skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that perhaps there were crickets because the people with the money/position to be able to take the bet have good reason to share your bullish view because they also stand to benefit from you being right? So they have to not only be bearish but be really confident about being bearish to take your bet?

I believe we are in a bubble but I'm not a millionaire I'm just a regular developer, so I don't have $100k to gamble. Maybe I should have offered to take your bet at $100 a year ago? :)

To be honest, though, even though I believe we are in a bubble I don't feel that confident it will burst by 2020. There's too many factors at play that I can't accurately predict a timeline. I just think we're in a bubble because I look at valuations of companies like Uber and AirBnB and they seem inflated to me.
I figured the Canadian real-estate bubble would pop like 5 years ago. Not so much.
Almost all of what they're saying the benefit here isn't ZFS specific and could be done (for example) with Volume Shadow Copies on Windows servers as well
Google also announced this 6 years ago, FWIW.

https://maps.googleblog.com/2010/09/more-easily-find-some-of...
Self-driving trucks will have a significant impact on North-American workforce. Something like 6% ppl in NA are employed in the trucking industry.
In my main comment, I showed my flow already prevented this as it relied on validated, open, standard cells plus analog reviewed by multiple, suspicious parties. Plus called the exact attack. Due to memory loss, I forgot that Thompson didn't actually invent the Thompson attack: Schell and Karger did during MULTICS evaluation. It's in 2 papers on bottom. So, you can add that to counterpoints to Thompson Attack legend. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771243

Also, I produced a set of links to drop on high-assurance, subversion in general, and my verified compiler technique. I still need to do a Pastebin or something on latter as right now it's embedded in conversation with jeffreyrogers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182282

EDIT: While he was ripping off MULTICS, Thompson should've also tried to do prefixed strings, protected stacks, and safer-by-default languages like it had. Might have prevented many attacks on the UNIXen back in the day. Today. Ten years from now. ;)
I think this is impressive work. My lab does eye tracking with really expensive equipment locally. It would be interesting to conduct visual/face processing studies through the web and include eye tracking data with this library. Granted the accuracy is low compared to specialized equipment and predictions are highly variable, other contributors could enhance its accuracy. I suspect that the variability in shape, size, and structure of human faces contributed greatly to the high variance/low resolution predictions issue. Maybe categorizing the user's face shape a priori would enhance predictions. That is, the library would first estimate the "type of face" and use those data to inform the eye tracking. This might not make sense--just a thought.
Yes, it's only 'impossible' if you hold a bunch of economic variables constant.
Teespring (YC W13) is hiring an engineering manager
There are a number of activities in an IDE which require keystrokes or mouse movement, or changing contexts. The capability to browse through code or documentation without having to change contexts would be valuable to me; and I can't be the only one able to finish typing a thought while my eyes move on to read other code.

Minor use cases, perhaps, but something that operates intuitively has the potential to be pretty awesome.
I had the same issue with a second hand HP laptop. However, I could still log in as administrator on the Windows install, enabling me to dump the flash memory used to store the BIOS firmware and configuration, which included the password hash. Some reverse engineering later, and I was able to brute force the hash successfully. So that could be an option if the password is not stored in battery-backed memory, and you have a bit of time on your hands to get stuck into the BIOS internals.
Agreed. Less than half of all human disease genes knocked out in mice lead to a similar phenotype as humans [1]. Nonetheless, the relative simplicity of the treatment probably makes it worth trying (assuming FGF1 injections are not toxic to humans).

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3717207/
> but they had massive advantages over both Apple and Google and with good guidance could've survived successfully.

I can't agree more. Few people remember the Nokia 770 was released almost 2 years ahead of the iPhone. With a bit of polish it could have grown into a fantastic product line. In fact, the N9 was pretty much a masterpiece.
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> The goal of this bet was to deflate the bubble conversation, and that seemed somewhat effective.

Is it the bet which deflated the bubble conversation, or a deflation (or speculation of such) of the bubble itself? I ask because if you take a look at layman-accessible headlines or even some of the conversations which take place here, there's still quite a lot about the "downturn" in the bay. That alone's likely enough to get people to stop talking "bubble" even if the only downturn was in the rate of acceleration of growth, not in actual growth itself.

Still, I appreciate the bet for putting the focus on entrepreneurial efforts as a force of worldwide change rather than as a force of wealth creation.
I wonder how this works. Currently there's only a landing page that asks you to request access so I have no idea.

Do developers integrate Twilio SDK into their apps (similar to Fabric, etc.)? If so, sounds like a way different model than what they used to do (Basically you could integrate just by calling their REST endpoint since it was SMS based and required no installation of any app, but with APNS the only way I can see this work is if you tightly integrate with Twilio API by using their SDK)

How do they figure out a number is associated with an account? Does this assume that users will enter their phone numbers when signing up to a service?
The Goldman link says that the overtime rules will add jobs. I agree.

