skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, I think you should consider that you do not have any right or entitlement to an (I assume) unsolicited message.

I have been on both sides of the table with this. In my own work I frequently cold contact folks who I think might be relevant leads. I also cold contact folks for any number of other reasons, if only to pick their brain.

Most of those people don't respond, and that doesn't offend me! After all, they're probably very busy people. I usually try reaching out again with a shorter message to bump their inbox. It's not at all personal, and I encourage you to detach from the idea that a response has anything to do with you as a person (it may, but it is likely just as frequenly irrelevant).

Now, for my work I receive anywhere from 50-100 emails a day. This is not quite as much as the Oracle PM who also responded in this thread, but let me demonstrate why it is not feasible to respond to them all. During my day, I:

• Work, for 8 hours, between 9 and 5, with larger or smaller breaks for eating and unloading my brain. I don't have a commute because I work from home.

• Go to the gym, for an hour (not including commute, 20 minutes each way).

• Cook dinner, about an hour. Eat dinner with significant other, another hour.

• Develop a side project which may or may not become profitable in the future, a few hours.

• Watch whatever TV show I'm not caught up on, at least an hour.

• Spend miscellaneous time with my significant other, up to a few hours. May overlap with TV show.

• Sleep, at least 8 hours.

• Read social media/tech/financial/industry news, an hour or two distributed throughout the day.

...etc.

Like I said, it's not personal. I have a finite amount of time, and I'm not generally willing to compromise my time for an unsolicited message unless it's from someone I know or it's a compelling message from someone I don't.
I haven't heard of node-red so thanks for the mention. I just started using huginn for a month or so, and I really like it. I mainly use it to process input data from various sources and output RSS feeds. Looks like node-red doesn't have something pre-built for this even in the extra modules. It is on a list of ideas: https://github.com/node-red/node-red-nodes/wiki/Node-Ideas

So for now, if your usage is the same as mine. Perhaps huginn would work better.

I do like how node-red have that drag and drop interface though.
Effectively or Efficiently?

I can search the internet way better. Email me what you are looking for and 9 times out of 10 I will send you back something better than what Google will spit out. Furthermore you won't even have to sift through 10 links, or change your search, I will do all this and send you the result back.
I prefer using the Stanford term "symbolics systems" for a larger tent that includes AI, but excludes business and scientific computing. Google search would fall into this.
Nah. I think I'll just buy chips from an ethical company.
https is also for authentication, not just encryption.
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Indeed, check out the number of lawsuits filed by major privacy organizations before Snowden's first disclosures on June 5, 2013:

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-suits

One of the biggest changes from the disclosures is not that these suits suddenly became mainstream, it's that they finally had a decent chance of showing they had standing to sue in the first place.
lkl (and rump hijack library) already do the job, though it's not perfect (at least in lkl right now).
I can relate. I deleted my Twitter apps when I wanted to take a break a few months back.

But with social, it's even harder. I literally had my mother calling me to complain "I miss following you and hearing about what you're doing on Twitter honey."
I spent 4 years in a healthcare company in a job that REQUIRED a BS in the life sciences. I never had single day where I was challenged by the goals set by my managers. For 2 years I doubled those goals every single month, some days I was able to quadruple those goals. I was the highest performing one in the department, I asked regularly for new "opportunities" only to get more crap that would not have been challenging for me at the age of 15.

I am sorry that doesn't fit with your world view, it was the worst experience I have ever had and I won't go into another job where they promise me career growth, opportunities, and challenges after I "prove myself." I've already wasted a HUGE amount of time, the past 4 years have been extremely inefficient compared to what I could have been learning in a challenging job.

The only reason I went to college was because I thought it would lead to a job that was actually challenging. My parents never had those, they don't have beyond a high school education. So fuck me for believing education could lead to a challenging job (and you better believe I am prepared for extensive work on top of my education). I've been working since I was 15, I had a full-time job the last half of my senior year in high-school as a stock room manager and yet I still have never had a regularly challenging job. I have never had less than a stellar performance review.

BUT, all my experience isn't the right experience. It seems I am assumed to be borderline mentally-retarded on anything I have not done 100x before.
Yeah. What makes STEM different is it's a lot easier to see who the productive people are. For MBAs in middle management at MegaCorp that's probably not the case, particularly since the people who went to more prestigious schools get started on a fast-track to upper management.
A lot of this just sounds like REYES implemented on hardware. Essentially what Pixar did with the Pixar Image Computer in the early/mid 80's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering
Talk to your friends. They may not be hanging out at top tier tech companies, but they are doing something.

I went to school with: a DA, guy who owns an engineering firm, a big Union lobbyist, bunch of social workers, a deputy commissioner of a large government agency, regional bank vp and a few other things.

