skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Paypal indicated that UnoTelly is not allowed to provide services that enable open and unrestricted internet access."

I don't agree with that intreptation, I'm assuming that the Paypal ToS (like many payments providers) has a line that states you cannot use the service to provide services that enable or facilitate copyright / intellectual property infringement. Accessing Netflix where they are not allowed to stream content due to copyright law would be an infringement.
I want to replace peaker plants with storage. Somehow I don't think the economics work out. Do you disagree?

Even if we rebuild the whole continental US power grid (that's a lot more than $50 billion) to cope with the demands of using storage, it is unclear to me if we can build enough hydro to replace peaker plants. Apparently all other storage technologies other than hydro are cost-ineffective and/or do not have enough scale to solve the problem. Do you know if there is enough geography to go around for all the hydro we need or if there really are any cost-efficient alternatives?
Had to google Storylane but no way to see what it was like since Facebook acquired them. Thanks for the info tho!
> I've been doing web client and server programming for some time now, and I can without a doubt claim that it poses its own set of challenges that compare and oftentimes exceed in complexity to those encountered in the "lower level" programming fields.

I'm a math major turned 'full stack' dev with an eye on embedded dev as my prize- I needed this comment.
It's a free online journal website where people can write private or public journals. And yes it has it's own theme :)
You beat me to it. Fourmilab is the backbone of my www. Been visting for twenty years - the site is still recognizably itself, and though at a somewhat slower page nowadays, still regularly manages to come up with interesting new stuff.
It's a treasure trove. Everyting public domain'ed.
GNU Social isn't P2P, but federated. You don't have to host your own node to be able to use it, which massively raises the barrier to entry, but instead lets you register on any server in the federation as an entry point into the network.

There are both upsides and downsides, of course. It's more centralized along with having censorship by your hosting node. However, it doesn't force you to leak your IP address to attackers or run software and be a sysadmin, along with saving bandwidth. It also doesn't have some of the difficulties that proper P2P does: Twister is on top of Bitcoin (costs to use) while Sone is over Freenet (Sybil attacks and routing issues)
This is excellent! Thanks Terry.
Valve's Gabe Newell to Address Vision VR/AR Summit
Then it will be very amazing if Dwarf Fortress runs in TempleOS. ;-)
A bunch of "well meaning" super wealthy, corrupt individuals can manipulate the world economy as a show of power to Presidential candidates they don't already have in their pocket but soon may...

I like conspiracy theories and I cannot lie...

bleepin' hell
+1

For all this talk about how engineers "might" get laid off, this completely ignores the massive contraction of the legal market that has already happened.

Outside of a few specific areas of law, and a few high powered law firms, lawyers don't make that much money.

My ex, a nationally renowned family lawyer in literally the richest area of the country doesn't make more money than i do (and she runs her own firm, so it's not like she is being kept down by partners).
This is silly nonsense. Before I care about image size or "security", I need to ship my products. After I've accomplished that, I make sure my firewall is still good and if necessary buy $20 more volume space.

You have "solved" a problem that no one has. I don't care about image size, and neither should you. I don't care about container security, and neither should you. How does struggling with a anaemic non-distribution hacked together by a handful of kids that believes software is about size and "security" help me accomplish shipping shit ? It does not.

This decision is ill-advised.
I'm not criticizing the implementation, I'm talking about the marketing.
When tou have to cook statistics to have this "immense inequality", no, I would not.
I don't think I quite understand you but apparently I'm the guy with the one of the worst ideas lol. On GoodnightJournal.com you can write private journals too! It's entirely up to you to make your journal available for others or yourself. Also I don't think sharing journals will ruin your life either. Check out couple public journals on the site with comments to see how people interact each other on public journals. You will see more positive aspect of it.
I can't believe they are worth even a tenth of current price - they have added no value to my career and for some time have just been annoying.
It really started going backwards with the endorsements - there is no validation of the competency of the endorser to endorse you, so it is totally pointless.
Another thing is that in the US junk calls more often than not come from out of state.
You have the etymology of "professor" and "professional" completely wrong. You can't just notice the same root in two words and then completely reinvent the meaning of one to make it have something to do with the meaning of the other. The evolution of language is complex. Here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=etymology+profession
Thank you for your kind word. And totally agree with your point of view :) someone did spend lots of time and effort!
Alpine is built by one guy, that now works for Docker. So I understand. I really hope I'm wrong.
Why aren't you more clear with scanning our email contacts?
Really, there is nothing wrong with being a "PHP Programmer," or even a WordPress "programmer," if you can find people to pay you for it. Well done, that counts as succeeding in life.

On the other hand, if someone has spent years feeling bad that they don't know lower-level programming, they need to get over themselves and spend a few weekends learning assembly or something. There's no reason to feel bad about this, take a bit of time to expel your ignorance.
"If someone adds a new field to a row, you have to rebuild all your Rust programs that use the database."

