skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. Being able to escape the city and get to the mountains is important for me, but that sort of thing is never taken into account. Cost of living is often given as a reason, yet they usually fail to factor in the level of wages.
Cumulus contains a large portion of closed-source code, including all the driver code provided by Broadcom, which is where much of the interesting stuff happens. (I assume their Mellanox products are the same, though I'm not familiar with them)

I'm not aware of any efforts to write open source drivers for any high speed ethernet chips, though I haven't looked much. Intel's (formerly Fulcrum) switch chips have open data sheets (but not the reference code, simulators, etc) so it would at least be plausible to start there.
Thing is, if you're sitting in traffic for 45 minutes, couldn't you walk the same distance in less time?
I am into #4 and #6. Launched a job listing site based on WordPress, hired a person to post jobs and approve jobs posted by employers / recruiters. I don't have to lift a finger so this could count as passive income.

Launched a few niche blogs which are monetized through Adsense, Amazon affiliate and a bunch of other networks. Had spent time in keyword research, content production and some SEO / marketing. Now I revisit the sites every few months for updates.

#1 and #2 always fancy me and I may write ebook or create course on Python, something that I am taking up these days.
> Don't. Use. Userspace. Random. Number. Generators.

I don't see how this flaw is connected to the fact that libgcrypt runs in user space. A similar bug could well be discovered in the mixing function behind /dev/urandom.
Their area of focus is economics after all. Economists never seem to be able to agree on anything except in hindsight.
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The bottom is -10k, you have to outlay for lawyer, marketing, hosting and possibly travel or industry specific capital. No matter what your research you can have zero paid uptake in the market. I.e. Google can solve your chosen task for your chosen niche for free and by accident or your domain experts can be confused about what technology will solve their problem until it really exists and is in front of them.
It helpes to stay in contact with not so close friends. For example people I met on a trip in canada. It makes me happy to see their vacation pictures which I wouldn't see usually because we are not that close.
How do you earn money through the job site? Charging for listing?
Not sure if the HR person checked out my site, but I know at least one of the interviewers did as he asked me about a personal project I was blogging heavily about during the interview.
I disagree that neural networks are necessarily mysterious. In most cases they can be straightforwardly understood as brute-force function approximation (approximation here meaning mostly interpolation, in some cases capable of a limited degree of extrapolation). You take many samples of a function (either because you have a huge data set, or because you can actually sample with a simulator), and incrementally modify a large network to slowly converge it towards an accurate approximation of the function. The advent of very large data sets and GPU training made this possible, but the tech is pretty well understood, at least at the level of a 5-mile-high view.
I'm surprised this started as autonomous trucking. It's a HUGE industry with a massive and unionized workforce that isn't going to go quietly. I wonder why the Uber approach of starting with human drivers wasn't chosen. There are lots of trucks out there with dedicated career drivers who make a life out of it. They often return home without a trailer or load and having an uber-for-cargo would be a great way to take advantage of those empty legs (this term is from the airplane industry but I think it applies here)

Going from zero to self-driving seems a little advantageous.
I'd think some good ideas would be use API's/WebScraping and build fresh content stuff like Wallpaper sites, or Movie Reviews/Ticket Ordering Sites -- sure there's tons of showtime/movie sites -- but if you can get even a small marketshare in google searches - you can earn a couple hundred a month.

You also could aggregate content from reddit subs into a site, or clone ThisIsWhyImBroke.com -- but automate it via scraper/etc... and focus your effort more on marketing using social media. In that case make money off affiliate commissions.

You also could write a course for everything to do with Wordpress --from setting up a domain to finding a host, etc---and promote your own hosting service in the book -- signup as a reseller for hosting services and start a small hosting business. Too many clients is obviously a drain on time/resources to provide support but 100-1000 clients could bring in 3k per month and take roughly 9-10 hours per week to support, and you can even hire someone to help with that on a part-time basis. If you only do support via ticket you'll save time as well. -- This was actually my plan, but I've been working too hard at my day-job to focus much energy on this.
I am also good at explaining stuff, wrote a book on Go, made it open source because I haven't contributed anything to the FOSS community :)

0 income. Not the best business plan eh?
Can it use existing TrueCrypt volumes without modifications?
>Not sure why Diego is being downvoted so much, when parent who made an equally incendiary comment wasn't.

Because "tu quoque" is a lot more obnoxious than just calling something bad.
The comments here seem like a slippery slope to Deepak Chopra-ish Quantum babble. Somebody already mentioned Penrose and Hameroff.

