skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After its leadership changed in 2005, Groovy was commandeered to be primarily a scripting language for Grails. A Ruby-like meta-object protocol was added to Groovy so Grails would be Rails-like. Groovy's never really broken free of this shackle, despite its failure around static typing and Android, or use for defining builds before Gradle 3.
do the ARM Amulet research efforts which came out of Manchester University fall under this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor
At this rate, they'll be sold out by the time it's supposed to go "public".
Nginx, Haproxy, Redis
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet - venmo. Does exactly what I want and nothing more. And it's free.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11998052
I will never understand folks who die by texting while they're driving. I can't even pick mine up. My friends and family know full well that if they need to contact me, and I'm driving, they need to ring more than once which signals me to pull over and answer.

I'm terrified of losing track of the road around me. But maybe that's the difference; I'm not confident enough as a driver (despite having done it for 13 years now) to trust my autopilot while my brain checks out to hold some other conversation.
This is why military voice encryption sends at a constant bitrate even when you're not talking. For serious security applications where fixed links are used, data is transmitted at a constant rate 24/7, even if the link is mostly idle.
I note that "good software they enjoy using" includes software that people have been using happily for many years, but less experienced users might still find a bit of a nightmare.

As a Windows user, the tools I've used for a long time include Search Everything, Process Explorer, FreeFileSync, Paint.net and David De Groot's PIXresizer, along with the usual suspects: Gmail, Word and Excel.
When an employer sends you their boilerplate agreement and you see "Employee will not work for a competing business", you're not looking at the only employment agreement they've ever signed. You're looking at the version most favorable to them. Strike out the "for 2 years following employment" and replace it with something reasonable like "while employed by the Company."

It's customary to ask for a ridiculous clause like this up front, because no candidate will walk away over the mere sight of it. They get one free chance to screw you over, just like when you were talking about salary and they asked what you made at your last job. But you have to do your part; politely bounce it back.

You are a professional and this is a negotiation. No one will begrudge you putting a reasonable counteroffer on the table.
Agreed. It's always a shame that the response to purported market failures is either (1) attempt to regulate directly or (2) do nothing, rather than (3) attempt to fix market failure through narrow means.
> Helium can be easily retrieved from the atmosphere by fractional distillation

Technologically, yes... But the last time I looked into this it is extremely costly in terms of energy (ratio of megawatt-hours consumed by equipment vs. the amount of helium you can compress into tanks). Not very dissimilar from saying "Hydrogen can be easily retrieved from sea water". Yes, it can, it just takes an immense amount of electricity to run the electrolysis process. So unless you are located next to a $100 million photovoltaic plant covering a large section of desert, or are located somewhere else that electricity is incredibly cheap (hydroelectric plants on the Columbia river), it's questionable if the economics work out.
They need to get paid, and they need to buy the IPv4 addresses that would actually make Urbit functional.

What did you expect them to take shiny sea shells?
I didn't understand bitcoin either but i bought at $40. Plus it's fun to part of something new.
Sure, it makes a "very forceful explosion" when confined. It's not the same scenario, though.
> research from Paris-Sorbonne University

> application photograph (commonly used when applying for jobs in France)

Or did you mean you are also "old" and French?
I'm curious if there has ever been a case where an employee going into competition with their former employer has been a net negative for society at large.

Most of the tech we enjoy today probably would've been prematurely killed if the creators were under modern non-compete and NDA paperwork.
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Yeah, so it would in a lot of ways be ideal if people could reasonably read, understand, and negotiate the contracts they sign, and then be reasonably bound by those contracts. So each person could say something like, "Sure, I'll sign a non-compete. For an extra $15,000 per year." And then the company could decide if that's worth it to them.

In practice, people just sign what's in front of them, and indeed even if they want to read and understand everything, they can't without a fair amount of training -- and the existence of lots of other people who will just sign what's in front them means that it's hard to negotiate based on what you're signing even if you do read and understand it.

(Digression: I bought a house. The amount of paperwork that I signed without reading was probably around 100 pages. This is a crazy way to live.)

This feels like a problem that is getting amenable to a technological solution. It's pretty easy to imagine a digital assistant that could understand common contract phrasing and even do things like say to a person, "This offer includes a non-compete clause. Based on your demographics and the position, signing a non-compete clause will cost you approximately $X per year. Would you like to negotiate for +$X per year? Y/N" The problem, it seems to me, would be to get buy-in to the idea that such digital assistants should exist and that companies would have to accommodate such assistants.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is a good start
You can remove it by running this in the console:

jQuery('html').getNiceScroll().remove()
Yeah, running an encrypted bitstream through a lossy encoder like CELP is going to sound pretty awful (i.e., the content will be completely unrecoverable.) The whole idea behind a speech codec is to simplify the frequency-domain properties of the data in one way or another.

