skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up to a maximum of $200 per year. Not very exiting.

On a related note, could one create a non-profit open source company, and donate software to it and get tax write-off? Rich folk can get huge tax write off donating art works, we should be able to figure out a similar deal.

The question is how to value the contribution. Few things come to mind, most of them ugly - 1) by time spent at prevailing wage for your experience level 2) by line count 3) by some sort of proxy for market value.

Artworks for the rich have advantage in that there are fewer of them that get attentions and they are more expensive, hence a market for each one easy to establish with auctions, expert opinions, and the like.

I'm thinking we could have some kind of payback thing, where users of open source would declare how much time they saved by using the software, or how much an alternative would cost, and then we could use this as a proxy for value.

Dunno. Just a bunch of random ideas for brainstorming.
They're in different business. NIPS needs to minimise the amount of really bad papers they accept. YC needs to maximise the amount of really good companies they fund.
Since the post is from 2003 and there is a lot of background context necessary to understand significance, e.g. Guy Steele's role in Java, this might make an interesting blog post if someone knowledgeable put in the effort to write one framing the historical issues such as Java being targeted toward C++ programmers and a gigabyte being an extravagant amount of RAM at the time these decisions were made 20 years ago.
> Does gitlab support regex searches?

No, not at the moment.
Take aside legal aspects, why wouldn't any employee share their salary with their peers? All the secrecy just create noise, how could transparency be bad? I only see some incentive from the company's pov, you can position yourself somewhat better at bargaining salaries, when your employee has no access to the same data to debate, thus lowering costs a few percents. What am I missing?
The 'higher standards' are often influenced by large amounts of money coming from corporations. I would not so much think of it as a religion, then, as another means of propaganda from the overall system.
Yeah, but if you are unknown you can easily rebrand
From the article: "No computer will ever feel anything. Feeling is uncomputable. Feeling and consciousness can only happen (so far as we know) to organic, Earth-type animals—and can’t ever be produced, no matter what, by mere software on a computer."

I happen to agree, but the title is a tad misleading.
Using Oracle product in a non-Oracle VM?

Now you get the privilege to pay licensing for all the cores in your environment where you can migrate the VM to.

With such a policy, what could possibly go wrong?
Ask HN: Is it really that easy to erase someone's iphone?
This FBI vs Apple conflict seems to be about FBI's request that Apple disable the auto-erase feature on iOS devices that kicks in after X bad unlock codes are entered (I think 10).

Does this mean that you can pick up anyone's iphone and within a few minutes erase everything on it just by entering a few bad codes?
Presumably named after the redox reaction that causes iron to rust.
+1

We have been building/rebuilding our applications on top of PostgreSQL but there are still a lot of departments that buy the "Oracle is better / We need paid support" propaganda. Props to Russia for their forward thinking views.
Great news! Now it's worth to learn Rust just to keep up with this project.

Does Redox run in qemu only or also in VirtualBox? I tried it with all devices (USB, Network, etc.) disabled. Installation from ISO to /dev/sda worked fine but after reboot I got a hangup: "IDE Primary Master: Unknown Filesystem". Do I have to format the hardisk image with ZFS before installation?
Subtitles aren't synched to actor's lips. He talked about dubbed voices, not subtitles. :)
I love that chart on the second to last page. The axis are labeled "Completeness of vision" and "Ability to execute".
A couple of talks about it at Google I/O 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYZXwaP3Q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBD0VlcVS1E
For me, the strongest effect was after one particular region (they tested many), in this TMS study they were targeting 1cm^3 of the brain at a time. The effect that was most pronounced for me was a greatly enhanced sense of sound after one of the regions was targeted. I'm already an auditory thinker, I can remember dialogs, sounds, etc and re-listen to them in my mind. I don't visualize easily at all. I first noticed the effect while walking around Boston on a break from testing, and being somewhat overwhelmed by the distinctness of all of the sounds around me - the people walking and talking, the engines of the taxis, the birds, etc. Each was like a separate track that I could isolate and focus on. As I said, I already think of myself as being a strongly auditory thinker, but it was like this dial had been turned up to 11. I vividly remember driving back from the TMS lab while listening to a live performance and easily counting how many singers were in the chorus. This wasn't permanent, but very memorable.

The regions they target have fairy specific effects. While the most memorable to me dealt with sound, another memorable one made us measurably faster at responding to an emotional categorization test. In this test you have a picture of part of a face (eyes or mouth) flashed in front of you for a split second, and you have to decide which of several emotions it represents as quickly as you can.

