skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no...

Yes, because there would be a bigger pool to choose from. For the same reason that bigger schools have better sports teams: More Athletic types... Having a bigger pool of candidates means you have more chance to get specific with your choices.

No, because then you would be using the "Draft". There is a reason the US moved away from it in after Vietnam and went to an "All Volunteer" force. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta... )

Personally, I think those types of services (Military, FBI, etc) should be volunteer... last thing you want is your back being guarded or secrets been covered by someone who doesn't agree with or want to be there.
Uber's financials leaked a few months ago. They lose millions of dollars per quarter. They were able to raise 10 billion dollars according to CrunchBase [1].

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber#/entity
Just to be clear, if in an example the jailed individual is put in jail for failing to follow a court order, but that court order was to repay a debt resulting from a loan, would you accept that example? If not, where is the difference between that and the example you are requesting?
> The belief that we have any mastery over this planet seems to humbly disintegrate when looking at our relationship to our oceans

And let's be thankful for that. We need it.
> Are they jerks because they didn't saddle their users with a technically inferior solution for even longer?

Em no, they are jerks because they never updated OpenGL implementation on OS X (which still is generally 30% or so slower than Windows implementation on same hardware, not to mention lacking of full 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 OpenGL support) then implementing a new proprietary API on the desktop with huge fanfare and marketing about being "30%-50% faster" (or in other words - as fast as OpenGL is on Windows). Meanwhile, OpenGL implementation is still rotten as of 2016 at 2010 OpenGL 4.1 levels with no update.

Leaving an open implementation of a 3D standard to rot in performance limbo and then bringing in a new proprietary standard which has to be used to get competitive performance does bring the word "jerks" to mind.
How about predictive typing? It would be helpful if something modern learned what I frequently type.

http://papersdb.cs.ualberta.ca/~papersdb/uploaded_files/712/...
WTF!!? & here I thought Toronto was bad. I'm assuming rents don't get any higher than this right? You must earn a lot although I'm certain the rent erodes a significant amount of your take home, after tax pay.
Good point. There's new requirements on writers now.

In the old days, they'd buy your paper if they could scan all the stories and get information easily. Now, the reader is only looking at one story referred by a search engine or blogpost or link farm.
You can download the raw data from https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive-test-data.html
The woman who aims to take Tor mainstream
Strictly speaking, raising VC money isn't taking on debt. You're selling equity and if the company fails you don't - as a general rule - repay the investors anything.

That said, I agree with your overall point about not needing to raise millions of dollars to start a company. That's one way of doing things, but hardly the only way. Another choice would be to just take a regular job and start your company as a nights and weekends side project (deal with any potential IP issues, of course), or do consulting in your area of business and gradually transition from a service company to a product company. I'm sure there are others.
Depending on what you're doing, it might even be faster, not 5-10% slower. We're currently sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but we should never be slower by a huuuuuge magnitude, though of course, bugs do exist.

I've been excitedly watching this over time; I think in a few years Rust could just be straight-up faster than C the majority of the time, depending.
Pretty ugly and meaningless symbols. A square and a circle with some lines... must be uber! lol

Compare that with Coca-Cola where there is no mistaking it.
I'm getting a white screen of death ... perhaps they really want to be like Github, downtime and all ;)

Edit: 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity ... ouch!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvq07KBfhnQ
Huh? It isn't any more. This was just changed (almost literally).
Seems to be down.

Archive.is: https://archive.is/sgTgG

Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t4otc2...
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I solve this by not wanting silly investors.
TL;DR - Shari Steele did great things in leadership at the EFF for many years, and is now trying to do the same for the Tor Foundation.
Hmm:

Behavior-based Analytics: - Low [cell phone] use, incoming calls only - Frequent handset changes - Frequent detach / power-down

Visits to other countries - overnight trips - permanent move

I guess that makes me an extremist militant, also.
So I think you're onto something with moving kids to where they will be challenged in school. Systemically it keeps everyone engaged in the task of learning and I wish we would adopt it in the states.

I don't think that would stop bullying, only reduce particular kinds of it. Bullying serves the purpose of enforcing social norms. Putting people in a situation where ability is less of a way to break norms will reduce the bullying, but it won't eliminate it.

Quick clarification I'm not claiming I was bullied for being smart. I was bullied for being weird. Being challenged, or joining sports would have reduced that weirdness, and spare individual children some pain, but doesn't really change the problem of students electing to enforce social norms by humiliation and violence.

