skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're advocating for an omnipresent Police State on the statistically insignificant threat of Domestic Terrorism? Which you presuppose will only get worse, despite the fact that Domestic Terrorism has declined from thousands of Bombings in the US in the 60's and 70's to the rare one off instances of the new millennium.

What is it you suppose causes terrorism? Is it not the expected retaliation by a citizenry on a government gone too far? Perhaps an unintended consequence of increasing government surveillance as you suggest is more acts of terrorism not less.
I have a pair of TP-Link WDR-3600s. Both run OpenWRT "Barrier Breaker" and they've been rock-solid. One is on a filtered UPS (the main router), but the other one is just plugged into the wall and usually has a loaf of bread on top of it (the wireless relay in the pantry). Both have been fine, so I don't think it's the power supply.
I recently learned that Mel Conway (the same Conway) did some of the earliest work on recursive descent parsers.

http://www.melconway.com/Home/Inventor.html

Appel's compiler book credits him with the invention, but Cooper and Torczon cite one earlier reference.

Edit: poking around that site reveals an article which seems like it deserves a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273710.
As a native speaker he was speaking at a fairly normal pace, and his intonation was fine, just more subtle. Voices like his are not uncommon, especially in engineering.
That being said, based on his accent it is possible that english is not be his first language.
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I'll save us all time by saying that this text is equivalent to "what most people likes is not what I like, therefore what a sad state of affairs!"
If this is accurate, is there any research on activities that can regulate dopamine activity and reduce impulsivity?
> The government is demanding new powers: the power to search our communications.

That's not entirely accurate though. The United States has been allowed to search your mail and tap your phone if they have a warrant and there have been cases where it happened without a warrant.

They will, eventually, be shut out of the communications channel entirely due to encryption.
Maybe in the future, and in small resolution. Right now the renderer doesn't have any animation functionality, but this is definitely something I've been considering.
2013 MSI GE70 Apache Pro 12 17.3in,i7-4700HQ 2.4GHz,16GB RAM(Upgraded),2x1TB RAID0 SDDs(Upgraded)+2TB HDD(Upgraded), GTX 860M, Ubuntu 14.04 & Windows 10.

I do a lot with this computer, software development, PCB design, photo processing, CAD, and gaming(only reason for Windows). It's not out of the question that I would be running a full server VM, debugging a micro controller, and doing live data analysis at the same time. So I've come to appreciate power.

Even though this is quite a machine, I have performance issues in some applications. A lot of it boils down to the INSANE way that dedicated GPUs are handled today. Nvidia prime is the worst thing on my system. I like to describe it like this, using the Intel GPU is like driving a Mazda Miata, it feels fast and nimble but give it a load and it will just crawl. Switching prime to the Nvidia card is like driving a semi truck, it's not great at the little things but it can plow it's way through really intense stuff. DraftSight runs horribly on the Intel GPU but excellently on the Nvidia. But the window composition with the Nvidia card it terrible, lack of repainting the screen, vsync issues, and general slowness. It's very frustrating. My next laptop purchase will have to be something like a desktop GTX 980 in a laptop so I can avoid prime at all costs.

This may be resolved in a newer release of Ubuntu. I am version locked right now thanks to TI's 32bit Eclipse based IDE Code Composer Studio being a dependency nightmare on newer versions of Ubuntu. I'll find out later this year when they finally release a native 64bit version.
Software patents: In a world that changes day to day and completely re-invents itself every three years, they last 20 years...

Software patents are always going to be controversial in particular the overly broad or vague ones. But 20 years is also a huge issue. They should be AT MOST 5 years long, and even then we need new measures to preemptively attack broad or vague claims.
They lose nothing by fighting you in court.

I am 100% certain you are wrong about that.
If the term of copyright wasn't life + 70 years then this wouldn't have happened.
What happens when technology is available to read peoples' minds to determine if they are guilty or not? We should allow warrants for that as well?
I think catering to the lowest common denominator is the wrong strategy though. If you're writing a tool that isn't trivial, you want to cater to the perpetual intermediate, which is where most people end up. No one wants to be a beginner forever, but most people don't need to become power users either.

