skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tha's what Roger Penrose argued in "Shadows of the Mind" where he theorizes about quantum effects in the human brain and how they might give rise to conciousness [1]. There's some criticism about it, because the brain is pretty warm and decoherence should disturb all quantum states so much taht they become unusable, but it is still a research topic if "warm" quantum states can exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind
You don't need to be a direct party in a contract to be affected by it.

You can insure against possible negative outcomes of someone else's contracts.

e.g.) Party A and Party B sign a contract that Party B will pay Party A $X by some date. Party A has seperately agreed to pay you $0.9X shortly afterward.

You are a savvy businessperson and realize that Party A will not have $0.9X to pay you if the Party B fails to make their payment.

Party B is on the rocks after a nasty reorg, and you think the probability they fail to pay is significantly greater than 0.

You want to protect your business against this event. To do so, you purchase a Credit Default Swap from Party C for $0.05X that ensures the full $0.9X payment.

While Michael Barry was "speculating" using CDS's, you could also argue that he was "insuring" his firm against a housing crash, which did tank most investment vehicles.
Prefix your code with two spaces on each line and HN will include it verbatim. Otherwise it thinks you have paragraphs with line breaks that it ignores.
I was lucky enough to get one via contacts. I'd expect though that you can find designers online and see their portfolios before making a serious commitment.
How I Got to Containers
I honestly don't remember; it was more than 18 months ago. I may have even eventually gotten it working through pinctrl, but I vaguely remember having to do something with device trees and rebooting or something. No, I take that back, I definitely remember having to do something with device tree compilation, because I remember having to rewrite someone else's utility or... but that may have been a separate tool entirely... I have no idea.

If I remember right, that was all also very version-dependent and rapidly changing. I had two boards with two different kernel versions and everything was just a total catastrophe there (until I accidentally fried one, and then that particular problem... sorta solved itself)
WSJ article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/did-the-olympic-pool-give-some-s...
People who have nothing to lose tend to make poor economic decisions and poor social decisions.

That's why home ownership matters. It's a poor investment vehicle only if you assume people would invest savings from renting into appreciating assets, rather than burn it on consumables. They won't.

So, yeah, government is involved because it's a collective action problem. Individuals and the market left to their own devices will reach a suboptimal equilibrium.

Is home ownership the _only_ answer? No. The problem is fundamentally cultural. But in the U.S. especially, subsidizing home ownership seems to be the most viable mechanism we can, as a society, agree upon. Probably because of our emphasis on individualism. In a society that highly values individualism, people will be more incentivized to strive toward home ownership than other alternatives. We went them (us) to delay other, less economically efficient forms of gratification.

In some Asian societies, for example, different cultural preferences make alternatives more viable. For example, they're more likely to emphasize investment in education. I'm pretty sure the phrase "book learning" isn't derogatory in most Asian societies, even for low-skilled laborers who feel disenfranchised and lack any intellectual ambition. (Not that those things are necessarily related--I strung them together for emphasis.)

In any event, the point is to keep people invested in the economy in such as way that their individual choices tend toward more productive activities. It's a channeling function.
Now I won't have to tell my boss that I need a sick day because I was up all night playing Civ. He'll already know....
"On the other hand, ALGOL is MASSIVE. There are 106 reserved identifiers in the language according to wikipedia and I don't think I could ever remember what every one of them did."

You start with what's shown to have benefits. You then subset it to work within your constraints. I described an example of what C inventors might have done here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12316092

"Due to this it's impossible to say how well another language would behave in the wild since I don't think anyone can predict how well the language will be used to it's extent."

Better if it was designed to do that. As I illustrated, C wasn't: portability was incidental. The languages designed to make portability, safety, integration, etc first-class features handle the "in the wild" effect way better. Of the simple ones, Wirth's keep things consistent by focusing on types, memory-safety where possible, interface checks, concurrency support, and modularity. Of older days, Ada is probably one that most systematically approached the problems of programming. Due to all its interface safety & support for cross-language development, the integrations and extensions of Ada programs by multiple developers usually happened with fewer problems than you'd expect.

So, you can design such capabilities in. The resulting problems will be smaller. C didn't. The problems were large and seemingly impossible to fix afterward. Makes sense.

"Something that's good for the advanced programmer, in my opinion, is the use of braces and not words."

