skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no, AI has always meant "making computers do something that, right now, only humans can do." Of course, the term only applies to work-in-progress, because once it's working, it's not AI by definition.
That doesn't count the future of UberPool , and scaling it to on-demand jitneys, etc.
I agree, it isn't always so obvious, but you need to be able to expand into larger markets or at least have your eye on larger markets. I think that is a challenge to get across in the application.

This probably again leads back to a strong team picking a good market (or having a better/unique view on how 'their' market will grow/progress).
The reason it has potential is because it is an unbelievable experience unlike anything that has ever come before it. I'm serious. You must never have had the experience of looking around the tombs of ancient egypt while standing in the middle of your kitchen, or of watching the Master's golf tournament, from the tee box, sitting on your living room couch. And those things are already possible when the device had been out a week and a half. From a place of experience, I'd say the potential is obvious
Author here :)

I'll be frank it's hard to choose name and not to offend anyone. This porno thing at least fun :)

Project is more then 3 years old, not sure if its even possible to change name and not dramatically affect SEO. But who knows I may consider it.
> Even today they can't even come close to outperforming a skilled human pilot in a combat scenario.

The Navy's X-47B "Salty Dog" got pretty damn close (before the program was cancelled). It can take off, on-air refuel, and land back on a carrier with no human input.

http://dronecenter.bard.edu/chronicle-of-the-salty-dogs-x-47...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdCdlo3BtA
npm no longer allows packages to be unpublished after 24 hours.
Show HN: Hn2org, read HN pages in Emacs Org mode
I'm surprised that apps are still so popular, I thought silicon valley had already realised that users do not want to download apps upfront and manage them later, they want web apps or pages for their mobile devices. Maybe the trend is there, but not very explicit in these curves.
Like Flask + Express, specifically.
I'm of two minds about this. Everything you mention is great background to have. (Though non-trivial programs can't be reasoned about mathematically much more than biological systems can).

I think this deep background is a great goal. But in another way programming is a craft. You can learn as you go. There are millions of bright people who could do useful, quality work without an MIT-level CS education. They just need some guidance, structure, and encouragement.
Because programs are finite in size and so is compuyer RAM and storage.

An app that does everything would be too big to run and crash the system because it takes up too much memory.

Think of the OS as a Swiss Army Knife and each program is a blade that does something. There is a limit of how many blades you can add and each blade has to fit into a small space to function.

The smaller the app the faster it loads. The bigger the app the slower it loads.

So you want different apps for different things.
What exactly are workflows here? I tried following some links but can't quite figure it out
I'm expecting "Minority Report", not "car that drives better than me" from this.

First priority is not getting me hurt. Second priority is not getting me in trouble. Third priority is not causing damage that costs me. Fourth priority is to go fast.

I thus want a car that can figure out potential hiding spots for cops. When there are no cops, I expect the car to disobey the law. I want it to go 2x the speed limit, drift around corners, and take winding roads faster by sometimes going into the wrong lane.
> most of the tiny minority of people who actually are good at starting business have their own things to work on.

This is definitely insightful. Finding a person that is both good and available looking for a new project is a double rarity. All the more reason it is a sales pitch regardless of what side you fall on (tech or business). Good luck to you!
Just curious--do you work in the medical field? My wife is 9 months pregnant and much of what you've written goes completely against what our OB and every other medical professional we have consulted with has told us.
Got a citation for that? Or is that just your definition? As soon as we understand a problem there are better terms that are actually meaningful.
A porter stemmer has disadvantages too as it would combine 'training' and 'trains' (freight).
(employee here)

It seems to me that your use-case does not require locking specifically - you just want to make sure no concurrent transactions can clobber your "update A".

As mrtracy explained, such overlapping transactions are linearizable in CockroachDB, so this invariant is preserved without the need for explicit locking.
Betterment moving Backbone app to Rails App
Thank you! Mike Perham and Sidekiq in particual was main inspiration for me to start working on Gor full time and introduce Pro version.
Onepw upgrade – a lightweight command line tool for managing passwords
CHANGELOG:

* Add command `upgrade` (aliases `up`)
* Add validating master password(you SHOULD upgrade password.data by `onepw up`)
* Add secret prompt for typing password
* Add `info` command
Appears to me to be a series of commands used for processing data. The workflow description language (WDL) probably has the best overview of the 1-2 level links:

https://github.com/broadinstitute/wdl

Essentially a formalization of a unix command pipe. With the ability to tee and recombine components. Also, the ability to define valid inputs and outputs.
> it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation.

