skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Jobs has tried once, an offer which Drew Houston declined as he has told publicly on several occasions.

If it didn't make sense for him back then why should it today? If I'm not mistaken they're profitable so they're in no immediate need to be acquired.
AI isn't the product, its the enabling tech. The killer app of AI most likely won't even make that AI visible to its users. It will be under the hood.

AI is useful because it changes the economics - it either enables the removal of humans from an activity, or makes economically feasible an activity that would otherwise be unfeasible at scale due to the need for humans.
Rainy with a chance of upgrade
Or in most large cities in Poland....
with curl:

$ curl -d url=https://news.ycombinator.com/ -d json_data='{"title":"title"}' http://www.jamapi.xyz/

=>

{
"title": "Hacker News"
}

Also, the Ruby example appears to post to the wrong URL?
For an electric motorbike, I found that maintenance was much, much lower than a gasoline one. Until you have to change the battery, of course.
You just switch to big endian and it'll blow instead of suck
Two pretty good questions for that last bit are variations of 1) walk me through a project that you're really proud of, and 2) walk me through your biggest screw up and how it got solved. The first tells loads about how candidates view their role and how they approach working with others. The second often reveals when a candidate tends to own up to their responsibilities or dump them on someone else.
Economic growth as seen from a satellite
I don't see how this is a drawback. Maybe not 5 years but this stuff is still cutting edge, untested and unproven. Do you really want to use this kind of stuff in production when most of the issues haven't even been found yet let alone fixed ? No best practices, no other people mistakes to learn from ? Maybe tomorrow Microsoft decides it wasn't such a good idea and starts moving away from with (TBH they are better than most in this regard but still).
RAD own the IP completely so they can dual-license GPL and Commercial.

No non-Free commercial product or game would touch the GPL version so license revenues would continue.

RAD-tech could then be used in Free software too, gaining publicity, adoption and developer mind-share.

If innovation comes downstream in the Free version then RAD could license that from the coders for their commercial product. The good will from their initial gift of Freeing their tech may make upstream patch re-licensing on good terms.

The social benefits of dual licensing should be encouraged by a GPL tax-relief akin to charitable write-downs.
Why every British landmark would be improved by a slide
SNOWDEN – Official Trailer
I agree. It's better to just sit here and sulk. Hopefully the problem of litter will just go away.
Strongly agree on scaling Excel. Excel is deeply entrenched in corporate environments because it's the go to tool for users when IT depts can't or won't deliver what they need. Consequently there's a huge amount of Excel based end user generated solutions out there that are business critical. Looks like ThingieQuery has hit a sweet spot for power users working on Excel-as-a-DB type problems. Another outfit taking the scale up Excel approach is BlockSpring. Thingie could add a lot of value manipulating BlockSpring imported data. My own interests lie in Excel-as-calc-engine rather than DB, and I think there's a lot of value to be had in scaling up calcs by serverizing.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583268
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While I get the sarcasm in your comment, if you really are serious about you not saving, then this means you need to be even more scared about what would happen to people with no savings, in a situation as described in the article.
Same reason why Kanye West keeps talking about Kanye West even though everyone already knows about Kanye West
found this discussion, 428 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100107
Ah, yep, you're right, forgot to change the URL. Updated now. Thanks for letting me know.
Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1B TB in a gram
Dangers and benefits of the freemium model – What we learn of Parse’s shutdown?
True. Maybe (non-technical) team lunches / one-on-one lunches together before one seals the deal?
Every time I read things like that I wonder if I've just been lucky or if there is something 'special' about the US. I've spent 10+ years working at companies of all shapes and sizes in Norway and Sweden, and with the exception of one 12 month stretch (working for an American ironically enough) all my bosses have been fine-to-great, and I've never had a real clash with any co-workers. And even that terrible American boss I had wasn't "inhumane mental torture".
Time in Go: A primer
Not to mention many indexes completely recovered within a year or two of the GFC.
5 Wedding Colour Combos Never Seen Before
The main windows server 2016 page has pretty clear guidance on this[0]:

---

OSEs/Hyper-V containers

DataCenter: Unlimited

Standard: 2

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Windows Server containers

Datacenter: Unlimited

Standard: Unlimited

---

[0] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/window...
A bit breathless for my taste.

People have been trying to get rid of developers since COBOL was invented. The issue isn't that development is hard (though it is), it's that you have to translate human, squishy requirements that have unconsidered edge cases to machine considerations which have no room for ambiguity.

That's what a good developer does, and that's what machine learning/serverless architectures/4gl/COBOL can't do.
Super sonic hairdryers from Dyson
Pretty much every prize is won on Kaggle with either a random forest decision tree or neural net.

