skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FBI's 'Unprecedented' Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers
You're positing that there are less books from the 1990s available because less books were written then than in the 1800s?
>Does each student have their preferred learning style? I can't say that. But I strongly suspect that teaching lessons in varied styles has a positive impact.

You seem to be implying that belief in learning styles would lead to more varied lessons. But couldn't it do the opposite, trying to sort students and feed each group the same type of lesson as much as possible?
yea, lets build something.

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https://xkcd.com/384/

The biggest problem with the Drake equation is that we are using a sample of one, it also doesn't take into account great filters that will prevent the development of intelligent life, technological civilizations and interstellar ones.
Our technology jumped from sticks and stones to interplanetary rockets in 10,000 or so years after sticking to those sticks and stones for about 200,000 - 250,000 years.
We still have had people living in the Stone Age during ww2 and some still do today.
We probably know less about how a civilization might develop into a technological one than we know about how life can evolve.
I don't know, I had them running on EC2 instances with a million other things.

Hipster Domain Finder could probably run for $10 a month on DO, and 99 Haskell for $20 a month.
The source files are exclusively Sketch, and Photoshop/PSD is absent. The UI design community has been shifting for more than a year, Apple started releasing UI templates in Sketch in addition to Photoshop in 2015 — Google even earlier.

Illustrator is still highly relevant for its strength, vector based work, while Sketch has surpassed Photoshop for UI.

The momentum is only increasing, even with bugs and issues found in Sketch. It's obvious the interface design community desires better tools. I wonder if Adobe Comet stands a chance with disruption we're seeing?
Trump Supporters Appear to Be Misinformed, Not Uninformed
Wow. I looked it over after reading your comment. Very impressive. Manual still easy to find in PDF: http://www.roug.org/soren/6809/basic09.pdf
There is no chance I'll be a job creator, no matter how driven.

If you're a software developer, at least you could be a job creator for yourself. And perhaps for many developers this is more enjoyable than managing other people, since most job creators are more busy managing or finding customers than actually creating fun stuff like software.
To respond to your links, one by one...

* 1-2% GDP Growth that you cited is the opinion of one woman who makes a living selling opinions on the Chinese economy, it is anecdotal.
* The article you posted states that central government GDP/Debt ratio is 64%, whereas local debt is 280% - so relative to the United States, with a total debt ratio of 332% China is still "flush with cash," in a sense and could stimulate out the 280% ratio, as the very article you cited notes.
* Regards to Banks/Commodity firms - they are state owned, they could be privatized and this would improve efficiency.
* You need to read the articles you post - there are $1Trillion in Foreign Reserves left to help the Yuan glide down slowly against a foreign basket of currencies, out of a total $4Trillion in foreign reserves. The US has $0.4T by the way, far less (this includes gold).
* Epoch times is not a reliable source. They are just 100% anti-China, that is their reason for existing.
* Manufacturing moves in and out of countries all the time, the net value of production in China is going up.
* China does not require global consumer brands, it has 1.5 Billion people. China is flush with cash and can spend its way out of all of those issues.
* No, we don't get the idea. You posted a bunch of links with very brief headlines on each. You didn't read many of the links you posted. Your post is a non-coherent shotgun approach.

The major issue facing China is the fact that it fundamentally a one-party controlled communist command-economy, and it has pegged its way into that political path, without a clear way to get its way out. They attempted to go the democracy route for a bit in the 80s, but things out out of hand and Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred, effectively erasing the Chinese political consciousness. Now they are kind of floating in this world where no one really cares about politics, they just care about making money and hope the government is nice to them. This is the defining challenge of China in the 21st Century.

The economy will go up and down but overall continue to grow over the next 20-30 years because they can buy their way out of whatever depression they need to. Things will probably get less polluted over time. If you look at the Shanghai composite, this has always been unstable and volatile and has had much worse crashes in recent memory. So every time the China stock market crashes, people come online and think they can become instant Sinologists and Peking Toms by posting a flurry of links. It doesn't mean anything --- it's a sputtering of irreverent neckbeardiness which does not further hacker news' understanding of the situation and actually makes people dumber for having read it, a la Billy Madison.
A friend of mine [1] has been building something that is exactly what you describe: https://www.shiftspark.com/content/how-it-works

"We allow people to speak to their politicians. And not just during campaign season. By pledging money, ShiftSpark lets you signal the issues tied to your support when politicians need it - BEFORE the election. This gives us more candidates, less corporate influence and politicians who listen."

