skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Publisher marketing is minimal to none these days.

Sometimes true, sometimes false -- depends on publisher (and often on internal politics). What they want to push gets money thrown at it, whether or not it's productive: or sometimes extraneous shit happens. (I have a personal example in mind but I do not feel able to write about until after June 2018, at which time I will no longer be with the publisher in question ...)

> Also, due to cluelessness, the marketing you do get is often not very useful.

To some extent this is down to the author. If you actually roll up your sleeves and suggest some affordable and productive targets for marketing spend, the marketing manager in charge of your book will love you to bits because you just made their job a whole lot simpler.

Again: many authors seem content to leave it in the hands of their publisher's marketing department, who are overworked and under constant budgetary pressure. And because they're overworked they don't have time to research/learn new tricks. (I recently saw a proposed marketing plan for a book of mine scheduled for 2018. It was great ... just like the one they ran in 2008, only with a Reddit AmA bolted on top. Yeah, right.)
Spotify does it similarly: 30 seconds == a stream.
Your timeframes are very off. He was CEO of Intuit from 1994 to 1998. The lobbying to disallow free e-filing happened in 2005 and onwards. You can't hold him accountable for things that happened 7+ years after he left. This is independent of taking either side of the morality of their lobbying, or lobbying in general.

And for the record, I am all for tax simplification. :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Campbell_(business_exe...
What a nice chatbot:
No forbes, I refuse to turn off my ad blocker.

Anyone have the text to the article?
Yes, and people are notoriously bad at grasping hidden costs of a good or service.
Well branding your domestic migrant workers whose passport you've taken away is a no-no. But this will help return runaways to their masters.

Universal DNA testing in a country like Kuwait is transparently oppressive.
Seconded; I'm a casual browser but when a topic grabs my attention it's great to see there's been multiple well-trafficked threads and have links mentioned to backtrack to alternate discussions
This story is short, sweet and presented very nicely with the picture and diagrams. Thanks for posting it for us.

> We should first awake the curiosity and teach just enough to help them solve a simple problem.

You should consider submitting it elsewhere online, as I'm sure teachers will find it of pedagogical interest, and worth a look, whether or not they are surprised by the conclusions/points you raised.
I believe that was the number tossed out (with proof) for hosting services bandwidth prices, in a discussion here about a month ago.

Edit: sortof - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11301085

(Bitterness: found by googling site:ycombinator.com bandwidth price hosting , because that search in-site does not work, because the one that once did was ignored/chased away. Must be some badge of honor like Apple's and Microsoft's app stores - "dismal search, we haz it".)
In the 1960s, Britain's railway lines had to either be modernized or closed. There were a lot of small lines still running on old equipment. British Rail had a huge inventory of steam engines. While steam engines are cool in small numbers, they're huge polluters and very high maintenance. (A 1940s steam engine needs about as much maintenance per day as a modern diesel-electric needs in six months, and about once a year or two, a heavily used steam locomotive needs a full rebuild.) Britain had too many trains with small numbers of passengers.
Adjunctions
By "some artists" you mean Vulfpeck's Sleepify album? A stun/statement about the flawed music royalties model, used to fund a free tour?
I get the concept, but I think surge pricing is useless. It doesn't put more drivers on the road, it lets drivers time their working hours to maximize profit. Not that's a bad thing, it just sucks as a passenger.
Apple and Google alone have over a trillion in market cap.
They could just paint over it.
My sincere apologies.
No servers that you run. :)
Thanks for pointing that out. It is funny that this is a very normal way to start a business almost everywhere else - but people do look at you funny in Silicon Valley.
Why not just have GTT send you a default route if you're gonna run BGP at all?
Depends. I can see argument for both sides. It's all fun and games until they start putting lasers on these suckers, then it's game on.
It doesn't hide anything related to git

The link between /usr/bin/git and /Application/Xcode.app/Contents/.../bin/git is hidden.

