skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syntax highlighting is a topic where EVERYONE has an opinion, so I'll give my 2 cents as well. I am using solarized light (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) for my coding, and am very happy with it. I like having keywords emphasised, because they convey a lot of the structure of the program. If you need to switch syntax highlighting off to see whether code is ugly or not, you might not have a very refined sense of beauty anyway. That said, I am perfectly fine with programming without syntax highlighting, I am not dependent on it to understand code. It is similar for type inference: I think it is OK if it makes your code easier to read, if you use type inference though to a point where you cannot understand / write your code without it, you are doing it wrong.
Ugh.

But in julia, its written in julia. There are even julia native tensor and matrix ops.
From what I've heard, in Xinjiang (the westernmost province of China), the locals completely ignore the Beijing timezone rules and work on a local timezone that's two hours off, although that's also in part a (relatively) benign form of civil resistance against the unwanted Chinese government.
It is just a complex system leaving one of this basin of attraction to try to reach another one. (probably because of an evaluation of risk that deemed it).

And for a complex system transitions happens to be sensitive to the conditions and with quite a lot of impredictability.

AI cannot do smooth transitions because they lack the intuition of what smooth means, and that's how to win against them.

1) identify a basin of attraction(apparition of a bounded domain of evolution in a space phase)
2) set the AI in a well known basin by tricking it;
3) imbalance the AI by throwing garbage behaviour that kick him out of the basin in a random direction
4) let the human win in the chaos that ensues.

Of course it is better done with a software to help you. A real time spase phase analysor.

The point is like in a lot of domain, construction of an AI requires more energy than a software for sabotaging it.

But once you get the framework of thoughts to win against an AI you can get all the AI.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11267450
I'm in the Denver area. I just left a startup here to become an independent consultant. There's a really solid tech community in Denver/Boulder.
Fair. But most investments will incur some taxes when you turn them into something liquid like money. You know, if you actually want to benefit from the wealth that it represents.

The personal home is one of the few exceptions (at least in Canada, where there's a 'principal residence tax exemption'). But even there you need to pay at least some property taxes. Can you think of others?
I don't think it is the case that "AI-fearing folks" like myself don't appreciate what the alleged difficulties of building AGI might be. Rather, the burden of proof is on you, the doubters, to show that we need to spend no money at all on such risks, despite the magnitude of the harm that would be caused if we're right and nothing is done about the risks.
A very good guide on UNIX IPC is by Beej Jorgensen[0], it's totally free and updated last 1st December 2015.

[0] http://bit.ly/1pF0rAZ (Beej's Guide to Unix IPC)
Arguing for population reduction isn't lazy. Arguing against it by throwing a bunch of loaded language at it while never presenting an actual counterargument definitely is lazy, though.

The moment you describe it as "slaughter," you've completely lost me. A gradual reduction by having children at below replacement rate isn't "slaughter" and doesn't in any way imply that future generations are somehow bad or unwanted.

If population reduction really is such a bad idea, you should be able to come up with much better arguments against it.
My publication on the Netflix Prize is now free. Download it here.
The previous 4-page publication has so far over 450 citations, and the newer publication has 195 pages and 0 citations.

So read it, cite it. My h-index is 1, and I want to increase it to 2. I don't feel like a real scientist with an h-index 1.

You have to read it to not stay behind your competition.

This doesn't come off like a researcher dedicated to work, rather a researcher dedicated to being recognized for work.
It's tough. You want to work all day and all night. You think that if you take just a moment away from it that it will falter. Not the case. I started out that way, but I have found that even if you take the time to eat dinner with family, it's that time that helps you recharge and regroup. That is the most important time as it allows you to reflect. Without it, you work tirelessly and arguably are less efficient because you haven't taken the necessary breaks. Your brain can only process so much. Take the breaks. Go get ice cream. Go run. Go lift. Go to a bar. For God's sake, go do something that's not work-related. Then, come back and work. Unless you're drunk, then sleep. Just take time away from it.
AFAIK battery life for the Pyra is expected to be around 10 hours, which is good for a handheld games console (for comparison, the new 3DS XL has about 3.5 to 7 hours battery life).

As for the price, it'd depend on what you meant by reasonable, but isn't going to be an impulse purchase for most. You may wish to consider the Pandora, which is the predecessor of the Pyra, you might get lucky with finding one for a reasonable price on eBay.
I think this conveys a slightly different meaning.

When I see "-Unknown", I interpret it as "somebody said it, but no one is quite sure who".

"(NN)" in the current thread was used to indicate "I personally don't know", which does not imply the quote is unattributable.
I'm amused at the irony of users on a site devoted to technology, many of whom are probably software engineers, complaining about obscure jargon...
I disagree, not only does this give me a huge amount of insight into the company (more than I've ever seen from an offer letter), if it is automated that's actually a plus to me: it shows that they know this stuff is an important part of the offer and are showing it to everyone. I don't need to hear nice stuff about myself, I need to deeply understand the deal I'm making.

