skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have used Rust a bit. Basically the primary difference is (and correct me if I'm wrong) you can't re-use an iterator in Rust without cloning it. On the other hand, you can use a Haskell pure stream object as many times as you want (without explicit cloning, because "draining" an iterator is stateful), so fusion becomes a bit of a more complicated problem.

If I had some Haskell code that was like

map f . map g . filter x . map y $ stream

It would almost certainly get fused into a single low-level loop without extraneous allocations. However, I can also do something like

foo = map y $ stream

bar = map f . map g . filter x $ foo

baz = map z $ foo

And now what do you do?

Haskell's fusion is also more general, because it allows you to do pretty much arbitrary syntactic transformations.

Unfortunately, this means it's somewhat fragile and is easy to prevent from functioning. Rust can guarantee fusion because you're restricted in the kinds of things you can do with iterators.

On the other hand, Haskell's Pipes restrict you from doing things like re-using an iterator, and I'm not sure what the optimization story is there.
I'm definitely not a Google fanboy by any stretch. I agree they aren't really much like Berkshire Hathaway--was only taking issue with your assertion that all those acquisitions were worthless, which seems pretty unfounded to me.

I don't know a whole lot about the Nest story--seems the consensus now is that it didn't go well, but if Google retains engineers and IP that help them down the line with their robotics push, it's still probably worth something to them, though perhaps that will wind up being a lot less than they paid in 2014.
If you think of emacs as a text editor which happens to have a LISP interpreter, then this is silly. But if you think of it as a LISP interpreter which happens to have a text editor, then it makes a lot more sense.
Ugh, cuteness. Although I am kind of a fan of NancyFX's commissioned The Oatmeal error pages[1]... But it's not necessarily a great look for a more serious product. On the other hand, most internet businesses are not particularly serious - what makes sense for Twitter would be ridiculous for Colt Arms or Caterpillar Tractors, or Amalgamated Magnesium (imagine, Coltie, the six-shooter-packing adolescent cowboy horse mascot...)

Apparently the fail-whale is no more? Today I'm seeing something that looks like a robot version of the sock-monkey

[1] http://mike-ward.net/2013/04/11/custom-error-pages-in-nancyf...
AI - typo, sorry
"Good" tends to be very subjective. Actually good people rarely get let go, unless there is a very good reason. At the same time almost everyone who gets laid off thinks they are a very good employee, which obviously is not the case.

And execs get paid for the expectations and responsibility. You are just being salty right now.
This is a transparent attempt to develop a military communication system that bipassses US suvalience.
5. Focus on how you would use AI to augment personal human thinking.
Respect really isn't Schneidermann's thing.
The Rails guy wrote about this. http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-liv...
> This. Larry Ellison fucks around on a sailboat. Larry is busy with "X" for years. And no one bats an eye.

If Oracle's valuation was less than the combined valuation of holdings it owned in other companies such that its core business had an apparent negative valuation, there'd probably be more negative attention to Larry's extracurricular activities.

When you are seen to be succeeding, no one questions your methods -- success implicitly validates them. That's not about sex or gender, its about apparent success.
Yes but the interview seems to imply that this diminishes or somehow makes the case for the problem overblown. It says yes this is a problem, but doesn't really go into any specifics on why it's a bigger problem for those borrowers or that this is where the defaults are coming from. I guess
I could have worded my comment better to say that I felt it wasn't given enough attention or depth.
Shout out to Jenna, Mike and Jerry for building this for the community
My webcam doesn't work in Linux; and you won't find me programming in Windows under ordinary conditions. I guess I can't work at amazon?
Kennan stressed the paranoia of the Soviet leadership. In the telegram you linked, you read things like:

"All these facts clearly show that their armed forces are designed to play a decisive role in the realization of plans to establish American world domination."

If viewed slantwise, this has a nugget of truth, i.e., the U.S. is establishing forward military bases partly to protect free trade and enable capitalism.

But these bases proved to be almost entirely defensive and were not really used for "world domination" in the sense meant by the Soviet ambassador.
If we're living in a simulation and our creators see that we're running our own simulations, they may terminate our process to avoid nested virtualization.
I've just setup steam streaming. It's fine enough for me since my network it all Gig-E.
Apparently someone looked into the FreeBSD temacs commentary on the status report on the HN landing page today ...

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12178766

I love Lisps, but to an amateur with rudimentary infosec coursework this does scream scary.