[1] He was previously the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats and is currently a Vice President at the Young Democrats of America.
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Maybe that's not the whole picture, but I think a big reason for null terminated strings is that C has pointers. A char pointer makes it practical to move through strings and a NULL terminator is easier to handle than a size test. In the end, sized strings make C code more complicated, unlike other languages such as Pascal.
As much as I hate the idea of lobbying as it works today, I can't deny the tremendous ROI that it represents for companies like Intuit whose entire business relies on convoluted, complex tax laws.

TurboTax Maker Funnels Millions To Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...
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We just have a mismatch in the term "scientific programming" based on our perspectives. You seem like you're in the harder sciences in academia, while I'm in data science in industry.

I'll certainly cede the point that there's a great deal of important scientific code in many languages that can't be accessed from R.
Does it stay on the front page with so few votes?

This sounds trivially gameable by voting rings.
All speculation about the future will sound like science fiction. Someone in 1800 making accurate predictions about 1900 would have sounded crazy. Someone predicting the atomic bomb in 1900 would have sounded crazy. Or airplanes, or television, or the internet, etc. Just because something sounds absurd doesn't mean it's not possible.

We live in a world where the only intelligences are humans. The idea of superintelligent minds seems absurd to us, because it isn't something we've ever encountered in reality before. But there is absolutely no law of nature that says it's impossible, or even difficult. If you look at history, it'd actually be really surprising if it was. Human minds were just the very first intelligence coughed up by evolution. We are far from the limits of what is possible.

And there is a difference between genetic engineering and AI research. Biology is incredibly complicated. Like millions of complicated, interconnected, moving parts. It really is impossible to make Alien, or really anything beyond modifications to existing biology.

Algorithms are a whole nother ball game. Our current AI algorithms are actually reasonably intelligent at many tasks, even smarter than humans at some things. And they are extremely simple. Could be described in a line or two of equations, or a few paragraphs of text. Not because they are primitive, but because simple algorithms work. And they have been improving every single year for a long time, and will likely improve well into the future.

But you don't have to take my word for it. If you survey AI researchers and experts, they almost unanimously agree that AI will be invented in our lifetime. If you survey biologists, I highly doubt they would make similar claims about Alien.
I wish there was a bit more information to be honest. Is this a patching system? Or is it just like an alert system for updates? I'm not really sure what it is.
> McKenna's brilliant wordsmithing is the polar opposite of what you see with degenerative mental illness.

But then there are also people like Philip K. Dick, no "armchair diagnosed" schizophrenic.

This might again raise the old issue of whether there are really multiple things we call schizophrenia.
Is he? Maybe he should have said that.
Will Tsukiji remain in full operation until the shutdown date in November, or is it going to wind down? I'm planning on visiting Japan for the first time in Sep/Oct and was hoping to see it in full swing.
> Technically the black hole doesn't offer anything beyond what a sun of comparable output would offer.

Doesn't the accretion disk shit pretty violent radiation?
Maybe if the company were profitable and minting tens of billions of dollars in revenue a year.

But we're talking about $YHOO, which for years has had negative core enterprise value. In such a situation it's not really a drop in a bucket.
You can use the stock and salary you get working for a megacorp to invest in a startup if you want. That seems like a smarter way to gamble on startup success than with your time.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-y...
U.S. Marshals Raid Chinese Hoverboard Booth at CES
Isn't one Carly Fiorina enough for this planet?
The article says that stubhub charges a 20% fee when the seller cancels. So again, they absolutely are able to investigate every such situation while making a profit. Every ticket? No. Cases where they're making over a hundred dollars? Yes.
Sorry, the site is a bit broad at the moment (will fix). It's to post new features and product updates in one place. The idea is to replace changelogs, product update emails/blog posts, and release notes.
The onewheel has been for sale for about a year now. Not sure when they shipped their first board but I got my first onewheel in August 2015.
Islamic Libertarianism in the Quran
I know, the NYTimes article is a rip. But any additional exposure is good. So I would not hold it against them.
I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Civil law is symmetric: party a vs party b. If the rules were biased, it would be profitable to commit civil crime or to make false claims. Criminal law is far more asymmetric -- the government never goes to jail, and citizens can never press their own charges.
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And there's the useless comment. Please how that sentence has anything to do with religion. Out of context, it doesn't even look like it's about AI. The same sentence could appear in a discussion about climate change, or nuclear proliferation. But certainly not a religious discussion.

And after you explain that, explain how having something vaguely in common with religion automatically means it's wrong.
> I'm surprised by the support you're getting, because the HN hivemind fully supports it when founders exit with 50-10000x what rank and file gets.

