skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When he was really little, my oldest son was prone to having tantrums. When he was four years old, he was literally hopping mad one day and this resulted in him literally bursting a blood vessel. He developed a sudden, really severe nosebleed. He was prone to nosebleeds anyway, but this was one of the worst ones he ever had and I was concerned for a bit that I would need to take him to the ER because I had trouble getting it to stop, in spite of experience and knowledge about this issue.

The experience was incredibly shocking for him. The idea that his feelings could actually cause him direct physical harm really freaked him out. Furthermore, the event caused his tantrum to end very suddenly. The tantrum came to a screeching halt, so to speak. Without any training, he was able to use this experience as a form of biofeedback. He had felt something in his brain when it stopped and that allowed him to find some means to interrupt the runaway process at subsequent events.

He didn't like being mad, so being mad made him mad about the fact that he was mad and it created a positive feedback look that caused his anger to just go off the rails. He stopped having tantrums following this incident.

I think, yes, psychological things can literally have direct physical impact. We know it can do things like raise your blood pressure. This is an ordinary thing. With extreme enough experiences, I see no reason why it wouldn't impact the brain in a meaningful way with long term consequences
I presume the idea is that of 'the other half' of evolution - that is, the spontaneous formation of order through simple physical processes coupled to symmetry breaking.

Of course it can be easy to over-do the analogies between things like convection rolls and the emergence of lipid bilayers (or whatever). However, the origin of life necessarily came about through purely physical processes and only once that bootstrap phase was over did evolution come into play as biological systems took over acting upon themselves.

As I understand it the idea is that a closed system that is driven far from equilibrium by a constant influx of energy can undergo 'symmetry breaking' where the symmetries of the system are changed. So the symmetric situation of the boiling pot is broken such that convection rolls are formed - which is new structure.

Similarly, a uniform soup of primitive chemical compounds could have been broken into less-uniform patches by some energy gradient (black or white smokers, for example). This diversity of chemical conditions then helped to form the initial replicators that could then further exploit various temperature, chemical, or proton gradients to create primitive life.
TL;DR. NYTimes failing in its task to provide real, valuable journalistic information like that provided by The Intercept, TYT, Democracy Now, etc.
IANAL but suspect disparagement is defined in such a way that a corporation's attorneys could prove this type of comment caused harm to the company, and thus meets the definition.
> These feats of computer science are often attributed to the rise of the smartphone, but the hard work is being done on thousands of servers. And pretty much all of those servers run on Intel chips.

Considering Intel's recent exit from the smartphone SoC business and concentration on the data center, I have a suspicion why Bloomberg was "given the most extensive tour of the factory since President Obama visited in 2011".
I think nontraditional research organizations like YC Research and Google's Project Zero can solve this problem.

--

Open source basic infrastructure -- everything from Sage to OpenSSL -- suffers from a market failure.

We rely on these foundational projects for billions of dollars a year in commerce, but they often get minimal funding and are supported by semi-broke volunteers working in anonymity.

* GPG is maintained by one guy, who was about to give up before a few people threw coins in his tip jar after this story a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003791

* OpenSSL was comically underfunded and underappreciated until Heartbleed happened and people remembered how much it matters

Stein's story is powerful and shows how neither traditional companies nor universities help here. In the world of math software:

* The companies created a bunch of closed-source walled gardens (Mathematica, Matlab, etc).

* The universities were unwilling to support free and open tools. They gave tenure and support only for authors of research papers, not tools, no matter how useful or widely deployed.

Even the guy who made NumPy and SciPy didn't get recognition for it---wtf.

I think that these new, independent organizations with rich patrons can fill in the gap. Organizations like YC Research, Project Zero, and Canonical.

We need more of them.
Reminds me of the 'capital letters argument', where similar types of tax protesters argue that legal notices that state their names in all caps apparently refer to a seperate entity than the individual. They see 'John Doe' as the real person and 'JOHN DOE' as a government trick to scam them out of money.

That's usually connected to the sort of reasoning mentioned in the website the article talks about, and works just as well (read, not at all) when attempted in an actual court case.
Basically this video ignores the history of machine learning in general. Jumping from Expert Systems to Neural Networks and Deep Learning is actually ignoring 36 years (and billions of dollars) of research http://machinelearning.org/icml.html (Breiman, Quinlan, Mitchell, Dietterich, Domingos, etc). Calling 2012 the seminal moment of Deep Learning is quite hard to digest. Maybe it means that 2012 is the point in time when the VC community discovered machine learning? Even harder to digest is calling Deep Learning the most productive and accurate machine learning system. What about more business oriented domains (without unstructured inputs), the extreme difficulties and expertise required to fine tune a network for a specific problem, or some drawbacks like the ones explained by http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v2.pdf or http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf.

