skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose one could read it either way. But a) most engineers are pro-automation, b) he works for a financial company, and c) computers haven't really replaced people in finance, so absent other evidence, I am going to stick with my reading of his comment for now.
Like I said, we can speculate over what might or might happen all day, but do we have any evidence?

Just seems like you're doomsday fantasizing...
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You can see the ToC here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1095587

Chapter 3 talks about McCulloch-Pitts.

I remember being impressed with chapter 14 ("very simple bases for computability") as a kid. Finding UTMs with minimal number of states etc. are great riddles. I also fondly remember the discussion of the halting problem and related problems ("does program P output X") in chapter 8. This was my first introduction to this procedure and Minsky made the idea of reducing one problem to another totally straightforward. Many years later I realized that not a few CS students find these ideas confusing.
The crack epidemic had its origins in the 1970s and became widespread in the 1980s[1]. Crack was finally targeted in 1986 with laws that heavily punished crack dealers. This happened after crack became widespread throughout major American cities.[2]

"The murders and general lawlessness that you reference from the 80s are a direct result of the War on Drugs."

Where were the "murders and general lawlessness" in other countries that had even more expansive Wars on Drugs, like Singapore or Taiwan? America's War on Drugs is relatively mild compared to these countries that sentence drug traffickers to death.

[1] http://www.crack-facts.org/historyofcrack.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic#History
So it's not even a vulnerability in the service's code, but in its metadata (file permissions).

Neat!
While the idea of a collective unconscious is romantic, the primary reason why fairytales date back so far is because the ancient Europeans practiced a culture that prized the ability to recite old poetry and stories. When you consider that there are so many variations on fairytales due to innovations in ora transmission, yet we are able to pretty much accurately piece together one editorially authoritative version of the Illiad, the ability for oral tradition to preserve stories doesn't seem so impressive anymore.
The key is what learning procedure is used. It is not clear from the story if the nets were learning, and if so how.
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They seem to have had that strategy for a very long time -- entice developers to lock in end users. It worked quite well obviously, but I myself still find a good REPL, solid CLI tools, and fully open source code all the way down to the BIOS even more enticing.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Microsoft's "next" is; they've tried a lot of "nexts" that didn't always pan out.
Crack wasn't even targeted in the War on Drug policies until the 80s. The drug was relatively unknown to the general public compared to the other drugs that were targeted. Even Newsweek reported in 1977 that cocaine was safer than cigarettes and liquor "when used discriminately"[1].

[1] http://www.crack-facts.org/historyofcrack.html
It's a nice tools for dev and project management.I will try it at our team.
and the great work of Microsoft Labs like Photosynth

Is that available anywhere?
I'd actually paid to fly Stallman to Honolulu to attend pfosscon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lP8lPYPDU

While he was in Hawaii, I also paid to fly him to the "Big Island" (Hawaii) to speak with people (mostly astronomers and their children, though some people drove up from Hilo.)

https://blogs.oracle.com/barton808/entry/my_travels_in_hawai...

Since I was paying for his ticket, I knew he would be at the airport.

I lived in Hawaii at the time.

Back in Las Vegas (where I lived at the time), the book, and emacs, were new to me. I took it to read then.
I'm looking for it.
This is not true of Microsoft Research. MSR has for many many years been one of the top industry research labs. Only recently have Google Research and Facebook joined its ranks (and Facebook only in AI research).
Why not add random increments to the sequence? This way order is preserved, but you never know how many hotfixes are between hotfix X and Y. Of course, you can still have rough estimate (as between #1000 and #2000 there is from 999 to 10 hotfixes) but for your case it may be enough.
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> Ruby, Smalltalk, JavaScript and C

I don't see where C comes in here at all.
Not necessarily in Windows 10 Enterprise, there can be some limits to what "System" can access, with a feature designed to protect credentials from exploited drivers:

With Windows 10 and Device Guard, credentials are stored encrypted using Hyper-V, an approach known as "virtualization-assisted security." Credential Guard blocks access "even when an untrusted program has full administrative access to your environment,"

Drivers can't get into the Local Security Authority of Windows 10

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/10/28/windows-10-creden...
We've made enormous progress in holding up under collision, but giant steps back in collision avoidance. I remember around 5 years ago seeing a concept for the "car of the future" as basically a glass box optimizing visibility. In fact we've done the opposite: high beltlines, low and elongated roofs, rear visibility and rear side windows approaching zero.

