skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gentiles didn't have be be discriminated against in order for Jewish students to start doing very well in Harvard a few generations ago. The distributions flipped pretty much as soon as entrenched barriers such as quotas were removed. The same was true for East Asian students in elite universities decades later.
Good to hear. What are they using for configuration in the newer frameworks instead?

True, XMLHttpRequest was good for the world. My distaste for XML generally stems from some particularly bad experiences I have had working with XML configuration files meant for humans to modify and some particularly poorly-implemented tools for working with said files. :)
Wow that was my first time looking at http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ . Is their some template you fill out for your blog whenever you get acquired?? Seriously: copy, past, repeat.
it seems to me that while humans are built out of neural nets, we are capable of logic, and the sort of reasoning that seems to be fall under the category of "tree search" in this conversation. in that sense, it would seem that we can do deductive logical reasoning, and we run that software on neural net hardware (slash firmware/software).

so, why the slavishness among some to neural nets and building everything on top of that? why emulate logic processing on top of associative processing and then mesh the two, when you could just do associative processing and mesh it with more "native" logic processing, since man-made computing hardware already does that easily?

also: this has been brought up here and elsewhere before, but as the article mentions:
"Just yesterday, a few hours before the Go paper was made public, I went to a talk where a graduate student of a deep learning expert acknowledged that (a) people in that field still don’t really understand why their models work as they well as they do and (b) they still can’t really guarantee much of anything if you test them in circumstances that differ significantly from the circumstances on which they were trained. To many neural network people, Minsky represents the evil empire. But almost half a century later they still haven’t fully faced up to his challenges."

let's keep in mind that some of the biggest mistakes humans make come from unexamined associative reasoning. let's also keep in mind that this crowd tends to be particularly suspect of the sort of not-strictly-logical associative heuristics that we associate (haha) with more mainstream society (unexamined articles of faith, habits and social customs that have unintended deleterious effects, etc).

one of my favorite failures of loose associative reasoning is racism, so here's a link many of you have probably seen, but it's an important thing to keep in mind, so here it is anyway:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/upshot/when-algorithms-dis...

let's not reproduce some of our species' biggest flaws just because it let us expediently reach some narrowly defined (and likely immediately financially desirable) goal.

i realized i've sort of conflated my points here: it is entirely possible to implement all sorts of terrible things (like racism) using logic. there's certainly no shortage of spurious logic to justify all sorts of bad behavior. axioms need to be sound and nuance needs to be considered. but i think my general point is that humans aren't some sort of model of perfection, and should not be copied as such.
It seems like every month brings a new "miracle" application for graphene. Are these breakthroughs as surprising for the experts as they are for the layperson? If not, what fundamental properties would allow one to extrapolate its applications?
You can customize the default fonts for the editor, preview and presentation via CSS, and you can theme the entire UI with different colors, but I haven't found a way to change the font size for the core controls like the left notebook bar.
Add a feature request @ https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/issues

For cells, you can Opt+Cmd+2 to convert to a code cell, then Opt+Cmd+/ to bring up the list of languages and then type ahead. That's about as close as it gets. You can also set the default language for new code cells in preferences.
Code is not speech any more than electronic circuits are speech. That is to say that in unique contexts when the code is itself a means of expression code may be speech,[1] but not when it is used to build something that enables communication.

[1] Bricks can also be expression in unique contexts. That doesn't mean that bricks are speech.
Yes, nature can actually be quite scary if you're not used to being in it. I think a pleasant, safe, comfortable urban setting can be just as good.
DAE M$?
I listen to the same playlist over and over again (used to be pandora, but changed to spotify discover weekly). Literally don't hear a single song until i listen to it at the end of the week at home.
That's so stupid. What a baby.
I believe that you can definitely wonder into the same territory through meditation. Some people even get there through athletics by pushing themselves really intestly. The experiences that people describe as "bad trip" can be found in the literature around buddhism, or even in the christian tradition if you examine "the dark night of the soul". There are also parallels to the more positive experiences.
Ah, thanks for the pointer. Good to have Wayback machine around :)
Never underestimate the placebo effect.
> I personally sometimes have to open up 5+ Github repositories to check their last commit, number of contributors, interfaces, code quality, unanswered issues, etc.

Only one of these, it seems to me, is likely to be consistently related to the quality of the module.
It also might mean that the entire thing is relatively heavyweight.

