skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has previously written about his belief that tech more or less owns news distribution[0], which seems to be important background for his views in this piece.

[0] http://scripting.com/2016/07/02/1343.html
This will end as well as the "nanomachines" project did. By which I mean, nothing will happen, but a few people will get a bit richer.
That's interesting - I just received a request for ShutIt to work with Python3.

Regarding failure, ShutIt drops to a shell on error (if there's a tty), so you can correct manually before continuing (pause_point). These can also be triggered directly for debugging purposes.

I don't like YAML for anything complicated. The bash scripts I saw embedded in YAML felt wrong. Why not just use shell?

Env-agnosticism (eg 'install' packages rather than yum/apt) was built in because it was created in a bi-OS env (ubuntu and CentOS).
Everything you can do in Python you can do in assembly language.
Have you tried palaver for iOS, how does it compare to mutter- I only ask because palaver has ZNC integration that allows push notifications and such.
You have to be very careful about which multiverse theory you refer to. There is a Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics which don't lead to any different physics. It's fundamentally untestable and doesn't matter. So far you can't derive new measurable consequences (to my knowledge) of this, and there's no physics that really hinges on it. If you don't like this interpretation, you can pick some other one until you're happy and shut up and calculate with the schroedinger or dirac equation which has been verified stupidly well with experiment.

Multiverse theories in general may say that the universes interact. They may have differing coupling constants. You know you might try to come up with some new physics but your new physics hinges on these things existing... and that's fine... that's how new things are discovered, but we're at a point where SUSY is taken as a given and multiverses are taken as a given and theorists have this really much more convenient model of the universe that they're starting from and making unmeasurable conclusions and it just seems so removed from reality! That's the issue.
Curious what your average sale price is?
The only military build-up I see is US (NATO). And the only justification for it that I can possibly fathom is TREMENDOUS scale money-laundering.
Indeed, the argument seems a bit nuts. I think a more solid argument for superintelligence not being contained is that human minds will merge with it given the chance so it'll get the same rights as the rest of us.
Can it get more silly? Russia, after disintegration of the Soviet Union, has not moved an inch to the west. NATO, on the other hand, is nearer on Russia than ever. And does military exercises near the Russian border. And builds launching pads for nuclear and anti missile rockets in Poland and Romania. And has invaded country after country (Republic of Yugoslavia 1999, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011...) while breaking international laws in the process. Yet, "Russia’s Military Buildup in the Baltic Stokes Invasion Fears"!

This insults intelligence of every critically thinking person.
Last I checked Boulder had Bay Area house prices (literally) and no where near comparable pay. Is that still the case?
Surprisingly, the NT kernel implements a copy-on-write fork function - the Windows subsystem does not allow Windows applications to use that function, though. Bash for Windows is implemented as a separate subsystem from Windows on top of the NT kernel, allowing it to build its own abstractions on top of the kernel.
I run https://www.vinyl-deals.com . It started out as just a thing that I wanted for myself, to keep track of vinyl price drops without having to know what was out there.

It's been running for a little over a year, growing every month, but still very small.
You are right, this smells very bad.

It looks like the hate propaganda they had just before the Balkan wars.

Very bad.
AFAIK the nt kernel already has support for forking.
I wouldn't worry too much, the text of the book goes to great and colorful lengths to dissuade people from using these features frivolously. :)
How'd you go about getting those 8 initial customers?
You could try asking for a fixed price for the terms of service too. That sort of work is pretty easy for the lawyers to estimate so they might be willing to go flat rate.
Are you able to say what your project is? I'm always curious to hear about bigger projects!
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What does it mean if particular probability for x vs y is an irrational number? Can you really have a number of universe forks counted in something that isn't integers?

If you don't really have independent universe forks but something physically continous, what mechanism makes us seem to only observe a single independent branch at all times?

Given the assumption of quantum foam (from the uncertainty principle) at the Planck length + relativity (the Planck length isn't constant like the speed of light, every observer measures it differently relative to others), how many universe branches are really created every picosecond in every Planck length (volume) across the visible universe?
The newspaper has other evidence the manufacturer is sketchy as hell: http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
Yeah, our bill without the terms was just about $1500. The terms, privacy, and eula killed us.
So it's propaganda that Russia just took land Ukraine, is it? Russia has built little trust with the western world and unfortunately you reap what you sow.
I am fairly certain this is a "syupid programmer trick" kind of thing. I don'tinagine anyone seruously using Unity within windows
17% of Americans do not have access to 25Mbps/3Mbps Broadband in the U.S
You're already seeing this with FB and Google leasing several floors in downtown Austin and Oracle building out a campus on the east side.
If you like Ubuntu, just install it or use live USB/CD.
It looks like Microsoft lost focus(one the most important thing in the business) and plays it on all sides.
I too was very inspired by the Pinboard numbers, and this story and others have inspired me to start my own business.