I LOVE THIS SITE. Hello early weekend entertainment reading, emacshorrors.com ...
The right kind of CEO does that by not requiring that you copy her behaviour. It is her prerogative to work all through the night - I had a co-founder who was similar, but I work best in the mornings. It did take us a while to come to a mutual agreement on who was working "more" but once we did it was smooth sailing. We never, ever asked staff to work outside of hours unless in emergencies or with paid overtime and mutual agreement. And in fact, they pressured us back to take time off, and worked with us to make sure our own work was covered (where possible). It was a great environment I am fostering further: hard work comes in small, rewarding bursts, the rest of the time is to support others doing that hard work or having some mental downtime with less challenging work.
Self-modifying code does not play nice with the advance of CPU and compiler technologies in the past 20 years or so.
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I wonder if they filed any DMCA claims over those images, though? The clause you attest to under penalty of perjury is that you represent the copyright holder of the works claimed to be infringed.

So if they sent her a DMCA of her own images, as one might assume based on what was said, then it could be interesting if that gets brought up in court.
> "My .emacs is older... than most engineers..."

:-)

Does this quote have a source?
I love how much these things just FEEL like Elon Musk fantasizing about an idea, and just really wanting someone to work on it.
I did the read the case, your premise and understanding of what money laundering is, in this case incorrect. When something is illegal it does not have a binary state of technically illegal, and nontechnically illegal. It is or it isn't. Knowing and willingly, aiding and abetting laundering proceeds of crime is considered in the same case of money laundering, whether you stole the cards, or got money for stolen cards you sold, or you helped the guy who got money for the cards he sold, or you helped the guy who helped the guy that got money for the stolen cards he sold.

It's not easy to understand the vague and imprecise world of money laundering because the laws were written to be broad.

This is not the first time stings are carried out, this is also not the first time a prosecution fails at a case that by all indications of the allegation should have been easy to close.
> What an exciting project to get to work on.

Indeed :). Anyone who's excited, please apply! Feel free to ping me with any questions: gdb@openai.com.
> Why people are so afraid of self-modifying code?

Because it's several orders of magnitude more incomprehensible than code that fails a cyclomatic complexity check, is why.
Just to substantiate this:

"As a result of their reorganization on democratic principles, in such former enemy countries as Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, and Romania regimes have been created which have set themselves the task of strengthening and maintaining friendly relations with the Soviet Union. In the Slavic countries - Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia - liberated by the Red Army or with its help, democratic regimes have also been created and are consolidating which maintain relations with the Soviet Union on the basis of friendship and mutual aid agreements."
Any roadmap for Rust 2.0?
I think he means the reduction of the number of things made with atoms. It's a weird way to put it and it's even weirder considering AR so far hasn't really been successful at all.
That is more elegant! But do you think they're functionally more or less equivalent?
The most entertaining part is they sent copyright notices to the original creator of the images. That is how she found out they were suing people over it.
Because Microsoft is primarily a B2B company and makes a lot of enterprise sales, I suspect that from a practical perspective removing it would require an impractically radical shift in its business model and sales channels.

Before Bring Your Own Device, there was bring your work home. Windows is to a meaningful degree a business class product sold to consumers. Removing sideloading from normal Windows would make Windows less attractive as a standard platform for enterprise if people cannot use line of business apps on any old device.

Of course, that doesn't make it irrevocable. But revocation seems unlikely to me.
For #3, wouldn't the AI defending against hacks need to be a hacking AI itself? It would need to find vulnerabilities in the systems it protects in order to plug them before other AI's find them.
A Google search reveals this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02226

This paper claims a "97x improvement" over traditional (non-parallelized) DBSCAN algorithms, but that's not a very helpful claim, because it does not indicate what the computational costs are as a function of, say, the number of data points or dimensions.
Then refuse yourself from maintaining it.
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And the best part is that if enough people issue chargebacks, the credit card companies might threaten to stop doing business with them.
Oracle hasn't been a "database" company for a long, long time now. (You can license the RDBMS but that's not the real business.)

Yes, they have a very robust database. But what they've been selling to enterprises for at least 20 years is better thought of as ... schema.

When you buy Oracle Financials (or whatever modules / pieces / etc.) what you're buying is "how to set up and run your business." All of the non-physical parts of your business operations are now entities inside Oracle SW (and, as it happens, stored in the Oracle RDBMS, too, but that's practically speaking irrelevant).