The HN Hivemind that I've witnessed as of the last 18 months or so is decidedly supportive of founders giving up much much more equity to employees, owing to ease of fundraising and low capital startup costs, combining to derisk the once very personally risky endeavor of starting a company.

In that sense the hivemind currently loosely follows the words of Sam Altman who is the present overmind of YC, so it is rather apt.
I am also a visual learner, and I find it (really) hard to learn from prose.

I virtually flunked high school, and then (through a fairly convoluted process) ended up very literally top of my class in a masters at a top 5 university; the masters allowed me to learn my own way.

It is possible I'm an idiot, lack passion, and am lazy, but my academic references don't support that theory.
The Counterintuitive Tech Behind Netflix’s Worldwide Launch
That's the most self assured argument for victim-blaming I have ever read.
So am I overachieving by trying to learn React+Flux and Angular.js + typescript and also trying to learn ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 while working my internship?

Maybe I should just make HTML 5 games instead...
It really is just a better experience through and through for mocking UI. Once you get the simple keyboard shortcuts down and a decent set of icons / graphics from sketchappresources.com, you can do a lot very quickly. I recently discovered that you can pair this with keynote to do some quick and effective UI animations.
You're talking about an algorithmic problem (of a path tracer), this hardware just traces rays. It supposedly does so at 10x the efficiency of a high-end GPU (which isn't designed to do raytracing in the first place). That's the "groundbreaking" part.

For realtime use, this hardware will likely do no more than a single directional light's shadow plus and single bounce of sharp reflections. This is then combined with a rasterized view of the scene. Keep in mind that this is a "mobile" GPU that hasn't been "scaled up" for the Desktop yet.

For offline use, this hardware will at least be more efficient than a GPU.
> If you think there's a potential liability between two parties, it's much better to formalize it as a loan agreement than to just carry it as a risk.

Such a clear and excellent point. This is the basis of the idea people are thinking when they tell someone to "get it in writing."
"There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. " He adds his account so people can follow him :/
Depends on the severity of the crimes and the jail term, and how jail CREATES criminals by destroying lives. USA has absurd jail terms.
I hate to be that cynic but it sounds like you need better conections like Dupont. You are probably not contributing political donations to the right people...etc. etc.
That's how I see it. Pure research is necessary and possible.
*were easily "copyable".

The Wright Brothers had hundreds of competitors at the time. They were also very private during their later attempts to get their flying machine to work, so that they could avoid competitors copying their design.
I wonder the same thing. Why do CEOs get paid too much?
> Microsoft still thinks the will get away with this.

It wouldn't be the first time they overplayed their hand in the area of privacy. Recently they were trying to tell everyone their new Xbox was going to be constantly on and watching them in their living room even if they shut it off. When there was a huge uproar they backtracked.
Can circld influence the tourism industry?
The answer to that question is , Yes. Circld can influence the tourism industry. For instance, anyone planning on visiting a new city or place does a list of research before leaving their homes. This includes, place to stay, places to visit, where to eat?, what to eat? and such. And we all use a list of websites and applications to find out these information, half of which may not be valid. Buy what if there was a way to get in touch with a location, get in touch with the people living in that location? It could change everything.

Imagine finding new people in a location that you have never visited before and asking questions to a group of people in that location. Contact every hotels and shops in a location directly by posting questions to them. This is a game changer. That's what circld does. Getting users in touch with people around the world. Circld which is in beta now is looking for early adopters. Anyone interested can check it out here, www.circld.co
4/5 of my way through a doctorate in CS Education, and I must admit that I cringe whenever I see Hacker News and r/programming discuss education. We have very intelligent people who have almost no formal educational knowledge making anecdotal claims, often trying to draw on their own atypical experiences. There are so many things that I feel I need to convey and correct in these threads, but I don't think there's time or energy available to do so.

Learning Styles is mostly considered snake oil. Of course different students learn differently. Assessment is hard. Instructional Design. There's so much material out there, I wish people would learn more before asserting and speculating.

I suppose I should just be pleased that people are interested. But I hope many posters will be encouraged to look further into this subject and develop expertise as they develop their opinions.