I'm sticking to the concrete stuff. Much of the syntax stuff is opinion which hasn't been empirically tested enough. Quorum is closest to that. Except for one that had some evidence:

"I also hate needing to type := for assignment. It makes no sense. "

The language has to support assignment and equality. Originally, that was := (arbitrary) for assignment and = for equality. The change was to = for assignment and == for equality. That's less intuitive. Led to errors. Also, "change your IDE/tooling" doesn't cover for bad language design. It's also exactly what I'm telling people to do in the article: ditch C because it's bad design wherever possible.
> As for the NIH syndrome, one of my favorite Paul Graham essays is still "What Languages Fix" (http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html) particularly for C#: the problem that C# was invented to solve is that Microsoft doesn't control Java.

That's not what Graham said. He said, "C#: Java is controlled by Sun", which is quite a bit different from Microsoft not controlling Java.

Microsoft is fine with using and promoting languages they do not control. C++, for example.

The problem with Java from Microsoft's point of view was that Sun did not want people to use Java as a mere programming language. They saw Java as a platform, and wanted people to develop for that platform instead of developing for Windows, or Mac, or Linux, or whatever. Sun wanted all access from Java programs to the underlying facilities of the OS upon which a particular instance of the Java platform ran to go through the Java platform.

Microsoft wanted something with the good parts of the Java language without the baggage and restrictions of the Java platform, and so they made C#.
getting an IP is still pretty ugly, somehow:

ip address show dev eno1|grep 'inet '|cut '-d ' -f6

But I wouldn't call it unreliable. The cut is the only really nasty bit.

Changing your fstab is easy with a little awk:

$2=="/tmp"{$4=$4 ",nosuid"}
{print $0}

Given, it won't remove contradicting options...
This can open new research also on how works for example homeopathy and acupunture?
Quite a lot of condescension here towards people trying to make a better life for themselves. Were you all really that smart at 18?
> For example, maybe you could explain the full backstory of why this post was killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313089.

I can explain it. It says right there that it was [flagged]. Enough people hit the "flag" link to automatically kill it.
Tesla is taking an interesting approach trying to generate a point-cloud based on adding a time-dimension to radar
I feel like this article tries to touch on way too many issues at once to make any meaningful dialogue.
More specifically, I don't want to SSH from a Windows box. I want to SSH into a Windows box (and say figure out a way to easily install a LE cert)
Tl;dr Biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied quantum physics and in some cases chemistry is a leaky abstraction and does not perfectly explain what is going on in organisms. Three examples - photosynthesis being more efficient than expected, birds sensing Earth's magnetic field by an unknown mechanism and a lack of understanding how olfaction works in detail - are presented but besides that there are no new revolutionary ideas in the article.
There is also GNU Guile, with a fantastically easy to use FFI. Has a great manual too.
In retrospect, I wonder what would have happened if we let AIG and the banks fail. The FDIC would convert them into DINBs with the insurance limit raised to $250k per account holder. All debts including mortgages would be discharged tax-free automatically (making the topic of mortgage notes moot). Bank charter restrictions would be loosened so that new banks can be created as soon as possible.
Public prisons aren't exactly incentivized to keep repeat incarceration low either. Is there evidence that rehabilitation is worse in private prisons?
Eh... the Justice Department will be under new management in less than six months. Nothing they say about policy going forward really means much.
Should We Be Having Kids in the Age of Climate Change?
I think this speaks to the difference in mindset I've seen a lot in this thread. It basically comes down to people who have gained and honed experience with these tools vs. people that haven't. Yes, for someone with a lot of experience with these tools something like Powershell is redundant... for them.

Some people just want to get shit done because this is just a footnote in a task that's a small part of a project. Utilizing gained proficiency in several tools is cool but if you have a choice between doing that and just taking advantage of a simple tool that streamlines things and lets you move on to your next task quickly the correct choice is obvious.

It could be that these tools are better and may be more valuable in some situations but asking someone to spend time gaining proficiency or mastery when another path is available is just premature optimization.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "horrible abortion" - but it can be painful to use at times. I manage several Azure environments with PowerShell and not a day goes by that I don't wish there was something better. Especially on those days when I have to dig into Azure's JSON templates.

There is an SDK for Python, but I haven't had an opportunity to try it. If anyone has used it I would love to hear about your experience.
Homeopathy does not work except for the placebo effect, there are several studies.
I learned an industrial BASIC in a few hours if you add it all up. Learning how to use it reliably took weeks with safety mostly coming by default. Learning that for large stuff took several months where I learned programming practice. How long do these milestones take for average C developer with what productivity? Note that my Pentium 3 at 400MHz could compile the compiler in a second or two. Fast iterations. :)

Learning C was a different experience entirely. The mental work involved was huge with the level I worked at for any job being micro-managing the machine. It's only simple on the surface. The job is much harder than a BASIC, Oberon, or whatever with selective use of unsafe features.
There's a new version of Dasher 5.0 out, developed by Ada Majorek and supported by Google!

