skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, gee, I don't know. The first recent thing that comes to my mind and involves ML is a package for fingerprinting software via changes in computer's power consumption. Not just that, but using it to detect malware on medical devices (which often run decades-old OSes and aren't upgradeable). Is that groundbreaking enough for you?
Context:

Special Forms in Lisp [0] by Kent Pitman (1980) is about FEXRs vs. MACRO:

> It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.

> There are those who advocate the use of FEXPR's, in the interpreter for implementing control structure because they interface better with certain kinds of debugging packages such as TRACE and single-stepping packages. Many of these people, however, will admit that calls to FEXPR's used as control structure are bound to confuse compilers and macro packages, and that it is probably a good idea, given that FEXPR's do exist, to require compatible MACRO definitions be provided by the user in any environment in which FEXPR's will be used. This would mean that a person could create a FEXPR named IF, provided he also created an IF MACRO which described its behavior; the FEXPR definition could shadow [12] the MACRO definition in the interpreter, but programs other than the interpreter could appeal to the MACRO definition for a description of the FEXPR's functionality.

[0] http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Special-Forms.html
Is this equivalent to FBI residing in your phone ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_Acts#Modern_relevan...
Nice write-up. Made a note of those requirements in case anyone asks for a project or startup idea in collaboration. ;)
Sounds like you just need the AGPL
I don't really see the appeal, if I'm honest.
There are some 3d-printable / 2d-laser-cutable examples of auxetic materials on thingiverse[1].

The creator describes two interesting mechanical properties his parts exhibit:

> synclastic bending and auxetic behavior. Synclastic materials have the fascinating ability to assume compound curvature along two (often orthogonal) directions. One can wrap a sphere easily in a synclastic material without folding it whereas attempting the same with an anticlastic material, such as paper, would require numerous folds. Auxetic behavior is found in materials with a negative Poission's ratio, which relates the deformation in one direction when the material is stressed in a perpendicular direction. When compressed in one direction, auxetic materials contract in the other, and when stretched, they expand. In other words, an auxetic nail would become narrowed as it was hammered into a board and expand in diameter when pulled out of the board.

[1] http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:289650
It is incredibly easy to see where your anecdote could go wrong. What if you had bought something much more personal or embarrassing?

Condoms? Plan B? Dildos? Lube? Imagine having to explain to a family member sitting next to you why those items are showing up in your Amazon recommendations.

I recall an example a few years ago about a store's marketing system telling a father that his teen daughter was pregnant before she ever told him. Because the store's system had correctly inferred from her previous purchases that she was pregnant and started giving recommendations for stuff like diapers.

Suppose a homosexual in the closet was buying sexually explicit things or an atheist in a religiously strict home or country was buying blasphemous materials.

Ironically, your anecdote presents much worse scenarios than the parent comment's anecdote.
Clicked through to her site, and the tagline is "True && False of two Female Developers"... True && False evaluates to False... so, lies by two female developers?

Not a criticism - I get what she meant, but it's amusing.
It's also AFAIK one of surprisingly few sources of a utf-8 aware cross-platform string class/libraries for c++.
No regular person ever renames files.
No regular person ever uses a browser that didn't come with their system.
No regular person ever properly navigates an average website without help.
Your point is?
Good article. Disconcerting that all of the comments are from men though...
SDN is changing the model here, and Google is way ahead. In an enteprise, you can use VMWare to do a lot of the stuff you are blowing big bucks on for Cisco/Juniper on and use switches with higher density.

SDN is going to turn the cost structure on its head -- I wouldn't want to be a network guy now, easily 60% of tasks are getting vaporized in the datacenter.
Because of the # of trolls here, sometimes it's hard to differentiate between sarcasm and trolling.
Very true. We're talking about something the size of a small nut that appears to have the same cognitive power as the much larger brain of a much larger mammal.

It would be interesting - not very ethical and possibly deeply creepy, but interesting - to select birds and other animals for intelligence, and see how just how far you could take a selective breeding program.
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> Hipchat is equally good and in many cases far better.

I might agree with this if you could edit sent messages. It feels extremely rigid and doesn't even have TFA.
A decade of politicians happily spreading xenophobia has finally turned against them. Do you remember the southern lazy people repeatedly tagged as 'pigs' and "partying everyday with our money?".

For an export-based economy, isolationism is an economic suicide. Germany needs disperately more migrants, and to improve its foreign image, but it would take a lot of time and courage to speak about such unpopular idea, so probably extremist parties will gather the crop. They only need to shake a little more the tree, promising to stop the disturbs, and bingo.

