skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this - but I also find for a limited group of subjects it's fine!

I know my music theory and I know how to play piano [0]. I gifted a close friend a keyboard and taught her everything I knew about piano and music theory. Within 3 months she was a better pianist than I was - and two years later she was playing for the school choir and talent show. But that is a subject in which "You learn the basics - and the rest comes with hours and hours and hours of practice."

Another example is language (can be iffy if your pronunciation/grammar isn't already near-fluent, even if your vocabulary or niche knowledge (eg: idioms) isn't fluent). You can teach someone the pronunciation, some basic grammar/vocabulary, and guide them towards becoming fluent themselves. A large part is being able to guide people towards resources so that after you've taught them all you know - they can teach themselves from there.

[0] Not very well, but just well enough to play this with only a few mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNajh166DBc
Some kind of auto-bot is attacking, fine-tune the firewall settings :)
I don't think I understand the (technical) question. When your computer goes to sleep, it uses a tiny amount of current to keep the RAM in "self-refresh mode", to stop the RAM decaying, and then turns off the CPU.

Given that the CPU has no power, there is no meaningful analogy to dreaming in any sense.
> Now, I have to check each field individually, in manually written code, to verify that no required fields are missing.

You always had to check the individual fields for the zero value. A required field in a proto2 message can be set but also have the default value and pass initialization.
Just a note, that 20kb also includes the dependencies, such as the reflect metadata polyfill, zone.js polyfill, and an ES6 shim such as core.js. Once static template compilation lands (think of it like the JSX compiler), it will get even smaller.

Angular 2 is shaping up to be a framework like no other out there in its capabilities.
Uber does have access to car data - the cars Uber drivers use. I don't know if Uber is using this data to help adapt over the long term. But it's something they do have access right now.
And running a business that serves N countries that don't have a common regulatory framework is dealing with N times as many regulations.

Observe the nightmare that are state-regulated industries in the US. (I'm looking at you, health insurance, finance, etc.)

Now, imagine if each state had its own FDA...
I assume this is meant as sarcasm against a supposed argument against the importance of money.

Hawking argues that money very much does matter.
Er.. https://github.com/angular/angular-cli

1. Open terminal

2.

> npm install -g angular-cli

> ng new app

> ng serve

4. Use the cli tool to generate components/pipes/services/etc., build, test, develop

5. Profit.

Find a more blissful and joyful experience than this in react land?
Sobering thought to think that 65 square miles will take 300 years (minimum) to clean of threats and contamination. I would quibble with the characterization of dead people and animals as "contamination" as there are have been people and animals dying in great numbers over the millenia in various spots, but the concentrations of arsenic and lead are different.

Given what I've seen of strip mines from the air, I wonder how long it would take to process 100' of material from 65 square miles (~17,000 hectare) through a refining process. Could you just decide that what ever plant and animal life and structures would be forfeit and just dig it out, process it, and put it back? How long once everything had been processed might you expect it to take for the forest to regrow, certainly within 100 years you'd have a solid regrowth. So can you pull 150 to 200 years off the restoration time ?
Autoscalers the Hard Way
That logarithmic counter trick is awesome. It's obviously not something you'd implement everywhere, but it's seems really elegant here. I've never really thought of treating memory that way, it blew my mind a little.
I shudder to think of the infighting between the colorForth and ANSI Forth groups.
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I think what was meant is that a giant bookstore like Powell's sells many times the number of books compared to small "hole in the wall" shops.

I happen to live in Portland not far from Powell's main store, which is huge and busy all the time. Portland also has numerous smaller shops which serve different niches and out of the way locations. I think the best metric would be number of city-wide annual book sales per capita. (r = total_annual_book_sales/population)
I think they're rather pointing out the fact that democracy is a-priori taken seriously (good, sensible, and moral as you put it) until it votes-in an action that some people don't like.

You never hear the same types of things being told of normal presidential and governmental elections as we did for the brexit outcome. I.e. "this side used fear mongering of X" and "side B used promises of Y to manipulate the public" and let's not forget "the conservative elder voting block was voting against the youth".
React handles conditional rendering better imo. You use regular JS instead of having to learn a new API. You can use control logic in your render methods to great effect.
It's not a book, it's a podcast.
But did the UN ever stop a World War from breaking out?

Practically, even had the UN been built instead of the League, World War 2 probably would have still happened (Italy was on the Detente side in World War 1 and would have vetoed any anti-Germany resolution).

I think it's just that:

1. A weakened Europe has nothing left to fight over, and any war between two European countries would have resulted in the Soviet Union sweeping through, swallowing them all up

2. Even the "winning" side would be devastated due to Nuclear weapons.

3. Land has much less importance in a service/technology economy. Look at Singapore, for example.
Pretty much any environment that causes your body to frequently flood with cortisol is a breeding ground for PTSD. The brain interprets the constant threats to its well-being as a signal to rewire itself to be trigger-happy on the flight-or-fight response to conditions that most others would not react as intensely to.

