skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Static optimization to inlined code that ONLY handles immediate numbers and addresses is fine, and interesting to see the full pipeline working. But that possibility is there really for any language and any asm platform. I remember seeing Forth compile down to 6502 or other asm code, where it compiled down to the asm instructions a human would write for the same task, with basically zero language overhead.

HOWEVER, that was because the code written only did things similar to assembly instructions, similar to this example.

The biggest problem with compiling C family languages to 6502 is the stack. They generally assume something like a local stack frame for variables and parameters, and there's no way to directly express that style of programming at the 6502 instruction level. Note that there were no local variables in these examples, much less any actual function calls. Certainly the ABI used by C would not be machine-code-translatable from x86 to 6502; there would be an ABI written for 6502 and higher level targeting could work.

Instead of generating & trying to translate x86 assembly code, compiling C++14 down to plain C and using a 6502 compiler like cc65 could work significantly better for more idiomatic C++.

While it's an interesting novelty, why write 50+ lines of C++ code when writing 7 lines of commented, well-understood assembly instructions suffice? Add some variables and macros to take care of naming the various bits & locations, or target some codegen directly to 6502 if we're talking about programming "in the large" relatively speaking. Sure, you don't want to touch x64 code for human writing in the general case, but 6502 was designed with hand coding in mind.
Absolutely right, Rich Hoagland as author alone is a big warning, i just posted it to have confirmation from some guys who know better that this is BS.

Is this allowed here?
بنت محجبة تمارس السكس اقوي سكس محجبات مصري
If a puppet seems astray, who is at fault? The puppet or the puppeteer?
Thanks for pitching in, but it's worth pointing out that this is not the case. HN is not about whatever the community elects to upvote: there are categories of stories (politics, cat pictures, &c) that are off-topic for HN regardless of votes.

But you're right in spirit! Interesting articles about barbecue are absolutely on-topic for HN!
"Hey Siri" feature is great! It has totally changed the way I interact with my phone. I use it everyday .. some of the commands are
1. Hey Siri what is the time ? (When i'm still in bed and my eyes are closed)
2. turn on all alarms. (yes I have multiple alarms to wake me up)
3. turn off all alarms.
4. Hey siri what song is this ? If i'm too lazy to open up shazam
5. Hey Siri remind me to do abc at 7am ...
I quite agree with everything you said, but I'm not sure what we mean today by "learn" (in the context of ML) is what Perlis would have meant.
Is Pokemon Go Really Making People Walk More?
Nihilists! ..Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Do you refute Searle by just asking? Waterfalls play chess regardless the observer? Do my 4 apples compute their sum just by virtue of being 4?
To the extent that I'm xenophobic, I recognise it as something to be challenged, not indulged.
Proposal: Alias declarations for Go
Fair enough; I'll be a little more precise.

I think the correct way to state it is: "all true statements are either tautologies, or can be determined empirically (with arbitrarily high but not necessarily measure-1 probability)". This statement is itself a tautology, because tautologies are by definition true, and because "determined" implies some method of determination, which if it actually can be used to determine truth, means it can be used empricially. Determination and empiricism are secretly defined in terms of each other, basically. The reason this tautology is worth stating is that it gives a simple criterion for discarding non-questions: questions that have no method of determining whether they are true or false (with arbitrarily high probability), are always non-questions.
For the record, the Cuban embargo has been great for Canada. Energy and mining companies (nickel) have done very well without having to compete with American companies and it has been a beautiful low cost vacation destination to one of the safest places in the Carribean.
I think the embargo kept Fidel in power. With the US constantly trying to assassinate their head of state, the dismal record with American organized crime, and their multinational corporations already behaving badly, Cuba had an enemy. An enemy + control of the press = a beautiful world for a dictator.
Today, much of their infrastructure is a disaster, but they are some of the most enterprising people I have met, reasonably well educated, remarkably socially cohesive and very happy (though ridiculously poor).
This can end well, but does require that America finally end the disastrous embargo policy Apologies to Cuban Americans who won't agree because they hate Fidel too much to realize it...
This is a pretty clever way to generate random bigrams without a computer:

To construct (3) for example, one opens a book at random and selects a letter at random on the page. This letter is recorded. The book is then opened to another page and one reads until this letter is encountered. The succeeding letter is then recorded. Turning to another page this second letter is searched for and the succeeding letter recorded, etc. A similar process was used for (4), (5) and (6). It would be interesting if further approximations could be constructed, but the labor involved becomes enormous at the next stage.
Quite the talented illustrator

A thumbnail view of all - http://electronicitems.tumblr.com/archive
Giant Statue of Guan Yu Completed in Hubei
"It turns out DB Cooper was a shapeshifting alien hybrid, and that most of the incident was a false memory construct implanted by the Men In Black to hide the fact that he didn't escape using a parachute, but a teleporter."
MSR BARC was in downtown SF. did you mean the buildings around the late MSR-SV? no sign of that yet.
I got this girl and she wants me to duke her

I told her I'd come scoop her around 8, she said "Super!"

