skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept in the movie "Code 46" where the global elite take a virus to learn a skill always stuck with me.

Skills based enhancement - becoming more empathetic or maybe more mathematical or acquiring novel light-sensitive retinal cells or biological radio seems more plausible than boosting "general intelligence" which might not be a thing at all.
http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

It's my goto PDF and epub reader.
Assuming that there are appropriate emergency exits, and that you aren't delayed after you are clocked out, it's probably not. Fail the first assumption, it's a safety violation, fail the second and, at least in many jurisdictions, and it's a wage violation.
Wow, this looks extremely interesting, I'll definitely keep this in mind!
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But really, where is the connection between a megalomaniac architect of future dreams and the tech industry?
How to Train Your Robot
Great response. As someone trying to make the jump to the senior level, this also works on the systems side as well.
In my experience too, sense of humor correlates with broad intelligence much more than social awkwardness does. On the other hand, I know extremely gifted people in some narrow area plus few related (i.e. STEM subjects) that cannot even lead normal life without somebody else taking care of them and are below average on different subjects (i.e. languages). I think the problem is, that we don't even know, what intelligence is and how many different forms it has.
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[citation needed]

No one gets 100% deliverability, and highest inbox rate for all senders requires serious proof.
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Very interesting! It played very natural, "human" positional moves and defended against most obvious threats. There was one exception, where it played a move that looked normal for the position--developing a piece in the opening--but it also hung the piece. That was the only serious blunder, every other mistake was in tactical lines more than one or two moves deep.

That seems to make sense for being trained by a NN, still impressive how well it was able to spot concrete threats! Thank you for sharing.

(My elo is 2150ish)
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This is also how download accelerators worked (back in the late nineties, early naught's), by having different connections work at several ranges to maximize bandwidth usage.
I suspect dismissing static typing whole cloth with "unit tests and certain guards can give you most of the benefits" comes off badly to some people.
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I'm looking forward to the day one of the world's oldest and most annoying web magazines falls off the web because it doesn't understand the web any more.
That's a radically different design domain, though.
Probably not, but it's not a problem, because you are only going to realize after the fact.
Also contentiousness and aid-giving of countries. Germany doesn't declare war, and only does any kind of war through NATO. It also gives a lot. Both of these apply to all the high scoring European countries. For USA it's probably the aid and quid pro quo or giving visa-less or passport access to the country that the Americans can now get into.
Since there seem to be an increasing number of “menu bar extras” (that are increasingly greedy about taking up space), it seems overdue to turn the Dock into another option for status bars.

Those useless Dock corners could be really nice for displaying square widgets that might otherwise want a chunk of the menu bar.
I keep the ecosystems tightly separated. I will try later today and inform you.
Who said anything about manual labour?
Remember Roller Coaster Tycoon (2 or 3?) where you could ride the coasters you designed in FPV? Can't wait to induce motion sickness without ever leaving my desk.
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Hosting 16TB of data in the cloud would cost you mucho mucho dollars anyway. And not counting a fast enough internet connection to upload that much data.
Hussien they didn't think of that?
See, for example, the Victorian fashion for building Gothic or neoclassical "follies", sometimes as ruins to achieve that aesthetic.

A lot of Fascism was based on emulating the Romans, whose ruins are famous. It's right there in the name, taken from fasces.
Gremlin is more a query language than a graph store. Like you can use SQL w/ Postgres or MS SQL Server or Oracle. You can use it w/ neo4j - there is a plugin: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/neo4j-gremlin-plugin
Interesting that you can find a way to blame this on the West when Saddam could just have complied with the UN (who imposed the sanctions, not the "West"), had the sactions removed, and given his people a better life.
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Nope, and apart from virtualisaton there isn't a good story for that.

There was LINE which was superceded by CoLinux. However the 64 bit port of CoLinux was never completed.
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It must be pretty common, it was normal when I was working nights in daytime retail.
I find httpie's lack of manpage quite disturbing though.
I don't see why it would be different for personal digital security than in the physical world.

Nowadays a house is no more protected against break-ins than a hundred years ago.

Usually people install an alarm system after the first break-in (ask me how I know ;-) and hope it will be enough. It usually is.

I think some companies will sell a kind of home firewall that will protect your vulnerable IOT things. It will be vulnerable too but like a physical alarm system raise the bar for the would be attacker.

The infosec guys all seem to think like soldiers at war and believe that if a breach happen, game over you lost forever.

For normal people, a digital security breach like with a break-in sucks, it costs money but life goes on, you just adapt your security to the most common threat and according to your budget while knowing that a sufficiently determined attacker will ALWAYS gets his way.

