skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just had a 15 minute conversation with a shitty Markov chain machine that, after stating the name that I would like to be called, responded back the same way each time I asked "What is my name?" and "By what name did I ask that you call me?"

When asked to describe myself, I mentioned my height: 7'. The response referenced that this height is very tall. When asked again, later in the conversation, how tall I said I was: the response was '5 feet tall'.

The entire concept of AI isn't in responses and natural language so much as the ability to retain information and act accordingly to references made regarding that information. Anyone can slap together a CashChat script that, upon each mention of genitalia, responds how turned on it is/they are. This isn't far from that.

I'm always interested when I hear "the more you interact, the smarter it becomes." That isn't the case here. If the responses back are little more than speech learning based on what should go where; responses to "That doesn't make much sense" are "IDK makes sense to me lol" versus a mechanism that allows for gradual weight correction; message after ZIP is provided is "i think there are things going on in the area idk" with all future references to what's going on in that ZIP coming back nonsensical; and it doesn't have the ability to reference literally the first question that //it asked me//?

Then it isn't AI. Intelligence implies continued application of learned mechanisms. This isn't that.

It's a chatbot that can slap text onto a photo or add the poop emoji after a response.

2/10.
GOST seems like an oddball; it's been around for a long time but doesn't seem like it got any traction outside of Russia. To the best of my knowledge GOST cipher suites were never accepted into TLS, there was a draft (http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-chudov-cryptopro-cptls-04.htm...) but it expired in June 2009. Given that it's not in TLS, isn't widely used, there aren't good reasons to use GOST over AES, and GOST is considered "deeply flawed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST_(block_cipher)#Cryptanaly...) I wouldn't be surprised if GOST implementations in a number of other places were equally broken.
I'm with you. I definitely don't hate it like many seem to. No, it's not a to-the-letter portrayal of the book, nor does it do a great job of portraying the "subtleties," but it's probably much better off not doing that. Look at the evolution in the Harry Potter movies. The first few tried to jam pack several hundred pages of detail into 2 and change hours, and miserably fail to make "good" movies on their own or good enough adaptations for the rabid fans of the books. The last few stopped trying to cover every chapter of the book in favor of better scenes and movie storytelling and were (IMO) much better for it. No, there isn't a navigator portrayed as a slug in the first book (though they show up that way in later books), and the Weirding Way is just some overthought martial arts, but I'd rather watch a movie with space slugs folding space and mmmbop sound cannons to visualize the things that don't translate well into visual/auditory space from text. If I were to pick an issue with the movie, it's that Lynch used a bunch of narration instead of coming up with creative ways of representing that stuff.

There is an uncanny valley for book to screen adaptations. Lynch's Dune is just far enough out of the bottom of that valley that I can enjoy it as an incredibly expensive, overproduced sci-fi movie based on the Herbert universe by the same name.
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> Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don’t have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another.

This is something that we should have all moved to years ago. Our drives are big enough for most shared libraries to move away from. Though I am intrested on how they handle something like KDE and KDE applications.
>pink tiger strips on spaceships

That sounds like you're talking about an earlier aborted adaption, before the Lynch movie. There was an (amazing) documentary about it last year.

"Jodorowsky's Dune"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
Should fit in well on Reddit.
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So if Disney wants https://www.npmjs.com/package/jasmine than they should have it? Just like that? With a polite request with "P.S. lawyers!"
> I don't want to say too much
Why not?
Am I the one that's misunderstanding what polite means? It sounds like several people, including Kik, seem to think it's just how you word things. As long as you threaten someone with lawyers using polite language it's polite? I don't know about you guys, but if someone did that to me "polite" would be the furthest thing from my impression of the exchange.
Any fans of Dune should check out the exceptionally good documentary about the aborted film version by surrealist film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

The vision he had for his film far outstripps anything seen in the Lynch film or TV show.

Trailer here: http://youtu.be/GOaGoFqTWtw
There's a lot more than that that you have to do. You can't even implement defer without allocation, just to name one example.
No, I'm not. If anything, you're splitting hairs.

Your assertion was "You will need to remain silent if you bully, harrass, intimidate, stalk, stereotype, or belittle." The guys in donglegate did none of those things, and yet they were in fact reported to staff. Over private words.

My point is that you never know what is going to offend someone. This CoC says that you agree to be removed from the premises if someone gets offended, provided they are of proper minority status, which in itself invalidates the whole idea that this is a non-political CoC.
OBD2 doesn't tell you much, in a lot of cases. It might identify a loose gas cap or a broken plug wire, but for everything else that can wrong on a modern car you need the manufacturer's proprietary scan tool and a subscription to their online service documents. These cost thousands of dollars, needless to say.
I think that's the exact opposite of my reading, I think he flagged that Godel had exactly pointed to why humans and CT machines were different.
I have a similar issue.

