skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FUCK the record companies. If I were in a room with Cary Sherman, Hitler and Stalin and had a gun with one bullet, I'd throw the gun away and kill Sherman with my bare hands so it would take longer.
Doesn't eBay actively try to prevent payments with anything but Paypal?
> If it is selection bias then the training has no effect whatsoever.

That doesn't follow. Both factors could have an effect at the same time and both effects could, in principle, go in either direction. The only thing that we can conclude from the present study is that the joint effect of placebo and selection bias is positive.
... and Emacs really is an IDE; the distinction between it and GUI IDEs has more to do with user interface than any limitation of Emacs.

e.g. live libclang-based code completion for Emacs: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode
Ah... sadly it's only for immigration to the US.
Nope, same deal with the CFAA, which is why the CFAA cross-charging with the Wire Fraud statute is so problematic.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/2725

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dYxInIUDTm4HEArQ9Hom_1Nh...

I should clarify: CoreOS + Kubernetes using rocket by default. From what I understand, CoreOS is driving the effort to get rocket supported by Kubernetes. K8S looks like it is going for agnostic implementation.
Hehe.. you guys are so funny. Nationalistic? True. Xenophobic? False. Just concerned about national security. Trump haters are a real joke
Along with the lazy Nazi comparisons.
Given that people like this (that is, willing to bend facts, lie, etc) exist, I think it's dangerous to assume they exist only in groups other than those that you ascribe yourself a member of. I believe people do horrible things for what they believe the greater good all the time, and that's just the people acting (or believe they are acting) altruistically, not the ones acting in that manner for selfish reasons.

In fact, it's hard for me to get too mad at those that think they are working for the cause of good, because even if I believe they are misguided (and would not use such tactics myself), as at least they are doing what they think is the best thing to help. Intent matters (but is, of course, not the only thing, nor even the most important thing).
No. A placebo effect is fleeting but training is supposed to have long-term effects.
For anything on the fast path the list would be mostly what you'd expect:

- C++

- C

- Java

- Verilog/VHDL or what ever language your FPGA tooling requires.

As for support tooling then python and R are very popular.

It's important to note that its not only speed that dictates what you use in HFT, the shear amount of data you need to handle also dictates what you use. As an example C++'s inplace new operator helps for things like object pooling.

I'm not UHFT or HFT and we can get by with F# and C#. We are at the stage where we have to think about our data structures and memory access patterns but we aren't throwing away readability and maintainability just to get the best possible performance.

From my experience, its much more typical for funds to target performance around this level than the HFT level.

I guess it should be said that you can name almost any programming language and you'll find that someone is using it and claiming to be an HFT shop, ie someone will probably mention OCaml due to Jane Street.

This question http://quant.stackexchange.com/q/12618/743 on the quant stack exchange shows that pretty much every language gets used.
"Over the next ten days I tried to use my coin 54 times. It succeeded a mere 28."

A consumer product with these odds of failure during use never should have shipped.
I'm not joking. Did you miss the part where I said the situation is worse for gcc? I do understand that this is a problem. I also do understand that it is not specific to Rust. Besides, convincing IT to allow rustup with an access-controlled toolchain directory shouldn't be a big deal in many cases. If they allowed one compiler, why not two? (Rustup can also be installed without sudo/admin, but I assume you are talking about situations where they want to restrict the executables running, not just globally installed executables). Yes, I know that in some cases they may not want two, but again, in those cases the GCC solution won't work either.

Note that tools like nvm etc are also quite necessary in their respective spheres for serious development. I was once in a situation where I couldn't even install node at a modern version without nvm.

For clippy, we are working on it, yes. For afl a simple fix exists (write the analog of -Xclang) but that fix will only work nicely if we ship llvm headers too which clang does (which we can, but it is a decision that can't be taken lightly). So no, we are not working on it. It is an interesting idea, and I will ping the relevant people (there are plans to ship "optional components" that you can obtain with rustup or download directly), but there are no concrete plans.