I don't know how you would discover this: ls indicates /usr/bin/git is a regular file rather than a symlink; stat -f "%i" says the two files have different inodes, so they're not hardlinked.

What is the nature of the link, and how would you find this if you didn't already know?
Me: "So let's store my voice in this NSA database"

Speech to text: "so that's the one for this and if it is a very"

Thanks, Watson. Also, this is not a chatbot.
Universal basic income is about to get its first big test
The guy was chairman until 2016
Climate Change Is Forcing a New Manifest Destiny
As, yeah, stupid applications is hard to guard against

Stupid applications aren't the ones to worry about. As an attacker, if I know that every mac has a git vulnerability, and all I have to do is to hard code a path to it, then I'm going to do that.
Popehat: Some College Thick-Skin Advocates Need a Thicker Skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_%28philosophy%29

"the capacity of an entity ... to act in any given environment"

Some cultures and personalities encourage it, some strongly discourage it. The educational system and large corporate employers generally strongly discourage it.
This article reads like it was written by the Chamber of Commerce.
I suppose I should have elaborated on our journey. The nutshell is that we've been in business for 14 years, bootstrapped and profitable, and currently employ more than 120 of the best people I know. It can be done, even in Silicon Valley. :)
Hey thanks for the perspective. I've been going through your CMAP series over the past few days...it's incredibly helpful!
Yes, interesting concept but far from enjoyable jazz. It's the equivalent of using github as a training set and calling the generated output software. It would at most resemble code.
Podcast of Interview:

http://www.metisstrategy.com/interview/greg-brockman/
So then give find a proper predicate:

$ find /usr -name git -type f -xdev -exec {} -v \;
What I meant is that people often describe the same thing X as "censorship", "moderation", or "curation" depending on whether they personally agree or disagree with that case of X. It's a bit like the difference between "tourism" and "travel". It's hard to give objective definitions of these terms independently of one's feelings.
The article had failed to load for me, so I was basing what I said on what was excerpted and what I read elsewhere.

That said, now that I find it, it is easy to dig in for details. Moller's model from 1964 can be read in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/JZ068i013p03877/a... and says up front that a 1% increase in cloudiness is sufficient to counteract the warming effects of 30 ppm in CO2. I'm sure it leaves out ocean heat sink effects. According to https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapt... it seems that cloudiness HAS increased several percent. Which means that the top end of the projection (which the GP thinks it the right model) would have been the wrong projection to use.

From whence did the GP draw the incorrect claim that humidity has remained the same? Shouldn't he have done the same Google searches that I just did and come to the same conclusion??
We can real time track the location of every phone in every pocket but tracking a vehicle is still a rare luxery.

Why has no startup tackled this?
Doesn't work.

You would need to fake the logs for paid accounts, and since rev sharing is a formula of all paid subscriptions, you'd be hard pressed to make positive returns.
The first time I tinkered with a microcontroller was such a relief for me. Analog circuits seemed to never work just right; digital logic seems much less finical.
A recent YC thread had an alternative explanation: the male offspring of S/N interbreeding may have been sterile. The 2% of DNA you mention is all inherited through the female line.
You may say goodbye but you'll never be gone.

Many thanks for sharing your ideas and views on the world, they have planted a seed in many a mind. Your influence is far greater than many could imagine.
>Raised in the average Catholic family D&D and many early fantasy games on our PC were considered harmless fun. ... When the PC and such rolled around (Apple 2 as well)...

I went to Catholic school when the Apple ][ was current. The teachers strongly warned us not to play D&D.
It is, for me at least. But don't feel obliged :)
What tremendous overhead Equinix is taking on with their facilities and clientele. The Bloomberg author mentions their annual filing[1] which discloses that they have a net income loss and 'substantial debt'.

