skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SO documentation looks very cool actually, and it'll be interesting to see how it turns out. I'm all for documentation being easier across all services, and I care a lot more about having this problem solved rather than pushing SyntaxDB to compete with existing services.

With that being said, I think the current integrations and the ones planned ahead will continue to make SyntaxDB a good option, even if other sites try a similar idea.
Do these robots have electrical parts inside of them? It seemed like they were being made to move by a nearby magnetic force, not an engine within the robot.
It was meant to be read a question, not statement ("are you aware of a simpler PRNG I could pull from the top of my head, using basic arithmetics?").

Maybe a collatz sequence?

You're right, apparently it's called Chebyshev's bias.
You are asking a question, I do not owe you an answer, it's up to you to find out whether this stuff matters for your use case. I've done these tests myself, it is trivial for you to do the same. Do your own homework.
> Steve Jobs famously called touch displays on laptops terrible from an ergonomic point of view. I agreed then and nothing has changed my mind.

Speak for yourself. You can only take my touchscreen ultrabook out of my cold dead hands. I've loved touch screens since the Psion 5 (http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/why-the-psion-series-...) - I need both a keyboard and touch screen.

I just point to where I want to go on the screen - and scroll and click. Moving the hand out to an external mouse or down to the touchpad is soooo last millennium.
The async.js library has awful semantics - promises are an improvement in every way compared to it, whether it is reasons of flow, readability, and even perf (bluebird is quite faster).

The catchall try-catch is my major dislike for async-await though. The only way to exit the async-await loop being to throw is overkill, and makes it more complicated to localize different desired flow branching.
The most interesting definition I have seen of consciousness is [1] "the mind thinking about the mind thinking", i.e. some sort of meta-level "diagnostic process".

What I find interesting is that this definition supports awareness and an the existence of an 'I', but doesn't imply any sort of control or direct influence on the unconscious mind for which there seem to be experimental evidence against. Instead the result of this (literal) 'reflection' would be fed back to the unconscious mind as a sensorial input as any other.

Such a reflective process could possibly arise evolutionarily as it is a way to improve the efficiency of the thought processes.

I know absolutely nothing about neural network, but I wonder what would happen if the time series of the internal signals of a NN was fed to another NN and its output back into the first NN. Probably nothing stable at all and training would be 'interesting'.

Another interesting thing is that consciousness would be 'just' a process and not necessary for intelligence to arise. Peter Watts in 'Blindsight' [2] explores this last point in depth.

[1] Unfortunately I can't remember were I read this reference nor I have been able to track it.

[2] An extremely good first contact hard scifi novel, can be read for free from the author website.
Prima donna engineers
What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (2008)
I can't find any record on the web of the outcome of his lawsuit. I always assumed they settled. Are you sure he lost?
Glad you like it! User contributions will definitely be a part of SyntaxDB in the near future.
What are you talking about? They did take down the video when ordered by a judge. They refused to take down the accompanying 1400-word article.

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...

> Despite her misapprehension that the issue at hand was "only about the tape," Campbell has seen clear to order us to disappear a 1,400-word article—words composed and published by Gawker Media editorial employees—simply because Hulk Hogan didn't like it.

> A lawful order from a circuit court judge is a serious thing. While we vehemently disagree with Campbell's order with respect to the video itself, we have chosen to take it down pending our appeal.

> But the portion of the order compelling us to remove the entirety of Daulerio's post—his words, his speech—is grossly unconstitutional. We won't take it down.
A lot of AWS teams don't use AWS because of the circular dependencies that would create during a new region buildout.
As someone who has taken the kids out and about during the day, I have to say that it's awkward. You end up being the only man in a group of dozens of women with their kids, or you are the guy at the playground sitting by himself while his kids play on it (which looks a ton like you don't have any kids to an outsider). Society, at least in most of the U.S. is frankly a bit hostile to males as the caregivers. I can't imagine what single dads have to go through.
Yes, but not having a single correct price doesn't mean that something can't be considered overpriced. A bottle of water sold at 2.5 million dollars would probably be considered overpriced by most people.
For an EE, C++ is a pretty good language, in that it lets you get very close to the hardware. Most of the people who criticize it don't work in that world.
> I love that I know who this is at CoreOS by the choice of username

You can't comment like this here. It's a breach of civility and took the conversation in a needlessly personal direction. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11818589 and marked it off-topic.
Could this be simplified by asking students what they think their score on the test will be and adjusting their final score based on how accurate that estimate was?

Overall it seems like the biggest flaws in this system are that

1: Scores still get mapped to discrete letter grades.

2: A student's goal is not to get the highest score possible, rather it is to ensure that he or she is most likely to get an "A".