I still hate those IOT things though ;-)
my calibre says it's DRM and could not open it?
I remember growing up wanting to build AOL chatroom bots, nothing like Eliza, but trivia or combat bots - maybe around the age of 11-12. Though a bit dated, an IRC trivia bot might be a fun exercise for them.

Or a text-based adventure to teach arrays. They build the map, then move through it in the same manner.
There's a pun on "free as in beer" in here somewhere.
Go Web Audio!!! I'd like to make a DAW, with something like VST Plugins, but one way to mix all these awesome web audio websites together. Like a tab mixer or something...
Thanks for your feedback!

I've noticed it making quite a few errors like the one you mention. I think that a little bit of search (say just one or two ply) will help a lot with avoiding this kind of mistake, because the network seems very good at recognizing when a piece is in trouble if you show it the position.
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Reminds me a lot of "What Dreams May Come"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/
Sounds like a business opportunity to build better robots.
I never got to the Hoover dam in New Vegas... I wonder how realistically it was depicted.
It's also cheap to go from HDMI to VGA now, a "Ugreen" HDMI to VGA converter (with 3.5mm audio out) is about $8.50.

I think the popularity of the Pi has helped there.

(The adapters are great, but depending on what you're plugging in, you may need to supply power as well. A microUSB cable is included in the box. If what you want to display has HDCP, that needs to be removed before the adapter.)
What I found interesting and maybe relatable was the angle of a "technician" putting his skills at the service of particular ideology, and then being judged for it.

Nothing very original, but it made me reflect that is the next few centuries, another Nuremberg trial will happen with SW architect(s) this time.
You're right, it is important to remember to give credit.

But for many of the people here, getting something "right" is an explicit and fundamental part of what we do. It's a specific, on purpose focus. So it's natural (and good) that we'd think that way.
Well duh. How is it supposed to make any statement about the situation at your place when it does not know your location?

The only alternative is: return (rand() > RAND_MAX/2) ? "Yes" : "No";
http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/god-really-doesnt-like-bush-much.html

The US was trying to provide "aid" in protecting the dam in 2007 - I have no idea if it was taken on as a legitimate project or just wallpaper to say "see how we're helping".

I don't have time for fun conspiracy theories, but I'm sure lines can be traced all around construction of the dam, through the bush family, back to infrastructure, etc.
Some interesting products utilising PCMs in the domestic hot water markets... Replacing traditional hot water cylinders which suffer from very high heat loss even when insulated.
Do you think that beer recipes are not dependant on the brewing equipment you are using?

I don't think it is easy for everyone to take the recipe and replicate it.

I also don't think you can easily use the recipe with homebrewing equipment and obtaing the same output, maybe it could be done with professional scale equipment but I am not sure.

To me is a nice marketing stunt aimed at the homebrew community.
x64 on Linux has a different calling convention than x64 on Windows.
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This is really cool, and props for making it at least dynamic-ish by rendering JSON data with D3.

That said, some of the clustering (or at least the clustering visualization) seems strange, such as AngularJS within jQuery, PouchDB within React, EmberJS within Rails, redis-doc being included within Go, oh-my-zsh within homebrew, etc.

FWIW, there's also a bit more info available here: https://github.com/oracleofnj/gitmap
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What's the harm in a site that includes no third-party resources (other than jquery) knowing that a request has arrived from a <del>vague</del> <ins>specific</ins> location?
The two temperatures are enough for the basics. Like many homebrewers they probably use single mash infusion for all of their beers. So the first temperature would be the temperature you hold the mash at and they provide the mash length as well. The second temperature is the fermentation temperature.

They are vague on boil time. The homebrewing standard is 60 minutes (as that is a good length for extracting bitterness out of hops). In some recipes, it's good to boil longer to get extra kettle caramelization. So, yes, it would've been nice for them to provide that.

Generally speaking, homebrewers don't "kill fermentation". Instead they let the yeast naturally settle after bottling (often adding a little sugar so that the yeast naturally carbonates the beer in the bottle as well). Kegging and force carbonating is also an option (most homebrew stores sell old style 5 gallon soda kegs for this purpose). If so, people may use finings in the secondary to help clarity. A few even filter but it's not very common from what I see. Pasteurizing at a homebrew level is unheard of. If Brewdog is a typical craft brewery, they probably don't pasteurize either, but they filter.