Volkswagen makes just about the only high-quality compact in the neighborhood of $20k that you can actually see out of. Mazda3, Prius, Elantra, etc. are seemingly part of a concerted effort to make the greatest amount of damage possible to the driver's situational awareness. Why? Just so they can sell you the blindspot monitoring options?
ships with Lenovo Thinkpads running windows 10 by default, possibly windows 8.
Nope. It's some crapware that IBM bundles.
One way I like to think about it: docker pull is the new apt-get
If your options are at $0.50 and you IPO at $10, you still make money if it drops to $5. Dropping below IPO price is only really a problem for the folks that bought on the IPO. Granted, it may not necessarily be a healthy sign, but it doesn't necessarily mean disaster for the early shareholders.
I loved this review. This is systems biology at its best: simple hypotheses let us build models that explain/predict emergent behaviour. How cool to explain that a biological oscillator can produce periodically repeating structures during development!

And the title is spot on: without getting hung up on the details we can look for structural insights. There's no shame in the "pathetic thinking". Keeping it simple eliminates the perils of overfitting.
Note, container images are blobs of static content... programs, libraries etc. When they are running, they're akin to processes (or rather, actually are processes) running on a physical machine or a VM. Typically your build process will create docker container images (via some sort of CI tool perhaps).

Ansible is useful for automating tasks on an actual unix machine (VM or physical). Think of it basically as a parallel ssh to your remote machines.

So typically, you'd use docker containers to create reliable packages for your code and use ansible to do things like provision machines, change configs, run one-time commands on groups of machines etc. And yes, you can also use ansible to deploy your docker containers to your servers too. But that part is more manageable with tools like quay etc. which gives you nice things like package versioning etc.
The net is just going to learn the representation "even/odd number of black pixels," if that's the easiest thing to learn.

It also goes without saying that 2k images is probably not going to be enough data to learn any meaningfully general feature representation.
I'm sorry you were left with the impression that I was advocating little or no quality control. I believe in quite the opposite, but I don't think someone should need to conduct manual testing and sign off at the end of the process.

Human testing should occur during development. Users should play with prototypes and provide feedback, humans should help define automated acceptance tests. A machine should run the tests and throw the code over the wall, people are no longer needed for that.
I'm hardly qualified to address the nuances of the immigration system: were it up to me, anyone willing to work and pay taxes would be welcome here (I'm particularly baffled that the U.S. will further the education and/or experience of people, then make it hard for them to stay), so it that sense your proposed visa is still too much paperwork, too many unnecessary rules.

That said, it certainly sounds like an improvement over the status quo: slightly better quality of life for the Seattle-like folks, and real options to reduce employers taking advantage of desperate employees.
Another one is denying the visas to a company which is obviously replacing people 1:1. So they can't argue that they cannot find qualifying candidates just because they just so happen to have fired them to make them unqualified.

This isn't a cold trail of off shore shell accounts and obfuscating financials dealings. The trail is pretty clear.
But that mount is vboxfs and is slow. You need to do some extra work to get NFS going.
I'm pretty sure that story is an urban legend. Nobody can find the original source.
like sending password instead of something like a hash of concatenation of the password with current date/time.
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Seems from the very beginning; an act establishing several federal crimes in 1790 [1] - only one year after the Constitution came into force - was titled "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States".

EDIT: And the root of this phrase seems to be in the distinction between civil and criminal offenses - an crime is an "offense against the State" [2], where the government has standing to bring the case to court rather than the individuals (if any) specifically harmed. In this context, the usage "offense against the United States" pretty clearly indicates crimes where the United States rather than an individual states has jurisdiction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_Act_of_1790

[2] http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/the-differen...
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Peter Thiel was their lead angel investor, and Accel led their Series A funding. Both are Silicon Valley investors.
and that is the main problem of Microsoft Research.
MS should have full world mapped in 3D by now integrated into their mapping service and beating google street view in every way possible.
> The moment something ridiculous needs to be done like a rebase

Rebase, "ridiculous"? Uh oh. It's a very valuable tool and it's a quite simple concept. I agree that the user interface could be less confusing, though.

Git is just a malleable graph made out of patches. The concept is really simple (even simpler than hg). The UI could be better but the manpages are rather good at explaining how it works.
In the same vein -- John Nash once said that Minsky was the smartest person he ever met.

...He also said that he thought McCarthy was an idiot. :)
> English won

English did not won.

It might be widely spoken in the 21st century, but so were Greek, Egyptian, Latin, French, Portuguese and Spanish once upon a time.

I might be writing this in English now, but saying it won implies no change in common language will ever happen again.

Given the history of mankind and some of the countries I had the pleasure to visit on my life so far, I doubt it.

Specially since most of the people I know, do happen to speak three foreign languages on average.
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A lot of people who know, jump in, get documentation on the car and start wrenching. I grew up fixing nearly everything I owned. Was cheap, and I learned a lot.

