skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish that wasn't true. But govt seems to think that way. Personally I think searching my laptop ought to be covered under freedom of the press, but it isn't. Email should get the same protections as snail mail, but no love there.

No, its not the technologists who don't get it.

Anyway to the point: we need to clarify if searching my house, and searching my person, and searching my laptop, and searching my cloud-based email history are in the same class. Hell, even searching my breath or blood isn't protected like they should be. Its a long way from clear, what Constitutional protections are extended to modern situation and which aren't. Technology has challenged everything we thought we knew.
My digestive system isn't the solution to my consciousness either but it's in some ways a part of it.

There is going to be no "solution" to AI.

Only emerging complexity which I am guessing at one point is going to give us something akin a semi aware entity. After that all bets are off.
Global warming will not cause human extinction. At most, it could cause a drop in population, and a regression of civilization in the hardest hit areas. A giant asteroid will not be thwarted by our good stewardship of the Earth.
From what I remember, the time controls were decided by the human, and accepted by the alphago team.
Bitbucket does this too.
Peapod looks like it hasn't changed in 10 years and basically does the same thing as instacart but cheaper and better.
Seems like it's only one 1920x1080 screen, so half that resolution per eye at 120hz. That's going to be some chunky pixels.

I'd rather have double the resolution at 90hz with a Vive or Rift :)
Awesome! Next thing you know, you'll be adding debug statements, fine-tuning, and fixing bugs!
I do see the point in using HAProxy as a loadbalancer, we use it too (in a different setup without SSL), but in the context of this tutorial it's usage doesn't seem warranted when you're already running Nginx.

We've had literally zero issues after switching to HTTP/2, and we had none when enabling SPDY early 2015 either. Since we have integrated Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal in our provisioning we've even gone back to old websites and retroactively enabled HTTPS just to benefit from HTTP/2 and the response from clients and users has been either positive or absent.

The most annoying part was finding a good solution for the HTTP/2 / ALPN / NPN problem. With OpenSSL 1.0.1 Nginx will negotiate HTTP/2 just fine, but over NPN only (which Chrome is dropping soon). We wanted to avoid compiling our own Nginx with every OpenSSL update too. In the end settling on Debian unstable proved to be easy and by far stable enough to simply run Nginx.
http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/vps shows graphs over time in case that helps you judge how the performance has changed over months.
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the USA was founded in another insurgency the UK had... you forget that ?
I don't think there will be another winter in a hurry regardless of press hype because there are too many real results - Amazon echo, self driving cars and so on.
A few months back, the expert consensus was that we were many years away from an AI playing Go at the 9-dan level.

Any sources for this statement? I've seen it repeated over and over again, but without any specific examples of who those experts were or what they said.
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Psychedelic brew called ayahuasca shows promise in treating recurrent depression
It's working fine for me in incognito mode.
I love this so much.... finding certain podcasts have changed my life so much, and I've been wanting something like this for a long time. Thank you! I really look forward to watching this app evolve!
At the opposite end, I had a company fly me out and pay for expenses, and didn't get the job. They followed up a month or two later and sent a check, although by that time my address changed, so I didn't receive it, and told them this after asking my why it wasn't cashed. They sent another one and after procrastinating on cashing it (it was something like $80 worth of Lyft rides), they followed up again at which point I cashed it. Some companies are pretty good at giving a decent interview experience even if they reject you.
I'm not sure the PSVR can qualify as high end. And I'm not saying this as a subscriber to PC Master Race Weekly, I'm saying it with the limited specs of the PS4 in mind compared to even the minimum requirements of the Vive and Rift.

Given how those requirements are just north of crazy right now, it follows that there must be something that was compromised on to allow the PSVR to work - and also keeping in mind that the Rift/Vive specs are that high just to get VR that's acceptably convincing.. I just can't work up the excitement.

I'm hoping that I'm wrong here, and that they did some kind of insane algorithm or something to do a lot more with a lot less hardware. Anyone who's had hands on the device care to chime in?
Small trial with no placebo control.
In this case, each chapter of the proof was sent off to different people so they could spend time studying a smaller section of the proof. Famously a significant mistake was discovered during this review that took Wiles a year to fix.
Considering your other comments, I see why you would think ill intent of others.
Seriously -- disappearing comments is very sad.
And Apple is arguing that the "All Writs Act" to which you refer is not authority to demand whatever you damn well please, from anyone, at any time. They are arguing that there are well established limits to that authority and that the judiciary is overstepping its bounds here and need defer judgement to elected representatives (the legislature).
The lock-in is where the catch is right.
There are lots of startups that expect to lose money for a lengthy period of time while they attempt to capture the market or grow to a sufficient scale that their business becomes profitable.