Not Steve Jobs, but good contacts with a good network. You can make lemonade there.
Love the simplicity. Do you have Screencast functionality on your road map?
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No, actually, I haven't, not since I was too young to remember. What would be an example of a situation where it's important to rely on human judgment during changing track conditions?
Truth be told, I had switched to tabs (4 space tabs), mostly because my JS linter complained about spaces and I didn't have very strong feelings about it (in hindsight, it's probably a simple config setting).
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`itertools` comes in real handy in some cases. I just wish it didn't require a special import. Have you used the itertools.partition much? It's pretty handy as well.

The fun part with Julia is the ability to use these style of for-loops to generate code to run arbitrary N-dimensional computations based on the specific input array sizes. Not sure exactly what they're doing [here](https://medium.com/@acidflask/smoothing-data-with-julia-s-ge...) but it looks cool!
AI had big VC run in the 1980s. At that time it focused on expert stems and logic computing. Now the emphasis is on big data and deep learning neural nets. Google can afford to nuture a technology for a decade while VCs wont.
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Which points to either our uniqueness (1) or our not understanding their alien motivations (4).

A few points I'll make for fun:

1. Life on Earth propagates as much as possible. It is only external factors (mostly resources, but also predation and other factors) which keep populations in check. This is likely a shared trait of all (successful) life in the universe. This doesn't preclude the possibility of a species moving beyond this trait* but it does suggest that either the trait fails at some point prior to stellar engineering or interstellar colonization or that all advanced civilizations move beyond it.

2. Even if spreading throughout the universe is not a species' goal, whatever their goals are will require energy. It is likely those goals will require greater and greater energies as our own goals have and will continue to do for the foreseeable future. The only way I see around this problem is novel physics which seem impossible in our current understanding of the universe.

3. At some point every species must leave their host star or perish. (However, if they find themselves around a red dwarf, they will have quite a bit of time - and will not have to have moved since the beginning of the universe. So it may be we are freaks because we are around a shorter-lived orange star.)

But this is speculation at best. I'd rather speculate that they all created their own pocket universes that are ideally suited to their species and left the rest of us behind. :)

*Although I would suggest that natural selection is an unlikely candidate for the development of such a trait. In my opinion, this would require directly modification of whatever passes for DNA in the species. Even enforced population controls would probably not be enough to contain a species.
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No, you have to look at the core vocabulary. For example, most English words are derived from Latin (often through French), but all its core vocabulary (except for one or two words such as "very") is Germanic. So English is a Germanic language. Its earliest written form is Anglo-Saxon, the language of King Alfred.

Greek words in English are rarer, and are generally not core vocabulary, e.g. "telescope", "bacteria", "paragraph", "angel".

There are Greek cognates, which found their way into both English and Greek from their common ancestor Indo-European. These are harder to recognize. Examples include ἔργον which is cognate with "work", and πέτομαι/πτερόν (I fly/wing) which are cognate with "feather".
About 0.23% of the markdown implementations everywhere accept raw HTML.
I was very pleased to learn I could delay or advance the audio track on videos where the audio and video were out of sync, but I never did figure out how to save a video with the tracks properly synced and gave up.
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Full-page ads sold at a premium rate vs online ad sold at a discount (when compared to print).
Precisely. The image recognition and natural language processing that's "just a deep learning algorithm" today would have blown the socks off anyone ten years ago. Chess playing programs were AI until they could decisively beat all humans, and then we decided that chess doesn't require intelligence. Self-driving cars were AI until they got close to market and now apparently driving a car doesn't require intelligence. It would seem that only True Scotsmen are intelligent.
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I know. We haven't added SSL to our site. That's one reason we are still in beta.

My partner and I are finishing up a CLI app and then SSL comes after that. We are hoping to integrate nicely with something like letsencrypt.org, but we don't have a working solution yet.

I know from experience that HTTPS setup isn't as easy, nice, or cheap as it should be and we plan to fix that if possible for static sites.
No way. Asking for free stuff when you don't need it or can buy it cannot be respectful.
Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp
Works on an original iPhone (if I print it out and glue it to the screen)
We love Zapier and I'm really excited to start playing around with this. One concern I've always had as an engineer using Zapier was how it accounted for unique trigger events.

1. Concerning privacy, for API's that don't offer webhooks for instance, does Zapier poll the API and then store some of our data in order to confirm that new records are indeed new?
2. Concerning robustness, what insurance is there against any failure that the zap will catch up with its triggers?

We don't currently use Zapier for anything mission critical and I'm hesitant to recommend it, but it would be pretty cool if we could use it for making zaps that contain more sensitive data and are more critical.

The privacy policy states: "Your user-facing Task History is stored for the life of your account so that you can monitor Zapier activity and replay failures." [1] I was hoping for a bit more of a technical explanation, though, and could only find pricing FAQ's.

