skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm not sure how you're correcting for bias in the feedback. For the same reasons you don't think it's possible for an interview to be not-stressful at all; you also can't get feedback about that process without the bias that they're not going to want to tell you that your process might be bad.

You'd more or less need to get feedback only from people who are already happily and gainfully employed who are also close to neutral on the 'agreeableness' spectrum.

At any rate. You can remove the stress from an interview mostly the same way a therapist can remove stress from iterative therapy. By building an ad-hoc environment of trust, safety, cooperation, and goal alignment.
Everything can be used in a destructive fashion, if a society is mature enough then it can enjoy them. Alcohol, private planes, cars, knives, food,etc all carry the same risk of abuse as guns.

More americans die of eating too much food each year than in all gun deaths ,let alone mass shootings.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Beta Release
Errata Security: No, you backoff on backdoors or else
HyperCard predates the world wide web. It was pretty awesome, too.
UberEATS app for food delivery
Razer's Latest Blade Laptop Is Lighter, Faster, Cheaper, Stronger
$8 trillion for the value of the online economy seems really really high.
INDIAN MAN PULLS LOCOMOTIVE WITH PONY TAIL:

http://abc7news.com/archive/8816949/
I got a bunch of names from network sites and a bunch more I entered manually. If you host a podcast you can use the contact form and I'll add you to the system!
The Best Engineers Have These 5 Non-Technical Qualities
Make your own country independent of deep-state interlocking intelligence services. Part of the problem is that the US will set the tone for dozens of countries where it has cultivated linkages that often override the will of the people.

I'm looking at you, Sweden.
I used to share office space with a different Cover (paywithcover.com), and they were occasionally confused for any one of several other Cover brands (coverscreen.com, madewithcover.com, readcover.com, etc). Seems like the "Cover" space is a little tricky for that reason.
1. Assuming you get a cut from your insurance company partners, wouldn't your incentives be aligned towards displaying higher priced insurance plans?

2. What kinds of things do millenials tend to insure other than cars and health? I, like most of my friends, don't own very much else worth insuring. If it wasn't mandated by law, I probably wouldn't insure either - it's basically a tax on the majority of young, healthy, white collar workers.

3. As a young person, cost of insurance is my primary concern. How does the tech help you compete on price with large, nationwide insurance companies with huge, diversified pools of clients? By targeting only millenials are you able to weed out high-risk, high-cost clients and bring the overall premiums down? Is that even legal? If so, I would be very interested in joining.
Uber's Role in GM's $1B Purchase of Cruise Automation
We thought about it, but ultimately it was too expensive and we weren't able to find the right influencers that fit with our brand.
Sounds like you need to read up on the actual intent of terrorists: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror
If you're targetting HTML, you will likely need at least CSS... most JS is optional, and there are compile-to options.

That said, this should allow you to target a canvas element, with minimal JS binder to wasm code... all logic including what gets rendered could be outside JS... but you'd have to think of and control all input/output, and there are other considerations for rendering performance.
I view the asteroids as a better colonization target than mars because you are right.

I think we should be focus on building self-reproducing tin-cans that contain a minimal human-supporting ecosystem (and humans). The problem is not finding better planets, it is about being planet-bound at all.
An unhealthy obsession with p-values is ruining science
The sensible solution, which I have seen done very successfully before, is to add a 1/1.5hr hr on site/skype step, in which the candidate goes over the solution, and asks for a small feature. It both proves that the code was written by the candidate, shows some of the personal stuff the homework didn't, and makes it far easier for the candidate to perform well, because they are familiar with the code, as they wrote it!

It's not an expensive investment for what you get, and since the meeting should happen soon after the code is written, it's easy to provide basic feedback.
Air Force wants robots to fly existing jets
That Gustafson link is intriguing - efficient floating point without the drawbacks. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589
Fwiw, the point where the Go curve massively changes slope is when Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) began to be used in its modern form. I think that's been an underreported part of AlphaGo's success: deep networks get the lion's share of the press, but AlphaGo is a hybrid deep-learning / MCTS system, and MCTS is arguably the most important of the algorithmic breakthroughs that led to computer Go being able to reach expert human level strength.
Interesting.

1- Was there a reason why you chose not to use a promo video?
2- What has been main driver in sales so far? Like what was the split between PR, Email List and Ads? Any other channels?
3- Why Shopify over Celery/Tilt then? Did it give you more control over the experience?

Sorry lots of questions. We are currently deciding between selfstarter vs crowdfunding.

-Martin
I'll also add that it's not that much different for MS. If they suddenly winked out of existence, it'd be a pain, but "massive negative impact", not that much. There are alternatives, and it'd force everyone to have to explore those alternatives finally. It'd be a much bigger problem than Apple winking out of existence, however, because of MS's strong position in business software.