Plus, there's nothing that stops them from adding a personal cover letter to this.
maybe the probability was calculated by playing against other alphagos?
It's all about the music. If a game was so so, but had an awesome soundtrack, then I'm invariably going to remember it more fondly. Saga Frontier comes to mind as an example.
At the last place I did sysadmin work, this was basically how I functioned. Just about everything was done to prevent having to use google, stackoverflow, etc. It was absolutely amazing in terms of learning and gaining confidence in the tools and documentation, etc.... but nah. After about 3 months of that, I gave up. It's possible, but it led to so may "time wasting" rabbit holes in trying to figure things out. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but in hindsight, it probably wasn't the best use of time while at work (and should be frowned upon if management ever suggests it)!
The vast majority of AVX instructions are single uop. Even the complex instructions that are made up of a couple uops aren't traditional "microcode".
How many persons does a US bill pass on average in circulation before its handed into a bank?

You are connected to with an average distance of 3.57 to every facebook user.

What is your average distance to a substance user?
I was reading along and following the description of the consequences and I see "he is executed". That is kind of a shock. It is hard to remember how horrible the world can be when I'm relaxing on a Sunday morning.
> Where it falls down is when the authorities overreach

Which in practice, in the west doesn't happen that often (to people who live there - I am not considering drone strikes etc for now).

The concerns about what the NSA are doing are serious, real and I fully share them. But I will happily admit that it is hard to convince someone who doesn't care at the moment, because

a) Everything done with the data is secret, so giving people examples of abuses is hard.

b) The worst problems are mostly what could happen rather than what is happening.

Even Edward Snowden called it "turn-key totalitarianism", that is, there's huge potential but the US is not yet a totalitarian state.

Of course the problem is, if one day the problems caused by massive automated surveillance are so clear that everyone dislikes it, almost by definition it'll be too late.
What are the findings?
Court Computer Says All Hartford Is Dead (1992)
The most beautiful I'm aware of is Robert Strandh's SICL (https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL). CL-PPCRE (https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre) is very nice as well, imo.

What makes them beautiful? They're very straight forward and clearly communicate what they're doing, and how.

And the parentheses in their language of choice softens the visual display of the code -- while the semantics of the language cause the shape of the code to communicate quite a bit about how the machine will go about executing it.

There are no surprises.

In terms of conceptual beauty, it'd be hard to beat Screamer (https://github.com/nikodemus/screamer).

What makes this beautiful? The way it makes a hairy problem seem simple and straight-forward.
If the cretins didn't keep procreating and feeding, you wouldn't have half the life expectancy, quality of life or knowledge that you have today. Humans create a ton of value, even if we are destructive sometimes. We just need to figure out how to keep growing sustainably.
App Testing Mistake to Avoid
Doubt it : http://www.ebay.com/itm/OPEN-PANDORA-1002-1Ghz-Second-Editio...
Work hard. Not too much. Focus on what's important.
AVX instructions (at least the one's we're talking about here) are fully pipelined and none have microcoded implementations that I'm aware of.

And recognize that the news here is "on Haswell". On earlier SSE/AVX implementations POPCNT is indeed faster. Something changed with Haswell that allows this code to run faster than the purpose-designed instruction.

Most likely those two adjacent PSHUFB instructions were limited on earlier architectures to running on a single execution port (with a "PSHUFB engine"), and on Haswell it got insantiated on another ALU and they can now be executed in parallel.
Well you just turned the point from a financial to a semantic one.

What really is the market?

We could discuss it for hours, but the reality is that (US )"market" in finance does refer to the S&P500.
So "beating the market" always means beating the S&P500.
1953 Iranian coup d'état
Worth noting that the community has spread out into a kind of "diaspora": some have gone into effective altruism (many retaining their AI risk beliefs, especially the ones in California); some have been hired to work on existential risks full-time; Scott Alexander now has his own (impressive) blog and some LWers still follow him there and go to meetups that he attends... Of course, it's also probably true that some have since graduated, got jobs and simply have less time to read and post stuff on the internet any more.
Get Work Done Syndrome is truely a modern notion entirely absent from the laissez faire peasent farmers of yonderyear who tilled soil in return for a long glass of summer wine at the end and maybe a 20 minute long smoke of fine tobacco. Modern notions of work involve McDramas taking place in every western household where first world problems really are a truely despotic problem indeed. Master slave relationships engender this and it leads to a domestic tilling of the soil in the fields of suburbia, working for McJobs with a McPay. The kind of real work; that of some spiritual understanding, or mastering the body, or doing shadow work of the mind; 'Dumping all your ailments on a plate for those to ponder' is entirely absent in the west, where it is assumed that only those more credentialed shall offer answers, and none else. The East as far as I have gathered might have these problems just not as severe, and I worry about the encroachment & americanisation of the Eastern mindset and rich traditions and approaches to everyday existential crises.
I found the Alice in Wonderland image at http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/ particularly compelling, in support of the argument that highlighting may emphasize syntax at the cost of obscuring semantics.
> However there are quite a few sparse blas and lapack implementations now.