The only good option left to the moderate politicians to survive is probably trying to minimize the impact of migrants on public opinion and gain some time in the meanwhile. Creating a special tax for the war weapon manufacturers could help to pay the housing expenses of this people (and will reduce the delinquency associated to disperated migrants). After all, the war industry created this mess and earned a lot of money distroying actively the homes and lives of those people...
Bigger body mass means a bigger digestive system, and more ability to produce power for the brain. It's likely exactly the same as the conceptual shift from measuring raw MHz to MHz per watt.
I listened to this podcast today, might be good to find a doctor or a treatment clinic that will prescribe one of these drugs: http://www.radiolab.org/story/addiction/
Thanks! Yes, repetition is super helpful. Before starting a new project, many artists will go through a 'research' phase where they'll make quick iterations of ideas over the course of days or weeks. That's part of where the idea for the 180 Websites project came from.
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FEXPRs operate on a second-class representations of code at run-time: raw source code made of nested lists, which are selectively evaled.

Speaking of which, eval is also a first-class function; that doesn't mean it's a good idea to use all the time.
In Swift:

func myAnd(lhs: Bool,
rhs: @autoclosure () -> Bool) -> Bool
{
return lhs ? rhs() : false
}

(Heavily inspired by https://medium.com/swift-programming/facets-of-swift-part-5-.... Not tested; any bugs likely are mine)
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Is that same credit card saved in your Amazon account?
"Right, I think that covers everything important"

That would be comprehensive. As I said in a sister answer, I would expect a little tweaking of the list after criticism and feedback, but I wouldn't expect large changes to it. If Jim Shepard published a list of essential reading for literary fiction writers, I would expect it to be his best idea about what aspiring fiction writers should read to learn from. Writers who could emulate (or whatever writers do) the authors in that list would be well on their way to being good writers.

It doesn't mean he has to have read every lit fic short story or novel out there. It does mean that these works form a comprehensive display of whatever it is that makes good fiction.
Slipping down the slope of embarrassing adult toys shows a lack of understanding of how these networks work.

Again, this isn't a problem with retargeting. What if I just bought sex toys directly on Amazon and they made product recommendations for it while I was browsing at work? Or what if Facebook and Google showed me adult ads while reading Forbes.com?

That's on Amazon et al for displaying adult sex toy recommendations. Same as your nightmare scenario of where I'm a persecuted homosexual in Saudi Arabia, and Amazon makes homosexual product recommendations to me while the religious police man is looking over my shoulder.
> Without finding out "why" he/she was fired?

If management give a good reason and they have put in place measures to reduce fallout then I'll consider staying.

One question I always ask is what work are we dropping out of scope?

I'm currently working in a team of 5. We have two high performers and three average performers (I'm one of the average performers). The top performers do ~60% of the work.

If management doesn't plan on descoping 30%+ of the work for the next 3-6 months then it means an extra 10+ hours of work each week for me.

Realistically it's an extra 120-240 hours all up. I freelance at ~$100/hr so that's a cost of $12-24k.

So yeah if they have punched or sexually assaulted a colleague etc then I'll just put up with the cost.

If they make someone feel uncomfortable or are a bit condescending and you fire fast then I'm going to be looking for a new job.
Geometric forms are integral to Islamic art, because of the prohibition on depicting sentient beings.

Geometric patterns are not unique to Islamic culture, but geometry is uniquely important in Islamic art. Islamic art has been profoundly influential across Europe, the Middle East and Asia; Indeed, the English word for elaborate geometric decoration is "arabesque".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_geometric_patterns
That is 100% true. But I use IRC and have offline messages. It's IRC, so I had to cobble something together to make it happen, and the UI is ass, but... I have that within the IRC protocol.
This suggests -- and this is supported by brain mass studies -- that if the brain is not subjected to strong selection for power/efficiency/ability then you get a kind of "fatty brain" that takes up space but doesn't work that well.

You see analogs in e.g. "sclerotic" corporations with lots of employees doing nothing. My bio professor said "life doesn't work perfectly... it just works." Evolution isn't "survival of the fittest," but selection for a "surviving subset of the sufficiently fit." Economics is the same, thus the sclerotic corporation/government analogy.

Of course if evolution actually was "survival of the fittest" it would reduce to a greedy hill climbing algorithm and would converge on the first local maximum it encountered and stay stuck there forever. Tolerance for variation is a (probably provable) prerequisite for anything particularly interesting, and diversity implies inefficiency among other things.