Are you sure? Why do you say that?
HTML to WordPress
"up your title by 2" means nothing at all. 25% pay is a good enough reason, BUT! Do you currently enjoy your job/team/manager? If the answer is a definite yes, then stay. 25% is not worth the risk of going to a crappier team.

What you want to do is become a better software engineer, the title & money will come by itself.
I'm assuming you are talking about the way I wrote about the site here. I'm actually new to Haker News and still not quite sure how to use this forum properly yet.
If Alpine does not support the software I depend on I have no use for it. I would like to use the official Docker containers as far as I can but I'm most certainly not going to spend time recompiling third party deps to accomplish that. Shipped products trumps "security" and by god "size" every time, always.
Many companies have said things that never materialized. Landscape changes over time.
If you were a smart home, how would you kill your master?
IBM WATSON OPENS IN INDIA #cognitivecomputing
What is the downside to that though?

There's a fixed amount of money to distribute, and in some sense it seems fairer to compensate those artists who have paid listeners more.

Are they just trying to be super transparent with pricing to help artists feel like they're not being ripped off?
Genuinely interested - what makes this stuff more 'hacker' than the original post? I don't see it.
The base image size does not explain the switch in package manager. Why not use the ubuntu one, and simply trim the base image to minimal?

What a waste of energy for everyone so they can save a few cents on bandwidth.
What is special about 12%? Are you saying that someone is spending excessively on housing if their rent is $500/mo and they are making $4k/mo gross income?
I can't believe they are ruining twitter on purpose.

First, their staff admits to taking weeks to change the star icon to a heart. Seriously, weeks? Just to copy Facebook. All past save-for-later and/or acknowledge content now implies approval under the new system. No data migration or mitigation. Just patting themselves on the back.

This algorithmic timeline bullshit is why I left Facebook. I absolutely don't want it. I don't want to be half way across the world in some country messaging friends and get "popular content" when I'm trying to get an address.

They took all the things that make their platform useful and pissed all over them. Their staff all deserve to be laid off when the inevitable under priced purchase happens.

Waiting for the Clone Of Twitter to come about. Where are people going?
Supercollider has this kind of stuff
Hmm, are you sure? Doesn't "a strict set of rules set by humans" refer to the PageRank algo alongside rules for spammy content, nd rules like whether meta keywords are set, and so on, all the little rules that feed into deciding where a page that matches ranks in the resultset. That's why it's tweakable by engineers..?

"The Knowledge Graph is just a way of encoding the world's structure." Precisely. Very well said. "The world may reveal its structures to our neural networks, given enough time, data and processing power." But that's the point, NNs don't have to perform this uncovering because we do the hard work for them in the form of Wikidata and Freebase and what have you. I don't get what you think is brittle about this.

I was referring to the very recent article[1] by Gary Marcus, I need to quote a good chunk:

"""To anyone who knows their history of cognitive science, two people ought to be really pleased by this result: Steven Pinker, and myself. Pinker and I spent the 1990’s lobbying — against enormous hostility from the field — for hybrid systems, modular systems that combined associative networks (forerunners of today’s deep learning) with classical symbolic systems. This was the central thesis of Pinker’s book Words and Rules and the work that was at the core of my 1993 dissertation. Dozens of academics bitterly contested our claims, arguing that single, undifferentiated neural networks would suffice. Two of the leading advocates of neural networks famously argued that the classical symbol-manipulating systems that Pinker and I lobbied for were not “of the essence of human computation.”""

For Marcus the symbolic system in AlphaGo _is_ Monte Carlo Tree Search. I'm saying that for the so-called Semantic Web the symbolic system is the Knowledge Graph. This Steven Levy article[2] from Jan. 2015 put the queries that evoke it at 25% back then. I figure it's more now and growing slowly, alongside the ML of RankBrain.

[1] https://backchannel.com/has-deepmind-really-passed-go-adc85e...

