see valuable places where machine learning would actually be useful in solving problems people have in the world. I'd like to be able to debate ideas with people that know ML better than I do and not be completely ignorant. And then apply them to my startup or a future company.
> Absolutely monstrous. But also not something that commonly comes up when people talk about Britain or even about the legacy of British Colonialism. Too often the face of Colonialism is modernity, efficient legal institutions, railroads, etc. Not these horrors, which continued in various forms up until the end of empire after WWII.

How do the positives and negatives compare to self-governing nations of the same time period? Life in those eras was (to a modern mind) unimaginably cruel, and plenty of rulers plundered their own populations into starvation.
If you think undergraduate electives are "The Humanities" you're part of the problem you decry.
Right, the key difference is that children are below the age of consent. I was just comparing how both were given unfair negative stereotypes for having an orientation different from the norm.
Exactly my point. Taxes don't need to be raised.
Every offer I've ever gotten that included an equity/options component omitted key information that I would have needed to have even a fuzzy understanding of the offers value. When I asked for details it was like pulling teeth to get the information if they would disclose it at all and often they would only do so verbally and not in writing. I turned them all down because that sort of thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Nothing, I launched, but I need to refine it and make it look better: bestfoodnearme.com
I've already built it and I am finalizing website copy, static pages, etc before launching.

I built network 'canaries', for lack of a better word, that do a couple things.

1) They emulate popular services, Web Server, FTP Server, MySQL server.

2) They provide you with information and alert you when other machines talk to it (for example, it will give you information from a POST request on a page that has a password field).

They are essentially network trapdoors that let you find people doing things they shouldn't on your network and are all precompiled ELFs, which make deployment super easy.

I want this to provide me with real revenue (my 2016 goal). If you have input for me please let me know what you think.
Never attribute to maliciousness what can be better attributed to stupidity.

I've worked with managers who simply couldn't comprehend that a particular issue was a problem for the engineering department. No amount of examples, demonstrations, or complaints helped. It wasn't an issue for them, so the issue didn't exist.

Their story changed later when they ran into the issue. It was now a problem that had to be fixed immediately.

I would explain very slowly that yes, this was a problem. And that they had been made aware of it months ago. And that they had opposed fixes to the problem.

The response, of course, was blank incomprehension. They just couldn't understand that they were incapable of understanding something.

Needless to say, I don't work with those kind of people any more.
It seems like it wouldn't be much more code to just use an AJAX POST for the hash and have the server reply whether it has the hash or not, followed by the chunk upload again over AJAX. It would probably be slower and less data efficient, but I don't see how it would be much more code.
Implementing a common idea with new tech is pretty good way to get a handle on where your understanding needs patching up though.
Assuming you followed a professional’s advice I would really not worry about this stuff. Unless you make a lot of money or do something really strange your unlikely to get audited. Also, they don't generally go back very far even with an audit.

As to stock options they are best treated as lotto tickets. Unless you think the company is very likely to get sold or go public at a high valuation you’re generally better off ignoring them.
No, they always represent the will of the people. Even if the will is irrational.
Here is the most up to date version of the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07909.pdf

The questions on the IQ test are very specific. Word analogies, identifying antonyms, synonyms, and which word isn't like the others.

The method they use is similar to word2vec. That is, it does statistics on millions of words and how they occur in sentences to try to create a vector representation of it. These vector representations include a lot of semantic information about the words and what they mean, which makes it possible for the computer to do these tests automatically.

They then compared it's performance on these questions with people they paid on Mechanical Turk. And the computer did better.

This is really interesting that it can beat humans, and shows some understanding of the relationships between words. However it doesn't mean it's intelligent, or even close.

It also doesn't mean IQ tests are worthless. What they measure is variation between humans. People that do better on these questions, also tend to do better on other unrelated exercises. Like puzzles, memory challenges, or even reaction times. That these things are correlated suggests there is some single underlying factor which determines some of the variation of mental ability in humans, and we call that IQ, and can measure it.

However computers have a totally different set of factors that determine their strengths and weaknesses, and applying human tests tells us nothing. It doesn't tell us that the tests are worthless because dumb computers can pass them, because it still correlates with intelligence in humans. It doesn't mean the computer is intelligent, because some of the tests might be beatable with clever algorithms like this, that obviously aren't very general.
If you are right then this can be mitigated by two additional options passed to objcopy, namely --add-section to create an empty section and --set-section-flags to adjust the flags of this empty section. I'm just recreating the section/flags that I see in a normally compiled file.

$ make
cc -Wall -Wextra -ggdb -Os -c -o testme.o testme.c
objcopy -I binary -O elf64-x86-64 -B i386:x86-64 \
--rename-section .data=.rodata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents \
--add-section ".note.GNU-stack"=/dev/null \
--set-section-flags ".note.GNU-stack"=contents,readonly \
/etc/passwd passwd.o || (rm -f passwd.o ; exit 1)
cc testme.o passwd.o -o testme

(https://github.com/vogelchr/objcopy_to_carray)

Without --add.../--set section:

$ readelf -lW testme
...
GNU_STACK (...) RWE 0x10

With --add.../--set-section:

$ readelf -lW testme
...
GNU_STACK (...) RW 0x10
Like many others here, I plan to finish some things I've started before. In particular:

1. Complete an open-source 2-D RPG engine in C#

2. Write a full-length science fiction novel

3. Increase the number of tutorials/training videos I create for my site and YouTube

I also have an idea forming around an in-person workshop to introduce teens to programming. I'd like to do this in Paraguay, for less-privileged kids, and be able to provide them with a laptop/netbook. But, that may end up being a 2017 project.
>the psychopathical elements in the argument

What exactly is psychopathic about their argument? You say they "don't understand" why parents are afraid, but of course they do. They're just asking you to reconsider whether that fear is rational, and pointing out the harm it does to them.

>the maternal / paternal instinct is as much of "a thing that can't be changed"

The instinct is just to protect children from danger. The recognition of danger is higher level, so it is something that can be changed.
Tell us what your book is about
Thought you guys would like this