skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook explained that the new, non-human Trending module is
personalized "based on a number of factors, including Pages you’ve
liked, your location (e.g., home state sports news), the previous
trending topics with which you’ve interacted, and what is trending
across Facebook overall."

I don't understand how putting their users in an algorithmic echo chamber is a good idea (not to suggest manually curated the trending news was good either). There is already enough distortion of the world caused by whatever flavors of nonsense are popular among a user's set of friends. Why add more?
Reading your comment and looking at the proposed solutions, it made me think of an interesting browser plugin, and wonder how it could affect this issue, or if it could even potentially solve it to a certain degree.

Wasavi. It's a plugin to emulate a small vim-like window on top of text-fields. You just Ctrl+Enter and it opens up, and when you save it (like vim with :wq or ZZ) it populates the field beneath it. It's quite interesting. I wonder if taking this approach to the extreme wouldn't make a difference? If all text fields were abstracted from the website and then the text sent in one stream, for all users.

I unfortunately do not possess the knowledge to understand if this is plausible or absurd, but wanted to at least discuss it publicly.

Edit:
Wasavi on Github: https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi

This behavior does also exist for those accustomed to Vimperator, Pentadactyl or It's All Text plugins, but opening your default editor outside of the browser.

Edit 2: Wasavi supports many text input fields (including passwords), and can be configured to be enabled automatically on field focus.
> it's all the same to the underlying engine

So what you're saying is that as long as I have a PCRE library linked into my brain, there's no problem. Gotcha.
> I guess I made more assumptions about the limitations than there were in the description of the problem.

This accounts for some high percentage of the failures in figuring out brain teasers :)
Maybe they should emphasize that it's merely a trending topic, like hashtags on Twitter. In some (well, many) cases, cutting a topic because it appears to be fake only fans the flame that there's a coverup of purportedly real news (because why would they bother to cover it up, as that logic goes).
But where is the notable negative impact to those two people's lives?

I ain't denying that he was being a goober to them, but "at their expense" implies its at their expense

I don't see how it goes further than, them getting to the next worker at the airport, saying "UGH, your PR on twitter sucks!", and then being told "maam/sir, that is not our twitter account"
"Maquette is a virtual DOM implementation that excels in speed." Waiting for some data to back that claim.
The various precursor institutions to the EU go back to 1952.
Good point. With PEG, YACC/LEX clones, and tutorials online, it's not to hard to get a functional (if primitive) Real Parser nowadays.
This is my favorite thing I've read on HN so far this year. I loved his pictures (especially of the plains) and the descriptions. I probably enjoyed those pictures more than highly edited photos taken on a full-frame DSLR.

I hope it works out for him. The main thing I would miss would be having a companion and pets. Not sure I could do without those right now. He's in an excellent time and place for this.
There's a startup solving this! https://sourcegraph.com
It's not wrong to notice how unfair it all is. I've seen several sides of it. But in terms of "what do I do about it," self-flagellation is probably not correct.

My answer has become: Attempt to set some business idea of your own in motion. That doesn't mean that you are going to be good or motivated at business or have any worthwhile plans, of course. That is the curse of being in that position, and a lot of people do run away from such a responsibility. But it's a concrete way in which you can make things less broken - build people's careers, sell useful products or services, market new ideas, etc. It makes me feel OK with myself.

And most crucially, it really doesn't have to be a brave "save the world with VC backing" plan - it can be a totally selfish idea like "a cool gadget for me and my friends", accomplished by employing a handful of contractors for a few months part-time. The saving comes in via the attention to social responsibility you take in implementing it - whom you employ, how you employ them, adapting the product to a marketing strategy, what manufacturing processes you use, etc. All of that creates an atmosphere around the business, and the atmosphere itself changes the way in which the world works. The final product is just one tiny part of it.
The Producers will always be one of my all-time favorite movies. Gene Wilder was a fantastic actor.
End goal is to merge with the AGI. AR gets people acclimated with human machine symbiosis as an optimal way to live.
>> "I thought the idea was genius. Not for me, I said, but genius."

Always find it interesting when people say this to me. I mean you can see the awe in their eyes, the longing to "just do it" - and then, reality settles back in and the resign to living the same life over and over until the end of time.
> We're not replacing coal power stations. It isn't an "upgrade" away. Our energy demand is increasing so any new stations supplement rather than replace existing power stations.

