skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of them sort of do or are trying to do this already.

Arsenal actually bought StatDNA, a football data analytics company, a couple of years ago. So time will tell how they will use this to their advantage.
I have a suggestion: If we all start blogging again on a myriad of domains and subdomains, start linking to each other not for SEO but to provide users links to interesting stuff then all this could go away like a ugly nightmare once you are halfway into breakfast.

I know there are a few of you x-bloggers here: I loved the time when I could find lots and lots and lots of technical stuff in a never ending web of blogs. Not everyone agreed but we linked back to the ones we disagreed with without caring about SEO.

Hey, we could event do web rings and RSS and and and...

Edit: There is still a lot of content, I just miss the time where everyone blogged and I wish we would decide to go back, and then do it.
Isn't scala dying ?
The last attempt was made in around 2008, AFAIR.

Fundamentally nothing changed in the relational storage. Follow-a-graph-edge operation is as expensive as it used to be (involves an index lookup, it cannot be cheap).

If you know a relational arrangement suitable for a cheap O(1) edge traversal - please share. But I am very skeptical.

And I cannot see how the host language is relevant at all. C#, Haskell, whatever - none can make data access operations cost less than what the data model predicts.
Wikipedia: Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.

I usually think of it as "communication through modification of the environment".

And agent observes their environment, makes a decision about how to modify it, modifies it.
The same or a different agent then does the same.
Instead of a central authority dictating tasks, each agent knows the complete plan, and compares the current state to the plan to find the next step, then does it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori... is how I first learned about the idea, and remains a good introduction.
No, we hated them because their performance and UX was bad. Running programs off the Internet, safely, has long been the goal.
The criticism is not of having them work, it is of having them do a specific job, apparently whether they like it or not.
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The branching factor of 9x9 Go isn't 75. 75 could be the factor in early game, but the average factor is somewhere between 40 and 50, versus 35 in chess. State-space complexity is also considerably higher in Chess than in 9x9 Go.

Not sure what you meant regarding MCTS, I never said anything about MCTS not being able to beat pros.
admit it, we live in a fu* up world.
> much more interesting than poor African kids

But that applies to anything that is not directly related to poor African kids, doesn't it?

You are not going to solve hunger by pouring ship fuel and airplane engineers into the pastures of Africa anyways.

I agree that MH370 story is entertaining though.
My CS lab specialized in image processing, can confirm this is indeed the 101.
What if there are multiple ways to do something for a given editor?
I'm sure that many nonprofits are very non-introspective (like most companies I know). But some nonprofits totally blow away any company I know, like listing their mistakes and how they'll improve: http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings
Moore's Law also enables a new kind of hardware (open-source) and the internet of things: http://thinkingonthinking.com/hardware-cost-reductions/
My girlfriend upgraded and ended up with her touchpad driver dead in the water. Cue me rolling back by enabling num pad arrow keys as a cursor. I wonder how many people simply didn't know it was an option and had their laptop bricked by microsoft for all intents and purposes..
I find myself kind of pragmatic but I hated Flash because once it was available people used it for everything, even stuff that never needed it in the first place.
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I had a thought a couple of days ago: what if Mozilla (or anyone) made a web-native runtime for Java applets to replace the plugin, in the same way that Mozilla made a web-native PDF renderer to replace that plugin? That would give us the good of Java applets - a well-specified, mature, backward-compatible bytecode with a built-in security model - without the bad of performance, poor UX, and your programs being trapped in a rectangle that the browser knew nothing about.
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> He also founded and built Mozilla, which arguably saved the open web from extinction.

There was already a better open-source web rendering engine and browser at the time. Maybe we'd've got a KHTML-based browser on Windows much sooner that would have filled the same role.
And, unless your competitor takes VC money. If they do you'll be left in the dust other things being equal, the founders of that company will end up owning a smaller chunk of a much larger pile. It's an arms race and if that happens the only thing that will help you is if your competitor eventually does not make it or can't scale to the point where they can make the kind of money that made them make that bet in the first place.
By the same logic, if you are faking these, why not fake the barnacles then?
People who can enter a back door:

1. people with a key
2. people with the skill to open the door (burglar)

It's strange the UK thinks number 2 will never happen.
Not nearly as underrated as an understanding of normalization.