Dasher 5.0 beta release:
https://github.com/ipomoena/dasher/releases

Ada Majorek on Dasher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHQ83pMLQQ
While it's certainly possible that neural networks involve some non-trivial quantum-mechanical effects, it's also much more likely that (in the context of the brain), this notion arose from people expecting the brain and consciousness to be mysterious and inscrutable, hence "maybe consciousness is quantum!". In the absence of a concrete theory and testable experiment, that sentence has about as much meaning as "maybe consciousness is emergent!" or "maybe consciousness is supernatural!".

(Here, I'm talking about vague statements like those, or sci-fi theories like those in a Stephenson novel, as opposed to actual analysis like that of photosynthesis in the linked article.)
How do you use so much data? I am on reddit all the time (about 4 hours a day according to app usage) and only used about 300MB of data per month?
Even with Pokemon, Messenger (Viber, WhatsApp and Messenger), Facebook, Email etc, I average around 1-2GB a month.
Incarceration as practiced in the USA is also barbarism.
> By your same reasoning, the government could claim ownership of the atmosphere and be justified in restricting literal speech.

I don't follow.

> Fundamentally, we're currently building a society where the commons is privately controlled.

We're building that society by choice; if we don't fully agree with the ramifications of it, we should build it differently.

And by the way, all society building is about compromise. It seems most people are happy with the compromise that the commons should be privately controlled (at least online) if it gives them the convenience they are looking for. The vocal opposition appears to be a minority.

> Rejecting the analysis of freedom of speech for this society implies one does not actually value the concept.

I haven't rejected any analysis. I'm stating my opinion on the matter. You are free to disagree, but I would appreciate if you did it honestly (and not by putting words into my mouth).
You've succeeded in convincing me you that you have limited experience and an inability to see that the real world is much messier than your ideals. Do please stop trying to speak for .Net as if you represent the entire community, you don't, and you're just embarrassing yourself.

In the real world, the corporate world, you'll find tons and tons of custom active record implementations because they always provide something external mapping libraries don't, context aware simplicity. So go pick up a Martin Fowler book on patterns and read what someone who actually knows what they're talking about says about it since you seem to think you've got it all figured out, it's obviously pointless trying to have a discussion with you.
Both of these two projects attempted to solve a problem that very few people have - using .NET libraries from Python and Ruby. In exchange, you had to give up all of your existing native libraries. That is a trade-off that very few people wanted. Source: I started the IronRuby project.

I learned this lesson the hard way a few times in my career - always have respect for people's existing code investments.
> It's hard to talk about the specifics of a problem if you don't have names for things, don't you agree?

Strongly disagree. In my experience, people who like to use highly specific domain vocabulary are far more concerned with appearing intelligent than they are with actually being intelligent.

I've heard so many senior engineers speak in Buzzword Babble that I no longer take seriously the opinion of someone who cannot have a conversation in plain English.
It's far too much to ask of 18 year olds. Unfortunately, these are the same people who are of voting age. At a systemic level, voters cannot afford to be gullible. Right now, they are!

Part of the reason for gullibility at that age is no incentive to work really hard in school and trying to understand how adult life works. Grades instead of ranks, no fear of falling into poverty or survival mode (as would happen in a poorer country)

There is no reward for 'think and proceed'. There is reward for 'go with the flow' and that is temporary respite, not having to struggle, having fun etc.

At a systemic level, kids have to be encouraged to compete and become better AND demand better from others to be able to succeed.

I used to think I'd become a writer and write a book like Harry potter. At age 10, this naivety is cute. At 18, that literally is money (and possibly future life).

Schooling really needs a revamp.
I don't think the conclusion that it's solely, or even mostly, class based is correct.

Up until the 1965 there was open discrimination towards minorities enshrined in law. That's a mere 51 years ago from today - well within the lifespan of Americans living now. The United States also has a well-documented history of active disenfranchisement of different races.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_legislation_in_th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

Just about every crime statistic you'll come across also shows higher incarceration rates for minorities however the number of impoverished Americans of caucasian ancestry dwarfs any other minority group.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf
https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf

My own personal experience growing up in the American Midwest is that racism is alive and well in those areas. I vividly remember open and profane discussions about blacks amongst the local population being spouted by both adolescents and adults. This included the gratuitous use of what is colloquially referred to as the N-word (in the offensive fashion).
> It's 2016 and our best of the best image recognition algorithms can't even tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart.

State of the art offline CNNs have been doing classification quite well recently, arguably better than humans. See the Inception-v3 paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00567v3.pdf
Pretty much all databases will support "describe tablename" to do exactly that.
That's exciting to know. I hope to give F# and Unity a try sometime soon, then!

