skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2009, I have implmemted NEAT in c#, and applied it to solve Torcs CIG2009 challenge. It worked well, but took a lot of time to train (reinforcement learning).
IMO neat will not be able to practically compete with with something like deep Q network on visual signal. I recommend you to Take a look on cig2016 challenges.
Neo900: Privacy-friendly smartphone
>Nothing like that really exists in the corporate world

coughpitch deckcough
> How would any sane person want a site to post on their behalf?

Share to Facebook without leaving Forbes?
>To be frank, I think it's because those who are highly educated often believe they know what's better for a person than the person does; economically & politically speaking.

At a general level is that not the point of education? If people who have studied economics dont understand economics, the benefits and perils of different economic policies and activities, better then those who have never thought about it, then surely there's something seriously wrong?

> In terms of acceptance of minorities, especially (gay, trans or just ethnic) I think that liberal mindset comes from an academic need to include minority opinions into discussion.

This is actually testable, physics, maths and other "hard" sciences gain nothing from including minority opinions (or any opinions) so by your logic science academics should be less liberal then social scientists or liberal arts professors. I doubt that's true though.

I suspect that the better educated a person is the wider their experience or people from other backgrounds and the wider the experience the more the acceptance. But that's just an educated guess ;-)
do not forget the fact that different languages have different cultural concepts embedded in them.

weltschmerz.
schadenfreude.
schmetterling.

you simply can not say this word in english without explaining it.
if you do not understand german you will also have a very hard time getting the emotion that is embedded into all of us german speakers when we hear those words.
there are tons of examples like this in every language.

i also personally think that learning german, english and russian was an enormous benefit to myself, some thoughts i think in english, some in german and very seldomly i even think in russian. the fact that i also think javascript, php, python and lots of other programming languages helps me even more to better be able to transpile my thoughts into words and actions.

you can not articulate thoughts that you do not have words for. if society has less words, society has less variety of thought.
it follows that, if you have less words, you have less variety of thought.

in the end i think that instead of declaring a standard language or creating a new standard language (https://xkcd.com/927/ anyone?) what will happen is that our currently used languages will merge into one language that is influenced heavily by all currently spoken languages.

the situation will stay the same, most people will not be able to communicate efficiently, this is not the fault of language though.
Probably reflect the differing priorities of the people constructing the two different tests.
Okay. My sarcasm detector is broken :D Thanks for the clarification.
One man's hieroglyphics are another man's bread and butter.

It is all about shared culture. You don't write

empty x
repeat a times
repeat b times
add an item to x
count the items in x

but the hieroglyphical

x = a × b

Because "everybody knows what multiplication is". And even the explicit loop has lots of shared culture, for example in the idea what variables are, what a loop is, where it ends, that we do not use × but asterisks for multiplication, etc.

Modern languages may require more cultural background, but if that is useful for program comprehension that in itself isn't reason to say that disqualifies them. If it did, we would never have moved towards languages with malloc/free, garbage collection, or classes, the weirdness of IEEE floats, to mention a few things.

So, any discussion about new terminology/language constructs should mention costs and benefits. Also, which of them is greater will often depend on the target audience.
Running those same web apps feels a lot less sluggish and less taxing on Safari these days, even with a lot more tabs open.
The Nazi reference was unfortunate, but coldtea does bring up a valid point. Languages tend to become dominant because of military conquest or cultural hegemony, not because people want a language other than their own to be the lingua franca. English dominates the West because of the British Empire and because the US was able to exercise overwhelming cultural and economic power after World War 2.

Any discussion of "standardizing" the world on a language has to take into account how often attempts to do so have been employed as cultural genocide by colonizing powers, explicitly to separate native people from their culture.

To attempt to answer your original question, "why are we putting up with other languages anyway," we don't "put up with" them, because languages other than English are not a burden. Other languages persist because no one has forced their extinction yet.

And even if you "preserve" other languages, having a lingua franca means that eventually native languages will die out because they're simply no longer useful. How many Irish people actually speak Irish? How useful is Japanese outside of Japan? When those languages do die out, as they probably will, what will be lost when all of their literature and cultural referents are translated into English?

I'm not saying having a global common language wouldn't be good for a number of reasons, only that that commonality necessarily comes with a price not everyone is willing to pay.
In which minute is that?
Here is a blog post about this demo –
https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/generative-art-with-nodejs-and-c...

And source code –
https://github.com/mattdesl/color-wander
Explain his buying newspapers! (I'm being tongue in cheek, I understand how they fit into his cash flow/moat profile). Yahoo! assets could be understood through that lens.

