skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explain the hypocrisy, please. I'd seriously like to understand that. Last I heard, he tried to keep from having good his music from being used in a TV commercial. And the impression I get from this article, not only were the rest of the band pissed he wouldn't sell out, they were torqued that he was supporting smaller "no name" acts, which is kind of what YC does, in a way, right?
http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Dead-Kennedys-legal-feud-32...
You bought them, still haven't came up with any ideas to develop them, so I'd say just Let them expire and forget about them.
I was most interested by how the generated the tweets with my state and county representatives. The scripts is all in js/app.js and uses maxmind's geoip lookup to get back location information. It then uses the Sunlight Foundation's api with the loaction information to pull back the twitter ids for the reps. Cool stuff.
Take that, Golang!!!!

J/K
I wonder if a framework that uses fasthttp instead of net/http can be even more performant.
OK, Ed Bott of ZDNet has posted a couple of reg files, DisableOSUpgrade.reg and DisableGWX.reg. Download them, double-click them, and they will change the registry for you.

See: How to block Windows 10 upgrades on your business network (and at home, too)
http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-block-windows-10-upgrade...

The two small text files are at
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=!APe8Z7RJNVNc0uM&id=FEA7E...
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage

It does.
I realise that they're probably just covering their asses, but it really sucks to live in a small country that none of the distributors care about.

The Estonian netflix catalogue is on the order of 500? titles... ridiculous compared to the US catalogue. In the US you have "watch on amazon prime" buttons in imdb. In Estonia, no such luck.

Essentially, there is no legal way at all to watch the vast majority of movies here. And people wonder why piracy happens a lot around here...
I'm as big a boglehead as there is. Nevertheless, imagine you're the only person in the world not indexing. It's going to be quite easy to beat the market. Everyone else in existence is using market cap as the sole criterion for determining where to put their money. In this case all the other indicators for success are being ignored and not priced into the current price of the stock. In other words, if the whole world indexes the market becomes very inefficient.
I would lose days of productivity if I could play either of those games again. And I want to. Badly. I've played a few 4X games since then, but those old "Door Games" we're something special.

I wonder if anyone has the source for them still...

EDIT: oh, no. I'll see you guys later. telnet://twgs.classictw.com
This is not really about compliance. They license their content from their media partners and these licensing agreements state in which territories they are allowed to use the licensed content. Their media partners are contractually requiring them to take steps to block the usage of their content outside the licensed territories.

Keep in mind that the party who has licensed Netflix a production to be used in e.g. the US might not even have the rights to the same production in e.g. the UK.
WTF did I just read?
>no legal way at all to watch the vast majority of movies here.

You could buy them.
Fortune telling is a dangerous business.

It would be interesting to know if Vernor Vinge stands by his prediction and still thinks that the end of the human era is only 7 years away.
That's a trade we all should make in a heart beat.
Article is light on details, but sounds like a fixed length field issue with "d" overflowing into the status field because the city name was included in the wrong field.

I wonder what field it was included in. The city name would have been included on the questionnaire mailer, but those never went out, so I guess the field could have been anything.
You could say that but it seems like you will be turning down a lot of work. If you are only working 3 to 4 hours a day it is not that hard to double yours hours for a week or two to meet a client's deadline. It will keep your clients happy and if you charge by the hour it a nice bonus on your invoice.
This is very true of c64 games, which had the powerful SID music chip. I didn't realize until I was an adult how much of the emotional draw of those games was tied to music.
Yes, I read a blog post about it, and it was in my take-a-deeper-look list, seems excellent
Not even if both sides agree? That sounds mighty ethical to me.
Ungit: The Easiest way to Git
Huh? Orthodontics are free in the UK up til 19, and it's very normal to have braces.

Maybe amongst an older generation who'd have to go out their way to pay for straightening.
Love it!
If you want to play with state-of-the-art machine learning software, this is not for you.
But if you want a clean implementation of neural networks in C that has a GPL license and no non-free components, this is a good start.
The problem with Signal (at least for me) is that its desktop client relies on your phone's Signal app, which feels weird and "duct tape-ish". I've been spoiled by the ease of using iMessage with multiple devices (phone, tablet, desktop, or otherwise): just sign in and it works, no janky-feeling interdevice communication necessary, and I've come to expect that from any messaging service I use.

Signal is great for those who confine their instant-message-like communication to their phones, since desktops being treated as second class citizens isn't an issue for them. I am not one of those individuals. I want to be able to read and reply to messages on whichever device I'm using at the moment without having to think about my phone's presence at all.
I'm going to be taking a Compilers course next quarter and I was speaking to the prof who told me that she doesn't plan on using the Dragon book, instead she plans to use the Louden book which seems a lot more approachable in a single quarter.