So you allow beginners to board, give them features they can use, and slowly show them more and more complex things till they feel confident using your product. That should be inherent in the design of the product. Then start adding features for experts that may screw things up if you don't know how to use them, but hide them a bit further in the tree.
ThinkPad X250, maxed-out battery pack.

I adore this laptop, it runs like a constant stream of freshly melted butter. It's so light I no longer have to worry about "lugging a laptop", and most times I pick it up and carry around with just two fingers. It has taken a few beatings — filled backpack falling laptop-side-first onto a railing from a height of a half-metre, dropped/slipped from a sitting desk to the floor, thrown across a (small) room and (upon a failed catch) rolling on its side — but there's no sign of damage, either in appearance or running.

I almost forgot! When I got this laptop, my typing speed jumped by nearly 50%! I was using a Dell Inspiron (from 2010) before, and although the keyboard on it is terrible for typing, the ThinkPad has really good keys and typing is just such pleasure on it.

I have plans to upgrade a few components as time progresses: bump RAM up to 16GB, replace either the smartcard reader or the WWAN modem with an M2 SSD, that's about it.

One con is getting used to the extra long battery life. I used to intentionally and lazily not pack the charger, which is actually quite light, and then after a long day find myself with low battery and no charger. Another is the small SSD this particular unit came with, but I'm planning on replacing that.
“Humanizing Application Building” by Mel Conway [pdf]
A number of us here agreed it was a nice one-stop shop for a little bit of everything with Directories' curated info being a particular gem. Thing is, the former has been 100% surpassed (esp by Facebook/Google) with the later sold off long time ago.

So, the question must be asked. I supported Marissa's first attempt to save it. Looking at current situation, I'd reject the second one. She could apply this attitude to less hopeless companies with a lot better results.
We have a handful of animal behavior studies. These have suggested that your dog actually cares about you, and your cat does not. They also suggest that dogs and wolves do have significant differences in their behavior, attributable to selective breeding.

These studies used the same techniques that researchers use with pre-communicative human babies. They measure gaze direction and duration, among other things. Even with conversation, how could you tell? Humans are able to prevaricate and dissemble, after all.

How can you tell if someone is loyal to your crime family? Maybe he's just conditioned to not wear concrete overshoes and get a cut of the rackets?

How can you tell if someone is loyal to your country? Maybe they are just conditioned to not get fired and blacklisted or imprisoned, and to receive government benefits?
I think you put it very elegantly in the first paragraph but I disagree with the rest.

The problem is much worse. The owners of Yahoo don't even want a tech giant. They don't even want a company, they want to sell it as scrap.

That's a tough environment to work in when you are hired to run a company.
I find this very interesting. More details please, if you may: What's your OS configuration? How's the screen held up all these years? What sort of comments do you get about it in public? :)
Agree that beating up on MM serves no purpose. But what are you saying? They should slim down in every business sense of the word and focus on X. What is X?
Do it like, Patreon. You're "making games" and people fund you basically spending time to dev.

Probably much more sustainable than say Indiegogo or Kickstarter.
This is the Conway of Conway's Law, who also did some of the earliest work on recursive descent parsers.

http://www.melconway.com/Home/Inventor.html
Boooo! Jumps straight to "think of the children" - pathetic.
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A lot of commentors are writing things like "if Yahoo wants to succeed...", but the thing is, a large part of yahoo doesn't want to succeed.
I wrote a follow up to both your article and the original one. https://medium.com/@rnotani/the-different-frustrations-of-sl...

Here is a relevant quote from the article.

"In my opinion both of these posts get it partly right. Both of these articles also have as a subtext an implicit or explicit comparison with email. Both, Slack and email tend towards “communication overload”. However, the generic description of “communication overload” obscures the very different type of overload created by these two technologies. Understanding this distinction also leads us to a possible solution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270745

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270529
That's not unrelated.

The universal protocol in Plan9 is called 9p which the Go authors worked on before Go. A top level Go player is a 9p.
The problem with 'flag and footprints' demonstrations is precisely the same as their attraction - they are, in essence (even though that was not the intent), selected to be as misleading as possible about progress in solving the real problems.

We put a man on the moon, which encouraged decades of optimism about the near-future colonization of space... unfortunately it turns out we are nowhere near solving the hard problems associated with being able to live in space.