Agree, it's more likely it's a favorable loan term (perhaps what he did with GS - high coupon preferred redeemable for common).
Meta: How does this reach front page with 4 points?
All of my published work clearly states that commercial support is available (and when other companies actively contribute, I list them too). Then again, most of my projects are work-related, not hobbies, so I don't mind developing a funding plan to keep the projects sustainable.

In some cases, however, it can also attract poor quality patches from contractors working on gigs, and make life hell for the maintainers. I personally prefer if people contract me directly (as the project/component maintainer).

Tangential anecdote: a while back I helped maintain a caching module for a CMS. I was once asked by a user to look into the performance problems of their website. They were a big media company from the Middle East. I had no idea they used my module, which was usually for small websites on cheap hosting. Their contractors had enabled every possible caching module in the world. I basically disabled a few modules, including mine, tweaked their Varnish config, and things ran smoothly afterwards.
"try <programming language> out" means experimenting with it for a few hours. Whether it becomes abandonware in the future shouldn't affect the decision whether to do that or not.
Discussion on /r/lisp, yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/4j6v8y/lisplangorg_a_...
I use it instead of Chrome because it doesn't burn through my laptop battery by spawning threads that then consume all of my CPU.
Interesting. I wonder if this is revenge for DOT blocking the Allergan deal.

Good for Pfizer for showing some cajones.
I've been thinking a lot about how I can reach device independence, for me the biggest missing component right now is the web inspectors in desktop browsers.

But there's other issues too that will need to be fixed. When I plug my tablet into my screen Firefox's menu stuff takes about 1/3 of my monitor with no way to adjust the resolution and no way to go fullscreen in the browser.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685845 might become pretty awesome, there's a myriad of traditional-ish browser-based IDEs available too.
It is maintained by Google and the whole go community since it is in the standard library. So, I think it is fairly secure (probably not as well tested as OpenSSL but the attack surface is smaller, bugs and security risks are still there, though).

What is important is that the library is not hardware accelerated and it thus uses a software accelerated AES cipher.
So, I think it is a bit slower, but you would really have to measure it yourself.

Upgrading your Load balancer should not be that hard, though.
I miss 4:3 screens for coding on laptops and all-in-ones. But on anything where the screen can be rotated, I love them.
4.000€ is not really going to make a difference for anyone looking at higher end cars. Even an i3 is 34.000€ and I believe the VW e-golf is in the same price range.

What low end electric cars are available in Germany? Nissan Leaf 21.000€, Renault TWIZY 7.000€, Renalt Zoe 21.500, Mitsubishi MIEV 24.000€.

Any others in this price range (<25.000€)?
This probably has something to do with it. I'd think, although perhaps I'm wrong, that the note highly educated, the less likely to be very religious (on average).
Sensor data will have an interesting effect on insurance claims. There's always an unbiased witness who may not have the full information, but has much more than anyone else.

That's just the interim period before full autonomy. Does anyone know how insurance claims are handled in collisions between fully autonomous cars?
Why? Here's my current POV: 1. Internet is not really a public resource, it's rather a gigantic alliance of p2p connections, mostly organized by private entities who can make whatever contracts they want. 2. On this alliance, if one actor wreaks havoc (spam, DOS, scam, piracy), the victim can only turn back to the node which transmitted the connection; 3. It's up to this node to keep logs and forward the pursuit upstream to the attacker; 4. It's the only way it can decently work, because we may lack proofs or the chain of responsibility to attack the upstream node directly; 5. Legal problems will happen if we treat the Internet as a public resource, where politics have a say, where access is not authenticated, and where no-one bears responsibility for crimes.

Now it appears that you don't follow this opinion, you think we should let criminals access the internet anonymously?
Any examples of Chill music on e.g. youtube or soundcloud? Or does the actual music depend on the individual?
You could call it the "Sunday effect".
Singapore Airlines has a close equivalent of the "Harvey Girls." They're called the "Singapore Girls."[0] Like the "Harvey Girls," the brand has received its share of sexism allegations. SIA also has a list of required applicant qualities that probably wouldn't fly in the US, such as requiring candidates to have natural eyebrows and have black or brown hair.

In line with the above poster's observation, Singapore Airlines has profited from this "taste-based discrimination." They're constantly one of the highest-rated airlines. Yet despite taste-based discrimination employed by Asian airlines such as EVA, SIA, and ANA, I would much rather fly on an Asian carrier than on American-based airline for the same money. Interestingly enough, EVA via Evergreen and ANA via Intercontinental also collaborate in hospitality programs.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Girl
Tutorial: Async Sub Processes and Realtime Updates in Laravel – Lee Mason
Which would explain why new 'systems' like common whatever, pushed from the top down, aren't the best way to improve schools.

Which is like forcing programmers into a forced Agile system....it's better to focus on improving the skills of the programmers.