Remain objective please.
Note, that most of those points: Buying parts, cars, repairing is stuff they don't pay a dime for now. They only pay a wage to drivers. The structure of their cost changes completely - which is very hard to make any sane calculations on.

And if they are not first with driverless cars, big national cab-companies are also in the run.
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They could fix everything in one go if the same company / public agency owned everything...
(a) how program can depend on inspecting the value of a dangling pointer? I can't think of it as not a bug.

(b) True. I think this one should be defined and standardized.

(c) It seems that C99 defined this behaviour. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11639947/is-type-punning...

(d) I am not knowledgeable enough. Could you give an example?
True anecdote from the early smartphone days: we were always having problems with rendering performance, but the next platform promised to have 4x faster CPU.

Later, it sunk in that the new screen had 5x as many pixels...
Interesting insight on olfaction. Quantum involvement (e.g. selective wave-form collapse) is about the only viable possibility I can see for escaping determinism and allowing free will (and even then we're pushing current physics firmly into pop-sci fiction).
I still find this sort of idealism confusing.

Some insurance companies require employers to sign up a certain percentage of their employees to get the rates they have. Bigger companies often have better plans simply because more people are paying into the system as well. In addition to paying for other folks' care through insurance, he's also paying a premium for his care in part to pay for other people.

In addition, he'd actually work less. If you turned the rates folks pay for health care into a tax, it would make the tax rate fairly high - I dont have numbers, but I'm going to guess it would put it over and above what average tax rates in single-payer nations pay. He'd only really be "paying for himself" in either case. Not to mention the ridiculous out of pocket amounts. 2000-5000 a year deductible is nearly like not having insurance if you are making a low wage because that is a significant portion of your yearly salary.

And the sad portion of all this is that for many folks with such idealism, even showing how it would work on paper isn't enough to change their minds - mostly because it isn't an issue of even what is best for self. It is (sometimes nearly religious) support for an idealism they don't want to give up.
To answer one of your questions (not a U.S. citizen but I think the FB situation is pretty much the same in my country) - yes, I did get that invite to the party which I wouldn't have gotten without FB. It's also good for chatting and staying in touch in general, there is no other platform in my sphere that comes close in terms of number of my friends available.
How many friends, both close and casual, do you have? How many family members? For me, that number is around 150. Facebook enables me to ping them occasionally, or just passively stay in touch with their lives, where maintaining that many face to face friends is not practical.
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of course :-)
I think he talks about W10 ignoring hosts file and calling home using raw IPs if you block usual domains. This still gets blocked with firewall.

DNS is a problem tho, I dont know of any dns clients with per application whitelist functionality :( This means every program on the system can make dns queries.
Yes, when mounting a volume, there is a checkbox "TrueCrypt mode" on right side bottom, under password edit line. You can make it checked by default in settings.
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Do you know any windows dns cache programs able to filter per application sending a query? Is it even possible in Windows to do that?

Something that would allow chrome.exe full access, but block all dns queries from svchost.exe process?
This difference is due to deep learning not being able to build models.

Check out the recent paper "Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People":

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00289

Humans can see one or a few examples of a novel object, such as a cat, and create a fully 3D mental model of it. So we know what it will look like in different orientations and lighting conditions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but half of these suggestions seem to say: Steal other people's content and become a search engine spammer.
While I'm a fan of torins hypothesis in general, the specific molecule highlighted in the article (borane) has a much simpler, traditional reason for smelling like rotten eggs due to disulfide bond reduction reaction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/29mxnz/the_pro...

"2010 (early) Max. capacity 2600mAh (This has existed before)

2011 (early) Max. capacity 2900mAh/3000mAh

2012 (early) Max. capacity 3100mAh

2012 (mid) Max. capacity 3400mAh

2013 (late) Max. capacity 3600mAh (Are not yet common)"

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3600mAh is apparently still the max capacity available.
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Ugh, I hate the tube for this. And I've noticed that that the 'importance' of the scrolling text has gone down over the years.

When I'm on a tube platform, if I'm looking at the upcoming trains, I don't need to be reminded that I shouldn't smoke or that there's Rugby coming up at the weekend.
Ask HN: New threads like Who is funding? Who wants to be funded?
Just a suggestion, like existing who is hiring threads which connects developers & recruiters - these thread can connect individual investors to small team or individual dev. Do you think it will be good/bad idea to have monthly threads for these two topics?