In fact, it's not even limited to startups. I worked for Red Bull many years ago and when they open a subsidiary in a new country, the only metric that matters for the first few years is how much money they are SPENDING on marketing & promotion - sales just aren't that important until the brand has been established.
Some of my .tex files may or may not contain a lot of profanities.
There's not a whole lot of lock-in using an rds instance. It's MySQL.
Ugh, I have a take home assignment from them to do, worried the same thing will happen to me :/ I don't want to waste the time if they don't get back to me..
Some RDS flavors now support offsite replication, it's quite easy to set up.
I've also been using JSX since the good old days, when a component was just a function -- "hyperscript" (such as it is) was built right in. Notably, writing React apps in CoffeeScript was beautiful:

div
className: "greeting"
"Hello, world!"

As you pointed out, the biggest problem with JSX is not that it isn't JS, it's that it isn't HTML. It's a leaky abstraction. Camel casing is only the most obvious problem, things like className and htmlFor are more insidious.

So as soon as a developer realizes that it's just sugar over JS, they are in a world of trouble, invariably trying to stick an if-else into it. If everyone had enough grounding in language theory to tell them: "JSX is just a JS primary" all would be well, but alas, that's putting the cart before the horse.
That Debian advisory is a different, older vulnerability. Looks like they know about it but haven't released anything yet:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/g...
> its only in programming that raw skills can get you anywhere

Simply not true. Maybe there's a few exceptions, but in general, most companies (especially in tech - just check out our great diversity :|), filter based on arbitrary things like 'school', 'specific # years of technical experience', and other flavours of the day.

Example: I had an interview with Mozilla many years ago, where the first question was, I kid you not, "Are you a Javascript rockstar?". I said no (being truthful - I was naive back then), to which the reply was an immediate "Sorry - bye".
small typo though:
./configure && make, not ./Configure&&Make
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That's true of version 1, but supporting arbitrary JavaScript is on the roadmap.
I'm guessing by "focus" on GHE is more on sales and marketing and closing enterprise deals, rather than actual software development. Honestly, I'm really not sure. It might also be perfecting how they deploy to different customers' data centers, how they integrate with their solutions/platforms etc.
Your average diner knows NOTHING about scaling a business to a national or international level, nor about venture capital and the pressures of shareholders.
Ahh .. OK, that makes it clearer. Thanks.
Now that is a good argument. I don't give a shit who win the illusion of choice professional wrestling match we call US presidential elections. I would like to see Trumps ideas discussed logically instead of putting blinders on to real problems that are hard to deal with.
True but irrelevant, the GP is talking about the top level function, not the fat arrow one.
Only supports up to 8 participants, unfortuantely. Continually on the hunt for something that takes >15 (like Hangout) and doesn't cost a bomb and is truely cross platform (Linux, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS).
Exactly. Furthermore my experience has been that requiring prior work samples unfairly biases towards younger developers. Our system is far from perfect but it allows us to see prior work where possible by provide a fallback when it isn't
"always" seems like a bit of an overstatement there, given that bird strikes in fact do happen, even to small GA aircraft.
I actually thought this would be the obvious answer, instead it's near the bottom of the thread. Odd for the best open source navigation app I've ever found.
I took a stab at building from it source on Ubuntu 14.04 + LetsEncrypt for an experimental site (i.e follow the config best practices mentioned elsewhere here).

https://www.clay.fail/posts/ubuntu-http2-in-mere-hours/
Every accomplishment will seem obvious in retrospect. Who here honestly thought neural networks were going to be a dominant force in board game AI? Sure we cannot extrapolate, but that doesn't mean that we aren't building up effective tools for AI.
From the look of things around here, your average tech company ain't much better.
You'd be surprised. There are an increasing number of folks who get to at least occasionally work on open source projects as part of their day job, and many other less obvious ways of getting a prior sample. But if they don't have one we don't hold it against them for the reasons you cite
Also cf. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064
Fiberbooks
Don't really see this happening in a modern western country to be honest.
Or do you have some concrete scenario in mind?
There are limits on how much the military will blindly follow orders.
So either it will only affect small groups of people (in which case having the house full of weapons and explosives will be of limited help to you [2]) or it will affect enough people, that even the people in the military might start wondering if they are doing the right thing here.

Also isn't Iraq an counter example to your point (as mentioned in a parent post [1])?
Since it did have a fairly high gun ownership rate and yet it had an oppressive government.
Or did it simply not yet reach the necessary worst abuses level yet?
Or was the gun ownership rate not high enough?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11289520
[2] heard some funny stories from bomb squad people, about such encounters.. really have to wonder what these people are thinking
Another YES! Gerrit does things right and I'd love GH to support that idea. (lived in gerrit for the last few years)
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I'd rather have a Tesla Model S, but it's twice the price of my car. PlayStation VR is much cheaper than Oculus or Vive and works with much more affordable hardware.
Funny this showed up on here. I just spent the last 4-5 days playing with DMS.