For example:

Given a 10 question quiz, a student who knows (in truth) she is 80% likely to answer each question correctly, and who needs to achieve a score of 0.2 to pass. The student is led to believe that by accurately estimating her confidence for each question at 80% she is giving herself the biggest advantage. If she does this and she gets 4 of the questions wrong her final score will be -1.219 and she will fail. However, if she had instead underestimated her confidence and given each question a confidence of 0.6 her final score would instead have been 0.290 and she would have passed. She could of course go even further and determine the likelihood of her getting N questions wrong and use that to determine the optimal confidence level to select which will maximize her expected score while ensuring that she is most likely to pass the class.
I was so looking forward to "The Emperor's New Mind" and all it was was skyhooking quantum effects into being "the soul".

Even if it's true how could you tell?

$DEITY bless Roger Penrose nonetheless.
Please don't lump Elon Musk with Richard Feynman. Musk isn't fit to carry Feynman's shoes.
How much of Apple was Steve Jobs's love of simplicity and iron will not to release half-baked products, and how much was the ability to build things in ways inaccessible to other manufacturers? To say it is all simplicity is like finding Intel's advantages all in the chip designs and none in the fabs.
They're not nuts. It's the standard default everywhere.

Remind me, who else does allow to disable that upload?
> you need to make a LOT of money to pay for daycare per kid

That's true. But as it happens, engineers do make a lot of money. Many of us even make enough to support one-income families. You can't just assume senior engineers leave tech because of childcare costs, when most of us make well over the amount where you "might as well just stay home."
I remember skyping my girlfriend over shitty satellite internet from an island off Brazil in 2009, on an Atom-powered netbook running Linux. It worked (barely), but on regular internet it was not worse than the low end quality of today.
I feel like it sometimes just wastes questions near the end when it's already narrowed the possibilities down. Maybe that's even on purpose, for showy effect.

After all, it's pretty impressive when it appears to correctly get Frank Sinatra out of "does your character play video games for a living."
Also, should we really be pushing anyone into a field known for social isolation, long hours, depression and suicide without making a seriously strong effort to resolve those problems as well?
Transactions can be traced through mixers and there are several companies offering solutions to the problem mixers introduce.
It doesn't, mostly because there are no signatures in a deb. :)
> That behavior was to pay for small things (like a drink at a bar) with cellphone minutes

What would the bar manager do with 1 million minutes of talk time? [serious]
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, nor single-purpose accounts. Novelty accounts for personal attacks are right out, so we've banned this one.
Just wanted to chime in here to agree with you. While some people don't mind pumping, there are benefits to both the mother and the child when breastfeeding directly. It does come down to choice about what you prioritize in life. Far be it from any of us to deride women who prioritize their family's income, but we can't simply hand wave by saying "we have pumps and refrigerators!"
That's interesting. A professor at Berkeley told me once that Berkeley Engineering, along with a bunch of other universities, once threatened to withdraw from ABET, largely because they felt that the requirements were getting so heavy that students were no longer able to remain well-rounded. There is also some support for making Engineering more of a 5-year or graduate program. Sounds like that wouldn't have worked for you because of scholarship requirements, but at UCSD, many students who had the choice simply took 5 years to graduate in Engineering. It is truly difficult to manage the rigor of these classes while giving proper time to general requirements.

On a related note, what you've described in terms of graduate preparation is also a serious problem for domestic (US) students. I think there is merit to the more generalized approach to undergraduate education in the US, but we specialize very late in the US compared to other educational systems.

This becomes a problem when combined with the high attrition rates in PhD programs. When I enrolled in a PhD program at Berkeley, I noticed that the coursework seemed like review for many of my fellow students who had degrees from overseas. Some would chalk this up to superior mathematics education outside the US, but I do think that the late specialization plays a big role here as well. While I was taking those classes in literature, theater, arts, history, and so forth, my graduate classmates were specializing in mathematical optimization and stochastic processes much earlier, and in much greater depth.

I don't think that this would be an issue if attrition rates weren't so high, but PhD programs in STEM fields typically have attrition rates between 35%-50%. If you aren't ready to hit the ground running, odds are very good you won't survive the first two years. This isn't an issue in graduate programs in medicine and law in the US, which don't expect undergraduate specialization (and, at the elite level, have vanishingly low attrition rates anyway, typically below one half of one percent). Nobody is expected to study law prior to law school or medicine prior to medical school, and the overwhelming majority of students who start elite programs in these fields do finish (again, 99.5% or more typically do).