The general evolution of Rust is towards everything being done through rustup. If you want to install a cross compile toolchain, clippy, get stdlib sources, or a different compiler version, use rustup. All the solutions to the nightly problem involve rustup. I.e. instead of installing nightly and using clippy, you just `rustup install clippy` or something and the relevant clippy binary (or compatible source?) will be downloaded, one which will work even if you are on stable. Basically, rustup will be the thing you install when you want to use rust.

This is good, but as far as enterprise is concerned, you are still installing rustup, not rust. I'm not really sure what's wrong with this, but I'm sure some enterprise shops will have issues with this. For those which don't; the solution of having nightly installed via rustup in a frozen directory is not that much different, just unweildy.

I have worked in places where the computer is locked down for many teams. But not in a place where it would be
locked down in a way that rustc would be okay but rustup would not. I'd love to hear more about such cases and discuss how it can be addressed, but I'd prefer email (username@gmail or @mozilla.com). Thanks :)
OK I'll continue to get my history straight :)

Thank you, Alan!
For a baseline a micdouble has 390 calories, 10 of then so that's 6-7$ / day to hit 2,400-2,800 kcal.

If you go for beans, rice, grain, that's under 1$ per day for 1/2 your calories. Leaving 5-6$ to for the other half. That's plenty for a 500-700 kcal in chicken breast / eggs / other cheap protean, and vegies etc.

PS: 9oz of meat per day will generally cover your protean needs. But, less is fine depending on the rest of your diet.
Talk to me about Riak.

/I work for Basho/
If you consider the extent to which humans have shaped the Earth's environment to suit them, we massively favor animals we kill and eat over the ones we don't. You don't have to be part of the machine to be part of a congenial environment for the machine.
For now. Presumably, that could change at some point should they get traction. You have to start somewhere. ("The faith of a mustard seed" and all that.)
the opposite of what Trump and the Republican party represent...

They would disagree. Probably disagree with each other if you look close enough and can pin them down to a position. Everyone wants to provide resources and opportunities. Everyone simply disagrees on the best way to do this. (I certainly think of the market as only an imperfect but useful mechanism.)
The dropdown language picker is busted (at least in Chrome). It's got an off-by-one (or possibly 2) bug.

i.e. Pick 'javascript', it shows JS below... but says 'less'.
Huh, interesting. I would go and try to un-nightly it but looks like someone got there first :p
Here's a list of alternatives I put together to see some capabilities or traits UNIX lacked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020

I think, usable day-to-day, I'd say you're down to Haiku, MorphOS, Genode, MINIX 3, and/or A2 Bluebottle. Haiku is a BeOS clone. MorphOS is one of last Amiga's that looks pretty awesome. Genode OS is a security-oriented, microkernel architecture that's using UNIX for bootstrapping but doesn't inherently need it. MINIX 3 similarly bootstrapping on NetBSD but adds microkernels, user-mode drivers, and self-healing functions. A2 Bluebottle is most featured version of Oberon OS in safe, GC'd language. Runs fast.

The usability of these and third party software available vary considerably. One recommendation I have across the board is to back up your data with a boot disc onto external media. Do that often. Reason being, any project with few developers + few users + bare metal is going to have issues to resolve that long-term projects will have already knocked out.
I have two questions:

1. It is known that you read a lot. Do you plan to write a book? You have been a big inspiration for me and I would love to read a book from you.