[1] https://zapier.com/help/data-privacy/
A Ridiculous Interpretation of Entropy Estimation
There are networks to be made everywhere. They arent just going to be gifted to you no matter what school you go to.
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Reading from the frame buffer is, in general, extremely cheap on TBDR architectures, not expensive. The frame buffer for the current render is stored in tile memory which is fast to access. Accessing the frame buffer with an immediate mode renderer will involve a load from main/global memory.
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Not so much a correction...I think saying it is "a declarative and atomic looking facade" implies it is not actually that, even though it might look like it, doesn't it? But, perhaps it is a worthwhile clarification.
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Yeah amazing isnt it Its a great player
I'll add that to the list of features.

Our focus is on simplicity and there are only two of us, so adding features in a way that fit our limited resources and vision is a bit tough.

We are working on SSL and making sure we have good caching policies by default. Travis and GitHub integration are things we haven't looked at yet, but will.

If you are looking for something right away before we have all those features, you might check out netlify. They already support a lot of those features and might be a better fit in the short term.
Also apple only spends about 3% of revenue on R&D. Google spends about 15% (and so does ms) if i remember correctly. I think at some point this is going to show. If apple isn't careful they might end up making the pretty but dumb phones of tomorrow.
I made one. http://mariomaker-wp.nintendo.co.jp/shareImages/cd6a8db28ca6...
I really, really hope this guy is no relation whatsoever to Edson de Castro.
Nice, I will check it out :)
The market was not optimistic of Apple's future even when Jobs was at the helm.
I used to promote VLC at every corner, until they dropped the ball on 4K support big time. Even with a good mid-price graphics card, they're unable to utilize the GPU hardware effectively, and if you don't have a good amount of CPU power, the app chokes when it's asked to play 4K video. Ridiculous, since even the integrated Intel graphics on CPUs are now capable of playing 4K without any trouble.
I went from PHP to Clojure and it was fun.
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Swap with the element at the end of the list, not append, and move the swap point one position back each time. Otherwise why would I say you would need to read them in reverse order?
For social its all about validation and self-worth.

Like, favorite, share, subscribe, follow, some type of hierarchy system.

That's how you get people addicted.
I don't know either language (they're distantly related), but I'm guessing they might have borrowed words from each other. Swedish and Finnish are completely unrelated, and are also linked, presumably for the same reason.
Yup. Going from ucsd undergrad to mit Phd was a big contrast in the ambition level of the students. When everyone around you has a higher bar, you push your own up as well.
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It all depends on whether those same people would be just as quick to credit her if she had in fact managed to turn Yahoo! around. Personally I don't think it could have been done, it was just too far gone in terms of momentum.
I stand corrected, unbundling, which happens during transfer, does seem to check SHA-1. Which surprises me, because I would expect SHA-1 hashing on all the manifests on mozilla-central to take a lot more time than what a clone takes (250k+ manifests of more than 5MB each on average (most recent ones are larger than 10MB), even with a SHA-1function doing 1GB/s (and I think we barely reach half that), that should take more than 20 minutes). But maybe a clone does take longer than that these days?

That said, while it doesn't during transfer, Git does check sha1s when objects are accessed. The code is in object.c in parse_object(), which calls check_sha1_signature(). But disappointingly not everything is going through that code path.

$ git init

$ echo a > a ; echo b > b

$ git add a b

$ git cat-file blob 78981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85

a

$ cp -f .git/objects/61/780798228d17af2d34fce4cfbdf35556832472 .git/objects/78/981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85

$ git cat-file blob 78981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85

b

$ git show 78981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85

error: sha1 mismatch 78981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85

fatal: bad object 78981922613b2afb6025042ff6bd878ac1994e85
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It's Kerckhoffs's 2nd principle:

"[The system] should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands"

Which gives rise to the idea of "security though obscurity" is bad. A system is said to rely on obscurity if the bad guy learning any facts about it (other than the special secret keys) represents a compromise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
> Why is it SOP on HN to downvote/chastise those who claim US economic numbers are fabricated, or post zerohedge/shadowstats links, yet fully embrace the notion of the PRC is doing it?

Because even if the U.S was doing it, it would be minor fudging. If China is doing it, it's almost wholly fabricated and un-reflective of reality. The U.S has plenty of independent verification of its numbers, and tons of channels for oversight. China literally has no oversight. Their government is the end-all, be-all. The alpha and omega. They don't have any oversight whatsoever. Their government runs the media (that's not an exaggeration, they literally own the news agencies) as well, so you don't get for-profit news organizations who would love nothing more than an economic controversy of that scale to come out so they could report on it and make loads of cash.

Basically, the entire premise is silly if you just use a little critical thinking.
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Reddit is leaking again :) I wonder whether HN is doomed to become reddit as more time passes.