skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimistic, but also based in experience-- my 2.5 yo sounds just like a neural net, full of non-sequitors, misplaced phrases, and a skewed sense of what others are interested in ;)
To tie the two together (IRC/++ATH0)... /ctcp #channel PING ++ATH0

:D

http://everything2.com/title/%252B%252B%252BATH0
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you are the second person saying this, really curious what the negative sentiment is about . Why do you think he is a charlatan?

I chanced upon his talks via youtube recommendation.
They would surely have noted that as the reason if it were the reason.
Coffee caused a lot of harm to health right through maybe the late sixties, because people tended to use it in the evening and even right before bed, not realizing how that might be messing them up. My parent's habits at that time were typical and the later it got, the more likely they were to have a cup of coffee in their hand.
They mean surviving progeny with his DNA. After 7 generations, most of your descendants are not actually genetically related to you.

By contrast current estimates are that about 0.5% of the world has a y-chromosome descended from a relatively close ancestor of Genghis Khan. (When his horde burst out, both he and his male relatives took advantage of "mating opportunities".)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan#DNA_... for more.

A side note. His y-chromosome would have benefited more than his other chromosomes since many of his sons, grandsons and other direct male descendants also had good breeding opportunities. Those men had his y-chromosome, but not all of his other chromosomes.
Because the paleo- and keto-eating HN master race are curious about answers to the question "why would anyone eat anything else?"
That is also applicable, but the line of reasoning to the conclusions is kind of abstract.

See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/05/le-chateliers-principle... for more on my opinions on that principle. :-)
Tipping point for me last week: I now receive more spam phone calls than I do spam email.
This reminds me of a 'better' New Yorker article from a while back: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas.

It talks about how anesthesia was quickly adopted, but scrubbing in before surgery to reduce infection was not.

Interesting mixture of cultural issues and how people behave.
> That being said, the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime, not to end it.

No it's not.

Justice is not necessarily about revenge.

In some justice systems (like the US) it is, but in others justice is also about rehabilitation.

Another part of justice is deterrence. Please take a moment to consider how this is also different from revenge.

Revenge is a personal individual emotion that can sometimes be enjoyable. In my very personal opinion, revenge is not justice and only tangentially related to deterrence, and rehabilitation is the most important thing about justice.
Yes please! I tried something along those lines but gave up after a while when I got tired of making the app and just stuck with Evernote.

Here's the repo for the abandoned project:

https://github.com/nikkoschaff/Sumer
The problem with that approach is the world is full of snake oil salesmen/women, false prophets & those who wield influence would stifle progress/common good to suit their own ends. Self interest allowed our species to persist and it also serves to hinder our progress. Free will & such. A better quote in return for my omission of a massive list of what people opposed for good reasons:

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes & fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments and contradictory witnesses."

- Boorstin

The Discoverers
I'm sorry, but the salient point here is that shadowbanning isn't what you're claiming. End of story. I don't know how many ways to make this clearer.
> Why don't the manufacturers offer standard pc motherboards tweaked for their corresponding cpu?

No expertise and x86 is baked deeply into PC's.

1) No Expertise

ARM manufacturers tend to synthesize logic a lot. They don't tend to pull out circuit simulators and design things by hand. As such, the advanced techniques behind fast memory, CPU and graphics interfaces simply aren't there.

2) x86 is baked into PC's

People forget that there is a lot of "initialization"-type code on things that plug into buses. ALL of that code is x86. The Alpha PC's had to include emulators for x86 at boot time in order to init the old PCI cards.
http://www.meshcommander.com/meshcommander as a client to the Intel AMT and maybe ME, which if you do some more research, you'll see is indeliby baked into most newer Intel hardware.
What story does this pertain to? (on 25 April)
I condone the illegal redistribution of old games. In fact, I consider it a moral imperative. Social archiving is the only reason some things still exist.

Literature, music, video games -- all are artifacts of our cultural heritage. That lawmakers have decided to exceed the original copyright terms in the interest of whatever holding company batch-acquired the dead IP is unfortunate, but I don't derive any moral judgement from that.
You don't need a CS degree, but it will help open doors in your career. Also freelancing is a difficult career path because you have to constantly be on the lookout for your next project. Additionally, with no portfolio or experience, people are unlikely to hire you to do a freelancing project.
I'm not sure I buy the premise that a few percentage points tax difference in short term angel investments in Silicon Valley will have any effect. For one, angels are aiming for a relatively rare 5-10X (or more) return, so a few percent of 10X is still nothing. Most of these investments are losers. That's just how VC/angel works. Second, I don't think these types of companies really employ anyone. For example, Twitter employs fewer than 4,000 people.
Ask HN: Simplest IOS/Android JavaScript framework withembedded browser control
Need to create a super boring line of business app that will let users browse to click on a bid on e Bay, then write the item number out to a JSON endpoint for a sniping back end (already well-established). Eventually will switch to eBay API if they relax their rules (currently snipers can't use the API).

