skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably an understandable assumption, given that the car manufacturer will inevitably try and spin it as the driver's fault no matter what. For example, take the Cruise crash a while ago: car starts swerving in automatic mode, driver takes control but fails to bring it back on course before it crashes into a parked car. Headline in The Verge "Startup’s self-driving test car crashes after driver takes control", uncritically reports Cruise's claim that it was the driver's fault because they 'had "enough time" to correct the path of the vehicle to avoid the accident, but "unfortunately made a mistake."'
Tabs for indent, spaces for alignment - solves the problem unless you're trying to align across indentation levels, but you probably shouldn't be.
Remember this is just the Animation studio. Spielberg still controls the DreamWorks Pictures which has been rolled into Amblin Partners.
Thank you for this great advise!

I guess I hang out with the wrong circle ;). Most developers around me typically would just download something that is free (if it's cross-platform it gets +1 added-value since often we switch between Windows and Ubuntu). Case and Point: Eclipse vs IntelliJ. I bought IntelliJ during the Doomsday discount (75% discount) but people around me still using Eclipse until some event where they decided to move to the "free" (community) version of IntelliJ. I haven't gone back to Eclipse after that...

I'm just amazed with your story. I need to "get out" more and talk to more people... seriously...
Yes, Julia uses a similar "lowered" form: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/ast/#lowered-for...

If you are interested in more details, there was a talk two years about the compiler design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdeT-tWjzk (many type names and implementation details have changed since then, but conceptually it is still very applicable).
Innerchef Hacked
What is "valid payment data"? How do they validate this data?

You need to have a valid payment method. I'm not sure how better to explain this... a credit card or paypal account etc. It's validated when the payment clears. Both of these have strong identity data linked to them.

KYC (Know your customer) / AML (Anti Money Laundering) compliance means validating the identities of those you do business with. That means, using Steam to launder money isn't possible. This should be pretty obvious.
Ah yeah, that's pretty cool, definitely along the same lines I'm thinking. Thanks for sharing.
I the defense lawyer is unable to demolish this "best guess" evidence in court I think quality of law schools in the country is sht.

If the judge cant see what is wrong with this "best guess" evidence, the judiciary has lost its marbles.

If the members of jury don't find it wrong, as society we have probably lost compassion and empathy and sense.

As marijuana legalization is probably foregone conclusion I think government is going to start with "war on sex" that will have same effects on society. New Hampshire recently passed laws that would make sex traffickers out of totally innocent people.
You can omit the "auto x =", too.
> C++ calls it an (unordered) map.

Hey, whoa, stop right here. std::map and std::unordered_map are not at all the same thing, and if you're going to be using them in a manner beyond "trivial" it's important to know the difference between them.
If you don't have children, then you don't have a colony. At best, you might have a pathfinding expedition intended to prepare for a future colony, but then there's a case to be made that the money and time might be better spent improving various supporting technologies.
I wonder, if part of the pre-weeding process, if books proposed to be disposed could be run through Amazon's system for sale. If sold within a certain window, then they go on to a new, more useful life. If not, they head to the dumpster. Since they're already shelved and easily located, it should be trivial for library staff to find, package and send any orders.
It's shifting to wealthy capitalists in developed countries (well not shifting, they were always wealthy), as well as creating new wealthy capitalists in developing countries. There is some extra wealth for the poor, but you're right that it is an unequal distribution in developing countries.

But those aren't "already wealthy capitalists". They're "newly wealthy capitalists". End of the day it's the same thing - a few wealthy capitalists - but it's still more wealth in developing countries than before.

I'd argue that there is zero historical precedent for wealth not to be concentrated though. It's just the nature of wealth - wealth creates wealth, debt creates debt. And that's more of a universal truth than a capitalistic one, and more accurately described as 'value creates value', 'obligation creates obligation'.
No, it is a meaningful distinction for some. For those of us hoping to avoid the overhead of payment processors by using bitcoin, it puts the two methods on equal footing instead - there's still a middleman taking a (likely nontrivial) cut from our purchases.

Also, I imagine CNY -> USD conversion is probably done on an exchange instead of through a company like BitPay, so the comparison might not be very accurate.
The problem is, in most cases, you either do these kinds of things, or you don't make any money. Mobile users have been trained by the race to the bottom that games and apps should be free, and so they are highly reluctant to pay for stuff.
“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?” -- Frank Herbert
>> He first learned how to code by joining a 12-week coding bootcamp at App Academy,
>> He killed his Google interview and was offered a $162,000 a year package.

If this is really true, then maybe it's worth going to these coding camps even if you already know how to code and have been doing so for 20 years.
I wonder if the EFF is bold enough / has the resources to help. Encryption really should fall under the fifth.

