skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very valuable data to finance - commodities and macro trading could use this data to understand supply and demand trends, like a robust version of "Helicopter Edge": http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-12-19/helicopter-...
Some day, only governments and criminals will have access to strong encryption.
I guess I sort of did. I never took mathematics seriously, have a GED instead of a HS diploma, and subsequently started college in remedial HS-level algebra. But now I have a PhD in applied mathematics and work in the overlapping gray area of research that exists between the mathematics, computer science, and systems engineering disciplines.

I did have some very good (and very patient) instructors early on. But at some point when I had the chance to read and understand the basics of discrete math and intermediate calculus in-between my semesters (undergraduate was a bit broken up for me, I was a deployed military reservist), I guess I found it interesting enough at that point to go deeper and change my major.
>That's reinforcement learning and it's even more "telling the computer what to do" than teaching it with examples.

No one tells the computer what to do. They just let it do it's thing, and give it a reward when it succeeds.

>Not all AI has a reward function. Specific algorithms do. "All" AI?

Fine, all general AI. Like game playing etc. Minimax isn't general, and it does require a precise "value function" to tell it how valuable each state is. Classification also isn't general, but it also requires precise loss function.
Next on the line: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
Then the opportunity is to convince customers why they should pay more for well-supported connected products. Easiest way is to make high-margin products.
Actually a Huge difference is that scala.util.Future takes a implicit ExecutionContext while com.twitter.Future does not.
Apple could take the Galt Gulch option: buy a small country and move there where there sre no extradition treaties to bother with.
This is something equivalent to what geo-mapping companies have been doing around large industrial areas using low-flying aeroplanes taking high-res photography for analysis.

It's basically "adding satellite" to geo-mapping technology to "address real-time demand and analysis".

It's all good if they keep this shit near the mining/farming/ports, etc.

However, this being Google (Big Brother), you can expect that they'd try using this for "traffic analysis" (cause Waze is not enough) and then slowly encroach into your neighbourhood, so that when they finally launch their blimps, you can look at the sky and you will see the ads that your browser blocked.

Granted though, if Google isn't/wasn't going to do this, somebody else probably will (or already is).
Are physical light switches even a problem to be solved?

Seriously, I fail to see the ROI of such endeavor.
I think "sentience" is a political and religious concept, a vestige of the days when it was simply assumed that humans were unique, even blessed by God, and all other forms of life were just meat machines running blind algorithms. The truth is probably that sentience doesn't exist, only differing levels of complexity between one form of life and another.
I haven't looked at a VW in a long time. I last bought an A2 generation Jetta new in 1991. At that time, I think they were about $11 or $12K, and there was a definite "German" feel to the vehicle compared to similarly priced Asian or American cars. Better handling, better gear changes, a more tight and solid feel, and quieter. A Corolla at the time felt like a beer can on wheels, a Ford or Chevy in that price range felt perhaps more solid than a Corolla but had a very bland, generic, vague driving feel.

No idea if they are still that way but at least at the time a Jetta and a Corolla were not anywhere close to the same thing.
What are your thoughts on Jon C. Lilly's work?
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Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat
VW has cheaper brands such as Skoda.
To my knowledge Sanders has shown no inclination to take this issue on at all, let alone fight for our side.

His campaign thesis is that rich corporations have corrupted the political process. Apple is one of the richest corporations in the world. It's not clear to me what Sanders will think of their concerns.

Encryption is not an issue that breaks down easily along typical populist political lines, which are the lines that Sanders prefers to stay within.

That said, you are correct that it should be a political issue--particularly in Congressional elections.
It's Pittsburgh with an h at the end.

Source: Born and raised black and yellow.
The automobile market is not that simple. It's possible for a car to be moderately priced, sell in huge numbers, and make a profit. In the mid '90s Chrysler sold 100k+ minivans a year and made an average profit of $5k. I'm sure today someone is doing almost that well with cute SUVs.

VW has the wrong product mix for North America: no trucks, no popular SUVs. They got burned with US regulation because they cheated. It's easy to imagine that they would do better as a premium brand, but there is no evidence that they have the brand or the competency. Does anyone remember the Phaeton? Google that. VW has had this fantasy before.

Source on Chrysler : http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
Yes, and AJAX calendar apps would definitely be in that category in the 1950's also. That's not what he said. He said it's "quite the pivot from the YC of yesteryear that capitalized on things like better UX for AJAX calendars, web hosting, and drag-and-drop file storage."

YC was founded in 2005; these weren't especially hard problems in 2008.
I like the idea!
This times a million. It is better to pay the price for doing the right thing than to turn against your morals because of your comfort. And if enough people and companies do the same, things will change.