Formerly critical tool (now, sole repository of necessary historical information) that runs only on an outdated stack and for "copy protection" has critical data in an undocumented, obfuscated DAT file. It also requires a parallel port dongle, which it checks for as part of every read operation. The vendor went bust a decade before I was ever hired.

I've automated a 'backup to zip file' each time the application terminates. It's saved me more than once - it's easy to clobber the data in the thing and the users have a tendency to screw it up when trying to navigate its cryptic keystroke-driven interface.

Trying to export all the legacy data into a new tool met with incredibly frustration the couple of times we tried. It all becomes irrelevant in late 2017 and there's been a new system in place since 2007, so this abomination needs to only live on for a little while longer.
This is an odd perspective on inclusivity, but I understand where it comes from.

I would think it would be well within the mandate of the conference organisers to pick talks that reflect the material they want to see presented and the conversation they want attendees to be able to participate in. The conference is a curated collection of talks, and will necessarily reflect an active political position held by the organising committee and a passive political position shaped by systemic issues. For almost all tech conferences, even the very large ones, the politics expressed are so bland and so unfocused that no one really cares about them. Almost no tech conference has the capability to seriously address systemic issues of inclusivity.

I imagine LambdaConf's view resonantes with the audience on HackerNews, because it addresses primarily the former politics. The latter politics aren't a danger to most of the commentators here.

The inclusivity of attendance seems to be much more defensible. Even under great pressure, I can see an event being reluctant to bar attendance. I don't know that any tech conferences ask unpopular people to simply stay away (even if they promise to be on best behaviour.)
Mostly agree... I have always loved the look of Lynch's Dune... I want the look of Lynch's Dune with the story telling of the mini series... :)
The author forgot a key point: webapp allows you to reuse cookies in browser so users don't need to login again from your app.
typed

del c:\*.*

instead of what I meant

dir c:\*.*

On my bosses PC right in front of him. Fortunately someone had a copy of norton tools back then (~1987)
Shadow Of The Beast cover still looks as fresh and awesome as it did when it was release. I have no doubt, it is timeless.
Large company. It will help you get better name recognition later on.

Sorta like how everybody wants to hire Google or Facebook engineers, even though everyone else is fine.
How is not attempting to negotiate the price a decent move? If you want to negotiate and someone asks for a price that you believe is unreasonable isn't it normal to counter that offer?
"To that point, one of the more prevalent criticisms, specifically from Roger Ebert, was that the movie was ugly."

The movie is intensely influential on me, aesthetically.
>I think at that point he was referring to the initial appeal of the iphone, when th efirst one was released. there was no Android and no comparable device existent at the time.

True, but don't forget that the first iPhone was an expensive piece of nothing really, we had no app store nor sdks

>What kind of phone are you using? most things got screens so big that they don't fit into my pocket anymore.

I come from iPhone 3Gs->4->4s->5->6->6s->LG G4, I can say that it's a HUGE screen with bigger resolution than my desktop, but what i meant was the total size of the screen in physical size, i don't want no friggin popups and many windows in a 5" screen

>Rocket.chat does exactly that and it is fantastic. Other webapps as well. The key feature being that you can chat on any browser, and using for example electron (the engine based on chrome, also used by the atom editor) you can easily build apps for every platform. And if you add features, they are added everywhere at the same time without a problem

Ofcourse there are tons of good examples out there, I'm explaining my personal point of view when it comes to web browsers and doing lots of in it that that it was never intended for. I'm fine if you just rename it from web browser to "JS App Container" or whatever, but to me a web browser is just a place to browse pages
Because, when you try to use the wrong tool for the job, you don't get to blame the tool...
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> Kik sent npm a request to take down a package with their trademarked name.

I think they just asked for help in resolving the issue they made up. and used word "lawyers" few times. That's apparently is all what it takes US company to fold.
2e6/(7x365) = 782 words per day every day. That is a Huge amount of writing.
From one of Moldbug's many vocal supporters at a "Founders Fund-sponsored retreat": "It was really quite lovely. Later that day, in the jeep to the ranch house where everyone was staying, he started up with the casual racism, and everyone ignored him." (https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112)

The status quo: highly funded white people in a ranch house, obsessive dreams of white supremacy floating into the night...

(Unfortunately in the real world, very few "technologists" have any sort of progressive future vision. Most just chase money and perks, building bureaucratic tech. Politically regressive.)

> we wrote the speaker and asked for a public statement clearly stating the speaker’s views on violence.

