skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. I've been wanting to say something about the actual probability of this project getting started for a while, but I seemed to have already attracted enough opprobrium throughout this thread without also implying that it simply can't happen for, er, logistical reasons.
Funny that he was Chief Learning Officer at Trump University. Doesn't diminish my feelings for him, but interesting.
I find it hard to visualise the gel pack thing.

I was thinking just now of Mike Basich kind of demonstrating the landing in snow bit. He aimed to jump out of a helicopter on a snowboard at 50ft for a magazine photoshoot but it ended up being nearer 130ft. I think that makes it about a 60mph fall so not terminal velocity but pretty quick.

Vid of jump https://youtu.be/OC42K5ex0iA?t=18s

Him talking about it from 22m30 https://vimeo.com/7732513
I understand your concerns, and they are valid. However, none of us can predict the future; we can only use the past to fit patterns. For example: even during the worst periods of conflict between India and Pakistan, water continued to flow into Pakistan from India. Remember: Pakistan is mostly a desert without Indian water; and India did nothing. Relations between India and Bangladesh are quite friendly, so I have faith in a just resolution. Of course, Bangladesh must be vigilant.
Those who trade for buried complexity are doomed to start digging whenever they discover an edge case.

Maybe they never need to do that, in which case that's a bargain. But I tend to think that any old enough codebase continually accrues edge cases that must be solved.
In Bangladesh's best interests? Oh sahib, why did you not you say so to begin with?

Definitely a burden off my shoulders.
As a long-time Win32 programmer (over a decade), I can safely say that the vast majority of existing applications still remain (for the time being) forward-compatible.

Here's some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOj-bAZBhnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfn4M5DXTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFWuNmWbHk

The reasons people hold off on "upgrading" Windows versions is not mainly because of compatibility, but other factors like unwanted UI changes and removed features, and particularly with Windows 10, the increased data-collection intrusiveness and "we own your machine" attitude:

http://www.howtogeek.com/243581/windows-10-may-delete-your-p...
I agree. MS's recent anti-malware offerings are definitely up there. Their efforts in the area have been paying off.

The major issue is identical executables being operable across platforms makes for much easier transmissability. Eg, how many people put their XBoxes and Windows machines on the same home network? I'd posit a majority of people who own both platforms, simply for simplicity's sake.
Reminds me of a similar article covering the work of Douglas Hofstadter, the author of GEB :

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
But I saw it working in a Bruce Willis movie. I think he was a hitman-lol. Which is exactly my point. Computers will never be any smarter than the EXACT commands we as their 'creators' give them. In essence they will never be but an extension, a tool, of ourselves. But to say they can think? Not a chance in hell.
Today, Chinese government says that Japanese army killed 300,000 people in Nanking.
In reality, Nanking's population had been doubled at that time.
Plus, there were only 200,000 people from the beginning.
I still think there had been something small massacres though,
why can't we find dead bodies for 300,000 people?

Talking about comfort women, the system was not only Japan.
USA and South Korea had also introduced exactly same system during Korean war.
Look at today's USA. How many Korean prostitutes are out there?
They would be called sex slaves 50 years later.
They are not doing "cognitive computing" no matter how many times they say they are

Maybe not, but "cloud computing" is getting a little pedestrian. New meaningless names used to market things we've been doing all along are a good way to gin up some interest.
Most interesting statement is the last one. Author seems to think we are about to enter into another AI winter.

Seems odd given alpha go and recent success of deep learning.
Wages have not been stagnating [1]. Median wage has stagnated but that is due largely to the polarization of the labor market of which has been talked about long before Peter Thiel [2].

[1]: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melissa_Kearney2/public...
Remarks by Commencement Speaker Peter Thiel
They just didn't do enough, and didn't announce an NGDP level target.

Announcing the target and that the central bank will do whatever it takes, makes the market help with achieving the target--because any difference between a target that will eventually achieved and current reality is an opportunity for arbitrage.
Cool. I hope Americans remember this as we consider electing someone who thinks nuclear war is a bargaining tool.

"If they do, they do" is not something a President should be saying about other nations engaging in nuclear war. Go mess up someone else's planet, Trump.
Trailblazer Framework (Ruby) in 20 minutes or less
When I visited the peace museum in Hiroshima, I was surprised by how honest the exhibits were about admitting their own ugly history that led up to the bomb. I was shocked by the forgiveness of the Japanese people. Some survivors actually work in the museum and greet visitors coming through. The peace museum is one of the most emotional places I've ever visited and it leaves such a vivid picture of the human cost of war.
Beijing is absolutely the counterpart of Silicon Valley in China with similar area and much bigger population. Although two of big old three (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent) is located outside of Beijing, most Internet companies especially new stars such as Didi, Meituan-Dianping, Xiaomi are all here.