People are missing the real takeaway from the article, which is that VBR speech compression has serious vulnerabilities that CBR codecs won't share. That part wasn't obvious.
The context of this discussion was "hydrogen balloons" so that is the same scenario literally.
Quite right!

That being the case, let's dispense with the pretense and just recognize the community for what it is: courtisanship and begging for patrons.
On my low end machine VLC struggles with H265, where KMP doesn't. (But I still strongly prefer VLC for everything else.)
I'm always amazed by mathematician's stories like this.

Part of me wonders what would have happened if I'd gone that way, because my uninformed 18 year old self thought that studying a mix of engineering and management would be the best way to make sure I didn't end up running a restaurant. I'd grown up in one, and I wasn't keen on my kids doing so. So even though I quite liked math (I did contests) I chose something that seemed a bit more practical.

Now I realise it's not exactly bad for your career prospects to have a math degree. There's a family of sciences (and math) that tend to produce employable graduates in tech related areas. People who can code, people who can use math (without delving too deep), people who've visited the evidence in a range of natural sciences.

Anyway, there's an atmosphere of awe about guys like this and Terence Tao, like you have to be born a certain way to reach those heights. I wonder a bit about the environment required as well. I suspect it's a lot less gift, and a lot more hard work than it seems (well, hard work is easy if you like it). Along with being fortunate enough to have the environment that takes you along at the right pace. That math teacher who sees you've reached the edge, and spends the time to show you what lies beyond. I had that, I still keep in touch with him. Maybe what I needed was a peer who was interested, too.

Then again, there is something about the pure math people that's quite special. With a physicist or chemist, the person needs to be shown a bunch of stuff, and digest it. Naturally there's a limit to how much resource can be directed at such a person, they need lab time, and they need simply sheer time to digest the mass of existing evidence.

Maybe a mathematician can comment on this:
With pure math, everything is obvious, yet hiding in plain sight. Theorems that will be proven in the future will rely on things that are already known, we just haven't come across a connection yet. Everything is a forehead-slap, why didn't I think of that? For the moment as a non-mathematician, I've only had that feeling with things that are known. Things like the proof there's an infinite number of primes just seem obvious once you know them. The moment when you understand it, you do the forehead-slap. It seems the only thing preventing us from learning the next thing is that nobody has come across it yet.
They say "not cool", but proceed to do the same thing for their title and lead photo...
Yep. Self-dealing is always an enormous red flag for fraud and other shadiness, in financial businesses especially.
Brilliant Jerk? I wish I were hiring. That sounds great
Google launches new My Activity site
The Multimillion Dollar Panama Channel to West Bank Settlements
And are usually significantly overpriced.
I suspect to test whether that would happen was (a large part of) the intention. :-)
Many companies are paying their teams in BTC these days.
Why do they need to buy IPv4 addresses? I haven't read the whitepaper.
Then I'm not sure I ever got Runner's High. I did get Runner's Crave after one week tied to a bed. I couldn't stay in place and was anxious all the time, fantasizing about climbing the stairs between the hospital floors.
From my very not-a-crypto-person perspective, I had thought compression was fine as long as you don't pad it to the expected block length before encrypting?

something something padding oracle
Any guesses on how much money Antonio ended up making at FB? Was the trade off worth it? How to do even put number on the decision made.
> can't penetrate sheetrock effectively

Unfortunately, it can't penetrate human bodies or furniture effectively either. It's effectively requires a line of sight to have a good connection. If the line of sight is blocked, the best you can hope for is a one-bounce reflection at a significantly lower signal-to-noise ratio.

Where will you place the 60 GHz access point and where will you place the 60 GHz antenna on the device such that you'll consistently have LOS coverage?
My early fear of mathematics has a lot to do with its being taught by permanently enraged adults who seemed to view the topic as an excuse to work themselves into paroxysms of ultra-violence. I am glad to see that percussive pedagogy has fallen out of fashion.
It's strange to me to read a gifted author lavish such praise on another creative talent. It felt very genuine and inspired - which is pretty much how I feel when I visit Disney World. For all the flaws of Disney, the creations of the man and the company hit the target exactly - I feel like a kid again when I experience them.

I wonder if we would have gotten such an honest description of awe from Wiesel's contemporaries. Would Sartre, Camus or Orwell have been as impressed? I couldn't say for certain, but I can say that no one had experienced more atrocities to contrast the experience with. That says something big about the magic of Disney's creation.
This complaint makes no sense to me. You just call the taxi company further in advance of when you need the ride. If you know it's always around a 30 minute wait, just call 45 minutes ahead of time and tell them the time you need picked up.

