skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of adjectives I would use to describe Asimov, and egotistical is so far down the list I'd get bored listing them before I got to it. It seems likely to be a realistic and honest self-assessment, on the basis of the breadth, depth, and foresight, of Asimov's written work. If you're Usain Bolt, is it egotistical to say, "I'm probably the fastest runner in the world?" Why is intellect so much different? Sure, there's no precise measure of intelligence...but, someone with great intellectual achievement gets to, at the very least, lay claim to great intellect.

It would be easily dismissed if said by someone much less accomplished. In this case, I just take it as a frank statement of belief.

Regardless, I think it's safe to say Minsky was a great intellect, of a caliber not often seen.
Is there a technical reason why docker-machine on OS X doesn't set up /var/run/docker.sock in a similar way? It sounds so simple when put this way in the article.
RhodesHacks 0: How and Why I Started a Hackathon at My Liberal Arts College
Does O'Reilly's critique not qualify?
Or perhaps some stories may be so archetypical that they get reinvented repeatedly. Stories that share some similar plot points does not mean they must have a common origin.
> People also forget that vocal communication is "imprecise and slow". Even with the most powerful AI on the planet--other humans.

This.

It drives me nuts that some people still think a voice recognition interface -- even if that's at all possible in the more general case -- is necessarily the best UI. Or gestures. Look, in a lot of cases I wouldn't want to have a person listening to me while I explain what I want done as I wave frantically. Humans are notoriously bad at understanding some sorts of instructions. Why would I want to introduce this ambiguity to my computer?
as recently as last year when opening another checking account, the bank clerk told me to start my check numbers at atleast 500 (you can specify when ordering checks). I
asked her why, and that was also the same reason given. I laughed at the silliness of the idea, but took her advice anyways.
what fault tolerance does spark give you in this scheme? It cannot look into TF progress and checkpoint all state. Using Spark with TF, seems like an overkill -- you need to manage and install two framework what should ideally be a 200 line python wrapper or small mesos framework at most.
I havent really studied the concept much. People talk like it was charity or something. Thanks for correction.
Do we really need CVE numbers assigned for all of these? More or less every application out there is vulnerable to some form of timing attack
Two Fake Coins
What I got from reading article is that "Technology creates greater inequality only if companies don't create proportionate value in return for the wealth founders/executives take away"

But if companies are actually creating value at least as much as the founders/executives take away, it isn't creating inequality.

The author has given examples later in the article. The good case being google's founders taking away only what is proportionate to the value their company has created. And the bad case being a CEO given $120 million in stock option pay when the company profit was just $150 million.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have a list of people who HN has enabled the black bar for?
Big report on page linked:

The two "Read more" buttons do not work on android/firefox.
Is this related to his book "Society of Mind"? If so, ow accurate is this view of the mind today?
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
Is the set of all turing machines finite?
Shanghai will start compensating VCs for their financial losses
How I simplified my phone: I got a windows phone.

While I agree that Nova launcher is impressive, I don't want to have to change the launcher.

On a windows phone, the basics work relatively well. The phone takes good pictures and doesn't get in the way. There are very few apps in the appstore, which is a feature since it means I won't be tempted to tweak it too much (temptation... must resist...).

And it's cheap, so much that I don't care if it falls out of my purse. I'll just get another.
Some Carnivores Are Better Than Others at Unlocking Dinner
Did we even get a black bar when Steve Jobs died?

Seems like the admins have pretty much done away with the black bar thing.
Is Pitching on Shark Tank Easier Than in Silicon Valley?
Is that really real?? [1]

Who on Earth would have such aircrafts in 1962 other than aliens??

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2016/images/UFO2.j...
Here’s How an Artist Plays the Stock Market
This is easily the craziest thing I've learned so far in 2016 and why I love reading Hacker News so much
> They have directly lifted more than 500 multi-word command line expression

That constitutes an API or instruction set.

If vendors have to invent different command syntax to do the same thing, that is not really an invention, and it is bad for customers, and their choice. Complex configurations have to be transliterated from one language to another in
order to migrate among equipment units.

This is like Lotus 1-2-3 versus Borland all over again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor...

"This case established that copyright does not extend to the user interface of a computer program, such as the text and layout of menus."

"Borland released a spreadsheet product, Quattro Pro, that had a compatibility mode in which its menu imitated that of Lotus 1-2-3, a competing product. None of the source code or machine code that generated the menus was copied, but the names of the commands and the organization of those commands into a hierarchy were virtually identical."

