skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Runa Capital ex-Director of business development to justify Orlando massacre
When ever people call native content for "paid-for pieces disguised as objective information", I keep remembering that those are also often a under the table affair. Its hard to both pay taxes on get-paid-for-pieces and keep the fact secret from both readers and market regulative agencies that enforces advertisement laws. Somehow I believe that a scheme that rely on evading taxes can't become too much mainstream.
If no one can tell the difference, outside of a super high tech lab, then how will anyone know the diamonds are natural, and not lab grown? When they are indistinguishable, and people get used to the idea, most will start buying lab grown. Especially with the ethical angle (conflict free and what not)
I'm not insinuating that this is what's happening, but, forcing people to stay alive so they can keep buying stuff may be the ultimate capitalist dystopia.
DL4J Streaming: Load data to Kafka queue, run it thru an NN, save to a file
Well, maybe the news is just there to steer us towards a new and more glorious dawn.

Due to the laws of thermodynamics I have little belief left for a beneficent (let alone malignant) secret society of any stripe. But I could be wrong. There are more things in heaven and earth and all that.
There was a discussion about the world's oldest torrent, where others and I mused about solutions to the problem of ephemeral seeds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962305

I suggested that one could maybe bridge Bittorrent and IPFS, then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file.
Great work on the engine, I also have been going through some of the harder times you mentioned whilst working on my own game engine - so I can totally empathize.

Can I ask how you ended up at OpenAI? as in did you apply directly? If it is personal for any reason no worries.

Thanks again for sharing your story and engine with us!
Oh and btw if you need help with the game networking ( I built a sockets based networking engine which seems to work ok) let me know.
In one of the hottest area now, that is, Deep Learning, all frameworks use CUDA, not OpenCL.
Same can be said of static type checking so what is your point? Are you suggesting that those working in static languages don't need to write tests?

Static type checking generally represents an even lower form of error detection than functional and unit testing does. Sure, it can be convenient to have it, but lately I see a lot of static language novices around here talking about their recent and limited experience with type checking as if they are suddenly experts in the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.
They have their own Item Number system. Even general-retailer items sold elsewhere often have the (Costco) Item Number on their packaging.
Sorry friend, but when you told a story about how you parent your kids, you put your parenting within the purview of the topic.

There is nothing sacred about your parenting that makes it above scrutiny. Nothing whatsoever.
According to whom?

According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility:

Broadband internet services (both fixed-line and mobile) are increasingly being included within the definition.

As for which things are "truly necessary", that definition is not universal. In The Netherlands, over 90% of consumer banking by now is done over the Internet. That has lead to the closing of over 30% of bank branch offices, with associated cost savings. Those savings would not have been possible had Internet access not been classified as a public utility, because bank access was similarly regulated.
Would be curious to know how frequently the US hacks into Russia's systems. That US (and UK) hacked Belgium's national telecom to listen to EU communications, and planted bugs and breached the systems of the two EU representations in the US (likely to gain insights on the European Commission's TTIP negotiating strategies), Stuxnet, or the ongoing rumours about oddly targeted antennas at the US embassy in Berlin, are well known, but i never heard of an acknowledged/alleged US hack into Russian systems.
How do companies like Google come up with the sample text?
No one is suggesting using the force of law to prevent people from committing suicide. This is just a helpful tool. It's not forcing anyone to do (or not do) anything.
Actually the bugs they found in CompCert were not in the proved sections. The CSmith paper says

"As of early 2011, the under-development version of CompCert is the only compiler we have tested for which Csmith cannot find wrong-code errors. This is not for lack of trying: we have devoted about six CPU-years to the task. The apparent unbreakability of CompCert supports a strong argument that developing compiler optimizations within a proof framework, where safety checks are explicit and machine-checked, has tangible benefits for compiler users."

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf
Nikola Motors Claims $2.3B in Preorders Before Prototype Is Even Ready
I've seen the use of "illiberal left" by social psychologists like Jonathan Haidt (disclosure, I'm a big fan of Haidt), and I find it more appropriate, especially as there are progressive leftists espousing illiberal ideals.

Of course, the gotcha with all such labels is that there are many liberal leftists who hear the term illiberal left and reflexively assume it applies tangentially to them, leading them to deny the existence altogether.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine in California is a huge Bernie Sanders supporter. Has attended rallies, fund-raised, and even designed T-shirts to promote Bernie's messages. A few weeks ago he apparently attended a private party of Bernie Sanders supporters, then messaged me back with "Wow, you'd been saying people like this existed, and I didn't believe it. These guys made me feel much more moderate than I once did."
Yeah, it came from the API which goes back to item id 1. It's all here if you are interested: http://silo.lukeheuer.com/mirrors/news.ycombinator.com/ Post items are organized by month so you can check out the byte size progression over HN's lifespan.
How long until someone is capable of making really big diamonds? I mean big like a soccer ball or something?