The guy in Stand and Deliver was similar.
Slightly OT: out of curiosity, anyone knows what's being used for legal Euthanasia, e.g. in the Netherlands?
Linotte would like to have a word with you. In French. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotte
I don't see where the author assumes that there's only one switch. All they need is that there is at least one switch.

I also still don't see the difference between my argument and the paper's. You can say that "is a pumpkin" is not Boolean, but as long as you concede that the first object has a property the last one lacks, some object along the way must change.

You can say unambiguously a pumpkin is not Boolean, but then you just go one level up, to unambiguously unambiguously not a pumpkin. You don't really need Boolean, you just need the property to be determined for some objects.

For any object, either it's determined or not, right? So one level up should be enough.
Here is an example, A woman who is an apostate of Islam was heckled in a prestigious University in England while giving her presentation, and the Muslim students claimed that the University is a safe space and that she should not allowed to speak. You know the best part, the University's feminist group concurred with their Islamic brothers over this poor woman's right activist who happens to be an apostate. So, there you have it. I could care less, where there about Muslim Student Association, where they sit in dorm and practice in peace, but they extend the definition of safe space to ENTIRE University and anything that is "offensive" to them cannot happen in the campus. That is the problem, I am stating.
While flipping through channels in a hotel, I found this documentary about the Harvey Girls -- pretty decent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9y5mNE5q2E
It's not clear from the title, but this seems to apply to injections used for murder (capital punishment), not euthanasia.
Put up a pdf (if you have TeX you can get a pdf), but don't make some technical argument that makes you sound slow. This is marketing not a technical talk.
Here's some more reading on the subject of the lethal injection drug shortage, including a per-state breakdown:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/04/12/how-the-drug-s...
Also, we're not assuming the conclusion is correct, we're pointing out a paradox and asking for a resolution.
> Good for Pfizer for showing some cajones.

Well, you could also view this from the opposite angle: if they didn't block this, how good would it look on them?

Also, I can't help but wonder what their stance would be if the "execution" market was much larger.

Anyway, I still applaud this move of course, that is not the point.
How is it racist?

> Especially if you happened to be born a native English speaking, and you propose this from that vantage point

This is slightly racist to me.
Didn't know about that, but that is similar to commando, yes. The GUI seems to be generated, though. The dialog in MPW shell were human-designed, as in http://school.anhb.uwa.edu.au/personalpages/kwessen/web/soft...

(commando invocation in the bottom left)

Edit: http://web.uvic.ca/~ncs/406/HTML/Targeting_MacOS/IDE140_Tool... has a few more examples, including the commando dialog for commando, which is a lot more spartan.
This is silly. If anyone not trained in computer science and not at MIT still found a way to submit evidence or proof invalidating a hypothesis by said research team, they would not only embrace the evidence, they'd probably be pretty happy about it.
Because I just went through this: UNM (which is to be fair a large state school and has practicaly no entrance requirements) gives 3 hours for a 3 on CalcAB and 4hrs (which is the equivalent of their calc 1+lab) for a 4 or 5. but otherwise my microecon, usgov, phys1 and english comp all got credit on 3s.

NMT an hour south also gave me credits for those back a decade ago my first tie through college (though the classes themselves I think transfered as generic math or social studies credits not specific classes)
It can take some effort to feel comfortable giving the keys of a project to someone else. In one project that I had abandoned, I encouraged others to fork and rename the project.

They can advertise it as a fork of the original project to attract stranded users, I would even have promoted it, but I think that it would have been very misleading to our users if suddenly the project changed hands. (the project was a management tool often used by non-profits, it stored personnal data and security was important. I had received a ton of very shady non-sense proposals, to this day, 10 years later, I still get the occasionnal weird message or request for support)
> uneducated middle class

The very idea that the middle class might be uneducated is... odd.
Buy TIPS and use the bond certificates as cash
I consider myself pretty cynical by nature, and I still found this Ryanair example rather astonishing: https://twitter.com/Jelliott08/status/430777503360491520?lan...
See Stand and Deliver. I'm sure similar technique - teacher focused on the students and found ways to motivate them.
One thing the article is missing: the subsidy is explicitly limited to vehicles that cost less that 60.000€. One can say with pretty high confidence that this is done with the explicit goal of excluding Tesla's Model S and Model X.

This would be somewhat understandable, given that the subsidy's purpose is to give an upper hand to our own automotive industry in the electric market... if they had anything to offer. The updated BMW i3 is arguably the only German electric vehicle worth mentioning. E-Golf utterly fails on range (pending a future update), and both Daimler offerings (electric Smart and the B-Class Electric Drive) are way overpriced for what they offer.
Facebook is pretty guilty of this too. I "deleted my account" on Facebook years ago and the only effect this had was that I lost access make changes to my account. The account still exists and still is accessible[1], albeit with outdated information. I have no doubt they're still making money off my data.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/david.kerkeslager
This is just a continuation of Hospira's policy. Pfizer purchased Hospira a year or two back.