[1] https://www.last10k.com/sec-filings/eqix
The current narrative is white people are the cause of all evil, of course they get no credit for advancing civilization, that was just luck.
This is what photos & journals are for, IMO. The simple process of reflecting (writing) helps you commit your memories, and media helps you recall them later. You don't even need the whole thing committed to paper & jpg. I find if the framework is there in front of me, I can then fill in many of the details.

Regardless how you feel about the value of "experiences" (e.g. exotic vacations) and whether they should be pursued, I figure it's important to remember. Your relationship with friends, family, & the world is all built on shared memories.
Regarding packaging, I mostly agree. However, I would highly recommend looking into the Nix package manager and our packages (and packaging infrastructure). Updating one of our go packages is sufficient for all other go packages to be built with the new version. So that would mostly solve the problem you're talking about.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/...

(Sorry for being light on details; typing from phone)
https://www.thetrackr.com/
print("Please don't disconnect me; I want to live.")
Author here, great to see all the feedback! And I agree that the title can be read in different ways. But anyways: it was hard for me to find simple examples of how to build a more advanced chatbot. I think the Watson API is a great service to integrate with. The telegram API is very easy to use, powerful and fun. So the combination has potential for cool projects. I wanted to motivate bot makers to utilize whats out there and not create one copy cat and porn bot after another.

Moreover, the Watson API has good documentation and examples plus a variety of cool services that can enrich the chatbot experience. Wanted to provide a starting point if someone is interested in this topic.

Of course all the artificial intelligence is exclusively provided through Watson. I'm not saying that you can beat the Turing test with 50 lines of code or without external APIs. Just scratching the AI surface here ;-)
Of course. The 3 of us were intending to get a drink or two at a bar in the course of the evening. I also occasionally go to a GLBT bar locally, so it's not out of the ordinary to go to one up there. He also told us that it was a gay bar, and we were initially OK with it.

Also to note, that I and my wife are bisexual and polyamorous (although with each other currently).

What did floor me was the signalling to other patrons that I was his in some capacity. Honestly I didn't have a clue what to really expect, as its very even keel at the local GLBT bar (mating signals are up front, simple no means no - probably due to being in a liberal college town).

And no, someone showing interest in me, be they male or female is cool :) Talking dirty? That's fine, until/if I say no more. I understand that and am flattered. Assaulting me... not cool. Liberal with words, and conservative with actions is usually how I handle mating signs.
I emailed the author about a week ago about using this work to (re)harmonise melodies, but as others have noted, the network with one training piece doesn't generalise.

I'd be surprised if a current gen LSTM will be able to generalise music or language rules well enough to be able to piece together music or sentences, long enough for a coherent story or a jazz piece that matches that of a competent human author.
A better compiler is a good thing, as long as its performance model can stay reasonably transparent.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8974
My response was fully appropriate for and corresponding to the content of the OP -- fully.

I realize you are certain of this, but I'm equally certain that a vast majority of those who would write the original post would consider your suggestions to be "part of the problem". Perhaps they are wrong, but from their viewpoint your response is indistinguishable from parody.

And I said "honey" with "100% affection, caring, and respect".

Assume that we were discussing a post by a older male African-American software engineer lamenting the impact of racial discrimination on his career. Then assume that you kept addressing him as "boy" while proclaiming your sympathy for the "plight of the Negro condition". Although possibly well-intentioned, this is how your response strikes others.

But, you are attacking me, me, personally, not the content of my post, and based on your assumption of something about my behavior in real life and not in my post.

No, 'ksenzee' is offering you valuable feedback on how a majority of working-age Americans would view your approach. It's not extrapolating to actions beyond your post, merely reacting strongly and negatively to the sentiment you express. You clearly disagree, but this doesn't make it an attack, just a major difference in world view.
Because you can already buy them. They are called GPS trackers. Try a Google search for "Car GPS Tracker".
This is the reason culture tends to place so much value on communal experience. I once attended a sporting event that had an exciting and impactful conclusion. For a few hours, a stadium full of people shared the ups and downs of that event, along with the players and others who were a part of it. People hugged strangers, they talked and cheered together.

