skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two big purposes for Tsumego, one is to train your reading ability, the other is to train your intuition and knowledge.

For the former, you need to read out ALL variations, and not just one branch. For the latter, and your question, it's just simply a matter of solving lots and lots of tsumegos. In real game, people missed life and deaths situation all the time :-).
Apcera and AWS Lambda
What's wrong with united.air.us and lloyds.bank.uk?

Nothing, but those aren't the gTLDs that unethical_ban was talking about.
The law is never clear. If the law was clear cases wouldn't end up at the Supreme Court (decided by narrow margins in some cases).

The law is open to interpretation and even when opposing parties have differing interests there is almost always a basis for why they decide to sue and/or appeal a court case. [1]

[1] In other words there could be other motives for bringing a lawsuit other than thinking you might win the case.
Anyone could have predicted as in "take a year out their asses and write it down", sure. A dime a dozen. Predicted as in actually know what they're talking about and have some sort of reasoning or data backing that prediction? Nah.
I think an option to exclude sports would make sense. US basketball results are less reported in Germany, and German soccer results are less reported in the US. This isn't surprising or bad, it's how it's supposed to be.

Also, not sure about how accurate this is. E.g. for Norway, "Russia" is on top of the "less reported" list. This makes no sense, there is a fairly big story today about a Russian government official making controversial comments about the case where a Norwegian reporter was injured in an attack on journalists on the Chechnyan border last week.
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Maybe more of a culture conflict between east and west coast? sort of like MIT vs Stanford, they behave differently actually.

Otherwise I would think Google can buffer money&time for pure R&D with no quarterly revenue pressure in certain fields, e.g. robotics in this case.
Why is this comment being down voted? This system is an embarrassment. The improved security measures are important but there's no excuse for it to come at a cost of a worsened user experience.
I'm not inherently opposed to a smarter order, but I feel like it (at least in the case of Facebook and Twitter so far) breaks a fundamental part of the use case for me. I check in every so often, and want to scroll back to the last post I saw, so I can know I saw everything. When it is sorted non-chronologically, this is impossible. I see the same thing multiple times because it's sorted near the top, and I miss some stuff completely because it gets sorted to the bottom.

Also, I'm not sure what signals they're using to rank posts. I could imagine using likes and comments, but I don't think that would accurately identify the posts I most want to see. For example, I follow a couple of local restaurants who post specials and similar things on Instagram. I never "like" or comment on those; it seems pointless (I use those actions to communicate with my friends on their posts). If you use that signal, those posts which I always want to see will get pushed to the bottom. I'm not sure what other data they have to use.
Jobs are not sacred, but salaries are. Your automation has a certain NPV on it, just like your job, and just like the "value" of not working. So, there are really 3 scenarios.

a) do your job, same as always
b) automate your job, and either end up unemployed, or find a new job, still working xx hours/week.
c) don't tell anyone you automated your job, don't work, collect the money.

If you are capable of automating your job (you have the skills, the know-how etc.) then all of these options have different moral and economic tradeoffs.

a) if you like your job, you get to keep doing it, but, by not automating it, you are maybe not doing your job as well as it could be done, and/or are costing the company money which could be reallocated. As an employee, you maybe have a responsibility to automate your job and by not doing it, you are shirking your duties (its a stretch)
b)You automate your job, get a new job, and take everyone else who was doing the same job as you and automate their jobs as well. You end up ok, because you're talented enough to automate your job. the other people who weren't talented enough just get fired and have no shiny new credential.
c)You are definitely dodging the obligation to your employer, but at the same time, they don't know the difference. If the work is unchanged, then you are free to use your time for an alternative economic benefit. It seems unfair, since you get to double-spend your time.

In my mind, B is the choice most people worry about. There are fewer people who can automate a job than there are people currently doing that job, and that doesn't even touch the problem that few low-skill jobs are filled by the people that can self-automate their jobs. So, more worrying is that someone invents the roomba of floor waxers, or the self cleaning toilet stall and then we don't need janitors anymore.
From <http://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html#section-1>:

1.8: What's the auto keyword good for?

Declaring vehicles.
But they have access to the phone. It's like if you wrote the diary in a language that no one understood. What would the gov't do then?
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There are various reasons, but here are a few of the big ones:

1. Getting ahead of your costs before they start to shoot up as you grow. Check out this pricing calculator for an idea of what I mean: http://containership.io/#pricing

2. Cloud portability: Heroku runs in 2 AWS regions (us-east-1, eu-west-1). What happens if you want to host in a specific country, a completely different provider (maybe you have some free credits?) or even your own data center eventually? Not gonna happen with heroku.

