skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how people pretend that it's a sure thing that Yahoo can be saved. Saving Yahoo has always been more like a moonshot than a long shot and this was true way before they even hired Mayer. Sure, she has failed to do so (expected) but let's not pretend that there was much that she or anyone else could've done to save the company at this juncture. Her pivot to content failed but in many situations you don't know what will work until you try it. She had her shot, she failed and will probably be fired now but let's not pretend that there was much that she could do in the first place. Yahoo looks a lot like a lost cause.
> There's more to being CEO (and head coach, to continue my analogy) than technical proficiency and strategic capability.

Eh, not that I totally disagree with you, but I dunno that that's really true. There are plenty of head coaches (and CEOs) who are just so technically proficient and/or excellent strategists that their lack of charm/empathy/charisma is a non-issue.

Belichick and Jim Harbaugh (say what you want, but he's successful by any sense of the word) are two examples of very successful head coaches who aren't well-known for being particularly charming or empathetic (one is an emotional brick wall and the other is a screaming psychopath).

There are CEOs who aren't particularly well-known for their people skills, but they're so good at strategy and execution that it really doesn't matter much. Anecdotally (from my tenure there), Bezos never gave/gives the impression of being particularly charismatic or charming. He's just really good at building the juggernaut that is Amazon.

I'm not saying those skills are unimportant and certainly people like Belichick are the exception, but it's entirely possible to just be so good at strategy that the rest doesn't really matter. Mayer just doesn't seem to be quite at that level.
Redux is the only "new" thing in that list, and I could code it from scratch during a hackathon. It's also essentially a javascript port of what other framework and languages have been doing since before a lot of people reading this were born.

Ironically, a lot of the comments in the article are complaining why some newer thing that just came out didn't make the list. Most of these tools are 2-3+ years old.
Humans have been trained for all the different scenarios you cite, AlphaGo has just been trained for go. Give AlphaGo 20 years to chew through training data and I think it would destroy a college sophomore at cognition.
For each point there is a counter-point about why it's a good place to invest:

FinTech businesses don’t scale quickly. => it takes a long time to build a business, but once you're there it's harder to get usurped by new upstarts.

It’s really easy to get fooled by early adopters => this can be said about any market, not just fintech.

FinTech is not an acquisitive space. => yeah, you build long-term equity value in the companies you think are going to be successful and big wins.

The sale cycles are really long. => this is endemic to the entire finance & banking space itself; not just fintech. That also means once you're in, you're in for a while.

Customer acquisition is hard to hack. => moat, and this can be said about any space.
Even if it did, hardware watchdogs are like 5 cents and should be a standard feature of all devices.
It plays out thousands of moves all the way until the end of the game using its neural net to quickly sketch optimal play. That's the big advantage! Humans read moves until they feel an outcome is favorable. AlphaGo reads out till endgame and plays moves that optimize for a win.

Also I'm not entirely sure how AlphaGo's time management works, but it's doing the same thing for every move—populating the game tree as deeply and intelligently as it can. It may just look for "30 seconds" on every move and then take the best bet meaning it's a more thorough and exhaustive reader than any human.
Yeah, rarely ever have I needed to restart my modem, if at all, I just reboot it from the web interface to save the 10 secs of walking.
If the style is not to your taste, I wouldn't ask you to read the article, but it seems rude to then make a comment about how they didn't defend their assertions when you pretty plainly bailed out of the article immediately before the section where they defend that assertion.
Microbiome analysis with Excel and R
Ask HN: Downvote, differentiate “I disagree” from “Not useful comment”
On polemic/emotional issues, a lot of HNers use the downvote to express "I disagree", effectively censoring comments, downgrading the quality of the site's comments.

Humble proposal: to add a "I disagree" downvote button (make it the default downvote, give it to everyone) separated from the "Not useful comment" downvote button, so there's a fairer exchange of ideas on polemic/emotional issues.