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. As Roger Schank pointed out recently http://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-abo..., another AI winter is coming soon! Funny that the video details the three first AI winters but the author doesn't realize that this excessive enthusiasm in one particular technique is contributing to a new one!
I wrote my own Dvorak optimized editor, aoeui. :-)
"Bernie Bros"? seriously?
stick with the solid story of racist twitter users threatening you with violence and you might get some sympathy...

I was hoping to read something more considered than "I can't take the harsh verbal repartee"
perhaps along the lines of "hey Twitter is using my content to make money, I'd rather write a column for the NY Times and get paid for it- same negative comments but no character limit and plus I get paid!"
I see the font without any ad. Using Chrome + uBlock Origin.
Internal combustion engines can just run on hydrogen which will deliver more power and only water vapor for exhaust - however the hard part is containing this hydrogen.
NYC brand relaunch
Yeah, right. I suppose we're just supposed to take their word for that. There's an enormous difference between the concepts of trusted and trustworthy. You're extremely naive or clearly never read anything Snowden released if you think 'trust us' is enough.
And that he is a well known troll.
This particular complaint feels like a typing issue. If functions can accept anything and use lots of partial duck typing then they might partially accept anything and not quite work.

There's just an unstated precondition: the arguments are sets.
Virtual Dentist Appointment
Just trying to gauge whether there would be interest in such a service:

onlineappointment.kevinhodentist.com

where individuals can upload photos of their own dental problems (from their smart phone) and have their concerns reviewed by a practicing dentist.
Wait til TTIP and TPP becomes law. Times are good now, but once hilary gets elected and these "free" trade agreements gets signed, the monied masters will immediately raise interest rates and cause a recession which will give cover for businesses to lay off a large swathe of workers ( this time its going to be IT/developers/tech workers who are going to face the brunt of it ) and offshore a lot of these jobs.

H1B is a significant problem, but so is offshoring. From a business point of view, the cost savings are too immense to ignore. If you can pay a foreigner $5K to do something an american workers does for $50K and pocket the $45K annual difference, it's a no-brainer to corporate executives. The shareholders will benefits and the C-Suite will benefit, the workers will suffer.

There is a reason why the leftist and rightist establishment are working so hard to get hilary elected. The amount of pro-Hilary propaganda on NPR, NYTimes, LATimes, etc was nearly unbearable while she was fighting against Sanders. Now that Sanders is done, I might have to stop consuming these media for the next few months.

As much as we like to pretend, there isn't two parties. There is one party ( the elite ), that control both parties to gives an illusion of choice. Even the republican establishment are trying to undermine Trump to give Hilary the presidency.

Complete protectionism/isolation isn't a good thing. But extreme liberal trade policies aren't a good thing either. Thought maybe Trump will get the nod and push policies towards the center, but there is too much money at stake for the elite so they are going to force hilary, TTIP, TPP, etc on us no matter what.

We are going to replace one corrupt chicago politician with another.
I understand his frustrations, but that's simply the way the internet is. A similar effect can be seen on Reddit - visit /r/worldnews and scroll through the comments on any article to see what I mean.

What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy.

Also, I don't understand how Bernie supporters are misogynists for criticizing Hillary.
Trivially non-contradictory. Consider a hypothetical situation in which all the good skilled workers are on visa statuses that do not permit work and have missed the H-1B lottery. Both things are then true.
Anti-Semitism, racism, and other hate speech are not "harsh verbal repartée."
A pragmatic libertarian would be supporting Gary Johnson.
Programmers are still humans at this point. Humans make mistakes. It is helpful to have software executing on computers prevent us from making mistakes rather than making it easier for us to make mistakes.
Video games have huge variation in social quality. I got a cold this week and played some Left 4 Dead 2, since I hadn't played it in a long while. Immediately made some friends and chatted with them about their band. It was kind of shocking.

But it's a pretty good setup for it. Voice chat with 4 people who are incentivized to cooperate; can kick people as needed. The social experience in most games is pretty bad.
Perhaps they tell this story to cover up that those extra square millimeters are really for the NSA (?)
San Francisco did this in a way, rent control exists, but only for buildings constructed before 1970? (Not sure of the date) This effectively meant it was "temporary" because any new buildings wouldn't be covered, which will eventually mean that as buildings are replaced or built new there will be less and less rent control available in the City.