RE: Sports teams. We couldn't afford any of the organized sports available in my area(all of them had a few hundred dollars of gear and annual fees to participate in). By the time I was in middle school and had "free" access to sports I was so behind in developing the basic play skills that it simply marked me out as a newb
> this is one area which medical science DIDN'T forget

Yep, there's all sorts of pills that knock you out for a few hours, but don't give you restful sleep.
Earth to be swallowed by as sun expands into red giant in a matter of weeks.

4 billion years = 208 billion weeks, right?
ReactOS 0.4.0 released
> You're leaving out all of the companies between the two extreme poles that you just set down.

Of course there are lots of nuances. I wouldn't say that Atlassian is an extreme pole though—it actually contradicts a lot of the narratives people tell about startups.

> What about a small, 5% gross margin software "startup" that takes on small investments with decent YoY growth that never makes TC news.

TC is absolutely not a prerequisite for being a startup (it's essentially a fashion show, which is relatively orthogonal to business). If this 5% margin software business has a realistic plan to grow into a large company and has strong growth then it absolutely is a startup, even if it's not fashionable.

> Or a chain of coffee shops that experiences huge growth and raises high-visibility funding rounds, such as Philz Coffee? What is Palantir?

Both are absolutely startups, their business model just isn't selling ads. They were both designed to grow big and used funding to get there.

> The investor is looking for less risky, less high-growth oriented companies - aka slow startups.

Yes, the investor is becoming more risk-adverse. That doesn't mean they're suddenly a bank looking to fund small businesses. I could walk up to her with a plan for opening a laundromat which was guaranteed to turn a profit in year 1, but I guaranteed she'd still be uninterested. Likewise, banks are generally uninterested in funding my tech endeavors even if they have a pretty reasonable path to profitability.

"Slow startups" is a much better term than small businesses. They still intend to be big some day, but aren't rushing as fast to get there.

> The hostility is unnecessary.

I apologize for coming off as overly hostile. I'm mostly just frustrated with people muddling terminology, and you certainly don't deserve the blame for that.
> Thats a rather immature view of the technology

And you think lock-in is a mature approach to technology? It is not. And lock-in is the only reason why Apple pushed Metal instead of joining the Vulkan effort. Unless you are trying to claim that they just couldn't plan things and ended up with their own NIH despite Vulkan emerging in the background. But that doesn't fly, since they could have corrected it when they realized where things are moving. So "no ill intent" reasoning here doesn't sound convincing.
Yes, also makes complete sense from a cultural perspective. If there is any sort of process involved in making a copy on new formats as they emerge, then you have to maintain a culture of people that are willing and able to execute the process. Far simpler to use a technology that is proven to work over several hundred years. Exhibit A: The Magna Carta [1]. With care, you can pick it up and read it, even today,

Automation won't hack it either. At the moment, the most complex machine that we know how to make persist into deep time is a very simple clock [2], and even that requires human intervention.

In Anathem [3], Neal Stephenson speculates on what this combo of culture and deep-time technology might look like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
Spotify responds in court to $150M lawsuit by musician Lowery
This is awesome!

We were just talking about this on HN the other day. I want to build a fully robotic (automated) talapia fish farm on alameda island if anyone wants to join me?
Seven Virtues of a Good Object in OOP
How Police Are Using Eagles to Intercept Enemy Drones
Career Pathfinding: The Surprising Advantges of “Dark Horse” Thinking
I chalked it up to a language barrier, but yeah, it was very dramatic language used to describe computer code...
> The same feminist group that twitter appointed to ther new free-speech censorship board has said some of the most horrific stuff about men. It’s beyond offensive, yet there are no bannings or accountability.

Because not enough people do, I'll assume good faith here.

Thought experiment: if the feminists are just a handful of loud bullies, why does anyone care what they think? Why can they even get press outside of obscure publications of their own creation? Why do we actually pass laws to placate them?

If the rest of the world largely thought they were out of their minds and refused to entertain them, they'd have no power. Clearly they've convinced enough people that they're right, or at least pointed in the direction of right, that we try to help solve their problems, imperfectly as that may be… and imperfect it is! There's no Grand Poobah of feminists calling the shots, and different people have different ideas of how to go about things. Some of them will be wrong, and wrong ideas will gain traction anyway. These days, I see it as growing pains on the way to becoming a less horrible society.