Phoenix & SLC are also not cities in which people are likely to rely on on-demand ride sharing. Most people own their own car especially if they care about being able to determine exactly when they engage in transiting.

Further, in all of the non-mega / non-already-has-developed-rapid-transit-system cities I've been in, apart from one single city (San Francisco), the wait time for Uber is on the order of the wait time for a taxi. The difference between needing to call or book ahead to avoid a 30 minute wait vs. a 15 minute wait is utterly irrelevant.

The real reason why Uber succeeds in these markets is that they currently subsidize the rate paid to the drivers and thus compete on price. They also have way better marketing and do a good job of making people think the market for Uber rides is more liquid than the market for taxi rides (though in truth it's not more liquid except in dense areas).

Uber is not profitable in these areas, and is just hoping it can subsidize the losses on most decentralized transit regions long enough to defeat regulatory issues, outlast competitors, and put pressure on taxi services. It's still quite a significant gamble.
I think part of the reason so many people believe in crackpot ideas has to do with sociology and human history. The human brain is designed to work in small, hunter-gatherer bands, and in particular determine who and what to trust.

With big modern societies, we have to determine the trustworthiness of claims concerning matters with which we have no direct experience or expertise, and made by people who are complete strangers. This takes much more advanced skills of critical thinking, and most people are not educated in them.
Facebook’s Flip-Flop: Is It a Law Enforcement Thing?
Why the future of content is “Interactive”
This has apparently actually identified my antipode.
I also feel like circling entire continents doesn't count...
I live there
I use Notepad++ all the time and I've never had any problems at all. Granted, I don't use many of its features, I mostly just edit plain text. Its select by columns feature is useful though.
I haven't seen many companies paying people in BTC, especially considering that it's not trivial to cash in large sums of BTC these days in many places.

As for the Addresses Urbit needs to run on something, the projec it so vague and the terms they are using are so for lack of better words ludicrous that I can't even understand what they are selling even after reading the white paper.

Data lifestreams, Digital reputation, all of that sounds like complete technobabel to me.
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For those who read this piece of news and don't understand why there is no mention of machine learning, neural networks and deep learning, that's because the system described is a typical fuzzy logic Expert System, a mainstay of Good, Old-Fashioned AI.

In short, it's a hand-crafted database of rules in a format similar to "IF Condition THEN Action" coupled to an inference procedure (or a few different ones).

That sort of thing is called an "expert system" because it's meant to encode the knowledge of experts. Some machine learning algorithms, particularly Decision Tree learners, were proposed as a way to automate this process of elicitation of expert knowledge and the construction of rules from it.

As to the "fuzzy logic" bit, that's a kind of logic where a fact is true or false by degrees. When a threshold is crossed, a fact becomes true (or false) or a rule "fires" and the system changes state, ish.

It all may sound a bit hairy but it's actually a pretty natural way of constructing knowledge-based systems that must implement complex rules. In fact, any programmer who has ever had to code complex business logic into a program has created a de facto expert system, even if they didn't call it that.

For those with a bit of time in their hand, this is a nice intro:

http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS09/KI/folien/merritt.pdf
What a great post. I really appreciate these longer digs into the past that go behind the 'what' to explain the how & why of where we got where we are; and just as much the futures that could have been and why they didn't happen. I keep thinking there's room for a decent series discussing the evolution of Rust, since that design process was such a public thing.
This idea of her's scares me. There is mathematically no way to allow the government access to encrypted documents without potentially allowing bad actors access to them. It's math, you can't just change math because you will it.

And even if you could somehow get encryption that maintains security and allows government investigation, there is no stoping people from just using software written outside the law.

And that is assuming that you don't consider the government itself or any person who works for it as a potential bad actor.

That whole idea is all sorts of bad. It makes law abiding citizens less safe while doing almost nothing for our security.
If you voluntarily enter into a contract in which you agree not to do a certain kind of work later in exchange for compensation now, it's perfectly legal for the other party to enforce that contract (unless it was in the form of a non-compete and you live in e.g. California.)

This is a matter of labor standards, not individual liberty.
OSX: TextWrangler for multi-file GUI text editing.
Also, I should say: I'm really sorry this news had to be about an automated weapon. That sucks.
I tried with my real IP, and then again tunneled through a VPN 3 times each to different continents and it got all four 100% correct.

The VPN tests did have lower confidence, IE larger zones, but my end point was indeed in the circle. Pretty neat.
Endurance exercise displays an inverted U curve in terms of longevity.