Perhaps one of us should write a classifier to see if we can predict which will be best for a problem a priori.
> you can run n Windows containers if you buy license x for the host OS

Licenses for Windows Server generally convey some rights for virtualization. https://hyperv.veeam.com/blog/virtualization-rights-windows-...
Tips on proper handling of windows in Selenium WebDriver
Best part? You have to ask me is that, software is built on a beautiful and powerful abstraction, namely turing machine, if you understand the basics, a lot of knowledge are actually transferable, from seemingly very different positions. After all every operation you do is captured by the underlying mechanism, so nothing intimidating if you are willing to dig it up.
I think you're overestimating the battery capacity loss. There is a Dutch study which concludes the following:

Based on 84 data points from the 85-kWh version of the Model S and six from 60-kWh cars, the study concludes that the Model S will retain about 94 percent of its capacity after 50,000 miles, with losses thereafter shrinking to about 1 percent per 30,000 miles.

That means that after 100,000 miles, the typical Model S is projected to retain about 92 percent of its battery capacity and range.

So what "fact" you are relying on stating the battery will have to be replaced between 3 and 6 years is probably not very factual. Other, simpler EVs, lacking the rather sophisticated battery management system of the Model S might degrade quicker - especially in warmer climates, but nowhere near as fast as you state.

Other than that, you're right in that most EVs are almost as complex as a modern ICE. They need to be checked regularly and will need repairs.
> I can do the whole thing in a couple of clicks and report a range of other problems on fixmystreet.

This bit, where parent poster talks about using existing well known council operated sites to report litter doesn't feel like sitting there and sulking.
Basically being "too normal".

I guess the lesson is to just be yourself and try not to piss anyone off.
With Finality, F.B.I. Opts Not to Share iPhone-Unlocking Method
What the hell sort of library would you crack out to do a breadth first search traversal? This is my main problem with the OP, BFS isn't some arcane complex cryptic algorithm, it's a way of moving through a data structure that becomes natural and very obvious when you think about how you can effectively traverse it for some tasks.

If I were ever to want to traverse something in a breadth first search manner, then I would just write it. It would take longer to search for another library and read how it's somehow implemented this search than it would to write it, test it, get it reviewed, and we've still avoided adding another potentially crappy dependency to our project.

It's not category error to compare this to leftpad. leftpad actually makes more sense imo, as it's a common microfunction that may be used more than once. BFS is typically far more coupled with the underlying data and is more naturally written inline.
And to get the HN post titles:

curl -d url=https://news.ycombinator.com/ -d json_data='{"title":[{"elem":".title > a","value":"text"}]}' http://www.jamapi.xyz/

This is cool :)

EDIT:

Incidentally, you don't really need to have that "index" key inside the values of an array, because in an array the order is preserved anyway. Unless I've misunderstood what it means?
SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches
SpaceX wins its first satellite launch for the US Air Force
I only see bonds, and equities specifically mentioned.
Having a magical superpower.
your son is smart. he will a go way.
Custom Deleters for C++ Smart Pointers
I think that software engineering, like accounting and lawyering, is useful in a wide variety of domains.

The most interesting/best part of software engineering for me is that you can work across problem spaces fairly easily. (Of course specialization helps in remuneration.)
FPGA-driven board is an Arduino Uno clone on steroids
This is the best video on the topic I have seen.

Many other ones I have seen often revert to using properties that don't work for ill-behaving series, like rearranging terms.
My feelings exactly. Authority/fame coupled with AI hype (in fashion again these days).

Also _not_ clarifying that we are not dealing with any sort of hard AI (which is what the layman understands by AI) is always a bad sign.

All in all just a marketing piece.
First frequency comb of time-bin entangled qubits created
> ... often bringing them to near human performance

That's quite far from the truth. You could say that they are now at the point where they are able to respond to direct, simple questions/commands.

I am not saying that we haven't seen some great advances in machine learning and language algorithms, but they are still a far cry from anything I'd call intelligent. NLP is still rather primitive (although impressive compared to where we were two decades ago), and bees are able to navigate better than self-driving cars or drones, yet I'm not sure they would or should be called intelligent.

I have no problem with using the term AI for current technology -- which is certainly cool and useful -- as long as we understand that the "I" is little more than a marketing gimmick. Otherwise people may think that these algorithms are the first step towards "true" intelligence -- i.e. that true intelligence is some version N.0 of those algorithms, that it is a complicated yet natural extension of them -- and at this point the knowledge we have to say whether this is true or not is pretty much zero.
Nemerle had quite an interesting solution to this problem back then.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/msc...
Your AC CONTRIBUTES a LOT TO THE AIR YOU BREATHE AT HOME
You mean not being able to access specific user data due to hitting the rate limits of the API? In that case, you can always cache the data (using the cache facilities of the data virtualization layer) and create a hybrid real time/cached workflow that pulls data in real time when possible and from cache for the APIs that have restrictions in place.
Tracking Daily Influencers
The main built-in assumptions in neural network are usually extremely high-level and abstract things, such as "this and this can be approximated with more or less smooth functions", or "things that are near are more likely to matter than things that are far away".

