skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite complicated really. I had been their lead developer, having worked my way up over a five year period with the company. My leaving was very cordial. I had been there a long time and they understood me wanting to grow. I started a project on the side for them almost immediately after I left because I knew they needed help.

I had a medical emergency (my tonsils swelled to the point where I could not breathe) and ended up needing surgery, so before the surgery I gave them the work that had been completed (By my estimate 80%) so they could finish the rest. They told me to get better and we would discuss how to handle the partial payment after my surgery.

While recovering, two of my former coworkers quit and took jobs at my current company. I had nothing to do with this. This is when my old company threatened to sue myself as well as them. Sigh. Our cooperate lawyer came back at them about them having no case and they soon dropped the whole thing.

I tried to pursue what I was owed, first emailing my contact and after receiving no response to a handful over several months beginning to loop in lower and lower managers I knew. I'm genuinely not sure if they had all been poisoned against me or if there was just some sort of email filter enacted, but I never heard a response from any of them.

Several years later they declared bankruptcy. I contacted their lawyer who informed me that only debts incurred within the last 6 months were perusable, and the money they owed me was not be perusable. Sigh. They are still in business now several years after the bankruptcy restructuring but on a skeleton crew. I don't believe I have any ability to pursue the money for the project now.

The whole ordeal was incredibly frustrating. It actually really saddens me as I LOVED that job and my coworkers there.
Most of the time yes. The JIT will generate machine code for almost all usual code paths after little time.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552124 and marked it off-topic.
Funny enough, using uBlock Origin, I actually can read the article.

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Assumption 1: the primary customers of increasingly expensive subscriptions from academic publishers are universities.

Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to the primary customers of the universities -- students.

Assumption 3: assumptions 1 and 2 are correct.

Question: Is there any correlation to be made between the profitability of such academic publishers with the astounding rise in university tuition in the US over the past three decades?
If you see my story which I commented on a different post in the hierarchy, it's VERY complicated.
Whoa, that's awesome. I'm familiar with that forum thread (haha) but I didn't realize there'd been a response on it from an AWS employee just in the last couple of weeks.
Guess what, StarCraft AI competitions aren't new, so your fear is misplaced.
The caveat “external to [us]” is doing a lot of work here

I think it's just sloppy discussion.

Any hard-determinist will say that every interaction is pre-determined based on a previous interaction. The compatibilist approach tries to reconcile hard-determinism with the illusion of free will in a reference frame of the individual - but I think falls apart. I think Aaronson is trying to convey this particular philosophy.

"if you knew the complete state of the universe, you could use it to calculate [either deterministically or probabilistically] everything I’d do in the future."

Fortunately for us, Godel explored this exhaustively and concluded (though did not prove) that this is not possible. See also the Munchhausen Trilemma of proofs for problems proving any epistemological inquiry.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_determinism

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

[3]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
Is capital really getting more expensive? Aren't we still seeing truckloads of cheap cash still getting shepherded into private tech companies?

It sounds to me like this investor would like to see a return to investments in profitable companies rather than aggressive investments in growth, because it was more fun for him when he had fewer competitors willing to throw money around. Is there any evidence that this trend is actually reversing as opposed to just being wishful thinking?
"Quietly" should really get added to a list of semi-clickbaity words that get excised from Hacker News titles.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:news.ycombinator.c...
DiscussHN: The Alexa rankings of Forbes and Wired after adblock detection
Forbes - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/forbes.com
Wired - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wired.com

I thought this looked interesting. Both are trending downward. Could it be because of their adblock detection scripts?

If it is, wouldn't it imply that there are similar effects to websites not allowing people with an adblocker, as there are to mistreating the "tech" person of a family or a large social group? [That is, just as the techie boycotts your products, the adblocker user will not link to your website on their social feeds, which might have allowed a non-adblock user to click]
Just to put it out there, we never said anything about warmer or fuzzier. We had no intention of having any press coverage for a few months, perhaps that was a mistake for this reason exactly.
It seems like most people in this thread are claiming that high APM and the ability to have perfect control over everything happening on the map will give the AI an advantage that will force a win.

Here is a video of one of the best current StarCraft bots losing to an D-rank (low skill) human player. The bot's APM is ~5500 while the human's is ~200. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztNYOnx_YQo

The fact is, no AI has ever beaten even an amateur player in a tournament. Even with great micro, if your play is too predictable then the human will learn it and exploit it.