My comment was addressed to the $15 minimum wage, not the 40-hour week. The Goldman link does not address that at all that I could see.

Why will the $15 minimum wage eliminate jobs? Basic supply-and-demand economics. When the price of something goes up, the usage goes down. (Unless you can make labor a Veblen good, where the high price increases demand. But that depends on status signalling. You could think about trying to make that apply to labor, but I think it would be rare to have cases where that worked.)
I'm surprised the Chinese government didn't intervene in this case. China is a developing country of a billion+ people many of which are still poor and not well educated. Manufacture creates a lot of jobs that don't require a lot of training, so if this becomes widespread I can see it leading to civil unrest as millions become unemployed in a short timespan.
Robots are owned, and this is key. They are productive assets, much like houses produce rent. If they become a problem, all we need to really do is tax them. This means robots will be working for the people, because that's what taxes are -- asset distribution facilitated by government.

Of course, two major problems here. First, the government, for obvious reasons, and second, the corporations that have a stronghold on the government. If the government did it's job, it would simply be re-funneling money where it needs to go; to pay for education, social services, safety, and so on. And if corporations didn't have their way, they wouldn't be able to twist laws and regulations in ways to maximize profit and avoid taxes, because that's precisely what taxes are designed to do -- cut profits.

But if history can teach us anything, it's that even when manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas and call center jobs were shipped and agricultural labor jobs were swept by undocumented immigrants, the government here didn't do much of anything, and the businesses got their way with increased profits. In turn, our labor force got displaced, but we survived because ultimately people find a way to make money.

Every non-government job is created by an entrepreneur, either directly, indirectly, or down the line. Entrepreneurship is really what has driven America. Many will take that over government and taxation (solving the two major problems outlined above), and this is the free market argument in a nutshell.

The takeaway is, if we tax robotic labor, they'd be working for us, the people. Just as anyone paying 15% in income tax is working 2 months out of the year for the USA. Or we could hustle it out and have everyone desperately seek work to save their lives. Our choice. One leads to greater inequality.
In that vein, World War 2 was merely a variation on the Roman invasion of Gaul. The reason I linked to the article is that things which are commonplace and obvious today - a multitude of cheap Android-powered tablets, social media being used to facilitate political action - were newsworthy just five years ago.
The robotics and machine revolution has already hit the US.

Car manufacturing: We still build cars here, but we don't employ nearly as many people.

Logging: contrary to popular belief, the spotted owl didn't destroy logging jobs. Machines that let 1 person replace 20 did.

Manufacturing is the easiest, first place to replace workers, but AI will replace lots of people in America. It looks like trucking and taxis are on the short list - that's a few million workers - but fast food restaurants are up next (and those innovations will move up the chain to fancier restaurants).

Over the last 200 years, there was almost always a new role for people when their job was automated, but over the last 20 years a lot of those new roles were lower paying service jobs.

No way is our consumer culture actually based on small scale production and artisan touches - and not that many of those artisan touches are made by people or machines in China. That may be what you notice, but most of America's paycheck goes to the regular old normal stuff.
Not even that is simple. Recent evidence suggests that "enough calories" may be _far_ less than previously believed.
So, if this works and is 40% efficient compared to LED or florescent bulb's manage ~14% efficiency, do we ban all LED purchases in the US?
Hmmm. I think at least some of these companies are worth less now than a year ago. Zenefits, coinbase, palantir, mixpanel, etc. am I wrong? Agree on the bubble issue. It's a boring discussion
Awesome! Congrats to Realm and their entire team!
Some people (myself included) cannot read long-form content on backlit screens.
Thompson didn't invent or prove anything. He based his work off MULTICS Security Evaluation where Karger et al invented the compiler attack and submitted it in the report. See p 17:

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics-orig.pdf

They invented many other attacks and risk areas you see today despite INFOSEC not existing back then. This was one 2 or 3 pentests that started the hacking part of our field.
Automating good baristas in a cost-effective way is actually a pretty hard problem, but automating your typical Starbucks espresso machine button pusher is trivial -- machines that can make passable cappuccinos already exist. But people don't go to Starbucks for the coffee; they go to Starbucks for the same reason they go to bars.

I think a lot of the service sector automation that will happen in the next 20+ years is analogous. Anything customer-facing is bound to stick around as long as people have spending money, while anything that's not customer-facing will slowly become automated.