SQL can just be picked up if you don't know it. It's a known unknown.

A lack of understanding of normalization is something that leads people to create epic, incredibly hard to escape from architectural fuckups without even realizing the hole they've dug for themselves.
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Piggybacking a bit here: would a startup based in the UK (as in, devs and managers live in the UK), but incorporated in the US (maybe through the new Stripe service), be held to this?
What's wrong with ASIO interface? My only issue with it is that once a socket is bound to an io_service it can't be easily rebound to another one.

For many applications where C++ is used, promises and futures introduce unnecessary overhead. On the other hand an ASIO-like interface works just fine.

Additionally, ASIO, and by extension the network proposal, have transparent opt-in support for futures via a special callback type.
The second occurrence is not only inevitable, it refutes the notion of a door in the first place, which is supposed to be fully opened at some stage for long periods, not temporarily opened in-case-of-emergency, or half-shut just-in-case.
A pretty interesting point made here last year is that picking x, y, z coordinates from three orthogonal gaussian distributions results in a spherically symmetrical distribution. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446126
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Criminal 1 buys $50k in chips using wired funds. Gives chips to criminal accomplices 2, 3 and 4.

CA2, CA3 and CA4 come into the casino a few different times over several months, gamble for while for a net zero gain or loss, and then convert their "winnings" from chips into cash in chunks of $5k or so - flying under the radar.

C1 never needs to come back to the casino where the police might catch him - and he is the only one who is linked to the big heist.
"But I'd much rather have this than every other social system, where the sociopaths fuck over the common people unchecked."

You already live in that society, you're just unaware of it.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democra...

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW07021...

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117
My apologies if i missed a comment, but I'm surprised how few people support "giving it a go" and then deciding if it's good or bad.
There's a multitude of user approaches, lots of people very touchy about their way of doing things (some extra so as this relates to their profession)
Whilst not wishing to appear a fanboy, clearly Github have put a decent amount of thought into this, they've got a fairly good track record and they're responsive. If it's poor, they'll reassess it.
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The last time I accidentally infected myself, the name of the exploit was Happy99.exe. So I'm not especially worried for my own sake. But you're right about what's likely to happen in many other cases. Microsoft should have thought of this scenario when they decided to abuse their update service for marketing purposes. We're all at greater risk because of their actions.

People with your point of view should also consider the ramifications when you (implicitly or otherwise) condone Microsoft's behavior in threads like this.
> As Dostoevsky put it, viper will eat viper. We are all a little Karamazovian - of the black root. It's what keeps the world balanced.

This is why I'm not too sad anymore when I hear all this awful news. We are all monsters. Give the average person money and power, and they will behave just the same.
No it's implied, was the implication too tough for you to figure out?
That's not really true. Frameworks enforce patterns on developers (e.g. MVC), and they create a consistent ecosystem within which you can create easily interoperable plugins.

The author's point seems to be informed by being burned by many bad frameworks (which is, to be fair, 90% of frameworks - if you pick based upon fashion driven development this is the hole you'll end up in).

A good framework is rare but immensely valuable. A bad framework is worse than no framework at all.
Why growth companies are staying private
This is why I've been saying from day one that an Y Combinator focus on UK was the wrong move, because I expected the authoritarian mentality to only increase there over the next few years. The focus should've been on Germany, which at least has a strong Constitution (UK has none) and judges tend to be pro-privacy (although I imagine some data-mining/advertising startups would hate that).

Perhaps even more importantly, it's the people that care deeply about privacy there, too, and would protest obvious authoritarian moves by the government, while in the UK they seem to care almost as little about it as the Americans do.
"It also gives further evidence to the fact that most people simply want to live a good life"

The nature of capitalist society produces shitty people, you can't have a culture with a common good if the culture is shit.

You need to give people time off enough to be citizens but the nature of the american empire and the culture that runs it is hostile to the people. So you get a fucked up culture of fuck you I got mine.