3. More flexibility to run the types of databases, queues, or other open source software that isn't possible to run on Heroku.

4. With CaaS you have root access to the servers powering your software, where Heroku is more of a black box. Remember what happened with (rap)Genius? http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/heroku-admits-to-performanc...
Sonarr is a SPA, also our backend is C# vs python, which generally leads to better performance (contrary to what a lot of criticism we get, "why did you go with C# it's so slow" ok...).

The other part is that I did performance work for few years as my main job so I would say that adds a bit as well. right now we are working on refreshed UI which will be even more snappy.
I want to get off this ride.
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Exactly the same thing applies to fixed-size arrays. If you define a local array of N elements, there's no defined way to signal an allocation failure whether N is a compile-time constant or not.
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No, it's more like mandating that those journals have to be written in english instead of sanskrit. The government has the authority to reasonable search and seizure, but they don't have the authority to mandate how we express ourselves in written word or data.
Just make the old feed an option for "power users."
I've felt that way many times. And I'm not even trying to be an entrepreneur, necessarily.

My workaround? Comes from recognizing the following:

(1) In many ways, our "system" (not just the tech meritocracy cult, but our whole consumption-oriented society) is strongly predicated on promoting feelings of inferiority, "coulda-shoulda-woulda" and anxiety generally. It's it's main oxygen source, in fact. So whenever I feel myself feeling beset by these pangs and impulses, I try my best... to deny the system its "oxygen" by questioning the validity of these pangs and impulses. And looking instead for other sources of validation / motivation.

(2) More drily, there's a huge selection bias in all of these success stories. We nearly always hear about the winners, only very seldom about the failures. And even the "big" winners, talented though they are, might have been only "so-so" winners had it not been for certain twists of dumb luck.

Not to mention the legions of "so-so" winners (e.g. that total schmuck you know who just got a $30M B-round) who might otherwise just be regular devs, perpetual grad students, or slaving away at an investment bank right now, had they had the tragic misfortune of being born a few years later, or earlier.

(3) Finally, so some extent maybe I do suck, at least at this game. Or maybe I don't? Either way, a healthy amount of self-doubt isn't a bug, it's a feature -- and nearly omnipresent amongst people who are in any way trying to achieve their potential, and question the limits and rules set by others (as nearly any biography of successful people will tell you).

As such, when viewed properly and used properly, this kind of self-doubt can not only not be a straightjacket -- it can be an invaluable energy source.
It's all fine and well, as long as all "non-routine" jobs don't require a Master's degree and 10 years of hands-on experience.
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Sonarr supports as many _root folders_ as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show2` is completely valid, but `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show1` is not.
Why would you do that? All of the disadvantages of the web stack in the middle, none of the advantages of a stand-alone app.

I guess I mean, if you can code for WebGL in JavaScript you can probably code for GL in C even if you're not yet aware of that fact. And if you're just using Unreal or Unity, they already export "real" apps.
Isn't he the dude that trolled himself with the 'Smashmouth eat the eggs' thing and the consequences thereof.
Hoping John Deere buys it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lYh54Qdh_5g

Only farm big iron should be combines. Smaller bots for planting, weeding, and spraying are the future. Bosch is getting too far ahead.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...
1.7x faster means oldRunningTime / newRunningTime = 1.7. Or in your example, 8 seconds / 2 seconds = 4x faster. Sometimes this is called a speedup of 4x or a 4x speedup.
From the article:

"Remember: Channels is a general-purpose utility for running background tasks. Thus, many features that used to require Celery or Python-RQ could be done using Channels instead. Channels can’t replace dedicated task queues entirely: it has some important limitations, including at-most-once delivery, that don’t make it suitable for all use cases. Still, Channels can make common background tasks much simpler. For example, you could easily use Channels to perform image thumbnailing, send out emails, tweets, or SMSes, run expensive data calculations, and more."
There's also this SASS mixin: http://www.adrenalinmedia.com.au/the-agency/insights/this-ch...

The linear equation solver is there, but it assumes px, and there's no license...
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Agreed. This feels like something Yahoo! would do.

Perhaps there are hidden machinations and defence-washing for PR purposes.

But perhaps it's about corp comm being given veto power over R&D - in which case it seems like a terrible mistake.
I was at a place the other day with a taped over chip slot, with a little note saying "please swipe". I asked what the deal was, and the guy said all chip purchases were being double billed (apparently due to some software issue). I commented, "at least they were being securely double billed". Chuckles all around.
There are a lot of really interesting things happening in BI. First, many accounting and some business grads are now coming with database knowledge.