On free speech: you have the right to hold your opinions, and to voice them in general. You have no right to demand that anyone listen to you, or that anyone give you space to speak. Even the law is more nuanced than people think: harassment is a crime, despite the first amendment.
The obvious difference being that Tomnod is focused on actual imagery of the surface of the Earth, something that most people are already familiar with thanks to Google Maps et al., and even so AFAIK the project produced many false positives and no actual hits.

I have no idea what format the sonar data is in, but I highly suspect that it is not in the form of familiar imagery in which parts of a commercial airliner would be readily identified by untrained observers.
Thiel has an entire cannabis investment club.

Just rail on the hypocrisy if confronted.
I know in start-ups making revenue is a bit of a dirty word but that's what the business is ultimately supposed to do anyway!

I keep a note to myself positioned prominently nearby, titled "The Most Important Question". I wrote down something for "Question One" when I first put it up, but shortly after I went back and wrote in "Question Zero".

"What is the single most important thing I can be doing right now, to get us to revenue?"

(And no, "posting on HN" isn't a very good answer to that question, so shame on me). Hey, I won't claim to manage to adhere to 100% absolute razor-sharp focus on that point, but I keep coming back to it. When I find myself starting to bikeshed or work on some "cool but speculative" idea, I remind myself "work on what's going to bring dollars in the door first".
Class Detection via Anomaly Detection shows really impressive performance.

Anybody got an intuition as to why is that so? Something like having opinionated low-variance high-bias classifiers that you ensemble?
In which case, how can it be better than random forests?
I wonder if we'll look back at today's technology in 25 years and it will look as unpolished as that Acorn and laserdisc.
I'm a bit puzzled that the reaction on the Guardian to this development is primarily one of fear that robots are taking our jobs. Isn't anyone excited about how all this production and efficiency is going to make food extremely cheap?
>If the US where acting in its real best interest it would keep Israel at much more of an arm's length. In a way Israel is much more of a dangerous enemy to American democracy than Iran, Russia, China or any other country.

This hardly matters to the most ardent Israel supporters in the USA: the sort that believe that propping up Israel is the key to realizing the Christian apocalypse mythos.
> ...it can't be safe at such a low level without a performance penalty. In the capitalist reality we live in, that is a cost no one will pay.

A bit higher up:

It was clear when Hoare stated on his speech in 1980:

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to - they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11110456

... which directly contradicts the "no one" part.
Here's 14.04 (fixed formatting)

$ ./CVE-2015-7547-client
[1] 15697 segmentation fault (core dumped)
I've called these the 10% startups. They typically only serve people in the top ~10% of earners in the US.
Sure, if someone is serving jail time in the US for failing to pay a loan then I'd love to see it (even if that loan was backed by a court order).

However, being arrested for failing to appear in court or otherwise being in contempt of court would not qualify.
I agree with the general sentiment: "There are no silver bullets, only tradeoffs." However I disagree that that is the issue at hand. At the very least the trade off is on the wrong side of the equation, it is computers that should do stuff like bound checking not humans.

P.D. It irks me that Rust slogan is 'zero cost' abstraction. There is definitely a cost. The memory model is more complex than C. One shouldn't try to hide the tradeoffs behind 'marketing' slogans.
> Memory safety costs 10% in execution speed and takes 50% more effort to develop, a fair trade-off anyone can take on behalf of their customers.

That doesn't match my experience. Source?

> Shortcomings of C are offset by many eyeballs law and the security life-cycle processes so much so that we can afford to safely abandon most organized auditing as well as any defensive coding.

In effect, you're saying we shouldn't care about security vulnerabilities, because they'll be patched. That may be true for your projects. It's not true for many organizations.
American Airlines Is Suing Gogo Over Its Crappy Wi-Fi
Not only that, but they are encouraged to stay out of it by teachers/administrators. Think about it like this:

"I can step in, and try to stop the bullying, and possibly get beat up. At the very least I'll get detention. Or I can just sit-back and watch."

And, IME, the kids that were bullied, were the "weird ones" (that was me!). So it generally doesn't improve your social status to help that kid. So bystanders have all the incentives to stay out of the bullying.
It is an anecdote of things I got tired of. Another one is the return of reference for "performance". I pass around this link each and everytime. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_value_opti...

And other numerous of other small gripes... I'm familiar with some of the dusty corners of C++ and I have to constantly educate people about them.