"Names of commands and organization of commands into a hierarchy:" same thing as the multi-word syntax in some Cisco box.
My experience has been that this is less of an issue with their UX and more of an issue with the stream itself. Once you start following a lot of artist and especially if you download tracks through the download gates, you end up with a lot of noise in your stream. I'm a DJ and I recently had my 3 year old Soundcloud account with lots of my published music and mixes removed because I had some copyright content in a mix. It was a major bummer but having a new account with a fresh stream without as much junk was a silver lining.
The whole Quay team at CoreOS uses OSX to develop a container registry. As a result I have a bunch of useful aliases as well[0]. A lot of them have to do with just plain cleaning up after yourself, but I also wrap my calls to `docker` with a zsh function that will eval my dev docker-machine environment if it hasn't been already.

[0]: https://github.com/jzelinskie/dotfiles/blob/b2d33f8c601d1b7d...
Think have to give some credit (lets say LOTS) to Kai Krause of Kai's Tool fame.

At his talks he would espouse about zero UI way back when, just a black screen, and nothing else. That's it. We all would just go WOW! We were blown away.

I think now he lives in a castle and just meditates all day __ or something like that. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause
It can.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...
Its nice , but one suggestion , if you are marketing it for companies , then you may want to make it "sound" professional too , for example the window title cant say "POOP" ! ...
Combining topology and quantum computing = huge analysis of data sets
The army of Western Virginia.
thankfully MIT open courseware recorded one of his classes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg the society of mind class 6.868
Some fairly comprehensive stats there on where IPv4 is going there.

Somewhat depressing conclusion, not sure that it's quite warranted.

As the Internet continues to evolve, it is no longer the technically innovative challenger pitted against venerable incumbents in the forms of the traditional industries of telephony, print newspapers, television entertainment, and social interaction. The Internet is now the established norm. The days when the Internet was touted as a poster child of disruption in a deregulated space are long since over, and these days we appear to be increasingly looking further afield for a regulatory and governance framework that can continue to challenge the increasing complacency of the newly-established incumbents. It is unclear how successful we will be in this search.
Uber and Lyft Didn’t Bankrupt Yellow Cab
Best Romantic iTunes Movies to Watch on Valentine's Day
This setup is impressive, but perhaps overly complex. I have the feeling that it would be far simpler to set up a webcam and use computer vision techniques to monitor activity at each entry point.
If you have a legitimate gripe, take it back. REI store managers (still) have a broad discretion in the return policy. The new "1 year" policy is largely a social signal that they won't tolerate obvious abuses anymore. And expensive tent getting wrecked by wind is not an obvious abuse, unless you strapped it to a car on the highway maybe.

And many high end outdoor manufacturers provide lifetime warranties themselves. If your expensive tent is a North Face or Mountain Hardware and was really damaged by wind, it will probably get replaced no matter where you bought it.
Actually, anonymous financial transactions are quite common. Every time you purchase something with cash, the seller receives payment with no knowledge of who you are or how you got the money.

And the definition of money laundering is hiding the source of illegally obtained money. An anonymous transaction isn't laundering if there's nothing dirty about the money in the first place.
Microsoft’s clever curved keyboard for iOS looks very smart
>The fractional reserve system works precisely because only a few well known actors are allowed to create money -- which is a bit of antithesis for this kind of crypto currency.

You know who owns the Fed? Do tell.
His essay on Income Inequality,Paul Graham credited me for- -feedback
How about what a few different PIECES of music look like? You can't draw any conclusions about whole genres from 3 or 4 examples.
I guess it depends how much quality control you want to implement. Author seems to be suggesting next to zero user acceptance testing, which is probably fine for small applications.
A Message of Peace From“The Last Ninja”
Winning and 'being dead' are two things that mean different things to different people.

Git has at least an order of magnitude more people use it, and there is a significant and growing ecosystem around it that mercurial does not have.

Mercurial is not going to 'die' until the developers abandon it; you can still use and install it. Hell, even cvs isn't 'dead', and the last stable release was in 2008.

Mercurial will also continue to 'not be dead' for the foreseeable future, and people will use it for years to come.

...but it is already niche, and will increasingly become so.

Only time will tell, but I'd be shocked if you don't see more big name migrations away from hg over the next year or two.

People are important.

When your project forces them to use tools that don't like or don't know, they go else where. The impetus to change gathers more slowly in companies; but when you see announcements like this, like google code, like atlassian marginalizing hg, like cpython... it's crazy to suggest that it doesn't affect the way people think about mercurial.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969721
It's not Mercurial and Git line ending conventions, it's that Windows uses CRLF and Unix uses LF, and Git's approach to addressing this is pretty far short of good.

(Another pre-emptive response: yes I'm aware of both core.autocrlf and "text eol", but those are exactly the sort of sideways-cutting non-fixes that I'm talking about.)
Do you also run 8-12 miles every day at a sub 8 minute pace, run a fledgling technology company, and have a new born child?