Of course, part of this depends on whether MS's software also winks out of existence, or if only the corporation itself gets swallowed up in a space-time continuum rift. If the software stays, it wouldn't be much of a problem at all: people would just continue using MS-ware as they currently do. A lot of people use illegitimate MS software anyway, so no change for them. Corporations would have less hassle with licensing. The main problem would be security updates, but that's been screwed up lately anyway because MS has been using that to force unwanted updates and ad-ware and spyware.
Goals are orthogonal to intelligence. The fact that the AI understands what you want won't motivate it to change what it's optimizing. It's not being dumb, it's being literal.

You asked it to make lots of paperclips, tossing you into an incinerator as fuel slightly increases the expected number of paper clips in the universe, so into the incinerator you go. Your complaints that you didn't mean that many paperclips are too little, too late. It's a paperclip-maximizer, not a complaint-minimizer.

Choosing the goal for a superintelligent AI a goal is like choosing your wish for a monkey's paw[1][2]. You come up with some clever idea, like "make me happy" or "find out what makes me happy, then do that", but the process of mechanizing that goal introduces some weird corner case strategy that horrifies you while doing really well on the stated objective (e.g. wire-heading you, or disassembling you to do a really thorough analysis before moving on to step 2).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey's_Paw
2: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/
Or maybe we should focus on overcoming biology alltogether.
The initial release of WebAssembly won't have any support for well-integrated runtimes, which complicates support for any language that isn't C or C++ or Rust. Theoretically you could probably ship the Go runtime with each webpage, but I don't know how you'd interact with the DOM from there.
> Continued advancement doesn't mean that it is accelerating, and even if this does represent an unexpected achievement that doesn't mean that future development will maintain that pace.

Advancement faster than predictions does mean accelerating advancement, coupled with the (true) fact that people's predictions tend to assume a constant rate of advancement [citation needed]. Actually, all you'd need to show accelerating advancement is a trend of conservative predictions and the fact that these predictions assume a non-decreasing rate of advancement; if we're predicting accelerating advancement and still underestimating its rate, advancement must still be accelerating.

It even seems like this latter case is where we're at, since people who assume an accelerating rate of advancement see to assume that the rate is (loosely) quadratic. However, given that the rate of advancement tends to be based on the current level of advancement (a fair approximation, since so many advancements themselves help with research and development), we should expect it to be exponential. That's what exponential means.

However, the reality seems like it might be even faster than exponential. This is what the singularitarians think. When you plot humanity's advancements using whatever definition you like, look at the length of time between them to approximate rate, and then try to fit this rate to a regression, it tends to fit regressions with vertical asymptotes.
I noticed a similar issue with Comedy Bang Bang. The host (Scott Aukerman) and the main guest (Paul F. Tompkins) are missing from the most recent episode.

https://www.podcat.com/podcasts/QAgBjs-comedy-bang-bang-the-...
SpoonRocket Blog: Goodbye
It's unfortunate, but that's probably correct. :(

Kind of wondering if this action by MS would count as abusive behaviour by a monopolist.
I'd pay money if there was browser sync. Looks nice though.
Interesting on the "FB group spamming", that's a great idea to expand reach!

Did you have any PR coverage pre-launch then to collect more emails?
Perhaps in the US, but here in the UK, in my experience, companies have shorter onsite interviews.
(except for the American ones...)
Do you have a link to that? Because I know a guy who really needs to counterpoint it. High-security engineer, Clive Robinson, always said security is about physics if you look at it down to the hardware. The physics try to connect things in ways you didn't see coming. That allows unauthorized communications. The physics also try to corrupt the operation of your chips. That compromises computational security mechanisms. Even encryption algorithms had tons of problems when they were implemented to the point that it takes pro's with years of experience to implement them with any assurance. Those are often broken later.

So, if Doctorow said that, he couldn't be further from the truth. The universe seems to do everything it can to make security difficult via physics itself. Throw in economics and biology (evolving malicious attackers) to top the argument off.
A printing version of Swift's try? operator
Honestly, that is the problem in a nutshell. We have followed the optimization strategy of self-interest to it's optima. We will have to change strategies to break out.

So how can we change what people value, without destroying that which we are attempting to preserve?
Hi Martin,

We actually went through some influencers on our side (known fighters or coaches).

It definitely helped gain a lot of credibility on our end because if it was that much of a revolutionary product, why would pro athletes not use it amd endorse it. so for us it helped a lot convince our customers that it was a legit product.

However, we have been offered to post on a few famous people pages for 5k but we didn't do it as we thought it would actually be seen as paid advertising instead of genuine and authentic love for the product. We're still exploring those avenues though.
This was an eye opener for me. Bell Labs tech is as usual a mountain of hidden complexity hiding under a "simple" facade.

No more excuses for me. Time to learn Rust.
JSX is also very natural for people who've written HTML for years.