Beijing has two tech hot spots now: [Zhongguancun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongguancun) and [Wangjing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangjing_Subdistrict).
I think the poster meant that first [many] were killed in Hiroshima; and even if that was justified - would that justification apply to dropping another nuclear bomb on Nagasaki [a few days later]?
(I'm not an expert, just a user) Snapshotting effectively disables NOCOW. Snapshotting always works, and needs COW to do so. Which means ryao is right that fragmentation will occur. btrfs doesn't copy a NOCOW file in its entirety if it's in a snapshot, or I would have run out of disk space by now. (I really need to move my VM images to a non-backed-up subvolume.)
3G/4G Portable Cell Phone Jammer with 5 Powerful Antenna
https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2016/05/11436-japanese-activist-tam...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068
Sadly, the store/department managers have no say in the matter. It's all laid out at corporate. Most managers inside the brick & mortar roll with it no matter how nonsensical some edicts are, some were/are bitter. They all know they are ultimately expendable.
If long lags where a thing, wouldn't that lead to major arbitrage opportunities?

See http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=6197

Monetary policy can always produce inflation, if the central banks wants it badly enough.

You are right that better fiscal policy can be useful for the economy, too. (I'd like to see Georgism given an honest try again. Funny enough, that's a very orthodox economic suggestion. Just like free trade and free movement of labour.)
Uh, Go is not a research project. It was written to be used, not to explore previous unexplored language features. Basically nothing in the language is new (or at least wasn't new to the creators), something that it is often criticized for.

Dropbox has stated that pretty much their entire backend is written in Go. Go is also (obviously) used in production at Google. Neither Dropbox or Google is screwing around. Once a project is run at Google or Dropbox scale, it is no longer a research project.

Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language. This is because very few of its more advanced features are really required for writing a normal web app. Because it isn't really a framework, it does require a good understanding of web development.

I think Haskell can be fairly described as a research project and definitely requires a good understanding.
ISRO: Reusable Launch Vehicle
I sure wish some mainstream journalists would look into the whole "Watson" marketing campaign and apply some fact checking to it.

I like AI projects as much as the next HN reader, but compared to efforts by the other players in this space (Google, Apple, Tesla, Amazon, etc) whenever I hear a new marketing push about IBM Watson project my "BS detector" goes into the red zone.

(That said, it would be awesome if I'm wrong and IBM really is making some genuine advances...)
I think this is great. The best part of this is that there has been an obvious large amount of thought put into the programmer-interface to this library.

It just plain looks great. I'll have to give a try some time soon.
This being C, I assume the performance is really good

FWIW, everyone I know who moved web-serving things to C did so primarily because of latency, and then secondarily to avoid GC time delays. Higher transactions per server was a bonus, but no one did it for that.

Also, if you have to hit a database, then any efficiency you get from switching to C will probably be swallowed up by that.
More reading : http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/isro-rlv...
This article mirrors some huge frustrations I've had in recent years as a long-time lover and pusher of machine learning. I spoke to a Watson booth employee for a few minutes at a machine learning conference a couple years ago, and almost right away had similar feelings. I don't like the term 'fraud' here though, 'insanely oversold' seems more appropriate. I looked more into Watson, and realized it's really just a large number of traditional (and not very innovative) machine learning algorithms wrapped into a platform with a huge marketing budget.

>AI winter is coming soon.

Perhaps, if so Watson is certainly evidence of this. It frustrates me to no end that machine learning has so much potential but is often lost in a sea of noise and buzz words (as much as I love deep learning, I'm almost tempted to lump that in here too given its outsized media coverage). Machine learning is in its infancy of impact, but the overselling by mediocre enterprise companies and ignorant press may shoot its credibility for years to come.
Definitely - it would be awesome, but way ahead of schedule, if they're thinking about a true UXKit landing with ABI stability and "finished" generics in Swift 4.
I'm not sure what this complaint has to do with electric cars in general -- sure, expensive cars are expensive.

Your Tesla number is definitely incorrect; I rear-ended someone in traffic and fixing the front-end was $10k of parts and $10k of labor. Not a surprising amount given what the car costs.

I suspect a Chevy Bolt will cost about the same to repair as other Chevy cars with a similar price.
> On matters of existential import (and riparian sustainability is definitely one of these for Bangladesh), I absolutely would expect to have in place a binding agreement in perpetuity.

Of course you can expect a lot of things. But expectations cannot be unrealistic. A binding agreement in perpetuity is impossible. None of us, India or Bangladesh, know or can predict the future. No treaty/agreement has ever been signed between any two countries in this World with an "in perpetuity" clause. You can always revisit treaties and improve upon it. If you consider India as a friendly neighbor you (i'm guessing you are from Bangladesh) should not distrust our ability to negotiate a good treaty.