In this case he isn't charged with anything, so I'm not sure the fifth applies? I want a lawyer friend lol.
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That's also in there, but that's just Plato's cave. The struggle against metaphysics continues.
It's also not 250k in cash. It includes stock which may or may not be worth what he thinks they are worth when he cashes out. My take away here is that base salary is comparable from company-to-company, but stock is given away like free lunch.

Also, it takes a certain personality to go out in public and brag about this kind of stuff. I think he's trying really hard to build his online persona. :)
I like the corn model myself. corn found the most powerful military in the world, and integrated itself tightly into that nations political system. So not only is corn cared for, grown and harvested at a level far beyond a lawn, but it's also powerfully defended politically and militarily.
I took a quick look to see if I could find this but does picotorrent have RSS support?
IoT in Healthcare, what are the hurdles?
If $130k is the actual salary then the title needs to be edited
AI, like regular I, is in the eye of the beholder. It's a moving target. If something performs surprisingly well compared with what you're used to, it's AI. Once you get used to it, like decision trees, it's ordinary tech again.

There's (at least) one thing that could change this, which is that the machines get so complex that we can't really grok the details any more. You could argue that this is beginning to happen in Deep Learning, where it can be hard for humans to map the functions being performed later in the network to anything with intuitive semantics relative to the problem.

Perhaps in retrospect we will consider the Singularity not a spectacular thing where the machines suddenly got super smart, but a more mundane thing where most of community gave up trying to understand the machines and just use them ever after as black boxes.
Very nice write-up. As an Indian, I grew up hearing about stories of Ramanujan, but never understood what it is that he did, or how he did it. I think Wolfram is perfect person to show us behind the curtain. For example, I remember hearing that Ramanujan stated some theorems that people in the west are still trying to prove. I didn't know what to make of it. Wolfram nicely showed the iterative (and approximate) approaches Ramanujan took to achieve this.
I totally agree. And no one should let hubris make them think otherwise for e.g. graph traversal algorithms.
Just to add, really poor people can't afford to shop for sales. Right now, I have all kinds of stuff that will never go bad and I can use eventually, that I bought on sale (paper goods, soap, etc), sitting in my basement. And I haven't bought rice not-on-sale in forever, because I can afford to find a sale and buy a bunch at once.
Larry Summers joins Bitcoin firm as a senior advisor
I love everything about this publication.
What can they teach you that you can't learn on your own?
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Assuming in German C++ is neuter, and referred to with the das article, Modernes Cpp is correct and singular.
Those aren't exceptions, though. Those are easily available. You're just too lazy to look for Touch Arcade.
As rare as actual child porn is, the government loves these cases because the defendant is considered guilty before even being arrested, certainly before he gets in front of a judge/jury and there's so much taboo around the issue that most people are unwilling to come to the aid of the defendant. Come to think of it, I could say the same thing about terrorism cases (which are even rarer). And yes, the message they're constantly sending is that pretty much the whole Bill of Rights has been repealed, not just the 5th.
Hi everyone! I'm Gabriel, one of the founders of Casepad which is currently the second most upvoted Apply HN Post [0].

Before I launch into an argument for how to conduct the selection process I wanted to say thanks to everyone who contributed to Apply HN. The feedback and support that we received went beyond our wildest expectations and regardless of what happens we're glad we participated.

<argument>With that being said, I would suggest that upvotes and comments should have serious weight in the decision of who receives the fellowship. My understanding of this process was that it was an opportunity for members of HN to express their voice in the YCF selection process and it seems to me that the way they do so is via comments and upvotes. While the idea of a "runoff" selection with the top five or top ten most upvoted posts is appealing in practice it also disregards much of the work that the community put into vetting and discussing existing submissions. A runoff also doesn't solve the problem that it purports to solve, that some submissions got more structural attention than others, because it is also being conducted on an anonymous message board over an arbitrarily selected period of time (not unlike the first 20 odd days of Apply HN). As an example, someone who had the chance to vote or comment on ApplyHN might miss the runoff because of a bad week at work, and that means that their voices could be washed out.

I have a vested interest in saying this, but I am skeptical (until I see data) of all of the oblique suggestions that the front runners' posts only made it there because of bandwagoning. I like to think that we, along with many of the other front runners, presented a strong idea that deserved the attention it got. A separate but related point is that this is HN, not a randomized controlled experiment in selecting companies, so the habits and voting patterns of the community should be seen as a feature rather than a bug.

If I were running this selection process I would say that some combination of comments + upvotes + the judgment of the partners who will work with these companies would be the best way to choose the fellowship recipients.

But, that's just me :). </argument>

Thanks again to everyone who upvoted, asked questions, and gave feedback. More thoughts + feedback are always welcome. (I'm at gajbotelho@gmail.com if anyone wants to reach out privately.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452884

EDIT: Small edits for clarity.