I wasn't a fan when I started, but now I love it to bits.
France has roughly the same permitting system and storage regulations as Switzerland but you may not posses given types of rifles/handguns. Furthermore there is a limit on ammunition you can purchase per year.
FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive, GELI, and UFS (2015)
> You, the people choose the government

From among two choices, already bought by special interests, and already so habituated to our intelligence and law enforcement communities that they have zero scepticism about these kinds of travesties.
I like how the people behind the podcasts, the hosts and frequent guests are catalogued. It's an interesting way to browse for episodes and podcasts that I haven't seen done anywhere else.

Shameless plug: I've been working on a similar project (https://podcast.party/) that also lets you subscribe to podcasts to keep track of which episodes you have played/unplayed.
From wikipedia:

>> Contribution margin, or dollar contribution per unit, is the selling price per unit minus the variable cost per unit. “Contribution” represents the portion of sales revenue that is not consumed by variable costs and so contributes to the coverage of fixed costs.

So, positive contribution margin should imply they covered all the fixed and variable costs, the way I read it.

But then, why do they need to shut down? It looks like their def on "contribution margin positive" is something else after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_margin
> A bit of body odor is not unhygienic nor rude. People complaining would be the rude ones.

I'll agree on the 'bit' part, but lets not overdo it.
In fairness, that's because VC culture is a parasite on normal society.
For those on a Mac who want to install Gnugo using brew you have to use the command:

brew install homebrew/games/gnu-go
The power to collect evidence to resolve criminal cases is one of the most fundamental powers of the state.

But this doesn't mean that the state gets to do that however it wants. There have to be limits on such power.
"The one thing that isn't immediately clear from your GitHub is if YOU wrote the code and HOW you wrote the code."
Spend a few minutes looking at the commit history and all shall be revealed...
Please see the link that I provided; it's not that people can't _learn_ with proprietary software; that's obviously not the case at all.

I learned to program on a proprietary operating system with a proprietary language---Visual Basic---when I was ten years old. And I was taught that sharing was bad. I distributed some code to others, but when I wrote some actually useful software, it was proprietary, and nobody saw the source code.

I didn't know about free software until after I started using GNU/Linux; I noticed that a game's "binary" (Frozen Bubble) was the source code---a python script. It amazed me, and I didn't entirely understand why. But I loved that I could hack it and make changes to it.

I've lived on both ends.
It's also how muscles work, isn't it? A ton of tiny myosin heads pulling in parallel.
I feel like there should be a candlelight vigil.
Install Flanker [1] and you can do it locally. Just make sure your ISP/firewall allows outgoing SMTP connections on port 25, and ideally have Redis running for caching [2].

[1] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/

[2] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/blob/master/docs/User%20M...
You should def go to NYC Resistor in Brooklyn. They have open hack nights every Thursday evenings. http://www.nycresistor.com/
Cops hacked the Police National Computer to unlawfully retain suspects' data
So what did the code inspector have to say about your DIY work?
Developed by free-roaming coders fed on organic-certified food.
Same degree. I work in Software. I didn't have a problem finding a job either. I started off in industrial process automation, traveling around the U.S. doing very high level programming to make the UI for waste water treatment plants. Then I moved into web development.

But, let's move past the "no trouble getting a job" part. If getting a job is your goal, then choose a CS degree. If getting job doing a particular form of programming is your goal, then focus on a CS degree with a speciality in that type of programming.

Getting a Math degree is a super way to get a job in programming, but not as good as a CS degree. It's a matter of not closing a door, versus opening it.
I think more beneficial would be if we focus our force on getting thermonuclear fusion working (or other source of 'free' energy'). Cheap endless energy will superspeed all other endeavors.
"the efforts of a few thousand people"

Good point. And arguably that's actually happening.
"I'm not allowed to look at it."
Uh? Is it a concern that you'd get too much information about a candidate?
Do you have any advice for how quick we should be to report bugs? I just noticed my old homepage[1] crashes webrender (not normal rendering) after scrolling a bit and was wondering whether that kind of thing is worth reporting or if the code is in such active work that it's not worth wasting someone's time managing the issue.

1. http://chris.improbable.org
> Practically speaking, a person with a 6" knife can do far more damage to a person and have a higher likelihood of inflicting a mortal wound than someone with a .38 revolver.

What complete crap.
More code review tools
Once WebAssembly supports all the features of JavaScript, which is on the roadmap (step 3, "everything else" [1]), it'll be a very sensible thing to do, especially for mobile.

Compiling JavaScript text source code into a binary representation of its AST will save time and space downloading, and time starting up.

You won't need another JIT compiler, the web browser usually already has one. WebAssembly is bytecode and JIT agnostic. Compiling text JavaScript into a binary WebAssembly representation of the parse tree is different than compiling the parse tree to bytecode, or JITting the parse tree or bytecode to machine code. They are complementary layers, and both synergistically useful together.