Examples: childhood poverty; abusive/neglectful parents; societal discrimination (especially if violence or a heightened possibility is a factor).
Ask HN: Do Messenger spy on you? – especially Skype?
Disclaimer: There is no evidence that Skype does that, i just think about, that it easily could!

Messenger apps like Skype always have great permissions on your system - especially Mic + Camera permissions. Do trust those applications, especially Skype?
I am obviously not a security expert. But my understanding is that most breaches happen because of vulnerabilities that we've known about (and known how to defend against) for a long time, like

- Not deploying email encryption or even SPF, such that an attacker can convincingly impersonate others in the company by email (spear-phishing).

- Not updating software (which is necessarily exposed to a large audience by the firewall, because a large audience consumes it) when it has known vulnerabilities in it.

- Writing and running code in memory unsafe languages and not even mitigating that risk through static analysis or Valgrind.

- SQL injection and other failures to sanitize user input.

- Poorly thought out authentication/authorization schemes and bypass bugs, like URL enumeration.

- Services that make no attempt or an inadequate attempt to authenticate their consumers (i.e. firewall can't protect the MongoDB server from the web server; the whole point of the MonogDB server is to be accessed by the application tier).

- Not using TLS where appropriate.

- Not using 2FA for privileged insiders.

- Weak password reset schemes, and password expiry schemes that result in users writing them down on post-its at their workstations.

- Shared accounts.

It just seems odd to me that the security community will basically skin you alive for gross negligence if you don't have a firewall or antivirus, but this kind of stuff is more or less accepted as a fact of life.

And a firewall or antivrius is not necessarily going to do anything about it (if the attacker goes through routes that have to be open for the system to function, and writes their own exploits for which virus definition signatures don't exist).
All of these response posts seem to miss one big piece that made no sense to me. Uber goes really in-depth around the higher cost of updates in postgres, but then Uber describes Schemaless as an immutable append only data store. They created a custom database with no updates, but one of their primary reasons for changing from postgres to mysql was because of the high cost of updates?
Why do good software people leave academia?
Charging for (optional) yearly support for my B2B software, and giving away the first year for free to everyone. Given a decent retention rate, this makes a huge difference down the road.
> To get React to equivalent features

That's the key part you ignored in your response.
By the way, robotics teams have traditionally been steeped in rules-based AI’s. Essentially enormous if-then decision logic tree. Even if they are using the most advanced self-learning algorithms, huge amounts of data are required to train, perfect, and ship such a system. Uber has access to essentially NONE of it.

Sorry but there's so much BS condensed in just these two sentences that it immediately disqualifies the whole article.

Of course robotics software isn't based on giant decision trees, wtf. Then what's a self-learning algorithm? Who says that Uber couldn't just license self-driving tech or data? And by the way the plural of AI is AIs, without the apostrophe.
Wordpress goes with react, drupal picks angular2, and laravel favors vuejs.

This is no surprise, wordpress is extremely popular these days for all users, a huge angular2 client framework might be an overkill for many of its users. Drupal on the other hand is doing the more complicated websites, and its "ordinary" user base is shrinking, so angular2 might attract enterprise users.

Laravel is arguably the most popular PHP framework today, choosing vuejs as its client framework gave vuejs a strong boost for sure.
Step 1:

Have a job that allows this to be feasible.
> HTML
CSS
Sass
JavaScript
Jquery
Foundation
Node.js
Command Line
Postman
ESlint
Agile Development
ES5
ES6
React.js
React Native
TDD
REST
Electron
Green sock
Redux
Postgres
SQL
No-SQL
Http protocol
Creating a live server
SSH
GitHub
Chrome Developer Tools
Promise.js
Object Oriented Programming
Data Structures in JavaScript
Authentication
Webpack
Socket.io
AWS S3
Remote Server Setup

That is an OBSCENE amount of information to learn, and it's unlikely that any one course could teach all of that in less that 6-12 months of full-time work...
And how do you solve all of the security problems and over-large layer issues that the Docker team has been punting on for the last 2 years?
Self driving cars that are beyond simply assisted driving or and overseen autopilot are probably 10-20 years away.
It would take quite a bit of additional improvement in tech and massive legislation for driverless cars to become a common thing.
I don't understand why people continue to mix self driving and driverless those are 2 separate things.
Autopilot or not I don't see most countries change the law of both hands on the wheel (unless you need to operate another system in the car in which case 1 hand might be taken off it) any time soon.
Infact with autopilot becoming more and more popular you might see actually increased enforcement of this law because It's another revenue stream for local authorities.