I, for one, am very excited to see the development of new StarCraft AIs. And especially SC2 AIs so that it can challenge the current world champions.
I read it as more "taking the cute Reddit alien and running with it". YMMV obviously.
Regression in Agile scenario
4chan raid in 3.. 2..
They missed a hyphen. Fire-breathing-dragon-like. I agree they are similar in some ways to fire breathing dragons.
For me it is the vastly superior tooling.

* Best IDEs around. (Yes better than .net ecosystem)

* JVM monitoring (Flight Control, VisualVM)

* Performance Sampling/Profiling <1% perf cost

* actually being cross platform (yes, mono, bla)
Great, I have the same goal for my compiler. I'd love for the compiler to be able to bootstrap its own backend, and as it only compiles C that would rule out llvm.

I am not sure how far I am along in actually compiling C, if I'd had to guess I'd say around 60%. Hopefully there's not too much crazy things on the horizon.

I'm not a C programmer myself so I first implemented the switch statement in a naieve way, and then I discovered the way they actually work and spent days getting it right.

If I get to the point where I can compile trivial C programs like the benchmarks game, I'll research a move to QBE :)
What If the Future of Technology Is in Your Ear?
Should we call this f*ing framework mu or micro?
AFAIK, we've long solved this one: a song gets stuck in your head from lack of "closure"—trying to complete a pattern. You likely heard the beginning of the song, and that set off your mind trying to remember the rest, but you can't remember the ending, so it just keeps spinning on it.

The easy fix is the unintuitive one: listen to the song. Then, as soon as you've given your mind closure on the pattern, get your mind out of the rut of analyzing the pattern by listening to something else (also to completion.)

More precisely, the experience of having a song stuck in your head is strongly analogous to the experience of having been half-told a joke. You've sort of allocated a mental context buffer and it's waiting around to receive the rest of the context, so that it can then evaluate the 'punchline'. The simplest way to discard the buffer ("ruin the joke") is to just get the punchline early, without the rest of the context. If you go through a bit of music theory, you can recognize a song as a pattern of building and releasing tension. You could actually just listen to the part of a song that finally releases the tension—closes the matching parenthesis to the opening one your mind is stuck on—and that would do the trick. Listening to the whole song is just easier.
I'm not Blake, but I think you're falling victim to the typical mind fallacy.

> I'm sure you can imagine what it felt like when something really funny happened to you, right?

I can't. In fact, the entire notion of how I "felt" in the past seems like a metaphor to me.

> And you could probably also remember listening to a song you heard on the radio.

I can remember the fact that I heard a certain song on the radio. I certainly cannot hear it.

> If you cannot remember, imagine the feeling of the sun, sound and imagine the sound you might hear.

I've been to beaches and snowy mountains and absolutely could not imagine those things. I know in the abstract that a beach is warmer than a mountain, but I don't feel those memories differently—they're just textual descriptions, like what you'd read in a book.
Also, HTTP/2 doesn't support client side certificates. Developer companies didn't care others.
This is very interesting!

I just realized that when I imagine things they are rather sketchy. For example, when I imaging a beach, it is very abstract. When I try to describe what present on it, I do not use an object from the picture, I first remember what could present on the beach like a left towel and then sort-of add it to the mental image.

In school I also had troubles with drawing. I could draw regular shapes like cubes, spheres or beams, but drawing an animal was a nightmare.

A probably related thing is that I do not get why people drink. I do it occasionally for a social aspect, but I do not remember that I ever experienced being more relaxed from it or having any special fun. I just feel more and more intoxicated :(
The question concerns the quantifiers that you see in math ("there exists an even prime number", "all numbers have a unique prime factorization"), etc.

Field shows that for the theories necessary for Newtonian mathematics, we can treat those as quantifying over points in space-time, as opposed to anything distinctively mathematical. So we avoid Platonism.