[1] http://bytecrafter.blogspot.nl/2015/06/a-quick-overview-of-w...
I'm going to have to disagree with part of this. Collecting emails is a good strategy when there's a concrete availability date and that date isn't too far off from the present.
I recently had a client who was trying to sell a similar(ish) product. Collected emails for 6+ months. When they announced that their product was available, it took them 3 months to get to 50 orders from nearly 10k emails.
Looking back, keeping the email subs engaged might have helped increase conversion from subscriber -> customer, but It ended up not working out nearly as well as we had hoped.
It's nonsense. The function is external, called from a separately compiled file. The pointer comes in as a char *. The code checks its alignment before assuming it can be cast to a block. There is no way in it could be "miscompiled".

The ivec argument could in fact have come from an object that is of type aes_block_t. The only thing which might reveal that it didn't is wrong alignment. In other regards, there is no way to tell.

Lastly, any cross-compilation-unit optimization which could break code of this type is forbidden, because ISO C says that semantic analysis ends in translation phase 7.

I'm looking at C99, not the latest, but I think it's the same.

In translation phase 7 (second last), "The resulting tokens are syntactically and semantically analyzed and translated as a translation unit." Note the "semantically analyzed": semantic analysis is where the compiler tries to break your code due to strict aliasing.

In translation phase 8 "All external object and function references are resolved. Library components are
linked to satisfy external references to functions and objects not defined in the
current translation. All such translator output is collected into a program image
which contains information needed for execution in its execution environment."

No mention of any more semantic analysis! So unless somehow the mere resolution of external symbols can somehow break OpenSSL's AES, I don't see how anything can go wrong.

One thing I woudl do in that code, though is to make sure that it doesn't use the original ivec pointer. In the case where "chunking" goes on, it should just cast it to the block type, and put the result of that cast in a local variable. All the ememcpy's, load/store macros would be gone, and the increments by AES_BLOCK_SIZE would just be + 1.
I was working in academia back in 2002 and I remember talking about this crazy open access thing, and blogs, and wikis, with the folks on the tenure committee then. I remember thinking how fast this tenure/publishing thing will change in the next few years. And here it is 13 years later and there's a headline about a HANDFUL of biologists going rouge and daring to publish a PREPRINT!? I know there's been quite a bit of progress, but I'm still surprised at just how little things have changed.
Ken Jennings: The Go Champion, the Grandmaster, and Me
I can't remember the last time SCOTUS sent a democratic activist to the loving arms of Vladimir Putin's torture/death squads:

http://en.odfoundation.eu/a/6935,in-a-shocking-decision-fren...

Perhaps you're being too dismissive of the US system?
Sad to see any startup die, but this was not unexpected.

I know I am but a tiny sample of the overall SF food market, but I'm squarely in the target demographic (work at home, don't like to go out to eat). I used SpoonRocket a few times, but entirely gave up on them after trying a few times. I love Sprig and order from the often. Here's why:

* SpoonRocket's meals simply weren't healthy. A lot of the folks in this space (Sprig, Munchery, etc.) are really focused on healthy food. I can call the Chinese place down the block and have an unhealthy meal delivered, but there traditionally have been very few good healthy options other than cooking yourself. SpoonRocket's food was heavy, carb-y, greasy, and just not that good.

* I know they had to do this for time efficiency/cost reasons, but the requirement that you meet the driver out at the curb was too big of a psychological barrier. I live/work in one of the (relatively rare, to be fair) SF highrises, but knowing that a SpoonRocket meal meant getting up, waiting for the elevator, going downstairs, meeting the driver, then going back upstairs - meant that I just never ordered from them (especially when Sprig will bring the meal right to my door.)

This just goes to show that in an absolute sense -- these relatively small differences might not matter (i.e. of course I'd rather go downstairs to pick up food vs. walk to a restaurant for lunch), but in the highly competitive environment where easier and healthier alternatives exist, their offering was unsustainable.
I don't agree that their food was "largely gross and very unhealthy" - mac & cheese was just one of the options, they always had 2-3 other nicer options

I was a user since 2013 and enjoyed their stuff, too bad it's gone

wonder if sprig's gonna survive..
you're the first to pull the hitler card in this thread.

though you have a point, his campain does resemble Hitler's. sure, it's jews in one and brown people in the other... other than that? the greatest nation on earth under siege! let's make this country great again! they will pay for what they've done to us!
For those of you that did Kickstarter and not Indiegogo or a selfstarter (Celery/Tilt/Shopify) campaign:

How happy were you with the experience so far? There are a few up and downsides as drabie had mentioned before.

Taking all of that into account, would you use Kickstarter again if you had the choice again?