The "I disagree" downvote is counted and the count is shown, but it does not push non HN-mainstream opinion down to the bottom.
Data is a Toxic Asset
Future research will be along these lines.
TL;DR

> channels don't compose well with other concurrency primitives
`jo` is probably short for 'json output'.
While AlphaGo has been improving, it's also a little hard to see whether AG playing Fan Hui wasn't already strong enough to defeat LSD. MCTS picks the move most probable to win and if AG gets an early advantage it'll play slack for the rest of the game taking moves which never reduce its win rate even if they look boring and weak.
Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive
No. Thanks.
Blood test to tell how old are you
I personally feel that German compound words often express much more abstract concepts than their English counterpart. To give a really infamous example: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%B...

I'll add hyphens to ease the understanding of this word and also put the s that are epenthesis and thus not important into square brackets.

Rind-fleisch-etikettierung[s]-überwachung[s]-aufgaben-übertragung[s]-gesetz

The first thing to note is that adding an "ung" to the stem of a verb usually means "the abstract process of doing what the verb describes". Even this simply property makes it quite easy to express rather abstract concepts that are quite clumsy in English.

Now we'll decode this word:

Rind: agricultural term for "cow" ("Kuh")
fleisch: meat

So Rindlfleisch = "meat of cows" (beef)

"Etikettierung": The German word "Etikette" means "label" (it also has other meanings, but they are not important here). Form this we can derive the word "etikettieren" (to put a label on something). From this verb, as I explained above, you can derive "Etikettierung" - the abstract process of labeling something. What is the something here? Of course the beef.

"Überwachung": The verb "überwachen" means "to supervise" or "to monitor". You know the rules to find out what "Überwachung" means (the abstract process ...). Just one remark for those who are interested: "überwachen" consists of the prefix "über" and the verb "wachen" (to wake, to keep watch).

"Aufgaben": Could be simply translated with "tasks", but this, in my opinion distorts the meaning a little bit. I'll rather divide it into "auf" + "Gabe". "Gabe" is a slightly old-fashinoned word meaning "Something that was given to you by someone else" (derived from the past "gab" of "geben" (to give)). So "Aufgabe" is more correctly translated with "something that was given to you by someone else to do". "Aufgaben" is simply the plural of "Aufgabe".

"Übertragung": The verb "transfer" expresses in my opinion quite the same meaning as "übertragen", since the Latin prexix "trans" corresponds quite well to the prefix "über" as it's used here and the Latin verb "ferre" from which the "fer" in "transfer" is derived means "to carry" (in German: "tragen"). So (you know the rules) "Übertragung" is the abstract process of transfering something. What do we transfer: The answer is clear: The "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben".

Gesetz: We could simply use the English word "law", but "Gesetz" is derived from the verb "setzen" (to set). Thus "Gesetz" carries the slight connotation of "something that was set into force by some authority".

Exercise ;-) : How should "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" be translated into English?
I know many MS programmers have contributed to Linux kernel
Dude haven't you heard?

Unless a game delivers hundreds of hours of play in both single and multiplayer, is moddable, gets at least an 85 on Metacritic and the devs have signed a contract to ship free updates and content quarterly for 10 years, it's a casual game and you should seriously think twice before spending even 99 cents on it.

Or you should buy it on Steam, play for an hour and 59 minutes, then get a refund and proudly proclaim how it didn't meet your standards, alongside the other four games you refunded in the last couple weeks.

Or pirate it, because you like the game but you don't want to support the industry's high prices.
The problem pointed out on the article is that (if it is to be believed) MS is attempting to patent prior art which has already existed inside Linux or in specific Linux components.

MS needs to patent stuff to defend themselves, as all tech companies should in today's market. The problem with MS is that they have shown in the past a willingness to use patents aggressively, not just defensively.
Yahoo! previously had someone with a turnaround under her belt (Carol Bartz) and it was a disaster.
No, it plays deep but only so broad. It uses a neural net (which playing by itself without MCTS already beats Pachi with like 80% probability) to sketch out the best moves until the end and then rates each move on its chance of winning.