In short, TMS can affect vastly more than just emotional blindness. But the research is still young, and it's going to take time for it to be further developed into its full potential.
If you on the high end of the pay scale, then sharing your information can hurt you. When it comes time to negotiate a raise, the company could be reluctant to give you a raise knowing that your peers will also expect a similar raise.

If you keep your salary a secret, when it comes time to ask for even more money, then the company could be more likely to offer it since it will not have repercussions across the whole team.

Selfish? Yeah, probably, but there you have it.

If you are on the low-end, then getting the salary information of others helps you. If you are on the high-end then it can hurt you (IMHO)--as salaries will tend to trend to the average if they are public info.
When you purchase your ticket, they ask for your name, date of birth and gender.
Btw, if anyone is interested in learning how to write an OS, and interested in Rust, check out https://intermezzos.github.io/. It's a "learning OS" in Rust, with a companion book. Incomplete, but a good start.
I'm pretty sure that's a nice summary.
Yep. "If you know X" is commonly used as "given X".
Why the snark? It would be trivial to add another gender option to the page, and it would make the world a slightly friendlier place to a few people. Must everything be an argument?
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Out of all the reasons I've read in the media, I really only see one legitimate (non-FUD) possible reason for Google selling Boston Dynamics: they didn't integrate into the company well. Not building the products Google envisions, and not working with Google's other robotic divisions, both seem like really glaring issues that would motivate splitting off Boston Dynamics.

Google has many divisions working on unprofitable long term research projects, so clearly that's not the reason. I don't think it's fear of humanoid AI - this doesn't seem like something the founders of Google would fear.
>People seem to be so fragile. I don't think being shown your own photos, or photos that people have tagged you in (in accordance with your privacy settings) is really a big deal. Get over it.

Have some humanity.

Whether or not it was an algo emotional trauma is real, and telling people to just get over their dead friend or their ex-girlfriend is the height of rudeness.

If Facebook wants to host all the world's personal content then it will have to address problems like these or breed a significant amount of additional human pain.
I needed zero proof to memorialise the profile of a deceased friend. Didn't even have the exact date of his death, let alone any documentation. It had been over a year, so I guess Facebook took a look at the profile activity and wall posts and decided it was a legit request.
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But the "Done" button would hide the keyboard so you can see more of the text to review it, right? It just seems user-hostile to remove system features that otherwise always appear.
Free software saves money because you don't pay per core/processor/user/whatever. With proprietary software, you have to agree to auditing by the vendor (or their representative) and they decide whether you're in compliance. Why anyone would willingly agree to such agreements is beyond me.
How many "unsafe" declarations should one expect in regions of the code that will need to deal with untrusted data (like networks, syscalls)?
I'm curious. Would you explain why we are at 3-4? and using that scale how much more we need for a commercially available autonomous car, and why?
They should get facebook.rip.
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Needs:

1) A currency field to make this globally applicable.

2) Clarification text that salaries are gross, not net.

3) Ability to select some base benefits: health, eye, dental, travel costs, etc
I get the feeling that UX/UI designers are doing this stuff to stand out from each other. No point in using the existing stuff that already works if it doesn't have your name on it right?
So it's even more far-fetched than a "Moonshoot" project? Will Google even get to keep the technology it created so far, or will it all be sold as IP and they won't be able to re-use any of it for other projects?
They have to have this feature enabled. It will tell you "x tries remaining" after entering a bad PIN. You'd have to be a real asshole to do this though.
Why do companies choose Oracle nowadays? I mean valid technical reasons, not being clueless or stuck in the abusive relationship of vendor lock-in.
Wow I'm surprised that many of the comments here are negative.

Despite what you may feel, animation and UI/UX are extremely important, and the suggestions in the article are not the "overdoing" that many of the comments here are complaining about.

Motion is a great tool to hide latency, give some spacial awareness, and can be an additional tool to give quick feedback on an action.

I've personally found its one of the major reasons the "average" person chooses software.

Edit: per my last line, "its" is referring to UI/UX design in general.
To me this closer to Kevin Bollaert / revenge porn than Snowden.
The mention of groups of robots learning together by exposing themselves to the real world and sharing lessons is very interesting to consider. I wonder if this is inspired by ants searching for food and leaving scent trails. Are there success stories of this approach in robotics already?
To show the same consideration you do to others thoughts and opinions: screw you.

We who have lost someone close are trying to get over it. The point was that Facebook's algorithm to choose what users should see isn't helping.
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Anything can be virtualized on general computers.
What I'd like to know is, would a sum like that be handed to someone who wasn't a celebrity? Seems a little plutocratic to me.

[edit] Another comment here splits the judgement into $50m economic harm and $65m emotional distress. I'm not arguing against the first figure, obviously a celebrity has more money and earning potential that is capable of being harmed. But I don't think they're capable of being distressed any more than the next person.
>What brain region did they stimulate?