That sounds great, shorty girl's a trooper

No matter what I need her to do, she be like "Super!"

Own his own throne, the boss like King Koopa

On the microphone he flossed the ring "Super!"

Average emcees is like a TV blooper

MF DOOM, he's like D.B. Cooper
From the Article:

> The driver in Montana was headed from Seattle to Yellowstone National Park when he crashed on a two-lane highway near Cardwell. ..."It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder"

From the Tesla Owners Manual:

> Traffic-Aware Cruise Control is
primarily intended for driving on dry, straight
roads, such as highways and freeways.

...

> Autosteer is particularly unlikely to operate as
intended in the following situations:

• When driving on hills.

• The road has sharp curves or is excessively rough.
I hate to say it, but there are going to be some deaths on the road to full autonomous cars. (no pun intended)

The problem I see is, Tesla is the only one actively testing autonomous driving.

The fact that over 100 million miles driven, and we're finally starting to see accidents, is a good sign.
In this batch of YC (Summer 2016), we also have The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/.
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If the auto pilot calls for the driver to be on alert and place their hands on the wheel and the driver doesn't, surely the auto pilot should stop the car
> "As road conditions became increasingly uncertain, the vehicle again alerted the driver to put his hands on the wheel," said Tesla. "He did not do so and shortly thereafter the vehicle collided with a post on the edge of the roadway."

If the autopilot's confidence was dropping that rapidly, why did it not slow the vehicle? If it hits zero confidence it should halt completely until the driver restarts the car in manual mode, and possibly disable itself until checked out.
Without any additional information, the story, as presented, is fishy.

1. The “counter-terrorism” package to which they seem to point has only been enacted last month. The details and dates for its impossible requirements for ISPs, hosting providers, services, etc. (to save up to three years of connection metadata and up to half a year of content of all — vaguely defined — “transmissions”) hasn't yet been set.

2. Current law also states that ISPs have to save metadata for 6 months and all traffic for 12 hours (numbers and details can probably be optimized by one-on-one deals with local authorities). This has been in effect since 2014, and the VPN providers seem to didn't have problems with that.

3. I highly doubt they were registered as an ISP and got a license. Compliance to these laws was mostly their hosting provider's headache.

4. Failure to comply is punished by enormous fines, not property seizure.

5. Russian law enforcement can seize your servers “without notice or any type of due process” if they think they have a reason with or without those laws. ISPs do have formal and informal contacts with various agencies to prevent collateral damage and assist in evidence gathering. Maybe they didn't care in this case or it was too important.

6. Haphazard reactions like revoking all their certificates (if they didn't actually have their master server with all the keys in Russia) and boasting snake oil solution of pushing key widths to their limits without a valid cryptographic cause is actually a reason to seriously reconsider whether your own cloud VPN instance would have more competent administrator. (Offtopic rant follows further down.)

So, while it is not impossible that Russian government sent them off with a noticeable brazen in order to scare other companies providing tunneling services (that have been seen as uncooperative and allowing access to content censored by government), there is still no official statement for what happened of any kind. AFAIK, censorship agency, who has always been pretty vocal about its noble citizen protecting activities, didn't comment that accident at all.

Offtopic rant: Let me remind you that all these VPN services are made by people greedy for a quick buck who don't even understand how to setup NAT without side effects for outbound traffic that should return inbound to the same network, and that “anonymity” and “not keeping logs” claims are unenforceable. Traditional ISPs are limited by strict laws in most countries, and they still spy on traffic and sell “depersonalized” (yeah, yeah) data on ad market. VPN server is even tastier way to spy on browsing habits of each of the clients, the temptation is too high to resist if you are not ideologically solid (which, despite all the website speeches, they are not).
It's funny how you say "one company town". There are a lot of those in the Bay Area.

- Cupertino = Apple

- Mountain View = Google

- Milpitas/San Jose = Cisco
Not falsifying the null hypothesis, but falsifying _other_ claims.
I tried to figure out how to reproduce the logo at one point (10+ years ago, when people were less worried about dying drives). IIRC, it's that the EFM patterns used to make the pixels don't make valid Red/Yellow Book sector contents, which causes some weird behavior if you try to read them as such.
personally, i can't wait to see what the Silicon Valley (HBO) credits animation does with this next season. buildings standing up and trading places?
The FBI says its malware isn't malware because the FBI is good
I really think Tesla needs to make autopilot's "hands-on" requirement less lenient, the driver had their hands off the wheel for a full two minutes and the car didn't bark at him? I think (maybe I'm wrong and the other non-fatal one did) this is the first incident where autopilot was involved with an inattentive driver, and probably the one that is going to put the screws to Tesla, unfortunately.
Nobody reads manuals and follows instructions . I feel Tesla is going to learn this lesson that hard way.

