skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because something has complex self-preservation behaviors does not mean that thing is displaying consciousness. Complex behaviors are witnessed in insects and microscopic organisms, yet they have nothing like a brain.

What's more, we're computer scientists. If anyone should be aware that something can seem intelligent without sentience it should be us. Who here hasn't explored chat bots or game AI mechanics? Yet these inventions are remarkably simple compared with even the most basic of evolution's creations.

Are venus fly traps sentient because they catch food in their "mouths"? Of course not. Our knee-jerk reaction to equate behavior with sentience illustrates just how bad we humans are of seeing reality without an anthropomorphic lense.

It is far more likely that human beings became unusual because of our sentience, not that animals remain base in spite of theirs.
At some point it would have been to late or to complex etc. But, an extra week would have more than doubled the time he had to work with. Pretending that's going to give anything close to an optimal solution is silly.
I wonder if you've read Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton?

Unremovable, remote controllable lethal necklaces are a central plot device in the mercenary invasion. They are put on randomly chosen civilians as "collateral" to ensure co-operation and disincentive insurgency.
Because it makes people feel bad that he takes a principled position, when many here have not.
Or just biding their time. "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
I agree, that analogy is way off base. Disregarding the fact that the way it's set up makes Portal, Braid, and Dragon Age sound like failures, which is the complete opposite of the truth, it totally ignores the different business models. Those first three games all charged "full price" up front for a full experience. On the other hand, League of Legends is free to play but charges for other stuff and CS:GO does have a purchase cost but has tons of other microtransactions. Minecraft is the outlier here. It has a strong community, but it's also a very fragmented one. There are thousands (millions?) of individual Minecraft servers and no central location which forces you to maintain a single identity.

EDIT: The analogy breaks down even more when you try to compare any of those games to a free app which attempts to monetize through advertisement.
DAP: Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Xeon Phi
As someone who's never worked with the Windows kernel, I'm curious about the tools you mention. How do I get them?
Creating a sidebar for your GitHub wiki
this was my exact thought...it would seem both feasable and reasonable to have a more active canary process i.e....

anycast "canary test in progress"

edge routers store new configs

anycast "canary test PASS"

edge routers activate new config

edge routers canary test new config (and pass or revert)

edge routers report home that all is well
Islam and the Radical West
https://system76.com/

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

(Beware of the Dell's though...their last iteration of the XPS 13 had a rough start since many of their drivers were patched for kernel 3.19 and they shipped with 14.04 (kernel 3.13) Should be more stable now, but I was right mad when I got my XPS 13 and the touchpad, keyboard, AND WiFi were all bugged out of the box.)
Are they certain Inky isn't still in there?
Spacemacs does a good job of _not_ dropping you back to emacs keybindings, though on occasion it still happens. I've not yet worked out how - my only recourse as someone who has never used Emacs without Spacemacs in Evil mode is to restart it...

The startup time compared to vim is painful, and the daemon mode on OS X appears not to work. For project work I use it heavily, but for quick edits still fall back to vim. I've yet to test whether neovim gets rid of the UI blocking that made vim so unusable for me though.
Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to assist the blind
The latter! And, even apart from the billable hours, you can lose months just to court delays.

More importantly: these aren't especially easy cases to dismiss. To first approximation: getting a case dismissed requires an argument that regardless of any evidence that might be admitted at trial, the opponent can't possibly prevail simply on legal grounds.

Here we have the case of someone who claims to have had a partnership agreement that predates Cruise's incorporation. That agreement may have been oral, or it may have been memorialized in some casual way.

It's also important to observe that it's Cruise suing here, not the person claiming an equity stake. That's because the person making that claim can wait until the least convenient possible time to file suit. The leverage they have in this case is probably just torpedoing the deal, not relief in court.
Wait, so will the "jsx" files be HTML or XAML? If written in JS, where does C# come in?
Ah, great, thanks for the explanation.
"Weaver typically charges twice her wholesale cost." If that's true, she is a selling a lot of pencils.
But you said "The views (and ad revenue) go to the reuploader instead of the original creator."

??
I've run in many issues with trying this especially after upgrades, it also makes for a bloated install.
As long as (a) your contract doesn't state that you are the sole developer and (b) any agreement you have with clients ensures NDA continuity with sub-contractors, there shouldn't be an issue.

You'll want to have (in ANY case) a General Liability and Errors and Omissions insurance policy in case your subs mess up and you don't catch it, resulting in a lawsuit. There may be other legal needs which you should discuss with a licensed attorney, of which I am not one.