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf
How else are you going to educate kids for a Donald Trump world....
>I "expect" they will like what I show them.

Also written by OP, which does suggest they might not have a lot of other options
If I want to help on PyPy3, is there any sort of mentored bugs or good first bug (similar to Mozilla's) that a beginner could get started on? I would love to contribute, but never really got to do so since I don't know where to start.
I wonder how people in the UK will respond if, for example, Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all decide to no longer provide their internet services in the UK. How long would this bill last?

Also, it's quite concerning that four US based companies could influence a country's policies so much.
They know it'll happen. The terrible part is, they don't care. It's a risk they're willing to take to acquire the power they're after.
The list of "equipment interference agencies" includes "Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs" (HMRC). For those of you not in the UK, that's the people responsible for collecting tax.

Why would the tax department ever be allowed to do something like this directly? They seem incapable of fairly collecting the taxes of the country, what business do they have acting as an "equipment interference agency"?
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This is pretty much the only reason I still use Safari. The Read mode gives me a clean article. Sad that its become necessary really.
Came here to check if someone mentioned Football Manager already.

FIFA is basically child's play compared to depth of Football Manager where your transfers actually mean something and are in fact hard to pull off - even if you have the budget, often there's no way of attracting recognizable names or any talent at all without a certain level of reputation. I'd consider it a true challenge.
> ... "customers eventually drop support as their infrastructures mature and they look to reduce operating costs"

This is part of the game called software. In some worlds this is actually the goal; that the software works so well and is so reliable that your customers eventually don't all need to keep paying you.

So you find new customers and add new, never advertised before features and enterprise clients with SLA support contracts, etc.

It's very understandable that it's hard to monetize, but giving people the impression clustering was going to be included long term and taking it away is not going to score you points.

Furthermore you want to get all the folks doing a startup on a budget hearing a story that works for them. Most ( especially new or young ) cofounder programmer types rarely plan to not need clustering, even if the reality is most won't need or use it. Saying this is for the big kids only is a turn off at this point in the influx story.

Wish you the best of luck
IANAL. International laws probably vary, but by having employees in a country, you may be subject to its laws.

For example, I am part owner of a Canadian company that sells an online service. If we hire US employees (developers), then we must collect sales tax and pay income tax for sales originating within the governing municipality.

Obviously, I am talking about US tax law, and your question is of a different nature, so the best thing to do is to contact a lawyer who has expertise in that area. I only offer my experience as evidence that the location of employees can impact the legal responsibilities of a foreign business.
Why do you think so? Spark is booming, and Scala is the most used language for Spark applications.

Lots of other very active open source projects (e.g. Kafka, Akka, Mesos) are written in Scala.
So simply if someone hacks into that startup company they can use all those backdoors to spy on what the government employees do with their phones.

People need to think of the consequences of getting what you want.
In this page: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/tree/OpenAPI.ne...
The link to current specification is broken

Review the [current specification]. The human-readable markdown file is the source of truth for the specification.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/new_german_ha...
What makes you think that?
Why? The more we misuse those, the less worth they have and in the end people deem them worthless and stop using them.
What if you operate in UK and have an office there? So from the privacy conscious user perspective one would need to check that a company operating the specific website doesn't have anything do with UK, it's not very practical and makes GCHQ kinda happy.
I think that, if you're not super aware of most of the features of Scala, that it can be confusing to understand what certain syntax means (implicits are a big one!)

Just the infix operator syntax plus implicits can lead to stack trace confusion all around

And try understanding some of the type signature funkiness! It can be difficult

I definitely think that Scala is a harder language than most to grasp, if only for the feature support not seen since C++
And people with a key could take your data and sell it.
Apache Groovy is really for those quick'n'dirty scripts manipulating and testing Java classes -- that's its original use case. Later it added a MOP so Grails, a knock-off of Rails, would work, though Grails use is fast waning -- not many people upgraded their websites to Grails 3, or start new projects in it. Gradle then started using it as a DSL, so there's now a few thousand sites using the non-Turing Complete features of Groovy in 20-line build files. When Groovy 2 came along with static compilation and eventually targeting Android, not many people upgraded, prefering to stick with Groovy 1.8. The programmer who put the static compilation into Groovy now works at something else, and no-one's replaced him. So really Groovy's not a contender for building systems in the way Scala or Kotlin are, which were both designed for static compilation from the ground up. Nor does Groovy have syntactic macros the way Clojure has -- you need to write screes of Java code to implement a single annotation.
Sorry, but most of the discussion here is completly missing the point about WebAssembler.