It sounds like you, like most people who haven't studied philosophy of math, assume some sort of pseudo-formalist account, and therefore don't find the question very compelling. Please don't take that disparagingly (most mathematicians are in the same boat, and I'm not sure I have much of an opinion at this point, save to note that people who haven't studied philosophy tend to think the issue is obvious in a way that a lot of philosophers don't).
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Thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it. When I first started the project I was trying to find my way and, even though I didn't make the site to compete with Wikipedia, I found myself comparing the site to Wikipedia due to the similarities in output, and the differences in the way the site was constructed. I found it quite fascinating that two different software systems could create similar results. But after a while I found the comparisons restrictive. One one hand, as you say, the Newslines format doesn't deal with the kind of articles you mention. I think those kind of articles have traditionally worked fairly well on Wikipedia, but many other kinds of articles, especially news-based (although there are others e.g. medical articles) don't fit very well. Many Wikipedians don't understand that boundary. On the other hand, the format I am working on can do much more than Wikipedia, so I've generally left those comparisons behind now, and am looking forward to the next benchmark.
How would it be different? This article could be retitled "Is Scala or Node the best option for building a backend server", without any other changes, and it would cover both use cases (plus plain old html server etc).
Because Java is the new COBOL -- especially if you statically allocate everything for performance reasons. At that point, you really are left with something not unlike COBOL with separate compilation and the ability to allocate scratch counters (or other primitives) on the stack locally, but all of your main data is still copy books^H^H^H^H^H^H^H beans allocated in the DATA DIVISION.
Your use of Uber does increase value for other users. Every incremental user increases the probability that someone will need a ride at any given moment, allowing fewer drivers to profitably service an increasing geography. This means better service, on average, for the network.

Another benefit is every incremental passenger increases the utilization of the current assets, spreading fixed asset costs around to more rides.
Bullshit, a human only has 2 eyes, but a self driving car can see in all directions at once. You are just making up arbitrary rules.
The problem with reddit is trolls and harrassment (as the article points out). I gave up on reddit a while ago, as it's just ridiculous. You can't have a reasonable conversation on a controversial subject the way you can on HN without it descending into personal attacks. Generally the moderators do sweet FA about this, although it depends on the subreddit.
If you modularize/abstract different optimization passes, you could easily keep code clarity high, while still having a very clean set of code.

I've not done this a lot in C but it looks possible: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384121/creating-a-module-...
I was about to saw the same thing. That phrase must be so confusing for maga if he always pictures an interior corner instead of an exterior one.
In the Windows XP era, there was SteadyState: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SteadyState
This makes no sense.

I'm really skeptical of this "disorder." I think it mostly amounts to "semantics and variability in human abilities, not pathology."[1]

Metacognition like this is super slippery and is really easy to draw whatever conclusion you want. I've just never been able to draw even mildly realistic anything ever, this doesn't mean I have a disease.

[1] http://doc2doc.bmj.com/forums/open-clinical_psychiatry_aphan...
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But, but, salesforce is building another downtown San Francisco skyscraper! That means they're successful, right? Guys?
Ironically enough unicode takes its toll on performance. This has mostly been made up though from 3.4 onwards.
They've been rorting the system for a long time now.

I thought at first "rorting" must be a typo, but couldn't figure what was intended. Then I looked it up and found that it was exactly as intended: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rort. Seems like a useful word, although I've never heard it here in the US.
Because HTTP/2 doesn't support client side certificates. For this reason his bank's web site won't serve with HTTP/2.
The Zen of Python Illustrated
Then he should change the title.
>i keep looking for a reason to switch to python 3 and cant find one.

Unicode? Not having to deal with encoding all over the place has been well worth switch to Python 3. If performance is a a huge issue, I honestly don't know why you would stay on Python (regardless of version)

I wouldn't want to switch back to Python 2.7 is I can avoid it. There's honestly no reason not to go with 3.4 or 3.5 at this point, unless you happen to have a large Python 2 code base.
You created an account just to post this? Are you affiliated with them?
If you're using Chrome you could try this extension, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bypass/ekfnpmbmfml.... It automatically sets the referer header and clears cookies on paywalled sites like wsj and ft.
I'm not LLVM expert but usually the answer to that kind of question is aliasing...
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Java is one of the few languages that only has reference types.

All the languages that I referenced have value types in the same lineage as Algol derived languages.

This means that you can make use of the stack, global statics, structs of arrays, arrays of structs and so on.

The GC only comes into play when you make use of the heap, of course. Also the GC has a more rich API, given that besides Eiffel, the other languages are system programming languages. So you can let the GC know that certain areas aren't to be monitored or released right away (manual style).

So given that you have all the memory allocation techniques at your disposal the stress on the GC isn't as big as in Java's case.

But sadly none of those earned the hearts of the industry.

The closest you have to them are D (which deserves a better GC implementation) and the improvements coming to .NET Native via the Midori project.
That was very mind-opening write, thanks!

Could I ask if you drink alcohol? If so, do you experience an alternation in your mood like being more relaxed or having a different perspective on things?
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Yes there are issues, but what framework doesn't have them? I am too annoyed by 22 element tuple limit in context of slick and other stuff, but when you look around there are no better alternatives without major downsides. Try to find a decent framework written in functional strictly typed well scalable language and you end up with Play.
Your use encourages more drivers, which makes it more useful to other riders, and so on.