Yes, I have a few gigs of RAM on my laptop — but this RAM is needed for other apps, too.
This attributes a little too much insight to Lang. Multi-stage rockets had already been invented. It is quite likely that people developing rocketry at the time were already using count downs and Lang was inspired by what he witnessed. This is the first documented countdown on film. It doesn't necessarily represent a novel invention.
Insisting that we need debt relief is not an argument. It's not self evident to me why we need to invalidate principal on loans. I like the idea of inflation a hell of a lot more because it benefits me as someone that paid off my loans ($80k!) in full. We can't seem to do it via monetary policy, but if you give me the choice between helicopter money and student loan debt relief, I'm going with helicopter money every time.
I know I'm not alone thinking that psychedelics might just be the solution (or key to finding solutions) to a lot of humanity's issues, including climate change, fundamentalism, war..

And it's easy to understand why - because most of humanity's issues are consequences of the spiritual health of every individual living on the planet. If the group, as a whole, is spiritually and morally lost or deceived, things like wars, dictatorships or disregard for nature can and do take place.

If psychedelics can heal individuals, then we can eventually heal the whole of society, which is the proverbial moving on to the next level of global consciousness.

Without any kind of real data, instinctively I feel like the world is going through an explosion of psychedelic use, partly due to music festivals, partly due to dark markets and partly due to the good press and incredible amounts of information available online.

Another interesting aspect is that the users who experienced a powerful personal transformation often feel the need to spread the word and rightfully come to treat them as sacraments.

So I think more and more people will use them, which will hopefully lead us to a peaceful, healthy future.

AI, VR, Robots, Space exploration and Psychedelics .. Interesting times indeed.
Interesting, but also what about this?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry...
>full chacras alignment

You know that that is mumbo jumbo BS, right?
"only" 24 pins? That's still 6 times more than the previous standard...
Weekend? I suspect quite a few of them to produce a relatively polished app.
Even look at public wifi. Most non-tech savvy people I know really have no problem using piblic wifi to conduct business and login into important accounts.

They want the path of least resistance, which isn‘t good for security or privacy.
I think you'd be surprised.

Per tax data from 1979-2005, out of the top professions in the 1%, computer/math/technical/engineering (non-finance) are the #5 group by population, representing 5% to 6% of the total (lawyers are #4 at around 8%). It's fair to say there are likely in fact lots of software engineers in the top 1%.

There are also likely to be far more software engineers in a summed five to ten year measurement, than in any given year. The top 1% has a fairly high turn-over rate, in which a large percentage of the top 1% do not stay in that category year after year after year. Good software engineers have far more stable earning power over time than many of the people that make up the high earners (CEOs that get one-off bonus pay or options; sales workers with a big year, such as in real-estate; one-off dividends from owning part of a business; gains from a business sale). If you measured a high earning software engineer across five years, they'd come out a lot higher than any given year would otherwise indicate.
This weekend I kept thinking about wanting to make a trello like board for personal knowledge or idea tracking but keep it git version controlled, your comment reminds me that maybe others are in the same track.
This radioactive life
> wget -O - "http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/ring.pub.key" | sudo apt-key add -

Ew.
Mirrors and lenses can be used with photovoltaics as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrator_photovoltaics

I know pretty much nothing about it besides the fact that it exists, though.
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Hitting the middle button on SwiftKey "neural alpha" repeatedly:

I have a few questions for you to see if you can get me a copy of the letter to the office and I will be in touch with you to discuss the position with you and your family are doing well and that you are not the only one I have to say that I am a beautiful person and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you and I love you
More and more, I push for more in-house and self-hosted services for things like this.

If I‘m using this as a regular workflow, I want to know that it won‘t go away one day.
This is something I noticed at my previous job (removing user access to gcc, make, ld etc so only root can run it[1]) and never understood.

It reminds me of blocking ping to improve security or worse blocking all ICMP.

Compiler, and especially make are harmless by themselves. They aren't setuid all it's used for is translate file from one format (source code) to another (machine code). One might as well block sed, because it could be used to modify /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.

A someone who would want to compromise hosts if they need binaries, they would precompile them statically, that way is a single file, no need for libraries and no need extra development packages with header files and more likely to work across wide range of systems.

[1] because, there were chef recipes that were compiling things :> Also, it decreases security, because now you need to run compiler as root, so you could be compromised through things like this: http://securitytracker.com/id/1004374
Ask HN: How do you determine what technology or language (if any) to learn next?
To keep up with the frenzied pace of tech change (see JavaScript), developers need to keep learning. I consider myself a pretty experienced and capable developer, but almost every day I learn about a technique, technology, or language that seems relevant to my work or future employment prospects.