This objective function is why Go playing AI jumped hugely in the last 10 years.
Basic XML parsing should be very simple, it's deterministic with one-symbol lookahead. There's a number of small C parsers out there and even one written in assembly. If you want to validate it though or parse DTDs, that's a different story.
I think you're wrong here. From the Nature paper describing AlphaGo:

"We also tested against the strongest open-source Go program, Pachi, a sophisticated Monte Carlo search program, ranked at 2 amateur dan on KGS, that executes 100,000 simulations per move. Using no search at all, the RL policy network won 85% of games against Pachi."

AlphaGo does use MCTS, but it seems that most of its improvements are actually coming from the deep reinforcement learning approach.
> the maximizing solution will lie at a vertex of the possibility space

Keep in mind that as well as AlphaGo plays, it's still extremely far from playing optimal moves.
Dell offers remarkable on-site hardware repair to busineses. Really sui-generis support.

They send a technician (with an enormous backpack full of dell parts) to your location within 24 hours. The tech will work on it on-site until repaired.

I do not believe there could be a less disruptive, quicker way to repair a laptop.

Not sure if they offer that same level of support to consumers, but if they do, know it blows AppleCare out of the water.
You did say "Even when you unsafely compile Swift's code, it doesn't get near." ;-)

fannkuch-redux looks near, mandelbrot looks near, n-body…

Swift is new to Linux; there's a new compiler snapshot about every 10 days. Swift has only been available on the benchmarks game 3 months for people to contribute programs. Early days :-)
No, I'm skeptical. And most importantly, due to how AlphaGo seems to be raising the bar just enough to lead confidently, I think Ke Je is in no position to judge how he would fare in advance. I mean, we have absolutely no idea whatsoever as for AlphaGo's true potential.
So can you explain the economic value that HFT creates, with some evidence rather than just rhetoric?
Thanks for bringing this up. The al-Awlaki case is a clear testimony of what has become of the "benevolent" super-power.
There is/was whetlab which got bought out by Twitter if I remember rightly. It's a shame as I was using them and wanted to do it more.
WW3 USA AND UK, WILL BE TAKEN OVER BY MUSLIMS,OBAMA WANTS 5 MILLION MORE IN VOTE
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Aren't there other Lisp compilers, besides SBCL? What about Lisps besides Common Lisp, like Scheme?
Comparing private speech to devices which convert a few ounces of finger pressure into deadly violence is... silly.
The main bottleneck for PC touchpads has always been the poor quality of the hardware (for example, using low-bandwidth PS2 connections). The Microsoft specification is a hardware specification (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn...). All the hardware provides is a stream of raw input data. It's up to the OS to process that data intelligently.
Darpa Improv program, weaponizing the off-the-shelf electronics
None of the big software companies have remote development cultures, and most don't even have serious offices away from HQ. You can work for Google or Facebook away from SFBA, in a couple of smaller satellite offices, but it'll limit the kinds of things you can work on.

None of those companies are going to restructure their engineering cultures just to relieve housing pressure in SF. Just like the rest of the mainstream, they probably see the problem in SF as one of artificially limited supply, not demand.
Isn't the fact that people trade against their quotes sufficient evidence? After all, if someone besides the HFT had a better quote (e.g. better price), people would trade against that instead of the HFT's quote.
Thanks for this article. It outlines excellent consideration when considering design of app notification.
Volume is tiny, see this blog[1] from visa bragging about handling 47,000 transactions per second in 2013. PayPal volume is probably much less.

[1] http://www.visa.com/blogarchives/us/2013/10/10/stress-test-p...
I encourage you to read the book 'First Rate Madness' to get an understanding of the link between crisis leaders and mental illness.