There's the NIST sparse blas, and MKL has a similar but not exactly compatible version. These never really took off in adoption (MKL's widely used of course, but I'd wager these particular functions are not). What sparse lapack are you talking about?

> If you want to help us fix it we are hiring ;).

We were at the same dinner a couple weeks ago actually. I'm enjoying where I am using Julia and LLVM, not sure if you could pay me enough to make me want to work on the JVM.
I've seen leaked UI screenshots that do have that feature. And Moxie has said that such a feature was always planned.

WhatsApp supports an ungodly number of platforms. Probably they don't want to expose encryption in the UI until the feature/platform matrix is complete and there are no edge cases where traffic is unencrypted.
But you shouldn't condemn the developers over this. Arguably, there's not major differences between Colgate and Crest toothpaste, but having alternatives in the market drives innovation and keeps prices down.
It does feel really robotic. I appreciate the transparency, but it also implies "you're an equation - and as soon as your numbers don't make sense for our bottom line, you're position shall be liquidated"
Windows only though.
To be fair, Lee Sedol was also changing style during the game. The opening for game 4 is heavily based on the one for game 2, except when he made a mistake.
I wonder how the various "powers-that-be", from politicians to lobbyist to bureaucrats to federal agents, don't see that within a decade they will be as vulnerable. Anyone who wants to know everything they do will be able to cyberstalk them with utter effectiveness. Including reporters and dangerous nutjobs with guns. The Secret Service can't protect them all.
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
-- Marvin Minsky http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html

"Naches" from our Machines
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26117

>Naches is a Yiddish term that means joy and pride, and it's often used in the context of vicarious pride, taken from others' accomplishments. You have naches, or as is said in Yiddish, you shep naches, when your children graduate college or get married, or any other instance of vicarious pride. These aren't your own accomplishments, but you can still have a great deal of pride and joy in them.

>And the same thing is true with our machines. We might not understand their thoughts or discoveries or technological advances. But they are our machines and we can have naches from them.
> I don't see the Linux version.

It runs in the browser so technically it runs on Linux.
For my (slightly outdated) sceptical take on this idea, see http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Market_monetarism
Food+Technology+Converges+with+Unconditional+Food+Waste
Surveillance is the primary reason for its use. It's the only way organizations would tolerate the cost-ineffectiveness of that working style.

Whether people can be conditioned for it is an interesting question. Naive young extroverts probably don't have much problem with it. Introverts of all stripes probably cannot be conditioned as easily since introverts are depleted of energy by social interaction.

One of my worst fears about our industry is that it will quickly become 100% open plan surveillance offices and 100% adoption of idiot time wasting Agile/Scrum/Kanban management process (which are yet another form of cost-ineffective surveillance).

Before he took down his blog, Michael O. Church had a great post warning about the "macho subordination" cultures that build up in these Panopticon-like work spaces. Young workers who don't know that the company is harming them via the surveillance culture will instead adopt a race to the bottom attitude in which people compete to be seen as most loyal by showing how much privacy and human dignity they are vocally willing to give up.

The state of physical working conditions in Silicon Valley is beyond deplorable, and the trend is quickly being copied even by large firms. And don't even think for a second that it's about money. Firms pay out the nose for idiotic, opulent showpiece offices, where rows of sweatshop-like engineering stations are just office eye candy, not means of production. When they are paying for fucking fountains, roof gardens, employee cafés, and on-site rock-climbing walls, you know the argument is not that open-plan saves money. They are just getting off on how much employees are happy to debase themselves to get foosball access or craft beer.

It tells me a lot about the integrity of Y Combinator when I see how many YC companies have deplorable surveillance and macho subordination work spaces, but that Paul Graham himself gained much notoriety for writing essays, like his pieces "Great Hackers" or "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule," which profoundly influenced me as a young programmer, that talk at length about the cost-effectiveness of providing people with protected, private, quiet space and time to get things done.

Modern YC companies, when contrasted against what Graham describes for almost a decade as good places to work, are a total farce (and the rest of the start-up world follows suit).
Here's the really cool bit: today we can have both. I get to play Chrono Trigger - a masterpiece of artfully taking a system to its limits - and I can play The Witness - a gorgeous game that would lose so much if it couldn't be rendered so well.