It is simply not feasible to attempt to learn it all, and some technology might even go out of fashion in a short time. So I might prioritize what I learn based on such factors as learning curve, closeness to my existing knowledge, potential ephemerality, what other devs are learning, etc.

How do you allocate your scarce time to learning new stuff? How do you identify what is worthwhile to learn, and in what order?
It's possible for both phenomena to be unprecedented.
The fact that people in the past have used the line "that's not really intelligence" doesn't at all invalidate the point that is being made, which is that games like Go/Chess/etc. have little to do with the real world. The real world is exponentially harder than those games (imperfect info, imperfect sensors, infinite state space, large - if not infinite - possible moves, infinite time horizon).
The power coming from the sun is approximately constant. The power hitting any given spot on the planet is far from constant due to weather, day/night cycles and seasonal shifts. For a given solar installation, there might be a time where the ambient intensity (power per unit area) of the light has the cells biased just-so, converting energy at a near ideal efficiency. Of course then the conditions change and this isn't the case any more. When you run into that scenario, i.e. the sun has moved a bit, it becomes very useful to have some kind of mirror or lens to increase the intensity by collecting more of the light and concentrating it to a smaller area, thus bringing you closer to your ideal operating point.

You're correct that at some point you get undesirable transients, or you just melt your cell. I do that by accident more often than I'd like, by shining infrared lasers at a photo diodes while forgetting that I've left a microscope objective in front. Expensive mistakes.

Now re: the article, if you ask me the really interesting thing here isn't being able to focus light to really small areas per se, but that they've broken the diffraction limit. This means you can form an image of an object that is smaller than a half-wavelength of light. For e.g. red light, that means you can take a picture, an optical picture, of something like, say, a mosfet on a chip. Or a virus. That's quite something.

I'll note however that I could foresee (read: speculate) a scenario where having such a tiny focus, like the solar cell scenario, could invoke a quantum mechanical effect in some special material whereby the light coupling becomes much greater, thus increasing efficiency or something. But that's just science fiction as far as I know.

PS: Sorry if this is patronizing. I know nothing about my audience ;-)
You can take a look at Cello but it's more script-like.

http://libcello.org/

As dragonwriter said, C++ begun as a preprocessor. The cfront sources are available here:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/ind...

About your language, it's possible to do your own by parsing the AST output of GCC with "-fdump-translation-unit".

I think Uniform Call Syntax is planned for C++17 or maybe 20 (f(a,b)=a.f(b)).
Good point about MITM attacks; I assumed that we were talking about cross site scripting (XSS), but I suppose you are right.

I still am willing to bet that SSL is not impossible to MITM. Someone will manage to find a flaw in such a complex system.
Yea I'm an irrational "hater". I'll just leave this here http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/10/microsoft-announces-plans...

You never know what these giant companies will do. But whatever, it was just a suggestion. I don't care if you install the new Microsoft Swiftkey updates.
This is frustrating, Microsoft announced that they were going to port the excellent Windows Phone keyboard to iOS and I was hoping it would come to Android too.
This is basically just re-creating the taxi industry all over again.

Eventually, there will be unions and some sort of system in place to keep out upstarts, like the medallions in NYC.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I've personally seen several people suffer various ailments (cutting social ties; entering depression) after experimenting with psychedelics. They can be fun and they may be a useful therapy, but it's foolish to think they are risk-free.
Any theories on why they're using Wordpress.com VIP for this?
>This is a true story

Not very reliable, as this is also what old wives tales and urban legends claim too ("I know this guy/gal that...").

In this case for example, you might really know that woman, and she might have been a junior at Dartmouth that had those issues, but unless you were there with her that day, there's no way to know whether she did take LSD that night (or something else, or even nothing), or whether she didn't have any issues before, etc. It could just be some rumor people tell about here, or what she wanted other people to know about it (e.g. not to admit a mental illness but instead cover it with "had bad acid").

Let's rather stick to the medical literature that describes several cases of LSD use, how it affected or brought up psychosis, etc (and after what frequence of use, and with what mental issues the patient had before, etc).
Just uninstalled it.
How is that overfitting? That term is not applicable in this context.
Never has it been more apparent that morality doesn't come into the equation for Facebook.
That's it. Thanks!
What band do you want (VHF, UHF, etc)?