Meyer appears to be a peacetime leader, not a crisis leader. Yahoo honestly needs a nutjob the likes of Steve Ballmer to survive.
Angular 2 is as good of a bet as any except for maybe React. Angular has enough name recognition in the enterprise space that it almost certainly won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

That said, Angular 2 has no answer today for React Native, and to my view, React Native style solutions may well be a requirement for any serious front end solution in the coming years. React also has the benefit of a huge corporation with massive scale dogfooding it, so you can be reasonably confident that the core library is high quality.
> PG even only had a plan cache added recently (the past year or so?)

What? You have no idea what you're talking about.

> you have full text search, built in columnstore, in memory tables, native procedures.

Postgres has all of these (column stores only available as extensions).

I don't think you're very familiar with Postgres.
Microsoft's strategies haven't changed much since (or at all) since these, circa 1999, Halloween documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Cats haven't expressed self-recognition in the MSR test. However humans younger than 18 months also don't pass that test. So to say it is a measure of conciousness is quite a stretch.
I don't know whether this is true. If AlphaGo could do just as well without search, then why did it use search at all?

But in any case, I'm not necessarily disputing that. I'm particularly refuting the claim that the AlphaGo architecture is identical to the one that learned to play Atari games and that Deepmind have advertised as a general game-playing agent.

My comment here is specifically in reply to the GP who repeated this claim, but I'll dig up the relevant link if you're interested.
Livelihood is something we build together, not something granted from above. To forget that is to cede all personal agency and integrity.
No animal is even close to anything approaching human intelligence. Apes are the most human-like animal we know, but there's no push against keeping them in zoos. They're too ugly, so it wouldn't play well.

Animals have a greatly inhibited sense of consciousness and continuity. They deserve respect as a resource, but they don't deserve "rights" of any kind.
> To make my point absolutely clear: In the case of drone strikes, children die because intel isn't always accurate and weapons aren't perfectly discriminating. Despite what you're trying to imply, if Obama could wage war with perfect intel and weaponry, he wouldn't harm a single innocent person.

Not true at all, this is one of the many reasons why children, women and many innocents die because of drone strikes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/drone-strikes-r...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/war...

For all intents and purposes "Obama" and the people who serve under him don't care about killing children or innocent people in general. They don't even know who they are actually killing most of the time. It's not because technology is imperfect.
Because the shell substitutes the return code before passing to jo, jo sees 'success@1'. How do you expect jo to know where the 1 came from to change its interpretation?

Edit: or you're saying jo should always consider 0 true and 1 false to match shell return code conventions?
I surprised no one's mentioned Brillo[0] or Weave[1] from Google. They're trying to solve this problem in an open, standardized way.

[0] Brillo - Embedded Android - https://developers.google.com/brillo/

[1] Weave - Communications - https://developers.google.com/weave/
I waiting for Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th gen with Skylake CPU. Anybody knows if it's already available?
This would imply that lots of English text can only be written, but hardly understood by someone else. No, really: I think PHP is the better comparison.
I don't know what your financial situation is like, but $5 is a pretty low entry point, given all of the positive reviews (not even including mine). It's also low enough that it may not make sense to release a demo - it might be more work than it would bring in.

I've stopped worrying about spending $5 here and there, given that last year I wouldn't think twice about casually ordering a beer at a bar - especially when it comes to paying for software.
Everyone here seems to be attacking a point the article didn't make, while avoiding the point that was made. Our legal system catches criminals by looking at what occurred leading up to and following a crime, and using that information to determine the perpetrator. As it stands, most crimes occur in the real world, and therefore most evidence is unencrypted. As things become more and more digital, evidence surrounding crimes will be more digital as well. If everything is completely encrypted, then there will be no evidence for police to look at, no way to trace the perpetrator.