I'm running a booking system SaaS (https://zapla.co) which basically allows embeddings a booking widget in any website. It's currently generating $1100 MRR after ~18 months in business. It's a solo side-business as of now, but I'm hoping for it to become my primary business.
This project is incredibly cool and the posts are really well written.
If you haven't kept up with Spark, and do not have Amazon-level workloads, the built-in machine learning APIs are extremely robust and well-documented (https://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-nightly/spark-mast...), even in the non-Scala languages like Python. There's even a Multilevel Perceptron model creation function, which creates artificial neural networks using the feed-forward/backpropagation everyone loves.

The new Spark DataFrames also make manipulating data almost as easy as with Python Pandas / R dplyr. The new Berkeley eDX course (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:BerkeleyX+CS105x+1...) is a very good explainer.

After Spark 2.0.0 is released, it wouldn't surprise me if it really takes off. (as long as setting up a cluster is a bit easier!)
afaik Russia moved a few inches into the Crimean peninsula..
> This would never happen though, as they trade so rapidly most banks probably don't even know at any given time what would happen to their derivitives liability if the market swung wildly, either up or down.

I think the technology is there to make it happen automatically. It's a deterministic system. The problem is the lack of political will to do so, which is appalling and leads to situations like Brexit and Trump.
Rise of the Rocket Girls
I always thought RUWT was strictly a consumer product; the b2b model is genius. Well done!
lol - yes, me too. Used to really dislike the marketing guys. Once you're running a company though, you discover marketing is what counts, more than code quality in most cases. Though I'll say keeping technical debt low has allowed this product to grow for many years.
In the last few years, Russia has militarily invaded and annexed a section of a European country without even a pretex of legitimacy.

If I recall correctly, in the last year, the Russian government has said that it does not consider the Baltic counties independance to be legitimate.

Russia currently has troops involved in ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Transitaria, Armenia, and Georgia.

To be concerned about Russia's intentions and abilities isn't fear mongering - you only have to look at the region in the last five years to see something very real happening.
That line is a whopper! All they managed to do was conceal fundamental problems a bit longer by offloading crap assets on the taxpayers. And, possibly, make the inevitable bank failures more spectacular and destructive when they do happen.
Russia took what it could - it would be stupid not to. Hardly a sign of aggression. More a sign of abysmal western political and military incompetence and lack of purpose / direction.
We've tried everything, and the only two techniques that have paid off are: website SEO (including having a blog) and Adwords. Adwords is hard - we've thrown away many thousands of dollars on garbage traffic. And some keywords are in the $15-$30 per click range! (our competitors have deep pockets)
I find the 12-hour vs. 8-hour argument to be very weak. Of course the manufacturer was pushing for 12-hour. You will be fined by the FDA for pushing any use of your drug that is not approved by the FDA. You can get approval for 12-hour dosing, then just start saying "nahh... let's change it to 8 hour".

That article found some data and twisted it into a conspiracy.
Interesting, I was pretty much ignoring SEO since it's such a saturated market (for my stuff at least), good to know!
Somewhere around $500 - $600. Per year support contracts are around 20% so the life time value of a customer is probably around $1000.
A cluster bomb made in America shattered lives in Yemen’s capital
As I like to point out whenever people claim that the ECB is controlled by Germany: Germany has a very small minority of the votes in the controlling gremium.
How long of a tail do you target for SEO? Especially with the blog.
Is the support contract opt in as part of the initial check out?
Also in a very saturated market. Getting to the first page of Google is everything. It takes time work, editing each page, good content, and (though they seem to want to downplay it) good incoming links.
Thanks for the explanation! That sounds like as good a methodology as any to me.
Is there a github? I thought this was closed source, and the lack of updates made me think it might never get released even as a commercial engine or just a game. I'd love to just try these demos.
Depends: personally I like Windows 10 but despise Unity but I'm sure I have heard a lot off people actually like Unity as well.
KaTeX is still being developed (https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX). They support the "align" environment now, which is all I really needed.
And into Georgia. And into Transnistria. And of course, into other parts of Ukraine.
Life’s too short for bad customer service. Meet the new Kayako
So you don't think that Russia's neighbors should unite in defense against a potentially aggressive neighbor?
From the article:

> Depending on how one chooses to classify programming languages, Python and PHP can appear similar—most obviously, both are dynamically typed. From our perspective, however, there are a number of tricky differences: PHP has multiple global namespaces which can span multiple files, whereas Python uses one global namespace per file (semantic friction); most of PHP’s core data-structures are immutable, whereas many of Python’s are mutable (semantic and performance friction); and PHP’s sole collection data type is a mapping, whereas Python separates the notion of mappings from that of sequences (semantic and performance friction). As this may suggest, this combination of languages presents a number of design and implementation challenges which have no obvious precedent. We show that PyHyp’s solutions to these challenges allow interesting case studies to be implemented.
The book actually contains a bunch of information on implementation details and other things that aren't unsafe, but just don't have a good place in the regular book.

Additionally, if nobody writes unsafe Rust, who's going to maintain the abstractions that the rest of us rely on? :)
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I launched ClosingBell (http://closingbell.co/download) 2 years ago to help retail stock traders collaborate and share investing ideas. Never raised. Never got press. Never had a team to help. But I managed to grow it to 14,600 members, and over 1,170 have connected their Robinhood brokerage account via a partnership with them earlier this year. I launched a freemium model in May that now does ~500/mo. I never marketed it as I am still experimenting with the business model. I have tried growth hacking tactics in the past. I recently made a Slack app to raise awareness: http://closingbell.co/slack
Does NATO actually do anything useful these days, other than frantically freak out about Russia?
>In the UK every month or so we are given stories about Russian aggression

There's your answer - you're from the UK, so you've yet to experience its aggression. Other countries in Russia's neighbourhood have experienced it (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, pre-1990 Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc).
I suppose there's nothing stopping one for doing that tho? I was sitting here and thinking about trying it out with i3. If that works then it is only missing a decent pkg mgmt (in my opinion ofc), at least on the technical level. I sort of enjoy the thought that my current setup (arch) is entirely OSS and hackable though (not on a hw level ofc)... It makes me smile every time I log in :)
Russia took Crimea because "it could". United States could annex British Columbia if it wanted to. Wouldn't that be aggression?
I'm currently in Boulder and only one person out of the three dozen I work with is able to afford their own home here. Everyone else seems to commute from Denver or Longmont. I don't see how the limited industry in the area is able to support the housing prices, it seems like a bubble to me.
It was made much easier by the fact that neither of us strongly wanted children. There's an assumption (social and perhaps hormonal as well) that women will be the primary caregiver, which is a huge wrench in the works of having a career. I think more women would give it a try if the roles were fully discussed and agreed upon.
I mean, of course, it's natural that they would. Except this has nothing to do with neighbours uniting. This is American aggression at its worse.
>> Tesla's "autopilot" is way under-sensored.

That actually makes it easier to develop the AI. More sensors means more noise and more work to get rid of it, it means more data and more expensive computations to crunch through it.

This is not to defend Tesla (I could care less) but to point out that "more sensors" doesn't solve the fundamental problem, that of creating a piece of software that can autonomously navigate an arbitrary environment.

We're nowhere neare developing that kind of software and, like people say in academia, it's really not clear how we're going to get to the point where we do.
Want better public transit? Remix (YC W15) is hiring a designer and more
Yea, good luck with that :)

But if it really could, you bet your ass it would!
As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among schools and shrines
Sure: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns

It's a WIP, but mostly feature complete at this point. I'm working on DNSCrypt at the moment.
Don't forget Syria, though NATO is also involved there. Perhaps the only legitimate thing for either of them to be involved in.
You should watch some Russian TV. They've been preparing their people for a war every since the latter half of Putin's presidency. Have no doubt, it's a crazy world they are living in - basically a state-sponsored death cult.
What is the difference between nations uniting together in defense and nations joining a defense club?
Are you over 40-45, or under?
It would have been nice to get an update on the status of building the COMPOSITE extension into XQuartz, not a link to a new library.
Interesting. Awhile ago it seemed it has a support from Microsoft.
A) if I would be in a class where the professor was wearing a "black lives matter" shirt, it would be a constant distraction to me. That would take away from my education. It might even be considered theft of my tuition dollars. Professors should stay away from endorsing inflammatory topics. There are just too many issues with it (one mentioned above, risk of alienating students, causing fear of retribution for dissent, etc...)