From the article:

"We specifically advise against its use at high speeds on undivided roads," it said. Tesla states clearly in its owner's manual that drivers should stay alert and keep their hands on the wheel to avoid accidents when the Autopilot feature is engaged.
Can autopilot not tell a straight road from a curvy road? If it can, why does it apply throttle when it detects that it is driving in a type of road it cannot handle?
Sure, but you're building on a dramatically smaller piece of land so your total overall parking requirement doesn't change. 4 stories of 100,000sqft vs 40 stories of 10,000sqft hold the same number of workers, but the tower only uses 1/10th of the footprint.

The fun part is when you start building a lot of these towers very close to each other and then all of a sudden your parking needs plummet because transit is way more effective.

It's not going to happen in the Valley though, they're stuck with gross office parks.
It's a challenging project. Here are some problems I spotted in a few of the addresses I tried out.

It doesn't understand diacritics correctly.

With the address "Första Långgatan 10, Göteborg" it shows the name with messed up characters and capitalization, as in "Example: F�rsta L�nggatan 10, GöTeborg, SE".

The locations also appear to be off by a few tens of meters. "The Old School | Temple Road | Oxford OX4 2EP" gives an address which is across the street from where it should be (which is where Google says it is). "Avenyen, Göteborg" is also shifted. And "Storgatan 1, Stockholm" is in the middle of the street named "Storgatan", and not at the address, which is at the end of the stret.

Less acceptable, the Louvre, at "Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France", is off by more than two blocks.

Oh, I tried "Aveyn, Göteborg", which is a typo. It pointed me to somewhere in the middle of a block, with no street named "Avenyn", or anything like that, close by. I don't know how I ended up there.
I was actually asking that question in a rhetorical sense.

I'm well aware of zoning laws. I think when they're taken too far, they impinge on personal liberty.

There are localities that mandate that every house be painted the same color. The Bay Area zoning laws benefit a few (the landlords) at great cost to everyone else who lives there, and stunts the growth of the regional economy. (If taller building were allowed and property prices were more sane, there would be more companies and more people, thus leading to economic growth).

I think what we need is a constitutional limit on state power in the United States. The Tenth Amendment[1] and the Enumerated Powers Clause[2] limit federal overreach, but there is no analogous limit on state power in the U.S. Constitution. The states' powers are not enumerated, well-defined or limited in any way, and states are free to legislate on almost anything (unless it infringes on an enumerated right of the people or a right covered under Ninth Amendment[3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_... -- "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Comcast business phone service is down and small businesses are freaking out
> just be the agonistic/antagonistic affinity for every neuro-receptor

Except that pretty much every receptor subtype, every transporter protein and many other brain genes exist in multiple variations in the human population, and those variations do alter the way these proteins act. This is one reason why different drugs affect different people differently, because at the lowest level, you don't have the same brain chemistry as other people, there are an infinite number of possible variants.
Eat Your Fruit and Veggies and Be Happy
We'll just have to see how liability laws and juries treat these technologies. We may well see a situation where thousands of lives could be saved from automation, but any accident leads to millions in lawsuits and the technology is killed. Hopefully this isn't the outcome.

Airbags occasionally kill or injure people also despite on balance saving lives. So there is precedent for this sort of math, but this is a very different kind of technology and not an ordinary engineering tradeoff.
That could cause an accident just as easily.
I believe FiberOne is already taken by a different type of fiber ;)

It is not important nor a requirement to have the word 'Fiber' in the name. A possibility is to have <epic name> and then attach 'fiber' secondarily (e.g. "Google Fiber").
A driver is still supposed to remain alert and have their hands on the wheel, this allows Tesla to collect telemetry on autopilot so it CAN work on improving the software to handle these conditions better. I think the flaw here is the hands-on requirement is much more lenient than it should be, if it allowed the driver to keep their hands off for two full minutes (it is supposed to slow down if a driver isn't keeping their hands on the wheel) then I'd say that's a very poor design choice.
This is why providers like FitBit require that you use APIs such as Chrome Custom Tabs or SafariViewController, where the OS presents an out-of-process limited web view that the host app doesn't have access to.
I think you'll find suddenly braking in the middle of the road poses its own dangers.
Or you can test the cars the way Google does, without involving the public and having deaths on your hand from overhyping your product.

https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/
> What if you do do the determination of all true statements empirically?

How would you demonstrate that you have done this? Particularly, how would you demonstrate that there is no true statement which you have not empirically demonstrated?
Did the title of this submission change the first TLA from GNU to FBI in the time it took me to click on the comment link?
I always wonder why this is never mentioned in these articles. If I recall correctly, this approach is quite popular in Russia.
Hmm, escaped convicts without any money...
> "No force was detected on the steering wheel for over two minutes after autosteer was engaged," said Tesla, which added that it can detect even a very small amount of force, such as one hand resting on the wheel."

