skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fantastic. I talked to Google for their geocoding API a couple years ago and was quoted $17,500 per year for a pretty basic package that included up to 10 requests per second and 100,000 geocodes per day if I remember correctly.

I looked at hosting OSM myself but it seemed like a lot of work. Huge data files for the initial import and setting up daily increment jobs. Glad to see a managed service emerging!
In Europe they used to have kings and nobles in charge of entire swaths of the nation's production. As a minor counterbalance they'd have alternative power centers in the form of a city's guilds who would own the rights to do certain types of business in the city. The French Revolution may have swept away the nobles, but the general structure of an economy run by the other various entrenched interests remains, and feel that they have a right to the work and customers, treating said customers like property.

To this add strong nationalism and the fact that Amazon is un-French (and the French have few problems strongarming their citizens to be more French: see the French-language TV/radio content quotas).

The US has seen a few of the attitudes (see: any food truck dispute) but never really had the same types of power structures ... with the exception of the Depression-era National Recovery Administration (quickly deemed unconstitutional by 9 out of 9 Supreme Court justices).
Isn't Ebola very contagious, just not airborne? Also didn't a strain of it go airborne in a primate enclosure Virginia in the 1990s? Asking because I thought that was the case but can't remember. I read "In the Hot Zone" a few years back but don't remember the details.
Feeling sad about tragedy
If you invent something new and novel that people actually love, just posting in Facebook groups alone can grow you to xx,xxx USD MRR. Word of mouth will then carry on from there. If you are making something much less interesting, then marketing gets a heck of a lot harder.
Microsoft Introduces Project Bletchley: A Modular Blockchain Fabric
Suppose OVH paid the $1 per month per VPS and Canonical therefore allowed the use of the Ubuntu trade mark. Would you be fine with that?

My point is that perhaps trade mark/copyright law isn't the best way to encourage vendors to update their products.
ELearning is Dead
If anyone is really worried about magic AI, they can build it inside a VR bottle and add failsafes to protect against god-like supersentience.

I think god-like supersentience is ludicrously unlikely, if only because it would probably have to be NP complete and bug free, and both seem like a very tall order - you immediately run into the barber's paradox where you're expecting a system to understand itself completely using its own system.

Is this likely? I'd say no. In fact I conjecture it's physically and metaphysically impossible.

More mundane super-AIs are possible, but they reduce to the out of control machine problem.If there's a problem, it will be because of the possible destructiveness of the implementation technology - e.g. nano, or even traditional bio - and not inherently because of AI.

Bio-like systems may turn out to be more efficient than silicon, so we're far more likely to have a problem if we build a smart machine self-evolving machine out of DNA than out of GPUs.

Arguably we're a smart self-evolving machine already, and the jury is still out on whether or not we're a good idea.
The incumbent side of disruption
For a statically-compiled languages, I don't see why people would prefer runtime reflection to compile-time code generation. You can reduce code duplication, but at the expense of runtime speed. But if that was the use case, I'm not certain why you would be using C++ to begin with.
Can you provide more detail about ad-buy allotment and conversion rates of Google vs LinkedIn, in your personal experience?
With interest rates at 0.25% and the Fed talking about doubting whether they should go down or up, I hope you're not thinking that a pension fund will take care of you when you're old. That won't happen. With interest rates under inflation, you are in fact losing spending power (that is of course the point of the policy: incentivize people to spend now, not save to accelerate the economy). Pension funds are failing because of Fed policy [1], and the current elderly are plundering them dry for the same reason you defend children. They have a right to a pension [2]. Given that stocks have now also refused to go up further (since January SP500 has only gone down. Granted, they came back up to about 2100, but there is negative return so far for the year. How negative varies quite a bit from day to day, but may God help retirees if they drop from here and stay down).

The model where Children take care of elderly is coming back, unless the Fed and the ECB stop acting like we're in the midst of a deep recession.

> Children are not born to be servants to their parents, as you observe. That's why I think it's incumbent on parents to treat their children as best as they possibly can, since children come into a family without being able to consent,

And if the alternative is to starve to death a year or two after you no longer have the ability to work ? What if the alternative is merely to live in poverty when you stop working ? Do people have the right to not live in complete poverty ? I'd say yes. What if there is no choice but to "use" children to accomplish that, like we did for 90%+ of history ?

That second one seems to be happening to plenty of elderly today, and they had far, far better circumstances to avoid it than you or I do today.

I'm not even saying that this is moral, or that it is what you have to do. I'm saying it's what's going to happen if present circumstances remain.