I was lucky enough to buy a used copy on amazon for $8.

http://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-Principles-Kenne...
How to Hunt Down a Slow Request in Rails
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4gi/age_fluid_intelligence_and_intel...

My personal hypothesis for the reason why Magnus Carlsen is the youngest chess champion of all time is that with the rise of online battles and computer battles, the age where the blend of crystalized intelligence and working intelligence combines lowers.

This has obvious implications for the recent rise of machines immediately correcting human mistakes in mathematics and physics.
You have to start somewhere. Code optimization is utterly useless if you can't parse code.
Was just going to say the same thing. Seems like all data of that era and before was fixed width for efficiency purposes...I wonder what the 7-char field was
The unblocker services use a DNS server to present you as being from another location, Netflix is only making it hard to pirate without incurring the bandwidth costs too - we were only paying $2/month to adfreetime.com for 3 people.
I keep telling myself I'm going to make a command line tool to do just this kind of thing and upload it to pypi. One day.
No, he was talking about just punk; the full quote was "On one end you have Johnny Rotten, where he’s smart and sarcastic and aware, and on the other end you have Sid Vicious, a heroin-shooting ignorant person."
I think (or at least hope) most of the downvotes have nothing to do with congratulations, and only refer to the part where AI is called "an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary".

That line of reasoning would be worth a laugh, if it wasn't so widespread in the general population.
So what are the advantages of AArch32? Given than the total ram is (I believe) 1G, there is no use to a 64 bit pointer. ILP64 or LP64 code would just cause unnecessary code bloat and cache pressure over ILP32. Is there something in AArch32 that is compelling enough to go to ArmV8 over ArmV7?
To some degree I feel like WhatsApp is/will be part of this second wave. It's popularity mostly stems from users in developing countries.
Not really, that's exactly the point. OP would be forced out of the market if that competitor produced better results. Not the same thing.
I'd really like to understand the reasons behind the focus on CUDA and not OpenCL. My understanding is that nVidia and AMD made sure their hardware and software would make the GPU accessible for non-graphics tasks, but AMD's version is not functionally or legally locked to their hardware. Why hasn't OpenCL taken off and run on nVidia hardware?

It seems like there must be more at play, but I'll admit a lack of insight and imagination on this one.
Not so coincidentally,
"This was when things got weird. From 87 to 101 AlphaGo made a series of very bad moves." [1]

The bad moves in the eyes of humans could be risky bets or the horizon effect. [1] [2] AlphaGo's use of deep neural nets (value networks) to evaluate board positions should significantly help counter the horizon effect, but since move 78 by Lee Sedol which turned the situation around was unexpected by some top pros (Gu Li referred to it as the 'hand of god' [1]), the patterns which follow are likely rare in possible game states and therefore not strongly embedded into the value networks, leading to AlphaGo's loss.

I hope the DeepMind team will help enlighten us on this in the near future.

[1] https://gogameguru.com/lee-sedol-defeats-alphago-masterful-c...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_effect
The thinking is to use external tools for the main scientific parts - hence the big focus on shell support.

This is common practice in bioinformatics already, because of the large plethora of tools which would be too much to rewrite for any particular language.

Then, Go will probably be OK for more mundane tasks such as data pre-processing, filtering, etc etc.

Otherwise, there are in fact some scientific Go libraries already, including BioGo [1] and GoChem [2].

[1] https://github.com/biogo/biogo

[2] http://gochem.org
I'm about 2/3 done with using Invisalign for fixing some pretty severe bite issues. Had I not had anything done, my jaw joint would have continued deteriorating, likely to the point of needing surgery; I was also at higher risk of having teeth break from the added stress (very few of my teeth actually were making proper contact with each other).

The first step of the process was actually removing two of my bottom teeth; the rest of my teeth have then been adjusted to fill the gaps. It's been a long process (almost two years in), and I'm sick of having these stupid plastic things in my mouth all of the time. But it's definitely been more useful than just for cosmetics (though that's a nice side benefit).
(I've never written an optimizing compiler).

I actually think many useful languages are mostly syntax. If you compile to another source language (like C or SQL) you might not need much optimization.

Parsing some syntaxes is difficult but that doesn't imply we should just ignore it and let libraries handle everything. Thinking about parsing is an opportunity to learn about tradeoffs and to develop a good taste designing syntaxes which are easy to parse (and, possibly correlated, manipulate) both for computers and humans.
There's always room for Jello.
Can Oakland keep its Soul, while embracing Tech? “Techquity”
Jello is still out there, writing new music (some of it very good) and touring with a new band, with all the anger and energy he's always had.