Why doesn't the "autopilot" turn off if no hands are detected on the wheel?
What was the evernote announcement? Was there a breach?
Agreed, but Tesla might need to get more aggressive now ("Confidence lost, resume control, emergency braking") and have the tail lights go to 100% brightness before braking is applied (to give the driver behind them ample time to slow).

The clue stick comes in many forms.
Another entry for https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Anyone else not terribly convinced about the FBI's insistence that Dan Cooper didn't survive the jump when all the copycats who also parachuted, in similar areas (Utah, Nevada, etc.) all survived? In fact, one of the copycats is pretty much the exact same jump aside from the location (Utah instead of Washington), same 727 aircraft and everything.
6502 is notoriously difficult to target a C compiler to. Limited stack depth, only 3 registers, and I believe some other limitations to the ISA that make hand it hard to target C to it.

cc65 seems to be the only viable one around last I looked. And it doesn't support the 65816, only the 6502. WDC offers their own compiler, but it's not fully open/free.
> reasonable substitute for a 4-year degree

You're still thinking in terms of a "degree". Education is not a checkbox on the road to getting a job. That's the old thinking, and it is doomed. A better question is what skills and experience would I need to be valuable in the workplace. Education, especially CS is an ongoing process that never ends.

Speaking from personal experience, I did a little bit of community college but dropped out because I didn't think it was worth paying tons of money for something I could learn from a $40 book (or free online now).

I'm working as a software engineer now and am earning more than most of my peers with CS degrees. No college degree, no Coursera certificates, just real world experience and learning what I needed to.
> drivers should stay alert and keep their hands on the wheel

What is then the point of having an autopilot?
Or the more modern version of Xbox live trolling when people name themselves Xboxoff or xboxinternet and wait for some one to yell their name.

The Siri thing isn't new tho you used to be able to shout at Siri trough some ones phone when you were on speaker but I think Apple implemented some voice recognition restrictions.
High end cars from a few manufacturers have a significant fraction of Tesla's features, they're getting plenty of test mileage. tesla's feature set is still level 2, though- at the high end of level 2.
Also check out the instance-per-request demo: http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/
AFAIK it's a 'feature' of Tesla's autopilot vs other competitors which require hands on the wheel.
> The problem I see is, Tesla is the only one actively testing autonomous driving.

No, they aren't.

They may be the only ones using consumer-operated vehicles as their test platform for the particular degree of automation that they are testing, but there may be very good, safety-related reasons why other people aren't doing that.
Maybe the driver is medically incapacitated?
LinkedIn's SV presence (they also have SF, NY etc) is a lot larger than MS's valley presence and MS could probably consolidate with the LI folks' future offices without problem.

O/T fun: my girlfriend worked for MS but got bored, so interviewed at Google and LinkedIn...by walking! Google offered to send a Tesla to bring her the two blocks to the interview but she thought it wouldn't be cool to be picked up in the work parking lot. She chose LinkedIn.
Ummm... human and animal health are usually separate companies. I know Pfizer had an animal health unit, but it was spun off. Those are two different groups of companies you're talking about.
I just ask my cats for help. They look at me funny as if I'm crazy and then I try again with renewed vigour.
Really weird Google image results lots of hacked sites
https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=755&q=8000+word+essay&gws_rd=cr&ei=1oSFV8CbBYe0UPKhqbAK

a lot of hacked sites to push crappy term paper services ..

I guess it's now: porn, pills, poker...and papers
Didn't the car bark it him though. The article says that Tesla claims the car repeatedly alerted the driver to take control of the vehicle and he didn't.

I think you are wrong that this the first incident where autopilot was involved with an inattentive driver. In the fatal crash responders found a portable DVD player inside the car and seemed confident it was in use at the time of the crash.
Hah I was thinking along very similar lines! One name that has occurred to me is MiFiber (pronounced My Fiber") to play off the Michigan concept.

I do think that Pure Fiber is a pretty smooth name.
I think the reference is to the pricing changes announced at the end of June 2016 [1]

[1] https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/06/28/changes-to-evernot...
I'm saying it should gradually slow down as it gets more uncertain (just like you do in heavy rain as your visibility decreases), not that it should slam on the brakes with no warning.

If gentle deceleration "causes" an accident then the problem is with the attitude and behaviour of the following vehicle, not with the deceleration.
Nope. The Galileo spacecraft only carried 7.8 kilograms of Plutonium. That blue smudge is about the size of planet earth. There's no way that amount of plutonium made a cloud that big.
Google "electronics enclosures". Or look on the distributor's sites (Mouser, Digi-Key, Element 14, etc.) where you buy other electronics parts.