They're able to gain insights from data that the older generations in this space didn't have the skills to do.

Way more interesting to me are advances like Amazon's QuickSight [1] which is geared towards business data. You can just upload stuff (CSVs, ERP databases, etc.) and, perhaps, gain some insights. As they build intelligence around similar business data sets it should improve over time.

Next big thing, perhaps not. But definitely something to keep an eye on, at least in my space.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/
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We already have C++, so is this required? If you want C with a dynamic vector, you could write C in C++ using std::vector.
which reminds me of @horse_ebooks kind of off topic but so relevant :)
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So we need copyright encumbered robot repairs as well as copyright encumbered equipment repairs?
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>Also, I'm not sure what signals they're using to rank posts.

In the past, FB has run "experiments" which determine the order you see updates based on the perceived content of the post, in order to manipulate users' behaviors. Without access to the ranking criteria used on a given feed, it would be prudent to assume that similar "experiments" (or worse) could be determining what you see, and when, on any FB service.
Thats a really sad situation, but is common in some LATAM countries. In example, in Argentina there's an active "energetic crisis" plan [1], where government defined an scheduled program to cut electricity in cities to try to mitigate demand.

[1] http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/149949/power-cuts-i...
We are using github, but just not github organizations...
I worry that the net effect on lives lost will be negative. If all else were kept equal, it would be positive, but all else is unlikely to stay equal. One of the few things keeping the U.S. military from being even more interventionist than it already is, is that the U.S. public has little stomach for its soldiers losing their lives, which heavily constrains military planners (which is a good thing!). If those constraints were loosened, which is one of the goals the military has in funding robotics, I expect that they will be even more gung-ho about sending in firepower to places where it is going to end up causing a lot of civilian "collateral damage". The drone program of the past 5 years is already shaping up that way. Its rules of engagement and the way the U.S. public has responded to it, so far, suggest that when the lives in question aren't American soldiers' lives, neither planners nor the U.S. public consider minimizing loss of life to be a particularly high priority.
I feel relieved to read this. I thought I was losing my memory. Hadn't occurred to me that it was deliberate.
I am in complete agreement. I don't think it's a question of if, and more a question of WHEN everything in the data center is containerized. The benefits far outweigh the negatives (like educating your whole staff on a new workflow or set of tools), and it seems that ease of use when it comes to the ecosystem/tools/orchestration is really the only hurdle keeping it from getting there. We're working on making those "non-custom" software packages easy to stand up and use via http://containership.io/#marketplace
Thanks, that's generally the feedback we get, when people switch they are generally very happy, but I guess that might just be the feedback loop.
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> Our intentions were primarily around the fact that requiring people with certain BMIs to lose weight does reduce healthcare costs.

I've never seen a wellness program that "required" that. Most of them are just designed to bring attention to the issue so that you yourself start to address it (i.e. it is a subtle prod, not a hard shove).

If requiring weight loss has been implemented I'd be interested to read about it. In particular how employers and insurance companies avoid violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

They started out as a way to stop people ignoring their health until it was too hate. Essentially they're designed around giving out health information and requiring annual checkups (either full health check or biometric screening, employee's choice).
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Like Eric Schmidt in his new position at the Pentagon?
Who will standardize it?

Nobody seems to have a clue how to standardize.
Unbreakable cryptography isn't real either. It's not impossible to reverse engineer a private key it's just impractical. It would require immense computing power and only yield that individual private key broken.

What the president is proposing would allow a key for law enforcement that would, presumably, work on many or all devices. Once cracked, it would give hackers access to all of those devices. This elevates risk considerably because it's no longer impractical to reverse engineer the encryption.
To be fair, AlphaGo can only play 19x19 Go. It's unrelated to solving NxN Go.
> people can already be compelled through legal means to unlock things.

Things that they own, yes. But Apple doesn't own the iPhone that the FBI wants to unlock.

> There is a reading of the Apple case that they are being compelled to unlock something for which they have the key.

No, they don't have the key. What the FBI is asking Apple to do is to redesign the lock so that the FBI can try as many different keys as it wants until they find one that unlocks it.
The problem have never been the difficulty of patching the software. The problem is they are forcing Apple to sign a software against their will.
mono has really been source of many of our issues on non-windows platforms, hopefully we can switch to .NET Core soon and have a more multiplatform runtime.
Interesting progress; It's like CDMA for radar.