I take serious offense to this. I am a moderator on reddit and the communities I help out in are amazing. He paints all of reddit with the same brush but reddit is too large for that -- it's now the 9th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa. Sure, there are some horrible & trash communities. Perhaps there's a lot of them, but there's also a lot of amazing subreddits run by fantastic mods. Reddit is what you make of it - if you subscribe to those shitty subreddits, then your experience will be shitty. If you subscribe to great subreddits, then your experience will be equally great. Reddit is like a snapshot of the internet as a whole; there's the bad, there's some meh, and there's also some amazing content out there. You just have to look for it and tailor your experience for those things.

If reddit is terrible, it's because you're not using reddit correctly. My reddit experience is great.
People with adblockers don't make Forbes any money to begin with; losing them doesn't cost anything.
If I'm reading Table 1 of the FIRST study correctly, the comparison is between doctors working up to 28 continuous hours with those working more than that. The 28 hour mark seems so far beyond the "starting to get sloppy" threshold that I'm not surprised there weren't major differences.

By contrast, pilots are typically allowed to work for 9-13 hours in a row, and a bit longer with extra support/breaks.
Most people I know (admittedly biased towards tech savvy people) despise web apps on mobile, on account of how nearly universally terrible they all are.
Toil is very much reminiscent of Luigi. I hope the author(s) will elaborate on this here (or elsewhere): There's very little on both readthedocs as well as their GitHub repohttps://github.com/BD2KGenomics/toil
The bug here is not that humans calculate expected payoffs incorrectly, it's that they have wildly inaccurate estimates of tpayoffs and their probabilities. Subtle but important difference
> Actually, I never said 1:1 ratio with UBI. I just claimed the labor markets would decrease and monetary supply would increase.

But that is what you said:

> In effect, nobody gets paid more because everybody gets paid more, which drives up prices, which is the definition of inflation.

Emphasis is mine. That's a pretty clear indication that they will entirely offset each other.
Based on my minimal understanding of what it's doing and it's code; It's turning on virtualization, setting up a minimal environment, and then taking the current OS and "moving" it to the virtualized environment. The purpose of doing this in this case is to show how to do it in a minimal fashion, and give it as a jumping off point to create other projects with. Some things that come to mind is a debugger that can't be detected, an easier way to debug a device driver since you could set the hypervisor to log communications with the device somewhere. Or to reverse engineer software that detects normal debuggers being attached and determine what it's actually doing (this is common in malware research I believe).
Lawful evil
Unity5-networking-HLAPI-getting-started
Not Python 3 compatible eh? Thought it was disheartening at first, but then it seems the project started in 2011.
If piracy is this common, why should people be ashamed to admit they do it?

>It's sad that it's come to this, but too many selfish people have spoiled it for everyone now.

This statement applies both ways.

Human culture is a necessity. Humans are social animals. If my friends and family literally talk about Game of Thrones or Star Wars every day, do you think I'm just going to voluntarily exclude myself from my own community in order to protect the wealth of some small cabal halfway across the world? Of course not. That's not a tide you want to fight against, no matter how much you might want to trivialize the costs.
Yet another module bundler
> My dad works in international development and has spent a better part of his career working on programs in Bangladesh to get people to use hospitals instead of mid-wives. Now rich people in the United States are using mid-wives instead of hospitals. It's pure insanity.

Can you explain what part in particular about this is insane? My wife is 9 months pregnant and our hospital has midwives on staff. Having a midwife doesn't preclude going to a hospital.
More like "possession of CS degree has no bearing whatsoever on skill, so ignore it."
I do (at least for domestic air travel east of the Mississippi River.
The Trials of Packaging a Product for the Apple Store
In my 30+ years in the workforce I've worked at large companies, small companies, startups, government organizations, and not-for-profits. Whether or not I ever get rich, I'm planning on spending the rest of my career working for startups. Why? Because it is exciting, it is fun, it is fast paced. I get to build things, I get to innovate, I get to play with and try the very latest technology. There is minimal bureaucracy. I know the names of everyone in my company. I find my work is infinitely more satisfying than just going in, doing what I have to, collecting a paycheck (regardless of its size), and coming home. Young people think I'm cool. It is a lifestyle and career choice and after all those other experiments - one that is working for me.
> Some have said this is a selfish viewpoint, that I should stay around longer for the ones I love. But the reverse is true, it is selfish of those that love to demand quantity over quality, especially when it slowly strips away the very being of a person.

I totally agree with this, but I have a hard time seeing why this logic shouldn't also be applied to people with extreme chronic depression that doesn't respond to treatment. How can we demand that someone live in for a decade or more while the very chemical structure of their brain won't let them be happy?

