skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not seeing how you can just take content from a client and algorithmically design a website that will make them happy. It's hard enough doing it manually with lots of feedback and iterations. This sounds well beyond what current AI can deal with from first impressions but I'm willing to be convinced.
Political quiz with no political questions
I never made a game of any kind before, so this was a fun project. Inspired by agar.io and slither.io, Snekpit is classic snake for many players at once. Check it out here: https://snekpit.herokuapp.com/

It's far from perfect, but I hope it provides you some temporary enjoyment :3 (It should work okay on mobile, but since snake by nature is precise it is a little more difficult)
During my free times (which is usually on the weekends) I work 4 to 5 hours on my thesis

Finish your thesis and then revisit this issue. There is nothing wrong with you. This is totally normal for someone working on something like this.
Why not simply disabling "back to my iPhone"?
I question its value against theft - thieves these days know about taking your device offline. Sure, it is useful if you forget your phone somewhere, but how often does that happen?

It seems the intrinsic risk of attack you expose yourself to by having "back to my iPhone" enabled is greater than the risk of forgetting your iPhone somewhere...
> Although I would still argue about the credit cards. Most stores / restaurants don't accept EC ( Maestro ) ... They usually put a huge sign - "Cash only".

But if they don't accept EC cards, they surely won't accept credit cards. :-)
Gillette was scared of DSC they started up Gillette Shave Club. That didn't work so they started attacking DSC in their ads which only helped drive brand awareness of Dollar Shave Club. Its seems they finally just gave up and sued DSC on patent infringement on a razor they don't even manufacturer.

Also no VC backed company is going to be profitable if they have VC money sitting in the bank. It was less than a year since DSC raised cash.
Ask HN: How do I go about finding public data?
Say I wanted to know if I could find data on the number of public servants a particular city employs, and data on the sort of jobs these employees have, and any other related data?

I don't know the 1st step to take in terms of finding this data.

Any suggestions?
Can you upload a video or a bunch of screenshots of that website? It’s been 6 minutes on my 100/40 connection and it still hasn’t loaded more than the logo.

I’m quite sure at this point a 4K video showing the site would load faster.

EDIT: It has loaded right now. I checked with speedtest.net and fast.com just to check if maybe my connection is at fault, but nope, that site is just horribly slow.

And react.js? For a static site? WTF
Great idea and project, hope it continues to improve and becomes bigger.
It was impressive. I got a tour of PARC in 1975, when the Alto network was just coming up. The PARC vision then was to find out what the future of computing looked like by throwing money at the problem. The Alto/file server/laser printer network was insanely expensive, but someday it would hopefully become cheaper.

Making the technology cost-effective took a while. Around 1980, the UNIX workstations started to appear. Those tended to run around $20K each. By 1982 or so, you could have workstations, file servers, and printers from several vendors. Apollo, Three Rivers, and later Sun got into the business. The big problem was that, in the UNIX command-line tradition, none of these companies could do a decent GUI. (Most windows were either a terminal or an editor. Or a clock. Everybody had a GUI clock, with animated clock hands.) There was very little commercial software. One of the best pieces of software of the era was Interleaf, which was a very good WYSIWYG document editor, sort of like Microsoft Word. But it was sold as a $60,000 system including a workstation and a laser printer. There was no software mass market yet.

So all the key hardware was available years before the Macintosh came out. It just cost too much. And nobody had a good GUI.

Except Xerox, with the Xerox Star, 1981. But they had a different corporate vision - a dedicated system for word processing and document handling. The idea of tens of millions of people having to learn about the internals of complicated computers, just to do ordinary office tasks, was scary. How could Xerox support that? Xerox was into support; copiers were rented and service was part of the rental. So the Xerox system was a closed environment. Users could only run the Xerox-provided applications.

What Xerox didn't envision was a society in which computer literacy was widespread. Society backed into that, via the IBM PC, DOS, and open systems.
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Thanks, very appreciate. This is my first open source project.
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Econocracy has split Britain into experts and ordinary people
Mail-in ballots are wonderful. They have them in Oregon (I used to live there), it's great:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon

And fraud is negligible (tl;dr, 13 cases of confirmed voter fraud since 2000):

http://www.ktvz.com/news/early-look-how-prevalent-is-voter-f...
Also, the combination "hammerhart" is a colloquial word, maybe comparable to "smashing" (as in, great) in English. Those two names are just a great pun.
Bank Stress Tests in the United States and European Union
LG plans to launch the 2 generationfor V10 during the third quarter of 2016
So basically, go to Berlin if you're looking for active nightlife and cheap alcohol? Sounds more like a reason to get away ASAP.
Look at the old expert systems such as MYCIN, Digitalis Advisor, etc.