[1] https://next.ft.com/content/c9966bea-fcd8-11e5-b5f5-070dca6d...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/20/retirement/central-states-pe... http://www.pionline.com/article/20160502/PRINT/305029995/kro...
CloudFlare Suffers Major European Outage
Constitutional Code and Blockchain Neutrality: Lessons in Governance from the DAO
By uploading it to Debian I think you have to accept terms to match the rest of the system. You have to object at the source; once it's in Debian, then any downstream developer can do anything he wants with it, as long as it abides to Debian licensing terms.

If you don't accept the Debian terms, your package ends up in "nonfree" and I honestly don't know how that is managed downstream.
Question is, what defines the SQLITE API (if not elaborate tests)?

The documentations is a bit scarce, that is :)
American approach is more 'trial and error' while French education system is more oriented toward demonstrating that something is good or not. Hence, when they see something new coming up they want to make sure that this won't interfere the current state of things. Both approaches are good, just different.
> Every time someone posts a cool Rust library, most of the time it makes use of nightly.

Examples? Examples that aren't tools, that is. The main example I can think of is serde, and that works on stable (just works better on nightly).

What's wrong with nightly for using tooling? You don't have to keep updating, you can pin to a nightly from a particular date. You can use rustup.rs to switch to stable locally if you need to.

I said it's unfair, because gcc has worse issues here, and everyone probably agrees that gcc is "enterprise ready".
> He didn't hurt anyone or even mess with their files in a naughty way.

I've had people deface sites. It's stressful, upsetting, and a lot of work. You can't really trust a compromised server, and school IT is fairly unlikely to have great processes for it.

> I was so happy to get away from school and this kind of bullshit.

The real world isn't likely to look any more fondly on this sort of behavior.
Yep. I'm part of a significant project which is being shoehorned into a Cray because the government has already spent the money for it.

If it's not an MPI job, it's going to be painful.
Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
They also do that with acetaminophen awfully lot.
Twitter acquires London-based machine learning startup Magic Pony Technology
Yes, you could rightfully do it, and the package mantainer would probably rename the package or just remove it.
You may also enjoy: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com
What is this rice cooker you speak of? I cook my rice in a pan with boiling water.
Multi-Joint Dynamics with Contact (MuJoCo): Advanced Physics Simulation
France is in trouble. They badly need reforms to be able to compete but they are unwilling to let go of their hard earned amenities.

Related link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/french-workers-are-protesti...
Not dying is orders of magnitude more important than keeping eligible for student loans or government jobs you could theoretically someday get.

Also if an addict's perception of a life 'worth living' depends on external things, like yours does, the addict is highly likely to just go back to addiction anyway. Life is worth living without student loans or government jobs or travelling -- or similarly, drugs -- and much of overcoming addiction is learning to recognize that.
http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#how_to_corrupt

http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DatabaseCorruption

(Just so you know)
This layman finds himself reminded of the Cell CPU used in the Playstation 3.
Well, if your static analysis consists of compiler warnings and a few clang passes while your dynamic analysis is avionics/military grade, of course the dynamic analysis is going to be more effective. Would you expect anything else?

A more interesting comparison would be between the most powerful/restrictive static analyses vs. the most powerful dynamic analyses.
Crash reporting for LibreOffice
>How often do you get a receipt, and hope often do you go on trips?

Might as well have asked "how often do I open a door, and how often do I go on trips". The fact that I get I receipt many times in a day does not imply that I (or the majority) go on and photograph it on my phone. Some do, of course (and I've done it a few times for very important receipts) but most don't (and not for most receipts). Whereas for trips it's rather the inverse. People usually photograph stuff on their trips.

Besides trips is just one of the "regular" cases -- I've mentioned several.

Do you really agree with the author of the article that:

a) vacation photos, selfies, kids photos, food photos, casual snaps of friends, pets, etc.

is 1% of how people uses their phone, whereas:

b) receipt photos, and photos for magnifying things

are the majority?

I wouldn't even give 10% to the (b) case.
where do you get "some magical relic from the past" from? Not knowing about something != thinking it is useless.

The "bubble" is "most people that never used C/C++" (because outside of there, make is pretty rare despite its usefulness), and even if you've used C/C++ you are not necessarily familiar enough with it to know how to properly use it or to realize you can use it as a general tool.

Why would you expect people to magically know about (and prefer to others) a tool that's almost never used in the ecosystems they touch, or only behind the scenes?
Five startups from Norway
Ok, so an AI subject, everybody went terminator vs the matrix :p

i have a few thoughts to comment on what's been said, hopefully not too controversial

A self governing system does not need to be intelligent to be dangerous. i think this is what scares people most.
We more and more give automated systems the power to do more advanced and crucial tasks
I think eventually we would reach a point where it might be "safer" to give the choice to an automated machine than to a person. mind you this machine can be something we already have today.

i don't think an AI that can compete with human behaviour can explode instantly out of a single creation. i think we're more likely to experience advances upon advances in the field towards forming bits and pieces of the human mind.

i find it very unrealistic to think that a machine will simply come to life, i think this stems out of our belief in a soul or a spark of life given by a creator. i think like most machines it will evolve gradually until it reaches a point where it is relevant. i don't think anyone will even notice the change.

