skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's a somewhat unnatural gesture to make. I often find I have to repeat it a couple of times until it works. Ditto for the five-finger pinch.
So, we agree that default is not an issue?

If there is any doubt here is in the words of Alan Greespan:
"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default"
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44051683

Can we agree also that inflation is not a problem at the moment?
Volvo autonomous car engineer calls Tesla’s Autopilot a ‘wannabe'
Whoa, that took me reading it after each sibling comment here and one additional time to "get it". Why does it require the repetition like that?
But it would help.

The web is full of critics who themselves couldn't hope to achieve what they call out as mediocre. All I've learned from this series of blogs is that forward slashes are bad. Criticism without showing a better alternative is so pervasive and so draining.

Teddy Roosevelt put it well:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
> 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).

I can certainly agree with that -- it's not clear at all what intelligence is -- but induction and pattern recognition (really, statistical clustering) are either not sufficient for anything which we'd reasonably call intelligence, or can be found in creatures that we'd say have negligible intelligence (insects). Again, I'm not saying the achievements aren't impressive or that they don't resemble anything we can associate with biological beings, but even most biological beings aren't intelligent.

In any event, no one claims (with any evidence) that the current "statistical induction" algorithms (inspired in part by some features of biological systems) are a simple, primitive form of "general intelligence" algorithms. They may well be, but we don't know that. So the "I" in AI is, if not a marketing gimmick, at most inspirational and aspirational. As far as we know, those algorithms are as far from human intelligence as solid-fuel rockets are from warp drives. Understanding it otherwise only leads to people conjuring up fantastical deadlines to achieving "true" intelligence. For all we know, we are as likely a century away from "true" AI as we are five years away.
I've split the project in two parts, PicoTorrent and PicoTorrentCore. PicoTorrentCore is cross-platform and builds on GCC4.8.

The linux directory contains build scripts to build on Linux, which is used for the TravisCI builds.
OneCoin+Scam+UpDate:+Chinese+authorities+investigating,+investors+arrested
Bernie Sander's America = Venezuela
Not if your Mars lander has already crashed.
Indeed. There are whole investment industries built up around property, reinsurance etc etc because they do diversify. The risks are relatively uncorrelated, so the returns are too.

Honestly, this is a PR/opinion piece designed to get coverage - and that's fine. I'll bet you good money that there are opposing views on the 20 year outlook from different investment experts though.
I work on Google Cloud Platform, and I don't see any of the things you mentioned about App Engine. If you want a larger memory footprint, I suggest you look at the Flexible Environment (formerly Managed VMs), which lets you use any size VM you like.

We also have new Cloud Platform client libraries for many languages - start at https://cloud.google.com/docs/ for Go, PHP, Java, Python, .NET, Ruby and Javascript (Node.js)

App Engine hasn't stood still. I'd encourage you to take another look.
Grace Hopper didn't invent the compiler in the sense that we understand the term now (a semantics preserving translation from a source language to a target language). What her team did, was to produce a linker, the A-0_System.

It is also wrong to say that Hopper is
"largely the reason coders no longer need to write in ones and zeros". K. Zuse's Plankalkuel [2] is from the 1940s, and the first high-level programming languages. And formalisms like the lambda calculus or mu-recursive functions are even older, Turing complete and hardly based on 0s and 1s.

It's also wrong to say without Lovelace we might not have computers, or indeed that she was the first programmer. Humans have been working on automata (that evolved into computers) by making them more powerful, e.g. the Antikythera mechanism [3]. It's also wrong to say that Lovelace was the first programmer. As far as one can see from the notes, she helped Babbage write down, and popularise his ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I just discovered this guy's channel the other day - and now I'm completely addicted! Help!
There's also the black lung that you don't quite get being a corporate coder.