2. What is your opinion about Self programming language (http://www.selflanguage.org)? I've read „STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming“ pdf and this feels related, especially to with the Klein interpreter (http://kleinvm.sourceforge.net/).
To be fair, based on the first paragraph you wrote, especially from a just-made throwaway, it's probably kind of hard to choke down just to get to the next par. I wrote a reply, most won't bother as it's another beaten horse.
I admire the compactness and power of Smalltalk. What advice would you give language designers looking to keep the cognitive load of a new language low? What was your design process like, and would you do it that way again?
They mentioned that it would be used on removable media as well.
Right.. 1MT of methane leads to 0.75MT of carbon nanotubes valued at $225,000 -- an implicit price of $300,000/MT for CNTs.. EPA estimates that energy production releases about 8.1 million metric tons of methane annually, so if we convert 1% of the methane to CNTs, we'd have about 61,000 metric tons of carbon nanotubes to dispose of. What happens to the price if you dump 60,000 tons of a previously rare product on the market? What happens if you up the requirement to 10% and you have 600,000MT of nanotubes?
Wow, talk about a throwback. I remember when the blog post when the Nexuiz project was shutting down.

Hopefully this interest means we may be seeing a new Sauerbraten fork at some point
I've had sharpness and focus improvements taking energy metabolism supplements. Could be that I'm deficient here or that it could also help others.

CoQ10, Nicotinamide Riboside, L-Carnitine, Magnesium Malate, B complex, N-Acetyl Cysteine

In terms of just being smarter and quicker to learn I'm not really sure that seems to be a combination of experience and natural factors. The experience part you can obviously change but the other one who knows.
Hi Alan, how do you keep up with technology/news? Do you subscribe to any newsletters? Visit HN regularly?
New York criminalizes the use of ticket-buying bots
Very good Medium post on product frameworks
The man isn't defending trumps views. He's making a point that Trump is being misquoted to support an argument. It doesn't matter how right or wrong you make trump out to be because it's not about that.
I haven't used this for web scraping, but have you tried out http://phantomjs.org/. It's a great tool that lets your process webpages; I don't think it would be that difficult to set it up to scrape sites.
I would, if the police were filling that particular niche. As most police departments have limited funds, simple economics steers them to putting their resources on the highest impact cases. So "Some guy defrauded me when {buying|selling} an iPhone." is below the activation threshold for the police.

But investigating these "small time" frauds benefits from scale. And like the company that was fixing parking tickets (normally a time consuming and costly exercise for the ticket receiver) by apply resources across a lot of people with parking tickets, I could imagine an equivalent "fraud fighter" business where the "fee" was 1/2 the recovered value. So the company investigates 1000 fraudulent amazon sales in the greater New York area, lets say they can prove half the time that it was fraud and get the appropriate fraud protection coverage to kick in. If they keep 50% of that value, they have now a revenue stream that is 25% of the defrauded value.

The mechanic here is that small time fraud allows millions (maybe billions) to be siphoned out of the commercial shopping stream. That burden is generally born by the sellers who raise prices to cover their losses. If a startup can mitigate those losses by 50%, and the seller is willing to split the mitigation 50/50 with the startup, then the seller has 25% less "loss due to fraud" and the startup has 25% of revenue from defeating fraud. It takes money out of the fraud pipeline.

When larger fraud rings are uncovered by the startup they can hand them off to the police who are willing to go after multi-million dollar criminal enterprises.
Well this doesn't really come as a huge surprise. these brain training apps seem to target logical repetitive tasks that would only train your brain to be better at doing just that - logical repetitive tasks. I do however think it is very possible to train the brain, it just hasn't been put in the form of an app or autonomous computer software yet.
Debunking the most pervasive myth about black fatherhood
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"but what is Clintons alternative?"

lmgtfy: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/

Except for being racist and anti-islamist, she talks a lot about all those problems and outlines proposals for all of them.

You may disagree with many of her proposals (and I do), but to say she's not talking about them just goes to show how the debate has been hijacked by demagoguery.
> He said that a judge of Mexican descent isn't treating him fairly, and that it is probably because of his heritage.

The judge is an _American_ of Mexican ethnicity. Trump said that the judge gave unfair rulings because of the judge's ethnicity. Trump is advocating that ethnicity "trumps" citizenship, judicial duty, or any other personal and professional virtues. As Paul Ryan correctly noted this kind of essentialism is textbook racism.