Also, there this unfounded image of how an AI would be; rational, not prone to impulses temptations, poetically machine-like, and non-human like. the way we saw machines years and years ago. (that's movies for ya)

Creating something that can learn from others will require it to empathise with others, i think it's only science fiction that an AI could be created with the full knowledge of it's operations. artificial intelligence is by essence heuristic, it would learn and adapt to it's surroundings.

I think it would be a very unintelligent machine for it to try to kill off any means it has to survive as an intelligence. society is the root of intelligence. communication, language etc..

My views maybe a bit optimistic around the subject. but i never hear them spoken out loud.
Humans need a bunch of atoms (stone, minerals) to survive, and we source those from quarries. This parallel is closer.
Show HN: Dark Souls-Inspired Room Scale Virtual Reality RPG
Better Dropdown Menus in Ember Apps with Ember Wormhole
I absolutely agree that downstream packages have some level of responsibility to maintain up-to-date packages.

However, this alone isn't necessarily reason to prevent someone from distributing derived versions of your open source project using the original name.

If this was the case, Canonical would prevent people from shipping EOL'd versions of Ubuntu under any circumstances. If I ship an appliance with Ubuntu 10.04 (EOL 2013-05-09), it would have the same negative impact as shipping a patched 16.04 with no up-to-date patches or a similarly unpatchable kernel or core package.
I get it but I don't like it, and I'd rather avoid the concert. I will agree not to pull out my phone at concerts, but I'm not giving up my phone. I will not be disconnected from my family that way. If all else fails I'll razor blade that pouch open and not bring it out, but they can take that pouch and go pound sand.
"Pubic". How indecent!
I'd like to play with google cloud using my personal details but here in the UK it says you need to be a business/commercial entity on the registration page with the following clause

> This service can only be used for business or commercial reasons. You are responsible for assessing and reporting VAT.

whereas Amazon don't seem to stipulate that (at least not explcitly, there might be something in their t+c's) and they deal with all the VAT stuff.

Oh well.
Note mv tries reflink by default (when moving files across BTRFS subvols) since doesn't need a separate copy of the data. Now as storage systems evolve there are less guarantees that one does get multiple copies, with deduplicating at lower layers etc., and therefore cp may change at some stage to reflinking by default, especially as clone_file_range() moves to the VFS level. Actual data redundancy would then achieved at a higher level with separate file systems, devices, data centers, ... where arguably it needs to happen now anyway.
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Very much agreed. Americans have a nasty habit of valuing everything in dollar terms, especially when such things cannot be valued in such a way. What is the dollar value of clean air, friendly neighbors, and social cohesion? Sure you could factor things like physical health, but that never paints a full picture.
I think it also has to do with the stackoverflow effect.

Tools that gain traction today are those that can be learned incrementally by doing a google search and copy pasting a solution, one problem at a time.

Out are all those systems that have an underlying theory to them that has to be mastered first. As pointed out elsewhere, there is a perfectly good manual for make[1] that you can read.

My theory is that it has to do with shortened attention spans, and impatience perhaps bred by constant use of technologies with short stimulus response cycles [2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Introduct...
[2] Cellphones.
My thoughts exactly, there's hardly any difference to Haskell in the material covered in the PDF.

However, it seems like Curry has logic programming features similar to Prolog. The Wikipedia page has some more interesting examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_(programming_language)
People are always trying to pick apart things that a wrong with Tesla's. Like the fact a tesla crashing makes the news. It's just a car, like all the others, but a bit more advanced.
I think it's inevitable as per the laws of physics/optics/etc -- as long as fonts have curves, to have them render clear we need to process a much larger number of pixels.

I guess it's comes from information theory (Shannon/Nyquist etc).
Nvidia switched to MIMD in their Fermi architecture. I assume that they are the reason why jacquesm says most.
Also one additional region being added to the US this year, Ohio was announced last year.
How to Land an Autonomous Vehicle Job: Projects
I honestly do not think that DL is the answer. It's just a special use case of NN with multiple layers, and NNs itself are just one school of machine learning, IMO not even the most promising one.
Many companies let their IT control what toolchains one is allowed to use.

Usually it is set in stone and only updated every few IT upgrade cycles.