For those who have one hour available, check out this amazing talk about the early history of silicon valley, back when the first tech sector was radars for WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Are they keeping Bot&Dolly?
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Naturally we want to be able to enforce the law. We should also remember the 20th century and how quickly "they" seized control of Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, the Soviet republics, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, Cuba, the list goes on. All of that without the benefit of universal surveillance and time scrying technology.

In pursuit of enforcing the law, we need to be vigilant in maintaining the rule of law, which has proved difficult over the last century, with dire consequences.
Reddit is Fun has a nice solution (though it's just an interface to reddit's core functionality): at the top of the screen you can select which ordering you want (time order, most points per time period, hotness).
Twitter has a chronological timeline* and still manages to show me relevant ads.

*For Now
There's a concern there, but that doesn't promote understanding and trust, unfortunately. Elitism is a unpleasantly common accusation...
I've proved that p=np
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6658

...and no one wants to/is able refute me.
I knew something was up when they removed the time since the item was posted. This change will just make me unfollow the bigger users that I follow and check them manually.
Except the real goal likely isn't usability, it's to show promoted content in with the real good content, ala Facebook, Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, Hacker News, the list goes on really.
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Hi Patrick! To be clear, I think the web platform is largely headed in the right direction. It's just a question of velocity, especially relative to other application ecosystems like iOS's App Store. When a product cycle is on the order of a couple years, but even simple new capabilities (like XHR priority) take years of discussion before anyone implements it at all, then we basically can't assume anything beyond the current web capability set when planning a product. And the current web capability set is not good enough for the kinds of experiences people take for granted on native!

I hope that changes! I think the web would move faster if browsers would stop cooperating so much with each other. Increase the rate of churn; let the best APIs win.

Some niggles: I personally think anti-fingerprinting measures are overweighted, especially given that preventing fingerprinting is basically a lost cause. I also think there's room for more "unspecified behavior" in the web, e.g. it sucks that we have to pay a penalty so that NaN can have perfectly consistent behavior on all platforms in SIMD.js.
Then you are dynamically creating (and cutting I suspect) lots of communication channels. My suspicion is that for any large group something like that would require an extremely strong institution and lots of paper trail. This is a noble objective, but I'm not sure if it is always an option.

By the way, what is the largest organization you can think that follows that swaps 'designated communicators' roles with no management?
Not really me, just a mathematician friend who has no clue on how to post on HN.
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If it was cost-prohibitive yesterday, why isn't it still cost-prohibitive today?

Maybe it would be doable at a lower salary. Let's pay Lynne half as much as yesterday for this new job.
Having dealt with classified work in a previous life, there's no doubt that if any normal joe without her political connections did anything remotely close to this type of thing, they'd wind up in prison.

Clinton will probably skate. And yet she'll be the first person demanding that we try Snowden and keep Chelsea Manning locked up.
Having used early versions of Mathematica in university, I'm actually a huge fan of Maxima (a fork of Macsyma, the latter having been the principle inspiration behind Mathematica). I have it installed on several systems and use it now for all the things I used to use Mathematica. In fact, the CL source code for rational numbers in Maxima formed the basis of similar work in LFE (the horatio project).

I was very sad to find out that Xlisp-Stat had not been ported and maintained in CL :-/ ... perhaps a good project for a motivated, if fringe, *SoC project :-)
I was also in AI school in the 90s and I agree with you to some extent. But when you think about nature, much of the behaviour of animals is not cognitive, but instinctive and physically dependent on their structure. In other words if you can build a robot that knows how to walk because you built it that way, why not do so and build more interesting learning at the decision making level?
>I understand that is is very inconvenient to use the channels provided to transmit confidential information, but that goes with the job. It is also probably inconvenient to have a massive physical security detail follow you everywhere as well but that is also necessary as a high profile government official. ... I am sure Mrs. Clinton wouldn't hop into her car to visit a friend without gathering a full security detail. Yes this curtails her life, and yes it is inconvenient, but it is necessary just like securing her communications is!

Semi-OT, the president does exactly that in 24 season 3: there was an episode where he just decides, on a moments notice, to duck out (nearly) by himself to go visit a friend in a rich neighborhood and come back, and it's all over in 30 minutes. Really broke immersion.
Copying another reply:

Sonarr supports as many root folders as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so tvs1/show1 and tvs2/show2 is completely valid, but watched/show1 and unwatched/show1 is not.
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Her talks are great too, I particularly enjoyed her strace talk [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/4pEHfGKB-OE