These are not so much EMR systems as they are systems for structured decision making, but along the way of doing what it does, that kind of system is going to guide you through a workflow and leave structured documentation.

There is a huge literature on Business Process Management Systems that has a strong connection w/ the old expert systems because the production rules used in expert systems are very good for long-term workflows that involve both human and automated actions. Said systems are designed so the workflows are much easier for domain experts to make than it would be to create the equivalent in a conventional programming language.

Also I am thinking of an allergy&asthma practice that has four docs and a bunch of NP's, RN's and other people that has a very structured process that has a lot of paper involved but really could be automated.

Write me at paul.houle@ontology2.com and we can talk more.
Copying art is an act of love
Here is a comparison of the previous generation: https://www.xcelerit.com/computing-benchmarks/libor/intel-xe...

They hold their own against GPGPU, but are probably the inferior choice if your code already runs on a GPU (OpenCL/CUDA).

The real advantage of the Phi is of course combining this nearly-as-good-as-GPGPU parallelism with the x86_64 toolchain and infrastructure. x86 supports more languages with more libraries, and is easier to develop for.
This one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193694
> It's sort of the problem it's least competitive to solve on a raw performance, performance per watt or development cost basis.

This is not true for anything beyond running compute shaders on large 1D, 2D, or 3D buffers. Just because something is 'graphics' doesn't mean that a GPU is automatically faster.

> Production-ready renderers like Arnold, Octane and mental ray (NVIDIA's renderer) perform best or are exclusive to the CUDA platform.

Arnold is a CPU renderer, Octane is FAR from what I would consider 'production ready' and mental ray is also a software renderer. Renderman does not use any GPU acceleration.

> I sound like I know what I'm talking about, right?

Not even slightly
> This is one of those areas where we have to recognize that economics and GDP do not tell the whole story of human value.

This is true, but in the other direction from your statement's surface meaning:

Open standards are in great us, but count as $0 in GDP, since they are free. You might say that means that GDP undercounts value. but really, no one derives value from open standards -- open standards enable valuable activities, some of which are GDP (for example, ecommerce), and some of which are not (for example, emailing pictures to my grandma, which is negative GDP compared to printing and mailing).

GDP overcounts:anything we spend money on is GDP, even if it is just a means to an end; and undercounts: many valuable things have no price, and more generally, most purchased end-user products are worth more than their price.
Sure you can. Subway keeps showing up on lists of fastest growing franchises by $/year. Boston Market explosively grew on a percentage basis, for awhile. I'm not saying those have startup culture or startup financing or startup working conditions or startup salaries, but at least in theory there's no reason a "startup burger joint" couldn't be engineered, the marketplace is very friendly toward carpet bombing the planet with franchises (for a real world example consider a starbucks on every corner and every corner has a starbucks). VC funded franchised restaurant is not unheard of per google.

That's before you get into fads. Remember frozen yogurt? On a percentage basis that growth rate was incredible, and there were attempts to franchise, although that food fad went nowhere in the long run.
That is another thing Oregon just did, they call it the "motor voter" law. Do your business at the DMV, you're automatically registered to vote.

Of course the usual suspects came out to decry how this'll let more poors and minorities vote, but then, don't they always come up with reasons why those people shouldn't vote?
I'm not sure. I've sent out some inquiries to the people I know who actually worked on Ada code back in the day. If I get a response I'll post it here.
The main reason to use www is because you can't CNAME a apex domain, but you can on a subdomain. Sometimes this matters - and other times it doesn't. For my day job at an internet hosting company, we use www for our clients so we can CNAME their locations.
I agree.

She doesn't have to be a gold digger to take half your money because the laws still applies regardless of her gold-digging status.

The proper way to handle this is to marry some who makes the same or more than you.
I see where you're coming from, and I think there are things negotiation does well.

Negotiation allows a company to offer more (or less) than a standard wage when a candidate genuinely offers more or less value for the same position. Economically, that seems like a good thing, and I consider that the principal virtue of negotiation.

But the downside is that negotiation enables candidates who are better at negotiating to command stronger offers (because they're more charismatic, or courageous, or just better studied in the practice of negotiating). That's clearly arbitrary. Negotiating skill is an axis that's mostly orthogonal to the value a candidate brings to a company. Here the public sector's system of having fixed, publicly known wages for positions is a good one. Candidates who are good at negotiating make just as much as candidates who are bad at it.

The question then boils down to how much of the variation in negotiated offers can be attributed to variation value as opposed to variation in negotiating skills.