What the devs get on their machines is that and nothing more.
Maybe there'll be an opportunity to drill down in the data. There's a huge wide spectrum of people who suck at driving (senile old people, oblivious soccer mom, boy-racer, etc) and I would be very surprised if they're all roughly equivalent.
The Use of FBI’s Facial Recognition Is Growing, Despite Rampant Inaccuracy
Autotools is smoking shit, but the make man page is a few pages and very comprehensive. Also the includable make libs that come with bmake allows many makefiles to be a few or one lines. Also, the best makefile I've ever seen is that of Linux, if someone considers to use make, must see that to convince himself, yes, it is possible to write a comprehensible, cross-platform and editable makefile for a big, deep project with configurables w/o the atrocious madness that is gnu autotools.
_SQL Server Express_ is not the MS equivalent of SQLite.

_SQL Server Express_ is just a free (as in beer) limited version of _SQL Server_. It's still a full-blown traditional server like MySQL, Oracle and other that require services and administration tools to be installed.

Mirosoft has 2 equivalents to SQLite: The Jet database engine is pre-installed in all versions of Windows and allows creation of .mdb databases (those used by older versions of MSAccess). You don't need to include any dll file to use it.

The other is _SQL Server Compact_ which, like SQLite, is an embedded engine that you can bundle with your application by including a library.

All of these embedded databases are able to do multi-user writes to some extent. Jet is actually quite good if careful with locking (emphasis on careful). SQLIte is a de-facto standard because it's simple, performant, cross-platform and flexible.

While it can replace full-blown databases in some cases, it's far from being always true. There are still many cases where using something like SQL Server Express may make more sense, for instance if you want to offer a path to your customer for drop-in replacement of the database based on the growth of their needs over time. Not saying it's not a costly lock-in, but it's an easy one to sell.
How did Paris handle Uber?
Assuming you are allowed control over the development environment, which isn't possible in many companies.
In this particular instance, there's no reason to be shipping afl.rs in production code. It's just a tool that's meant for local development, testing environments, or maybe even part of a CI workflow.
I can appreciate this, but I find it both true and irrelevent. It is not as if many people here (I would assume) would choose Trump to be president out of some crowded room of well rounded and accomplished people.

I guess I'm still wondering what your larger point is? Do you plan to vote?
At a quick first glance: MapQuest has 15K transactions/month for free, LocationIQ claims 30K/day currently.
Is failure real or just an unfortunate illusions
Can you translate your great technical summary into a few potential applications to help us understand what might be on the near horizon for AI/DL?

LeCunn cites photo recognition, Ng cites autonomous trucks, Nosek cites auto-scaling difficulty for online courses and some kind of magnetic brain implant.

Seems to me that these are all fringe/isolated use-cases - like learning to use your fingers one at a time without learning the concept of how to use them together to grasp an object. Perhaps once we get better with each of these fringe "senses" we'll be able to create some higher level intelligence that can leverage learnings across dimensions that we haven't even considered yet.
Variety is a good thing.

Make sure to pay close attention. MapQuest recently announced that they are going to discontinue their direct access OSM tile offering:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-June/076...

This is part of a ongoing reorganization of their offerings, it wouldn't be surprising if they flipped the switch on their other open data stuff.
And everything is back to normal.
Something unmentioned so far is when you start getting "advanced" the make scene is much like the shell scene and its fairly easy to write something that only runs on GNU make or only on BSD make and there is plenty of opportunity for argument about that being a bug or feature etc.

So there's that. Make being such a good idea and a popular standard, there's no shortage of people implementing not quite compatible make-like-systems.

Another fun tip is make your makefile executable and try the first line like

#!/usr/bin/env gmake

or whatever seems appropriate. Or perhaps GNU make is installed as "make" on your OS or you use an "alternatives" link farm or whatever. Some people will flip out if you put arguments on that command line, others will pat you on the back and high-five. So there's that "fun".
No-install iOS app that provides notifications and a single screen
It's a french thing. Once I literally was told that the cafe "is closed" because I dared to speak english. It was Carcasonne fortress, midday, middle of summer, with hundred other people being served. Don't hold your breath
How Safe Is Allowing Remote Access to Omron PLCs via the Internet? (2009) [pdf]
Why would that be the responsibility of Make?

Of course you need to convert those externally -- with e.g. the C preprocessor for C files...
This sounds to me like they are saying "Their business model is more efficient, and therefore it will be hard to compete with it, so let's ban it instead".
Bank accounts aren't cash. They're a ledger of your balance with the bank.
page 2:

"When a router is forwarding a TCP or UDP port to an Omron PLC, the traffic is being delivered to a non Windows based operating system. This makes the PLC impenetrable to standard hacking methods."
Code is Cruel
Complete nonsense - save your time, don't bother reading it.

To the author, if you want to be taken seriously, see my earlier comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11932311
Just a layman, but i get the impression as of late that things are running into thermal and feature size issues.

And that these will affect all ISA equally.
From the article - 'The activities of another multinational offering quick and convenient services – the car hire app Uber – has also raised the hackles of authorities in Paris in recent months. The company has faced fines, legal challenges and its drivers physical violence since it began operating in the city in 2012.'