Or put another way. Were the rulings so egregious that a white judge, or a black judge, or an asian judge would rule differently? Aside from the judge's ethnicity what has he said or done in the past to imply any bias against Trump? If Trump truly believes the judge has a strong bias why hasn't he instructed his lawyers to for a motion of recusal, or a change of venue, or any other legal remedy?

> And where was the condemnation of the Obama admin when they tried to prohibit an Iranian-American judge from presiding over Iranian immigration cases?

It was wrong for the Justice Dept to do this. But the Obama admin being wrong doesn't make Trump more right. Both can be wrong. BTW, the Obama DOJ recognized its error, reversed course, and settled with the Iranian-American judge: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/03/454394225/...
Terrible Godwin flamebait. Not disappointed, merely amused and surprised. If you can not make a statement about a politician without invoking Hitler and dictatorship, you should really reconsider speaking up.

Indirectly you are calling Trump voters Nazi's. That is pretty damaging to debate and to democracy.

First calling Trump right, then portraying him as a mastermind capable of murdering millions of people, is juggling the very same demagogic tricks you so despise. There is no need to demonize someone, when you can factually, and calmly, attack their xenophobic economy-damaging proposals.

This is fighting fire with fire.
The number of applications using sqlite successfully is very much greater than 1. You need substantially more evidence than that to state that what appears to be simple user error is actually a design flaw in software that tests specifically for the examples you state and is also well known for the quality of that testing.
FCC lays out its big 5G push
Twenty years of free software – part 1 ikiwiki
They used to. But lately as they've spun off paypal they've been trying to distance from it because paypal takes a seperete cut of the transaction too.
Hi Alan,

I'm a CS PhD student at Caltech. What advice do you have for young computer scientists, especially for PhD students?
Yeah I don't know or care, to be honest. If it keeps those assholes from walling me then I'm okay with it.
I once sold some parts on eBay from a washing machine I broke up, including the busted motor controller board - this particular model of board was not very sophisticated, but it was difficult to source and very expensive, so I sold it 'for spares or repair', stating that the main triac had blown and taken a track with it, so the board would either need some competent rework, or be stripped for what was still working. The guy whe bought it complained that I had sold a faulty part..and ebay agreed so I had to refund him. I insisted the board was returned 'for inspection' and just binned it. Too much hassle.
Question:

"Build a household robot" is high up the list.
That doesn't seem inherently 'general'.

Certainly, people have been working on that for years; there are all sorts of subproblems like vision, contextual reasoning etc.

It could be treated as a general problem, requiring a lot of 'common sense'.

But a team which sets out to optimize that particular goal, could spend years on relatively narrow tasks that get good performance returns on household chores (e.g. developing version 10 of the floor cleaning algorithm), but don't really make progress towards the problem of general intelligence.

For me, what was really interesting about the benchmarks that Deepmind chose (the choice of a selection of Atari games) was that they were inherently somewhat general.

Are you not worried that by putting a narrow domain fairly high up, you'll get distracted by narrow tasks, rather than making progress towards what's really interesting - generality? Won't it introduce tension to try and keep the general focus in the presence of a narrow goal, where you can get good returns by overfitting?
Please release this as a separate library like afl-rs so that we can use it :)

I am sure many people want this to exist. Tons of codebases are gcc-only and having proper GCC fuzzing is important.
Learning how to program from scratch
V8 Optimisations
Can you give a sense of what size budget you tested with and how much data you collected? Tests that are too small to deliver statistically significant results are something I see quite often.