Is it silly to wonder if we will one day be able to use diamond as a structural material?
I think it would be very hard to enforce in bankruptcy. I recall running into this at another company too. Just surprised that it's not universal. I think in Wall Street they do a lot of wink-wink nod-nod that it's performance based when they lay off 5-10% of the workforce right before bonuses get paid.
That's a good point, indeed any sequence of bytes can be interpreted as a number. But it may also encode an element of a set that has an ordering differing from that of the numbers. (For example, you could order, let's say, the set of all cat pictures by how cute they are.) That's what makes the difference.
I can think of a couple of counterarguments to both points (and that part of the text in general):

1) one thing that is often overlooked is how hard is to pinpoint the carrier and provide this information to a missile. For a sea-skimming missile horizon is at ~12 miles (20 km); given the distances involved (F-35C has a combat range of about 1k km) and carrier's speed (60 km/h) you will need to provide updates to a missile regarding current carrier's position, which you can't know if you aren't over the horizon for a carrier — in which case you will probably be shot down. This makes the danger of low-cost missile platforms somewhat lower. For a more thorough discussion of the problem see [1].
2) Drones are unusable against sophisticated opponent. First of all, there will be no datalink: space assets will be denied (either jammed or destroyed), direct radio links will be jammed, too. Therefore the drone will need to orient, fight and decide who to kill autonomously, which is problematic both from technical (e.g. autonomous navigation and decision making) and moral (autonomous killing machine, anyone?) standpoints. Therefore, we can't switch human pilots for drones.

[1]: http://lexingtoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/aircraft-ca...
> How we got to the point where utility-style regulation is seen as the key to ensuring a free and open internet is a true puzzle.

By not preventing monopolization of the ISP market. It might be a natural monopoly, in such case getting to such point is something to be expected. Monopoly must be regulated. You should better ask, why we got there only now, ignoring various monopolistic abuses before.
Url changed from http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/13/polymorphism-in-pyth..., which points to this.
Say you have 65% test coverage over the refactored code. You have that before the refactoring and you have it after.

What does it mean? It means 35% of the code is being refactored without coverage. Its status is "unknown" before refactoring and "unknown" after.

Oh, but it compiles!
I like some of the HeidiSQL tools so much that I run it via WINE on my mac.
Nude pics as IOU: a new, risky online loan among Chinese university students
Zenefits Laying Off 100 More Employees, Will Pay Others to Quit
Uber to Raise Up to $2B in Leveraged-Loan Market
> which in bankruptcy is likely nothing, because creditors come first, and if there was going to be something left after that, the firm wouldn't be dismantled in bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy might also be caused by a few debtors being excessively late in payments, and you have your own debts to pay.

If e.g. my debt of 10K is due at 30.07., and I have 100K outstanding from my customers (and not enough cash flow/reserves to cover), then by 30.07. I am bankrupt, and it may well happen that at 30.08. my debtors pay the 100K - but then it is too late for me.
People may not have the courage to go to their boss. I certainly didn't when I was at a company that had a similar policy. (I didn't want to take advantage of it, but it was "at the manager's discretion" which meant they could block it and then you'd really be stuck)
I immediately thought of Sam Vimes too. Well done!
Yes, it's the default Wordpress "Twenty Fifteen" template.

It contains very important books corrupted by cut and paste into the wonky WordPress editor / blog post renderer.

Someone in a hurry might think it was an autogenerated GoDaddy cash parking page, not one of the more interesting sites on the web. Thus my note.
Am I correct in assuming that you "need to use IE" for software that is incompatible with other browsers?
Er, the University of Toronto link to their press release doesn't work, and I can't find any record of it ever existing on the Internet.
> This would suggest that for most people suicide is merely a phase they can pass through.

Strictly speaking, I don't think that necessarily means that these people are better off surviving. One could imagine that they are in pain that is temporary, but severe enough that they are better off dieing immediately, even taking into account that they are missing out on the life that would otherwise have come after the pain.

By making them stay alive, we are perhaps forcing them into the worse option.
It is odd how people are pretending everyone has the same health goals. Some people need extra calories most of us do not. Don't want too many calories or sugars? Order an egg mcmuffin with no muffin.
SkyDNS – Service Discovery Made Easy via API
Drats - I didn't mean to downvote! I actually really appreciate the obligatory utility comments referencing where to get the docs.
Are you sure that this is an America/California/Silicon-Valley feature? That your own internal critical voice arose as a result of growing up with your father (a German) seems to indicate that you got it from either having an immigrant parent, a German/European parent, or a parent who was just a negative nancy. I don't mean to be critical of you or your father; I mean to point out that the criticism=>negativity idea doesn't seem to be a strictly American thing.

