skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gravekeeper’s Paradox: People want permanent tombstones that also show decay
For complete decoupling, better use NixOS.
I spend most of my internet time on HN. It makes me wish HN tracked this and, each time I load the page, prompted me with a "Do you really want to spend the next n minutes here?"
Ara: What’s next [video]
Looking at Jasper, it uses AT&T or Google or Facebook (wit.ai) as backend (forget the other two, offline speech recognition is hard because it's a data problem and training your models is hard and your performance will be prohibitive).

If you intent is privacy, then using the backends offered by AT&T or Google or FB doesn't fly.
Find the person in each list who is unlike the others

1. George W. Bush, Caesar Augustus, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Qin Shi Huang

2. Bob Martin, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra
Doesn't the observation that people who believe in free will act differently than people who don't demonstrate that free will exists? I'm perfectly willing to accept that we have less free will than we think we do, and that there's a physical basis for our mental processes. But why should that mean we have no free will at all?
So, does that demean it? A thought is just a seed, and the onus of growing/nurturing it is on the thinker.
Sadly this is not true. // is flooring division on integers, but real division on floats.
We really need a ratings agency for IoT devices that gives them a score based upon how much they leak data.
Cython can probably compile your existing codebase such that it's compatible with both 2 and 3. Then you can write your new code in Python 3, while importing the old code as a C extension.

You can also do this piece-by-piece, if for some reason your code doesn't compile with Cython right away.

The compilation process also makes it much easier to identify bytes/unicode bugs, because you can choose to declare types.
Capitalism just means you need to pay your own bills to keep your doors open and you have to provide something that people value more than the money they are willing to pay for it.

Capitalism has provided a wide group of people a better standard of living than 99.9% of humans that came before it. Even countries with a bit more socialist flavor benefit from the advances in health care, biotech, technology etc that originates in countries where turning a profit is one of the primary motivation for operating a business.
Maybe using a `reinterpret_cast` would actually have better performance. A C-style cast tries to do a bunch of casts in order, starting with a static and ending with reinterpret (see http://anteru.net/blog/2007/12/18/200/).

There's no excuse for using c-style casting in C++ considering the depth of the different casts we as developers have at our disposal.

Additionally, I just looked at the code, and is there any reason it's all stuffed into a single header and source file? I don't know if I'm just being naive, but isn't this a slightly bad design? There seem to be a lot of different data structures that could easily be broken out and make it a bit easier to follow the flow of the project.
I think this distinction between 'moral' and 'natural' inability is an artificial one. The only difference is where, between the chair and the center of the man's mind, the chains are fastened.
The same could be said about Wikipedia. If we all chip in (code, governance and money), we can make it happen. I am part of two coops and one LLC that back FOSS projects. I even make a living out of it.

There may be data issues (Google can easily buy datasets), software issues (good algorithms and fighting spam) and probably many other issues. Many people probably do not feel enough incentive to re-create Google. It works well enough and is not irritating enough.

Then again, search and maps/directions are pretty much the only services I use. For mapping projects that do not require directions, I use OSM-based solutions. For email I use a home-hosted Zimbra VM, for chat I use Mattermost and IRC, for news I use a few websites (most aggregators suck and just become echo-bubbles). etc.
Interesting you used smoking as a metaphor and not advertising. The amount of effort and money that's gone into that is amazing.
Your landlord accepts credit card payments and you pay him/her with your credit card? No different than any other vendor. Mine charges like 2% or something to cover costs.
Good times, hot swapping a laptop HDD to clear the password...
It's really important both to backup the FDE keys and have regular backups.

I lost a volume to BitLocker AES-XTS 256 earlier this year and luckily only lost a few days of work. I've since substantially improved my backups and even rotate a disk offsite weekly now.
Here's what happens when online community develops a computer
Hall of Fame: Manning and Snowden
Could you give us citations? I love nietzsche...
How Airbnb Turned Its Hosts into Political Foot Soldiers
That may well have been it, thanks. Will need to get WINE setup, so I can give it a try.

Tweeted it... It's funny, but I often use twitter to tweet about stuff, just so that I can find them later.
Yep, it's a data problem.
Because we know that wealth is distributed unequally, and that a scrupulous individual earning $35k gross might have a cash flow under $1k.
They are in the process of doing it, at least slowly.

There still needs to be some sort of delivery truck access, irregardless. Parts of downtown Chicago provide an interesting example with multi-leveled streets, the big deliveries and trash collection can be all be done out of sight.