I think it's very easy for people who aren't working with their hands every day to sit back and talk about the 'satisfaction' you get. You may get that if you go and do it for a day. When you're doing it every day you're destroying your back, knees, your hands end up cut and calloused, and you're exhausted. And the 'satisfaction' probably doesn't make up for the lower pay manual labour jobs typical come with.
Sorry, my age may be lower than five. I don't understand. You explain that a hash is computed over a string that is the concatenation of a server key, a random number and a client adjusted nonce. you then lost me with the four bytes. I thought that we were talking about a string of chars, not an array of bytes. The nonce is an integer value ? The client then increases the nonce value I guess. But how does the client know it has finished the work ? In the article it is said that the hash value should start with a number of 0 bits. But this occurence is random by definition of the hash. It could never occur with the nonce tested. So sorry, I still don't understand it.
It's not really about that. I have many friends from wor. Though I tend to become better friends[1] with people once I've stopped working with them... Too many work orgs expect you to be a certain way politically/philosophically and even asking questions can be seen as a sign of you're-not-one-of us, so in a way work relationships are always tainted.

But really this is just more a case of I wouldn't be comfortable talking about my deepest desires with a random person. Sure, once I get to know someone a bit, I'm fine to do that...but a random interviewer? Eugh.

[1] That said, my Russian partner would not consider them friends. Friends in her world are people you can count on for anything and how many of us can say that about our colleagues?
And there's no UI yet, right? If you plan to write one, I'd suggest Qt, since you use C++ extensively already.
I haven't even begun to read the article and I'm fascinated already. Stephen Wolfram speaking of someone who is not called "Stephen Wolfram". Woooah!

Edit: Finished reading the article, and after blocking out all self-references, I must grudgingly admit I had a good time. This was a nice quick narrative, and I appreciated the insight about the exploratory style of Ramanujam's mathematics (rather than lemma-theorem-corollary style)
You assume a constant price for gasoline, which is a bold assumption, given that the oil markets are currently gyrating wildly, and have been for some time - we're likely to see prices at the pump go up by orders of magnitude over a relatively short timescale, which will provide a big push towards EV adoption, and will drive people away from older vehicles which guzzle gas.

No, it isn't going to be overnight, but like most transitions, it's going to happen far more quickly than you think. In 1905 people thought that most people would still be using horses in a century, that cars were just too expensive and niche, that horses were good enough. Horses were obsolete within 15 years of private automobiles being a thing - by 1920 more freight was hauled and more passenger-miles were travelled by internal combustion than horse, in the US.

EVs have been around for seven years, in a "real" form, give or take, their adoption rate is similar to that of the original gasoline automobiles when compared to horses.

I give it seven more years before they're dominant.

I'm also putting my money where my mouth is, and I've been buying up nice dirt cheap houses on busy, noisy, polluted roads. They'll be nice, not so cheap houses on less busy, quiet, clean roads in fifteen years.
The main goal of the car industry (actually almost every industry, but car is one of the most expensive things people buy in their life, with the biggest impact on environment) is to make people buy new car every few years, even if the old one is perfectly fine - they want you to feel like you're missing something in life by driving the "old model". I'm probably biased, because I drive a 1998 Mercedes, but I could easily afford a brand new one, yet I can't find a reason good enough to justify this - sure, it would be nice to have the interior in perfect condition, made from better materials, but everything else is just a gimmick. My car has 200kkm on the clock and is absolutely reliable, cheap to maintain, comfortable, safe and a blast to drive. If people would choose quality cars and drive them until they fall apart, there would be 10x less cars produced each year.
I had been trying to figure out what would be causing this issue, thanks for pointing it out, I've pushed a fix real quick that will respond whether JSON is invalid or a CSS selector wasn't found on the provided URL.
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Needs a better title.
Usually an ensemble of both is the winner.

Hinton has recommended ensembling diverse solutions (for Kaggle) & including random forests.

The adage "The truth is somewhere inbetween." or wisdom-of-ensembles is profound in this domain.
Drone unlikely to have hit BA plane near Heathrow, government says
You know that open source and free (gratis) are different. Money can change hands.
Sorry about that, I posted too fast and after seeing the linux directory reformulated it.

Basically I was suggesting to more prominently mention it's Windows-only and not just in the list of features.
You kind of have to love living in London just for the sake of it. I'd want to live and work here, no matter what job I was doing.

That said the average salary isn't worth it at all, but the top end is. You can't really get 6-figures outside of London, but there's plenty of banks that pay that in London.
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Ask HN: Can I Optimise the load time of your Wordpress Site for Free?
I am in the process of launching a new service where I help Wordpress users speed up the load times of their site...

I want to get some work to add to my portfolio so am looking for people that will let me optimise their sites for free, well, in exchange for a review/testimonial..