Unfortunately, the result is what the RAND institute already identified - top US students behave rationally by avoiding PhD programs in the sciences in favor of professional degrees in law, medicine, dentistry, etc. This is only one factor, but I do think the situation you faced - less specialization at the undergraduate level - also plays a role here.
I used iTunes on Windows back in 2003-ish, it was actually a pleasure to use - fast and simple. I recall actually wishing that Apple would use this GUI to build more Windows apps!
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Equality of opportunity is a misleading term. 'Equality of process' I've found, is far better. I believe there is equality of process, but, there are immutable biological facts that result in the difference.
Third-Party Instagram Apps Have Stopped Working
Obama Wanted to Cut Social Security. Then Bernie Sanders Happened
One other comment on your comment of many female nurses (among other professions, great graph here showing that surprisingly few professions are even close to 50/50 mix: https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chal...)

Keeping it simple and assuming that the economy needs a stable amount of nurses + coders, for every girl who decides to be a coder instead of a nurse, you are saying a boy should be a nurse instead of a coder! But as you say, I don't see a big push for boys to do other things, which is exactly what would have to happen.*

*I understand price substitution effects occur, but the general idea is still correct.
It might sound weird, but I actually found that more readable as three lines of code. :/
Elon Musk Says There’s a ‘One in Billions’ Chance Reality Is Not a Simulation
I thought it was just one free chapter. Maybe I was mistaken?
Also, Debian "Testing" and "Development" (which should be "unstable") are not rolling releases. They both experience feature freezes while the next stable is finalized, and "unstable" isn't even a complete release -- it's merely an overlay on top of testing. And the way it's currently worded suggests that you can only use dist-upgrade when you're on testing, which is not true.
Any plans on changing that? I mean, there doesn't seem to be anything in Timeline that inherently requires routing stuff through your server. That's the one thing that always perplexed me - you could do almost anything to Pebble without touching the outside world, and here there's that one thing that suddenly requires the cloud. If I may ask, what is the reason you built it this way?
Hi,

The email to thomas.carpenito@ucsf.edu is somehow failing to send. Do you have another email I could use.

Thanks
> system that forced Hulk Hogan to turn to him for help

That doesn't seem like a reasonable interpretation of what happened. Hogan is a wealthy celebrity, and even if he wasn't the case was an obvious one to qualify for a contingency fee arrangement.

Gawker was insured against a judgement, and they also apparently offered an eight figure settlement amount. Thiel's involvement wasn't needed for the lawsuit to exist, it was used to make the lawsuit into an attempt to bankrupt the company.
> and I don't see people fighting there for equal rights.

Perhaps because you're not in those fields?

It's also a symptom of systemic sexism. Men don't dare fight for their right to be stay-at-home dads or to be nurses or whatever else is traditionally seen as female. It makes them look too much like ... you know ... not men.

If you look at the broader internet, you'll see there's been a lot of fighting happening for that too. Men asking for paternity leave without harming their careers, for instance.

But I digress. The most likely reason you haven't seen people fighting for equal rights in other fields is that you're not in those other fields and aren't exposed to their echo chamber.
Jimmy Wales, lol.
Messing with Gordon now, but I've messed with nearly every other serverless framework. If you're looking for something express-y then you might like claudia.js's ApiBuilder, but the underlying API Gateway is always the lowest common denominator so this just adds some prettiness on top. https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia
Our species is largely the dominant species because of one or more extinction events. Most likely "more" ; a significant chain of them.

And perhaps better computing is why the polar ice caps are only shrinking this fast and not faster. We normally see 30-40 MPG in cars, and that is due to a lot of things, but the one big thing is electronic engine control. That is one in a long list of reasons why it's important to at least see how we can make these things work better.
I don't know whether the DA or the ball player is the most depressing part.
You'll spend more time debugging errors that could have been caught at compile time by strict static types.

The minimum here should be C with the warnings enabled. Things like Ada and Rust may improve upon this.

Also, I think performance issues can count as "dealing with the language". Python is roughly 100x slower, making it like all your computers are a dozen years older. It's like having a 2004 computer in 2016.
I don't like Force Touch on my MacBook Pro. I loved being able to lightly tap on the touchpad instead of having to click. I don't get why this was worth having more levels of gradation in fast-forwarding through videos.
Yes. The Gold Line extension is going to have a huge impact on the SGV.

I don't live in the SGV, but the impact of the Gold Line on the Chinatown-Highland Park-Pasadena corridor [which it reached years ago, before the recently-completed extension] has been very significant, including lots of denser housing within Pasadena and sharp increases in house prices along Figueroa parallel to the Gold Line. I expect the extension to have an even greater impact over time.
> You are asking a question, I do not owe you an answer

I agree! But you did answer it:

> Bluebird is mainly designed for node (V8) and promise performance can make a massive difference on the server.