When I was playing with alife and genetic algorithms a lot, I found that relaxing selective pressure often improved performance in terms of overall best solution generated. There's a number of papers out there that draw similar conclusions in a variety of systems. Sometimes you can get GA/GP systems that escape local maxima and find much more clever and interesting solutions by setting up a selection function that adjusts its strictness curve based on measured diversity (we jokingly called this affirmative action), or by creating an environmental topology that encourages diversity (many compartments / demes, etc.).
Possible. AWS isn't exactly quick to update their systems but since that last outage in us-east that took out Netflix I don't recall anything since that has any impact in my systems and that was over a year ago.

We use S3, EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, SNS, SES, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk, Kinesis, Lambda, Elasticache, and probably even some of the others.
What's the context? The GP probably meant that intelligence is an emergent property not directly coded in DNA.

Natural selection is not pure chance. At least seeing it that way doesn't yield anything except maybe lowered expectations. You want some expectations.

Hiding you theory behind Nature is not any less religious. Nature is pretty much synonym with living things, existence in general, and actually stems from to be born. Nature as the reason for things being born is thus kind of true by definition. The rational behind the generational evolution is the exact opposite of pure chance, though. Chance is only applicable if there are two possible outcomes. In hindsight, only one outcome was possible, so there are no chances, just facts.

The argument I am getting at is, self similarity seems to be such a common property, that it's maybe inevitable somewhere in a complex system. From there to self awareness and critical thinking is a long way to go, but what you call millions of years is a blink of an eye on a cosmological scale.

The idea of complexity includes enough variety to appear random to us, so we might agree that it's just a difficult to express concept and this is only semantic quibbling.
I think that the event will help to boost investors confidence, and hence investment in AI research. Which is great, because it means accelerated pace of innovation. It is a huge win for the AI field. AlphaGo showed that a special arrangement of neural networks with additional algorithms can deliver spectacular results. They can now try more sophisticated arrangements of neural networks, to achieve more ambitious results. I hope that we will now start to see more creative attempts at AI. The time to finally reach to general AI, will depend on the magnitude of the research effort that is put on. This kind of highly publicized events are very positive.

AlphaGo was a combination of neural networks with a tree search algorithm. I think that very interesting things could be achieved, combining neural networks with basic knowledge representation systems -symbolic AI-. These techniques are highly discredited for under-delivering in the past. But I think that it is a good moment to revisit some of these past techniques, and combine them with the more recent techniques of neural networks. It could be an interesting base to attach neural networks. And then submerge the AI on a basic simulated world. Something like minecraft, perhaps, as Microsoft announced that is going to do. I think that giving the neural networks some basic structure to depend on, can help to achieve results more easily.

In any case, I hope that high profile AI events like AlphaGo victory continue happening, to help to further increase AI research.
I would focus on incremental systems. Something like 10$ cellphone, 100$ for lighting, 1,000$ for PC, 10,000$ for AC.

Also, midrange UPS don't output square wave, I fact solar systems include a UPS for night time power. So, you could sell a ~3k, UPS system with bult in solar hookups where people can add pannels over time.
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A counterpoint: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600916/apples-code-speech...

I don't think the OP falls into the trap that the above is pointing out, but it would be easy to take this argument and accidentally make it into an argument that does.
The directors for these agencies are appointed by the President. He hand picks them, and has the ability to fire them with adequate cause, of which there is recent precedent. I am not sure how you can argue they are not controlled by the President, unless you want to try some sort of secret-blackmail theory.

However, it isn't surprising that the FBI or similar agencies are full of egocentric people who believe they hold the power in the relationship. It seems to attract these types of people, really.
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That's true, on the other hand I know several people who have greatly benefited and who weren't religious. (It seems that unless someone is strongly anti-spiritual, it could be good.)

(YMMV of course.)
They announced some healthcare products last month, though they won't use AI at first. It's safe to say that's part of their plans, however.

https://deepmind.com/health
In my case, I let the query happen and throw at the part the user isn't allowed to see, which causes the entire entity to show as an error.
anyone get it working on a macbook?

jarvis.py", line 53, in <module>
data = recordAudio()
File "jarvis2.py", line 19, in recordAudio
audio = r.listen(source)
File "/Users/user/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/speech_recognition/__init__.py", line 377, in listen
buffer = source.stream.read(source.CHUNK, exception_on_overflow = False)
TypeError: read() got an unexpected keyword argument 'exception_on_overflow'
This is why I sort of hate open source. Slack is doing a great job, their prices are right. So why is it OK to destroy that? With what is going to be not as good stuff?

I'll get down voted to hell but come on. It's cheap, it's good, so why not let the guy make a living? And for the record I don't even know who the guy is (or woman is).