Do you need a radio that can be legally transmit on MURS or Part 90 frequencies (land mobile) or just ham radio?

Do you want a handheld or mobile?

Do you object to hardware that uses DOS (preferably running either on a real older laptop/desktop, or perhaps slowed down in DOSBox to program) or needs funky interface cables?

Do you object to something that must be programmed with a computer, and cannot be programmed by front panel inputs?
> - Context dependent predictions

Actually, that’s not a feature of the IME/Keyboard.

The dev of the app has to set textUri, or textEmail, or textShortMessage on each field.

Here’s a list of all contexts possible: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextVi...
Fast and easy solution that doesn't seem to fail any of their needs?
This.

While I agree that generally in SV there is some misogyny, that doesn't mean any injustice against males should be seen as a red herring.
Is there something glaringly immoral about this?
that is amusing.

there isn't swiftkey but on Windows Phone but there is some native predictive typing which is pretty good - i try to remember to use it because it's actually useful at times but more often than not i revert to simply typing out all the words out of habit instead.
That's not really evidence of your rationality, if that's what you were hoping to prove.
Are you kidding? The default Google keyboard doesn't remember what I type! I go to gym and type "lat pulldown" - I've done this at least 50 times, yet each time I type "lat p" it cannot figure out that what I want to type.
Absolutely love the interface/layout and GitHub integration! Going to try it out tomorrow for my c# programming class notes since my hand-written notes for most programming classes are lacking.
Even if you can source drugs legally, people need to recognise that psychedelics can trigger underlying conditions. They're not risk free.
I enjoy watching established players in industries that have exhibited decades of abusive behavior toward independent artists and consumers get stomped on by the new Internet economy. It's not that I necessarily think that in the end Amazon and Netflix will treat creators or consumers any better than Hollywood, though they might, it's hard to know yet. But, I think seeing the movie industry and the music industry (in particular, the music industry) kicked in the damned teeth until they cry for mercy is downright hilarious.

Hollywood thinks they have money and power...until an Apple, or Google, or Amazon comes along and shows them what real economic clout looks like. Again, it may not end up better for creative folks or consumers, but it sure is funny while it's shaking out.
> and the immense amount of setup required to do even simple web apps.

This complexity is sold by people who are selling complex tools. I don't use Babel or Webpack because it is not necessary. I usually try to remain framework free or use a framework that has a minimal complexity cost. You can write a complex application with jQuery , Angular 1.0 or Vue.js or even React in ES5 and it will not require any complex asset pipeline + build tool + 50 plugins in order to get started.

As said earlier, in my opinion the only tools worth using are Typescript compiler and Bower for package management. I discarded everything else because I just don't want to spend my time in configuration files, it doesn't solve my issues or my client's issues. It's exactly like in the enterprise world in that aspect, where vendors try to sell businesses useless and complex solutions that will eventually get discarded when the insane cost becomes too apparent.
Mysterious Homeland Security box plugged into utility pole is identified
Does that mean mediawiki runs entirely from the client now?
So I buy an app, and they can shut down the .app program on my Mac?
I started to get nervous. I liked my brain the way it was. I mean, there were some pretty big issues there... but I didn’t want a new one. I had no interest, for example, in leaving my wife. A friend had told me a story about a couple who’d done ayahuasca and had an epiphany that they should get divorced, then took a second dose the same weekend and had an epiphany that they should stay together. What if they’d stopped after the first trip?

I find myself having similar thoughts whenever I talk or think about having similar experiences. I've had small doses of mushrooms and LCD before which were a combination of good and ok experiences. DMT terrifies me for the reasons above. I like how I'm wired for the most part. I also know that I can have (and have had) some very bad experiences, even just with weed.

I had a close friend that experimented with a few things I'd like to not say, and it changed his life profoundly for a long time, and still impacts him today 3 or 4 years later. The changes, for the most part, were mostly not good (from my perspective). I would say that he "lost his mind" for at least a couple of months. But he also made some changes that were absolutely positive.

I'd like to see what all the fuss is about. But do I need to? Will life as I know it survive? For the moment I'm not seeking this experience out. I feel like if it comes to me in the right setting I'll likely participate, but until then, I'll sit on the sidelines and hope for the research (and laws) to improve.
Something that can track every aspect of my mood subjectively without constant user input and correlate with my actions and habits.