I suspect very soon we will see a city, or multiple cities, start blocking off certain streets and then neighborhoods to non-autonomous vehicles. Maybe it will be Manhattan, maybe it will be another city. This lowers the bar for how advanced the self driving tech needs to be by a lot. You can have 100% traffic enforcement. Pedestrian deaths should almost be completely eliminated short of some very unusual edge cases.
Geometric mean also interacts with unit conversions which use a different zero-point. For instance, if you take the geometric mean of daily temperatures, you will get different means depending on whether you work in F or C or K.
I was hoping to find something concrete here but found mostly fluff (and some nice quotes, sure).

I've worked with some incredible engineers so I'm going to share what I've noticed and learned over the years:

1. They write code which elegant and easy to read (cyclomatic complexity is "magically" low).

2. They know their data structures, algorithms and use them when required -- that is, when there isn't a nice, clean implementation of something, they aren't afraid of writing their own version.

3. They write unit tests. They don't shy away from creating test infrastructure even if this means a lot of work on its own. The stuff built is then easy to use by future contributors.

4. They're aware of new features and frameworks.

5. They're generally friendly and are willing to explain stuff to others.
so then what else informs a free agent's choice?
Open-spec, octa-core “NanoPi M3” SBC sells for $35
A self-driving car is probably a better thing to compare to. And in that case, most people would probably argue that it's behavior would be deterministic, even if it could learn in some capacity.

Although, after making that point, is there really a difference between a self driving car and a car and a driver in your example? Probably not. They're both being driven by something, and the answer shouldn't change based on what the driver is.
Amid Arrests and Prosecutions, Rules Around Selling Bitcoin Remain Fuzzy
Look what happened to Mt. Everest: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/travel/feat-mount-everest-...
-- there's no "small enough" or "difficult enough to scale" (or "protected") when it comes to tourism.
Yes, "unsharp" or "the principle of non-sharpness" or something like that, inspired by some German terms used, would be much less prone to misunderstandings and myths. "It's not sharp, but it's OK." Can't be reduced to "stupid scientists are so uncertain."
The notion that they're currently protected at all is a joke.
Yep, the government's goal is to promote stable home ownership. Investors should invest in mortgage brokers if they want the socialized benefits of the governments policy, because the loans just end up in fannie/freddie after origination and servicing fees are collected. The government wants control because they hold all the risk.
Well, no, don't look at the warnings as entertainment one might tire of (although I appreciate that news is typically presented that way); more as a warning one should heed.
> If accepted to use the Content ID tools, applicants will be required to complete an agreement explicitly stating that only content with exclusive rights can be used as references. Additionally, accepted applicants will need to provide the geographic locations of exclusive ownership, if not worldwide.

The big question here is what are the consequences of adding a reference that the applicant does not have exclusive rights to? Is it YouTube's discretion? What happens if Fox/Viacom/Sony/whoever decides to include a clip of public domain classical music in their reference? They don't have exclusive rights to that music, do they?
I am certainly not a great programmer, but I'll add a concept to this list: you avoid bugs by not writing code.

Ruthlessly focus on the minimum viable amount of code for a given problem, or if a problem can be avoided entirely. Minimalism in code and software design is a beautiful thing, but it doesn't get a lot of press because "the new hotness", "grow or die", "we have to do something", and so on.
No. Why would it demonstrate that? Beliefs affect actions whether or not those beliefs are accurate.

Consider: 'Does the observation that people who believe in [demons] act differently than people who don't demonstrate that [demons] exist?'
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Ask HN: For what kinds of workloads are HNers using machine learning?
No need to get too specific (e.g. confidentiality, proprietary reasons), but just wondering what people on here are using ML for these days? Also, are you getting the kinds of results you expected (better, worse, or as expected)?
Sorry for being off-topic: my wife and I had our MacBooks stolen on the weekend and every ten minutes I think why in the hell didn't I have FileVault turned on. Our whole lives were on those laptops and I cannot even fathom what sort of fallout to expect with our data out there.
Regex Edit Distance
The author screwed up by considering only digital computers. You keep ignoring addressing my main counterclaim that there's multiple models of computation, the brain matches one pretty closely, and so it's likely computing and/or a computer.

The evidence I presented of alternative models of computation, neurons, and implementations in those models is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731697
Yeah, I don't see that working unless the shebang is changed to `#!/bin/sh`?
I think if you accept a materialistic ontology, you have no choice* but to accept that you have no real choices - instead, your choices are illusions - every action you take is purely a function the gears of the universe turning (cause/effect).

* some people "choose" to believe in Compatibilism, which I consider a cop out.
The best use of "!important" is for utility classes. For example, if you want to just have a single class that determines when something is hidden, it's a lot easier to have a ".hidden" class that has "display: none !important" on it that overrides any other display you may have set. Otherwise, you'd need to have a ".Module_hidden" class for every single module or component you have - which is dumb.
Yeah, and it sounds exactly like something a non-technical manager might say to "help" their workers.
An agent's ability to do and not do without external influence or coercion.