E.g. The person at the counter in a McDonalds is the easiest person to replace -- all you really need is an iPad and a couple accessories. But if I were a betting man, I would bet that McDonalds will replace food prep jobs before replacing humans with kiosks in most locations.
I never understood programming competitions. To me, programming is more of an art form or a craft than something you do competitively.
Elaborate Neanderthal Structure Found
Dasung is very cool for a text terminal. But last time I asked they required weird drivers, not available for Linux of course.
This has already happened. The US has a service economy. Healthcare increasingly employs more workers than manufacturing.
Some of the cheaper cards (and USB keys back in the day) sort of assume you'll use a single FAT[/32] partition and they understand the FAT and use it as poor man's TRIM information. They get super upset if you attempt anything that is not a single FAT[/32] partition. Some will actively forbid it by ignoring writes to the first sector of the disk and of the partition. Perhaps this is one of those cases?

EDIT: technically this is kosher as SD spec mandates FAT32 (just like SDXC spec mandates exFAT)
"Bubble" is a bit of a loaded word. It implies both overvaluation and general instability; but these things aren't necessarily linked.
I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said. The original commenter expressed that they "feel uncomfortable with someone else's desire for vengeance fueling a legal offensive." If the legal offensive has merit, why does it matter who is behind it?

It's one thing to express discomfort that someone if funding a frivolous lawsuit, but without some opinion on the merit of the case, I'm not sure how the involvement of money should be seen as a good thing or a bad thing.
>Because for one, Intel still has a better process technology

One of the reasons I've had some hope for Zen, personally, is because AMD has put manufacturing and tech sharing agreements in place with Samsung ahead of the Zen launch. Intel still arguably has a process lead, but Samsung is one of the only companies in the world that has the resources to compete.

A couple of years ago, I thought Intel's process lead might be a semi-permanent advantage. Now I'm seeing some hope that may finally be coming to an end.
Interesting. I learn by playing around with the concept until I gain some intuition about it. No analogies required.
It's not a 'huge, huge deal' unless you are trying to get page views by faking drama.

I'm no fan of Peter Thiel, but Gawker needs to be put out of business. What's more Gawker outed him: I can understand why he would have a grudge against them, and hope he gets what he wants from this.
For me it's:

- simplicity, which in turns creates less complex code and less crashes

- performance, which for my use case was faster than sqlite

- slightly opinionated, in that it forces you to not access objects from different threads, which can eliminate a whole class of bugs (you could and should do this or a similar approach to prevent these with whatever solution, but Realm forces it)
What you describe is how big pieces of the mining and oil industry work already. It's not as daunting as you think to move things around and buy security in the poorer parts of the world.

Getting smart people to come on contract to live in luxury and service your robots won't be hard. Why on earth would you live in a dingy NYC or San Francisco apartment if you could go somewhere and as merely an engineer be waited on hand and foot in a luxury condo while saving up bank. Go golfing after work every day for free.
Notes for “Towards AI-Complete Question Answering” Paper
I think you may be ascribing meanings to the word "interesting" and conflating it with "good, positive, benign" change.

World War III breaking out would most certainly be considered "interesting" news, although there is absolutely nothing positive about it.
They have dropped clojure completely. All the critical path messaging in Storm was done using clojure. Dropped netty too. The actual messaging ("stream manager") seems to be C++. Perhaps that explains the latency and CPU improvements. The architectural changes mentioned account for better cluster utilization, fault tolerance and back pressure implementation, but don't explain why raw streaming performance is so much better in Heron.

Edit: Not so sure what they are using for networking. Seemed like cpp-netlib at first, but I don't think so now.
Here's a .pdf of the report

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2842460/ESP-16-03...
Great summary. To add to that:

1. They see a bump (aka "resonance") which can generically be modeled as a new particle/state (whether it's a dark force particle, or a nuclear state or atomic state or whatever).

2. (Small correction to the above post: the mass of the resonance is 16.6 MeV not GeV) Atomic physics operates at the eV scale, and the mass of a Be nucleus is roughly 10 GeV (10^9 eV). So, given that this bump fits the 16.6 MeV (10^7 eV) scale which between the other two scales, this might either be some detailed nuclear physics (eg: some Berellium resonance) or an honest-to-god new particle.

3. Since the angular separation is roughly 135 degrees, it seems reasonable that the intermediate state is moving fast ("boosted") [1]. That means that it cannot be as heavy as a whole nucleus -- therefore, if this was a Berellium resonance then the angle between the electron-positron pair would leave back-to-back (180 degree separation). That is what pushes the interpretation towards a new particle/force.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_decay#From_two_differ...
It didn't work that well with the camera on my HP 8470p but great idea and I'm sure it took a lot of time and effort. I appreciate the effort.
Music Industry Study Asserts 170M Euros Lost to Piracy in 2014
I actually tried this on iOS a few months ago. The experience was far worse -- felt slower, less responsive, harder to navigate -- so I re-installed the app.
I will laugh my ass off if it ever comes to this. Hopefully I never have to come back to this comment and weep.
Why not make Detroit, for example, that city with the streets?
The worst oils for cooking are the "healthiest" ones for adding to salads. For example, olive oil and avocado oil "burn" really easily and at a low temperature. On the other hand, butter and lard can survive the high heat better.

