skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a personal judgement that is independent of the actual research performed. It's only a personal ranking to answer the question "would I want to work there".

I also downgrade universities that have a hard pro copyright stance, do heavy military research etc. It's a personal ranking and not one that I'd tell anyone to follow. People should rank by their own criteria.
Implementing decision trees.
If only :(

IE10 is a non-trivial portion of our desktop traffic, not to mention Trident's hateful mobile incarnation, which still turns up from time to time.
Does anyone know the logic behind the version numbering? 4.0x's seem to have pretty major changes between them. And what's the leading zero?
IBM and Intel are two good examples of it.
AI is what works instead of humans. The next step of automation. We used to walk, then we rode horses, now we're driving cars, next cars will be driving themselves, and human command will move to higher and higher levels of abstraction.
Sounds like he has bad credit and not enough for a down payment. Why are you shouting racism?
When things go south on the ISS, you are a four hour flight away from Kazakhstan.

When things go south on Mars, you die.

Supporting the survival of six people on the ISS also costs billions of dollars a year. Even if you cut launch costs by a factor of 10, it's still going to be north of a billion dollars. Supporting the survival of a viable colony on Mars would bankrupt the world twice over.
A set of statistical methods coupled with computational power. Kind of like nanotech is really renamed material science instead of self assembling tiny robots.
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Seriously.

Distracted and reckless driving have been laws long before cell phones or laws against drinking while driving. Distracted and reckless driving already carry large fines and are much more subjective with much less burden of proof than finding a text message on a phone.
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In case of NASA, it's not only because of money though. It's because of a very rigorous process of designing and testing their software, sufficient time to follow this process, as well as writing a single product for a single customer. Of course money enables such process, but alone it is not sufficient.
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Can someone please explain me as if I was 5 years old how the proof of work is performed ?
If you feasibly want to move it, it would have to be a very large boulder. You would have to plan your redirect years in advance.

For anything a martian colony could realistically move in a shorter timescale, even if it hit Manhattan, it might kill a few thousand people.

A much smaller boulder dropped into the Martian gravity well would kill the entire colony.
Awesome. I love these open initiatives to tackle big problems all together (like the bAbI tasks for NLU).
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> How does sharing such stats imply achieving "arbitrary numbers" in any sense?

Are you really that ignorant?

> Women are equally as capable as men when it comes to tech, so we should expect equal representation.

And why are there not more women collecting trash or sweeping our streets (90% male)?

And why are there not more men teaching our children in K-12 (80% female)? Obviously men are just as capable and just as smart.
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Good point. But the argument against it is that its still on planet earth. Still within the single point of failure that the parent mentioned.
yes, clearly swimming seamlessly between what you think should exist and what actually exists and then only distinguishing between the two when you're called out is both clear communication and rhetorically effective.

Especially on the internet, where everyone has full context of your life and personal views, can see your face, listen to your intonation, and hear the comment out loud in your voice, as it was intended.

Oh wait...

It's not like leaving incoherent posts on HN is a war crime, but it makes the site less good when you do that. So maybe you shouldn't do that.
Really surprised at [2] given how robust BEAM is elsewhere. Seems it would be simple for a supervisor to be able to check sizes and kill processes over a certain size. However, actually thinking about it the hot swapping of code and supervision probably works because all the messages/ports/ets/atoms/results can sit there separately while the process can be replaced.

Thanks for the info!
We only started talking about "mobile-first" after the iPhone. Until we start to see real AI technology with similar impact, I think it's too early to talk about "AI-first" anything.
It is a practical and fast compiler implemented on top of Nanopass. A very good example of why the more IRs - the better.
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I'm guessing that's what the jews and other "untermensch" in the netherlands thought before WWII, they had records of religious beliefs of every citizen. Just imagine what a NSA database full of information can do if/when a fascist is elected. Democracy is not a protection from fascism.
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But if the patent office doesn't accept your independent claim, one of the dependent claims must become a new independent claim, right?

So it's simply for the process of getting a patent (and some cost issues with registration)? After the patent has been granted they are truly unnecessary?
Just curious but are you able to maintain focus during the meditation period? Has your focus increased with time?