What does "violence" mean here? We're talking about Moldbug's acts of spreading white supremacy whenever he gets a platform. Including tech conferences and good ol' boy networking.

> Social media has muddled this issue so much

"Social media"... as in this blogpost? Twitter & HN? Techies sound suspiciously like oppressive governments, blaming "social media" when it threatens actual disruptive change.

> Last year, StrangeLoop rescinded an invitation to a speaker because of the controversy that erupted (nay, exploded) when his talk was announced.

People pointed out the error, and StrangeLoop promptly fixed it. This is in keeping with previous actions, like implementing dozens of tips from a highly respected diversity consultant.

There's a reason StrangeLoop is considered way ahead of the curve. Other confs aren't willing to do what it takes to be excellent. (And anyway, StrangeLoop is more than just about a single style of programming, unlike LambdaConf.)

> Would this be the end of LambdaConf???

How many tech conferences ended so far because they give high-profile white supremacists a platform? Just look at the racially-skewed audiences.

> Feedback Highlights: Below are a few quotes from some of the amazing feedback we received:

7 in favor of giving Moldbug a platform. 1 unclear. That's all he decided to list.
On at least one OS I worked with, it was 0 bytes long because /bin/sh on an empty file returns true. (I think that was IRIX 4.x.) OTOH, that's slower than the executable from a 3 LoC do-nothing program.
This is a good primer on "neoreaction" [0]. To tell you the truth, what makes it a good primer is that it doesn't begin to describe the so-called solutions to democracy (this is where it gets weird/awful, as you see people recommending aristocracy, autocracy and monarchy, etc).

[0] http://status451.com/2016/02/25/what-is-neoreaction/
It certainly was, but that was before the 30% cut idea came along.

For the time, the web app method was not the best solution. Thankfully they moved on.
This is indeed pretty terrible. It indicates that this library was not adequately studied by security experts at the time it was abandoned.

If you're writing code with libmcrypt (for example, in PHP), strongly consider switching to OpenSSL or, if the upcoming RFC passes for 7.1, libsodium. (An RFC passed this week that will deprecate then remove libmcrypt support for PHP.)

Further reading:

* If you're typing MCRYPT into your PHP code, you're doing it wrong: https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/05/if-you-re-typing-word-mcr...

* Mcrypt deprecation/removal RFC (accepted): https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral

* Libsodium RFC (soon): https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium

* Cryptographic Right Answers: https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad

(Note: Although libmcrypt is terrible, it's worth noting that PHP's own ext/mcrypt code, mostly mcrypt_create_iv(), is actually not bad.)
I'm sympathetic with your overall point, but the fact is, I own and enjoy a lot of cool gadgets that simply couldn't exist if your words became law.

It's best to think of "unmaintainable" things as monolithic components of a larger system. You wouldn't complain about not being able to fix a light bulb, would you? Then don't complain about not being able to fix a smartphone. Your phone is just the tip of a leaf on a very large tree... and the same will be true of our cars, soon enough. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.

As for what "true engineers" would do, engineers have to take the big picture into account and design accordingly. Everything real is a compromise of some kind, and maintainability is only one factor among many that can make a product succeed or fail in the marketplace. If you design something that fails in the marketplace, it probably doesn't matter how awesome it is... or how easy it is to fix.
Well today in "tech", if you openly support a republican candidate, good luck being invited at tech events or conferences as a speaker.

That's wrong of course and I say that as a non republican. The Tech industry has become so politicized positions that used to be seen as extreme are considered "normal". I mean how can an article such as this one can be deemed acceptable on a tech blog ? : https://archive.is/elvvc

Replace white people by black people and racism, defined as broad generalizations based on the color of skin, becomes obvious. Yes the article linked is racist period.
i love happy endings :)
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Jodorowsky is an avant garde filmmaker. I suspect we would have gotten more of an interpretation than an adaptation. It still would have been interesting, but I don't think it will fill the void that a lot of people seem to have for a true Dune movie. I felt like this documentary sold it as a adaptation. Regardless, this documentary, and Jodorowsky's works are worth checking out.
This set of tool chain is typical and will work successfully, particularly for a simplistic system. For a more complex system, the tool chain could get more complicated. You could add

* A unit test framework for unit testing the software modules before integration. ie Cmocka or Ceedling

* A graphical state machine design tool. Useful for generating application code. ie MathLab's Simulink tool.

* many more.

It all depends on what industry you are working in, how much money you have and how many engineers is in your team working on the project.
Also, CMUSphinx and Julius:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php

It is amazingly easy to create speech recognition without going out to any API these days.
The context of this discussion is wanting to make the mobile browser a suitable platform for development of all apps similar to what has happened in the desktop browser. One of the reasons for this is that the web is one of the few truly open platforms. That it doesn't fit your opinions about what belongs in a web browser is not very interesting, especially since you're not giving any reason why you think some apps should not be in the browser.
How did you get that phone unlocked? How did you install Marshmallow? How did you install Cyanogenmod? How did you even find out about all this?