Once you're "on" Oracle, or SAP, or whatever, every invoice you send out exists only because it's in that software. The software is your system of record, your single point of truth for your whole enterprise. You might think you are physically a human employee or a box of nuts but if you're not entered into Oracle with a row ID, you don't exist.

So, yeah, Oracle has an RDBMS. But what they really have is the "operating system" or the "schema" of a large enterprise which otherwise would have to rely upon a vast pyramid of specialist operational knowledge (bureaucrats / paper pushers / functionaries) in order to know how invoices got approved, sent, dunned, paid, reconciled, etc., or how orders got quoted, approved, picked, packed, shipped, etc.

(Not meant to sound condescending; I certainly wouldn't have known had I not spent some time seeing Oracle deployed in real life. It was certainly super-instructive for me to have spent a summer during college working for a midsize enterprise on Oracle, in a role kind of bridging ops and IT, and seeing what it really did. No SELECT statements involved.)
Salty about never making a management role, eh?
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> I think there is a huge opportunity for a non establishment media on both the right and left.

There's a huge non-"mainstream media" on both the right and left already (the term "mainstream media", at least its use as a pejorative, was popularized by the large institutional right-wing media, there's also a substantial non-traditional left-wing media [which is where most of the stories that generate anger on the left with the traditional "mainstream media" on the left are transmitted].)

The anger isn't a sign of an open opportunity for non-traditional media on the left and right, its the product of the success of existing non-traditional media in transmitting ideas within the left and right.
Corporations are not people. Holding grudges against them as if they are people and not a social construct that changes over time makes 0 sense.

They have new management that is doing a lot of great things. The number of bad things they do is going down. Many of their products are genuinely good now. They're oing out of their way to improve their support for the broader developer ecosystem.

At this point, I "like" them a lot more than I like Apple or any of the hapless desktop Linux Distribution corporate governance bodies.
>* Anything that isn't first class mail can be accommodated by USPS.com, Paypal and others.

Even PayPal does first class mail too! and they allow you to buy shipping for non-ebay packages too! And the rates are better than stamps.com.

I too can't understand stamps.com other than to fool people who don't know better. I signed up for their free trial in order to get a $10 postage scale and cancelled right away. I got to talk to a human who tried to convince me why I needed it. I was like "ebay/paypal/amazon/usps are cheaper."
Why not just get up at 4am? Its a very quiet time of the day to get work done and it lets you feel smarmily 'ahead' of everyone else (disclaimer: I don't actually get up at this time).
Everybody I knew who used it said it was better than Windows, but that's sort of a self-selecting crowd. More to the point, OS/2 wasn't a M$ product, so that sort of success for it would have been bad for M$.
It didn't really meet the "In Comments" section of the Show HN guidelines, either: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2016/atmospheric-...

> It’s important to clarify that atmospheric or oceanic gravity waves are not to be confused with gravitational waves, the outward propagating perturbations in spacetime that are associated with cool physics graphics and, apparently, any and all Google searches on either subject.

:)
Didn't I read this exact story right here on HackerNews last year, only that time it was posted on someone's personal site? Was it also Mick Stute that time, or is this guy passing on someone else's famous story as his own story and his own work? I certainly don't see any citation to the original story on Quora.
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Or worse, if management decides "any monkey can do this! Let's get Carl from engineering and put him on the job."
That's an odd reading. It looked to me like they were asking you why Chakra doesn't represent a risk similar to V8.

And it does. But it's not a very high risk.
Thanks. I posted that before trying out Lepton not realizing the artifact is no longer a jpg.
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Ballmer is white & male (well, like Semel, probably not white enough for white supremacists, but apparently white enough for the purposes of this discussion), MS market cap didn't shrink under his tenure, but he gets a lot of criticism for missing growth opportunities that others capitalized on.

Why is he criticized more than Terry Semel? I dunno, probably 'cause nobody cares about Semel any more?
Twitter and Facebook are businesses. If you don't like how they operate, take your business somewhere else. Companies don't care if you complain, they care about there bottom line. So if you want them to change, do it in a way the free market understands.
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I would imagine a recruiter who has a track record of declined offers is not going to be viewed very well by their managers.
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Sure, they can make/break their own rules. It's been a while since I've looked at this in detail, but my understanding is the "Like" aspect of it is optional. On that page:

>After checking in, people will be asked if they also want to like your Page so you can continue to connect with them on Facebook.

Of course, if using Facebook WiFi, you do check-in to the location which triggers a host of other "features" within your Facebook account and experience. Similar to if you check-in to a location with the standard Facebook App.