Evil prevails because good men do nothing. And this generation seem to be the masters at doing nothing.

A truly gutsy CEO would say screw you to an oppressive law or government. They'd be willing to die in prison for their beliefs, and shut the whole company down in the process. Take the story to media and watch the government's stupidity get them publically humiliated by the press and social media.

Things like this will only stop if they become political suicide for any party or politician that tries to implement them.
your price differentials are a little off. you can't spend $5000 more than VW prices to get an equivalent Mercedes/BMW/Audi, its more like 10-15k more. VW's whole thing used to be that they were about 5k more than the mass market cars, but were almost as good as a luxury car with a nice feel and unique features. I'd be fine with them returning to this niche model, the american Jettas and Passats are lame.
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I think it's a mindset problem on both ends. But - agreed that my mindset is shallow on the subject. Maybe from a lack of exposure or maybe from something else.

Really, all I'd like to see is some sort of other avenue through YC that doesn't necessarily require a video to be posted since that adds to a particular sort of bias.
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Parker Hannifin’s Robotic Exoskeleton Gets FDA OK for Personal Use
The fine would probably be pretty hefty and occur on some periodic basis. Yahoo reportedly faced $250,000 daily fines that were set to double weekly back in 2008 [1]

Some engineer will do it for a million dollars, just knowing that the next guy after him will be offered the same amount. And Apple will be happy to pay that amount because to disobey a finalized court order is suicide for everyone.

A better argument for why this won't work as the DoJ would like is that criminals will just use some other method of encrypting their data. It's as easy as downloading an app. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be using devices whose security is compromised. This leaves the criminals safe, our data more vulnerable to theft, and the DoJ with their hands in the air wondering what happened.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsu...
"The advantage of unit testing modular code bases is that you don't have to test every program state, you just have to test every module state."

I don't think that's true with a capital T. Modules interact with each other. You can modularize, microize, or nanoize your application but the minimum subset of test-worthy states stays the same.
> there was a definite "German" feel to the vehicle

Could it be placebo effect/confirmation bias? I am not a car enthusiast but I recently bought a new one and test drove both german and asian models and I honestly couldn't tell them apart.
FBI 'could force Apple to hand over private key' and Source Code
Personally, I have avoided technology products built in US because there's a chance they might be backdoored. I'm sure others have done the same.
> It's just an inefficient triangle rasterizer. All it does is loop over the pixels in a rectangle covering a triangle, and for each pixel inside it calls a "shader" function.

99% of programmers without graphics training would not come up with the barycentric coordinates solution when asked how to draw triangles (including me, before I learned about it). Even if the code were nothing but that, it'd be extremely educational.

The point of this course is obviously not to teach graphics gurus how mipmapping or anisotropy or whatever works. That would be an interesting series of lessons (albeit one with a much narrower audience), but it's not what this tutorial is about.

Nobody complains that showing absolute beginners their first "hello world" program isn't valuable because they aren't teaching them about Unix file descriptors or the concept of a syscall.
Great idea. I would vote for that too. Like Sisyphus ...

Edit: spelling.
Next will come the API spec parsers to automate client code generation. Those will break on the first vendor specific extension. Vendors will put in extensions for security, pre and post request action guidance, etc. This will cause vendor specific client code generators to be created. The specification will take a long time to get updated as each vendor will want their extensions in the core specification. As a result even more extensions will be created.

We have seen this cycle before with WSDL and XML Schema, etc. I hope we have learned from our mistakes and don't go down the same path to have history repeat itself.

Personally I like the idea of an API Specification but the practical use has been a let down so far.
The example was 1.7 miles. That would be great for local merchants but not for Amazon, etc.

P.S. I wonder how many will be stolen.
Are you referring to vendoring? That's where I usually see the most complaints -- I mean the fact that something like "go get" was baked in from the get-go (to be fair, just about every modern language no considers this important). Not all languages came with any pre-baked (and decently considered)

As far as testing goes, I find the stdlib to be adequate, especially for relatively simple programs. Are the complaints your familiar with over the lack of more powerful testing tools like quickcheck?
but that's how reality works. you can't just hide in the basement and wait for success to come for you.
They want to set some precedent in court so they can use the same process for every future version of the iPhone.
That was lovely to read and I agree 100%.
I drive a 2015 VW GTI. It is really a very good car. Comfortable, fun to drive, good fuel economy. There is a reason why it is always on the Car and Driver Ten Best list for North America. It just isn't a mass market car. It's a car for people who will pay extra for car just because it is fun to drive but not pretentious or ostentatious in any way.
> If not "open source" or "shared source," what's a generic phrase for software that includes the source but not necessarily OSS principles.