Example posts:

Ask HN: Who is funding?
Share your information if you are looking to fund. Please use this format:

Focus Market:

Eligibility criteria:

Investment range:

Technologies:

Contact:

Ask HN: Who wants to be funded?
Share your information if you are looking for funding. Please use this format:

Product:

Team:

Traction/Milestones:

Technologies:

Revenue:

Fund needed:

Email:
Tallinn. Cheap rents, free public transport including boat rides to the nearby islands, not far from the UK if I need to see clients onsite and 500 Mbit/s Internet for €37 / month.
I do use lodash and I very carefully consider my dependencies, the problem is when I pull in something and it then pulls in 250 packages, now I'm dependent on them as well, it does it's job but sometimes I wonder how any of it works but maybe in just old.
You may find this interesting: http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
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Of course, as it's not directed to the technical people but to the users of the Facebook that don't understand most of the technical details.
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Well when it comes to MAD any attempt to disarm the nuclear capability of your partner in MADness has to be considered as a first strike which would lead to a retaliatory nuclear 2nd strike even if the 1st strike was not nuclear it self.

Like everything in life you have to take it into proportion, if Russia or the US sink a single SSBN that's not exactly nuclear disarmament, if one party launches a preemptive non-nuclear strike against the SSBN fleet at large as well as the fixed and mobile ground based platforms that would likely invoke a very harsh response which traditionally under MAD has to be nuclear because if you do not use your nuclear arsenal while you still have it effectively you've lost it for good.

And if the other party knows or suspects you would not use your nuclear arsenal unless you've been attacked with nuclear or non-conventional non-nuclear weapons first even if the conventional attack is against your nuclear capability they would attempt to disarm you without thinking twice.

MAD works well when you under no circumstances would use your nuclear arsenal first in an offensive manner, but have very clear and public guidelines for nuclear response.
How may cases of malnourished infants of non-vegan parents haven't been in the news? Umberto Eco pointed out decades ago how a reporting bias affects public perception.

Why is there a need for this specific law? Why isn't the well-being of a child covered under more general laws already?
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Fair enough, but being sole proprietors or LLCs has nothing to do with it. All contractors are also either sole proprietors or incorporated.
The cryptochrome hypothesis doesn't require detachment from the retina as it's a protein that has directional excitatory preference, not the whole cell.
> once we have a comprehensive AI program that can play many kinds of games

Before AlphaGo, DeepMind released a reinforcement learning algorithm that could play many Atari games just from the raw pixels on the screen, in many games surpassing humans. The same algorithm.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602.pdf

Reinforcement learning is a general framework for learning behavior from acting in an environment with the purpose to maximize a reward. It can be used, and was used, in multiple domains. AlphaGo used RL as well.

Saying that AlphaGo is limited because it only knows to play one game, is like saying that humans are limited because Lee Sedol could only master at world level one game. In fact, if the software was set to learn more games, it could learn them in addition to Go.

Also, regarding other tasks: a neural net that recognizes cats can be easily made to recognize dogs too. A program that translates English to French can be made to translate other languages too. We limit software to specific domains only on account of efficiency, not because algorithms are fundamentally limited.

Recently there has been a paper "Learning without forgetting" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09282v2) that underlines this very ability to span multiple domains and adapt easily to unseen tasks and data.

> Developing a program that can generate solutions for a single specific niche of problems (while impressive) is not a convincing demonstration of intelligence.

Saying that people can do many tasks is not exactly right because a particular person can only do a few tasks, those tasks she was trained to do. If I never learned German, I don't know German. That doesn't mean the brain itself is limited. AlphaGo was only trained on Go, and its internal architecture was optimized for this one task in order to make it more efficient, but the method is general and reusable. DeepMind said so themselves, the breakthrough is not that they beat Lee Sedol, but that they used a general method that can be used to do other tasks as well. It is not a limitation of AI that we generally make systems that are good at only one thing.

If there is a limitation in AlphaGo, it is that it mastered a game where the whole situation is perfectly known (the Go board), while in reality many tasks are only partially known (such as card games, for example) so there is an extra uncertainty. But DeepMind and other researchers are working on that too.
https://whatwebcando.today/ is a useful link.
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Bonds returns are highly correlated with stock returns and gold gets eaten away by inflation. For money you don't need to spend in the next 7 years (so you can wait out a recession) it's hard to beat a stock index.
Well, you're talking about two different things. The comment you're replying to, is talking about software, while you're talking about products.
You were blogging heavily during the interview? I can understand that he asked...
What's a trivial quantum mechanical effect? Do orbital mechanics, wavefunction energies, count as trivial or nontrivial?
Quantum does not rescue free will. "Random" is "free" in the sense that a wheel has "three degrees of freedom" when it's not attached to the axle.
Remembered me to this nice article:

"What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow?"

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/
> And how many different pictures of cats are there?