Strength is highly correlated with reduced all cause mortality. Which direction the relationship goes is debatable, but being strong is pretty sweet in and of itself.
Programmatically access all the public npmjs registry data: a tutorial
The Dangers of Being Too Hard on Yourself
Referendums are almost universally a bad idea
Why must we always link to Pay Wall articles... :'(
I had a phone interview with them and then checked their glassdoor. Needless to say I'm not surprised about this.
Your link just describes a few other industrial uses for helium 3 besides dilution fridges, mostly having to do with neutron absorption and nuclear polarizability (which aren't exactly household needs). This is a good contribution to this conversation, but it doesn't shows at all that helium 3 is "what is used for most applications". For the vast majority of industrial and scientific usage of helium, helium 3 does not offer much advantage.
Indeed, what I like about plotly is that you can start pretty much anywhere (R, Python, Jupyter, browser JavaScript, node.js, Julia, Matlab...) and get to an interactive, explorable chart (disclaimer, I'm working on WebGL plotly functions eg. https://twitter.com/plotlygraphs/status/747879741399568384)
Tito's partisans drove out their occupiers without outside assistance.

Now, Germany was obviously occupied on multiple fronts.

While I can't contest that if a nation of 330 million were to devote its full human and industrial capacity for the purpose of destroying all resistance in a nation of 33 million, it would succeed...

I wouldn't call the richest country in the world failing to convert to a war economy to overcome an enemy ten times smaller then they are to be 'lack of will to win.'
Although, you'll constantly hear from proponents of nuclear energy, that a nuclear plant can product "nigh-limitless" (!) amounts of electricity, somehow they never do.

But supposing they did produce the absurd amount of energy they could potentially create, would a purpose-built nuclear powered hydrogen plant be capable of obviating any hydrogen deficit, and eventually create a surplus? And then, so too, with helium, via a separate process?
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A timeline of related events-
https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/2016/06/david-chasteen-tor-ti...
It's hard to imagine that we would be even close to where we are now if non-compete agreements, that are common in other states, had existed in California in the 1950's and 1960's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
That's assuming the unscrupulous spam artists pushing nootropics and smart-pills even care about the adverse effects of the ingredients they're selling. And most of their target consumers will be too wooed by the use of a scientific term like 'cathepsin-b' to bother with their own due diligence.
That is assuming that the third party candidate takes more from one party. Libertarians for instance can appeal to both Democrat and Republican voters. Tea Party or Green Party on the other hand...

Also, a third-party capturing a large portion of the vote would be a signal in future elections potentially prompting even more third party votes in later elections so even if they don't win this year there is always next term.

Likewise a strong third party vote sends a strong signal to whomever is elected as to what the voters want.

One of my least favorite things is when people say they won't vote third-party because they are throwing away their vote. If everyone who said that voted third-party the world would be a different place.
Uhhh it was basically illegal to make cars in the US from ~1903 to 1911 due to restrictive licensing policies aimed at excluding competitors from the market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Licensed_Automo...

Ford Motor Co produced cars without such a license and eventually a case went to court. Ford initially lost but then the ruling was overturned.
Source?

Anyways I've run marathons in the past, but I mostly do strength training now, actually mostly callisthenics. It's less dedication, gives me more of an adrenaline rush and easier to do than endurance training. I don't deny, though, that most of what I've read says that cardio is better if you just simply want to live as long as possible.
Search for the article in Google to get around the paywall.
How Facebook Grew to Millions of Users
Nonviolent Communication
For WSJ if you click the 'web' link above you'll get taken to the Google result page for this article.
Clinton pledges to make the U.S. Digital Service permanent if elected
It seems to me that the internet is turning us a bit into bumper cars. Everything just happens. We get a new tweet, then we open the phone, we retweet. A minute later, another notification from whatsapp comes in... From notification, to reward to action, we get stuck in that social loop.

We need to develop a more intentional relationship with our environment, friend and specially with ourselves.
The Python installation called WinPython has worked flawlessly for me, as have the Python environments on both x86 and ARM Linux.

My own programs written in Python... not so lucky. ;-)
Everyone’s Guide to States, Events, and Async-Messaging in REST Microservices
Why not? Modern JIT compilers generate very fast code.
You state 'Every person is offered deals by the devil...'.

This is a religious assertion. So putting a disclaimer that you are not suggesting any religious explanation is therefore nonsense.
Logic is music production software.
Seriously, if Ubuntu were a single piece of software, it would top my charts. I don't even use it regularly anymore except on my work Desktop (I run Arch linux on all my personal machines) but the sheer level of "Just Works(tm)" is mind boggling. It quite handily picks up my weird wireless cards and video devices without fuss, and I haven't managed to fully break an Ubuntu installation (mostly dealing with nVidia back in the day, when it was less magical to get working) in a way that I couldn't easily revert.

I realize a lot of that is riding on the Debian team, but Canonical has done some fantastic work just testing the thing out on such a wide variety of configurations. It's the distribution I recommend to any of my friends looking to try Linux out for the first time.
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If I may ask, how well is the app doing? You have good revenues?