You'll want to proof all the work and make sure the subs don't put identifying information in the code, and you'll want to scrub all emails to ensure that subs don't communicate with clients.

It's a well known issue since it's the only way for software development companies to grow, but you need to take the necessary precautions to protect yourself and your company.

Oh yes, and make sure your subs don't have any claim to the work they're doing for you, and that they can't use it in any other product. Your clients may get hacked if they see their custom code show up in an open source project.
110B * .05 = 5.5 Billion theoretical net profit on a year's loans.

This forgiveness costs 7.7 billion so I think they probably would notice.
Olympic Hopeful, Lauren Gibbs, Joins Activity Club
I first saw this here today - https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/You-should-install-Q... and found it very useful, especially for people using GitHub wiki pages to store documentation.
I see where you're going with this and I agree.

A significant consideration is whether owners of self driving cars will have the right to make code modifications to their vehicles.

Captured aptly here by Cory Doctrow.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/the-probl...

Edit: salient quotes from the article:

"Here’s a different way of thinking about [the trolley] problem: if you wanted to design a car that intentionally murdered its driver under certain circumstances, how would you make sure that the driver never altered its programming so that they could be assured that their property would never intentionally murder them?"

"If self-driving cars can only be safe if we are sure no one can reconfigure them without manufacturer approval, then they will never be safe."

"Your relationship to the car you ride in, but do not own, makes all the problems mentioned even harder."
Secret Rules of the Internet: a history of moderation and the future of speech
if anyone’s interested in a science fiction take, Steven Baxter’s “Manifold: Time” has a subplot involving intelligence-enhanced cephalopods. It’s one of my favorite hard sci-fi reads…
I think the damage is largely limited to the reputation of the Silicon Valley medical startup community. The biomedical community (which doesn't have much overlap with the pg definition of "startup") has been very skeptical of Theranos (and I think to a lesser extent, SV) for a long time, well before the WSJ's recent articles. The fallout from Theranos might even help Boston and RTP firm up their positions.
one of the problems with IPv6 is that it came out around the time people were interested in mobile telephony and other applications where you need to exchange small packets and IPv4 headers are wasteful enough that the last thing you need to do is bulk them up.

It is already uncomfortable to put a whole IP network stack on very small devices, so IPv6 seems like more than part of the problem than part of the solution.
Ask YC: Are there any good opensource ATSs?
Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, escapes down pipe to ocean
Nest CEO Tony Fadell Went to Google’s All-Hands Meeting to Defend Nest
Minimalist React Boilerplate
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3054330/innovation-by-design/the...

Yes it was manually driven at the instant of the accident, but this sort of thing will happen ALL THE TIME during the teething years of SDCs
I did mean hamming. I group by length as insertions and deletions are not expected. I convert to a one-hot vector so I can xor to get the differences.

Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't thought about splitting the the strings into 3 roughly equal sizes though, that would definitely help narrow the search pool. FWIW, the strings use the protein alphabet (20 values instead of 4).
(and there are a lot of smart lawyers around filing lawsuits every day knowing they're ultimately baseless but still cheaper to settle).

That seems like a rather significant "bug not a feature," of the legal system.
It looks like it refuses to comment on a certain toothbrush-mustached dictator

Edit: recognizes Stalin though http://i.imgur.com/9W6wqUd.png
The ironic thing is that everyone who complains about BuzzFeed's fluff appears to have never read an actual newspaper.

I mean, go pick up a copy of the New York Times, which is the gold standard of print journalism. It has hard news, sure, but it also comes with a lot of... fluff. Style/trend pieces! Entertainment coverage! Movie & restaurant reviews! A crossword puzzle! And other newspapers offer even more fluff. A comics page! A gossip page! A picture of a bikini model! Today's horoscope!

The thing about journalism is that fluff is always what has paid the bills. Even in the golden age of newspapering, a paper that was nothing but 100% long-form hard news wouldn't sell. Except for a tiny, tiny number, people never picked up a newspaper for the hard news; they picked it up to find out how the Mets did yesterday, or to read the funnies, or for some other bit of fluff that appeals to them. Fluff is what makes mass-market journalism economically possible. The money the fluff brings is what pays for the hard-news reporting, because that reporting has never paid for itself.