Seems kinda painful.
The movie was good- for the time it was rare to see many decent SCIFI movies made at all. There is no way they could capture the nuance of those books and expecting that is a recipe for frustration.

That said, Scifi did an amazing job of the books and they are well worth watching
Restore it elsewhere.
This. There's no reason the smaller bits of `unsafe` code couldn't be verified with a proof system (ala COQ). Very few systems can be completely `true` in a mathematical sense, including math itself. IMHO, this is a self-defeating argument. E.g. a form of: "math isn't provable so math sucks!".

In the long run, this viewpoint would prevent moving to a system with 5% unsafe/95% safe which could be much more readily proofed using COQ since only a handful of unsafe code needs to be analyzed – I'm assuming proofing code has exponential complexity growth. So basically give Rust 10 years and I bet someone could build a verified stdlib & compiler for Rust!
In case you're not interested in having google run your speech recognition:

CMU Sphinx:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

Julius:
http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php
> they would need to show up to court with lawyers, and this is not free.

So what's the rule there? You show up to court without lawyers and you automatically lose?
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Great news! I'll try out the new version.
It's just an opinion. It probably bothers you because you don't like what you're reading.
Came in here to say this (and also include julius), but yeah cmusphinx is awesome.
Probably unwise. "What else did he/she do?" types of questions come to mind. Probably depends heavily on where you're working, though.
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Can you not just make the plane smaller and lighter and more aerodynamic and use a larger engine? You may also be able to show that current engines can operate at higher energy levels for longer?
I think "conduct vs beliefs" is the right metaphor by which to make these sorts of decisions. After all, we talk about a 'Code of Conduct' and not a 'Code of Belief' (the latter, in my opinion, would edge too close towards totalitarianism.)

As long as Curtis stays professional and speaks only on Urbit [0] he is doing the right thing and should be allowed to speak.

[0] http://urbit.org/
I tried to do this a few years back and it was completely impossible to order anything from the Google store and have it delivered to Portugal.

Although I routinely rebuilt Android to reflash my Nook Color and even rebuilt Android x86 for the "Magalhães" school laptops on a lark, I could not beg, borrow or steal an Android device with "proper", vanilla Android for myself without resorting to shady imports and zero warranty.

So after a year of using an HTC One[1] and, later, a moderately vanilla LG 4, I quietly went back to the iPhone, got a Nexus 7 (2013) to scratch my occasional Android development itch, and haven't looked back. The ecosystem is _so_ much better, Safari on it (and my iPad) still knocks Chrome on Android out of the park from a user perspective, and I can tinker all I want on stuff like the Remix PC and the ODROID without having to put up with a lousy phone user experience.

Would I use Android? Yes, for sure - but I wouldn't _like_ it.

Would I develop for it? Sure, no problem. Did that for digital signage, even[2].

Would I develop for it _first_? Doubtful. The only serious money in it is in vertical (B2B) apps and suchlike.

Would I develop web apps for it _first_? Like... are you serious? With the market being what it is?

So although I "get" the article, I think it's not that realistic.

[1]: http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/10/20/2230
[2]: https://github.com/rcarmo/android-signage-client
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Can't you just use the Web Speech API for that?
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.htm...
Haha honestly, what is this?! I have no idea!
This one takes the cake for me: https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712760257542549505. I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft has to intervene.
I changed permission on the entire server (with hundreds of customer data) accidentally when I left out a space in the bash command by accident.

Once I realized what I had done (took me 1 sec), I got that sick feeling. I had to go to the bathroom to do #2. I know what it means to be scared sxxtless.

Sigh...
It isn't an uncommon request if you are in the position of responsibility over money or people. At the same time I have had a lot of employers ask for the form to be signed and they never actually pull your credit.

Also, you should know that an employer pulling your credit does not affect your credit score or profile to banks, credit cards etc, it is a different type of request just like car insurance. It doesn't count as a "hard pull" either which can lower your score.
That's a really good follow up article, thanks for posting it.
> We are currently deploying multiple times a day, up to 250 times a week (continuously increasing).

That is such a huge win. Time spent deploying and monitoring is wasteful; especially when you have a large application running on hundreds of machines.
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The question is what "nothing changes" means, and whether that's a desktop context or not. If he means a chip with 10x as many transistors can only keep 2x active at the same power budget, that's not a big deal. Give me a physically smaller chip in my phone, and a bigger cooler on my desktop.
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