> This is serious business for Bangladesh: without the rivers, the flooding they cause and fluvial sediment deposits that come with the floods, Bangladesh ceases to exist just as surely as if the sea swallowed the entire country.

And India recognizes that. I have seen the documentary on eroding coastline of Bangladesh and it is of concern to Indians. If you don't believe me you can read my comment that I wrote 146 days ago regarding erosion of the Bangladeshi coastline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804361. We are more sensitive to our neighbors problems than our neighbors being sensitive to our problems. This is unfortunate reality.
We already have human growth hormone, testosterone, igf etc that can make your body heal and recover like a younger person atleast for sometime.

You can also chose to have one child or 4 children. Just depends: do you get more happiness from 1 pampered child, or 4 modestly raised children.
>Meanwhile, to my point above, America does nothing but wage wars since WW2. Make of that what you will.

America is the reason Japan is pacifist. America forced Japan to become pacifist at the point of (quite a few) guns. While it's wonderful that the Japanese people have embraced pacifism culturally, their country's pacifist stance is nonetheless paid for with the obligation of American military violence.
> There is no way to objectively define "trolling".

Oh it's been very objectively defined. Knowing when someone is trolling, or when they legitimately believe what they're saying is the problem.
Another good place to land is ant mounds, as in case of Joan Murray. "She approached the ground at 81 miles per hour (130 kilometers per hour), landing on a mound of fire ants. Doctors believe that the shock of being stung over 200 times by the ants released a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Murray_%28skydiver%29
By the time the bombs were dropped, the ear in Europe was over. The weekly death toll was much lower than average by then .
WWII is falling out of living memory very quickly. It should be of no surprise that it is becoming every more glorified. Europe is shifting dangerously to the right. The US is about to elect a hawk (both of them are hawks). An Asian nation (this time China) is talking expansion, in influence if not in literal territory. The western world is split on the issue of migrants fleeing local conflicts. And everyone talks of tightening boards. All the ducks are lining up nicely for the day we forget the lesson.

There is only so much room in Canada.
Rails is great. And of course it isn't and will never be perfect. Obviously the author would love some alternative frameworks, mainly so he can use some more and some less exotic code patterns. Maybe after almost a decade of writing CRUD apps in Rails he is a bit bored? I can't blame him and seeing the Ruby community so focused on basically one framework is a tiny bit sad.

So I definitely see where he is coming from with all this, but truth be told it was never Rails' indent to be a precision instrument. It has been a reliable framework that makes a lot of Developers very happy. A great reliable car for the masses so to speak. But not a Ferrari.
Yeah, it seems pretty unlikely to me that there is an AI Winter coming, given that we now have programs that look at a photograph and say "Women wearing a hat, sitting on a bar stool and drinking wine" when 5 years ago such capabilities were unfathomable- The kind of capabilities that are currently being demonstrated have wide reaching applications and will take a decade to filter into the rest of the economy, even if you pessimistically assume that all research from now on reaches a complete standstill.
Oh, I just couldn't recall when it happened, but it seemed obviously important when comparing to Christianity and the British Empire.
Journalists are the first that come to mind. Use Secure Drop to maintain anonymity.
I would like to see benchmark that compares run-time performance with Catch.
The blaze plan does state full google cloud integration. But I dont think google cloud functions can be directly triggered with firebase
The article uses moderation in a sense apart from an upvote/downvote system. Your argument is premised on a upvote/downvote system being moderation. How exactly does it moderate? If it merely reorders and doesn't remove, then this is not moderation in the context at hand.

Therefore your argument is invalid. (Your argument is really just orthogonal, premised on different assumptions.)
Thanks, I watched those shows often, back to the TechTV days. I always felt so bad for the guy, he seemed genuinely taken aback.
I love MV but I've gotten 100x the enjoyment from Boom Beach which was released around the same time and on which I've spent a grand total of $5 which could easily have been zero.

The conventional wisdom around much of the internet about f2p is, while true for many titles, just incredibly myopic as a general pigeonhole. F2P games can be great. Clash Royale, on which I've spent nothing, is by far the best new mobile game I've played in over a year.
You are contradicting yourself, and did not even answer the question. What you should have said was "as the site owner and moderator, whenever I damn well please". But instead you said it never happens.