The major business mistake newspapers made in the modern era was forgetting this, and letting a key part of the fluff that sold papers -- the classified ads -- get stolen out from under them. They let themselves get sufficiently divorced from the realities of their market that they thought classifieds weren't important. But they were! They were what kept the lights on, not high-minded fantasies of being the next Woodward & Bernstein.
>some popular top investor could write a blog post shaming me and ruining my reputation for other startups. Not professional if you ask me

I think it would have been more professional to state, in neutrality, the status of the legal proceedings - rather than implicitly accuse the man of being greedy by refusing a "generous" settlement.
You need $6M to be 'wealthy' in Bay Area, Schwab study says
Obviously I don't have the full context, but I don't see the benefit of an open discussion on this legal issue. It's just going to have to work its way through the legal process.
As another example, here's a 19th-century bicycle design without a chain stay. Not necessarily a good design, but it was actually built and ridden: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BicyclePlymouth.jpg
Escaping from Saddle Points
Star Trek provides the setting for an ideal military; we are currently far from an ideal military as the best and brightest leave due to a variety of reasons. Yes, weapons research is needed because you often encounter violent species but research and exploration are above all; a thirst for knowledge is more important than profit. In general a culture (society) we seek money over knowledge. Certain individuals seek out knowledge with the goal of gaining more money. I am not saying all of us are like this but take society as a whole and a large percentage learn solely to earn more money, not for the pleasure in learning.
Command-t requires Ruby support in Vim.

It's interesting that ido-mode doesn't first create a cache, and the built-in functionality available via elisp seems to be sufficient for speedy performance.
the real test if they have a spine is if they take their talent elsewhere rather than congregating around digital water coolers. Look, most of us have been guilty of it one time or another but in the end the simple truth is, the hardest part is going after another job.
Fedora has a lot less packages then Ubuntu, enough that it makes a difference. I'm sure I could manage but it'd be very painful for my wife and kids, and I like to dog-food the systems they use.
I hate to be a naysayer because this is great work and all, but frankly, managing all these platforms is going to be a nightmare. In a traditional engine, the code for each platform is embedded at the lowest level of abstraction. That is the way it works for iOS and android at the moment, but adding new platform support via extensions will make the code harder to manage and reason about. I don't want a separate extension for OSX, Windows, and Linux. I want all the code about, say, filesystem handling to be in a single place (in neatly separated platform specific files). This applies to networking code, rendering, input, etc. I know at the bottom of the article there is hope of integrating it with the original project, but given that we are starting literally on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'm worried we will never reach this hypothetical nirvana. The original react native team needs to prioritize getting other platforms in the original codebase, and I may be mistaken, but I have not yet observed this, and so have some cause to worry.
So yeah, it's being maintained. That's why it doesn't rot.
I'm just pointing out that that's a really lame comparison. It's like asking why you would choose to go to college and get a high-paying job instead of just working at the grocery store (that might be exaggerating a bit).

No one is going to come down to a choice of defense contractor vs. Apple. They aren't even located in the same place: defense contractors have no presence in Silicon Valley that I've ever heard of. So you can't even make a choice between the two without considering a cross-country move (military stuff tends to be concentrated on the east coast), though there's a bunch in Phoenix too.

A better comparison would be defense contractor vs. working at some small generic commercial company. They can be located near each other, both are likely to have lousy pay for engineers/programmers, and neither is going to look that great on a resume (actually, depending on what you work on, the defense contractor will probably look better).
Ask HN: Ever be verbally told you got the job, then no firm offer?
How'd you handle it being told you got the job, but took awhile (or forever) to get the actual firm offer?
Fixed it, thanks.
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Thank you for mentioning this. It's as if the other user comments didn't actually read the article or go to the forum post that was linked to.

Looks like attackers managed to include this in a firmware update to launch DDoS. Amazing. Luckily the malware site is no longer working, so the users are safe. The users of the product mentioned that older versions of the firmware did not have this included.

Not sure how it happened, but to blame Amazon is ridiculous. I would look into the manufacturer a bit more to make sure it won't happen again before buying it.

To sum up. The price of the product is good. Amazon is still good. The company who made the product is now questionable. The firmware is bad.
Yes, having to put two stacks into constrained devices is certainly challenging. In the ideal world we'd either:
1. Jump ahead to a IPv6-only world and just support one stack; or
2. Increase the memory in devices to allow two stacks. (But of course with more memory comes more cost.)
My results ranged from impressive to awful. It recognized Pete Carroll with 96% accuracy from a meme picture where he struts and chews gum. Then it thought a picture of the super bowl field before the game was boats on a table.
It's "lightweight" in terms of UI, not in terms of speed or (especially) file size.

The user experience is not bloated and it stays out of your way, but it is very much not a small program. Electron-based anything is huge, on the order of ~100MB.
So that is... traditionally very inflated so you are tempted to sell it, and they will lower the price afterward once you're committed because they are not paid a percentage anyway.