I can see the argument that it's an extension of that experience, while providing WiFi service in exchange for it.
That would actually be relevant to the game theory stuff that got referred to at the start of the article, too. It changes what the alternative to the status quo is, which will materially affect negotiations.
I'm not sure what you're "correcting" in the original post.

The only difference I see is that the author said Marissa removed the turnstiles after reading an email complaint, and you say she removed the turnstiles after looking at them.
We did it this way at our company and it was pretty successful.
But keep in mind that we were just looking to tap in the existing AI technologies out there and leverage them.
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Are you getting positive encouragement from wanting to work reduced hours, or looking for ways to reduce your stress level? Because 'I'm looking to lower my stress level' seems like one of those phrases that no one is going criticize.
ptaipale perhaps I did misinterpret your comment and jumped too quickly on stating things. My whole point was let's stick to the thesis of the problem here i.e. VPN ban. People who want to use VPN for work related purposes what is going to happen to them?

UAE like many other countries in that region have left a breadcrumb of problems behind them. In order to fit in to global fraternity they have to make drastic changes. Changes that cannot be made overnight. For example they recently introduced a law about fining employers who withhold paychecks for more than ten days etc. Neither I am an Emirati or live in that region. LIke many, I would simply get affected as a frequent traveler if such ban becomes a harsh reality.
I fucking love the .emacs community.

To keep pushing a project from the 70's and keep it current is quite a feat.

Rebuilding from scratch is its own challenge, but to keep maintaing something at this scale and have such quotes be realized by hundreds of people is awe-inspiring.
Oh wow! She used pine! Freakin' pine! She sent the company down the tubes, but... holy shit did she ever read her emails in a terminal!

Also: Way to dogfood Yahoo Mail. Shows how much faith you have in your own products - as CEO no less.
There are no current plans for a Rust 2.0.
Looks like the nosh homepage is gone? Do you happen to know if the project has moved, or is available anywhere? I find various outdated links, but nothing up to date on nosh anywhere.
Please don't do this again here. We ban accounts that repeatedly derail threads with off-topic comments.
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Cuteness is everywhere in Japan and it's not just anime girls and Hello Kitty. It's things like graphics of characters bowing on ATM and vending machines, and the Tokyo Police mascot, a sort of Pikachu/Astro Boy hybrid named Pipo-kun. This is a country where failure to be sufficiently serious and industrious is a black spot not on just your good name, but those of your parents and grandparents. And yet, cuteness which would be perceived as offensive or even unsettling here is critical to marketing strategy there.

It serves a social function. It helps break the ice and gets the consumer to perceive a company or institution as friendly and helpful. Maybe you can build the case that Japanese are somewhat infantilized and like to feel swaddled by the loving care of large corporations and political institutions, but I think it's more that they are rather conflict-averse, and cuteness in marketing is a way to get confrontation off the table.
True, but it must go down or we will never have functional antibiotics.

It seems to be possible, in Italy they use 50 times more antibiotics per pig than here in Sweden, due to the stricter regulation. Denmark is doing good but still uses twice as much as in Sweden.

This is due to our regulations, and it costs more to keep the pigs healthy, but due to EU:s strict trade rules, there are no way we can protect our farmers from the cheaper meat.

And somehow Italian ham is considered to be of higher quality...
I tried it for a course in college, "Simulation of Complex Systems". Our goal was to get genetic programs to evolve tribe or herd behavior. After fixing the energy conservation bug that made it evolutionarily successful to immediately eat your own children, I ended up intelligently designing some basic DNA on the night before our presentation.
Yeah... if the AWS team ported them all to Aurora that would be great.
I've sometimes wonder about subtle things in our nature and if anyone is going to bother collecting history and information on them. I doubt this is the first book on hair but it's still a good example of what can be done elsewhere.
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This is interesting in there:

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3 years, and ordered to pay over $1 million in damages.

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this case against Getty.
There was an interesting piece on the local public radio station a few months back about the pronunciation (in the US) of "pecan". One of the things they talked about is that in English, words with 2 syllables generally have an emphasis on the first, while French is the other way. When we borrow a French word into English, it starts with the emphasis on the second syllable and over time it migrates to the first.
For some reason, this process tends to happen faster in UK than in US, and this explains pronunciation differences in words like "garage".
I have written a similar library a while ago called machinery.

Though inspired by celery I tried to write it in a more idiomatic Go way.

Currently supports RabbitMQ and Redis brokers and many backends.

https://github.com/RichardKnop/machinery