My company has been using AWS for a while, but management wanted a "backup" backup off Amazon "JUST IN CASE". Due to amazon blocking replication credentials for MYSQL servers we had to basically dump over scp to our off amazon server and run the update on that machine via a script. We tried a number of different options but none were reliable. All nasty stuff.

Anyway after setting up a dms.t2.medium replication instance, I was able to create a number of tasks pulling from our amazon server to our off amazon server.(You have the option to just pull a full dump, pull a full dump and continue replication or simply replicate data.) It's been running for a little under 24 hours now and has been, solid so far with the replication. I know not even a day yet, but it's looking promising. Fingers crossed!

A small bonus to doing the setup for this. I found out the hard way that there was bad schema in our database, which I spent the last couple days fixing. DMS is rather sensitive, and will fail and not restart if it encounters to many errors trying to replicate data.

Overall cost is looking like it's going to cost me about $150 a month for the replication instance, which is only marginally more than the bandwidth costs I was incurring doing full dumps to our off amazon server.

Benefits are almost instant replication and an interface that will give me almost instant feedback on failed replication tasks, all within AWS which is where we are hosting everything else at this time. I was also able to create individualized tasks for separate schema so I can watch and manage errors on a schema by schema basis which is nice.

Overall I'm happy with it, but only time will tell if it can continue to be a reliable replication option.

O.
I have the same questions when reading something like this. Expert verification seems more like an appeal to authority and intuition instead of a definite proof with formal rigorosity. Locally, there is always structure, but in pure mathematics even these steps require such an in depth understanding that trusting experts as an outsider seems to be impossible, it could as well be magic. As a programmer, I have a quite mechanistic understanding of the world, projects like http://us.metamath.org/index.html seem to make it much more understandable.

I'm wondering, if the longest path to the theorem "2 + 2 = 4" is 150 layers deep in this system, how deep would this proof be?
Yes. We need more people like Langford and LeCun to push back on the AI hype. It's better for AI researchers to underpromise and overdeliver than the other way around. Otherwise we risk another "AI Winter," and that's no fun.

The challenge is that to approximately 99.99% of the seven billion people on this planet, including roughly every journalist, the recent progress made by AI researchers is indistinguishable from "magic."

When all those people try to reason about "magical things," they're bound to reach nonsensical conclusions and say nonsensical things. To them, debating on the promise of technologies like deep learning is a lot like debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.[1]

--

[1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1008/did-medieval-s...
Everything old is new again.
DeepGram (YC W16) Is Building a Google for Audio
They've demoed it a fair bit. Impressions I've heard so far seem quite positive.

This announcement is from Game Developers Conference, which is going on right now and where they're demoing it to a ton of people, so I'm sure we'll get even more impressions soon.
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Good thing we have computers to augment our calculation abilities. Maybe they can augment our empathy, too (http://www.amednews.com/article/20111206/profession/31206999...).
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> God dude you have no idea about what you're saying. LOOK AT THE BAYES RULE EXAMPLE. DO YOU SEE THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A LARGE FALSE POSITIVE RATE? At this point you respond in bad faith and are demonstrably clueless.

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2015/AISB2015/proceedings/m...

> Despite these potential problems with classification, general medicine seems to fare much better than psychiatry in terms of accuracy and reliability. The high rates of misdiagnosis and disagreement among psychiatrists support this point: for example, Kirk, Gomory & Cohen (2013) cite a recent estimate according to which the diagnostic error rate is 38% for ADHD

http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/Suppl_2/ii21.long

> Arthur Elstein, a cognitive psychologist interested in ‘how doctors think’, studied clinical decision making for his entire career and concluded the diagnosis is wrong 10–15% of the time.7 A diverse range of research approaches that have focused on this issue over the past several decades suggest that this estimate is very much on target.6

You keep insisting higher than average error rates are okay and worthy of medication. I'm saying they aren't. We don't agree yet you keep responding and calling me names.

K.

> Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time (in other words, if you have the disease, it shows that you do with 99 percent probability, and if you don't have the disease, it shows that you do not with 99 percent probability). Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people.

You make statements like this which are demonstrably false and insist I'm the one acting in bad faith.

1) It isn't that rare.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html#us

> Approximately 11% of children 4-17 years of age (6.4 million) have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011.

2) The test isn't 99% accurate. Multiple people with PHDs publish literature stating the error rate is higher than that. You repeatedly insist this one source is more reliable than any other. Great. I don't agree.

