skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are factually correct

But, a key problem was the runtime (in)efficiency of the prolog implementation engine. Maybe today with x1M more powerful computers it is worth trying again ?

Neural networks were abandoned in the 80s and made a massive comeback with a. more compute power b. convolutional networks

In fact, maybe a ML-optimized VM will make higher-level languages useful again ;)
I dont quite agree with that statement. If thats the case, what stops Pepsi from taking over Coca Cola's marketshare? In fact in blind tests, its very hard to tell which is what b/w coke and pepsi.
But, Coke commands the marketshare? Why? I think its their branding.
3 years ago many systems that exist today would be regarded as "scifi" or "maybe 10 years into the future". One of the most striking examples is Visual Question Answering with dynamic memory networks [1]. The model is given raw pixels and encoded question in natural language, it should output a natural language answer. See how it works on data it hasn't seen: http://i.imgur.com/074G9pg.jpg

Do not underestimate what good ML model can learn given enough data. And in case of online shopping there usually is more than enough data, and big companies like Amazon have been using ML (context bandits) for quite some time.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01417
Your example isn't even real statistical/machine learning, it's basic A/B testing. This has nothing in common with orchestrating code.
JSON deserialization would basically be the same. XML does not score here.
And ~30% of women probably run faster than I can. I also know a frog that can hop higher than me. There was once this dude I tried to out bench-press...didn't work out. You know what....who cares.
> making it hard for government orgs to operate

Sure, that will be lovely

Just remember what might happen if firefighters, police, CDC, FAA, FDA have trouble operating
The article makes the argument that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere, thus a hotter atmosphere, thus the atmosphere can hold more water.

Does that at all explain the increasingly frequent droughts? Could it be due to more water in the water cycle being stuck in the atmosphere instead of on earth's surface?
that's quite silly- Britain is still very strong in all three topics you cited.

It wouldn't be hard to show direct-line ancestry for many existing active british scientists to historically prominent scientists (well, OK, probably not Newton).
Well obviously it only applies to software people.

That's why it was posted to HACKER news. :P
To add to point #3, (information is power), I would advise any candidate to do research into approx. salary ranges for the type of positions they've applied to and the geographical area in which they are located.

The author does lament the general trend of "pay secrecy" in part 2 [2] of his previous article on how he landed a job at Airbnb[1] but it's worthwhile to point out here. Almost any offer/salary does not exist in a vacuum but within the context of the current salary ranges (i.e. the market) for similar positions and also different positions.

Look at it this way: If I tell you that apples are 2 Simoleons (§) per lb, is that a good price? There's hardly any way to know, given that I quoted it in a fictional currency.

But if you know that oranges are 10§/lb, bananas are 5§/lb and that you can get a job at the grocery store selling them making 20§/hour, that gives some context to not only the prices of apples, but also the relative value of different produce and the ability to afford it. This is the essence of a market economy, which the job economy is an instance of.

Sites like Glassdoor and other efforts to share salary information[3] (even if they may be subject to reporting bias) are a good way to give you more information about the relative value of any offer, which will be another tool in your kit for negotiation. Read as much as you can, as in my experience it will be well worth your time.

1. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/

2. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...

3. https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...
Come to think of it, when you're issued a state ID/driver's licence, that should also be considered your registration to vote, provided you've reached voting age.

That should eliminate another thing you need to register for.
You can read the oral arguments in the Supreme Court case that struck down the preclearance part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...

Under that rule, the federal government had the power to prevent changes to voting rules.

To me, the most interesting part of the oral arguments was this exchange:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: General, is it -- is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?

GENERAL VERRILLI: It is not
What's even more amazing is how many are willing to discuss their motives openly[1].

I say we trade in Columbus Day for a national voting holiday, and if lawmakers want IDs then we should give every eligible voter a free one.

[1] http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/24/voter-discrimination/
It seems to still be in the fad phase.
I can't say anything about German culture, but I have an alternative hypothesis to your suggestion about American culture.

My experience, as a native speaker of US English, is that English speakers from India often fall into the category of "speak English fast and fluently, but with a strong accent that is hard for my US-trained ears to parse".

If someone with a strong accent speaks English slowly, I have time to adapt to the accent and figure out what they are saying; not so with someone who speaks quickly.

When talking with certain people from India (and Scotland), I am very tempted to just nod along instead of confessing, "I realize that you are speaking perfect English, but I have absolutely no idea what you are saying".
- Bluetooth audio codecs do lossy real-time re-encoding of the audio, affecting the quality
But look on the bright side. There's a chance the ball may come back to you on its own. Very quickly. In many pieces.
In case this helps anyone else, I've found that a better shortcut for me is Ctrl+[ , which actually maps to escape too. I too found having to tap escape to exit modes was annoying since I had to make my fingers leave the home row and there is no need to customize mapping in this case.