There are a few things that Brewdog leaves out that will lead to a slightly different tasting beer. There's no alpha acid percentages marked for the hops for instance, or an overall bittering standard (which means that variations in the hop crop might lead to slightly different bittering levels). They don't provide specifics on their water profile that I see, which will make a subtle difference. Their hop addition timing is a little vague ("beginning", "middle", etc. -- it may not be clear to a non-homebrewer, but these describe when in the boil to add the hops) Even something trivial like not providing the names of the maltsters mean an exact clone is not possible (a crystal malt from one company is not the exact same thing as a crystal malt from another company).

Still, you can get in the ballpark I'm sure, and if one was dedicated enough could adjust the brew on their system to come close.
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> The 'How to Train your Robot' game appears to be aimed at a 2.5 year old and as the mother of a 2.5 year old myself, it seems ludicrous to try to get a child that age into programming.

I've found it works best as a party game with a group of kids where it can have a competitive dimension - whoever can "write a program" to get the "robot" to achieve some goal fist e.g. navigate an obstacle course and pick up an object. Even better when kids are in pairs; one pair might focus on winning, another pair might get absorbed on getting the adult to do stupid things which is hilarious etc.

And from what I've seen it can be fun for kids up to 10 at least, if you add some additional dimensions e.g. "robots" that can "fight" by throwing rolled up paper balls at other.
The issue I see with changing so many alleles is that we may not know all of the phenotypic consequences of each allele. Moving 10,000 alleles to the best intelligence settings might make people smarter, but genes are highly pleiotropic. Mutating 10,000 genes could have 10,000 phenotypic side effects.

How do you optimize: maximize intelligence subject to not messing up the organism too much. How would you do this for multiple phenotypes? Maximize height and intelligence subject to not messing up the organism too much.
I remember how long it took Microsoft to get this right. The first few versions of the Start menu and task bar items had a couple of pixels of space separating them from the edge of the screen. It was like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, such a profound reduction in usability over what was probably someone’s arbitrary aesthetic choice.
I hope AIs inherit the earth from us soon so the world can have well-read beings again.
Ha, I was going to reply to you as if you were seriously criticizing this being on HN, then it kicked in :-)
If you have 4000 layers, you need 4000 times as much light, so you need a 16000km^2 orbital mirror focusing on your farm's elaborate set of light-pipes. The highly focused light, like a CSP plant, would ignite birds that flew into the beam. At that scale it would probably alter the local climate, given the amount of heat transferred to the air.
As a student tasked with designing a 16 bit RISC machine complete with keyboard and display, I found this to be a great way of introducing the material.
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Never used it but Tir (https://github.com/mongrel2/Tir), which runs on top of mongrel2, allows you to use continuation style if you wish to do so.
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It's tough because the need changes over time too. On day 1 you need someone very technical who knows how to sell to early adopters. (Zenefits did this ok) Later on you need people better at getting to the early majority. (Generally it's by tackling one industry vertical well [0]) The head of Sales for the former may not be right for the latter.

Two thoughts...

1 - The incentives you choose matter a lot in both attracting and maintaining sales people.

2 - Look to people who you have bought from that you think would fit in their culture. Call them and ask, "Do you know anyone similar to you?" Since you're an early adopter too, they are the right target. And they may volunteer themselves.

3 - You have to balance potentially long sales cycles (it takes a year to build up a pipeline) with being able to pull the trigger when you get the hire wrong. There are a lot more mishires in Sales than most other areas.

Good luck!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
Assuming a perfect random number generator, this would be the only way to make the website's answer truly "unbiased." Right now it has a heavy bias on the weather.
It's an idea that's been floated in scifi. The scale of it is huge, though, and you'd have to consider the CO2 emissions of the necessary launch and manufacturing. Probably only feasible if you could make it on the moon.
Scott Adams is also the dude who is only prevented from going on a murder spree by a regular hugging schedule (http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war).
Can confirm. Daughter turns 13 in 2 weeks. Pretty soon she's going to know everything.
I was surprised to see a giant Jekyll cluster.
Temperature is much less important than the 4 factors they do list, in my opinion.

Right now it's -23C here, with no wind and a bright sun reflecting off of perfect powder. It's so beautiful that it's one of those days you contemplate skipping work -- there are not too many nice skiing days left this season.
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But not linux :(
Ah, my bad. Thanks for the heads up!
Also illegal and something no doctor would ever do.
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If the dam knew how it was built, it would be a sad dam.
Another site added to my "list of websites to show to the kids I teach when they need something bright and shiny to take their attention for a few minutes".

Loads of fun to be had there, and shows the potential of this - as iphoneseventeen says, there future of this kind of thing could be incredible. One day, all DAWs will be in a browser tab.
The other thing is that the massive constructions of nazi Germany aren't dissimilar to the architecture of many public buildings in Washington or elsewhere.

