skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with calling anything AI is that it's such a meaningless word in the context of computers. According to Wikipedia AI is "intelligence exhibited by machines or software" and Merriam Webster define intelligence as "the ability to learn" so I'd say we hit AI long ago. I'd follow the meaning further but I hate arguing definitions.

To put it another way, if we define a Scotsman as anyone born in Scotland and/or related to someone born in Scotland, we've essentially just defined a Scotsman as every organism ever to be alive on Earth.

I have to imagine when the term first started to be used people imagined an AI as something more human than neural networks. Imagine HAL or any other hollywood perceived robot.
Many people who claim to be skeptics are pseudoskeptics: people who arrive at skeptical positions by nonskeptical means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoskepticism#Truzzi
By the way, we are currently rewriting the Android client — with material design, far more features, and hopefully better notifications.

ETA is around April.
This is good stuff.

Pardon the plug, but I have something similar, a side project of many years: http://kbsportal.com

I will do some side by side comparisons tomorrow.
I don't work for a large company in SV, but do work for a large company of a market cap of almost 50 billion (larger than Yahoo).

We had record profits last quarter. Our market is growing. And we don't get jack squat for perks. We come in, work, go home. No holiday parties. Not even free coffee. I used to complain...actually still do. But, that's the expectation now. Hope it improves, but not holding my breath.

On the other hand my salary is 10% more than my previous company which had free snacks, Christmas gifts, etc.
Searching Hacker News for a Slideshow Tool
I am trying to search Hacker News about an article I've read a couple of weeks (or months) ago about a web slide show tool that is sort of branded as replacement for powerpoint. It was not RevealJS but something similar. Can't recall the name hence, hoping someone can provide me the link back to that article. Thanks.
The older version I was using, 1.7.2.4, is not affected. So much for "updates".
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I pushed for a project at work for months. Practised JS/web dev for about a year before that - when the time came I was ready. I go to a lot of JS meetups and I'll be speaking at my first this month!
Every application should have a headless command line interface.
Yes, one of the few (only?) sources of real time quotes...not even my damn brokerage provides real time quotes for free.
> she had nothing to do with the stock price rising (all due to BABA's rising value).

The decision to keep the BABA chunk versus spinning it off or distributing it to shareholders was CEO's decision, there were other interests at play urging other outcomes.

She still had a handle on the cost structure of the underlying business - expenses related to employee headcount, office leases, new project investments, outsourcing vs keeping things in-house - impacted the stock price to some extent, things could've been much worse.

I think she was set for life well before Yahoo! offer, and in light of recent developments with GOOG her Alphabet holdings might have appreciated at faster pace than her Yahoo! holdings.

Moreover, her decisions are not terribly out of line with her predecessors' decisions - Scott Thompson and Carol Bartz layed off, outsourced and cut expenses as well.

Could she have done a better job? Perhaps. Was she the absolute worst CEO Yahoo! could've landed? Probably not.
Here's a weekend hacking side project, not nearly as impressive, just for the fun of it.

It summarizes a chunk of text in a single sentence.

https://github.com/mck-/oneliner
To me this is poor design. I prefer to have everything turned off by default. Then I have to learn how to turn things on.

In the end, this teaches me much more about controlling the program's behaviour than having developers make decisions for me. But that's just my opinion.
When someone says "Google is an AI company" they're obviously not talking about AGI but about applied stuff like ML and IR.
>Half of Colgate Social Science majors are in the top 5% of income earners?

I went to a New England liberal arts college, like Colgate, and the most popular major at my school was Economics, which is categorized as Social Science. Most of the Econ graduates went for jobs in management consulting or investment banking, as those companies would come to recruit on campus, and tend to already have a solid number of alums working there to begin with. In fact, Dick Fuld, the ex-CEO of the infamous Lehman Brothers investment bank, was a trustee on the board of my school, and hired many alums, as did Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, etc.

For banking jobs straight out of undergrad, you don't have to have a deep understanding of quantitative finance. It's more about having a soiid GPA, a demonstrated interest in the topic and interest in learning, and the capacity to work very, very long hours.
I'm going to apply to like...Missouri Institute of Technology and start telling people I went to MIT.
"Alphabet shares (GOOGL) jumped 6% after Google's parent reported estimate-topping fourth-quarter results after the bell. Its combined share classes were then worth $554 billion, surpassing Apple (AAPL), which had a value of about $534 billion and whose shares were down slightly after hours."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/02/01/alphabet-...