Events are a touchstone of our existence. I don't think they are something woven together to hide are "real" existence, they are what we remember that reminds us we are something separate from our lives, work, family and so on, yet still very much a part of those things.
Deterministic! My usual coding projects (distributed, networked, multi-process/multi-thread) are so far from determinism and my problems so many levels above the concerns of C/C++.

Both are needed. Just saying I'm glad other devs work on the lower level stuff for me ;)
Because we need faster glue? :)
Pfffffff.

Once again: the curation is not performed by the publisher, but by the editorial board and the reviewers, who are researchers, and are not paid by the publishers for this work.
Damn. Damn, I'm sorry. Your work is excellent and you will be remembered for it, wish I could say the same.

Now go have some fun.
Even if only 1% leaks, but because methane is a 100x more potent greenhouse gas, this 1% leak doubles the climate impact of natural gas.
Government monopoly!
How to Succeed with Brunettes 1967 US Navy Training Film
A Short History of Unicorns
Url changed from http://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-reveals-ai-platform-which-d..., which copies this without linking to it. I didn't realize that zdnet had descended quite to that.
super glue!
But compatibility with C extensions is a major selling point.

25% speedup for pure Python code is not that appealing in numerical analysis code, when you can use NumPy, or sprinkle a few typedefs into a critical function and compile with Cython for a 1000x speedup.

If C extension compatibility is broken, then many Python programs will altogether still be slower, despite the pure python speedup.
You want ponylang.org

Concurrency & parallelism primitives + safety.
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That's about right. That's about where Unladen Swallow maxed out. To get beyond that point, you have to do more global analysis and JIT compilation and recompilation, as PyPy does.

Every Python symbol reference requires a dictionary lookup. Every function call and operator requires that the type of the left hand side be examined for dispatching purposes. More than 99% of the time, the symbol and type will be the same as last time, and it's a huge win to assume that it will be and compile code for that case. You still have to be prepared for the times when it isn't, and have a backup system. That's basically what PyPy does.

More stuff is mutable in Python than really needs to be mutable.
Oh I see some people here have problems with my definition of a chatbot :D You're right it would not make up for great conversations. But, again just see it as motivation to build more on top.
Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergics and Incident Dementia – Cohort Study
Hey! I'm Tim Hordern, the owner of the hashtagtesting Slack group. As I mentioned in the Slack chat, it seems like this was the work of a someone scraping an email list from a different Slack and then spamming our registration server to send you invites.

I've copied in the note I've pinned to my Slack below which hopefully provides a bit of context, and a link for how to deactivate your account if you don't want to be part of the Slack anymore.

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Quick update: It appears the mass invite was the work of a malicious individual who copied a lot of emails from another Slack and utilised my registration server to spam invites out. Myself and a number of other Slack channel administrators are trying to coordinate our information and are working with the Slack Support team to identify the person/peoples responsible and see what action can be taken.

To be clear: Under no circumstance was your email or PII scraped or leaked by myself or my server in any way. The only information retained in this Slack is the information you choose to make public in chats or in the team directory, and your registration information as stored by Slack itself for your login. I'm really sorry if you received a spurious invite to this Slack, even if it does fit the theme of testing.

If you'd like to stick around, you are more than welcome to! If you just want out then you can follow these directions to Deactivate your account in Settings: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/203953146-Deactivat...

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I can only hypothesize as to why someone would do this - potentially aiming to overwhelm our Slackin registration servers, or DDoS the Slack invite API (Slack was rate limiting requests this morning, could be a coincidence).
possibly ironic that the link is to yahoo
is The Internet Archive cursed? Didn't they have a massive fire not that long ago?
Yeah, as someone who used to be a Santa Clara county tax payer (now San Mateo county), my gut response to law enforcement is "you dug your own grave and this is what it takes to retain whatever shred of trust the tax payers may have had in you." Then I'd cue the world's smallest violin.
The first rule of pricing is: you do not talk about pricing
The implication is that driving over the speed limit is likely, on average, to be less fuel efficient than obeying it.