Reich chancellery building:
http://terrainandtoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/54mm-rei...

National Postal Museum (DC)
https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=9...

At the end of day the codes to impress people with a building are always similar.
Where can I read what they mean by "Strong" hashing for HighwayHash? Also, is there a peer-reviewed paper on SipTreeHash? I am not a cryptographer, so I wouldn't trust my own instincts in terms of evaluating its strength compared to SipHash.

For non-cryptographic applications, CLHASH produces 64 bits of result and is 2.004/2^64 almost delta universal, at a cost of 0.16 cycles per byte on Haswell and 0.10 cycles per byte on Skylake.

https://github.com/lemire/StronglyUniversalStringHashing

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03465
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Eh, 30 years ago Shenzhen's population was 30,000. I guess that's a sleepy village to some, but not to me.
It's not charity, it's a CEO trying to increase staff retention. It doesn't need to be "impressive," but regardless, your cynical view of what constitutes charity is depressing to say the least. Weiner was under no obligation to do anything. He could have taken $14 million and chose not to. The fact that he already has money is irrelevant.

Also, I challenge you to find anyone who has been CEO of a publicly traded company for more than a year who isn't also independently wealthy.
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On Oracle - they had many competitors that they beat simply by outgrowing them. It's a fine line - the playbook hasn't worked yet for Zenefits. The game isn't over though. Oracle had many stumbles along the way, including some with the IRS. In the end they came out ok.

On banks - the saying I heard specific to trading at an investment bank was "If you're with the herd you're safe. If you make the right bet, and everyone else does, you get paid. If you make the wrong bet, and everyone else does, they can't fire everyone. If you make the right contrarian bet and everyone else is wrong, you don't get paid because your profits need to be spread around. If you make the wrong contrarian bet and everyone else is right, you are an outlier who doesn't get paid."

I think it's a perverse form of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
>Wish for interest rates to be higher then.

Why? There are people on both sides of the interest-rate trade, so any change in rates creates winners and losers. Higher rates aren't inherently "better" than lower rates.

Personally, I want LOW rates. I'm young and have a mortgage and car payment. I want cheap money, so that I can put it to use investing in my future. Why should I pay more to subsidize the Baby Boomer's retirement funds? They've had an easy enough road as it is.
The automatability of attacks makes it qualitatively different, though. Home IoT, yes, you 'just' turn it off and carry on (although I can see circumstances where elderly and vulnerable people could die relying on a malfunctioning monitor or heating system). Commercial IoT and especially SCADA is potentially a bigger disaster.
It would only work if the difference between the water level and the top of the wall is less than rouhgly 30ft (as per xkcd). The bottom line is, the siphon will not work if it has a vertical water column taller than 30ft (water weight per unit area becomes greater than opposing atmospheric pressure)
They asked about readers for desktop, specifically Windows. Pretty sure iBooks is not relevant.
I'm a hacker and I find this interesting and I also think it shouldn't be here
True. There is a potential multiplier when you're selling a product or money, rather than time. It's a matter of priorities and risk appetite.
No doubt. You all support CharmCityJS which is awesome. I was actually using mandrill for a side project and will be switching to sparkpost. Thanks for the reply.
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> First, from any hash only a few bits are use for a hash table lookup, typically between 5-8.

This is not my experience. Frequently, hash tables will have a size that is a power of 2, and the address into the table will be all of the low order bits. A table with 1 million slots will use 20 bits of hash.

> Second, against DDOS only uhash, or using no linked lists or arrays with O(n/2) lookup costs help.

uhash is just one example of hash function designs based on almost-universal hashing. There are many others, including VHASH and Poly1305. Is HighwayHash almost universal?
That's still biased towards a very lazy lifestyle.
One possibility is that a lot of people did tell the truth to the government, but the government kept asking more questions until it got the answer it wanted. There's always somebody willing to be paid to do that, and it isn't necessarily an indictment against a profession that it doesn't have literally 100% compliance to some ethical standard, on the grounds that I don't tend to indict entire professional fields for failing to accomplish the literally impossible.
Isn't this just the consequence of booming luxury car sales as the rich-poor gap widens?

http://fortune.com/2015/02/17/luxury-car-sales/

Luxury car brands get more sales therefore they need to compete fast and don't have time for automation.
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Interesting that Hoover Dam mentioned elsewhere in the thread also had problems with geology of the rocks under it and had to be fixed in a hacky way by additional grouting for 12 years after completion

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/Grout%20Curtain%20Fa...
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I can imagine that a dual crane lift introduces a lot of variables that are not nearly as well understood or tested by manufacturers as the parameters on a single-crane lift.
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