Please note:https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOGL and https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG
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Try side by side comparisons with their context-control
If you file a bug in an app through Instabug, is there any way to check
the status of the bug from within the app?

Have you considered gamification of bug reporting? Things like rewards,
badges, karma points, or similar for the app users (particularly beta
testers) might help to increase the volume of reported bugs.
You must only read books with very short chapters.
I've done similar images in the past and the approach I used was:

1) Choose a target image resolution, and set up a square array of that size, initialized to zeroes.

2) Decide on the bounds you want to use, and linearly map coordinates into the target image. Say you want to graph x in the range [Xmin, Xmax) and your resolution is Xres, then pixel_x = (int)((x - Xmin) * Xres / (Xmax - Xmin))
(Note that if you have a higher-dimensional attractor you'll need some form of projection down to two dimensions.)

3) Iterate your attractor equation (starting point doesn't matter because it's an attractor). Each iteration, increment the pixel that matches your current coordinates. Stop iterating when you land on a pixel with a value above some preset.

4) Apply a palette to your pixel values to turn it into a nice picture like the ones linked here.
For example, for Windows I have been thinking about a non-profit foundation founded by hardware vendors for example.
i hope to port libos code to lkl.
I was at Yahoo when Carol Bartz came in and did exactly that. And guess what? Morale plummeted.

"The beatings will continue until the morale improves" .... ever heard of that?
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If you throw everything together it's uninformative.

1. Obviously, some things are successful "conspiracies" to continue nefarious activities despite what would be public aversion: An obvious example is the clergy sex abuse case.

2. Obviously, other supposed conspiracies are bullshit: Chupacabra, Moth-man, LGMs at Area 51.

3. Other things are a kind of readily identifiable, if you are historically literate, forms of opportunism: The rise of the security state and the neocon wars after 9/11, for example. 9/11 wasn't an "inside job" but it was cynically exploited about as far as possible. From Winston Churchill to Rahm Emanuel, politicians have known not to waste a good crisis. "Cui bono?" Yeah, the people who jumped on it and exploited.
In a UEFI World, “rm -rf /” Can Brick Your System
Comparing output of 4 recursive hello worlds #erlang #python #java #Node.js
I would argue that Apple's reputation for quality design - reliability, build quality, simplicity (though these may be changing), along with first-class industrial and UI design - is what drives their products. The definition of a "trinket" is something that is of little value. Material artifacts with the above qualities have always been of value.
Quicktime gives me a bunch of weird green artifacts in empty spaces with h.264 encoded video. Seems to struggle with sync as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008449
How to make Graphics in Dev c++ on Windows 10
For everyone who's thinking "It would be great if Github Pages supported X", I am building https://zammu.in/?invitation_code=HACKERNEWS . It currently supports Middleman, Hugo, Hexo, Octopress and Jekyll. I am planning to add more to the list.

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It's always nice to get a chance to deploy some functional techniques.

You can get a Cartesian range (also called a von Neumann neighborhood) of size "n" and dimension "d" via:

def cartesian_range(n, d):
return product(*[range(-n, n+1) for _ in range(d)])

This returns a generator that yields all tuples of integers where each integer has absolute value less than or equal to "n". If you want the Moore neighborhood (tuples whose absolute sum is less than or equal to "n"), you can add a filtering step:

def moore_neighborhood(n, d):
seq = product(*[range(-n, n+1) for _ in range(d)])
return filter(lambda x: sum(map(abs, x)) <= n, seq)

There's probably a more efficient way of doing this for Moore neighborhoods, but I didn't come across it when I was looking into such things.
The problem lies in the fact that as "d" grows large, you're throwing away more and more of "seq", so while it looks elegant, you might need something a little less terse in practice.
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So there are hidden gems in the comments(at-least for me, I did not know about Node-Red, Bipio etc). Thanks for sharing!

Is/are there any such framework/s built with/in Python too?
Criticism of “Research Parasites” Moves Medical Journal in Wrong Direction
Alternately, before starting Firefox:

echo 'user_pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.autoupdatemedia.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", false);' >> user.js

Preferences set in the user.js file are applied after those in
prefs.js, but are persistent - while the current prefs settings
are saved to prefs.js when Firefox exits, the prefs in user.js
are re-applied on every restart of Firefox - so you would have
to edit user.js to persistently change Firefox' behavior.

Thus user.js is handy for knowledgeable users, but could be a bit of
a trap for less capable users. ("I can't make it change!")