Well, even if you don't, you're still damn lucky to have that kind of energy.
Lessons learnt after hackers pulled our gaming site off Google
1951 – SNARC Maze Solver – Minsky / Edmonds [2009]
New paper by Robin Dunbar exploring social media vs. real world networks
Study Trying to Explain Why South Asians Have High Rates of Heart Disease
Ignorance is not an excuse
> but fundamentally you're still installing msys (2) to run git.

You're installing msys to run git because (I guess) it was considered the git CLI would be useless without a decent shell. Would you see yourself use Git or Mercurial in cmd?

Git itself in Git for Windows, afaik, is not actually an msys program, and uses native win32 APIs.
But millennials also have access to a virtually unlimited amount of education for free right in their pocket because of the Internet.

Older generations didn't have that advantage.

College is but one route and only required in a few select licensed fields like medical doctors, patent attorneys, etc.

It amazes me that millennials are still going to college even when the costs are like 10x what it was for our parents. At some point the lost opportunity cost from all that debt outweighs any additional income they could earn from the degree.

You also need to factor in that someone has a 4-5 year head start if they just start working immediately and gain education in the field.

If you go the college route, there is 4 years, and another 4 years to pay off the debt. Contrast that to someone who works for a lower wage but can get into a home earlier. A home in Silicon Valley at $500K and 4% appreciation for 8 years comes out to $684 or $184K ahead than the college graduate who is now making maybe $15K more a year.

Also, someone with 4 years of actual work experience is not going to be that far off from someone with a college degree and no work experience.

After 10-15 years of working in a field nobody cares whether you have a degree or not and any income differences from college are now outweighed by personal talent and ambition.
NN weights need to start random because otherwise two weights with exactly the same value can get "stuck" and be unable to differentiate. Backpropagation relies on starting random patterns that kind of match so that it can fine tune them.

But the weights are often initialized to be really close to zero.
You can change the topcolor in the settings to black to get your own personal black bar.

You won't see the top menu links.
I guess I don't understand how that's sustainable. I can do it for a couple of days, maybe a week. Beyond that, and my performance both physically and mentally takes a large hit. I guess it's possible that some people are blessed with super-human energy levels. It's more likely that they're on something.
Possibly there is a soft definition of what constitutes "violent crime"? The numbers on Wikipedia show a clear trend that doesn't abate until the mid 90s. Am I reading that wrong?

(click "show" on the table to see the data)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Cri...
Yup to all others you mentioned. I usually just teach about why trust matters and how to think about it as a developer. Works out well with training the devs at my current workplace. Back to your comments on the CVEs, the reason I replied the way I did was because your comments appeared to come across as being the only necessary mitigations per-se. I know that's not at all how you intended it ("some comments" as opposed to "how to mitigate"), but my first pass over the text made me feel that way about it.

In any case, nice chat. I like productive exchanges.
Being a writer doesn't say anything about his intellect, you didn't know the man so he could likely be being completely honest.
Minsky helped design one of the coolest musical gadgets I've ever come across, the Triadex Muse. Being a sort of self-generative music box, Minsky imagined a future where families would gather around such musical machines instead of turning to boring old television for their entertainment and relaxation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadex_Muse
> Other than these I use Lyft, Spotify, Dropbox, Drive, Amazon Underground, Phone, SMS, and Calendar. Instagram is my only social media app, mostly because I think the @soylent account is awesome.

Signal, phone, google maps, firefox/chrome.

I like how "phone" falls under the "other" category for this person
HOW FOREIGN INVESTORS COULD HANDLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTE IN VIETNAM
> Google obviously has the best track record of Android device makers

This is a really low bar. Enough Android device makers never provide updates. Got a Nexus One a few years ago, Google updated it for a grand total of 13 months before deciding it was "too old". Of course I didn't get the Nexus One until most of the way through that time period so my Google phone was updated for perhaps six months, not exactly a great user experiance.
Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users
This piece doesn't have a title. Maybe mods here can change this post to something more appropriate, such as "Tim O'Reilly's comments on Paul Graham's Income Inequality Essay"
What “Reactive GraphQL” Means for Meteor…
HOW FOREIGN INVESTORS COMPLY WITH REPORTS SUBMISSIONS IN VIETNAM
The Earth Is Flat, Explained
More than an attendee, he was one of the proposers.

The proposal:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmou...
Because there's such a vast amount of prerequisite knowledge required for analysis, one either has to slog through the learning curve or look for expert opinions.

Thomas, Erin, and I possess voluminous experimental evidence that suggests generalist engineers can know more about market making than Michael Lewis (and, if one assumes Lewis is not committing malpractice with regards to framing quotes, Brad Katsuyama) in under two hours.

This is not a commandingly high bar. An order book is just a data structure. It tends to have a lot of money associated with it, but that is also true of at least some hash tables, and you understand hash tables.