If you think about it from a PR move, it's a low risk move.
This is a constructed language designed to solve most of those problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

People have been pushing for years to make it the standard worldwide language.

Incidentally, you can use reddit in Esperanto: https://eo.reddit.com
Why wouldn't you just call it the Saturday effect?
Raw materials are the real limitation. Three thousand+ years ago people where transporting tin thousands of miles because few tin mines existed.

So, if your starting with the correct raw materials and enough food you could probably get to early CPU's in 10 years or so.
The black helecopter conspiracy theorist in me whispers: As a mass surveillance strategy it makes much more sense to have a national tap on all the free wifi than to require passwords/id, which would send potential terrorists underground with something harder to tap. The threat of an effective security culture of "undesirable" cells around, say, one-time pads, is the end-game that any state security apparatus is trying to avoid.
i've never seen this done successfully. what's your motivation for doing this? so that you can code on the go? why not get a tiny laptop?
The Glossary of Happiness
Probably related to English being the third most spoken language in the world and widely represented in international scientific communities, even by non-native speakers. Not defending it.
contrib is a funny place for it. Normally contrib means free software that depends on non-free software. In this case, it seems to have acquired the meaning of free software has a license incompatibility with other free software. I wonder if we have heard the last of CDDL vs GPL.

Technical solutions to legal problems don't work, just like GPL wrappers don't work (at least, that's what some lawyers say). If Oracle decides to make a stink about this, they still can.

edit: Huh, apparently last year Debian actually got advice from SFLC about this:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00...
Lots of things have driven nationwide news. How many "$food is bad for you health!" news occurs?
How I found a data leak of a company during a college lecture
The key last line from this EFF indictment of Facebook[1]: "If a business model wouldn’t work if users had to opt in, it deserves to fail."

To me the entire ad-supported "business model" is the darkest pattern of them all. Please read this comment before a knee-jerk rejection of my claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773

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[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-con...
*code base. Friggin' autocomplete.
Perhaps, and perhaps our children will use "Homo Sapiens" to describe a sub-human too stupid to live, the way we do "Neanderthal", once there's nothing left of us but bones.
Looks nice! Go needs libraries like these.
The situation is similar in France, with the HADOPI(3-strike law) adding a "neglect" infraction for lack of securing your Internet access. So you're indirectly responsible of piracy, but won't pay fines for it, only for negligence of securing your wireless network (ie running an open network). It's pretty comical and hard to apply, and only one person has been sentenced in the 7 years of this law.

Luckily, there's always onionpi (https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/ ) should you need to run an open wifi network.
Microsoft Touch Develop is the only thing that comes to mind here: https://www.touchdevelop.com/
Ask HN: What is your company's pay cycle?
I am curious as to what the normal pay cycle for tech companies is, i.e. Monthly, fortnightly, bi-weekly, weekly etc.

If possible please state your company's name and/or where you are located as well!
I have a difficulty with separate windows: They all look the same. I'd use a tabgroup for the doc (MDN, StackOverflow), another for the website I'm building (2-3 tabs because you enter data in the first page, view it in the second), and another group for live websites (gmail & co). Total a dozen tabs, well organized in hierarchical manner.
The EFF wrote a nice stinging indictment of Facebook, Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-con...
I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

What pisses me off about this whole saga is that now we are left with a legal precedent that broadly validates all copyrights on APIs.

And my feeling is that it may not have come to this if Google hadn't violated not just the law but also the spirit of the social contract around APIs in such a brazen fashion.

Here comes a hugely profitable company with a business model based on advertising and clones a struggling innovator's entire platform for use on the up-and-coming class of devices without paying the creator a single cent.

Google didn't just implement an API to make two different pieces of software compatible so they would work better together. They didn't fight for everyone's freedom to implement APIs either. The only thing they did was fight to keep every last cent of their profits to themselves in the most short sighted, unimaginative and harmful way possible.

I don't have great sympathy for Oracle's business culture. But as I see it, here are two big corporations, each of them ruthlessly pursuing their own self interest, neither of them giving a shit about everyone elses freedoms or any legal precendent they are setting. And neither of them is showing the slightest hint of creativity in their approach.

Freedoms ultimately cannot be based on the benevolence or charity of corporations. Sometimes we share common interests with one or other corporation. And sometimes, as in this case, we don't, and things go to shit without being in anyone's interest at all. Everyone loses, including Google and Oracle. Pure stupidity all the way down.
Esperanto came to mind when reading through the comments here. I first heard about it around 10 years ago but not thought about it since. Certainly renewed my interest!