For FB, think of it as a place to connect with your audience. You probably aren't going to see a lot of click-based performance, but there might be a strong view-through correlation since it is very similar to display in that regard. So if you are trying to raise awareness of HR people for example, you can probably target them pretty easily on FB, and if you give them shareable content, that can help be a force multiplier since you won't pay for the shares. You just have to be clever about your targeting, and even more clever about how you are measuring things from an attribution standpoint. If you are expecting it to perform well on a last-click basis, you'll likely be disappointed.
The welfare state does not exist to bring people up, it exists to lock people into a dependent underclass to justify its continuation and expansion.
I don't think you're not supposed to run linux on the current rex architecture. I think you're supposed to (pre/) compile a program for it, issue it to the chips, pass the data on over, and then sic the programs on the data.
I think you're wrong. He called it "an inherent conflict of interest" which Sam's description seems more accurate than yours.

The WP headline is still there: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06...
Totally. IRC has has had eggdrop and other bots for over 20 years.

Can't wait for someone to "innovate" mIRC's scriptable client into their product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop

Slack has effectively re-created irc and bots in a modern client.

It's nice mobile messaging platforms are joining the past and present with the future, let's just not call it innovation.
The plugin code is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-typescript
It's not the potential win in November that's scary, it's the fact that Trump won (is guaranteed to win?) the nomination.

If God descended from heaven and snapped his fingers and declared, "This November, you shall decide between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton," then I wouldn't find it particularly surprising or worrying that ~50% of the electorate would support Trump.

But the fact that people chose him out of a wide field during the primaries is a totally different story. Yes, none of the other choices were particularly compelling, but neither were they the inconceivable choice represented by Clinton.

It's not that they believe in him more than Clinton, it's that they believe in him more than Rubio and Cruz and Christie and Jeb Bush.

A big chunk of voters basically just said "fuck it" to the whole process and gave up on even the pretense of sane politicians. Who are they going to choose for Congress? Who are they going to nominate for president the next time around? Maybe they'll realize this was a mistake and get back to some form of sanity, but I'm not optimistic.
I totally understand wanting to start with immediate relatives in terms of petitioners for immigrant visas, but if you go to the website, click green card, and then "Who can apply" it should make it clear that there are other ways to get a green card, just not through SimpleCitizen (yet?).
I would love to see equivalent for Docker Toolkit, Docker for Mac, and Docker for Windows. It would make it easier to convince my team. I'll check out Minikube.

But yes, I know it is not an easy problem. I had looked at the automation involved as well as deployed Kubernetes by hand to AWS, having to translate what works on AWS.

And as I have mentioned in my comment, GKE is an option.

Having said that, on the desktop, I think all I really care about would be the equivalent of a docker-machine setup for Mac and Windows. Something that brings up a single-node CoreOS running stable, with networking working, and kubelet running via Docker. (Back in 2015, I had to rely on kubelet being baked into the CoreOS release). Probably not a big deal on Mac if I put a vagrant script, or use the existing ones that CoreOS has. But my teammates that are using Windows will want something that works well.

I'm curious -- what's the underlying distro being used for minikube?
"creating a connection between Trump and Hitler. Its horribly sad to see such a connection being made"

We're raising a generation who will grow up associating the name Hitler with an outspoken New York City real estate developer who did nothing wrong. Which is a bit of a problem if a real Hitler ever comes along. Along the lines of "crying wolf" fairy tales. So lets say we get a guy in 20 years who really does want to put Jews in ovens. And the people are like "yeah yeah yeah, I've heard it all before, and Central Park is kinda cool and I like casinos and big skyscrapers so I'm not seeing a problem here"

I'm not sure they understand trademark dilution as a concept. All tissues are Kleenex and they're all OK, all photocopiers are Xerox and they're all OK, all politicians to the right of Lenin are Hitlers and they're all OK, oh whoops a real Hitler slipped thru and now the ovens are getting stoked up, maybe that was a bad strategy after all.

You have to realize I'm not old enough to be greatest-generation, but for decades of my life all I've heard is everyone's Hitler and its simply not been a problem. And nobody seems to agree with me that its a problem to propagandize that being Hitler is OK and normal and nothing bad happens because of him.
It's still much cheaper than having a Lawyer just look over the forms for you.