Ontario, Canada (where I live) shut down its last coal plant in 2014 and our nighttime electricity costs US$0.0669 per kWh.

We did it by not being irrational wimps about Nuclear.

http://www.energy.gov.on.ca/en/ontarios-electricity-system/c...

https://www.cns-snc.ca/media/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelect...
There was one death in Monkey Island. When Guybrush first talks to the pirates in the Scumm bar they ask if he has any special skills and he proudly tells them he can hold his breath for ten minutes. Much later in the game he finds himself underwater, if you let him idle he proves it.

I never found any other ways to kill him, but I certainly tried.
And in fact, some data structures that scale poorly will perform better on small sets of data.

For example, a simple list of pairs with linear lookup time can be faster than a hash table for small amounts of data, because it doesn't have to compute the hash.
I wouldn't expect anything really big to happen for a while.
Hopefully they can expand this to include drop down boxes, buttons, text inputs, etc. Imagine... a fully programmable user interface that works on graphics.
> Maybe the right level of governance is the one people choose from themselves instead of the one into which they were born.

I may be being overly facile, but "I consent to the government that I choose" sounds almost exactly like "I do not consent to being governed" to me. (Perhaps you mean that one gets to make such a choice once, rather than at will and repeatedly; but then when should such a choice be made?)
This might help illustrate:

http://forum.sqlitestudio.pl/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=334

That post is by the lead developer of a SQLite project competing with the one I'm involved in. The original version was developed in Tcl/Tk, and outgrew it.

Note - I'm not personally familiar with Tck/Tk, I just remembered reading this when you mentioned it. :)
Shaka, and the walls fell.

It looks like the rats are fleeing the ship:

https://medium.com/@dtunkelang/lesson-learned-ab0dc6723b8c#....
reminds me of this:

http://reddit.com/r/startups/comments/3m3lp6/failed_startup_...
I wish I could easily cast from Firefox or another privacy-respecting browser
If the interiors of said cars were built like Honda Elements, Toyota FJ Cruisers, or police-spec Chargers, why not? Any crap that passengers leave can be hosed out.
> using an array and doing a linear search will be faster than a hashmap lookup

For small enough sets of data, this will likely be true, simply because you don't have to compute a hash.

Of course, it likely won't scale very well.
Couple of reasons:

- the T6 is smaller than the Sprinter.

- OEM. You'd need to go aftermarker for a pop-top. And as as awesome as it is to DIY, not everyone has the time/skills for a conversion.

- Volkswagen cult appeal. You can't deny there's a demand for older T2/T3s and Westies. They released the Beetle for nostalgia, they can do the same for the T6.
That's classic, how had I missed that. And it's pretty old, doesn't even feature cool new DOM APIs like the Selectors API (ie, `document.querySelector`). Which allows the exact same syntax as jQuery (although it obviously returns a DOM element instead of a jQuery object).
EDIT: Yes :-)
I've heard this claim many times before, including about other actual tech hubs (Austin, Portland, ...). None of them have panned out to be true.
World’s largest conference for female engineers coming to Philly
Banks suck at APIs (even if one exists). If you are trying to move money between bank accounts, you can checkout https://checkbook.io, they have a white label, token based API to create bank transactions.
> Science doesn't say anything about the existence or lack of existence of consciousness, your intuitions about the future progress of science do. Don't you see the difference?

I didn't say science said anything about conscious. I said that there is zero scientific support for dualism, or anything like it. Those theories are incredibly unscientific. You are making very strong claims that have zero evidence.

But even if dualism is true, my larger point is correct, that we could study the "souls" if they interact with physical matter. We could learn exactly how they work, and perhaps build artificial ones from physical matter. And if they don't interact with our universe, then they are irrelevant to us.

This discussion started about quantum mysticism and whether science could ever explain consciousness. To assert something is "beyond science", even in principle, is ridiculous.
...You know, they could just limit monkey-patching, and drop call/cc and a few other features (not having call/cc opens a lot of options), and they'd have a dramatically easier system to work with, right?

When was the last time somebody used call/cc in ruby code, anyways? By current implementation, it's only useful for thought experiments and toys, and we have Scheme for that.

In short, deoptimization seems like a case of solving one of the sinister black tendrils of the problem, not the root cause.
If a bunch of ad-tech startups fail, won't this drive more business towards google?