It would be very hard for another ride sharing company to get involved now because there would be no incentive to use yet another app unless the company subsidizes rides or something to entice both users and drivers.
To this day, that's how I deal with left-right. I no longer have to physically do it very often, but instead reason to myself about which hand would form an L.
Even a poorly-implemented homebrew encryption function would have been better than using a broken implementation of a common, trivially-recognizable function. It was easy for them to run this code through an SMT solver because it was easy to obtain the original source code.

It would have been smarter to bundle the ransomware with a 32-bit DOS extender so the known-good Salsa implementation could be used unchanged.
This is a great idea, could we move the top 100 viewed internet videos of they day into a daily satellite packet and take the pressure of the pipes, nice :)
I have spent a good amount of my last 6 years or so trying to be happy and helping others online to be happy. What we wanted with our mascot was something that evoked happiness.
Admittedly it's a fine line to walk between cute/happy/childish and we need to find the right mix.
Probably makes it easier to grow a nicer, more positive culture.
> Runtime speed is, as noted, going to be similar, with the winner being determined by which compiler optimizations benefit your code the most.

This could not possibly be further from the truth. Getting rid of heap allocations can speed something up by ~7x. Cache locality can speed something up by 50x. Compiler optimizations do very little compared to accessing memory in a predictable way.
agreed, practicing slow enough to get it right is the most important thing for sure. once thats in the bag, then the problem becomes getting it up to speed, and techniques you were using at the slow pace can be non-viable past certain tempos. for me, getting it up to speed involves constantly interspersing the slow flawless practice with attempts that are right on the threshold of what i can do, tempo wise.
True, there's a relevant photograph here[1]. Although I think that even those when they fall asleep or otherwise let their guard down their programming experience can get real uncomfortable real quick.

1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_of_nails#/media/File:RGS_1...
(d) You are deeply embedded in an ideology and therefore not able to deal with facts in an unbiased way. Had the results of that study been the reverse, the study would have been fantastic since it is objectively much stronger than any of the studies you cited.
Yeah, when C displaced Pascal in CS programs (mid to late 80s?), it felt like an uncomfortable step backward even then.

Why were we programming in (little more than) assembler as our main language???
Exactly. Every social aggregator with a "libertarian" moderation policy eventually turns into 4chan. Reddit admins finally acted after making the news too many times for racism and illegal porn, but it's too little too late for their toxic culture.

Some of the subs are still good, but the defaults hit rock bottom and kept on digging.
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Same here, not using an Ad blocker - just using Ghostery.
> what do publishers actually do that couldn't be done on a more open system?

Nothing positive, as far as I can tell. I firmly believe that they hold back the progress of the human race by limiting access to the bleeding edge of human knowledge - all for the sake of money. I'm glad people are attempting to force an overhaul of the system.

An excellent article on the matter: http://priceonomics.com/post/50096804256/why-is-science-behi...
>That's in the case of clear-cut predictions from theory or empirical relations. But bias generally arises in a more subtle fashion than statistics on measurements, though. Even if you have a "5-sigma result", it still needs to be interpreted, and that's where biases can rear their heads.

I agree, interpretation is the tricky thing. The difference is that in social sciences, both the result and the interpretation are suspect.
You don't have data confidentiality issues? Perhaps working for the Federal government directly is quite different than the DoD.
Apes. We're apes. Not monkeys.
I see you linked Berkely Overmind and said that its micro can't be beaten.

Don't you remember the Human VS AI matches that took place with Overmind right after the tournament that year?

Watch an amateur human tear through its mutalisks. https://youtu.be/hmXY_pkU2Wc?list=PL9F69781768E85502&t=591
most VC's will tell you anything but the truth - profits, sustainability, culture, blah blah blah, they'll make some nonsense blog posts about it, but none of that matters, as long as you grow the business through any means necessary and have a huge, profitable exit for them. and if you can't have a huge exit, well, they'll probably just take all the money back and leave you with nothing.

things like profitability and sustainability are for suckers, plebe small businesses that they won't look at until they smell an opportunity. otherwise, you might as well be the taco joint they eat lunch at. they'll say great things about you and even use your products, but they wouldn't give you more than an hour of their time.

they have the best jobs on the planet, that's for sure. i'm not saying they don't do work, they certainly do, it's just extremely favorable for them, because they have all the money. so what are you gonna say, chump? nothing.

watch out for their lawyers, too. it's hard to tell which of the two are more full of shit.