I think I want to use Javascript so that I can do bug fixes w/out having to submit a new version of the app--is this a valid reason?

Bids will be displayed in an an editable table, so I need a good grid control (I know there are several). But the main requirement is for a web browser control.

It seems like only Cordova will supply the web browser control. Was thinking of easier/more fund frameworks like Framework7, Severless, maybe Aurelia. These seem a little simpler than Cordova, but no browser control.

Does it seem like Cordova is the best bet for this application?
I was thinking more of a use case like CI system where we can use these values to figure out how many builds to run on a machine based on past history.
That benefit wasn't obvious at the time. It still is hard to quantify the future benefits with reasonable certainty.
No, they can indeed be tried for breaking and entering.
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That's what I get for skimming. Missed that, thanks.
In fairness, if someone told me they were going to make a killing on free webmail supported by ads and data mining, I think "How on earth do you intend to complete with Google?" would be a perfectly legitimate question.
Was this the same incident that was parodied in the Spielberg/Belushi film 1941?
Everyone gets the same rights, but it's important we acknowledge that race X is smarter than race Y.

It's okay though because race Y is better at other things. They are better at physical labour for example.

It's just basic nature. Should cause no controversy at all.
>However, he is IMHO pretty wrong in thinking that this latent structure can't be learned (e.g. inferring a probabilistic context-free grammar).

Please correct me if I'm wrong but your representation of Chomsky's thesis seems to be the opposite of what it is.

Chomsky says that the ability to learn a language is innate - you don't need to go to school to do it, nor do you need to learn grammar rules.

You say that Chomsky says that the "latent structure in language" cant be learned and if my representation is correct, then yours is way off and seems partisan.
This guy's arrogance takes your breath away! Correspondence between Dijkstra and Backus on the Turing award.
https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...
I think the main thing I take away from all of these leaks is the fact that the main stream media conspires against political opponents of the DNC pretty regularly.

The Republicans have been saying this for years, but nobody really seemed to care when it was foretold that eventually, it will come around to you.

Now when those same evil people ruined the career of Bernie Sanders, many take notice.

The moral of the story is that even if you don't agree with a groups' political views, they still the same respect and freedoms as the group you align yourself with.
I am curious how an inverted index will be implemented efficiently atop an LSM tree. Maybe batch parts of the posting list under a numeric key and when performing an intersection operation between two lists, you interate using a range scan. Could work but i wonder how fast Read operations will be. Anybody attempted yet?
Exactly about the fear of public transportation. Terrorism is meant to terrify people. Israelites have been dealing with terrorism for decades and it's usually met with a sober reaction reminiscent of the Japanese getting the trains back to running the day after Hiroshima. Terror attacks do happen, but there is hardly the kind of freak out one might find in, say, America.
You can reject Michelin stars.
SV is just like all other subcultures: a dynamic equilibrium of proper social signalling is necessary to be accepted and avoid ostracization. layer on enough social overhead and independent thought has no cognitive space to dwell. sure, that doesn't explicitly prevent creative people from excelling, but it certainly chokes out or chills a lot of the people in between average and brilliant.

stepping out of line is just as dangerous in SV as ever when people are trying to mentally draw invisible lines between what is tepidly "disruptive" and what is genuinely subversive or abnormal. the same could be said of the wider american culture, in which certain segments value signalling of faux "edginess" while still living in terror of actual contradiction of the status quo.

what do these things have to do with creativity, you may ask? making new stuff is perceived on some level as an attack on the old stuff-- and that old stuff is held onto with a deathgrip.
> I don't know what you mean by "definitive conclusions"

I mean any conclusions that follow from a baseline assumption that certain races are genetically predisposed towards abstract characteristics. For example "we should target white communities for voluntary firearm buy-back programs because white people are genetically pre-disposed to firearm suicide." We know that white people are statistically more likely to commit suicide and statistically more likely to use a gun to do it, we also know that genetics play a large role in suicide risk, what does not follow is that the common genetic factors that culminate to express the phenotypes that are unscientifically identified as "white" necessarily imply the existence of genetic factors that increase suicide risk.

You might ask, "Well what's the practical difference? In your example we should still target white people for the buy-back because the statistics show the population we define as white is the most vulnerable". To this I say, that's ok, we collected data on "white" people so targeting them for assistance is the best we can do, but it doesn't mean that we cannot do better in the future by disentangling the specific genetic factors that increase suicide risk from the opaque genetic category of "white" people.