Before, using machine learning to build models from the data was in some sense a last resort, for things you couldn't get a grip on modelling by hand from your own understanding. When you could, you preferred hand-made models because they did better.

To take a concrete example, the top computer go program before Alphago, CrazyStone, still had hand-crafted patterns to prioritize which moves to explore during playouts. The author (and even more his competitors) tried to find better patterns with machine learning but they couldn't. The weights of the patterns were tuned with machine learning, but any attempt to e.g. evolve patterns with genetic algorithms just did worse.

Now, it's going the other direction, we're seeing very general models only constrained by training data beat carefully hand-crafted models in area after area. And models are becoming more similar, more generalized as well - many people have noticed that state of the art recurrent and feedforward nets increasingly look more like each other.

I disagree that it's a far cry from intelligence. I think people's ideas of intelligence are fuzzy and inconsistent, and it's far too often confused with things we associate with intelligence (from consciousness to independence and arrogance).
Scientists solve CRISPR's 'Energizer bunny' problem
It says more about you than your bosses ;)
Beats, AirBnB, and Flipboard Lifted Their Logos from the Same 1989 Design Book
Deep learning with hugo larochelle, Twitter cortex
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring engineers to improve research efficiency
Four Lasers Over Paranal – ESO
Me too. I have over 15 years of experience both as an independent contractor and employee (roughly half and half) and have only once worked an 60+ hr week. And have always had bosses/clients that valued my input and my efforts.

Dumb luck on my part? I don't know.
Post-mortem sperm donation
I did like Oberon a lot, and appreciate Oberon-2 influence on Go, but I think there is a lost opportunity in a company like Google sponsoring such a design, when it could have done so much more helping advancing the state of art for mainstream developers.

In that regard, Apple and Microsoft do so much more to help developers improve their skill sets, given the programming languages and tools that they have brought into the market.

However, I do advocate Go for the use cases where developers still make use of C for user space applications, without any real need for C's low level features.

Also do believe that Go can actually be used for systems programming, even if not all scenarios from systems programming like for example, 8 and 16 bit embedded processors, can be covered.

The language is similar enough to Oberon and Limbo for it to be possible, just needs someone to write a bare metal runtime.
Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine Takes on Deep Learning
How do you moderate a Twitter feed?

How do you have a discussion thread when each post is limited to 140 characters?
Twitter’s Artificial Intelligence Knows What’s Happening in Live Video Clips
That handwriting tho woah!
A cheap used economy car will still have the lowest cost per mile for a very long time....

When you factor purchase price into the equation gas vehicles win by a long ways since you need X years of EV economy cars on the market before you can get an X year old used EV. EV's will need to fill the same market segment as today's Chevy Aveos and Toyota Yarii (plural of Yaris?) for a decade or more before they're competitive in price at the bottom chunk of the used car market. E.g. if a 2030 Civic EV is price competitive with a 2030 Civic gasoline then it'll be 2045 or later before they're both competing for the "cheapest cost per mile." Theoretically, the EV wins that hands down because when purchase price is so small the operating cost dominates the cost per mile (less maintenance, cheaper gas). The problem with that is that with current tech you won't be able to find a 15yo EV without trashed batteries, so the hypothetical $2k 2030 gas civic vs $2k 2030 EV civic comparison goes out the window because the EV needs batteries replaced or will need them replaced soon and you can't exactly buy used batteries at the junkyard (they wear out) so you'll need to shell out big bucks for that new replacement battery, and I'd bet that whatever a new battery costs in 2045 will still buy a heck of a lot of gas and maintenince...

"But storage tech will improve and batteries will be able to withstand a bajillion cycles without replacement" Sure, but why would the OEMs put a big battery that's good to 1,000,000mi in a car when they can get away with one that's good to half that, reduce cost, weight, etc

TD;DR, EVs will be cheaper soon the same way cars will all be driving themselves next year.
The Economist, unbiased? I let my one-year subscription expire due to their patronising tone and their not-so-hidden agenda of teaching the world to accept the gift of anglo-saxon supremacy.
Regarding the "index" key, there are some JSON parsers for languages like Swift that will rearrange your JSON. By adding the index key, you'll still be able to sort after parsing.