Perhaps it will bring down the inflated costs for online advertising to counter this.
One of my favorite conversions is this two-story camper built by Japanese students:

http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~gyo/English/index.htm
To be fair, one of the CEOs was staunchly in the middle class ($55K/yr).
Iran rolls out domestic internet
My favorite scene, and it's an absolute masterclass in comedic technique, is from Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex. The moment his Greek patient confesses: "Doctor, I'm in love with a sheep!" Without saying a single word, Wilder's expression goes from jesting to confusion to amusement to fright to intrigue and back again through the entire gamut of possible human response. He sputters and strains. It's all right there on his face! We feel the tortured struggle occurring within his mind, grasping for any semblance of assessing the situation and formulating the appropriate thing to say. It's truth is it's genius!
drone cars

I think you're onto something here, but I don't think it will be done at the scaling of 1-to-1 drone pilot per vehicle. If you look at the situations where "autopilot" and autonomous vehicles have failed, you can think of many of these events as systemic changes.

A car pulled over on a stretch of road which has no shoulder due to construction -- This is a systemic change on that stretch of road that applies to more than 1 car. The same even goes for a semi truck making a left turn across two-lanes of single direction highway traffic -- That is a momentary systemic change to that section of road.

My conclusion: I do think that remote supervision of "self-driving" cars will be important. But I don't think the supervision will be done on the scale of one pilot for a single car. Rather, I think such cars will uplink their sensor data to huge datacenters where huge computer systems will monitor the road network as a system. (Much as this drone system can monitor a whole Mexican city. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12374668)

This systemic monitoring system will then alert the autopilot computers of cars on the road to take exceptional actions, or perhaps even send an alert to the driver to take over for awhile. (So in the examples above, the system would tell cars to edge over in the lane to avoid the stalled car on the shoulderless road, or detect semi-trailers crossing the highway in front of a speeding car on autopilot.)
What will this will cost once it's out of beta? Do you have any plan to open source the codebase?
"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself." -Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein.
> washing machine, oven, and thermostat? ... No one would consider these "robots".

> clothes cleaning robot => washing machine; etc.

So do you think a washing machine is a robot?
Everything is going to be increasingly AI powered as using neutral nets to tackle problems is becoming easier, cheaper and faster - though quality data sources are still hard to come across.
>>socialist economy collapsing simply due to mass underemployment

The problem here is not underemployment. Underemployment is a situation where people want to work, but don't have jobs. The situation I mentioned systematically disincentivizes working making it very easy to get by life without work. The net situation is people feel they are entitled to free stuff without doing any work for it. And its always somebody else responsibility to provide for them, while they do nothing at all to contribute anything back.

>>Most socialist ex-economies collapsed primarily due to the effects of the end of the cold war.

Cold war was the perfect test of which country could retain their best. There were barely any incentives to stay in socialist countries. At any given point of time a minority was slogging till death to feed the remaining mouths in their countries. Why do think you so many people from countries like India(Largely still socialistic society) want to move to US?

Robbing Peter to feed Paul only works that long.

>>They were generally already devastated by WW2. It is by no means certain that a capitalist economy would have fared any better.

That's strange since none of the socialist economies did better even those which didn't participate in the world wars.

>>The fact of the matter is that there has never been a country-scale attempt at implementing a basic income.

Sorry, you say- since nothing like it with 100% match existed before we should discard cases with 99.99999% match.
Founder Sold His Startup for $575M in Cash and Gets to Keep Every Penny (2015)
If you're compiling the regex, there's no need to read it. Just understand the compiler. I'm not sure how what you've said related to my comment.
Sometimes it's actually completely all above-board. You buy the tool- but it's well-worn and has no packaging, because a hundred other people have bought & returned the same tool before you.

Autozone is one example, offering this service for things like bearing presses and radiator pressurizers and so forth. They don't make any money on the tool in this case; the play is, if you have access to <expensive special tool> you'll do the work yourself and buy parts & consumables from them.

BUT, you're totally right about the time & gas, and there's also the issue where you always discover you need tool X right after removing the engine.
It's mentioned in the second article in the series, not the linked article.
why not get a rv - pre made thing?
Why would you even need #3? You simply make them persona-non-grata, or make them believe they are the bad guys (and hey, bad guys always complain about being bad guys!)