The other side of this though is if the agent believes he or she has the ability to do or not do, but actually doesn't, is it still free will? An example being you enter your office with the intention of working for five hours. Without realizing it, the door locks behind you from the outside, leaving you effectively trapped. Even if you never attempt to leave the room, are you staying at your own free will?
Okay! Makes sense, thanks. I can't quite place it but I do feel there is something big here! Congrats guys.
I grew up five minutes away from the escarpment, near Guelph. I used to climb those cliffs as a kid. For the most part, respectful use is encouraged. Not a lot has changed since I was a kid with respect to these cliffs or the nature in and around them so I guess that is good. If you are curious what is being done, check this out: http://www.greenbelt.ca/
I think The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and A Genealogy of Morality are very readable and thought-provoking without going into esoteric ism or experimental style like Thus Spake Zarathustra. I prefer the Kaufman translations, but I understand there are many new, possibly better translations available now. Translation can make-or-break Nietzsche - he was one of the best German prose writers and makes use of a lot of wordplay and neologisms.

The first quote was from Gay Science - I grabbed the second of Wikipedia, but I was sure it, or something to the same effect, was also in Gay Science. I don't have a searchable copy of my favorite translation, unfortunately, but Nietzsche talks a lot of psychology in Gay Science.
I tend to agree with you about there being a distinction between unpaid and paid slavery, however I am not sure it's as useful or as clear a distinction as you imply.

For example - one way in which slaves can be held captive is by having them work in a remote place where they don't have the resources to travel across the space between them and the rest of society - e.g. A camp in the desert, or jungle, or a plantation on an island.

It is not clear why this kind of captivity is distinct from the captivity that arises when the barrier to cross is economic and social rather than physical.

If people are being used as laborer a in a position where they cannot accumulate enough resources to leave, what difference does it make what kind of wall keeps them there?
As a developer, it is difficult for me to move to Python 3 (and I want to). I'm working on a Django project and relying heavily on various Django plugins. There are a whole lot of plugins that are only supported for Python 2. Without much knowledge of Django landscape, I anticipated this and went with Python 2.7. Turned out to be a prudent decision that saved me tons of time.
There isn't a "Windows" way of handling strings. You can handle strings however you want, just make sure that you pass the right data to syscalls. Windows APIs take UTF-16 or some other code page. Linux takes bytes. OS X takes UTF-8. There is no greatest common denominator. But if you use Unicode, then at least there's a well-defined way to write the syscall wrappers on all platforms.

And it's not like Python 3 is forcing you to give up bytes. You can still os.listdir(b'/some/dir') and you'll get a list of bytes objects back. It's just that that's not default, since using Unicode by default simply makes more sense on a cross-platform system.
It would be nice if it wasn't.
you mean without fear of /government/ reprisal.

There is no freedom from criticism in this country, your fellow citizens are absolutely free to judge you, talk mean about you, and otherwise belittle your views.

If a public official arrests you for talking about your political beliefs, then and only then have your rights been infringed upon.
The general idea here is that you can calculate not only whether or not a string matches a regex, but if it doesn't match, precisely by how much (in the minimal case).
> "Unbestimmtheit" (Indeterminacy) was on the part of the observer: not realizing certain aspects of nature at this stage in our knowledge—rather than proof that nature itself is fundamentally undetermined and uncertain.

And yet Bell's theorem and Aspect's experiment show there are no hidden variables.
If losing the master key (or the passphrase that decrypts it, at least) does not result in the data being gone forever then the encryption isn't worth much, now is it?
It's mentioned at the end of the link that an older tree has since been recorded.

Note the photo and think about counting 5000 age rings on a pencil (roughly the situation with a core) and I think it becomes clear that 'recorded' is an important part of it.
How do CC companies make money off of minimum payments? Don't they lose money by lending more than what's paid back?
Python 3 support in scientific Python projects
Share holders essentially were wiped out and the government did take over Fannie and Freddie. The remnant equities have very little value. Only people interested in the last 8 years are lawyers hoping to get paid off.

What they should do is auction off the assets, pay off their creditors and let the banks, credit unions and other organizations manage the risk.

There's plenty of competition in the lending business.
You can look at it as removing our humanity, or you can look at it as supplementing our humanity.

Prior to the written word, we had to devote time and effort to passing down information through the spoken word. By offloading this task to an external device (wall, tablet, parchment, paper, book, screen), we've been able to use that time and brainpower to focus on other items, while also increasing the fidelity of our history and what we can learn from it. People lament the loss of an oral storytelling culture. It is a loss, but we've gained as well, so mathematics, literature, philosophy. We are able to build on the past in a way we weren't before.