Also if anything Uber is the one that stems to benefit from driverless car since they won't have to pay the drivers any more.
With driverless cars I see their business model becoming something like "want to save 30% on your monthly car payments? sign up your car to Uber!", Uber can even offer financing options to people at considerably discounted rates in exchange for a mandatory opt in period.
Heck Uber can go Zip car and simply manage their own fleet when driverless cars become a true reality, it might even be easier for companies like Uber to get a driverless car before the general population, they've already built their platform and have a user base, the drivers are this point are a necessary liability for them the minute they can dump them they will.
And if the car makers would want to offer a similar service themselves well Uber can just come in as a service provider offer the car manufacturers access to it's user base and platform in exchange for a usage fee it would be even better for them since they could dump a huge chunk of their existing liability onto their partners.
> You never hear the same types of things being told of normal presidential and governmental elections as we did for the brexit outcome. I.e. "this side used fear mongering of X" and "side B used promises of Y to manipulate the public"

Come on, now. People say this all the time.
Ideas, which can improve the amount of resources (virtually without limits, by say exploiting the asteroid belt), are not limited. That is, ideas can hugely increase the size of your petri dish.

What I dont know is if human nature can be contained to avoid growing the population continously above the carrying capacity, as we have been doing for the last 200 thousand years (or was that updated to 2 million?)
I am trying to make a living at intelligent systems and I have a lot of fear that APIs like this, particularly when they come from the "best and brightest" companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM, create skepticism for artificial intelligence and language technology, and thus create a "market for lemons" situation that directly endangers my ability to make a living.
I'm not sure about your other points but image search thumbnails have been found by the courts to be fair use. https://www.eff.org/cases/kelly-v-arriba-soft
In practice, to have decent compatibility as revisions changed, you really had to minimize the use of "required" fields anyway. While I agree it was sometimes nice to be able to avoid having to worry about it, in practice protobuf parsing imposes a very minimal set of constraints on data types. A successful protobuf parse was not nearly enough to ensure you had data integrity. I've run in to more than a few cases of developers using the wrong protobuf (v2) definition and not realizing their successful parse was still wrong.
> I don't think it's right to equate R&D spending with "losses".

I was baffled by that. Is this just because they called it "Other Bets" instead of plain old boring R&D?

If anything, that would make me want to buy Alphabet stock. We need more companies willing to invest on "moonshots", as the article calls it. We need to get back to the Xerox PARC times.
I think the author's spellcheck is fucked.
Probably also their chain of reasoning.
>"If the mob is well-informed, it can go well. When the mob is not, it can go very badly."

That only applies if you have some sort of arbiter to decide whether or not the "mob" is informed. And if you do that, you might as well have a dictatorship, as the arbiter can decide which side s/he thinks is well informed. Or rather, they could decide that groups X,Y and Z are not informed, therefore they aren't allowed to vote.

I know you may not be suggesting that explicitly, but that is the type of thing that I would argue follows from your line of thinking.
I think the overall point that you have to fill in the gaps yourself still stands, though. Angular just comes with way more features than React does, so if you want an equivalent experience, you have to use third-party libraries with React, which increases the amount of things you have to learn. Not that this is entirely a bad thing, but you can't really compare bare React to bare Angular and say they're equivalent.
It's also human nature to share. cf Kropotkin and studies of altruism in human beings. Wealth, as a concept is very much up for grabs. Is it accumulation of resources, the increase of security of resources, the fulfilment of psychological desires, the control of psychological desires, the stable passing on of genes?
If you have any reason to have a blog, you should have an email list.

Is it better to write posts for a blog than an email list, then? I feel it's better for someone relatively unknown to start out with a blog, then perhaps switch to a mailing list when you're better known. (Case(s) in point: you, Jason Calacanis, etc.)
I think The Onion needs a modernized version of this article: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...

"Area Man Constantly Mentioning He's Not On Facebook"
"It's never mentioned, for example, that his organization in Turkey runs "houses of light" (isik evleri) which serve..."

And here is the problem that I personally have, it could be that the whole organisation is like Scientology, Opus Dei or they spend their evenings with prosecuting chickens, but regarding the coup the world still need to see some solid evidence. Where is the proof and preferably something that has more value than Erdogan's word for it.

It doesn't matter if somebody is a not a nice person. When there isn't any evidence of a crime you don't prosecute them, simple as that. Also don't tell me that of all that is going on after the coup, that these are the results of proper investigations or a good functioning justice system.

Meanwhile in this European country we are confronted by Turkish (even third generation) people that threatening other Turkish people, arson or destruction against buildings of people they clearly don't like and that mainly because some egomaniac in a country far away is throwing blind accusations like there is no tomorrow.