Also, thanks, it's really cool to see people liking this :)
OK, good; I just did a quick decompile and skip through the code to see; glad you have it covered :)

It's cool to see you stuck with it; looking at your history, it really is a shame it hadn't got the attention it deserved earlier on: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=anakic
Merchant cash advances are technically not loans because you're selling future receivables. The advantage is that these transactions are not regulated like loans and importantly, are exempt from usury laws. That's why annual effective interest rates on MCAs can exceed 100%
If returns collapse then prices will too, investments are made based on expected returns, if those returns aren't available then the investments won't be made.
Great! I've been trying to get my head around Scrapy, and I have little Python experience. This seems to fit in a lot better with my skillset for the project I'm working on.
Titles and links grouped together:

curl -X POST http://www.jamapi.xyz/ -d url=http://news.ycombinator.com -d json_data='{"title": "title","paragraphs": [{ "elem": "td.title a", "value": "text", "location": "href"}]}'

Use the http URL to call www.jamapi.xyz because calling https I get an Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
First 3-D-Printed Superconducting Cavity
There are many positions at McDonalds.
Minecraft Is Now Available on the Oculus Store for Gear VR
HTTPS results in 500 Internal Server Error.

Edit: Well no, it's only some sites. E. g. https://medium.com
They have the pre-Snowden & post-Snowden behaviour to compare, the diff of these highlights what individuals now want to hide.

Chillingly, 'Grey-man'ing would require a fresh identity - if that is even possible.
Limits to Creating Artificial Biological Systems
Every applicant and receiver is different.

Point of a resume is to get an invite for an interview.

Generally speaking that you'll get/create the most value by knowing as much as possible about the job, company, staff, etc. - and if possible speaking with the hiring manager before providing a resume; it's rare that a company won't want a resume at all. By delaying handing over a resume though, you have the most opportunity to match it to their expectations.

Main key is to realize how important your first jobs are to your future success and put a lot of effort into finding the best opportunities possible.

Good luck!
I know it sucks, but as a software developer, at least in the Bay Area, you needn't suffer more than a few honest months before jumping ship if it'll make you happier to get out. Then again, I've also had the worst position of my life turn into the best by sticking it out until our team was properly laid off internally.
Steam Patched Broken Crypto in Wake of Replay, Padding Oracle Attacks
"In 2016, he was the victim of a crime, but feared calling police to his home. What was he afraid they would see?" :)

To a certain extent, we have to live our lives and damn the consequences.
QueryWidget?
As has been noted: no, you cannot 'dump all your data'. In face Facebook goes out of its way to make sure you don't know everything they know about you .. that is the point entirely.
This bomb also ended the war that was costing more civilian lives in conventional war methods (like fire bombing of Tokyo). If anything, in the context of WWII, _first_ bomb ended up actually saving lives.
You claimed (or insinuated, anyway) that the fact that feminism is more concerned with the Obama daughters than with an anonymous poor white man is a criticism of feminism.

I claim that is not a valid criticism because speaking for poor white men is not a concern of feminism except where it is obvious that patriarchy is the source of their problems.
The things that major tech companies were throwing money at in 1991 were WebTV, AI, VR and PDAs. Not - other than a few visionaries - the Internet. Come to think of it, it wasn't all that different from today.

IMHO, involvement of major corporations throwing billions at it is an anti-signal for the success of a technology. What'll really make AI take off is effective 80/20 solutions combined with novel applications to fields that people consider dead. I have no idea what those solutions or those fields are - I'd be a lot richer if I did - but I'll predict that we won't call them "intelligence" when they arise.
I don't think we can compare the Gulf wars with the all out World Wars. And none of the European countries or Japan were making any war effort, and accumulated as much if not more debt over the same period.
Silicon Valley may be a bit special or even a bit of an outlier in the way engineers are compensated and cared for (or pampered as it might seem at times) but as the saying goes: The grass is always greener on the other side.

Plenty of money to burn in one of the most expensive places in the world for many people probably means just that: A lot of money earned but nothing to show for after years of work.

Compared to that you can make a decent living as an engineer almost anywhere in the world and not blow away all your hard-earned money at the same time.

Then, there are almost certainly Silicon Valley companies where you face stress, burnout and dysfunctional management just as you would in your run-of-the-mill enterprise company that merely treats developers as fungible grunt workers.

The thing that many engineers - perhaps more so outside Silicon Valley - don't seem to get is that they don't have to put up with that kind of abrasive behaviour. That's the most important privilege that comes with this profession nowadays: You basically don't have to struggle to find a way to make a decent amount of money as much as other people do.

If your work environment is a Dilbertesque nightmare you don't have to just endure that until you retire (or drop dead due to stress, whichever happens first ...). Opportunities are a plenty, not just in Silicon Valley but almost everywhere today!
This is a fantastic idea and I'm really surprised nothing like this has existed before, it seems like such a no-brainer. Great work.
At first glance I thought this would be about the inequalities in who will control AI technology.
I would have been more interested to read that article.
For me: new hardware.

There's nothing I like more about this business, than to get code working on a new piece of gear.

It just keeps coming and coming. So fun!
TV has been doing the same thing to us for a long time, you can't turn it on for more than five minutes before you see how the other half lives and how miserable your life is in comparison.