If I'm sacrificing simplicity (by using a non-native Promise implementation with a very large API) because of performance improvements, I want data (proof) of these performance improvements. If you don't have the data that's fine! No harm done, I'll keep waiting until someone does.
You just reminded me that I have a Yahoo Mail account... Its been so long since I've even thought about that...
Added: https://github.com/anaibol/awesome-serverless
A 1950's rolex is still made of gold and tells the time an iPhone6 will probably be landfill in 6 or 7 years.
I missed it ...
Germany declares 1915 Armenian killings a genocide
TDD or Test in isolation
Yeah. Personally I don't care that much about what they're doing with the data on their cloud, but it seems weird that my watchapp (or a companion app) needs to talk to the Internet at large to push pins onto the watch timeline. Doubly weird because I hoped to use it for pushing data generated by my phone, and there's no reason this shouldn't work completely off-line.
What do you think all the shimmery stuff on the Star Trek TOS transporter was?
And what's the utility to end-users, who just want to share a cute picture of a cat, that they should care? And thus that a media host should care to implement this?
>there aren't really any clear ideas about what consciousness is and why it's important.

I personally feel fairly clear on that though I may be wrong. It is I think awareness in the central part of the brain that beings in data from other parts and can think about it. For example if you walk across the room you don't normally have conscious awareness of your leg movements because that happens with more simple neural networks but you can focus your consciousness on that if you want to analyse or modify your walk.

There are probably different levels of consciousness as you go from say humans to dogs to mice to flies etc. and it's a bit up to the individual what you call what. Modern AI systems are probably somewhere between flies and dogs. I'll give you that to get to the human level will take a while.
Presumably, the same things everyone else uses money for: buying groceries, rent, the necessities of life.
> In their haste to get financing, start-up founders often fail to read the fine print and later discover that they have signed away huge shares of the profits.

Does this actually happen?
Ever wish you could travel for a living?
>i just don't believe in encouraging anyone to do anything in particular, except what they enjoy.

There are plenty of women who would enjoy being a developer but it wasn't presented to them as a realistic option in their childhood, or it wasn't a welcoming atmosphere for them when they started learning about it.
Ok. How about this:http://i.imgur.com/heXkHzU.png

It's a partial screenshot of the article in my browser. I intend to use it in a lecture as an example of the complications behind fair use. (irl I really do teach such a lecture). Who is it attributable to? The artist of the drawing, me, techcrunch or mediachain?

In short: I am suspicious of any service, and there have been a few, that claims to be able to identify the owner or creator of a work. It's a layering problem, with nearly every digital image being at some level the property of a great many people.

(fyi: if this was a law exam, the best answer is "me" in that I created the composition and am well-covered by fair use in my use of it here.)
So do we not mean "conscious" as the opposite of "unconscious"?

As in it's possible to knock out a dog - rendering it unconscious. But when it wakes back up it's not going to think about the fact that it's a dog (as far as we know).

So what's the name for a dog's normal not-unconscious waking state?
It also doesn't do great things for morale if you don't believe in the direction your company is taking. The smartest employees in the world aren't much use if they burn out.
I don't know how hard did you look, but taking for example the two stocks that you mentioned (MSFT and PG) and the ex-dividend dates since 2007 it's easy to see that there is an effect. The mean return for those dates is -0.5% for MSFT (vs. +0.05% for the market) and -1.0% for PG (vs. +0.1% for the market). Doing a regression of stock returns on market returns you will find that the result is statistically significant (p<0.001). R code follows:

library(quantmod)
getSymbols(c("MSFT","PG","SPY"))
msft.ex=index(quantmod::getDividends("MSFT")["2007::"])
pg.ex=index(quantmod::getDividends("PG")["2007::"])

msft.rets=as.data.frame(merge(dailyReturn(MSFT$MSFT.Close)[msft.ex],dailyReturn(SPY$SPY.Close)[msft.ex]))
colnames(msft.rets)=c("MSFT","SPY")
msft.fit=lm(MSFT~SPY,msft.rets)
summary(msft.fit)
confint(msft.fit)

pg.rets=as.data.frame(merge(dailyReturn(PG$PG.Close)[pg.ex],dailyReturn(SPY$SPY.Close)[pg.ex]))
colnames(pg.rets)=c("PG","SPY")
pg.fit=lm(PG~SPY,pg.rets)
summary(pg.fit)
confint(pg.fit)

par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(msft.rets$SPY,msft.rets$MSFT,xlim=c(-0.08,0.08),ylim=c(-0.08,0.08))
abline(msft.fit,col="red")
grid()
plot(pg.rets$SPY,pg.rets$PG,xlim=c(-0.08,0.08),ylim=c(-0.08,0.08))
abline(pg.fit,col="red")
grid()