This article has no mention of FBI backdoors, and Obama is in fact asking for people to propose other solutions. The question falls on everyone: How will we catch criminals in the digital age?
Shouldering the Burden of Utilitarianism
Focusing on murders really misses the point. Or rather misses the full picture. Something we rarely talk about but is the biggest gun problem in the US.

60ish percent of deaths by firearms are suicide. Owning a firearm is a risk factor for suicide. This is because many (most?) suicides are not carefully planned out and given considerable deliberation but are somewhat impulsive. Removing an easy means to commit suicide actually reduces suicide.

I'm neither pro or anti gun.
edit: I realize after posting this it might not be relevant since you may be discussing the trackpad as used with Ubuntu.

As of 1 month ago, when I bought and then returned an XPS 15 due to the trackpad, there was no option for middle clicking and no option for navigating forward/back.

There are also horrific sensitivity issues with the trackpad that is extremely well documented in user complaints online - the cursor doesn't start moving until your finger moves about a millimeter on the trackpad, resulting in it "jumping" when you are moving very small distances with high cursor speed.

These are all software issues - I installed Synaptics and it fixed these problems, but introduced others. I spent over 20 hours testing and researching and messing with the registry to have a trackpad that works the same as most any other laptop with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. I obviously didn't succeed, which is why I returned it.

To clarify, this is really a Windows 10 issue, and to some extent an Synaptics driver issue (even though it isn't officially supported by Dell).
I think you might be reading too much "right now" into "-ende". Counterexamples: Tragende Wand, führende Persönlichkeiten, rollende Landstraße etc.
Nah, just refuse to encrypt their shopping cart sessions. They don't really need TLS for entering that credit card, do they?
from the book: The Body stream is closed to avoid leaking resources.

I would have thought that a modern language would automatically take care of such things.
Officials in your article say they didn't know the son was there, and were targeting Ibrahim al-Banna. Sounds like an accident to me.

And it sure as hell wasn't buried in the news. It was a controversial event, on the front page of the NYT, and the Administration was forced to clarify specific policies on who they would target with drone strikes.
> What is X such that privacy invasion is acceptable?

It's impossible to tell in your simplified scenario, because you haven't said what the "simplified" version of the downside of privacy invasion is. If you're someone whose job is to prevent terrorist attacks, obviously you're going to judge that the downside of privacy invasion is a lot less than the downside of terrorist attacks. But if you're someone who's concerned about the long-term consequences of giving up civil liberties, you're going to judge that the downside of giving the government backdoor access to everyone's data is a lot more than the downside of terrorist attacks.

One way to tackle this question is to look at history: how much damage has been done by terrorist attacks, child pornographers, etc., compared to the damage done by governments who were given too much power? I think the latter has done orders of magnitude more damage, which means we should be a lot more worried about privacy invasion than about terrorists. YMMV.
Personally I use an Asus Zenbook UX305FA.

Positives:
* Great 1080p screen
* Great form factor
* No apparent incompatibilities with Linux
* Keyboard is fairly good
* Fast despite its fairly low-power CPU
* SSD
* Battery life

Negatives:
* Track pad isn't great
* UEFI
* Some small dents appeared on the body of the laptop after only a few months (never dropped it or anything)
* A small bright spot has appeared on the bottom of the screen

Although I have a few negatives listed I believe the positives far outweigh them. I have really enjoyed using this laptop for development.

As far as development goes, I have a dual-boot of Arch Linux and Windows 10. I primarily do Go and Python in Arch, and C/C++ in Windows.

I apologize in advance if the formatting of this post is messed up. First time posting on here. :)
President Obama: 'You Cannot Take an Absolutist View' on Encryption Issue
;permanently damaged...
There is too much money & shareholder interest tied up in those companies for that to happen. You can't just shut down a money machine unless shareholders approve or you can show why this is the best thing for your shareholders and you're acting responsibly. I think you'd have trouble proving these things because this is a polarizing topic. If you ask most people outside of tech circles they don't really care that much.