I suspect it's weighted toward the latter. But if you think it's mostly toward the former, then I think it's sensible to claim that negotiation is mostly a good thing.
This is exactly like The Grid, even down to their landing page marketing. The grid was such an obvious fuck-up I wrote an article about it several months ago [0]. I have never seen such a difference between hype ("AI Will design your web page - Never hire an engineer again!") and reality ("Everything looks like shit and takes forever, get your refund fast before we go broke").

[0] https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-grid-over-promise-under-deli...
Well, some frameworks use yaml for config files and you might use ansible to write those.

That said the templating is usually trivial, just maybe write some string values.
I find exactly the opposite in my circle of influence: my conservative friends are actually more open to arguments from people who disagree with them, and are more likely to _understand_ the opposing viewpoint than are the people I know who are liberal.

Conservatives are actually more aligned with "classical liberalism", though, so maybe the generalization is kinda right, but not like you intended.
That's quite the long path over water. Hope they don't have strong temperature inversions there...

Perhaps the plan is to just quit trading when the link is down. Make money when they can...
Wow, this author is clueless. This is a mishmash list of tools with several misunderstandings about what they do.
I would contend that bayesian reinforcement learning is statistical machine learning.

The difference between A/B testing and reinforcement learning is that reinforcement learning does not use a control and does not wait for high confidence to continue to improve. This allows much more data-efficient learning than A/B testing because at every step it is making its best guess as to whether to continue to explore or exploit what its already learned.

As to it having nothing to do with orchestrating code:

Most code is logic reacting to data. Reinforcement learning replaces hand-coded logic with goal-driven logic. If you can use a declarative approach to specify your goals, much of the logic can be moved to reinforcement learning.
Not everyone does it, though. I mean technically yes, it's required grammatically, but it's one of those rules that isn't always obeyed. It's a mistake but common enough to be aware of it.
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> In fact in blind tests, its very hard to tell which is what b/w coke and pepsi.

As someone who aced the Pepsi Challenge when they were around, they have very different tastes (I don't like the way Pepsi tastes at all), and I'm not the only one.

In fact, the Pepsi Challenge existed solely because Pepsi thought theirs tasted so differently.
Benja: Electron Kiosk for IoT
Adobe is working on realistic 3d digital paint
Dear god do not view this site on a phone with a data cap.
I cut myself equally much with both but maybe on cartridge blades it is because I try to eke out on more shave of it before tossing it.
There's something we're missing here. Not sure what.
I don't see any reason to believe that just because the idea failed in implementation once that it will forever. In all likelihood, if we try at the problem long enough someone will eventually figure out algorithms that work fairly well.

Perhaps "AI design" competitions or benchmarks would help this line of work. But people trying multiple times can only be a good thing, even if the early attempts are not great.
Not everyone is a nation state or has SS7 access. Intercepting SMS isn't as easy as you make it out to be.
> rice balls

isn't there one japanese style of food that legend says was cooked initially on a shovel? teppanyaki maybe?
Criticizing Apple for deciding to remove another port, is really shallow and superficial way to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) against this large corporation.

Just so we are on this page, you will _still_ be able to connect 3.5mm headphones to your iPhone. You will just have to use an adapter.

There are benefits for removing this port:

1. It frees up internal space.

2. It makes outer design more robust, simpler and cheaper for production.

3. It makes the phone lighter.

4. It allows you to make iPhone thinner.

5. You have one less limitation to account for when designing new iPhone.

6. You waste less materials on cables and oversized jacks made out of metal. I really like how article says that there will be lots of cables wasted from this. Well, so what? Should we stop all innovation and keep all standards forever the same so there is no waste? Ideally we should move on to smallest possible ports and most efficient standards. We can get there with tiny steps, and that will include throwing away legacy things.

7. It's easier to make phone waterproof when you have less openings.

In addition to that, lightning jack is superior to microUSB and other jacks, because you can insert it either way. It also has magnetic functionality that the other jacks lack.

Finally, for me as a customer, this change does not bring any problems either. I may have to spend $20 more for adapter. But if the phone costs $500, this change is insignificant.

Companies in the audio industry might have bigger problems from this, but it's their problems, not mine.

I am seriously surprised that BBC would be posting useless crap like this. Could it be because there is a lot of money to be made from shorting Apple stock and then releasing anti-Apple propaganda?
> [emacs & slime]

I was not aware you have experience with both, I just tried to point out what most people use today. I did not intend to start yet another editor war, even clay tablets are fine with me :).

> If there are other CL's with ABCL's level of maturity on the JVM

My point is that the (virtual) machine does not matter at all. ABCL is just another CL and it should not be relevant except for when you are specifically looking into interfacing java libraries (for which one does not need a book, just a few paragraphs of docs).