Prior to the plow and domesticated animals to pull them, we used to have to plant manually or practice a more hunter & gatherer lifestyle. By offloading these tasks we are able to secure our future needs, and live a life less of subsistence, and more of security in our health and future. Some people lament the loss of connection to the land, the feeling of oneness with the seasons. It is a loss, but again, we've gained as well. This free time has allowed us to study what we've written, and build upon the past.

You could make a case that using these tools (and hundreds more in our history) takes the humanity out of you, and relies on the tool for it. I would make the case that using these tools is what makes you human, as without them, what's really the distinguishing feature that separates you from the apes? To me, nothing defines humanity more than the constant improvement of our race, our reach, and our capabilities.

That I carry around a small computer in my pocket that connects to a much larger network and allows me near instantaneous connection to my family, friends, coworkers, and the largest accumulation of knowledge the human race has ever seen might seem like I'm trading away what you think makes us human, but since I use this to keep in touch with friends, be more mindful of important things to them, learn about what I'm doing to be more safe, secure and healthy, and share with myriad sub-cultures, I strongly disagree.
At first I assumed this meant we were eating significantly less dairy, but it seems most of the loss in whole milk was just cannibalized by lower fat milk, coinciding with the low fat craze.

Edit: Actually, on actually doing some math, there is a substantial decrease in overall milk consumption. It's just hard for me to visually account for this since there is so much shuffling between the categories.

sum_milk= ->(Whole Milk + 2pct Milk + 1pct Milk + Skim Milk)

sum_milk(1970)=.91 cups
sum_milk(1990)=.74 cups
sum_milk(2013)=.53 cups
some of the regulations are necessary and important. others of them are corruption of the system by (literally) rent-seekers trying to protect their incumbent positions.

sorting that out is no easy task. saying "that would improve overnight" sounds like an embrace of oversimplification, which I think is an inappropriate position for an issue like this with so much complexity and uncertainty.
If ⌘-F/Ctrl-F worked, it would be perfect (though numerical orders does mitigate that). Single reference page...and dogs. I don't need a full page of in-depth explanation for each status, I just need a quick reminder of what 418 is.
Nokia's smartphone line was already several generations old when Apple introduced the first iPhone... The Symbian OS had a 67% market share in smartphones in 2006. The first version of the Communicator with 3rd party software ecosystem, the 9210, was released in 2001!
I would disagree that we're better off. Well, maybe some people would be. But personally, that information has actually had the ironic effect of making me more effective at using my 'free will'. It's easier to try and be something other than what you are if you believe you think you have more control than you actually do, and that's a potentially huge waste of energy.
I'm not generally a Mac fanboy but damn if the Time Capsule isn't the most it-just-works backup solution I've ever used. I really want to find a similar setup for my Windows boxes.
>5

Most of the very best developers I have had the opportunity to work with had this quality. They are very comfortable in what they know and what they don't know.

Nearly every cocky programmer I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know.
Really? You think most webapps will be a string of Lambda functions? Will hacker news be a lambda?

Not a troll, but a 60% skeptic. I see the simple stuff Lambda can replace. Having a harder time see it taking away from the marketshare of the more complex stuff.
yes I do that a lot (throw the stone and hide the hand)
It's true, I wasn't allowed to use the Internet (or any computer network) from 2000-2002.
I don't think disbelieving free will requires nihilism. It's not that there's unfreedom of the will, it's that the idea and its converse never made any real sense.
Tackle simple, well defined projects. Avoid anything like UI where it's hard to predict how the end user will stretch the code or how it might be hacked.

Work on the server side.

Avoid anything that is multi threaded.
Lecture notes a lost treasure? Which school did you went to? MIT?
Ask HN: What is the best (FREE) Chatbot?
What is the most powerful and free chatbot API (or platform) out there? The goal is to chat about various topics.
At first, yes, they lose money, but over time the interest charges outpace the original balance by far. And people are still bound by credit limits.
> Consciousness is not supernatural.

Prove it. And update the wiki while you are at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
These days I use Tasker to make my phone a dumb phone when the display is off. Wifi, GPS and BT are off, mobile data is off. I can receive calls and texts, but no data transfer.

This means that people close to me can get in touch if my phone is off, but apps that want to sync things or notify me can wait until I open my phone. I also don't have facebook/twitter installed on my phone, although I use fb occasionally via desktop browser.

Re: the article, these days the worst offender is email spam. I've stopped using gmail's auto categories a few months ago, and I still (a few a week) occasionally get stuff that would have fallen into the "promo" category. I've lost count of the number of newsletters I've clicked "unsubscribe" to when I first made the switch. I made the switch because I wanted to get out of being tied to the gmail client. Now I'm free to use any email client, and my inbox looks sane regardless of what tool I use.
Now you need a pretty beefy server in your home to have all of that data, and be able to return results relatively quickly. The music could be an integrated NAS device though.

All of that said, most home users aren't going to want to setup a home server with a database in order to get directions.