This is because poly- and mono-unsaturated fats had double bonds that oxidize rapidly. A free radical colliding with one of those double bonds will set off a chain reaction, resulting in rancidity.

In comparison, saturated fats have single bonds that do not oxidize as rapidly after a free radical challenge.
>My conclusion: obesity is caused by some combination of excessive portion sizes + over-processed food.

I disagree on portion sizes, based on my experiences in Japan.

In Japan - there is far less sugary products and they are less popular than in the states. (eg: soda). Even many of their "desserts" aren't that sugary (or tasty IMO...)

I stayed with a family during my time there. During home cooked meals it wasn't uncommon to have several servings - often times totaling more food than I'd ever eat in the States! While I would politely decline past the second serving [0] on the grounds of being full, the family I was staying with would often have several servings each. It was so much food! It felt like instead of one "double-size" serving they would have six "half sized" servings (slightly exaggerating # of servings).

I ate less than everyone in the family - they even commented on the fact many times! They were surprised I would always be full before they were and had expected an American to always be hungry (because of the "smaller portions" of Japan). I also ate with other families/visited other foreigners my family knew and it was always the same! Smaller portions but way more servings!

Restaurant serving sizes were more or less equal to the States except the drinks which felt like the largest sizes were equivalent to a kid's cup or a water cup you'd get at a fast food joint in the states. I was perpetually thirsty in Japan.

Also Japanese people walk/bike nearly everywhere as the public transport via trains is very practical and very convenient. The exercise certainly adds up.

[0] Always have seconds if the cook offers!
My wife recently needed to know the 409(a) valuation of a company she owns stock in and was able to get it within a couple days. Obviously YMMV, but consider that we pay estimated taxes quarterly -- valuing those shares at least once per quarter is a necessity.
>You're wrong, simple as that. Being dominant simply is not enough.

Yeah, I'm gonna bet on me and my law degree for being right about that. Whether Facebook is in a dominant position is for the court to decide.

You on the other hand are a funny... dude. Haha, "dude" he says :)
Here's an industry-related breakdown via Billboard that summarizes some key points put forward:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/738...
Yeah...how's that working out for folks?
What are the chances of seeing this at retail in the next decade?
Heh, Terje's name is actually misspelled in the linked doc (I was like "I know I copy/pasted that")
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768536.
Maybe. RDBMS should be able to recover from any crash consistent copy of storage, where crash consistency means the storage represents a state of the system at run time. FS snapshots provide this property for single volumes.

The problem is that production RDBMS tend to span multiple volumes, e.g., for logs vs. data to pick a simple case. FS snapshots in this case may not be consistent which would cause recovery to fail.

AFAIK this is why even robust RDBMS like MS SQL server use mechanisms like VSS to ensure data are flushed, which guarantees not just crash consistency but application consistency.
Just curious, but does anyone who pays attention to this space/technology know if eye tracking (with commodity-ish hardware) has gotten to the point of "replacing the mouse"?

E.g. at the OS level, the pointer basically follows your gaze.
Thanks for the clarification! I'm definitely not a hardware expert and was going off of what I remembered from the talk on Monday.
Corporations - especially publicly traded ones - are not exactly known for their long-term planning. Quarterly reports on the other hand...
Correctness of Query Execution Strategies in Distributed Databases
Loud and Clear: Music, cassette tapes and U.S. prison rules
Well... It popped in Fort McMurray.

Edit: And that was way before this year's wildfire.
? I'm not sure what you mean. I think most people have much more respect for founders because they start from scratch and turn it into something. She didn't start from scratch, and she didn't turn it into anything.
This is an interesting case because the bank claims he stole the records to sell them to rival banks, while he claims he stole them to be a whistle blower to foreign governments.

Things in the banks favour of this story are:

1) he was convicted in a Swiss court

2) he didn't actually approach any foreign governments for the 2 years he worked at HSBC until the day after the Swiss government brought him in for questioning about the theft of the bank's data.

3) He was caught trying to sell the bank data in Beirut.

In his favour:

1) The French government has no plans to prosecute him and allegedly hasn't paid him for the information.

I guess this is a case of one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter?
US DoD Using 1970s IBM Series/1 and Floppy Disks for Nuclear Command and Control
Only in the short term, It is well within the realm of possibility for a purpose built token without counterparty risk like Ether to emerge on the Ethereum network.