Of course, suicide shouldn't be chosen lightly or irrationally, and it's hard for a depressed person to rationally know when they've exhausted all their options. It may be outside the capabilities of a depressed person to rationally choose suicide.

But I have my doubts that suicide is always irrational. If I were considering committing suicide, I'd want to be able to approach my friends with that decision and know they would help me make the right decision for my situation, not repeat positivist rhetoric and call me selfish. Even if suicide really is the wrong choice for someone, I'm not convinced that the "suicide is always selfish" narrative helps that person. Instead, I think it might discourage them from talking about it, which makes everything worse.

EDIT: I'm not suicidal, not depressed, not even temporarily sad. I've just been close to some people who have been depressed for decades, and I feel like the usual narrative around often does them more harm than good.
Yes, dumb mistakes happen often, but that doesn't make them not dumb.
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Your maildrop email bounces.
You are right. And without data and performance numbers there is no way to extrapolate beyond "potential" scenarios and outcomes.

Please forgive me, but what are you really trying to get at? Otherwise it just seems like naysaying and rabble rousing to me..
Sounds like you get it.
I don't want to/think I'll ever own an autonomous car. But I want one someone else owns to pick me up at the snap of my fingers.
Very first sentence of the article has an error: "Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem."

If it has DRM, you don't own it, you are leasing it.

Agree or not with the use of DRM, I object to buttons that say "Buy Now" instead of "Lease Now" on web-sites.
I bought this book for my son who will be starting a CS program in the fall. He seems to have enjoyed it, and I'm hopeful it will give him a good grasp of the fundamentals that you might miss by starting out with Java.
>> now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine.

> This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read.

Many of our friends are pregnant or have just had kids, and my wife is 9 months pregnant. We've had a lot of talk about this with them. I wouldn't by any means say that scheduling a C-section is something everyone does, but it's incredibly common. I know of two pregnant women in our peer group that already have a date on the calendar.
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This tool reminds me of Raymond Chen's (The Old New Thing) blog post "Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell". The network traffic on Microsoft's (1996) corporate network was 1.7 worse than Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs own network card stress tests. Network hardware that passed the stress tests would commonly fall over when it was plugged into the corporate network. :)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050512-48/?p=...
Sorry about that, try this.
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=...
Probably because OS X is full of cool tech that seems to be weakly documented, underexposed (in terms of API, like the built-in dictionary) or underutilized (because most developers or users aren't always aware of it.)

I really appreciate that Apple doesn't just keep dropping less used features after just 1 OS release like Microsoft does, but I really wish they overhauled their documentation and improved the discoverability of the cool stuff.
New dating search engine. Find all the dates in the world
Is that the only driver of increased food costs? Does China have a lot of food related deaths?

There needs to be solid evidence to justify a 2x increase in the cost of food.
Correct link
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=...
If you only run one NodeJS app at a time, probably not
> Theory: In US presidential elections, the more charismatic candidate wins.

I wonder if Trump is considered to have charisma.

Either way, it's worth mentioning that Trump's real trump card is his masterful ability to reframe debates. Witness: his stances on women, risky politics, and immigration.

Clinton is reacting to each of these topics right now, and in very weak ways (e.g., her woman's card tweet [0], also claiming she's better because she's a woman).

Trump will DOMINATE her if this trend continues.

I don't agree with everything Scott Adams says regarding Trump's campaign, as much of it is way too far-fetched, but his commentary regarding Trump's reframing is spot-on.

[0] https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/726220886454468609
That. And GP. And this is exactly the reason why I don't believe a single word in all the stuff about AI and deep blabla. If Facebook cannot suggest better news, it's because it's most probably impossible to simulate how my best friend did suggest me to watch les combatants (a French movie I loved). Neither the casting, the director (all unknown) or the theme (a young guy going to army training to follow a girl) or any other objective feature of the movie could have helped. It's done purely on feeling, intimate knowledge of our respective tastes, long time friendship (30 years). In a word, alchemy. That's just not going to be modelized any time soon or later.

The only thing I get from suggestions are either dim variants of the things I already liked, or random stuff high on popularity charts.
>cuz we're all sensitive, special flowers here

I think it's more that it's easier to discuss without people being massive jerks.

It's possible to express opinions without going all over the place
I'm just happy that the author of this article broke up the generations as Boomer, X, Y, and Z. I've always found the term Millennial to encompass too large of an age group to be meaningful.
Is Trump considered charismatic? Doesnt seem to fit the definition.
I'd suggest reading the Elon Musk biography and it will be clear why this will never happen at Space-X and Tesla. It's just not in his DNA to understand the value of family or work-life balance
What does that even mean?