I just hate the "it's cool, lets rip it off attitude". Because the ripoff is rarely better than the original.
Personally I went from IRC to Slack. As much as I like the IRC model (decentralized, open protocol) it just lacked so much that even the best client could not fix. Practically speaking, Slack is actually really good. I enjoy using it. I think the progression you are seeing is just an IRC exodus followed by people looking for an minimum viable solution, which may or may not end with Slack.
I can't really comment much since I've never had to deal with an issue anywhere close to this, but as a random thought, isn't this something his family would ideally action on?

To me it seems great that you are helping him by not allowing him to drive, etc. especially if he is a nice person, but I would think that this might be a a little off your reach.

I'm definitely not trying to discourage you but at least where I live, people take it very personal when you try to talk with them about issues/addictions they might have, so I might be biased, but as harsh as this sounds I don't think you can push him too much on this. His grief is probably (and understandably so) too much to bear.

The only thing that comes to mind is going to a psychologist/psychiatrist specialized in addictions and ask him for some advice on how to approach him.

In any case, good luck. It seems terrible to me that he has to suffer through this and it's really nice that you want to help him. Just be careful on not stepping into something you might not be prepared nor trained to deal with.
You can take a look at ours: https://github.com/hearthsim/joust
Please add a preemptible option for Container Engine! (GKE)
Licensing has nothing to do with this.
I'd venture to guess it's about the same -- CDN (for their App Stores, OS updates, etc) and storage (iCloud backups, etc). My guess is their cloud compute needs are relatively low compared to storage and content delivery.

edit: I should note that yes, as the other poster said their core business is hardware, but their core cloud needs are what I posted.
By that logic the only way to fund basic science is for independently wealthy scientists to fund their own research, since otherwise they would be accountable to someone.

I expect the problematic accountability would be accountability for results, but why would that be necessary for government funded research? Negative results are progress, not failure. Now you know something doesn't work when you didn't before.

On the other hand, if there was accountability for e.g. the research being reproducible, why would that be antithetical to science?
They describe their algorithm at length in their nature paper, "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search", D Silver at al 2016. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1...
That really depends on volume, location, and provider. For large volumes and cheaper providers (Cogent, HE.net, etc) it's been that way for 2-4 years or more. HE.net will now sell a full 10GbE port for $2600/mo, Cogent isnt too far behind. Sub $0.40/Mbit at >25Gbps volumes in major locations is doable.
Google clearly isn't trying to be a porn CDN
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Yeah because if you open source something under the right license, no abuse happens... What percentage of GPL violators has the FSF prosecuted? Or anyone else for that matter?
There is, actually. IRC has no concept of timestamps. IRC has no concept of foreign metadata, even, so shoehorning isn't even possible without looking horrible.

IRCv3 fixes all that.
If you're just starting out, and not doing this, you won't get very far, at least not very fast... if just starting out is in school, or out... It takes at least 5 years to master any skill/craft... and even then given the churn in tech, specifically with development, you have to put more in to get to a good point.

I don't do as much on my own time as I used to... but I absolutely did for the first decade of my career.
djb strikes me as the most lucid person on the planet.

His style extends to his software - he offered a bounty for a verifiable security hole in his qmail software in 1997 which still stands today. Nobody has ever found any security holes in qmail. https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
I challenge you to build enterprise grade hardware, run it hard and have a hardware failure rate of ~1% a year.
I think he meant the difference between things being complicated (possibly unnecessarily) and complex (inherently). Simple things can be complicated to the level they're hard to understand, but it doesn't mean they are complex.
Ask HN: How do I stop caring about success?
I feel that I am overly obsessed with success. Making money. Attaining prestigious degrees and working for the right companies. Having an understated Twitter bio with 200K followers.

I recognize that it is a flaw that mostly serves to make me feel needlessly inadequate, even though I know it has also done some good in my life. But it's not exactly a switch that I can turn off.
It is a big data processing system.

It is an alternative to Spark (and Spark Streaming), Storm, Hadoop MapReduce, etc.
The point isn't that eval or fexprs are good to use all over the place. It's interesting as an exercise in language design to see what is possible when they are available.

And to the fact that fexprs operate on second class data. It's still a win that they are first class objects. It means you can dynamically pick which fexpr (or applicative operator) to call on a set of arguments, which like you said, can be selectively eval'd.
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Sounds like a tricky situation. I don't have any special insight into this, but if I was the person drinking heavily I'd probably find it easier to talk about it outside the work environment, and I probably wouldn't want to talk about it if I didn't know the other person that well.

I guess what I'm saying is that it'll take a friend to help him get through it. If one of your colleagues spends time with him outside work, perhaps they can help you understand what the senior developer is going through.

The other option is to cut down on alcohol in the office, but whilst that's the simplest solution it might cause other issues.