While I'm on about:config stuff, a handy way to search for
config variables is a shortcut:

<DT><A HREF="about:config?filter=%s" SHORTCUTURL="ac">[ac] about:config filter</A>

invoked by putting, say,

ac media.gmp

in the address bar.
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In other words, your password is a letter and a sequence of numbers, for example "X64796265357", encoded in a very inefficient way.
Very interesting. Thanks.

This concept seems to be a direct abstraction of hindsight bias.

In fact, the concept of hindsight bias feels very much like every aspect of life, also. As soon as you build the next great tower, you opt for a new wave of bigger, more powerful enemies (i.e., you level up), and so the solution for the last wave no longer feels that interesting anymore, and thus seems, perhaps, obvious.
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we run on AWS and we use chef for deployment.

Beyond developers, we're also looking for product managers, business analysts, you name it!

Shoot me a note at bernardo [at] with the subject "HN" and I'll connect you to the right person. It works: I joined because @jlisam posted this on the September Who's Hiring.
Pension funds (as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong) are financial instruments which are meant to be used for future consumption during retirement. They are not financial investments that are used to generate more capital. This makes them distinct from capitalist investments which are used for the purpose of increasing their capital wealth, most of which is unable to be consumed.
“Larry, I still don’t get it. There are so many search companies. Web search, for free? Where does that get you?”

“Oh, we’re really making an AI.”
-Larry Page [0]

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligen...
So when it's your choice what software to use, you can use your definition of better. The high horse comes when you try to tell other people to use your definition of better. Like the link we're discussing. The person is telling others, who've decided they like Slack better than the free alternatives, that they should stop using it. That's getting on a high horse.

You don't see a lot of pragmatists telling free software proponents that they should be using non-free software. Unfortunately, the reverse situation is very common.
The problem with "tablet" magazines are that they force publishers to pick one tablet to optimize for. There is no equivalent to responsive web design in the magazine sector. So what you end up with is content originally designed for a 4:3 10" Retina iPad, but also available via the Play Store or dedicated magazine app on form factors where it has no business being, like an 8" 16:10 Android tablet, where you have to zoom, pan and scroll to see the whole page. It is enormously inconvenient, and I would guess most people just end up going to the website, which in most cases is responsive and will likely work well on a tablet, laptop or phone.

Magazines on mobile devices should offer the same level of comfort and convenience as their physical equivalent. I would love to swipe through pages like I do on my eBooks, as I find scrolling through text every few seconds to be a hassle and visually disorienting, especially for long-form reading.

I'm happy to continue to subscribe to physical editions of my favorite magazines, as the mobile experience doesn't offer nearly enough at this time to be worth my while.
Install WordPress on AWS Using an AMI
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I am looking for a Python implementation as well.
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Usually, by communicating with RFID devices that sit between the rails. Most of these require no external power or connections; they just report their location. Some have connections to the signal system and report the status of signals and switches ahead.

The ruggedness required of railroad lineside components is very high. They have to resist rain, snow, ice, flooding, hurricanes, vandalism, snowplows, and the machine that replaces the track ballast.[1]

There's no reason the Northeast Corridor shouldn't have had PTC years ago, though. That's a busy line, and since it's electrified it has lots of wayside equipment already. There's resistance from the American Association of Railroads about equipping long freight lines out west and in the south, some of which don't have much traffic. That doesn't apply to the Northeast Corridor.

Speed limit enforcement isn't new to railroading. Many subway systems, including NYC's, have had it for many decades. It's crude, based on timers between signals, but it works. Subways tend to have so many short signal blocks that block-based speed control works reasonably well. Above-ground lines have much longer blocks. Freight rail in open country can go miles between signals.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbfCX3WRL7g
This seems to be a completely different line of argument than the parent.
It's so funny that Spanish-Catalan-Italian are strong but Spanish-Italian are weaker. As a Valencian (we also speak Catalan) I understand most of the Italian I hear, but for most people in Spain it's not so easy
Much easier to get money out of people who can get money from themselves.

Ad impressions from adults are worth more than ad impressions from teenagers.
What's New in Webpack 2
Diaspora? http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

(Its available as apt-get install in debian unstable)
You had a baby in 6 months? What CAN'T Slack do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012814
You say that like Google doesn't employ humans to help make their search results better.

They do. Most companies which build their primary product on some form of heuristics have "domain experts" who help filter the wheat from the chaff.
As an American I think it's pretty badass that something like 8 or 9 of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world are all American. I'm not sure if that means we're doing something right, but it's still pretty cool for a moment.
Valuation based entirely on hype and big names, without any released products or services?