It is just a technology, to make things brought through the web, faster.
And it is open. And no less secure, than js.
So I think it's great.

Good technology does exactly, what the creator wants.
And if people don't like some of the things, that gets created with it, then it is not a problem of the technology itself.

So people can do good things, or bad things with it.
But in the web, we have the freedom to choose, where we go.

And if we don't like ads for example, we should be aware, that Web-Site creators still want money for their work, so maybe we should focus and support a different funding model. I like the pay-what-you-want or donation model the most, Wikipedia shows, that this is possible on a large scale ...
It tells us is that Google is huge and does lots of different things, and that there isn't such a thing as "one framework to rule them all". That doesn't mean frameworks are a bad idea.
How is the identity of the investor unknown? Is it that Turkey is very lax on identification requirements and no one really knows who this is? Or, is it the case that someone (the brokerage, I guess) knows, but it's private information?
The style reminds me of Sword and Sworcery...

http://www.swordandsworcery.com/
It's a lot like learning SVN vs Git, SVN requires fewer steps to do a commit so you can be "productive" faster. Once you learn Git though you won't care that it took you a bit longer to learn. Prioritizing being productive immediately and instant gratification isn't always the best in the long term.
Yes, this is the separability property of the Gaussian. It makes it easy to compute Gaussian blur as compared to, say, the circular pillbox filter (lens blur or bokeh simulation) because you can just convolve it different times separately in each dimension. So, blurring an n by n image with a Gaussian of size h would only take O(n^2 h) instead of O(n^2 h^2). When h is large compared to log n, you can use the property I mentioned in my previous comment and do the Fast Fourier transform on the columns and rows of the image to improve time complexity to O(n^2 log n). It doesn't have to be a symmetrical distribution either; but in the general case with a multivariate Gaussian with some d-dimensional covariance matrix S, you'd have to rotate the data to align with the eigenvectors of S, which is lossy.

The rectangular pillbox filter also has the separable property. So does the parallelogram pillbox filter (albeit also rotated), which, by extension, allows us to do blurring by a hexagon (sum of three parallelograms) which can be used to simulate cool-looking bokeh [1].

[1] McIntosh, L., Bernhard E. Riecke, and Steve DiPaola. "Efficiently Simulating the Bokeh of Polygonal Apertures in a Post‐Process Depth of Field Shader." Computer Graphics Forum. Vol. 31. No. 6. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012. http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/media/DiPaolaMcIntoshRiecke2012.pdf
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Playing Devil's Advocate, couldn't the company require something signed with their private key to open the back door?

Apple (for example) would already be in serious trouble is someone got their private keys, they use them to sign OS updates for example. If they could generate a device-specific signed cookie to say "open up", what harm would that do?
#3. People who receive the key from #1 (in the future).

This may be next year's elected official, or the official elected in 10 years, or the spy who will work in the office 7 years and 2 months from now. Can you guarantee the intentions and actions of every single future government employee and official? This, in my opinion, is the biggest threat!
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IBM managed to convince Pakistan and India not to go to war!!
...and yet we all still have door locks?

I don't think your analogy is going to help convince people that the policy is bad.
As someone who's seeing plenty of Scala uptake around me that's a rather surprising claim with no supporting evidence. These days I'm writing 90+% of my code at work in Scala.

Indeed.com job data suggests that the answer to your suggestion is an obvious "No":
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/scala.html
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Better wording of a back door is donwgraded security. For an institution whose sole purpose is to engender security, they do the opposite. It's like saying they have better, more expensive guns than the rest of us.

Which collectively if you think about it, and round up all the PCs in each home, and all the security that goes into them, it's (collectively) the most militarized group of computers there is, and they obviously don't feel outgunned.