I have almost zero sites I login to for a reason. I would think that as soon as a website becomes embroiled in taking a political viewpoint to the extreme of not allowing the opposite side to speak is when censorship comes into play. If we are talking individual attacks obviously that would and should fall into the moderation category.
The posts in the first linked series (http://inessential.com/2016/05/) seem to mostly focus on how dynamism can avoid the need for boilerplate. For example, he states that the following code is tedious to write and error-prone:

if localObject.foo != serverObject.foo {
localObject.foo = serverObject.foo
changeDictionary[fooKey] = serverObject.foo
}
if localObject.bar != serverObject.bar {
localObject.foo = serverObject.bar
changeDictionary[barKey] = serverObject.bar
}

But there's another language feature that can replace boilerplate, without dynamism and its associated performance and type safety penalties. A feature that's reviled by many, and was omitted from Swift, but serves this purpose perfectly: macros. What if you could write this?

macro_rules! merge {
($localObject:expr, $serverObject:expr, ($($prop:ident),+)) => {
$(
if $localObject.$prop != $serverObject.$prop {
$localObject.$prop = $serverObject.$prop;
changeDictionary[stringify!($prop)] = $serverObject.$prop;
}
)+
}
}
merge!(localObject, serverObject, (foo, bar, baz));

Actually, this is valid Rust code, as you might have guessed if you know that language. I picked it because it has similar syntax to Swift and a powerful, hygienic macro system. (This case is simple enough that a C macro would also work fine without any ugly arcane stuff - you'd have to have a separate macro invocation for each property, but whatever. But Rust's system scales better to slightly more complicated scenarios.)

Admittedly, not everything you can implement with dynamism is as easy to replace with macros. Many things are essentially impossible with the simple pattern matching language used above. In Rust, there is also the option to write a compiler plugin that can do arbitrary-ish things with ASTs, so almost anything is possible with enough work, including things you can't implement with dynamism, but fiddling with AST transformations is hairy enough that boilerplate looks a lot more attractive, relatively speaking.

Even so, I bet macros would satisfy most of the people advocating for "Dynamic Swift". And for the people who hate them - do you really think doing crazy things at runtime is any safer or easier to understand? It's certainly slower.

(By the way, you can implement dynamism with macros. For example, you could autogenerate functions like 'setProperty(name: String, val: Any)' that switch on the name and do the appropriate casting and such. Though depending on your attitude, you might consider this crucial enough that it should be built into the language.)
The skyscraper building frenzy always reaches its peak right before a recession. So a quick explanation could be that once a conceptual breakthrough happens ("deep learning") it gets applied better and better, and then suddenly winter. So you'll see new peaks conquered (so from the MNIST records from a few years back now to AlphaGo and everything TensorFlow et al. can do) but then the concept peaks, and back to the blackboard again! (Or wait for Moore's maybe-law for another already sort of okay theoretical concept to become implementable/applicable.)
How about if you have a NOCOW subvolume with just a few files on it, e.g. 3 VM images. Is it still expensive to check for snapshots? Does the cost of checking disappear if you have no snapshots of the volume? As ryao mentioned, you'd still get fragmentation if you have snapshots, so in that case is using NOCOW for a VM image counterproductive?

Seems like the expense of checking could be largely removed with clever enough metadata caching, which probably noone has had time to implement.
There is plenty of unincorporated land in the us. You can't have it both ways. You want to live in an area that is the way it is because of housing association rules, and then not live by the rules. If you revoke the rules, your neighbors will leave. You may as well build in unincorporated land to begin with.
I work in a large enterprise. Total workforce of 150,000 computer users. 7% smartphone/tablet penetration rate.

Some PCs are going to be displaced by server based solutions like VDI, but there has literally been almost no substantial displacement of PC apps. It's a decade away at least IMO.

The "death" of the PC is exaggerated. I think it's become a boring, stable market. If anything, the browser computer (i.e. Chrome book)will replace more PCs than the "mobile" OS platforms. And Chrome is closer to a desktop than an iPad.
Because when you start confusing pattern recognition and neural net training with "intelligence" and "learning" and "consciousness" then everybody who doesn't know enough about the technology will get wrong expectations, it's even worse as even people working on AI are having these wrong expectations, so yes a winter is coming. Besides that, the AI we have today is used all wrong, to spy on people even more and to consolidate central services and the big players.
Moderation vs censorship reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey#Canonical_exampl...
Do you mean the same anti-intellectual "right-wing" who thinks the USA should be a faith-based, Christian nation? You have me confused with somebody else and need to consider the fact that both the left and right are wrong.
How to Draw a Gentleman in Suit
> given that we now have programs that look at a photograph and say "Women wearing a hat, sitting on a bar stool and drinking wine"

That may be; but then there's also this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897
I should be more clear, there are many idividuals in the US who believe these actions were wrong, but the government continues to report civilian deaths as irreleveant in most cases.

Also, I'd say those movies you're referring to were much more from the perspective of the unjustly forced into war soldier, than the plight of the Vietnamese.

I was not alive then, my knowledge of Vietnam is all books and information from my parents and friend's parents.