Not being condescending (intentionally at least) but I also meditate and some weeks it feels like I make no progress whatsoever with my mind all over the place and others a little bit of effort to still the mind before the meditation seems to really help in improving my meditations as a whole. More the former than the latter though, but I could easily see myself falling into a habit of meditating for years by rote without progressing or improving my focus.
> The form for `use` is different in Phoenix than it is in Elixir proper – instead of passing opts, you pass an atom that selects the implementation of __using__ you want.

This isn't really true. If you check out the ExUnit, you can pass something like "use ExUnit.Case, aysnc: true" and it'll setup your module to run tests asynchronously. You can pass any atom/value combination into use.

HTTPoision.Base, and ExAws to name a few other projects also have the convention of passing options into __using__.

To me, the confusion comes from the fact that the Elixir get-started documentation doesn't say anything about this. It is however listed in the Kernel forms that "use Module" actually just translates to Module.__using__([])
Ask HN: Joining a startup as employee #5. Any tips for contract negotiations?
Tech position/CTO, Startup is VC funded, ESOP/Equity program will be available but has not yet been started, 50 to be hired.

Do you have any personal hints or links to checklists or similar about what to think of before signing a contract, avoiding to get fooled?
I had forgotten about that. But from what I remeber from reading the code other than the keymaps, there is not much similarity between the codebases
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There's a mean behavior for a large number of traits. One of those traits is tendency to blend in. Someone who blends in on every trait may be just as exceptional as someone who is well outside the typical range for a dozen of them.
My $0.02: If you don't have a lot of money, ignore patents for now, but realize that as soon as your ideas are public they are internationally unpatentable.

If you have a little money, file 1-2 key patents on your core ideas.

If you're rolling in money, hire a patent firm to chart the landscape for you in a way that doesn't expose you to willful infringement.

Note: the entire system is a steaming morass; I try to be pragmatic about it, but don't disagree with those who want to flip the table and ignore the whole mess.
But Zuckerberg doesn't decide "which social good gets funded and which one does not." Things will or will not get funded independently of Zuckerberg's decision to fund or not fund additional things. He decides where to spend his own money. Does he need a qualification for that?
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We aim to attack these inefficiencies by providing a standard framework to run, share and compare experiments. Bringing some of the best practices in software development to science and making it easy for researchers to adopt them. Also with each experiment that is performed in the platform we’re hoping to build a database to map the state of the art.

We know this is idea will make a big impact in the way science is made. This has the potential to change the meaning of peer review, and improve reproducibility and discovery, which will lead to faster iteration cycles and better science.

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How is the client expected to proceed ? Should it try a,b, ... aa, ab, ... ? Couldn't a rainbow table allow to cheat with such algorithm ?

It seam that the computation of a MAC or an encryption where the key serves as salt could prevent such cheating. But this computations are now hardcoded in the cpu which won't be the same proof of work for everybody.
I don't and neither should you.

If their lists start to contain millions of people they become useless. They drown in noize. Well, let them drown.
Any roadblocks preventing you from using the service would also be helpful to hear about.
I'm pretty sure they don't need a warrant for obtaining emails for international citizens. Also, this bill doesn't seem to protect for non-warranted snooping by NSA.
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There is a joke - a student can do anything to pass an exam - even go to the classes. It's a similar case with PVS-Studio developers - they are ready to write interesting material to market their product. eBook: http://docdro.id/UoIAdly
I love that app so much. It is nearly perfect!
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There are some mind-boggling / humbling comments on NLP and the computation of human emotions down below:

http://avc.com/2016/04/an-ai-first-world/#comment-2640180803
By the same argument, it's impossible to avoid drinking dinosaur urine, and for that matter, meat is also vegetable.

Redefine anything enough and you can win any argument.
Easier to dome a gated community on earth and pump the air out of it.
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They might not have been built by machines. Here's a video of those transformers being made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJn74Z3wHk
A serious question here: has anyone reading this been arrested, prosecuted or otherwise harassed because of email contents obtained by the NSA? I am not in favor or warrantless searches, but it feels more and more like the tech community treats the NSA like Eastasia.

I certainly could be wrong, thus the question.
You can download all your data[1]. You can also use the API (as an app, not an individual, IIRC) to query whatever else is visible to you. So someone could conceivably create a competing social network and offer an “import all Facebook data” feature, modulo privacy/legal concerns.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/
well the best course of action will be to ask them(employer) for a rough draft of the contract, so that you could go through it before hand, and get an advice from your lawyer, if you have one.
Fly a lot?
From marketing point of view sadly the difference is huge.