We spelled out the letters IBM in xenon atoms, five atoms tall, which encouraged optimism about near-future molecular manufacturing... unfortunately it turns out we are nowhere near solving the hard problems associated with making useful things with atomic precision.

We achieve superhuman performance in simple games, which encourages what should be optimism that becomes reflected by the distorting mirror of the zeitgeist of the times into pessimism, about near-future AI... unfortunately it turns out we are nowhere near solving the hard problems associated with making our tools something better than depressingly dumb.

In each case, the flurry of optimism turns as the decades pass into confusion, anger, soul-searching about why the expected follow-on progress has failed to materialize, fading slowly into despair, then into nothing as the optimists die of old age, one by one, and the rate of technological progress becomes slower with every passing decade. For this conversation is necessarily happening at a tech level that allows it, but that provides no guarantee whatsoever that the species that reached tech level X will proceed to tech level X+1. Moore's law has officially expired, and that was the last major area where we were making rapid sustained progress.

It's hard to say we shouldn't do 'flag and footprints' demonstrations; am I really willing to bite the bullet and say we shouldn't have put a man on the moon? I don't know the answer to that. I am, however, convinced that we should remember not to take them too seriously.
Is that a fact? Or is it learned behavior? This sort of lazy, defeatist appeal to some rigid notion of human nature is a pernicious refrain in any discussion about real change.

The only thing you can say for sure about humans is that we possess a capacity for change and adaptation whose bounds have yet to be identified. But if you want to live in a box, then that's what you'll get.
I have a new XPS 15 and you can completely disable the touchscreen in the BIOS. I did this pretty much the first week I got the machine.
Great recap on using waitgroups and channels in goroutines.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270529.
Contributions to make a Microsoft product (Hyper-V) work well with Linux.
That just means you have a broken way of assigning value which gives zero credit to inventions which enable other inventions, or provide safety, or mitigate risk.

Do tools have value? If you make something with tools, it's not the tools themselves which made it.
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Pretty good on mobile, laptop has no number pad so unusable there. Feature requests: recording and export.
Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh inspire absolute confidence in their players. The teams buys in 100%. Subsequently you hear a lot of the "run through walls/gates of hell" sentiment from men they coach.

Conversely Marissa has failed to build that type of atmosphere and loyalty, referenced by the slew of departures as well as reports, both on the record and off, about the environment at Yahoo!

This is where the comparison breaks down of course: a football team is 80ish atheletes over which a head coach has personal influence over every member of the team, Yahoo! is a gargantuan corporation where Marissa's personal influence only directly affects a tiny percentage of the "team."

But...even if you don't directly interact with a coach or CEO, you either buy in to them as leaders or you do not. People do not buy in to Marissa, and I believe* that's what's at the core of why she is failing as CEO.

*believe = I can't empirically prove the statement so it's just unsubstantiated opinion and should only be given the value of that other thing that we all have.
impressive!
JavaScript for medium-size SPAs, that is. For just enhanced content, this still seems overkill and for true desktop replacement apps, there's a lot of missing gaps (unless you ditch everything and settle with ExtJS).
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Dopamine regulates "seeking" behavior. One can direct their "seeking" to good things (achievement of something that benefits your family or community) or bad things (drug induced highs, money at all costs).

Probably educating people on how they are wired to seek things (a good drive when you are talking about going out and securing food/resources) and how to direct that towards healthy pursuits instead of unhealthy ones would go a long way.

Lots of pharmaceuticals can regulate dopamine in various ways too. The issue as it relates to impulsivity seems to be caused by a combination of dopamine driven seeking behavior and more primal parts of the brain hijacking decision making.

It is the combination of primal parts of the brain doing decision making with the brain's propensity for seeking that causes negative impulsivity, so that could be aided by increasing gray matter (meditation) and regulating dopamine (healthy seeking) but you can only do so much.

It seems like so much "crime" is really impulsivity, and so I often have thought about ways you can reduce impulsivity, but it always seems to come at the cost of considerably altering how someone's brain works, which not everyone is open to.
Yes. Weather spark. The guys who wrote it are super chill and I love their product. I love looking at the averages they have before I plan a vacation and the great way they integrate historical information with forecasts into a time series has tons of information that I love.
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Especially the more breathlessly sung versions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

Reminds me of coding and holding all the methods and variables, internal visualizing problems, etc.
Great overview, thank you. This gave me several things to fix I hadn't been aware of, and my site generally already does well with on-site SEO.