If you're used to hitting ctrl with your left pinky, which is necessary for us emacsers, then Ctrl+[ will be 100x better than hitting escape.
Yep, it's a continuation of slavery -> Jim Crow ->
Wait, what are you comparing Stockholm to Berlin or Stockholm to Germany? You seem to be doing both and that seems odd.

Stockholm is far more conservative than Berlin.

So housing, it's next to impossible to find housing in central Stockholm, even for Swedish citizens let alone, ex-pats. Berlin while seemingly becoming more difficult, it does not take years like it might in Stockholm.

A pint of beer in the Stockholm is around $10-12 US and its probably not locally brewed. A wonderful local Pilsner in Berlin will cost you about $3 US.

Central Stockholm is very segregated, Berlin not so much.

How many late night places are there in central Stockholm 4 or 5?

Galleries, museums, clubs and music venues, the arts in general? Berlin, hands down.

Berlin seems to let you just have your fun as long as you aren't hurting anyone, Stockholm feels very regulated.

Bike friendly city? Again Berlin.

"Ahead" is relative.
Here in Argentina we vote on Sunday, so most of the people have a free day anyway.
huh, i never knew that. sounds like apple copied more than just a user interface from xerox...
If you're going to compare the two fairly, include appropriate indentation for both, not just the S-expression version. Also put the author and name tags on the same line, as you did with the S-expressions:

<feed>
<title>Example Feed</>
<link>http://example.org/</>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</>
<author><name>John Doe</></>
<id>urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b93C-0003939e0af6</>

<entry>
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</>
<link>http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03</>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</>
<summary>Some text.</>
</>
</>

That said, I like S-expressions too, and I wish more parsers and tools existed for them, such as schemas, query tools, and simple transformation tools.
Sorry, bit of an off-topic question, but I've been wondering for a while: what do people meen when they talk about there being a hipster culture somewhere? Young couples obsessed with lifestyle? Just curious
Nah, they weren't buggy, it was just user error. Nobody stepped on them properly.
> Come to think of it, when you're issued a state ID/driver's licence, that should also be considered your registration to vote, provided you've reached voting age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Ac...

"Section 5 requires state motor vehicle offices to provide voter registration opportunities to anyone applying for a new or renewed driver's license or state identification card."
Ask HN: I got a ransom request threatening DOS attack.  What to do?
I got an email threatening to DOS one of my servers.

Do I take this seriously? Or is it just some sort of spam?

Seems to me the best thing to do is ignore entirely and presumably they will move on to some other target.

Anyone else dealt with this?
You have disagreed with me, so you're a racist.
Sure.

Although we have a rather nonstandard business area (not the usual ecommerce/saas/social/gaming stuff) and have no direct competitors, we could get a good grip at it by going down several routes: talking to industry experts, comparing indirect competitors' valuations and also by extrapolating from usual relevant business metrics such as current and projected revenue, traffic, margins, growth rates, and market size.

We also talked to quite some VCs who confirmed our range to be pretty spot on in initial negotiations.
I found the Arrayfire examples in c++11 very approachable: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire/blob/devel/examples/m...

The softmax_regression and logistic regression examples are even easier.

There are bindings for nodejs, python, other languages.

But it's so nice to be able to follow the definitions of each symbol and function in visual studio, not to mention being able to step through the imperative code.

And it's fast.
> After using Windows 10 for a year, it is undeniably better than Windows 8.1 in every way, and better than or equal to Windows 7.
In my case, it's the complete opposite. Windows 10 is so sluggish and buggy, WiFi doesn't work when returning from sleep, battery is draining really fast, programs open slowly, even with an SSD, the screen has a weird flicker and blue lines on the top... These problems don't occur on Windows 8.1. TBH, Windows 7 works worse than 10 on my laptop, but that's because there are no drivers directly written for 7, so it BSODs a lot.
"How ML based programming will allow us to program using a higher-abstraction programming language"

Better ?!

There is also the famous quote about how any working (and understood) AI is no longer considered AI...
Why you don't need to build a narrative
might also be that a new language takes too much attention to focus on the visual. Even, lip-reading would take the visual focus.
Photographs that reveal the true beauty of tears
I drive a car with hand-cranked windows and I don't have any of those problems, maybe just cause I'm used to it? Did you know you could go out today and buy a 2016 model car with manual window cranks? It's still an option on a lot of vehicles.
IncubateDFW, student hackathon in Dallas on August 6th-7th
What does homosexuality have to do with liberalism?
I think it's very possible that the very reason it's not popular is there's minimal incentive for a firm to market that option; the margins just aren't there.
> the black lawmakers in NC

There are none. The system has been rigged against them for so long that they have zero representation even though they're a decent portion of the population.