Today, it is actually a lot more fun and accessible. Videos of most repairs are online and easy to follow. I compare this to the first time I changed a transmission, or timing belt, and it's like the sci-fi future is here. Ask about it, and there you go!

Often, books did not even have that many photos. You had to reason through the repair.

My advice on this is to get some good tools and a place to work on the car. Clean it too. Working on clean cars is fun. Poor tools and a dirty car can be hell.

Then, fix your car, upgrade it, or get a fun project car, maybe one you thought was cool as a kid.

Most anyone can work on 90's and older cars. Newer ones do still offer a lot of opportunities, but sometimes are tough, due to all the advanced controls in place.

The skill I got as a kid means I can get a 500 dollar beater, size it up, and be driving it regularly for a few weekends of work. It came in handy during hard times once in life. It still does when on camping adventures. I've done some crazy stuff to get vehicles home! Good times. (Not so good actually, but seeking adventure sometimes means finding it.)
Yea except 100% of our end users are on iOS. We have no intentions on building for Windows Phone or Windows OS and they know that.
> Is there some case law that has determined "offenses against the United States" == Federal crime only?

At least going by the spiritual intent of the Constitution, the United States wasn't so much of a country on its own as a coalition of multiple tiny countries (made it easier for trade, war, debts), much as the member states of the European Union are still treated as independent countries today. The European Union hasn't yet had a 'civil' war to change the public opinion and perception of its governance, though.
"Don't standardise on line endings" is not a good idea. The whole CRLF thing is already completely stupid. Why are you trying to justify a dumb design decision, and claim that trying to standardise the way source code line endings are stored is a bad thing.

Not to mention that you can't send CRLF in emails. So how are you going to email patches.
MI5 failed to act on IRA tip-off that could have prevented Belfast atrocity
Part of the charm with ms is that they are not as calculating and ruthlessly capitalist as apple and google. They are more focused on the developer and researcher than the user. I hope they don't end up becoming the same.

I take it you weren't in the industry when the Halloween documents leaked, or the antitrust case was prosecuted. MS was (and probably still is) every bit as ruthlessly capitalistic as the new 800lb gorillas in town.
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I would think this is the premier venue for cloudtobutt usage.
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> True story: in my final essay of my AI module at uni, I disagreed with everything Minsky believed, so my professor, a fan, flunked me.
is there any platform reason itunes couldn't be replaced though? lots of people probably use e.g. spotify as their primary music provider.

(i guess itunes is privilaged if you're still syncing files back and forth from comp to phone, but who does that anymore?)

(itunes is terrible, by the way; very heartily agreed on that point.)
Most would agree that Git's command line leaves a lot of room for improvement (although the manpages are quite good at explaining). But the internal concept is sound.

I find it a bit odd that no-one has come up with a decent GUI or an improved command line tool for Git yet. There's plenty of attempts to supplement Git with extra commands but that's hardly an improvement. There are several implementations of the Git plumbing parts (e.g. libgit2), so making an UI on top of it wouldn't be that much work.
Really wish this article either included more details or segmentio open-sources a few of the tools.
This makes a ton of sense!

I find the attitude mentioned above annoying. Of course a ton of people do not understand these things. We make great cars today. So many of us really don't have to know.

It is a want to know in most cases. Share and share alike man.
Show HN: Paper Planes, mini game on Slack
Is that like Bash for Kids?
From The American System and Misleading Labels[1]:

> Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was present; and he said: "The legal status of AIs is ultimately a legislative question, and in the American system of democracy, legislative questions are decided by the Supreme Court."

> Much laughter followed. We all knew it was true. (And Brad has taken a case or two to the Supreme Court, so he was speaking from experience.)

The whole post is worth reading. It's a little dated and a lot oversimplified, but it drives home a useful point: just because something is named X, that doesn't mean it has anything to do with X.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/mh/the_american_system_and_misleadin...
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No, it is one of those OEM enhancements that get delivered with nice sound speakers.
Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way
Developer here.
Just something I spent a couple weekends working on to get familiar with Slack API development.

Haven't seen any "game" on the Slack app directory yet. No clue if they accept any games, but I submitted my app and they said it's being reviewed for approval. One of their guidelines say apps must be productive or contribute in some way to work. But then again, there's a host of meme/gifs/cats apps too. We'll see.

I know there's a shameless freemium feature in there, hoping someone buys and helps pay the bills :)
My mom thought so too. At some point she took me to the doctor and asked him why I had orange feet. He told her to stop feeding me so much carrot.
Microsoft research is nearly legendary in many academic circles. As prestigious as many top colleges. There are many brilliant people working there.