Productivity decreases costs, not the other way around.

Did you mean to say the value of unskilled labor?
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If you asked people what they want, they'd ask for cloud-connected thermostats that fail ungracefully and stop working when their manufacturers get acquired
Wish there was a representation of uncertainty in the graphs.
Monads become a lot more straightforward when you realise that they're just a way of making the semicolon programmable.

No need for any nonsense metaphors: the bind operation in monads is just a programmable semicolon.
Your stream doesn't feature ads? Mine is chock-full of them on desktop web.
> I haven't checked Arch, but neither Ubuntu 16.04 nor Debian Jessie haven't created /bin as a symlink.

Odd, I could've sworn they did. I stand corrected.

> > What do you mean? They didn't know there's a copy of the same binary?

> No, I meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627670

> And there is no copy of the same binary.

That's what I said, you use the ELF interpreter. :P
Keep in mind that most prognostication re: the Trump campaign has failed. That's the trouble with inductive models; there's always the potential for some event that could happen that hasn't happened yet, and it breaks your model.

It's possible Trump falls into that category; 'charismatic' by some ill-defined measure, but unelectable (in the general election).
We allow doctors to cut into other people in the same circumstances in which we (at least in EU) forbid a truck driver to drive because he's a danger to others because of insufficient rest.
It'd be more interesting to see analysis of the 1000+ startups YC has
funded, not the apps.
Bell Labs Looks at Claude Shannon’s Legacy and the Future of Information Age
her woman's card tweet [0]

I honestly couldn't tell if that was some kind of Joe Job. I'm still not sure I understand. The pink "Woman Card" was presented in an NYT ad yesterday as a perfectly straight, well-polished and unironic appeal to donors. Most offensive thing I've ever seen in a mainstream news outlet.

What in the world is she thinking? This is not how you "get in front of the story." This is how you get in front of a bulldozer.
This won't be suitable for bitL if they want Core M, but a super-interesting device in the same performance and size bracket as the Shield (but a much stronger focus on general purpose mobile computing) is the Pyra, which just started taking preorders a few days ago and will likely ship in a few months.
Of course Google Trends lags behind, it tracks waves of trends as they ripple through the public consciousness. YC applicants are a small, and a very technically advanced, minority of the larger population.
Way back in the beginning, when you followed someone you got all their tweets - including replies to people you don't follow.

Then they made it an option to not get these, then they took away that option and made it mandatory.

This, plus their really terrible behavior towards developers (still going on, as evidenced by their continuance of the 100K tokens limit per app) has seen me basicly stop using the service entirely.
Good observation. And also a disappointing.
I'm looking for a sort of reverse solution for 3rd party APIs where you record a response to a request and generate a server with the same API endpoints that'll replay it.
Also unit tests provide a type of checklist.
It seems like there's an easy fix... infer 'rel=noopener' by default on every https site that opens an http site. Or just don't allow http pages to redirect https pages.

It would make scam pages much more expensive while still allowing most legitimate use. And it would be consistent with existing security policies.
Is there something wrong with my browser? Because looking at the website it is designed for the visually impaired. The font must be something like 72point.
For Reddit users who know the site, they know it's more of a platform to easily create a community without asking users to sign up for yet another site. However, for the outside world, they view Reddit either by the front page posts (which do have a tendency to deteriorate to a bunch of tired memes) or by the controversies that pop up in the media.

And fortunately the loudest people on Reddit end up being the ones that represent it for the general public.
Depends whether you are willing to consider a solution relying on a trusted third party "secure".
"Everything" was used for convenience, and is likely hyperbolic. Let's say 80% of all features you currently need in apps. It should be trivial to replace most CRUD-like apps, not so much specialized 3D or multimedia apps.

Things like Uber, Pizza Hut, Walgreens, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, Yelp, Netflix, Maps, Gmail, Slack, Trello, Pocket, Evernote, etc.
The article begs not the question "Does Trump have charisma", but rather, "Does Trump have more charisma than Clinton"?

Personally I think yes - Clinton does seem old and tired and Trump certainly brings a dynamism unmatched by any other candidate. Clinton comes with a 7 point plan - Trump comes with an unabashed baller status and beautiful women around him.

In the context of this article, I do think it's Trump with the upper hand.
They bought it in 2012 and are in the process of doing a sale-and-lease-back deal.

About the headline of this story, it's a little silly not to count cash as part of a company's valuation since that money had to come from somewhere. But the fact that 3/4 of Zynga's value is cash indicates that people think the company is on the decline.