See: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NC#representatives

There's not a single non-white member of NC's representation.

NC is also one of the most gerrymandered states there is, so it's almost impossible for change to happen.

Also, there's hardly any democratic representation, again due to historical gerrymandering.

Please don't accuse those that are being oppressed while not being present. It's bad enough they're getting screwed over, it doesn't help for someone who doesn't understand the situation to accuse them for "letting it happen".
IMHO talking about AGI here sounds like "all or nothing" type of thinking. Almost all problems can be formulated as [perhaps very hard] machine learning problems of 3 basic types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Types_of_prob... .

Every ML problem has a lot of algorithms that can be applied to it to solve it. Previously unsolvable problem (e.g. learning playing atari game from pixels) can become solvable if a better ML algorithm is devised, more compute power is applied, or the problem is simplified (maybe with data augmentation or feature engineering, or constraining the domain).

I think the problem you are stating - finding the best configuration of website to extract more ad revenue - can be simplified until it is solvable by currently available algorithms and hardware. Big companies are already doing similar things - Google uses reinforcement learning to recommend new items on its services, Facebook is known to use machine learning to somehow make more profit from users.

Given expert knowledge of the problem and good algorithms, it can be solved in some form, that's my point here.
You know, some small cities in Europe (thinking of Germany) shut down for "quiet time" after lunch. Guess what happens? Nothing bad, life goes on. You know what would happen in America, we couldn't buy stuff for an hour or two. You know what else would happen? The voices of the people that make this country run would be heard.

Make it half days for two days. You can easily identify "critical" services like medical/fire/police and stagger them or have early voting. Things like this work, and they work well. Doesn't matter how long, two hours would likely be fine. I've had problems getting to vote in that amount of time. I've waited in a line at a Texas polling station for more than that (which is why I said a day).

These voting laws are only half the problem. Maybe via mail would fix the issue. I doubt people who decry "voter fraud" would trust mail-in ballots.
This site looks like a blogspam and was autokilled by HN.

The original article is in http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=11406900900910312... (I couldn't find a HTML version.)
Walgreens to Shut Down Drugstore.com
>In those cases, I would rather have XML config files than undocumented binary blobs as config files.

False dichotomy.

Better than XML and binary blobs:

* JSON (assuming everyone knows what this is)

* YAML [0]

* Lua tables (if you're already using Lua as a scripting language; Lua started out as a configuration language after all)

* INF format [1] (not my favorite, but pretty easy to parse and much better for humans to read than XML)

* Any of the above compressed with a gzip compatible compression (if size matters, though it rarely does these days)

Even Protocol Buffers [2] are better than XML, though at that point it becomes a "documented binary blob". But as long as the spec is shared, the format can easily be read by just about any programming language.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers
Yeah, I recognize that. It's also extra space to shove battery into. Like I said, I don't think it's a real worthwhile trade-off.
>Specifically, do longer hours away at the office lead to a more stable marriage? Will having a second (or third!) job increase my chances of maintaining a nuclear family?

Well, obviously, if you work 24/7, you'll have the perfect marriage. LOL.
> Underlying this wishful thinking I smell a frustration that investors can't make money from open standards.

The way to make money from open standards is to sell products and services that implement those open standards. SMTP is an open standard but Microsoft still makes money by selling exchange to corporate clients, and Google presumably manages to make money from Gmail.

The crypto-token model Fred describes is Ethereum with the serial numbers filed off. It's a model to support the provision of a decentralised, distributed platform, not an open standard.
Actually, now that you mention it, I think it's from Chrome's Inspect Element tool, but I can't check right now.

I think if you wrote something like

<div class="">...</div>

it would display in the tool as

<div class>...</div>
In Brazil too. We also have mandatory voting (not defending this idea here, just stating)
>Is it because society expects them to be providers, and ridicules men who don't ?

No. It's because his starving kids expect their father to bring home the food. Because how else are his kids suppose to get food?
I gave that out a try myself. While they certainly are cheaper than disposable or cartridge blades, I found that for the amount of time that went into a good shave I could get an even better one with disposable or cartridge blades.

I read all of the DE blade shaving guides, but it really didn't work well for me.

All in all, they're definitely cheaper... But I don't know about better.
I forgot that one! I guess that was an alternative branch from "developers automating what operators do", which implies a degree of that. Only instead of automating, they just do what the operators do now.
According to Fast Company DSC has 1.7 million subscribers so Unilever purchased 1.7 million subscribers in a totally new market for them at a cost of about $600 per subscriber.