Probably not the temporary you mean...
Setup Deployment, Updates and Backups of Web Apps with Docker on Scaleway
The universe is filled with planets. Those planets are filled with life. And beneath every rainforrest on every planet, there are sunken city's, with lots of single rooms, in every one a mummified skeleton in a cable sakrophage, on every wall scratched the last words - "Social stress avoidance aka Loneliness solves the Fermi-paradox"
Accepting money in exchange for not disparaging someone is not a violation of free speech rights.
Seems like an argument against the idea that patents encourage innovation.
Driving Python function execution from a text file
I don't think we read the same piece. This one focused on the rampant anti-Semitism and racism that Twitter's been loath/unable to limit, contrary to its own TOS.
I've never really understood Inferno. Sometimes it is described as something you run from a browse and others as a standalone OS. Which is it?
Ask HN: iPod shuffle alternatives?
I really like my iPod shuffle[1]. It's the device I use the most and taking into account that it only cost me around 50 euros, I think it's the best "thing" I've ever bought. Just one minor issue: 2GB of storage.

So question is if you know good alternatives. Just two features are important for me: size (~iPod shuffle) and storage (> 2GB).

[1]: http://www.apple.com/ipod-shuffle/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11885132

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The best thing I did was delete the FB app from my phones and tablets. I access it only from my desktop and a web browser.

Turns out that I don't miss messenger at all. And I get the functionality I want (post a status, read my feed) and none of the battery and privacy sucking "options."
I resonate with this...but the progress will not stop. If US is not going to do this, China will, Japan will, and then US will need to follow then import it. There is no way back. How it will shift the society, we will need to see. I don't think technologists can control it.
Why this German connected car company likes Seattle better than Silicon Valley
> disposable foreign workers are brought over to get exploited

"exploited" is a matter of perspective. To an onlooker who has lived their whole life in a first world country, seeing people work for $x - (less-significantlyLess) [where $x is what is "typical" for the job] can be seen as bad/wrong/sad etc...

I have spent time working in very poor parts of Mexico and Manila. Crime is rampant, I feared for my life at times. Polution/open sewage made my eyes burn. By the end of my job there (helping doing on site server data migration for a financial institution) I was willing to pay/do anything to get out.

We take many things for granted that foreign workers might consider "Perks of the job". $1 has far more buying power in Manila than a place like the Bay area, but I would live in the Bay over Manila, essentially taking a wage cut.

This does not condone the wage discrepancy btwn foreign/domestic workers, but offers a potential explanation why a person would happily take an apparent "pay cut", and even be better off.
USDCHF: Sets Up to Weaken More with Eyes on 0.9600
I also had a correspondence with Eric S. Raymond, who is in general more broadly anti-IP (from what I can tell).
> Finally, Plan 9 fits well with a networked environment. Since files
or directory trees can be imported from other machines, and all
resources are files or directory trees, it's easy to share resources.
Want to use a different machine's sound card? Import its /dev/audio.
Want to debug processes that run on another machine? Import its
/proc. Want to use a network interface on another machine? Import
its /net. And so on.

Does this kind of abstraction actually work well? Networks are generally quite unreliable so does it really work well to treat everything as files even when the latency can be so different depending on if the resource is local or remote? Do the plan9 APIs make it natural to write code that deals well with random blocking when reading/writing to files?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51215664/mighty-streami... might be worth keeping an eye on. Basically the same + bluetooth.
When I ran Plan 9 inside of VMWare Fusion, the one thing I missed was Readline/Libedit. I honestly don't know how people did without them.
In the end, it will become monopolized, organized prostitution, you will have to marry your sex-robot. Catholic.
And have at least one offspring (either machine or man).
The way I read it, the anti-H1B movement and awareness is gaining steam. It would be interesting the stance Hillary/Trump takes next year after being sworn in.
I thought it was just the beginning of the war on women seeing who she is associated with and the timing of her story.

the issue with defining hate is that it is a lot of times audience specific and to be honest, if you want your safe space the internet is the last place you will find it.
But traditional free speech rights are founded on the principle that truth is an affirmative defense against (for example) libel or slander cases.
So curious what the other hardware is/does.

Dan Luu wrote that Intel's cache allocation tech particularly helped Google, so they could run multiple workloads on one machine without totally trashing the larger caches at every context switch: http://danluu.com/intel-cat/

The Xeon D chips, which provide cheap low-clocked big cores and integrated NICs for small servers, were requested by Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1711485769063510/facebook-s-...

Someone who follows server chips (maybe AnandTech?) called Xeon D's one of Intel's coolest product lines to come out recently. They're also arguably a smart way for Intel to seal off the lower end of the market against approaches with tons of cheap ARM or AMD cores.
Perhaps it is naive however, I did not suggest stopping it altogether, the idea is to merely restore some balance back into a system that seems to have gotten out of balance.

The auction is a good idea, but I fear it will somehow be twisted and abused as well.
Totally agree. She's brilliant. Deepest respect to her.

One of the extremely few people with genuine understanding of hardware security, who's working on the side of users & humanity.