I remember the XNA C# runtime on the Xbox 360 required similar strategies with memory as well. It's nice to see garbage collectors improve as time goes on.
Analytics company Heap raises $11M
Nigeria Professional Footballers Union Move Against Decision on Giwa FC
Quick plug for my related project: https://github.com/QA2/public-suffix-metalist - pull requests welcome.
As someone who recently spent 4 years in architecture school, Gins (and Arakawa) were some of the few practitioners of nominal fame who were truly pursuing something different in architecture. That their primary goal is plausibly impossible did not make their active principles any less rigorous than the agendas of more widely accepted conceptual architects. I think it's worth the read, if only to hear that an architect can actually concern themselves with the well-being of their users vs the visual impact of their design.
In HM terms, are they guilty of over promising? Absolutely, but they were seeking a new paradigm, not just iterating to get to their next series of financing.
@jkimmel is 100% right: You don't need to be a direct party in a contract to be affected by it. Here's another example:

I buy a house at a higher-than-usual price for the area, expecting its value to increase because of some development that is occurring nearby—an automotive manufacturer has recently agreed to build a plant about 10 minutes away, creating around 2000 jobs in the area.

However, the deal still needs to be approved by the Feds. If I wait until the approval, the house might cost even more to buy and potentially make my investment unprofitable (or not profitable enough). But if the plant is not approved, my house will likely not gain enough in value and I will have paid too much.

To insure against the Feds not approving the plant, I can by a CDS against that risk. I will lose a small amount of profit in my eventual sale of the house to pay for the CDS, but will also prevent a large (profit) loss in the event that the plant is not approved.

Note: In this example, I do not have any direct interest in the (future) plant, or the auto manufacturer, and I obviously do not control the actions of Federal regulators. Nevertheless, I am exposed to risks (and benefits!) taken by them as a homeowner in the area, and a CDS can be used to insure against those risks at minimal cost.

Admittedly, this is fairly sophisticated for an individual homeowner, but this kind of thing is routine for financial professionals. CDS is a kind of insurance, and it's totally legitimate, even though you are usually not insuring something you have a direct interest in.
Actually the mechanism of homeopathy isn't know. Clinic results are differente from test with placebo
It's amazing what happens when a company starts to lose market share, isn't it?
Amherst College has thoroughly repudiated Lord Amherst (http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/boar...), and I have no desire to defend him.

Regardless of the name, Amherst College is very highly respected in the social sciences, which (collectively at least), are very much in favor of careful, thoughtful study of cultures not their own. It shows up in the top-twenty (often much higher) of nearly every ranking for which it is eligible.

That said, if that one fact is enough for you to disregard this professor's fifty-years of research, I don't think we can have a further discussion.

Good luck to you.
You're commenting in a thread that's advocating for the need to give people second chances, but you have a problem with a politician because they said something 22 years ago that you disagree with.

If you hold everyone to that standard you'll never be able to trust anything anyone says.
A driver could meet the truck at the freeway off-ramp to take over or supervise for the last few miles. Truck depots are already close to freeways, so depot-to-depot transfers could be completely unmanned.

A trucker's job would be to ride out to the edge of town and back again. Life would be like that of a UPS driver (though driving a big truck is real skill so it might command better pay). No more weeks away from home.
Cringed while reading. We've got to stop transcribing intuitions into universal laws if we want to claim the sapiens in homo sapiens.

Regardless of political stance, for any animal to require half its lifetime in effort to acquire a shelter, well that is retarded. And for some reason we consider ourselves more enlightened than our ancestors building functionally useless monoliths. At least the pyramids united the tribe or whatever.
It's hard for new accounts to engage in conversation when they're being flagged and downvoted.

that green account hadn't (when I looked) said anything worth downvoting, yet had been downvoted across most of their comments.

That's hostile and unwelcoming, and it's not surprising they've reacted as they have.
Hacking Life: Building a 57-codon organism
I said that I understood the language after reading K&R. The language is simple. Using it safely? Not so simple. I didn't claim that it was.

On the other hand, I learned BASIC on a TRS-80. Safe? Not with the POKE command being part of the language.
I could see that putting you in a place where encountering people misusing "Algol-like" to mean C-like, when trying to distinguish from something more like Algol, would be extra noticeable and annoying.

Likely you have just been lucky :)
good stuff, thank you
With 98% of truckers suddenly on the job market, you think trucker pay would rise?

The last-mile drivers aren't debugging robot trucks. In the worst case the robot truck just turns back into a regular truck. No new skills required for a trucker.