Greek yogurt is pleasantly neutral as a meaning, new but not exotic, boring and safe choice for everyday use. Marketing labneh will be a lot harder - if the audience starts to view some food as ethnic and/or exotic - they wont buy it as a staple. And lets not discount the possibility of social media @#$$-storm if you somehow misspell, mismarket or whatever.

Do you want to quadruple the sales of tahini in US - rename it as sesame butter.
It's not that wild when you read history about US government actions towards foreign/domestic organisations/individuals they deem have strayed to a point of challenging the status quo. The most obvious example is looking at how communism was treated post WW2. This I find amazing, not that I support communism, but that the government was so ready to act this way towards someones political choice, regardless of what that is. That's far from upholding democratic values.

Another surprising one people dont realise if the CIA probably organised the removal of an Australian Prime Minister because he wanted to take the nation to a more neutral standing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...

So feeling this is a likely monitoring point seems a reasonable statement to me especially on any serious anti-authoritarian activity. As for evidence, that's always going to be a hard one, whether its happening or not.
That 200 year old document IS the policy of a democratically elected government. The age of the document has no relevance. It's just as valid today as it has ever been.
Obviously meditation is not a static thing – some days I'm able to maintain focus, other days I'm not. My longest meditation in one sitting was more than 8 hours, but I aim at 2 × 30 minutes a day (or 45 minutes in a single sitting if I'm unable to do 2 sittings for some reason).

My general equanimity has definitely increased throughout the years, but I can't say meditation has decreased my procrastination (it has increased my general acceptance of procrastination, though).
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Is FBI faking again [1]?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11578240
50% of the text is the fascinating story of Ramanujan. Unfortunately, the other 50% is a series of shameless product placements for the author's software and boasts about the author's personal and intellectual accomplishments. The story, the boasts, and the ads are all mixed together, so reading the thing all the way to the end was seriously painful.
I just click "Accept" because I am a terrible human being that way. Hasn't bitten me yet, but I just assume that it could happen any day now. Then again I think that the ones that could absolutely devastate you wouldn't actually hold water in court, would they?
I would need to read the paper to be sure, but from what I gathered a simpler SEO explanation hasn't been given.

With the Snowden leaks each and every media outlet started publishing reports on those topic. That means that the Google SERPs of relevant keywords started to be clogged by relevant articles and editorial contents that displaced Wikipedia entries from the first positions. I've done my share of editorial SEO stuff during the last few years and I've seen that happen many times for even smaller events.

A more meaningful way of testing this would have been to have a similar sampling of entries from another topic to test against the key group. Maybe that's in the paper, we'll see when it's out. Still, the numbers are consistent with the fluctuation of positioning in Google results.
The me generation was aptly named, generation X ate the table scraps, and now we millennials are being left with the bill.

Edit: I suppose the question now is, what can we do about it?
To paraphrase:

1. I'm going to make the energy use of Bitcoin sound small by taking it as a fraction of the entire goddamn world. Also, some of it is hydro power, which forgives everything.

2. Even if it were 0.74% of the entire world, that would still be worth it because Bitcoin is the most important thing in the world.

3. If we didn't use all this energy, there wouldn't be any Bitcoin, and that would make me sad.

4. Bitcoin companies employ a lot of smart people and give VCs something to invest in. Clearly none of these people would accomplish anything in the absence of Bitcoin.

5. Even though I just said mining is good, people are mining relatively less now, and that's also good. Everything about Bitcoin is always good.

What an argument.
I'm going from memory. That quote was in the news, at the time. But yes, http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/bush-the-constitution-a-god... tells me that it's probably bogus.

Thanks :)
Good to know that you can be jailed for exercising your 5th Amendment Right.

Maybe he's guilty, maybe he isn't--but he has a right to not incriminate himself.
6 months is not 'short', and you have - while negging me I presume - overlooked the documentation requirements for such a visa:
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It sounds like you've hit the jackpot. Especially the part about the fun job, I don't think that's that easy to find in the software industry.
Well, if you really want an example of software developers 'giving up' and systems not working correctly, there's always the video game industry/world. Where in some cases, products actually do get released in a completely broken state and where bugs like these are endemic.