Anyone interested in this?
Wikipedia is basically just another giant bureaucracy, study finds
Getting that close to all my coworkers would be too daunting a task.

Edit: Not to belittle your son's wisdom, of course. I totally agree.
well, you are right. I built up and worked only for one company. Why exactly do I need a bigger sample size in order to write down how I recruit, how and what I learned about interviews and what has worked for me and what has not? I am not stating that I have a solution for every situation or every company on the planet. Take it as what it is meant to be: a possibility to reflect your own interviewing behaviour and perhaps taking one or two new ideas with you :-)
> While every manager knows that diversity is important I don't believe it's as internalised as people say.

I don't think demographic diversity is a value (1), and I don't think many people treat it as a value to itself. The fact that people have to explain why it's valuable is telling. I think most of what you wrote supports the sentiment that diversity is a (purported) means to an end and not an end to itself.

For example, in many cultures, integration of diverse types of people (vaguely defined) is not valued at all. Are we interested in making sure we have proportional leadership positions for these sorts of people? Seems like we're being ethnocentric even by valuing diversity.

1) There is a lot of explanation I could go through there that would detract from my point. Please assume I'm not a bigot to save me the typing and you the reading. Though I could write it all out if people care that much.
When I did write patents the lawyers were telling us:
- Everything is patentable, it is the enforcing part that is hard (i.e. remember the computer mouse)
- Patents are only valid if you have money to enforce them.

And then I heard from some start-up about another:
- What are they offering?, they don't even have IP. Nobody is going to buy them...

I got to the conclusion that they are more than any other thing a way to demonstrate value for small companies and a tool for big companies to delay competition from new entrants. I haven't understood yet how patent offices take care of the prior art...
Since this was a Kraken benchmark, I first thought it was some thing benchmarked in the Kraken benchmark.

http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/

I should've known better...
I absolutely agree! I guess my complaint is that MS is developing all this new stuff with no regards for the installed userbase -- they are all add-ons for Windows 10 and 2016 Server, rather than standalone cross-version apps that could be deployed sooner on existing infrastructure. It's obviously easier for them, but it means "normal people" will not be able to enjoy most of these advances for a very long time.
How would you feel if you read the same piece on a microsoft site with constant interjections about how you can do amazing stuff with excel now?

Would you find the comments here 'tiresome' and make a passive aggressive comment about how irritating and uninteresting those commenters are compared to this microsoft guy?

I find the piece really fascinating, but filling an otherwise excellently written article on a really fascinating historical figure with what is blatantly product placement is frustrating, and guess what - people get to comment on it on a comment site. If you find the comments tiring, don't read them.

And note what your comment is doing - you're meta-commenting on tiresomeness, how riveting! Perhaps we can have another meta level and then... they'll be interesting? ;)

Also just to clarify - are you claiming that Wolfram doesn't self-promote? I'd suggest re-reading the piece if you don't agree.

I was thinking the same thing as the top commenter here, and was glad to see that I wasn't the only one who noticed it (I wasn't aware there was a tendency towards disdain - probably justified - for Wolfram here beforehand actually.)

Having said all that, it's a fascinating piece once you filter out that noise!
I was talking about the marginal cost of software. Of course the first copy is expensive. Of course talent is scarce. Of course time is scarce. Still, once it's done, copying it cost near nothing. If you raise that marginal cost above this natural "near zero", that creates an incentive to reinvent the wheel. Your actually scarce resource, talent, is being wasted on duplicated effort.

Proprietary software causes duplicated efforts. Not an ideal use of our resources, don't you think?

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> "getting your act together" sounds scary to someone who grew up in Communist Eastern Europe

Come on, that was a small group of people seizing power to the detriment of most everyone else. You sound like it's the only alternative to our corporate capitalism. Seriously?
This applies to almost everything. The really hard problem is recognising when the heuristics that worked in the past are now broken.
I love London, and I love my commute (15 minutes on a scooter). If the UK didn't have London, I'd move to another country. Living in London is the major draw of the UK in my eyes.