They have a nice pipe and they just need to feed more products/higher value products through the pipe over time. If many are younger (which might be possible given the sort of company) then these can be subscribers/customers for a long time and possibly disposable income will increase over time thus converting lower revenue users to higher revenue ones.

The $57 billion P&G spent for Gillette in 2005 is $70 billion in 2016 dollars.

Eventually, I predict Amazon will start selling their own high quality brands first marketing to Amazon Prime.

Amazon will compete with a lot of P&G products with their own brand eventually.

I can't wait for Amazon or Google or Apple to remarket Verizon mobile phone service. They just raised their plan rates!
Data Surveillance Threat and Fraud Intelligence, Las Vegas Style (2006) [pdf]
I agree with everything you said but what cars are you driving that alert you if a window is open?
Yeah but that's a different threat model than the one discussed. It will prevent 99% of attacks but someone always comes in yelling "BUT IT'S NOT PERFECT". As they say, perfect is the enemy of good.
> You can use an 80 year old phone today.

I think it depends on where you are. A lot of lecs only take dtmf signalling these days.
Engineering in the ancient world has quite a few examples of "megaprojects" like this one.

Besides the well-known Egyptian Pyramids and Roman aqueducts, one interesting one I've recently learned about was about the columns in the Roman Pantheon were built: They were carved from single blocks of granite and then imported all the way from Egypt[0]:

"The grey granite columns that were actually used in the Pantheon's pronaos were quarried in Egypt at Mons Claudianus in the eastern mountains. Each was 39 feet (11.9 m) tall, 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, and 60 tons in weight.[43] These were dragged more than 100 km (62 miles) from the quarry to the river on wooden sledges. They were floated by barge down the Nile River when the water level was high during the spring floods, and then transferred to vessels to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Roman port of Ostia. There, they were transferred back onto barges and pulled up the Tiber River to Rome.[44] After being unloaded near the Mausoleum of Augustus, the site of the Pantheon was still about 700 meters away.[45] Thus, it was necessary to either drag them or to move them on rollers to the construction site."

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Portico
These 8 unicorn companies were built using outsourced devs (+slack)
Yup, that is odd. IEA appears to be off the rails here. Making the adjective "conservative" a strange choice.
It may partly be simply because in Star Trek the ship's computer had a female voice. I would guess that many companies do not actually put a great deal of research into selecting the voice, but go with what is familiar without wondering why it was historically done that way and whether or not it was a good idea. When you do research it, there are valid reasons to go with a woman's voice. But I strongly suspect most companies do not actually put substantial resources into the decision.
Not the same thing.

My idea is this: When you're get a state issued ID, no need to fill out another form. You ID may be tagged with something that lets officials know whether you're a citizen or not.
I've even seen it used to describe the support team who really just fix the bugs and get the changes into prod by some means... Not my Definition but something I've seen.
Unclear. One site says yes.[1] This just happened last night, so accurate analysis may be a few days away.

[1] http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/07/microbursts-cause...
Your App Usage Rights: Ulysses' Pricing, Subscription, and the Death of Licenses?
Not agreeing just saying it clearly adds pressure to the org.
I think patronage is hard to justify from a business standpoint. But it's consequential if aou value creating software to give it away for free and seek other means to make a living.

Do you have experience with this? Or moral arguments?
I've had cranks fail in a variety of ways too. The fix is the same as for the electric ones: open the door panel and repair/replace the failed component.
>...that a man's employment status is the largest factor in his marital success.

Well, if he can't provide for his kids, then what's the point of staying married to him? For love? Love can't feed your starving kids. Might as well go remarry some other dude who are competent enough to provide for your kids. Unless of course, you want to take the easy route and rely on government food stamps. Or, be those like stressed out single mom who has to do everything by herself, single handily doing BOTH the jobs of a man and a woman.
If you think ice changed position, you never understood it to begin with.

Thanks for playing!
> wonderful local Pilsner in Berlin

Pilsner is name of city in Czechia where this beer is made, everything else is just knock-off ;-)
Well, glad to hear it has a shower, but why close at 9 PM? In NYC we have a 24 Apple store open every day of the year (so is a 24 electronic store Best Buy).

The reason I bring this up is that coders are in "the zone" and I remember frequently working overnight until 5, 6 or 9 AM.
They are a racket, but my 3-blade cartridge razor still gets more use than my safety razor. The main reason is that it's still more convenient - with a safety razor you can get a great shave, but you have to take your time at it. With the cartridge razor I can just stumble out of my bed and groggily whack the hair off my face without needing to employ any executive brain function. I don't even bother to put my contacts in first because I don't really even need to be able to see what I'm doing.

The price of cartridge razors also comes way down after you realize that, as long as you keep the blades dry so that they don't corrode, you can make 'em last forever. I think my record is something like 4 months on a single cartridge.