To me, the only hope is to have lots and lots and lots of games made. Whenever we wax philosophical about old games, no one ever mentions the absolute piles of junk that were made. And then some were good, but not great (compare Super Monkey Ball to Marble Madness) I loved Marble Madness as a little kid but couldn't really wrap my head around the controls, whereas SMB was fun right off the bat (and I was still terrible at it - but for actual gameplay reasons now).

Remember Roller Coaster Tycoon? The whole game felt rock solid and hand crafted. The 3D version added the ability to ride. But the world was so much less pretty. By contrast, look at the evolution of 3D in the Myst series; the game was supposed to be played like Uru, but computers could only handle HyperCard at the time. And contrast again with Into the Manhole, which really ought to be flash cards (or like flipping pages in a book - I remember the animations surprising and delighting me as a kid).

TL;DR: don't worry, it's not all bad. Some games need constraints, and people will build engines just for that. And some don't. But the important thing is: more games! (So more amazing ones trickle out).
Did he differentiate between more demanding work like writing code and less demanding work like going to meetings?
I use to love Yahoo Spades with Cases Ladder. It was all Java based. I first started playing on my PowerMac 6100/60 over dialup in 1996.

I can see why they closed it. The idea of running Java in the browser on the desktop is kind of antiquated with everything moving away from both the desktop to mobile and everyone moving away from Java in the browser.
> should at least have one drastic difference

That's not how evolution works.
@malcolmhere keep up the great work. I have always found the current resources to be lacking especially in terms of implementation examples. One suggestion would be to remove the Chase logo in your SQL injection examples. It is just begging for a cease and desist letter.
Where did the author talk bad about "their entire work"?

Everywhere he said "the Raspberry Pi 3" he's referring to the product as a whole, which is the culmination of all the work the Raspberry Pi Foundation has done to date, ergo the entire article is about their entire work. If he has a problem with only a small part of it then he would have said "the Raspberry Pi 3's bootloader blob" instead.
Bingo. Obama, Clinton and the rest keep asking for Silicon Valley to find some workable compromise and getting frustrated at the "absolutism". But they don't have enough self insight to see that they're guilty of the exact same thing.

In a world where governments were transparent and government employees were robustly held to account for transgressions of clearly written laws, I doubt many in the Valley would be putting so much effort into e2e encryption. It'd be like the world pre-Snowden, or the telcos, where companies just complied with warrants and orders and didn't see any big problem with that.

The problem is the Snowden affair showed that governments are utterly incapable of handling the power they temporarily obtained via subterfuge, utterly uninterested in holding people like Clapper to account, and generally don't seem to care about whether the people trust them or not. Standoffs like this are the inevitable end result.

If there was trust, there'd be a lot of technical solutions. Like just not employing E2E crypto to start with. SSL would be enough.
To me it sounds like very dry humor, which would make sense, given he's from Poland.
Feudalism is a word that has been applied to such a wide variety of historical situations that it almost has no meaning, like the word "liberal". Please explain what is bad with having to pay rent to the government, given that we already pay taxes, and land value tax would reduce the need to levy other taxes, other than socially-advantageous sin taxes such as carbon taxes.
As Dan Geer warned[1], technology changed the balance of powers when
the cost tends towards zero:

The central dynamic internal to government is, and always
has been, that the only way for either the Executive or the Legislature
to control the many sub-units of government is by way of how much
money they can hand out.
...
Suppose, however, that surveillance becomes too cheap to meter,
that is to say too cheap to limit through budgetary processes. Does
that lessen the power of the Legislature more, or the power of the
Executive more? I think that ever-cheaper surveillance substantially
changes the balance of power in favor of the Executive and away
from the Legislature. While President Obama was referring to
something else when he said "I've Got A Pen And I've Got A Phone,"
he was speaking to exactly this idea -- things that need no
appropriations are outside the system of checks and balances.

The "power of the purse" doesn't mean much when technology drives prices towards zero.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=625 http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
I just tested the video call with my parents that still have an old adsl link to their home, it was crystal clear.
Both skype and hangouts struggle when doing the same. Hangouts actually makes the audio choppy.

I'm a bit worried about using something that is free and has no ads while maintaining central servers though..
Redirect them to Amnesty International or Doctors without Borders.
You know that computers beating us at chess allowed us to get better at chess, right?
Something is off in this story. Early on, it recounts the story of a homeless man who, along with his girlfriend, was maced by private security guards (contracted, apparently, to Google) for not clearing off a public sidewalk.

That's bad, but it's not just that: it's a crime, and also a tort. No security company that allowed its employees to pepper-spray nonviolent people on public walkways --- or, really, anywhere --- could long remain in business.

If something like this is actually happening, Google's opponents don't need to generate outrage. They just need to get onto the streets of Venice with cameras, capture it happening, and help the victims make criminal and (lucrative) civil complaints against one of the largest corporations in the country.

What am I missing here?