The current "Dead Kennedys" are playing songs from the 80s that they mostly didn't write, and generally being apolitical.
Well it's not exactly common. It's used to describe the very best moves at the highest level of play.
Frankly many pre-modern, pre-civilizarion humans were assholes. Read many studies or accounts of life in relatively isolated tribal societies and hair curlingy awful accounts of violent and sometimes institutionalised abuse are uncomfortably common. Leave the safety catches off basic human urges for long and it can get pretty ugly.
It's just the second law of thermodynamics at work.
XMPP could be a fantastic option but it's missing push notifications, which are an absolute killer these days. You either don't use XMPP on mobile or take a massive hit to your battery.

ChatSecure has a nice writeup about this: https://chatsecure.org/blog/fixing-the-xmpp-push-problem/
The correct answer is actually "Yes, you can.".
Their most impressive achievement is growing such a large community. The product is a bit of a cute fallacy, very odd SoC / board. False price point, buy an old laptop and you have keyboard / lcd / wireless / case / psu / maybe even a battery for 50$. The form factor and power consumption was nice but unrelated to the original goal which was teaching programming, which you can do as easily on said old laptop. Missing part ? exposed IO pins.
Worse than that, I'd say. The new revamped Dead Kennedys are essentially complaining that they're finding it too hard to make serious money from 30 year old material. In the 15 years or so since they reformed, they've not apparently written or released one new song.

The closest they came was when they played one of their old songs in concert with the lyrics reworked as 'Mp3 Get Off The Web', which was essentially a complaint that it was too hard to seek rent in the modern recording industry.

If they were actively trying to record new music to compete with the newer musicians they're moaning about, and finding that hard, it might be easier to sympathise with them. As it is, the new Dead Kennedys are just a cover band which collects royalties (and the collection of royalties seems to be their main focus).

I still have my Dead Kennedys albums from the first time round so I don't have any need to buy them again, and younger kids have younger musicians to listen to. Who do the Dead Kennedys think is going to pay money for them to rerecord 30-year old material?
Autocompleting is by far my biggest pet peeve in modern IDEs. With default settings in Jupyter, for example, typing """ immediately creates another """. Another great one is when autocomplete tries to be vindictively clever and often deletes your open parentheses if you delete its closed parenthesis. Complete concentration killer.
The ability for and dedication to self sabotage is really astonishing with these old media companies (in this case channeled through Netflix). The sad thing is this affects only people who are still somehow determined to actually buy their content instead of straight-up pirating it.
My experience with DirtyPCBS.com
The only one of the kind -- every other book seems to just lay down the rules and pretend, that it and couple simple examples are enough. This book dissects small and large use cases in ultimate detail.
There's already FANN: which is more mature and has bindings for 28 other languages: http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/language-bindings/
I maintain the C# wrapper.
I'm currently ueing my family's account while abroad in France. Should I get blocked?
Yeah, Wire has been out for a while.
The "some guy" in this case is a well known Linux developer, working for Red Hat (last I heard).

He's not a clueless, random noobie. ;)
I also wanted to say that old video games can be appealing for reasons other than nostalgia. Only recently I played through chrono trigger and symphony of the night, both for the first time, and they are amazing even by today's standards. People enjoy old books, movies, etc because they are still great, why can't video games be the same way?
Removing actual firm discipline for all the young boys has been a disaster.

We replaced strict and perhaps unpleasant discipline in favor of medicine, and its worse long term side effect profile.
Took an algorithms course with Keith a few years ago. Really patient engaging lecturer!
The salary distribution isn't even sourced. It was probably pulled from a source like salary.com which provides curves that look nearly identical to the one shown in the offer letter.

I don't think there are similar sources for more complex distributions (option payouts over all valuations).

It looks like the exit chart is designed to show what happens on the lower end of valuations (ie. as a lowly employee you don't participate). Also note that the X axis is serverely distorted: it ranges from $0-$100,000,000, but half the space is taken up by a blow up of a range of just $7,000,000!

Further still, the information on that page is not consistent. The chart refers to $2.35 options, but you are apparently granted $2.38 options.

The option payout calculator also doesn't appear to account for your costs to exercise your options either?
I wish them good luck
Indeed. DRM and geoblocking are hurting only their loyal customers and themselves.
Showbiz Kids[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJXQatf9c0
Building Your Own LibraryBox v2.1
uBlock Origin is also available on Firefox for Android. It's by far my favourite mobile browsing combo.
uh yeah, i understand you can use a phone offline. but i'm just not going to rely on my phone to get into a place that i traveled to get to. screenshot, offline, blah blah, what if the battery dies? what if the damn thing just stops working, like it has done multiple times in my life? what if someone snatches it from me while it's out in my hand like it normally is? what if someone spills a drink on it while it's out on the table at the dinner before the show?

how do you think i know of all these terrible scenarios?