It's not easy to get a 6 figure GBP salary outside a bank or contracting (usually with a bank), but north of 50K is very doable, and there are a lot opportunities. Rent / mortgage is a low fraction of income especially when your significant other is also making a similar salary (it's about 20% for myself and GF).
Don't want to start a flamewar but... why choose OCaml over Haskell nowadays?

Want purity, elegance and best community resources? Go with Haskell. Want Functional+OOP+kitchensink? Go with Scala. Want .NET? Go with F#. Want a strict/eager Haskell? Apply for a job at Standard Chartered (they say they have an in-house strict and better optimizing Haskell compiler).

What would X be, so that you would be able to say "Want X? Go with OCaml"?
That said, humans love to copy, so if enough people see you picking up random litter, as I often do too, then they may do the same, as you said, some won't change, but if the 99% of us who don't litter just spend a tiny bit of time picking up the 1%'s trash we all get to live in a clean world! Here's hoping...
There are many occasions where the appropriate answer to a question does not accurately answer it.
it asks a question. or several. so i can learn. it was not designed to say anything. it was designed to stimulate conversation so i can learn and others can learn alongside of me.
No Problem I understand your point of view and I hope you come back later when I have proven to provide what you want.
So it's not ok to point out blatant product placement in an otherwise great article on a historic figure?

If somebody wrote a piece on Abraham Lincoln, then interjected the piece several times with discussion about their political research website product, you'd remain silent and think to yourself 'oh God HN, focusing on the wrong thing again' if anybody dared comment on it?

And how is it disingenuous? Have you read the piece? It's pretty blatant!

I consider that it took a lot of effort, and find the piece really excellent other than this stuff, but it can't just go uncommented on because some overly sensitive souls can't tolerate dissenting comments.

Personally I find these hipster-ish 'I hate the hate man' type comments disingenuous...
I guess, as a person not in the SV sphere, I don't really agree. Maybe I missed the implied SV context.
What's the process in the US to undo/invalidate a law? Is it the same as in other countries, where you'd go through the supreme court? I stated this in another post yesterday, but I firmly think laws may only be passed after a long >=5 years process and those pushing for the same law repeatedly in disguise need to be penalized or precluded from doing so. We see so many things get blocked due to popular outcry, to just be hidden inside trojan package and passed as a side note.
That's why you shouldn't keep most of your savings in cash. Non-cash assets can help you protect against inflation like this. But I do agree that if you've got a defined-benefit pension plan, your e.g. $500/mo will be doing less for you each year.
The fact that this article was first posted on Wolfram's blog should cut him some slack
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Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, once said "control your destiny, or somebody else will." Yep. Sounds about right.

Irrespective of what you ultimately decide to do, I would advise that you be upfront and candid about it, because you are not doing anything wrong. Rather than apply and hope that you slip under the radar, be firm but polite:

"After further reflection and consideration, we have decided that the best course of action for us this point is to pursue an application to YC. We are very excited about the prospect and look forward to continuing our collaboration under the YC umbrella!! :D"

Note the mandatory smiley to soften the message. I'm being facetious here, because there is no softening necessary.

You are not saying you wish to terminate your relationship with your partners, your relationship with your partners has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you apply to YC.
https://github.com/fizx/parsley/wiki looks pretty similar.

Running this sort of thing as a service/api never panned out for us because you are almost universally robots.txt denied and/or blocked.

We briefly tried, and supported a wiki of json extraction scripts at parselets.org, but it went nowhere after a few months.
> Too much focus on happening to have encountered the particular skills you ask about in the technical grilling.

I agree somewhat, but I've seen many people making mistakes, learning on the job what not to do, and making the entire team learn from their mistakes. So there definitely needs to be some technical experience at the helm of the team to make sure any technical mistakes can be corrected without undue effort.

In other words, knowledge, intelligence, understanding, and wisdom are all different things. I'm very excited to hire smart, humble people, but only if my org has some defenses against well-meaning people that are trying out some new technology for the first time. And if a good chunk of the team is smart, inexperienced people, even diligent code review doesn't really cut it.
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Apparently there may also be an aspect of gambling and/or mafia involvement in cyclocross as well: http://fittish.deadspin.com/professional-cyclist-gets-six-ye...
So what SHOULD we do with our savings? I guess the main one would be to put money on a house, as that's going to be one of the biggest costs on life, but then again that also normally entails going into debt for the amount you don't have...