I am frustrated with HN discussion of HFT occasionally for the same reason I get frustrated with HN discussions of some privacy technologies: there exists a political valence to the discussion and some participants treat that political valence as carte blanche for just ignoring that we are talking about actual codebases which have actual rules which can be described in words, including words which definitively falsify some claims about them which feel right to people due to political valence.
Having only read the first half, I find the article interesting and well-written, especially Minsky's quote on how belief in 'free will' is based on an incomplete understanding on human activity; and also how he wires up the circuits to use audio for debugging (That is such a cool idea).

Who the hell can read something like this and not enjoy it?

Gonna read last half now.

By the way, how is this to make sense?:

> Word count and editing matters even if we don't have physical pages to constrain the text anymore.

It's written in 1981, it says on the top. With lines like these, it should be difficult to overlook:

"Several times while I was there, Minsky paused to read his “mail”—messages on the terminal’s printout system."
You don't need to control every byte for this to be catastrophic. You can't decode every password like you can with the previous comparison, but if you can generate a rainbow table that contains the password you're trying to crack, you can just do a timing attack using the hashes instead. My intuition is that this might even require fewer attempts than the original comparison assuming a reasonable password length, but I haven't done the math.
> You can commit a subset of changed files in most version control systems, but it isn't smart because you didn't test that state and it's relatively easy to garble files.

The clean solution here is to stash/shelve the changes you don't want, then commit the ones you wanted. This works pretty much the same way in either VCS.

> Not having the index is a very practical difference for users, because it means that you do not get any editable "staging" commits, only commits that will be on the permanent record.

Use hg commit [-i], hg commit --amend [-i], and hg uncommit (with evolve) to modify the most recent commit as needed. Or, frankly, just use hg shelve [-i] to do the reverse as described above.

The Git index doesn't improve upon the situation, since you still can't test the partial commit without stashing the remaining changes first. At which point you could have just done that first.

In any event, the closest equivalent of Git's index in Mercurial is MQ, not hg commit -i and friends. The difference is that in Mercurial it's opt-in rather than opt-out.
Not much in the way of bs in the big short tbh. A little dramatisation of the characters probably but hey, gotta sell a book right? Facts were pretty spot on. The book atleast; no clue about the movie.
Add a Target Camera in 3D Scene and Import/ Export Scenes in 3DS Format Using .NET
It likely varies depending upon the fleet at your local airport, but ADS-B implementation in the US has a long way to go before the 2020 deadline. Last time I checked (early 2015) only about 30% of carrier jets near MSP (a major Delta hub) had ADS-B installed/turned on. My understanding is that the cost is under $5,000 per aircraft - it astounds me that for all the money wasted on security theatre the aviation industry has dragged it's feet on ADS-B implementation.
What's the behavior you expect, compared to the behavior that you get with git's configuration options?
That's not remotely true. Many of these stories were specifically to protect children. If you can't watch your children all the time, you can't just tell them, "Don't go too close to the water." They'll go anyway. So you tell them, "There are Wassermen (German) / Vodnik (Czech) who will grab you by the feet and pull you in."
True, if you are only interested in bees entering and leaving. But as the article says, they are also interested in learning what is inside and for that, vision techniques may not be as useful.

Quote from the article: "Although we’ve only just begun distilling the data, we believe it should be possible to determine not just the volume of material added to each cell but also details about the types of material involved (mud, eggs, pollen, and so on)."
This seems to be the "new standard" when it comes to startup infrastructure beyond Heroku.

However, what frustrates me the most about it, is that every startup is left to figure out everything from scratch and it seems impossible.

There are many tools you need to familiarize yourself with, too many to be comfortable with.

Companies that already figured it out write blog post like this, which provide insights but it's super high level, as a startup engineer this gives you absolutely no value other than "yes, they are using it too".

I wonder if there's a solution for this generic enough to open source that will be a good start for startups.

You check out the project, read some docs and in 2-3 hours you have a cluster running. Kind of a "batteries included" devops solution.
Be sure to read the (long) explanation and more details linked in the page: https://glittering.blue/about
Giving random numbers to regiments and battalions isn't new it's done partially due to historic honor and to prevent the enemy from getting accurate strength numbers by simply counting unit numbers.
Charles Perrault in France was the originator here, but most countries had their version of the Grimm Brothers. The Czech Republic, for example, had Bozena Nemcova who did similar research of Czech stories at the same time as the Grimms in Germany.
I lived in New York for a long time and have friends who make around 400k annually and they live very large on it. Maybe not personal drivers but the hedge funds they work for will send a car for them at any moment. Maybe not live in chefs but luxurious catered meals at the office every day couple with a generous budget for offsite company lunches. And they all have maids.