i'd rather hang on to a piece of paper, and if i lose it, then i have nobody to blame but myself. call me a luddite.
Gneural will compete with Theano sort of like how the GNU Hurd competes with Linux
Moloch, I assume.
Again I show I have been away from home to long.
A register file that's twice as large (NEON really suffers without the extra registers), and atomic operations that aren't dog slow. Doing anything other than scalar sequential programming on ARMv7 is pretty painful coming from x86.
Textbook manifesto
add clueless, you CAN boot 64bit code today

https://github.com/swarren/rpi-3-aarch64-demo
Surveillance doesn't necessarily require a warrant, if it's something like watching who's coming and going from a public vantage point. Wiretapping, reading mail, other eavesdropping would.
> will be considered an icon some day

I wager she'll be remembered more in the way people look back upon Vanilla Ice or NKOTB.
It's nice to see that, given the importance of that data, no one performed and QA on it.
Another reason could be that Lee is a much bigger name in go than Ke Jie. Sure, Ke Jie is stronger now but Lee was a dominant/top player for a long long time.
From the mayor:

"We look at San Francisco as a cautionary tale," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff told me.

The kind of tech hub Oakland wants to be is one with a social conscience, she added. The mayor has touted the idea of "techquity."
It disappeared completely from the first pages just after about 20 minutes after posting it. It remained only on the /new page.
Licensing can get really lame. Amazon has (or at least had) seasons 1, 2, and 4 of a show I watched. I had to go elsewhere to find season 3. I never went back for season 4.
> It immediately shows me where there's a problem in my code (like if I haven't closed parenthesis or quotes) and keeps me focused on "completing the thought", as it were.

Funny, because I dislike having syntax errors highlighted for the exact same reason. If I'm typing new code, I like to keep my thoughts on the reasoning behind what I'm typing, and leave it until later to "clean up" the code and get it syntactically correct. Having big red highlights around code that I haven't finished writing yet is a huge distraction... the editor seems to be beckoning to me: "Stop typing and close that paren! Why are you still typing! It's not corrreeeeect yet!!!". And usually it's enough distraction to cut off a good train of thought.

It gets worse when the editor starts complaining about full compilation errors, like calling functions I haven't written yet. When I'm in a more "creative" part of my coding (like when I'm doing lots of brand new functionality), there's a certain ordering of what I write first and what I fill in later, and having an IDE yell at me the whole time is just tiresome.
There are two things I'll note:

- As a non-American, I see America as one of the least safe places to store my information. The Snowden leaks showed that the US government has zero respect for the privacy of non-Citizens.

- As someone who's lived both inside and outside America, I've noticed that privacy laws in the US are weak relative to other countries (much of Europe, Australia) that I've been in. Europeans have things like Right to be Forgotten. Americans have companies that have refused to remove my personal information after I terminated my account with them.
78 was hard, but not impossible: If you watch the AGA commentary of the game, they had two pros at the time 78 happened, and they found 78 as the best answer a few minutes before Lee did, expecting AlphaGo to go with a stronger, yet still good not good enough 79, that left the game even, instead of basically lost. Then they were elated about how AlphaGo seemed to have failed to read the whole thing, and instead of doing preparatory moves for a nasty ko fight, the best option at the time, AlphaGo just took a route that provided almost no compensation.

If anything, it seems to me that AlphaGo's problem here might be the time management: Seeing a really scary situation, Lee Seido just sank many minutes into reading the problem, going pretty much all the way to byoyomi time. A human, after seeing something like that, would figure out that their assessment of the situation and their opponent's is very different, and spend a lot of budget trying to figure out what was wrong. AlphaGo just didn't see the problem, and didn't just budgets its time to analyze the position to death. It moved slower than before, but not really that much, and ended up making moves a kyu player could see as terrible.

Either way, I'd love to see Deepmind giving us all a good postmortem of the 70-100 range of moves.
What ISPs can see
I have used FANN from Perl, amazing library. I'm still glad there is some AI software under GNU's belt and the source code for "gneural networks" is pure C and way easier to follow (for now)
DNS doesn't work that way.

What these DNS-based unblocking services do is to selectively point certain hostnames to their own IPs, where they run TCP tunnels to the actual service.
You'd think so, but unfortunately I can't, again, for some, I can, yes, but the selection is vastly reduced.

Essentially, if you search for movie dvds on amazon and ship them to an US address with a US credit card, then the selection is at least 10x, if not 100x larger than when I try to buy them.

Nevermind of course the time it takes to order things online and then have them ship the dvd, which I don't really want anyway, but fair enough, that's just convenience.

So, the problem is not that I'm not wiling to pay for it, the problem is that nobody will take my money, because the movie studio hasn't signed a redistributor for that movie in my region.
In the introduction he specifies the extpected rise of superhuman AI intelligence to between 2005-2030. 14 years.

He didn't expect the death/slowing of Moore's law, of course. But I don't think he really appreciated networked humans and our productivity either. They say that a human using a computer is a much superior chess player than just a human or just a computer, for instance.

Otoh, we have all the work in parallelization -- and the continued lowering of price/transistor.