But it's probably all due to one simple thing; people aren't encouraged to do things well, they're encouraged to get them done by the 'deadline' at all costs. Which often means writing hacky code, not testing edge cases (or sometimes, any cases), and then hoping anything that breaks can be fixed later.

The latter is also why both web development and game development is arguably more messed up than any other software development, because patches are seen as fairly easy and inevitable. Why get it right the first time when it can be fixed 'post production'?
That's a good point, although to nuance it a bit:

> suggesting that concerns about government snooping are hurting the ordinary pursuit of information

... while they might be wrong about the cause (which is important of course), you could argue that the consequence remains the same; that depends on whether the articles and editorial are good replacements content-wise.
The same as being a poet or an artist.
I mean, I don't have to repeat things that have been known for ages - just buy some old books, it's all in there!

I don't really understand this point. UnitTest and SUnit, that all subsequent unit testing frameworks are based on, were released in about 1990. "Extreme Programming" was a big thing in the mid-90s and that featured test frameworks as a core component. Automated testing isn't new. There are plenty of old books that advocate exactly the "new and trendy" processes you decry. If your argument is "Write code like engineers did 20+ years ago!", then that includes automated testing.

I strongly suspect that we're not actually that far apart in our thinking. I don't believe that unit tests magically make your code better. You can't develop a solution to a problem you don't fully understand by throwing more and more tests at it. Developers still need to take the time to think. I believe a lot of my enthusiasm for testing comes from the belief (...experience...) that there are plenty of developers out there who, as you put it it, are coders rather than engineers. My tests pick up their mistakes (and mine, because sometimes I'm not at my best). Maybe, if you're very fortunate, you've managed to surround yourself with a team who are all really good engineers who genuinely don't need to test things because they're rigorous to the point of infallibility. I haven't, and I work in an industry that means I probably never will, so tests are necessary.

Advocating testing is much, much more productive, and will lead to better software in the long run, than advocating developers write better code.
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If we removed wages and time as a proxy for value, everyone would make more money. This is not about social Justice.We aim to replace wages with mini X-prizes.

Why would business prefer this?
-Fire prevention Vs Fire Fighting-- code is done well once and for all.
-Less operating capital-- free from pressure of monthly salary expense.
-Programmers who speak up--- less waste from boss' ego features.
- Deeper talent pool-- Have a whole 'guild' look into your problem vs only the persons you have hired/contracted.

Benefit to programmers
-Direct attribution to profit and growth.
-Keep more of your paycheck Vs burning it on high rent.
-Automate yourself out of a job and earn perpetual royalties.
-Build apprentices- nurture and discover talent to take over from you.

If tech and AI are about efficiency and driving costs down, then wage free prog(workers) will accelerate us to the new golden age.
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True. Maybe, skimming through the article without bothering about the hyperlinks would be so much better.

He went to the extent of hyperlinking the words `Madras` and `Sanskrit` to their WolframAlfa search links :/
Precisely. The anti 2A crowd throws a fit when one of their cherished amendments is attacked, but every amendment has equal validity. The first, for example doesn't separate church and state in as much as it prevents the state from establishing a religion (such as the Church of England.)

I am fine with separation of church and state, however the Constitution doesn't actually say that.

If we are to play contextual games (i.e. the militia context,) then that same contextualization would apply to the Church of England context of the first amendment.
CSS and Javascript mixed with HTML, that's a pain to look at.
I think the idea is that Mars is just a stepping stone, and soon we'll be setting out for Alpha Centauri, Procyon, Tau Ceti, Vulcan, Betazed, Tattooine, and so on.

Hell, Zuckerburg, Yuri Milner, and Steven Hawking are already planning it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/yuri-miln...
This is why I'm a fan of projects like Minium and at least one other "minimal phone" type deal. There's got to be some way to be connected but also more present.
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We are all entitled to our own opinions. I would say this is your personal perspective of being a Software Engineer in tech. city(SF).
haha :D This is typical. I sign up my email and always get advertising mails in disguise of good cause and buzzwords. SW is very keen on selling his expensive baby. And I think he is a rare combination of genius and salesman.

So maybe Trump can sell his presidency, who knows.