During the experiment the sequence of regions was switched up between us, I'm not sure we even all had the exact same set of regions tested. They tested many regions, from the frontal cortex to the motor cortex.

>And what kind of TMS parameters？It must have been repetitive TMS, at what frequency？

They were targeting a 1cm^3 portion of the brain with something like 2 pulses per second. I'm not sure what the frequency of the magnetic field in the pulses was, I think fairly high.
Except that, in practice, rental fleet cars are typically only kept until they have fairly modest mileage and then sold off.
It could be that the standard for moonshots changed with the formation of Alphabet. That's the impression I got from yesterday's press coverage.
More like a first look outside Tesla's gigafactory. With one or two photos of a generic shelf of boxes inside.
I'm not a native developer but are there power considerations for these animations? If you're using what the OS gives you then I imagine it's been highly optimized. If not you're creating your own animations which require the device to work harder to achieve 60 FPS.
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Obviously. People who think general purpose self driving cars are just a few years out ignore the basic tenant of engineering: the last 10% is 90% of the work.

And with stuff like supersonic planes or Mars travel, the last 10% may take an indefinite amount of time.
How do you get the money out of your limited company without paying the higher rate? The only option is dissolving the company and claiming entrepreneurs relief, but then you are back to FTE or umbrella (or phoenix). Also my understanding of investing company profits was that you are taxed twice on profits, and it could change your company status if you want to claim ER in future.
Secrecy is key. In any conceivable circumstance, where one branch of government operates in total secrecy from the other two, the spirit, at least, if not (but most likely) the letter of the Constitution and its explicit power checks have been violated. When one starts writing and interpreting its own laws in secret from the other two, well... I don't see how it amounts to anything less than a (non-violent?) coup, where one branch has gone completely rogue.

But as time and again, no heads will roll, no one will go to prison for making the Free World significantly less free. And I'm pretty sure domestic surveillance now is significantly more advanced than it was back when this letter was written.

Is there anything left to hold on to?

Edit: I should stop reading. I'm starting to believe that ignorance is indeed bliss.
> If a password is entered, a simple ‘nod’ animation can be
introduced upon completion. Whereas a horizontal shake can be used when denying a password.

The NeXT used to do that on the login screen. It got huge applause at the premiere I saw in 1988.

> Any way you can avoid showing a loading status will make your app appear much faster.

The animation is now the loading status. The animation isn't making the user think the app is faster, it's just taking the place of a different animation that would show the asset is loading.

I do appreciate showing that loading status so I don't have to try to figure out what my phone is doing by looking for the spinner at the status line at the top of the screen, but don't change the size of the button and distract me from the content.
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I don't get why it's always human vs AI. Many humans will merge with AI. At least in the short term, hybrids will outcompete both pure human and pure AI.
The biggest problem here is that you don't specify whether "Stock Value/Bonus" is annual. It should be. Otherwise you're going to get all sorts of inconsistent results.

Signing bonus shouldn't be as prominent as it is. A lot of companies don't do it, and it doesn't factor into compensation past the first year.

How about an "Other Bonus" field? A lot of people at my company get paid on-call compensation. It ends up being pretty significant, but absent a field for it, I'd have to either include it in salary or annual bonus, neither of which quite feels right.

Oh, and some basic demographics fields that you should add that would help a lot include age and highest degree awarded (and in what field).
It's not actually that bad.

First, even in your version, the "feel goods" (high salaries) and the "complainers" (low salaries) would cancel each other out, and (assuming equal numbers of them) will give us a usable median value.

But in the real world is more complicated than "self-selection" in the basic mode you describe.

Who might "feel good" and who might feel "justified in complaining" will not be so much based on the salary, but more on the person and their personality (which we can assume are evenly distributed among salaries).

In other words, it won't only be actually great salaries that are reported from people "feeling good", nor only low salaries reported from people "justified in complaining". And then you'll also have people that regardless if they consider their salary high or low, they want transparency etc, and report their salaries.

The end median result, given enough samples, would be a useful, if not 100% accurate, representation of the situation.
The language changes that happened in PHP 7 are, with maybe two exceptions (func_get_args and foreach details) not related to performance. So if you're comparing performance (and not language support), there is nothing wrong with comparing a Peachpie PHP5 implementation to a Zend PHP7 implementation. The Zend implementation does not derive any significant benefit from being PHP7 compliant (as far as performance is concerned).
What with all the people stroking their smartphones you'd think they are in a very intimate relationship already. I'll bet your average smartphone gets more attention than the average significant other.
Animated short created within Unity game engine
And there's your answer. The average HN user and the average person are very far apart.