[2] https://backchannel.com/how-google-search-dealt-with-mobile-...
Microsoft AC power cord recall for Surface
The Super-Shulgin Academy: A Singularity I Can Believe In
memory is a critical resource for scalability and gc's are not good at it.
Oops! Sorry, I missed it :-)
OK, Google, Where Did I Put My Thinking Cap?
RustType, a pure Rust alternative to FreeType
If the alternative for that person is being homeless and starving, probably yeah. Or at least I wouldn't be pointlessly malicious toward them while fending them off.
Take all the social networking Apps off your phone and just use the web versions when you really need to check them. You'll save tons of battery life and stop getting notifications every 5 minutes.
Build your own product now that generates revenue and profit. Make your own job.
The new emulator is noteworthy.
So it makes sense for them to do it if they do two points you raised on HN and otherwise not? Ok whatever.
Awesome Tools for the Designers
You have to switch between "Run code" and "Edit code".
I think that's a fair point. I suspect Tesla will end up being very much like Amazon: a company that ships physical goods but acts like a tech company. That is, they'll operate on razor-thin margins and dump every penny of profit into R&D in perpetuity. That will probably give them a leg up on companies that pay dividends, at least in the short-medium term. Ultimately, though, they run the "risk" of being Apple: a company that has to spend inordinate sums on R&D in order to gain a 1- or 2-year window of exclusivity before the competition commoditizes their product.
Yeah the comment about lawyers and bankers making more than engineers is straight out of 1995. Outside of highly specialized degrees in medicine there really isn't any other jobs out there paying a white collar wage ($100K +).
The problem that I see is entrusting someone with secrets about yourself. It seems like a great way to get burned in the act.

People will see "it's private" and think they can take that to the bank. That is quite the target for some people.
Why wait for the next job? If both you and your employer understand your wage is under market value, your work is good, and you are reliable, why are you hesitating bringing up your current pay? Give them a number that works for you.
New Relic CEO (Lewis Cirne) sold all his shares the day before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11045065

And New Relic shuts down their Seattle office: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-relic-shuts-seattle-office-...

AppDynamics, their direct competitor, is a late stage VC Unicorn ($2 bio evaluation) and delays its IPO.

Dynatrace another rather old-school competitor (like CA), which was bought out of Compuware by Thomas Bravo (private investor), has been taken private.

New Relic depends on smb sales, AppDynamics and Dynatrace more on enterprise sales. New Relic has the easier to use product, AppDynamic and Dynatrace are better at enterprise bullshit bingo and show more "nested pages" with often less detailed data to hide that they have worse/lacking insight. They stopped innovating like 2 years ago.

All three companies have a lot of employees and burn through their capital. Doesn't look good.
I'm talking about how you are offering your service as a private journal.

I think it would be cool to see this talked about as a blog, I love to see new competition in that space, but saying that it is private will, in my opinion, would be misleading to the average user.
I don't quite understand why people want to dismiss examples of machine learning as valid techniques for understanding the human environment.. It's not as if the human brain was built and guided from nothing, many of the same adaptive principles are as present in our minds as they are in other mammals and equally so from where all the branches divide. Even tiny organisms. And we seems to center the brain at the core of humans intelligence, when there's a range of chemical and metabolic coordination going that might bypass the brain entirely.

It's efficient, failure resistant models that matter. We're talking about accelerated learning, finding the models that work out of all those many iterations that fail. You can model it, decompile the results and try to understand and emulate what makes things seem real, but we don't even need to analyze it, because case by case it changes and it's circumstance makes things very different. 'Many ways to skin a cat'.

I think the challenge of the future is finding the general API that can negotiate all the things and make all the parts communicate, the kernel if you want. We can determine optimum speech algorithms, babel communication, create seeing eyes that recognize objects, optimize forms that can negotiate physical terrain, work out what is meant in human expression, but it's not until all these units work together that the 'AI' will seem seamless in human terms.

All of those parts have discreet forms, they generate a lineage of algorithms from iterations based on code, languages often derived from need. A Lisp might be the best way of interpreting language, a Haskell might be work best for defining strict biomechanics and area physics. Different abstractions are better for the results they are designed to intuit. But when we are to create the ultimate neural net, the composite of all these machine languages that are constantly required to optimize beyond human intelligible understanding, what will be using? What structure will state 'this works good enough' to not bother with the computation any more - in the familiar context of why don't our eyes have faster frame rate, need better detail, or need us to see into UV. What regulates such a machine, and how does a machine understand failure without guidance?

I like to think of these questions when I see rough examples posited around potentials in machine learning. Getting one human system sorted is one thing, communicating the results to other sub-systems an optimize concurrent results is another. The data model is too huge to even comprehend!

I'm just excited that these things exist, that there are individuals, research groups and companies looking at the what makes us 'us'. It might help us unlock the features of the brain and evolution.. Used for commercial gain - who cares, just a small cog, with revenue to continue development.

Just going to add my favourite example of machine learning, not because it's 'best' but because it's so dynamic that you feel the wonder.
http://www.goatstream.com/research/papers/SA2013/
I just started learning Rust and its type system is much simpler than Scala. What makes it powerful is some well-designed somewhat orthogonal features (generics, type traits, the ownership system, algebraic data types, macros).

I didn't pick up Rust as quickly as Go. However, that's not really surprising, because Go is approximately the lowest common dominator of modern statically typed languages minus generics. (In a good and bad way.)

At any rate, I started learning Rust ~2 weeks ago and I am already writing small libraries, programs, etc. for my daily work.