Admittadely, the prestige probably has a lot to do with the previous circumstances (work on whatever, don't worry about the company), but it seems like this will be a very beneficial move for Microsoft.
Such arguments are nonsense. Sure the criticism might be a bit harsh but what on earth do one's credentials matter in such situations? Oh so if I'm not some superstar open source contributor I can't try to point out what could be better in the approaches of another guy who's famous and made huge contributions? We should only look at facts case by case and such a fame-based logic can only be detrimental.
While petke's post seems a bit... overly optimistic?... It's basically completely nonsensical to focus on news from a decade ago or further when discussing technology. Ten years in tech is like a different century in any other topic.

Halloween documents was 1998, Microsoft's antitrust case was 2001. If you want to neg a company, find examples in the last decade. (They exist. Windows 10 privacy issues are a great example of them still getting some things wrong.)
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Hi my name is Philippe Cases and I am the CEO of Spoke Software who published the landscape and Ebooks on which John Koetsier based his article. The goal of our EBook and of John Koetsier’s article is to give some numbers around this Unicorn phenomenon and show a long-term perspective. Reading through the comments, I would like to point out few things:
1)	A unicorn is a company that reached the US$ 1 Billion mark from a private transaction. We went back until 2000 to identify all the unicorns we could, independently of what status they are now. We may have missed some but the goal was to identify when, where geographically and where in the technology landscape, unicorns appeared;
2)	About 25% of the companies that have the Unicorn Status have been either acquired or went public so they are technically beyond the unicorn stage but we still want to know what they will become and it is important to identify that they were unicorns at one point.
3)	We also want to know which unicorns got sold below market like Gilt or Fab and which company is going under and we also want to track companies like Facebook or Alibaba who are now worth several US$ 100 billion.
4)	Facebook, Zalando and LinkedIn did receive US$ 1Billion dollar valuation while private. Palantir is a Decacorn as well. Skyscanner is now a unicorn but we only saw a press announcement of this status in 1/2016;
5)	We don’t expect to be fully exhaustive at this point and people have pointed 14 unicorns that we hadn’t identified and we are in the process of adding them to the landscape. SpaceX is part of the landscape already and we are checking for Tesla. Google never reached the US$ 1 Billion valuation while private so isn’t part of the unicorn.
I hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions. I would be happy to answer.
its value added BS. Dolby tries very hard to be Creative 2.0 by pushing patented crap into standards (hdmi, bluray) to position itself as essential for hi def audio = collect patent tax.
c# has value types right?
As all presidents do. As would you or I.

Does it then not count?

If you believe a man should be judged by his actions, not his words, that pendulum swings both ways.

Dismiss this piece for being only talk, no walk: sure. But don't dismiss it because "it's for the wrong reasons." Who cares? If he does it, he does it! Win for society.

And if he comes out looking better in the process? Win for everyone.

I'm not saying you're wrong; I just don't think it's a bad thing.

(Maybe I read too much into your comment and neither did you… That joke would be entirely on me, then :) )
I for one hope that ChromeOS goes away, I will never buy a browser as main OS.

The proof is the amount of ChromeOS devices one sees on sale here in Germany. Almost zero and the ones that do sell, tend to get discounted almost all the way to zero before anyone buys them, just to replace ChromeOS with a standard GNU/Linux distribution.

As for Oracle's suing them, Google should have played by the rules all JVM vendors follow instead of playing dirty on Sun.
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What does Tech breakthrough in this context means? And what tech breakthrough came from Facebook?

Is something like HHVM considered a tech breakthrough?

Automated self driving cars considered a tech breakthrough? (most probably)
All Microsoft research (or at least a huge chunk of it) is published in open journals. I can't say the same for acadamia.
> Mercurial allows many different workflows (bookmarks, anonymous heads, named branches, topics), but with git you're pretty much stuck with the "standard feature branching" workflow.

Mercurial is internally more complex than Git, as shown by the concepts you mention (bookmarks, named branches, etc) and all the various extensions. By contrast, Git is just a malleable graph of patches and tools to manipulate it. This is very well explained in the first commit(!) of git, which explains the concepts and the internal database layout.

In Git, there might be a "default workflow" that the tools are geared towards but you can use rebase and cherry-pick and all the other tools to enable just about any workflow you can imagine. Of course, this allows you to turn it into a big mess and there are some weak spots (like tracking a lot of bugfix commits backported to several release branches) but the concept is simple and sound.
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IBM's not had anything to do with ThinkPads for a decade, and hasn't had any presence in even x86 servers since 2014.
As IBM research. And now, the two companies are making a late debut of their cloud linux thingies, as well as porting every important software to it.
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"always seemed very draconian and counter productive"
How so?
U.S. laws are actually quite lax compared to other countries.
Lets say your society had a rampant theft problem, and a law was passed saying that anyone caught stealing would have one of their hands chopped. Would this not reduce the amount of theft?