> I think it leads to a 'shotgun approach' where if enough people "try try try" then yes some do succeed spectacularly while everyone else around them crashes and burns.

This reminds me of the Orks in Warhammer 40k, wherein the sheer psychic power of an Ork can make a war machine function; the machine would collapse if a non-Ork attempted to operate it.

I think the negativity about / criticism of oneself and one's identity (e.g. the self-effacing comic) is unique to Western civilization. Do people outside the West (e.g. Africa, Middle East, Asia, and perhaps South America) view themselves as backwards for how their lives work? Plenty of people, whether on the right or left, are critical of Western policies, especially regarding military and economic campaign in non-Western countries.

I am genuinely curious if people in non-Western countries see themselves as Westerners do (e.g. more bad than good).
> they just have to leave all their equity behind.
Yeah - that's called losing lots of money
"We are in the real estate business, not the hamburger business." Ray Croc, Founder of McDonalds.

"If a location is good enough to buy, we want to build on it right away and be in there before the competition. Pump some money and activity into a town, and they’ll remember you for it." Ray Croc, Founder of McDonalds
I find Kartik Agaram's writings interesting with respect to that problem.

http://akkartik.name/about
Guide to Deploying Diffie-Hellman for TLS
Suicide is currently against the law and medical professionals regularly use force of law to prevent someone whom they think is suicidal from going through with it.

This feature provides the pretext for such force.
Don't let sense get in the way of cargo cult.
The Kimberly Process[0] from what I understand is pretty much bullshit. It purports to certify diamonds as being "conflict free", but there a numerous loopholes and laundering the source of the diamonds is trivial.

That's why the diamond I bought came from Canada.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Process_Certificat...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11904014 and marked it off-topic.

I don't think we need another litigation of Ivy admissions (and affirmative action), posted as commentary on a particular person's story. When you make statements like "it wasn't that much of an achievement to get into Princeton" and "It's certainly far less of an achievement than it would have been if he were Asian", you're inevitably putting that person down, and that's not right. Your unspoken assumption—that all other things are equal and history began the day they applied to Princeton—is facile to begin with, but particularly uncharitable when applied to someone's life.
This may prove to be an easy way to benchmark native code performance against the JVM.

I wonder if longer term it could be used as a way to compile native C into something that could execute in a JVM. Giving the JVM access to the wealth of existing libraries without having to write native wrappers.
Found it, I think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price#Scient...

Price's Law generally predicts the growth of social networks, which is why it's important today, but he discovered it in the context of number of scientific citations.
I would say that when you get asked about the project in interviews or casual conversation, don't sum it up as a failure of any sorts. Speak about it as a success in research because that's what it really is. Basically, don't downplay your accomplishments due to one metric of success/failure such as Kickstarter or Patreon cancelation.
Note that ZFS doesn't use b-trees; it uses Merkle hashes.
But, as you surely know, types prove something about a piece of code. This means they can very well prove the absence of (certain) bugs.

So generally, the more invariants you manage to capture in your types, the more categories of bugs you can statically prove will never happen.
So?

Just stating fact without making judgments.

a non-trivial uplift over McDonalds

I agree. McD's price for their "premium" sandwiches are a poor value compared to In-n-Out, Five Guys, etc.
House Republicans take aim at regulations (including net neutrality)
There is a sequel to SimTower from the same designer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoot_Tower

For those that care, it's a 32bit executable (playable in 64bit Windows)
It brings me to some conference page in August. Seems like a ploy not anything of actual value sadly. Also looked around and found copycat articles to this but nothing from a source I recognized or trusted and nothing I could find from the university.
But if there is no equity that is not a market salary anymore.

Apple/Google/Facebook/etc has market salary and equity (and/or bonus). So if you take away the equity the salary needs a significant bump to be comparable.

A startup with no plans for an exit seems to not be a good thing for employees.
They don't really do that anymore. McDonald's isn't really competing with Burger King and Wendy's so much these days as Chipotle, Five Guys, etc.

Most modern McDonald's have quite nice decorum, and many even have wifi.
* more often
That's what throttling is, yes, but that's not what Comcast did, so it's not really relevant to this conversation.

That's also not at all what peering agreements are.
Likes should never be the measure of success when advertising on Facebook.
Most decent companies will make it up to you by issuing you new options with the same value or otherwise compensating you for the expiration of options you can't exercise, in some cases they will simply buy the shares from you, giving you your "exit".
In the UK, it's not the case. Most have carts that have no such feature, though a good proportion do. From my own anecdotal experience living in less desirable areas, the use of the coin system tends to be in areas that would be more likely to have carts taken/stolen.
Where is the anonymity? It is unreasonable to use TOR in my opinion because despite being only a few exit nodes, it's not truly P2P then (and therefore can be slow). Tribler tried something similar. Someone needs to build an onion router of peers without defined relays or exit nodes (think of it as everyone-is-a-relay TOR, it's one of my future ideas[0]). This will speed things up substantially and can definitely work when you don't have the limitations of TOR like working w/ all TCP connections (e.g. HTTP). Maybe they could make every ZeroNet node a hidden service, I dunno.