Although that took a bit more time than Go, it's also a much more pleasing language to write in (the lack or sum types or generics in Go is very annoying) and you get more safety guarantees.
By scale I mean performance though I'm not sure the application's language matters as much as the SQL that's being generated and run against the database. I've just never had good luck with ORMs generating the best, most optimized SQL for the query I'm trying to run and I've known a few people who used an ORM until they started getting heavy traffic, tested out talking directly to the RDMS, found it to be more performant and end up dropping the ORM.

Don't get me wrong ORMs can certainly be performant. I just haven't seen or know anyone who used it in a manner that scaled to thousands of concurrent users and, at the same time, didn't have a lot of pain trying to do that with the ORM.
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Could you explain how you see QE leading to deflation, when it's an explicitly inflationary policy?
Radioactivity live
Uh oh.

Myself & many others gradually stopped using Facebook when they started messing with the timeline algo. Then they went and hid the timeline ordering functionality, which meant that I just stopped looking at the front page entirely.

This doesn't bode well for Twitter.
Well said, the word/tex analogy is spot on.
Chariot (YC W15) Is Hiring JavaScript Ninjas
You could only get money if you managed to get your address book stolen and all your contacts spammed.

$10 is very little consolation for hundreds of people you know now thinking that you are, ehrm, not smart, for giving your address book to LinkedIn, or worse, thinking you're a spammer because each of your contacts got three annoying e-mails "from you" with no opt-out button.

If they had to pay even one dollar to each person they spammed, they'd probably be bankrupt.
I see. That's what I get for going straight to the demo without checking the documentation.
We have petitioned President Obama to Expel Brahmin from USA https://wh.gov/iyhMK
Thermaltake’s New 3DMakers Features 3D-printable Accessories for Its PC Cases
sounds like its more like Perth now...
Demonstrated learning capabilities? I have not seen HTM models make any breakthroughs on any benchmarks. It's also stretching the facts to say it directly correlates to how mammalian cortexs work. At best, you could say it directly correlates to some theories on how mammalian cortexes work - neuroscience has an incredibly poor understanding of brains in general.
This is really beautiful. Thanks!

(BTW: The "PHP" option looks to be busted, at least for me. Typing text makes the character count increase, but the text seems to be hidden. Other languages work fine. I'm using Chrome, Version 48.0.2564.103 m on a Windows 7 machine, FWIW.)
Furthermore, their support is amazing. I've emailed their support in the last couple of weeks and they've called within an hour to help resolve the issue.
To you complaining "its just one guy maintaining the distro" etc. Did you not read the article?

> Docker has hired the creator of Alpine Linux, Natanael Copa <
Reads like a joke, but is actually the bloody truth. In the last 6 months, ordering my favourite mix drink resulted in either:

- Getting the drink, but had to drink it at the bar were they could "supervise" me! (no joke!)

- Getting the drink, only when ordered seperately and "promise" to not mix it in the same glass

- Get the first one, second one denied

- Direct rejection, because "too late already/wrong day of the week"

- Direct rejection, because "generally illegal"

When I arrived in 2014, Sydney already suffered from a nightlife scene that was nowhere comparable with the ones in any other country I've visited so far. They at least flew in DJs from all over the world to keep people attracted. Now, "In late 2015, they banned parties on boats with more than one DJ."

I refused (read postponed) an offer to go to California last year. Maybe it's time to reconsider.
"Thunderbird - Elegant WebSockets in Go"

Probably runs best on Alpine.
I don't see TWTR dying. They make too much money. What I do see is a major correction in their head count.

I could see them operating with 100-200 employees.
That's like saying the housing crash would have never happened because real estate always has inherent value.

A bubble's a bubble. This isn't a simple "correction". When your stock's PE is above 1000x, it's a bubble. Overvaluation IS the definition of a bubble, not a lack of "fundamentals".

Amazon and Yahoo had revenue in 2000 and still crashed.
As a wise economist once said, the market has ability to stay irrational longer than your ability to stay solvent.
We have a good understanding of the first CNN layer (they turn out to be edge/blob detectors). But later layers are not well understood.
I applied here in december. The HR sent an online test which I submitted within 24 hours(because the test was super fun). Never got a feedback. Negative feedback is also a nice gesture.
Content is great. Anti-iDevice editor note is odd:

> [Editor’s note: At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.]

My iDevice is a 13" 5.6K screen that I hold in my hands like a magazine. Surely better suited to long form reading than a lower res rMBP I generally read at a desk or table.

iPad had Retina display since iPad 3rd Gen released in 2012 when this was written.
While that's unkind to philosophers Bostrom is mostly summarizing Moravec's thinking which was published in the 1990 book Mind Children. Moravec is a tech guy who built a robot for his 1980 PhD at Stanford and went on to be a professor of Robotics.