Here's one potential resource: http://www.learningandteaching.info/
The design is so simple/obvious that I believe many people could have come up with it independently. It seems a bygone conclusion that the Chinese company was intentionally stealing from the US one but that might not be the case. Under patent law it doesn't matter if you invented something independently. I too would probably scoff at the correspondence from the US firm thinking it was some patent troll. I mean how do you patent a "board on a rolling pin"???
No. Stealing and patent infringement are separate issues. Stealing might be something like walking away with design drawings, source code, etc. This could happen at any time, including before the patent application is filed. Infringement means using the ideas claimed by the patent document.

Among the many possibilities, one is that the Chinese company sincerely believes that the US patent application is invalid, for instance if they think that they have discovered prior art. Also, if and when the US patent issues, its claims may bear little resemblance to the application, for instance if the Patent Office discovers prior art.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I have a handful of patents.
You have read the hair shirt paper, right?
> That's actually a legal requirement in many countries, including the US--either the CEO or CFO of the company must directly deal with a financial institution when setting up a financial institution account (i.e., bank account--note that Paypal is a registered financial institution in nearly all of the jurisdictions in which it operates). My clients run into this all the time. It's a hassle, but it's one you simply have to accept as the cost of doing business in the big leagues.

What U.S. law is this?
I have just tried the Web-App. I find it is a really good app. It has high accuracy in translating from Chinese to English. It is a really big surprise since even Google Translate cannot perform this well. Maybe the developer need more cooperation with the NGO learning organizations. He can get more support and fund in this way.

Keep on and I think people will love it!
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It's a bullying tactic that makes it difficult for employees to either go out on their own or go to other companies.

Would you be willing to go to court to find out?

I used to work with a guy who came up with a fairly good product idea (in his own time and at his own cost). He brought it to mgmt and they were not interested (wasn't in our space). So he tried to go out on his own with it and immediately received a Cease & Desist order. His lawyer said if he went to court could easily cost him up to $50K to defend successfully. So he gave up & complied.

Can you imagine the outrage if a plumbing business tried to enforce a non-compete (e.g. "you can't work as a plumber for 2 years"). Well ... unions.

Mass. would do well to outlaw them, but sadly the state legislature is easily bought so I don't expect it to happen anytime soon.
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> That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better?

The first mistake the Yahoo board made was to decide that product innovation would save them. In reality, they should've brought in an ex-consultant or ex-banker who could chop off pieces of the business and sell them to the highest bidder (essentially, what's going to happen now).

The second mistake they made was that they decided the right person to execute on a product strategy was Marissa Mayer, when in reality that isn't her strong suit.
I just saw that thing on A. Savage video.

https://youtu.be/7Qi5snumoeY?t=3m34s
This is really an interesting read. It covers the 3 major issues (at least in India) directly or indirectly - less usage of credit card, the internet infrastructure issues and the fair usage policy. All three of them are really hard problems as they cost a lot of money to scale. YouTube started facing similar issues in regards to infrastructure and fair usage policy long time ago. The credit card issue cannot be solved soon but if Netflix starts accepting Debit cards or partners with PayTm and other payment systems, it will be better. The internet infrastructure is lacking both in terms of speed as well as outreach. This problem will definitely take a lot of time to be fixed. Facebook, Flipkart and others are trying new ways to reach more people with Free Basics, Airtel Zero, etc. The tricky one is fair usage policy. If the service providers are to be Net Neutral, then increasing the data cap for fair usage policy or removing it altogether would be hard for them.
>because machine learning is not even within sight from true AI

Well I don't agree at all, and neither do many experts. It may not be very intelligent currently, but it's certainly getting there.

>How can we research the safety of something we know nothing about?

Even if AI uses totally unknown algorithms, that doesn't mean we can't do anything about it. The question of how to control AI is relatively agnostic to how the AI actually works. We don't need to know the details of a machine learning algorithm to talk about reinforcement learning. We don't need to know the exact AI algorithm to talk about how certain utility functions would lead to certain behaviors.
Every one of the 4 companies I worked for in MA rolled out the non-compete on the first day of work. Not one of them even mentioned it beforehand.

Sadly, it's just par-for-the-course for being a high-tech employee in MA.
It's interesting but I don't know if its such a jump forward that I might pay for it. But if you included an API for binary patching to distribute updates I would pay for it.
IIRC Blender went open source due to an generous gesture by its proprietary owner and a crowdfunding effort that was years ahead of Kickstarter.
I hope my comment didn't make for sour feelings. I'm positive your team is working in good faith (more legalease!) and I'm cheering on for Penny's success.

While that may be standard language in a ToS, I can't waive that broadly written right.
This is a great app,some time I really want to quite my job and do my own project like him,but I don't really know what is stoping me to do it,maybe I just don't have the courage.