> It's not a coincidence you can pass people by on the street and readily identify 95% of them as being "white", "Asian", "Indian (/Pakistani/etc)", "black", etc, and that if multiple people perform this task, the agreement will be very high. It's obviously shared genetics that are causing these groupings

Right, what I'm saying is that walking down the street and categorizing people into races based on how they look is a crude and unscientific (but efficient) method for grouping people with some shared genetics. Obviously, shared genetics are at the root of these groupings because genetics are the foundation of all phenotypes, but it is not a given that the presence of the phenotypes used to define arbitrary categories like "white" or "black" or "indian" necessarily account for the genetic factors that culminate to make someone more or less prone to violence, or intelligence, or an affinity for musical composition.

> These differences are already used very widely in discussions about policy, as you noted, and that's exactly part of the reason why it should be fair game to fully investigate those differences.

Investigate away, I have no problem with that, we use racial categories because they are practical, what I reject is the hypothesis that we will one day be able to prove that there is an intrinsic link between the particular genes that cause the expression of a given phenotype and the specific polygenes that constitute complex characteristics like intelligence.
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People conflate happiness with joy. I can be happy and sad at the same time. I cannot be joyful and sad in the same instant, though I can flit between the two rapidly enough to occasionally cause alarm.

What you want to avoid is misery. I banished misery from my life sometime in my early twenties. I am unhappy somewhat often, but never miserable. Misery means not seeing a way out of the circumstances making you unhappy.

I believe emotional health revolves as much in how you see your emotions as which emotions you're experiencing. Reframing the emotions you feel can be a quite powerful experience for those not too jaded on the woo-woo aspect of it. "I didn't lose my girlfriend, we just weren't right for each other." If all you do is reframe, and never do any real learning, then sure, you'll end up miserable. But in general finding a way to reframe setbacks is a great way to find the energy to keep moving rather than wallow.

For some people, creativity is tied intimately to misery; I believe that people for whom their creative output relies on drug use are ultimately deriving it from misery. Minds need to be in a loose, free state to mix seemingly-unrelated concepts together. When one is truly miserable, they cannot see a way out of their predicament and so mind naturally finds a way towards that state. If they could see a way, then they'd focus on that way, and having a single point of focus is pretty much the opposite of creativity.

The most prolific creators make a workflow out of managing their minds. They'll tune out in order to become unfocused enough to get an idea, then they'll focus on putting that idea to paper, or electronic media or whatever. Good coders are well-attuned to such a workflow, but often don't think of themselves as creative, perhaps because their output isn't immediately pleasing to the senses. Artistic, maybe not. But creative? Absolutely.
I used to own a business and I did this with an employee. I was just starting out and had only 1 employee. I had a contract job that was paying my salary, and a lot more, which I was banking. But it wasn't enough for 2 salaries. So I hired someone part time to help with products I was writing to sell directly to customers. It worked out fairly well for a few years. He got to do other things (he might have had contracts of his own or been studying something at the time - I don't remember), and I got additional work done without having to pay a full-time salary. They're rare, but if you look for them you can find them.
> Seriously, here's your competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies

Incorrect for the reasons pointed out above, they're trading size, you're likely not, it's a completely different game for them in a completely different field due to their liquidity needs. They are not your competition.
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You are entitled to write whatever you please, and I am entitled to not believe you.

I personally think it is insulting to hear someone with obvious means say they literally can't afford to eat when most of this world actually can't afford to eat and don't have the luxury to post about it on hacker news while running their own web site, playing the latest video games, ...
Here's a much smaller and less ambitious interpreter in Python as a hackable taste of the language: https://github.com/darius/parson/blob/master/eg_fp.py -- or rather another dialect, since everyone who implements FP makes up their own concrete syntax. Mine reads left to right instead of right to left, and leaves out the noisy compose operator (it's implicit by juxtaposition), making it read kind of like Forth or Joy.

I also wrote an optimizing compiler to Scheme from this dialect back around 1990, but it's lost in the sands of time.
> Workers on a nearby oil rig broke into guffaws at the sight of the proud commander having cactus spines plucked from his posterior. Then and there, the humiliated Nishino swore to get even.

Sounds like the damage was trivial, perhaps akin to plucking cactus spines from your rear end. I guess the commander "got even" in a very true sense.
> Which structural representations assumed by (say) GB theory are not implementable in a machine?

Most of the individual constraints proposed in the myriad papers on GB and Minimalism are probably implementable by machine. But no one in Chomskyan generative syntax seems interested in explicitly spelling out the full set of principles that would underly a large-coverage grammar--except maybe Steedman's Minimalist Grammar formalism, which is ignored by most people who call themselves "syntacticians". In contrast, the HPSG and LFG communities have attempted to provide large-scale grammars and a lot of NLP work has used them in a serious way, but those communities are no longer very active.