I would guess at a shite-load more than 1 million.
I've recently become a bit of a 'fan' of CBT, so I'd really like to hear some counter arguments!
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> The ROW (Rest of world) simply can't wrap their head around it...

I am keenly aware of this. I moved to Norway, which by all means has a lot of social programs. Most of which I am covered by due to my immigration status (marriage). Part of my requirements was to take Norwegian language classes and civics, along with many other immigrants. More than once, medical care was discussed, as it is outside the classroom mostly because folks hear the rumors and get curious if the healthcare system is like they hear.

Looks of shock for not having paid parental leave, which is pretty common in most of the world. And then the shock just seems to keep growing.

For the average person with insurance, however, there are a few perks, so I try to include such things. (Less with the waiting times, for example, and the quality of care if you can access it is fairly good). Still a dire sitution.
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In the last discussions on HN [1] the opinion seemed to be 'show us products first'. Now the first products are coming out next year. How will this change computing as we know it? Been trying to understand what this will do, but the step in speed seems bigger than anything I've encountered in my life. Like going from spinning tape to floppy, but the speed difference is even bigger.

As far as I understand, this will change the layout of PC's in a pretty far reaching way in the years to come. First the memory will fill products that can saturate PCIe x4 and NVMe easily. But what will future products look like? I guess the whole divide GPU - CPU and cache - RAM - storage can become obsolete?

I envision that this revolution can help (finally) the push towards manycore programming, since the buffers can more easily be filled. But I'm very far out of my area of expertise, so would love the input.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962913
Was/is it worth it?
I'm really surprised that Berlin isn't mentioned. Admittedly, I haven't spent much time in other German cities, but Berlin should be the best in cost of living and also in startups.
Banks are involved. In the UK most buy to let landlords use mortgages to buy properties.

- The banks earn interest on these mortgages.

- The landlords foot the first $deposit of losses on a bad choice.

- The banks don't have to pay legal fees or stamp duty during the transaction.

- The banks don't have to hire scouts to find suitable properties, or management fees to run them.

I'd say they're probably doing quite well out of it.
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Thanks, that is one truly unknown tool. Not very intuitive but I will manage.
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What a madman! I mean this in a good way. This is really awesome. The link for "Stepping Stones" and worth a watch. I hope he finishes and does 8 through 10 on the video todo list.

I hope this finds a permanent public home at some point. This would be great addition to any technical museum or exhibition.

Kudos!
I would pay for an app that let me take a picture of the ground and circled anything that looked like a 4-leafed clover.
Have you seen unikernel approaches like MirageOS (https://mirage.io), which challenge the POSIX basics of operating systems? If not, take a look :)
>last Intel CPUs without it are from 2008

and those have cpu wide ring0 escalation bug https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Domas-Th...
I like to think they appreciated my ability to multitask under pressure.
Thanks. Will check out this paper.

While in general I felt something similar that it has to be not just reams of data but also some sort of model (meta data) that when combined can produce innumerable combinations more easily.
Last I checked, scientific calculators had degrees and radians as modes. This made pressing the button idempotent, an appropriate compromise given the lack of types.
And the logos are eerily similar as well. I was thrown off track shortly and wondered what this traditional company was doing with uber until I realized, that someone would probably not have done enough research into the potential dangers of this branding.
Thank you. I think it's time to switch over from TrueCrypt.
Seems like an overdramatization. I'm not from Kiev but I do live in a Ukraine and I don't see many people finding this a problem. I also have a plenty of friends from Kiev, none of which plan to move out anytime soon; and certainly not because of the war situation.

There's no political or military tension like in the middle-east, and the risk of actual full-blown war with Russia is too small to affect the daily lives of people.

Some people move to other countries like Poland, but the main reason behind that is the better education and work opportunities.
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Passing CSV around can be a useful middle ground, if you're using utilities that all do proper escaping and allow newlines in strings etc., such as csvkit.
Of course, but compared to how chess algorithms work it remains far more mysterious how exactly that produces an english description of a grid of pixel values.
Another point is that you cannot afford living in Paris with just one working. Even if he's working as a software developer. How a city can be "liveable" if you cannot earn enough to live there?
IT in many libraries is heavily underinvested, both in pay and infrastructure.
So, you have too few, average or below-average workers, annoyed with constant struggle with old software / hardware (plus standard IT support problems, like workers resetting their computers by turning the screen of and on again).

Woops, a disk in our 9-year-old array just died. Let me fill that form for financial director, and explain we really do need to buy a new one. Pray so that spare disk won't die in the meantime. "No, we cannot buy a cheaper one". What, new server? We just bought you a brand new expensive hard drive 6 months ago!