The first time I read her work, I was floored that I hadn't known of her earlier.
Most people in the world aren't tall. It'd seem counter intuitive to create a car specifically so it can fit such a small group of people.
And they will learn an important lesson about using a free service. If you want functionality, pay money.
Your Em Goes to Bermuda: On Robin Hanson's “The Age of Em”
They don't try particularly hard to cover that up. It's well-enough known that RDRAND is highly likely to be NSA-backdoored. They could always just shove NSA stuff into the ME anyway (currently there's no reason to believe that they do this, however).
I believe they've already started. None of my real friends are active on FB anymore. My feed is just pages and ads that I never see. Snapchat and whatsapp is the primary means of social life. Facebook seems like Google now: growth by buying startups.
So I can deploy a Facebook Messenger bot on commodity hardware and services; yet I cannot run Facebook Messenger on my mobile browser or write a compatible Messenger app for iOS or Android?
They are the dominant player in this market, I simply can't understand why they didn't crewed it already.

I can only speculate: it's because WhatsApp is giving them an always-updated social graph of a billion people right now (including inferred information on people who, like me, didn't install the application but whose numbers are in the contacts books of people who did it) and crossing this information with FB data brings more revenue than anything they can do with WhatsApp itself.
H1-B visas are for skilled workers. The unemployment rate for skilled American workers is very, very low.
It beats human with accuracy. Which makes it more practical.

Computer doesn't need to be strong AI to replace human.
>> You can't replace an American job with H-1B?

The goal of the system is to use the guest worker program to augment your current workers with talent that you are unable to find and staff here in the US. The requirement is not at 40 - 60% of the cost you pay your US employees, but in skills that you cannot find or fill with US domestic workers.
These projects are a crucial part of the infrastructure of the modern information society. The solution to a lack of funding for these things is not charity from rich patrons, but governmental investment based on taxes.
That would require that there are no local good skilled workers, so the argument they are being replaced doesn't hold.
Look, I don't want go victim blame and it is pretty difficult for me to conclude the fault was with the author. He didn't deserve to be treated that way because of his beliefs, cultural heritage, ect. However, this article is meta-example of how not to deal with this. First, it's the internet, so private anonymous people can effortlessly target you and repeatedly avoid bans. Intellectually though, I can't conclude there were real threats. This is why we don't feed trolls or negotiate with terrorists.

Sure twitter could curb free speech (even hate speech) but probably millions of tweets a day prove Godwin's law. You really should not take out a massive article in the times to tell them they won. You shouldn't leave a platform and stand aside for shit like this.

This article hurts twitter, and free speech while telling trolls that they won, in the The New York Times. So I am mad and blaming him for his reaction because now they have more incentive and everyone else is worse off. Some of these trolls are probably Jewish. They care about fucking with people in a low effort way. What the author has done here is garuntee they continue to say annoying shit on the internet. I love the internet, and it is filled with utter garbage, so it would be nice that after I wade through spam wordpress sites I didn't have to read an article praising them(that is how they see it).

Don't feed trolls. Put on the settings that only let certain people tweet at you, ect, and actually stand up for free speech because the press needs it more than ever. Twitter has shadowbanning functionality (or I remember Walt Mossberg mentioning something about that) on air.

The real reason this was shitty, is because there is a teenager, fellow journalist, ect. who is now dealing with these trolls because the root cause didn't go away.
1979, and that rule comes from a state law called Costa-Hawkins which prohibits any California municipality from requiring rent control on any new unit constructed after then. The intention was to spur construction by offering a carrot to anyone who built a new (and presumably bigger) apartment building.

The unforeseen consequence is that now city planning commissions in places like SF simply don't issue demolition permits anymore for pre-1979 apartment buildings.
Yes, Cambridge MA comes to mind, ending rent control in 1994.
Let me get this straight, you agree with every single gripe I have, have some more of your own, agree that writing a post on this would be reasonable, but I'm wrong?
Not narrowly defined (as in, it is not the government preventing you from expressing a political opinion). But it does have the whiff of a coerced surrendering of one's rights. Suppose you could sign a completely unbreakable "indentured servitude" contract with another person, whereby by a specific payment now, you are required to work for them exclusively for the next 10 years in whichever capacity they so chose (as long as the job is legal), without further pay and without the option to resign (even by returning the money or declaring bankruptcy). The above would probably not be slavery in the legal/historical sense, but I think no country that disallows slavery should allow such contract either.
I hope they improve their software development practises. Packaging SageMath for Debian has been impossible; they use about 100 dependencies and have re-invented their own internal package manager to build all of these with sage-specific patches.
I guess that he's talking about a particular type of Sanders follower who suffers from cognitive dissonance because many people choose Hillary over Bernie, and thusly reverts into misogyny.
I've not used Plan9; but one ought to consider that any IO may not be successful, and this is regardless of the device.

It may generally be less likely to encounter disk read errors than it is to encounter network timeouts, but both will eventually occur.