Ahhh estate agents, my favourites...
FWIW, Buzzfeed chair Ken Lerer says the company isn't slashing its revenue targets this year and that it did hit its Q1 target[1]. No one seems to be denying that they missed their targets last year, though.

http://recode.net/2016/04/12/buzzfeed-revenue-advertising-20...
Without taking sides, the answer seems pretty obvious: why spend the time and money fighting for a percentage of nothing.
In cases like youtube, it does. But that does not apply to FaceBook.
I unfortunately have PTSD from my service in combat, and have previously burned out at work, before my time in the infantry. These two things are not related nor for that matter very much alike. Burnout -- at least, the burnout that I have experienced -- is manageable to some degree, but I could tell you stories about PTSD that don't sound believable.
Not that I know of.

I learned it during grad school because it was more fun than the stuff I was officially learning.

Your intuitive notion is not that different from the original infinitesmal notation.

What Wikipedia is describing is that "derivative of" is an operator. Meaning it takes functions and returns other functions. So D(x^2) = 2x. Which is not exactly the same thing as what you wanted, but it is related.

When you go on in math, you learn that there are a million ways to think about things. OK, dozens at least. As an illustration Thurston listed a bunch for derivative in http://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf. I strongly suspect that this is a real list he maintained, and he didn't jump from definition 7 to 37 without filling in 29 definitions in the middle.

But when you listen to mathematicians, the odds are that they aren't picking any way of thinking about things that you would have thought of. And maybe they DID try your way, then found it didn't work because X, Y and Z. Or maybe they did try it, but moved on and everyone has forgotten it. Figuring out which of these is true can be legitimately hard, and doesn't seem to interest most mathematicians.

But if you find a good forum, let me know. It might be fun for me to visit. :-)
First step I'd say is to import your certificate into the the debugged computer, so it doesn't warn you every time you re-upload the driver [1]. Second, use powershell remoting [2]. Pretty much all of the other steps can be established and automated with a powershell remote connection. I'm in fact surprised that microsoft hasn't updated that page to use powershell, because driver debugging is a task where it could be invaluable in helping.

[1] https://blog.jourdant.me/ps-installing-drivers-from-untruste...

[2] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819505.aspx
OK - we interpret the rules differently, then.
If he gets his 1M$ he may never ever have to work again.
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For someone who never had e-reader: how good are they to read PDFs with code? Most of my "books" are just PDFs and I've read e-readers were bad for them some time ago. Is it better now?
That's what I just said, followed with what it's focus is which you ignored.

Since you have a lot of questions and I don't really have the time to give a history lesson in science philosophy, you should read Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper if you are genuinely earnest with your inquiries to learn more.
Data shows that People marry later in counties that voted for Obama
Ohh I got a good one: "I am not really confident, but I think it's a close up of a plane with a blue umbrella."

http://imgur.com/FYucrda
The proper agency has been notified, please stand by for wish fulfillment.
Is there actually some way of formal verification of software that is driven mostly by machine learning? I imagine there's a small core of code that runs some trained models, but how are they being formally verified? How do we know there's not a blind spot in that model that turns out to be fatal under certain conditions?
Alda has been discussed previously on HN, including comparisons to other musical languages and some of the advantages / disadvantages of each:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177716

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662598
Many fortunes built on Regression to the Mean: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Regression_to_the_mean
There is always the risk of a slave revolution - I assume your friend will not get all the money and you live on the markup - Marx was right...
So in any situatation like this, where the worker will almost certainly get to know the company name, there is the inevitable risk of that person wanting it all.

That said, hiring a worker to share the work, with you on the complex stuff and he learning is amenable to various wage divisions.
Watch out for laws on workers compensation and employee tax/pension deductions etc
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Links to a couple of the initial super impressive research papers on generating captions for images from 2014 and 2015:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-picture-is-wort...
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/

As far as I know this was the first research to do the super cool thing to combine multiple neural nets trained on different data in super cool ways:

"Now, what if we replaced that first RNN and its input words with a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained to classify objects in images? Normally, the CNN’s last layer is used in a final Softmax among known classes of objects, assigning a probability that each object might be in the image. But if we remove that final layer, we can instead feed the CNN’s rich encoding of the image into a RNN designed to produce phrases. We can then train the whole system directly on images and their captions, so it maximizes the likelihood that descriptions it produces best match the training descriptions for each image."

AND

"Our alignment model is based on a novel combination of Convolutional Neural Networks over image regions, bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks over sentences, and a structured objective that aligns the two modalities through a multimodal embedding"
Thanks! Where can I read more about this?