Is there a work which lays out modern Minimalist generative syntax in full formal detail, and shows how this formal system handles a very large range of different syntactic phenomena? Such that it would be possible to produce a large hand-parsed corpus? It seems like this is what would be needed for generative syntax to have relevance outside linguistics departments. If it exists and I'm just unaware of it, I'd be glad to hear about it!
"They" are talking about milk for human consumption, not milk for research being kept in -40C freezers.
Odd; at my all-time highest, I would get maybe one a week. My wife gets at least one a week.
The day 60GB of RAM is the norm. Just wait till embedded development shifts to node.
There are already emulators that work in JS, that said, I don't know that it'd work for anything not emulated... As much as I love JS, I'm even a bit of a fan of electron based apps. That said this kind of integration doesn't make as much sense to me, it's interesting, but don't know how far it should ever go.

I can se leveraging web/js as part of skinning/theming a window manager ui, but not sure about having it this far down the rabbit hole.
What's the procedure for removing yourself from the suspected spam caller database if you're incorrectly placed on it?
You'll be dead in a few decades whether you trust that food or not.
Sounds like my dream, how did you initially get into 3days/week? New job? Negotiated for it at an old job?
9 track tape drive in Silicon Valley?
I'd like to read a few old 9-track, 1600BPI open reel computer tapes from the 1980s. Unix TAR format. Anyone still have that capability?
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3864

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-who-once-stood...
First U.S.-approved drone delivery drops off donuts from 7-Eleven
My Windows Phone already does this!
Your profit, is not their profit.

From what little I understand, the "profit" they get, is to safeguard this money from the Chinese government.

It is an investment towards a "low risk, high reward" future for themselves and their family.
Yup, that air france flight and I would guess many train incidents too.

I'm surprised we do not compare self driving cars to trains more often. Trains are on tracks and still require drivers who have to hold onto deadman switches.

Full automation of cars with no driver are not coming any time soon.
To me sadness is seeing black, while depression is being blind.

When I'm sad, I want to work with that feeling.

When I'm depressed, I can't interact.
It's a relatively new field of medicine, with some compelling evidence that it might help. Importantly, the microbiome is very amenable to manipulation - directed and undirected. There's very much a prospect for being able to design the microbiome - something that's logically appealing to the mindset of many people who post on HN.
Will the last tech company to leave the UK please turn off the lights?
For the "bigger" embedded platforms (rpi and similar), node is pretty serviceable... There have been other efforts to get JS based engines working well too. It depends on how you define embedded.
Absolutely disgusting. But, sadly, not uncommon:

http://fortune.com/2016/07/25/ceo-pay-total-shareholder-retu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12162323
I've had the same experience. Lots of people fooled by random returns think they haven't edges that don't exist.
How about the Gigabyte MP30-AR0, apparently actually available to consumers through this one retailer?: https://www.xcase.co.uk/products/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-with-appl... It seems Richard WM Jones has got RHEL running on it: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-flas...
It's time to call this stuff out for what it is: flat out idiocy or lies. Possibly both.

Here's a brief thought to uncover why:

There are two countries. Country A has security capabilities equivalent to today's UK. Country B, equivalent to today's UK plus the proposed changes.

Could maniacs based in country B commit attacks of equivalent fatality to maniacs based in country A? Of course they could.

Could a criminal gang in country B get away with crimes of similar magnitude to a similar gang in country A? Of course they could.

Other threads here have pointed out the minimal extra effort that would be required by perpetrators, if any.

So why propose these changes, and why give the stated reasons?

Perhaps the government doesn't understand the negligible impact they'll have. This seems unlikely, although perhaps they "can't see the wood for the trees" and are getting carried away with the current xenophobic mood in the air.

Perhaps the government is showing its true colours and exercising the basic Conservative desire to deny societal evolution, by tightening control over anything new and complex.

Perhaps they've had a good hard think to the best of their abilities, and have genuinely decided this is The Best Thing To Do.

Whatever the reason, it's either founded on idiocy or couched in lies.
I can't help but be amused by this.
I stopped making music some years ago after realising that everything I created was driven by an endless dark hole, pure death. And only that. Was too much even for me to listen and, hell, I'm not even a depressed person.

And I realised that even the most darker blues, or the greatest tragedy is driven by some kind of light, by what they call redemption.

You fall down, you hit rock bottom, you see some light, you feel relieved, maybe just a bit, but you do.

I felt like I just cannot see any light.

It's all about counterpoint, after all.