Actually, what do you recommend for ongoing monitoring of the things flagged by wget scripts? I could assign it to my programmer. I also think Moz or similar services handle that automatically. It might be more effective just to outsource it to them?

My current solution has been to avoid monitoring it, which isn't optimal.
Anybody willing to summarize without all unnecessary the ranting?
I would really enjoy seeing Steve Ballmer take a break from his basketball career to be the CEO of Yahoo! Great idea! A part of me thinks he could actually turn the place around, and a part of me just thinks it would be hilarious.
I asked about this in /r/dependent_types yesterday. Apparently there's already a fair bit or research going on in this area. See the links: https://www.reddit.com/r/dependent_types/comments/49z1uc/usi...
Sure, but that's only going to add 0.5-1ms of latency.
In the introduction to the third match, the project lead talked about how Alphago evaluated the controversial 37th move in the second match. Apparently the policy network decided that it had a one in 10,000 chance of a human making that move, But the value network overrode this. So it seems like they are recording this kind of data and looking at it in cases where it's interesting.
Judging by the 44 points here and the 95 in the link you provided it's obviously a high value post. Some of us didn't see it the first time (myself included) but are grateful for it the second time. Taking it off the front page because it was posted before is bs. It's on the front page because it's valuable to enough people (that's why it has 44 points). I wonder how many people who would find it interesting and haven't seen it before, now won't see it at all because you buried it?
>They will, eventually, be shut out of the communications channel entirely due to encryption.

That's not entirely accurate though. Its an arms race between Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. We don't know what we don't know and there's still not enough transparency into the government's capabilities.
> This is really the gun debate all over again. But the same crowd seems to be on the other side this time.

I'm not sure what you mean by this line. I support the 2nd amendment and I think any backdoor or restrictions on encryption are insane. I'm very disappointed in leadership of both parties and encouraged by some outposts of sanity in both parties.

I would probably put it under the 1st rather than 2nd although I think a modern interpretation of the 3rd might have a slim shot.
Thanks! We changed the URL to that second link, which seems like it might be the most substantive. The originally posted URL was http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BU2ALGO/.
That’s a great conversation to have. “Given that trying to be massive isn’t going to work no matter who’s in charge, is there something smaller that would actually be a great company? If so, what could it be?”
We use MBPs and X1C as developer workstations in our company. Developers often complain about their Lenovo's, while MBP owners are generally happy. In my practice, MBP has better build quality, better battery life and better display. Lenovos gets pretty hot and noisy under load while MacBook is silent in the same exact situation (we're pair programming a lot and it's easy to compare).
> gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world, but drug regulation doesn't

Problem is most of the countries with gun regulation where it has any form of success are also countries who didn't have guns to begin with.

Trying to impose that on a country with TONS of guns just isn't realistic. You can't even draw parallels between the two because the societies are far too different.
All this excitement makes me want to learn a little bit about those algorithms. I don't know anything about neural networks (but I've already implemented a chess game a while ago). Would it be difficult to implement a similar algorithm for a simpler game?
You can indeed purchase Dell laptops directly from Dell w/ next business day warranty support (this is the only way I buy them @ work).
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Also, it should be noted that in Go, we're trying to beat the BEST human player, and have done so. In driving, we're just trying to be "good enough" or safe enough -- it doesn't have to be the safest driver in the world.

Beating the average human Go player was probably accomplished decades ago, whereas it's not even clear if we're safer than the average human driver (under all conditions).

These tasks are just wildly different, and yes I think it's basically all due to the fact that Go's state is so easily represented by a computer, and the goal is so concrete.
It depends on the timeline you're looking at. If you think of the next 5 to 10 years then building luxury condos doesn't help.

However if you look at a 30 to 40 year timeline and we allow all the market rate houses to be built that developers want then those same "luxury" houses will become more affordable over time.

Instead we're sand bagging any development in favour of 25% affordable housing to be built by private developers.
Do you think Go will become "the" language students and beginners are taught? Why? (I'm genuinely curious!)
Why is that interesting? Geospatial data is one of Google's largest lines of business. It was Google's third major effort after search and email. They've been in the business for over a decade.