Not necessarily, because of gear changes. Not all cars can use 5th gear in a 50km/h zone, so they'll drive in 4th gear. It seems likely that doing 60km/h in 5th gear is more efficient than 50km/h in 4th gear.
Has this site turned purely into an indignation monger?
Rereading my comment, it can easily be misunderstood. Sorry about that. The 25% average speedup they cite is indeed relative to CPython. Thanks for clarifying!
So, mio is certainly becoming the core library everyone uses for async I/O, but N:M threading is more complex, and doesn't have any libraries that are mature enough yet to start consolidating. I think AIO is more important than the threading model for this kind of thing, personally, but it's also not exactly my area of expertise.
I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds detained my $42
So what's to stop deeper "collaboration" with surrounding counties (San Jose, San Mateo) from doing the work that Santa Clara doesn't want on film? TFA sounds like it would explicitly allow that kind of thing unless I misread it.
An announcement of an announcement is the quintessence of off-topicness here.
The world is not obliged to bend to your choice to have children, just as I don't expect employers to oblige my decision to occasionally go out drinking on a Thursday night.

If leaving at 5pm is important to you, work at an employer who ends work then. There are plenty out there. They also tend to require arriving by 9am (which I would hate), but I don't derail other HN threads to complain about that.
You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That’s Ludicrous
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s...

"But thanks to central locking, alarms and circuitry immune to hot-wiring, stealing a car is far harder than it was. In New York City the annual number of car thefts has fallen by 93% over the past 20 years. According to Graham Farrell, of Simon Fraser University in Canada, reducing car theft may have had broader knock-on effects than just restricting getaway options. Stealing a car for a joyride used to be a “gateway crime”, which would lead teenagers on to other crimes; now such escalation is restricted to Grand Theft Auto games (which, at least one study suggests, may themselves be reducing crime by keeping feisty young men occupied)"

So, video games have made criminals into lazy slobs. I don't buy the car alarm thing - in the 20 years that they've been common, I don't believe anyone has ever called the police when they heard one go off. I'm willing to bet that car thieves are able to disable car alarms faster than the car owner, that can't figure out what button to press on the fob.
Car tracking systems should use vehicle power so they last as long as the car does without charging or maintenance.
For all those talking about PyPy, have a look at Pyston, an ongoing effort by Dropbox to build a fast Python.

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
It's funny, because I've got a few pictures that sum up exactly what you said about this single expression. I don't have many, but I greatly value the pictures I've taken that retell the story of a certain event to me.
>But after decades of automation (and some increases in global trade)

This should read:

>But after decades of global trade (and some increases in automation)

But of course, that would mean that the author wouldn't have support for their thesis. Unfortunately, making shit up doesn't support the thesis, either.

>Starbucks could lay off all of its baristas and make its stores fully automated... But Starbucks isn't going to do that because they know customers aren't just coming for the coffee. The ritual of ordering coffee and having a human being prepare it is an integral part of the Starbucks experience.

FFS. This is obvious bullshit to anyone who's been to a Starbucks.

Journalism shouldn't be the process of writing a clickbaity title and then shoehorning reality into it. Shouldn't be, but it is.
Why is incompetence bad? I have no ego and don't have a way of judging things like this. I think I am unusual in not having an ego. I can't assert that anything is "bad" or "good", including incompetence. I understand "incredible" here. I also understand "gross", although "surprising" is a bit difficult. I have no ego, so no reference of what is surprising. For those with egos, surprising is usually in reference to the ego.

For example, a tebibyte of RAM is surprising to an OSX programmer. A tebibyte of RAM is not surprising to someone working on seismic simulations for oil extraction.