Also, I have researched a lot about plausible deniability of publicly available yet distributed data. I have never seen a system that stores public data without them (clarity edit: node runners) being able to find out whether they are storing a piece of something they don't like. I started a thread about it on the Maidsafe forum recently [1]

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/2
1 - https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/unencrypted-data-question/969...
The author didn't care and it's not their day job to explain.

They just put it out there, which is more than other people did.

If someone feels it needs an added explanation, they can add it themselves.

Some, who had faced similar issue at some time or another, will understand immediately what this is, anyway.
Unfortunately Java is far from safe, NullPointerException and ClassCastException abound. Which isn't surprising given that Java was originally inspired by ObjectiveC, a mostly dynamic language. Scala has a sort of ML subset which mostly avoids these errors, but unless you need the JVM, why not try OCaml or Haskell?
Between $1-$4 per 1k view is quite typical.

I think certain demographics will influence it (depending upon how much they click links and I'd imagine tech people are less inclined to click on links and more likely to adblock)
I have friend that when she was looking for an engagement ring desperately tried to find a synthetic fashion grade diamond, but couldn't anywhere. She was really bummed. She wanted the lab grown one as testament to science.
Animated mechanical drawings
Same here, didn't contribute, but you are a great person, totally respect your decision; let's try to make this OS project a reality!
One drive doesn't offer near the convenience or integration. I've used various incantations over the year from the initial skydrive through to its relaunch and then the latest version but each time I have been let down by unusual syncing behaviour or some level of strange complexity (the worst requiring re-syncing everything)
I agree 100%.

VCs give money to risky companies so that they can aim for very high growth. If the growth expectations aren't 50% per year or higher, the VCs won't invest. Some won't invest if they don't see an option for getting 100x on the other end. They do this having promised their investors to liquidate the fund after a fixed amount of years, usually 7-10. Everyone knows this going in.

It's both bold and responsible to bootstrap and not require VC funding. Just don't take VC money.

It's ok to hold off a year. It's not ok to say, "We're at a mature size, you can wait all you want."
In 1951!

"The number of scientific papers published each year may be taken as a rough indication of the activity displayed in any general or specialised fleld of research... The growth factor of the exponential portions is such as to double the amount of literature every ten or eleven years in both the general and specialised cases."

http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativemea...

This is 15 years before Moore's Law and he's predicting the growth of science and citation relationships. His books basically lay out PageRank and network effects.
> Both Meredith Patterson ("Jake finally raped enough people that Tor as an organisation couldn't ignore it anymore.") and Andrea Shepard are literally anti-SJWs:

Right, yet they don't mind this campaign now do they. So how does that have any more weight than Appelbaum speaking out against abuse on several occasions?
I do. It seems to have far better versions of the main widgets I need, and far more opportunities for binding (GTKmm ftw). Plus, unlike many, I /like/ how my programs look the same on all platforms; screw having to test every pixel of detail on 3+ different native drawing APIs. These are just off the top of my head. Sure, I'm seeing the teething troubles of 3.20, but hey: I'm helping where I can, and I see it's getting better at a rapid rate. Qt on the other hand just doesn't grab me, both in capabilities and stylistically, though that might change, especially as they're starting to think about, y'know, actually being C++.
An Electron and Vue.js quick start boilerplate
I've had the same feeling. I have often though to myself "I do not know how to break this code. Even if I purposely tried to get this code to throw a run time error, I could not."
Not to discount Scala, I don't know it well enough to have an opinion, but this article is shit >(

So the authors anecdotal experiences and subjective feelings after a few interviews is suppose to tell us what the "next big thing is" ? That's really hard to predict even for those who do some actual research. Most of the people he talked to did not even know the language FFS!
How do you think the vast majority of articles in this general vein end up happening?

PR people reach out to reporters with stories that (they hope) said reporters will find interesting for themselves and their readers. It's how things work. Hopefully, the story still ends up being sufficiently researched but, in most cases, the reporter or their editor didn't just wake up one morning and decide this would be an interesting story.
Funny, their Sequoia board member was bragging about going cash flow positive today.
This is currently up for deletion, because it has nearly nothing in the way of good sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

If this is significant, then the way to help it along is to dig out Wikipedia-quality sources for this software. Someone must have something ...