I personally love animation as part of good design, but I know plenty of people that don't care. Even non-tech people I know say things like 'I don't care how it looks, I just want it to work'. Which is a ridiculous sentiment, not because things need to be aesthetically pleasing to work well, but because aesthetically pleasing designs and good usability lead to you wanting to use an app more. It's not just vanity, it actually makes a difference to how you interact with software.
401(k) matching details would be nice. My job has 50% match, no limit, so that's another free $9K per year on top of my salary, which is quite significant.

The best way to represent this field would be "How much does the company contribute per year if you max out your contribution?" And maybe also a field for number of years to vest. Fortunately my company is 0 for that.
That's awesome, I agree with you that it's a huge problem. I do hope you're validating the points you're so confident about.
I didn't tell anyone to get over their dead friend.

I said to get over being so over-fragile that they're upset at being shown a photo of the friend when you visit a website that is literally designed for photos of you and your friends.

If being shown a photo of a friend who died is emotional 'trauma', then I'm not sure how you cope with day-to-day life and I recommend you stay in bed where it is safe.
and = an ?

Should the bbc title not be "Facebook is a growing an unstoppable digital graveyard" ?

Not being pedantic but not sure if that typo is intentional.
Salary.com, glassdoor and other resources are not random but they are useful.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the Model 3 unveiling is just an image

Forget your "/s"? They're going to have a running Model 3 at the announcement.
"Asking whether a computer can think is the same if asking a submarine can swim"
So presumably the phone the FBI wants to unlock, the terrorist in fact had this feature enabled.
My country can no more compel me to kill people than that it can compel me to write software.
My company had a similar spreadsheet internally that was self-selected and it was incredibly useful. I found that I had come in at the low range for my pay band and got a $10K raise in the next annual salary review.

It's anonymous. I'm not sure why you think it'd be so susceptible to bragging or complaining. A lot of people, me included, are data nerds, and will contribute to the dataset regardless of our personal situation simply because we want the data to be as accurate as possible.
Warning: I have no idea about systems programming.

I understand that the amount of lines of driver code comes from the variety of devices. But still, it looks completely unbalanced, when compared to the kernel code itself. So I have some questions here:

1) Shouldn't there be common interfaces / abstractions for most of the devices?
2) If they exist, could they be improved somehow?
3) A bit unrelated, but how fun / interesting is it to develop driver code?
No, not sure where you got your wires crossed but you can have either;

Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard

or

Facebook is growing an unstoppable digital graveyard

but not

Facebook is a growing an unstoppable digital graveyard
There are MILLIONS of forms like that all over the internet.

Is that really the first criticism that comes to mind when discussing this very specific endeavor?

Heck, I'm a male, but often put female in forms, just to not give marketeers my info...
The name is quite clever, actually.
sound a lot like redo x
nobody likes to redo things .. or x'es

would you ever redo your x
On the other hand, a recently discovered glitch in iOS 9 that lets you disable system animations has been very popular: https://m.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/49capx/tutorial_di...

It just makes everything feel a bit faster.
IMO, Boston Dynamics is working on hard problems that have small mid term value. If your options is 100 billion in R&D or use wheels, the obvious choice 98% of the time is to use wheels.

Wheels are quiet, low matence, lower energy, well understood etc. Stairs seem like a big deal but roomba demonstrates if there cheap you can just have another robot upstairs.
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Doesn't that exist with something like FreeRTOS?
> The point was that Facebook's algorithm to choose what users should see isn't helping.

The algorithm is showing you your photos. What did you expect when you went to Facebook?

I mean what are you really after? Do you think Facebook should employ a person to read your fragile mind and protect you from your own photos?
> "In order to make AI work in the real world and handle all the diversity and complexity of realistic environments, we will need to think about how to get robots to learn continuously and for a long time, perhaps in cooperation with other robots," said Levine.

SkyNet is coming.
A celebreity's sex tape is going to get much wider viewing than some random person's. Your typical person wouldn't be walking down the street and have everyone recognize them and think of their sex tape even if it was on the Internet.
>A Universal Basic Income is not necessarily paid to everyone, at least not directly. A UBI means a certain income level is guaranteed, if you are earning more than the guaranteed level, you may not be given anything in addition.

Well that is fucked up? They dont call it a "UNIVERSAL" basic income.

Yeah let's give a basic income to EVERYONE, EXCEPT ... that makes 0 sense. You just described wellfare really.

Universal or bust. Everyone or no-one imo. It's a universal basic income afterall. Not a conditional basic income.
There are. USB, SATA, SCSI and such share a lot of code between the drivers - but drivers are huge.