3) You insisting a high rate of diagnostic error compared to general medicine being "okay" is not going to magical change my mind.
Then every exe file is open-source, because we have disassemblers. Don't lie to yourself: webassembly is for closed-source applications. They will be compiled by an obscure compiler, so dissassembling back to logical code will be too costly to be practical.
We saw this many times: for v1, disassembler works perfectly and maps 1:1 from binary to code, but for version xxx.0 it's no longer true, because of various tricks and optimizations.
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You can still get all of those advantages using React without JSX. Reusable components have nothing to do with JSX. Syntax checking/highlighting/etc. is arguably easier (in a global sense) without JSX since we don't need to fork acorn or esprima to get it.
I've got an Intel NUC with Ubuntu 14.04 on it. That probably doesn't get me too much nerd cred, but you know what? It works and that's all I really care about.

Currently I use it as a seed box, media center (xbmc), and Syncthing host.

I intend to do more with it in the future, things like hosting a personal email server, but at least for that, I'm assuming that I need to figure out a reverse proxy for SMTP so that I can actually send email without it getting marked as spam. (I don't want an SMTP relay server because the point is that I want the plain text of my emails to only exist within my network and devices.)

I also need to figure out how to only VPN my torrent traffic and not the rest of the traffic.
I've used commit-level comments before, but it is admittedly not very common.
It doesn't actually assume those facts - the study I linked to showed that empathy and logic cannot be active at the same time. Indeed, it concludes with the suggestion that healthy adults tend to cycle rapidly between the empathic and logical brain networks, and that pathologies like autism or Williams Syndrome occur when people get "stuck" in one neural network or the other.

It does have implications to how we might address poor math performance or poor social skills (if this theory is correct, which still isn't proven yet), notably by training people to recognize when one skillset is called for or the other, and encourage them to concentrate on the task at hand regardless of whether the other skillset may be more natural for them.
This article seems too statistics-y ...

Except that safety is a statistical problem. The question is always whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The FAA actually recognizes this. For example, you can build an airplane yourself for your own recreational use without having to comply with almost any of the rules for certified airplanes that are sold commercially, the rationale being that you know what you're getting into and you're risking mostly harm to yourself.

However, when it comes to risks imposed by third parties, like buying an airplane from a manufacturer, or an airplane being endangered by people on the ground as is the case with drones or people pointing lasers at airplanes, they are much more conservative. And I think that makes sense.
Your two examples are not equivalent at all.

Well yes, that's what I stipulated by mentioning

The trade off for low/unreliable bandwidth is allowing
larger buffers which would impose greater latency

Video conferencing systems mostly prioritize low latency, so as bandwidth decreases (cross continent internet connections currently almost always have latency/bandwidth issues) either frames will drop, or resolution will need to drop. For our purposes of screen sharing/broadcasting we didn't care as much about low latency as much as we wanted high FPS and high resolution.
Yep, companies are really abusing the take home. A long time ago, when I was actually bothering with interviewing, I would ask for $1-2K depending on the size of the problem.

If it was about 10 hours, $1K was usually OK. I never had a problem asking for this, but the problem is that so many companies are doing it now that they cannot afford to pay everyone.
Not soon. You can't run journald without systemd now, and you won't be able to run systemd-udevd without systemd as soon as kdbus gets merged, which the systemd devs are pushing for heavily.
You're not wrong and the price reflects that.

Screen Size: 5.7"

Resolution: 1920x1080 (960x1080 per eye)

Refresh Rate: 120Hz, 90Hz

Latency: Less than 18ms

Sensors: 360 Degree Tracking/9LEDS

Field of View: Approximately 100 degress

Controller: Dualshock 4 & PS Move
Not exactly... within JSX the handlebars signify "now I'm going back to plain JS".

compare

<div>
console.log(123)
</div>

with

<div>
{ console.log(123) }
</div>

The first outputs a div with the text "console.log(123)" inside. The second logs "123" and outputs an empty div (since console.log returns undefined).
I wonder what the true risk of flying a drone is. Lets say their number is 50 times greater than realistic. The 1.87 million years divided by 50 would be a more reasonable 37,400 years of flight time per accident. Assuming every plane has 200 passengers, that's about, or about 6.105×10^-7 deaths per hour of flight time. If I did my math right, that means it's about 0.6 micromorts per hour. By comparison, the average person has about 1.6 micromorts of unnatural causes of death per day, so it is a fairly large relative increase in risk.

If you were to require every drone operator to pay for insurance, assuming an economic value of life at about $9.1 million, then it would cost $5.56 per hour of flight time. Not cheap!
Yeah, it'd be interesting to know if this gives you 'presence'