EDIT2: Removed "(a more focused version of /u/baron816's suggestion)" because it just wasn't that accurate of a statement
I find it curious, then, that instead of doing that they're doing the exact opposite: increasing wages, tripling paid time off, and adding on 11 paid holidays.
Is there a logical concept or some sort of 'phrase' that describes the 'inside and outside of box' problem? My vocabulary is lacking.

In computing, we know quite well that a system's inputs and outputs don't have to be coupled as well as they seem.

I can produce a program '/bin/sha256sum' which drops the sha256sum of a file onto stdout, unless said file is a JPEG image depicting a Shiba Inu, in which case it puts 'such file'.

In computing this is really kind of an obvious result. If we have a debugger or a disassembler we might be able to find that behaviour without actually encountering it. But if it's a HTTP API, we really have no way of knowing what's going to happen.

We can gather lots of empirical evidence, but we have no reason to believe that 5M results or 25M results or 50M results increase our certainty that it 'always does X'. (Simply, it's not provable).

It seems to me to be tautological to say that 'reality may not be what it seems', in that sense, because we know that we cannot be certain that it even acts the same way at t=t and t=t+1.

Even if we found some sort of 'higher state' - if we found the source code to the program that actually runs all there is - what's above that? Turtles all the way down!
No, Valve software is bitpays "customer". The guy/gal trying to use Steam to launder bitcoin is a customer of Valve Software.
1: Which ARM? (Designing for a Cortex M0+ is entirely different from an M3 is from ...)

2: What are your design contraints? (Do you have hard-real time requirements? If so, you're probably going to want to use the primitives that come with the RTOS (QNX/Green Hills Integrity/all-the-major-players have their own method of "IPC/threading/whatever you want to call it" and it's usually an Erlang-esque message passing component.)

3: I'm presuming you're going for automotives, in which case lol, TBB rules but you'll never get ISO 26262 certification using it. If it's for an entertainment thinger just use QNX like everyone else.

4: "Unit tests take a long time and/or crash.." I'm sure the TK1 has ETM (which is better than bondout chips, seriously).

Just look at this[1] (then get your manager to bring me in as a consultant - it pains me to hear you have "long-standing issues with an ARM port" and the way your team-lead thinks he can solve it is with unit tests). "Long time to load which sometimes fails entirely" is a race condition. Insure++ is the "Coverity" for embedded (just as expensive, just as wonderful).

[1] http://i.imgur.com/wcqlon7.png -- how your team lead should be actually debugging embedded components. If you give me more details re: your system/functional/integration requirements, I can likely tell you in which direction to move though.
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The library at Alexandria was where the early scholarship on Homer was done.

> The Alexandrine grammarians undertook the critical revision of the works of classical Greek literature,[3] particularly those of Homer, and their studies were profoundly influential,[4] marking the beginning of the Western grammatical tradition.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrine_grammarians

(Not arguing with your point about usefulness in general; just twitching when it came to the Iliad.)
I workout at home (so no waiting on equipment) and am doing 2 minute rest period between sets. Since I track each start and end of each set with an App I can see my time under load.

My average is 26% of the time is workout time and 74% is rest and reconfigure equipment.
From the same page:

What if we haven’t yet received investment, but we have a ton of traction, users, revenue, etc.?

We want YC Fellowship to really help teams that are just starting off, or have been struggling to get traction. If you’re doing really well, we’ll likely ask you to apply for the next batch of Y Combinator.
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We were told ELBs are explicitly not designed for long-running connections when we ran into this exact same issue so know that you will always be working around this design constraint if you do long-running connections through ELBs.

There's another case that the article doesn't really discuss (though the evidence of it is in the beginning when all connections drop simultaneously) where the ELB nodes themselves scale vertically at a particular threshold. I believe the setup described is still vulnerable to those scaling events.
Doesn't mean we should embrace to keep the financial party going...
Protect our Git repos: stop foxtrot merges now
I think lack of having good controls and all the touchscreen limitations and low price games led game developers to compromise the quality. Touchscreen controls are not precise, you always lose the control and fingers are hiding a big chunk of a small screen!! But Smartphone could be more than. It is with us everywhere we want mobile gaming has to more fun that it is. I believe http://www.flitch.io (we are the creator) can solve these issues, what do you think?
So, not much from the founders then.
It's an article edited for lay audiences. It is for people who don't have the expertise to evaluate his proofs.

You can look up his research, though, if you want. If you have an expert friend you can have that friend explain it to you.

You can find a list of his publications here: http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/publications/

This is one of his papers that quantifies the ideas he talks about in the article: http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/HoffmanSinghMarr.pdf

In the paper, he does define what he means by "see reality as it is".
I'll give you half a point on CEC, but the founding of CEC was more about getting more Atari units into communities that wouldn't allow arcades.