B) if a student came in wearing a "white lives matter," or more extremely, a "black lives don't matter" shirt, how much backlash would there be? I'm genuinely curious what HN thinks. From what I've seen, that student would become public enemy #1, and would most likely be expelled from the school.
Russia broke all possible international laws by annexing Crimea and putting war on Ukraine on Donbas 2 years ago, invading Syria bombing lots of people and only now NATO is _trying_ to do _something_.

It's not even funny to talk about NATO build-up. You'll understand it when russian soldier breaks into your house or his rocket blows up your house so you don't "humiliate russian speaking people".
I can attest to that: used even simpler algorithm with bi-gram hasing to generate user profile for http://news-AI.com presonalized news service.

Surprisingly, it produced satisfactory results with much smaller CPU requirements.
You should read Russian news. Every single day, military propaganda in the headlines. Every single day, anti-EU, anti-NATO, anti-US propaganda in the headlines.

Seriously, google a Russian news source. On their page, you'll see tanks and soldiers and fighter jets. And you'll see stories about how the west is evil and how the west is collapsing and hints that Russia needs a military buildup. And you might see a hint that eastern Europe is really Russian property "stolen" from Russia by NATO and that the anti-Russian sentiment is just the locals being "ungrateful" to Russia.

Now look at Google News. How much military do you see? How many stories about Russia? How many supporting military buildup? We care more about the Kardashians than we do about Putin.

This largely one-sided cold war has been going on for more than a decade.
Real-time location-based Twitter sentiment analisys for president elections
World politics is not a game of Risk. You don't just throw the dice against the other guys every turn and see what you can grab, like Putin seems to be doing.
NT has support for POSIX-style forking, because it needed it in order to have a POSIX subsystem in the 1990s.
> But nobody is monitoring when a doctor prescribes tons of opioids. Prescribing something seems like a privilege granted by the state, so clearly it should be the DEA monitoring this, but apparently this article is more keen to blame the salespeople at the manufacturer?!

That's exactly what the article describes, though. I feel like you didn't read it. They detail, at length, a system for keeping track of doctors and pharmacies who over-prescribe and over-order Oxycontin.
Yes, I left off Syria since it's not bording Russia, and because Syria would still be at war, Russia or no Russia.
Hey there, I wrote pretty much all of this. Sadly I wasn't ever able to finish it, and won't ever be able to due to contractual obligations. It has since languished due to lack of maintainership, even though it's part of the official rust docs.

If anyone wants to take up the mantle and clean it up, it would be greatly appreciated!
This propaganda piece doesn't belong on Hacker News.
> Consequently, the only way to keep Hackage Trustees from messing with your stuff is to refrain from uploading to Hackage.

I don't mind if the Hackage Trustees mess with my stuff. It's released under a free license; anyone can do whatever she wants to it. But this is not work that I am foisting on anyone else. They are voluntarily doing it.

> Which, by the way, wouldn't be needed in the first place, if everyone played voluntarily by what you call "your preferred rules", i.e. the PVP.

If the Hackage Trustees think the PVP is so important, they should change Hackage so that uploads must conform to it.
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"In the last few years, Russia has militarily invaded and annexed a section of a European country without even a pretex of legitimacy."

Just depends on where you get your news really? You live in the US, it's ok to invade Syria, you live in Russia, it's ok to invade Ukraine.

Bottom line, all war is bad, let's not pretend it's justified in some cases!
You beat me to the comment. I never worried about Russia growing up but then I started reading Russian news 10-15 years ago. It was Russian news, not western news, that made me realize that Russia is a threat.
Probably anything that needs Photoshop and any fronted design that I cant just use a bootstrap theme
Spend time meeting with and talking to other entrepreneurs every week.

Internalize the idea that you don't have to be motivated to get stuff done. It's okay to admit, "I'm not motivated right now", and then get to work regardless!

Get into a routine for starting work, and try to never skip it, even when it feels unnecessary.

Find blog posts, videos, and articles that motivate you. Revisit them often, or work them into your routine. I like DHH's talk from Startup School '08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY), for example.
It may be serious but I wasn't aware of it.

It seems your project could use x509 client certs as well as gpg ones if you wanted to use a different TLS library that didn't support GPG.