"Published source"?
Got it, thanks. I think I've been experiencing similar stuff on some sites for the last few days, but my attention was more on the page topic, also may have thought that it was an issue with my mouse (that I had to click a few times to go to previous page). So it's good to know.
i dont want/need to register to "discover new teas". potential customer lost.
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Because the ratchet hasn't 'clicked' yet. So if this round gets won by the good guys you can certainly expect another one.
You're claiming that VCs select for charisma as a general heuristic today. You also claim that you're a special case, and that you're project doesn't require that you interact with many people.

Fine. But if you want VC money, give them some credit and assume that they can decide for themselves whether or not your lack of charisma will be a factor in your business. Presumably, some of them are good at their jobs and can correctly make that determination.

Furthermore, to refute your entire claim, there have been many articles suggesting that VCs actually exhibit a selection bias towards social awkwardness, since so many socially awkward people have been terribly successful recently. You're assuming that they're looking for highly charismatic salespeople (and maybe for some companies they are), but what facts support your claim?
Genuine question: Don't the other companies talk about security in their replies to the RFQ? Wouldn't that cause the original company to stop and ask the other repliers about the security they would implement (if they didn't mention security)?
You may be interested in this[1] post by Charles Stross. I think there are a few very insightful comments on there.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/09/the-skys...
Someone at telegraph.co.uk has just discovered Parallax effects and is abusing them.
> dependency management & testing stories of go

I've heard ppl complain about dependency management but what about testing ? Are there specific issues with testing in golang?
PubPub here. Give us a couple weeks - we'll have a big update that 1) open sources everything, and 2) has a much cleaner create-a-journal UX.

If waiting is misery, email us at pubpub@media.mit.edu, we might be able to spin up a custom journal for you quickly.
Being the designated mechanic for my wife's 2005 Jetta convinced me that the only reason I'd ever consider a VW was the TDI. How the hell do teeth start falling off your timing belt at 60,000 miles and 4 years? How can changing a timing belt require so many special tools? How can a car be small AND slow AND handle like crap AND get terrible fuel economy? 25mpg is pathetic. Still though, a clean diesel getting 50mpg sounded pretty compelling.

VW brazenly lying about the TDI emissions took away the only reason I'd ever consider them.
Cool. But, do you think a paid model for consuming content would work given the number of content sources and the frequency with which a user visits a single source? Don't content creators depend on some form of revenue and trackers are used to optimize the revenue.
DSRC. Link to explanation for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_short-range_communic...
The idea is interesting! I think you might want to use a more generic metric.
I really really doubt Go will ever get generics better than Java's, if ever. Generics bring in inherent intellectual baggage that the Go team very much tries to avoid (unsuccessfully fwiw: Many people eventually hit the question of "Why can't I pass []Type to []Interface if T fulfills Interface?" or in other words "why aren't Go slices covariant?")
> I think the reason these systems haven't been challenged yet is lack of knowledge.

As a software engineer, I always thought that the best way to have a great business (not a blow out VC style business, but a good business) is to be a decent-to-good software developer and have deep domain knowledge of some other industry. I thought the best way to get that would be to apprentice in that industry, but the opportunity cost is high (esp as you get older), so the second best way may be to take a job as a dev in that industry and learn as much as you can from the domain experts.

The combo of software development + domain expertise means you see problems to automate away all around you and you can actually execute on what you see.
Attacks on humans by Orcas happens. Its that they do not eat humans, once they realize its us, they let go and swim away.
They need to taste us first, especially if none of the members of group haven't tasted or interacted with humans before.
Forcing Apple to exploit a backdoor they created in an existing product is qualitatively different from forcing them to create and include a backdoor in new products, and claiming the two are equal is dishonest.

The former places no constraints on what products anyone is allowed to make and sell.
SpaceX says reusable stage could cut prices 30%, plans Nov. Falcon Heavy debut
Hah, sorry it was lost in translation :)
And the difference is..?
This guy is going to burn some bridges.
How do you reconcile that with the fact most electronic components are made in China? To me the odds of something coming out of China being backdoored are a lot higher than well...anywhere else. Where do you get your gear?
Like:

It's feature rich and powerful.

The syntax is familiar (to me) from editing Wikipedia

It's relatively easy to install / setup. Not totally pain-free, but nothing too hideous.

Dislike:

Not a big deal, but it's written in PHP, which is a language / ecosystem I'm not as familiar with. So if I wanted to hack on it myself, I'm less equipped to do that than if it were written in Java or Groovy or Python. But that's basically a nit-pick to be honest.
Yeah. Makes sense.