And, no, Bushnell had nothing to do with Pixar, which had been around for 4-5 years at LucasFilm before CEC sold off Kadabrascope to Lucas in a fire sale. Pixar started with Ray and Catmull.
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Additional metadata - a tweet could attach to a specific URL, which the URL owner could reject if needed. So, I could build a post form on my site to submit a tweet that shows as a comment, or you could use the API to attach a comment to my page, and I could accept or reject them as desired. Perhaps even have different rules for tweets posted from my form than from the API, etc.

Tweets don't have to be limited to 140 characters. I believe Twitter has kicked around the idea of longer ones. I'd personally be in favor of upping to 200-256 and then even allowing a paid tier (either monthly or per tweet) to go to longer lengths, attach more media, etc.
For me, I have "bitcoin fatigue" regarding all the usual topics pro-bitcoin evangelist start spewing whenever the topic comes up. The usual "bitcoin is the second-coming of christ" crap.

There is a complete lack of acknowledgement of bitcoin's ineptitude as a replacement for current payment methods, what with its 2TX/s limit (on a good day) and the ridiculous size of the block-chain which effectively negates all the advantages of it being a distributed system since you have to rely on third-parties to use it on you phone or embedded devices for example. Not to mention the monopoly that chinese miners have on the network...it's a joke.

IMHO bitcoin is an interesting experiment, but that's all it is. It will be replaced by something better some day, another fact that evangelists refuse to concede.
Last time I checked, if you're $1 million in debt... its your problem. If you're $18 Trillion in debt, its the bank's problem. Just saying.

True, $5 Trillion of the debt is held by the US Government in some form (around $2 Trillion is held by the Fed, another $3 is held by Social Security). So it'd be bad for them if the US Government defaulted. And that's why we need to pay back the debt, so that Social Security and the Fed can continue to function.

Social Security has lent trillions of dollars to the US Government. They deserve to get their money back.
I worked through Chapter 1 back in college, now over a decade ago, with a professor of mine one summer. It was a great introduction (and led us to Concrete Mathematics) for me to a lot of topics regarding algorithmic thinking and discrete mathematics.

That said, I never worked through the remaining chapters of the series, and likely never will. It's a reference book. Read the sections as they pertain to you. For instance, TAOCP was my introduction to sorting networks. This led to direct, measurable, improvements in a few embedded programs (where consistent, deterministic behavior, and optimal behavior, were strongly desired).

I mean, few people ever read a dictionary. I still have one on my desk at home and at the office. This isn't substantially different (though I do recommend skimming it so you are aware of what resources it contains for later reference).
So, it's working as designed.
If there isn't tail recursion should I implement it with trampolining in the compiler first?
"Even you, yes you the rational atheist computer scientist on hacker news, believe many many myths right now. Many which don't matter, many you will never know are myths."

Who actually replicates experiments to determine what they should accept and reject? Sure, you've learned not to touch a hot stove, or that ice cream is delicious, but how do you know the age of the earth, or what the employment rate is? You know what you trust when it comes to abstract things. Scientists have a track record of delivering results, so you trust what scientists say. Fair enough - time is short and we all can't be empiricists, and scientists themselves need to divide their labor and trust each other. But still there is a medium delivering the good news to you, rather than you finding it for yourself. There are better safeguards against lying than there were in the past, but I see this more as a difference of degree rather than kind.
Cash isn't quite as bad because it's less practical, but yes both are primarily useful for crime and antisocial activity. I would be suspicious of someone who paid a large bill in cash (or used gold, or bricks of drugs); wouldn't you?
The only way to really see how someone thinks is to just hire them, work with them for a while, and fire them if they can't do the job.

That's the worst idea ever
It is kind of semantical, when the RSUs vest they have to be counted as ordinary income on your taxes.

But with a private company like AirBnB, he can't just sell those shares on the stock market, and MAYBE he could sell them for cash on a private site like EquityZen.

He is set up to make a big profit! It is a nice compensation package and is also great bargaining power for his next move!

But at the same time, it is not cash and what he actually makes is pretty average.
I used these examples for interviews back in the 90s. I liked the follow ups. I don't use it any more because linked lists with pointers doesn't seem relevant now that computer languages have some sort of native dynamic list implementation.
Utterly terrifying abortion of justice.

Sadly the elite have no moral authority and must rely on violence.

Yet another example of tyranny we must all oppose, and sadly peaceable opposition becomes less and less tenable.
If you want weight loss, "HIIT" is of no use to you. The best track sprinters in the world can barely summon the power necessary for toasting a single slice of bread. Very few people have energy reserves >30kJ when doing work above VO2max.

Meanwhile, you can just spin at 150W on a cycle trainer and burn >2 MJ (that's quite a few slices of toast) for every hour you put in.