We are even at the point that the Turkish embassy is calling all people to report anybody who "insults" Erdogan, because the world clearly needs more LOTR comparisons or poems. Hell, this week the president of this region needed to make the comparison with nazi's because that was the last time we were confronted with a foreign power trying to meddle in our local affairs. In the end the ambassador needed to apologize, but we are seeing more and more of those incidents.
> Self driving cars are coming fast.

Yes, and Uber is working on them. On HN as the same time as this article: http://qz.com/688003/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-on-the-road...
So that's why the coup against Morsi was never called a coup?
See also the previous discussion (more pictures in the article):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609091

EDIT: the guy who took all these pictures merits a credit and has a website all by himself: http://oliviersainthilaire.com/?page_id=38
I suspect we'll find that there's a difference between what was called shell shock (brain damage from blast waves) and PTSD (psychological trauma), and that it's possible to suffer from one or the other, or both.
>> Binkles have long plackerts and whipitat their snoblats when they get excited

What I was most interested by was how much of this example you could understand. A binkle is some kind of animal, a plackert is some kind of body part, i'd imagine a whipitat is some kind of action, and I'd imagine a snoblat is another kind of body part. Already I know more about binkles than I did.

You're also, however, a long way from a dog simply by describing a 'barking thing'. There are things that bark that are not dogs, and there are somewhere, dogs that do not bark. Wittgenstein demonstrated that there are an entire set of items that you could call a table than share no common features whatsoever.

I'm a fan of the dialectic method for this reason: it encourages people to go beyond the limits of their own knowledge by applying first principles to things they don't understand. This tends to take you a lot further than "here, learn this."

Further reading on this:

Wittgenstein: Blue and Brown Books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_Brown_Books)

Plato, Meno (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm)
Can anyone recommend a good book on teaching?
I actually don't understand why Brexit should necessary be bad for UK. Switzerland is doing very well outside of EU despite it's literally surrounded by EU members. Of course, there is a risk that UK won't do as good as Switzerland does but it's only risk, it's not established fact yet.

Regarding article itself ... well, it's The Guardian so it's very predictable what they will write about wealth.

Regarding author, it's the same, respected and famous scientist is longstanding Labour Party supporter. With all due respect to mister Hawking, I won't buy socialism in any possible form and any interpretation even from world famous scientist.

I would prefer to enjoy to read his great science books.
Hawkings is pointing out how the EU allowed for collaboration and money to flow from multiple sources, while now Britain will lose access to many of those. He also draws attention to how a mindset of "Britains wealth is being taken by foreigners", even though it isn't, was a driving force for many to vote for Brexit. The need for sorveignty arose from people belief that the wealth of Britain, be it economic and cultural, was being taken by foreigners.

From this perspective, Hawkings makes a good point to consider for anyone who is trying to better understand Brexit and its repercussions.

Also not related to the article, but the EU has kept Europe out of war for the longest period of time and was one reason for the unification.
Poverty is a relative term: somebody without a shirt is poor because nearly everybody has a shirt, not because shirts are absolutely necessary.

Edit: not sure why I am being downvoted. Take the poorest man on Earth today; he is richer than most men alive 20 thousand years ago. I would argue that he would conquer any ancient society.
Are you saying Erdogan replaced pro-Ataturk generals with pro-Islam generals, and that led to more Gulen followers with control of troops than there were before?
Does not work with repeat visits. May not be a big issue for Lyft, but it is for frequently visited restaurants and other places.
Are you saying that objective fact and truth is equivalent to a dictatorship?

Are anti-vaxxers living in a dictatorship because we don't give their claims equal weight to those of doctors and scientists?
I think you wording is a bit difficult to parse. Does this convert what you are trying to say:

In proto2, default values are for optional fields. The value of an optional field would be that value, but there's a separate concern as to whether that field had been set.
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I think the more interesting question is: when can something crazy like this work? I started writing a comment about that here, but it got long enough I turned it into its own blog post. Here is my submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188087
Some funny business relating to that, for fans of the false flag hypothesis:

One of the main coup guys having a go at Akar was Gen. Mehmet Dişli who "initially ordered Akar to sign the declaration and read it out to the Turkish public. Facing Akar’s firm rejection, Dişli held Akar at gunpoint and attempted to physically force him to comply with the order by cinching a belt around his neck, the sources claimed. " http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/chief-of-staff-held-at-gunp...

Mehmet Dişli "happens to be the brother of Saban Dişli, a former vice president of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Saban is a close confidant of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan." http://www.gagrule.net/turkey-the-alleged-coup-leaders-two-s...

Some more on that stuff here https://www.quora.com/Who-is-behind-the-coup-attempt-in-Turk...
Are you on a first name basis with Erdoğan?
Uber has volume and the correct branding, both important parts which a company like Audi will need.