I guess nuclear contamination is in a different category than say, pollution from coal burning power plants, which add a lot of mercury to the environment which then ends up in high level ocean predators like tuna. The fishing industry doesn't seem to have the ability to stop that kind of pollution.

Maybe it's because many sea food consumers people casually ignore mercury levels in fish they eat. Or maybe it's because the Japanese seafood supply chain is well enough managed and regulated that people really know where a piece of fish in a market actually came from. Perhaps people carry geiger counters into the supermarkets there. I don't know.
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I love go, we couldn't have built out our current software without it.

Channels are .. not great. They are too slow for many use cases.

That said, I'm building out a tool right now that uses channels in a nice way; it takes input from a bunch of spots, and the channels magically force it into an orderly queue which is operated on. That's quite a lot of code I don't have to write.

If the channel messages went up past a certain amount, mutex contention and throughput worries would push me onto a different angle of attack though.

Anyway, push go all you want. It compiles fast to a wide variety of statically linked binaries and is performant and easy to deal with. Most of the complainers about go are coming at it from what I would call a craftsman approach: go is a modern Java, not a Haskell with C friendly syntax. It doesn't want to be Haskell or Lisp, those languages can be very hard to use and maintain for junior developers in large teams.
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Will modern memorization techniques be implemented (for example Leitner boxes)?
Depends on how tasty we are to them and or if we had the ability to resist.
Since Sam has taken over at the helm, the expansion of YC including adding partners and employees has been dramatic. The YC website got an overhaul, added (the macro), created YC fellowship and Y Research. It seems like Sam's vision for YC is much larger than PG's was.

While under PG, YC kept things small, specific, and focused. Don't get me wrong, I think Sam is doing an absolutely fantastic job. However there is a stark contrast in scale, speed, and vision.
That's the Tesla case. Or alternatively the Apple case. The vast majority of customers go with not that, and history shows you won't convince them the intangibles are worth it.
High level abstractions are nice and I see myself rewriting certain patterns. But that's not only true for concurrency patterns, for object oriented patterns as well. Still most people write these things each time by hand, even if some language have baked in support for simple patterns like Delegate.

I'm actually quite fine orchestrating concurrency with channels and the sync package but I use Go since 2011. I suspect that people new to the language are tempted to write things more complicated than they really are. I understand that it's difficult to find out when to close a channel. But in reality, when it's complicated figuring that out, probably channels aren't used optimally.

Regarding Generics, there have been plenty of discussions on the Golang Google Group. Keeping the language lean and consistent also seemed to be the main priority.
Jetta is small? Looks like a big fancy car to me.

This is a small VW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Polo

(and yes, nobody buys non-TDI volkswagens these days, at least not in Europe)
"Chris Clark [...] was Mayor of Mountain View.View"

Is that a typo or a file name? Hmmm, I might just add "Creator of the Universe.txt" to my resume.
This may not be a bad idea, and it was a long time in making, even without the emission scandal.

Ever since its decision to go mass market, quality of materials took a steep dive. They also looked very dull because engineering and production cost was putting constraints on design detailing. For the past 5 years, VW has been making cars that are duller than Toyota Camry of late 90s. They were given benefit of the doubt by automotive press because journalists love German cars. But with its competitors seriously ramping up their product portfolio, riding the coattail of its former glory is coming to an end.

Their current lineup with exception of Golf is entirely uncompetitive, particularly Passat and Jetta. There are far more compelling offerings out there than these dull box on wheel that are product of severe cost engineering.
> just like every battle for our civil rights

Eh. Only if you look at the past 15 years perhaps. But I think over the past 60 years it's been quite the opposite. We fought for civil liberties until we won, for the most part.
Google's AlphaGo wins second game against Go champion
Does the obvious solution cost one cent more?
There's one solution to the latter. Shut down the agencies. Then distribute whatever systems they've been working on so they can be defended against.

It'd be unpopular for some (imagine if a more liberal party actually shut down the NSA or GCHQ, and then open sourced everything), but it'd certainly make an impact.
Lovely: make it clear that we're inherently immoral (not doing the 'right thing'), and increase our dependency on charity.
A new garden
Thanks for the quote. And just fyi it's "nebulous" :)
Did you not understand the

func merge[T](cs ...<-chan T) <-chan T

reference?

The author doesn't want to send something random, they want to send things of a single type, where the type is defined at compile time, without re-writing functions like 'merge'.
I don't think advertising and tracking need to go hand-in-hand the way they do right now.
So far this hasn't mattered much because it's a very difficult game to play.

Honestly, if it can play top tier StarCraft matches, I'm willing to be we could apply it to the vast majority of things humans can currently do; although I'll rule out creative tasks for the time being.