> Beyond that, I imagine that many programming projects target specific implementations for various, pragmatic reasons.

Only to the point that you sometimes have to implement things for your current CL implementation (i.e. stuff not defined in the standard and for which no interop. libs exist - a pretty rare thing).
In the UK we have a company called Daysoft that do this. They were about half the price of the cheapest dailies back when I swapped in 2015. I've been using them since with no issues- none of the opticians have mentioned anything when I get my eyes checked.
I started using Linux on the desktop in 2001 and have only used other OSes casually since then.

Linux is incredibly productive for me and I'm pretty worthless on other operating systems. And I'm old enough that I'm no longer willing to put in the time to learn a new one.

Ubuntu does what I want; I don't have to configure things and It Just Works 99% of the time. Plus it's free, so there's no financial incentive to use something else.
Halo 3 was released almost 10 years ago. Now, I'm pretty sure you meant Half-Life 3, I just wanted to be an ass Even then the saying doesn't fit because the Jewish Messiah is far more likely than Half-Life 3.
I've worn contacts for years and it was never mandated which brand/type I could buy. When you get a contact lens exam, it just says what size and power they should be. Perhaps your insurance only covers that brand, but an exam and prescription should allow purchase of any lens brand.
Like any sandwich that isn't hand-made by the 4th Earl of Sandwich ;)
What+To+Do+if+Your+Employer+Doesn't+Offer+a+401(k)
The keyword you want to search for is "program synthesis." It already exists, and no neural nets need apply (neural nets tend to be useful only if you can't get anything else to work). As a bonus, it's not probabilistic like AI techniques tend to be but exact, based on SMT solvers and verified proof correctness.

An example of work showcased at this year's PLDI that's capable of doing this sort of stuff:

Fast synthesis of fast collections (https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/collection-synt...): specify a database-like data structure for a collection of objects and the list of queries performed on that data structure, and get out code that's as fast as hand-tuned data structures with fewer bugs.

Programmatic and Direct Manipulation, Together at Last (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2908103&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFI...): Take an image generated by code (e.g., periodic stripes), and be able to manipulate that image by drag-and-drop, e.g., changing stripe size or period.

Stratified synthesis: automatically learning the x86-64 instruction set (https://stefanheule.com/publications/pldi16-strata/): 60% of the x86-64 instruction set can be formally specified starting from about 60 base or pseudo-instructions (basically, describing each instruction as an assembly program of simpler instructions).
One is talking about software and the other is talking about hardware form factor.

If the form factor is uncomfortable, sometimes you can't program around a solution.
Bit difficult to drive in Norway too. Hundreds of tunnels and an average length of about 800m, longest about 25km. And most of those over a kilometre are not straight so dead reckoning would be risky.
Very few. When I've played games like poker and Monopoly I've seen new players struggle with the (relatively simple) rules so I was comparing this game to those.
I think this would provide another good alternative

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook...

Who knows how well it would work in practice though
Including one 18.9Mb gif and no less than 6 jpgs clocking between 1.9 and 5.9 Mb. Looks like counter-optimization at this stage.
Just listen to whoever says the thing you want to hear.

But keep this in mind: sometimes people say things to advance their own agenda.
Given my technical background (SWE), I have found only one useful tip for salary negotiations during a job offer: get atleast two offers and play the companies against each other. I've found nothing else to be effective.
> So telling people not to overeat--to save resources--is the same as rounding up people and shooting them

Yes, they're both equally ridiculous impractical and unrealistic solutions to a problem. That's the point he's making, you seem to be missing it.
Black swans arise because when people design things that work 99.99% of the time, they tend to relax and rely on the system more than they should, and when this 0.001% event happens, they are completely unprepared.

The correct mode of operation is to always be prepared, without relying on the "perfect" system too much. If system is actually good, "chaos monkeys" may be employed to keep everybody prepared.
FYI, This looks like a republish of his original blog post[1] that was discussed previously[2].

[1] http://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086876
Nagios _has_ a logging tool, but when people say "Nagios", they're almost always talking about the monitoring tool.
This does sound bad. They owe you the laptop, as their advertising clearly claimed.

I was at first trying to upgrade myself and ran into a Blue-Screen, at which point it automatically rolled back to Windows 7, largely successfully. Then I saw this add for a free laptop and was confident that those people there would fail to upgrade for sure, and I would pocket this laptop!

Based on your experience, I am glad that I did not get time to go there, and then figured it myself over the weekend. (It turned out to be two incompatible drivers, even though the compatibility assistant had not find stoppers for the upgrade.)