In a way I have plateaued with C++, almost too comfortable with it. I need to do something else.
Take my idea: SupportScore.com
The domain name is taken so you'll have to think up something better.

The idea is that (supposedly) tech companies want to know how well they are doing with answering user questions about their products.

These days those questions might appear in a variety of online forums including StackOverflow but also various other forums.

The product idea is a central score that monitors all those support forums and tells in a single score how many questions have been asked about a companies products, and how many of those questions have not been answered.
It takes time - too much in my opinion in this case.
This seems pretty objective, to me at least. [1]

"The latest data from PitchBook show that VC investing in U.S. companies dipped to $9.3 billion in the first quarter of 2016, down from $17.6 billion in the fourth quarter. "There's significant uncertainty in the market right now and (we) would advise companies looking to raise capital to close quick and — while financing is available — maybe close on more capital than is necessary to be prudent in this environment," said PitchBook analyst Garrett Black. "

[1]http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/09/silicon-valleys-reality-the-p...
Well, now, a lot of people are making containers, which are static linking turned up to 11.

I bet this bug will live on forever in people's Docker stacks.
I wonder if this is just a PR stunt for advertising or if they actually use them. Two issue that come to mind is do they automatically go to charging stations at night and do they work on all surfaces?
I went to school in Vermont for three years, from age 10 - 13. I came from Sweden.

I was busy surviving socially and didn't have any resources to "step up". Every day I went to school was Terror on Elm Street.

Sure, friends would have helped. But friends are not made by an external party.

Today I know that it is guidence about who you are that makes a difference.

This can come in many forms. But just knowing that someone is thinking about you in school, for example, like a guidance counseler or a teacher, will make a world of difference. I see an indifferent or inexperienced class of teacher as a big part of the problem.

Being a teacher also means actually seeing your students, seeing as in making sure they are noticed, seen, talked to. That will give each student some form of strength to handle what's coming once he/she steps out into the school corridor.

It's your inner strength that will stop any bullying. Confident ppl are usually not targeted.
Well, this isn't correct, it's just that the result would have to be distributed under terms of GPL.
(Assuming the license is GPL compatible, which most of the ones you mentioned are).
> Debian already is at that point.

I said "real world", where Debian is clearly not at that point:

> but there’s very few packages which are being tested with these init systems, so expect to run into trouble.

I've not been involved in a while, but I have trouble believing that the limiting factor for adding in testing for a few inits is available work-hours. Maintainers/packagers' time is far more flexible than that.

I would buy that very few enjoy pain, and the discussion of Systemd in Debian was poisonous enough that using one's scarce fungible time revisiting that isn't something many want to do.
It is also possible for the ordered payment to be too high to be able to be paid, such as in the case when someone lost a well paying job during a recession but the other party's lawyer argues that they are taking a reduced wage job so they don't have to pay in full. While such cases may be rare, they still signify a problem in our legal system.
I think you misunderstand the relationship. One, there are civilians, extremely rich civilians who are sending more than a pretty penny to Israel. Two, the US government is essentially bribing the Israel government to stay put and not kill everyone around them. I believe most people vastly underestimate the military might of Israel. Did you know, for example, that Israel has unmanned ground vehicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardium essentially mini tanks already operational? They have main battle tanks which can intercept RPGs and even anti tank guided missiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava#Mk_IVm_Windbreaker . If Israel wanted to wreak havoc in the region, they certainly could. I was and still surprised they didn't grab a bit of Syria.
I think it might actually be a pretty good analogy. Doesn't NYC (along with SV and maybe a few other parts of the country) do the same?

The NSA staffed only with residents of NYC would probably look very different from the NSA staffed only by residents of the state of Michigan.
pcwalton is talking about safe rust. Unsafe rust is not really any faster in a lot of cases, and even when it is the goal is to compartmentalize the unsafe code into very small, distinct, easily testable segments.
Who has that reaction??

I'm amazed that the drive to Japan's robotic future is human population centric driven:

The average age of their farmers is 65.9, young people don't want to be farmers, their population is in decline for many reasons...

Robot farming is critical to their bio and economic survival.

That fact alone is mind blowing to me. And awesome.
So your friends/family/whoever can use it if you're not there? So somebody else can use it while you are?

I have remote apps on my phone, but never use them. I'd much rather use my Logitech one (or even the one the device(s) came with if needed).
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