#1 is entirely feasible. #2 is entirely possible as well - there are lots of revolving doors with defense contractors and the DoD... heck, just read through the Patraeus scandal [1]. This a 4-star General (Commander of CentCom), Director of CIA and was a likely presidential candidate - just read through the tawdry and incestuous relationships within the community, and wonder at how easy it'd be to simply bribe everyone with an offer they couldn't resist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

I posit this can be planned indefinitely. Once the hammer drops, yes countdown time is hours, but... take a look at the 2000 election results and the weeks it took to finally stop the clock on vote counting.
Very nice. I love tools that let me stay in the shell (not even just "in the terminal"). Down with captive user interfaces! :D
Good to see there's going to be more choice at a lower price in the near future.
"cat hair mustache" that bit is a classic. http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
They can also be recycled almost indefinitely.
> I think the point being made was, if you don't plan on selling something, does it matter what it's worth

Yes, it matters. There are a lot of intangible assets that are not sold (such as Goodwill), even those can be given quantifiable value
Ask HN: Who knows a founder of Teamreporterapp? I want to buy this project
Hey. I'm looking to chat with a founder of http://www.teamreporterapp.com.

A couple of months ago he shut down the project. I was a customer and really liked the solution. As i know his name is Luke Davis. There is a twitter account he owns @lukedvs.

I tried to send emails to two addresses, tried to chat through Twitter, but nothing.

Does anyone know how to find him? Thanks.
I don't see how constant direct contact with a computer is going to improve anyone's life. Seems deeply psychologically unhealthy.
Which country joined NATO due to tanks rolling through it?

It's intellectually dishonest to act like a country choosing to join an alliance is the same as a country being invaded and annexed. If that region wanted to become part of Russia, why did tanks have to do it? If it's defensible that Russia rolled tanks through a sovereign state, why did Russia deny it was them?

NATO arguably going against its word does not warrant a clear cut violation of state sovereignty.
I think that the point is that the lack of consequences of an action taken only once does not prove the lack of harmfulness of that action, rather than that Brexit (or any other action) definitely, absolutely is harmful (which I don't think anyone is yet in a position to say for sure).
I'm not aware that lithium batteries can be recycled at all?
Disney has used live action as a tool from early on, you can see this plain as day in Snow White's dancing scenes from 1937 because the movement feel awkward. And this is from animators with classical training who knew where the line needed to land on every frame.

Rotoscoping, tracing back each frame, is more what you will find in A-Ha's Take On Me music video, or Ralph Bakshi's film Fire and Ice. It is limited with poor line quality, and used primarily because the labor is cheap.
I like this guy's spirit an ingenuity, but his attitude is not much different from the Infowars bunker people. There's no room in his van for society. You can tell because he only built a bed for 1.

I'd rather live on a hippie commune than this.
Few months ago, I bought a Nexus 5x assuming that it will support Miracast (like Nexus 5 did). I was very disappointed to know that Google dropped support for Miracast. re-enabling Miracast support was just a matter of changing a line in a config file. However that required rooting the device.

Dropping support for standard protocols and forcing users to use their proprietary stuff? what happened to their corporate moto "Don't be evil".
Funny, you just listed acquisitions. The proper Sierra studio didn't make either of those.
It was up a couple of hours ago. Seems like they went full retard and nuked a lot of things, including their websites, tweets, etc.
> This assumes that (a) they need the money and/or (b) they could even do something they want to do with the money that they aren't already doing.

edit: I realized my response references a different comment I made. Sorry about that, I've modified it.

If there's nothing you could do with the money then I agree it makes no sense to spend time and energy raising. That doesn't seem to be the OPs position though, instead there seems to be a moral reason for not raising money. I'm not arguing that all startups must be nurtured by VCs, just that saying there's no conditions under which you'll accept money from a VC isn't a rational stance.
> the relevance.

Just re-stating the problem. People use fossil fuels to heat homes, but we don't generally consider passive heat gain.

China has a lot of fossil fuel use if you look at fossil fuels, but they are also a world leader in solar hot water heaters. They don't show up on most statistics, but people still enjoy the hot water. Further they cost less than 1/10th of what similar systems cost in the US and could dramatically reduce the need for home heating.
Is this dismissive of the anti-Brexit claim? (I can't really tell.) It seems to me that it doesn't really demonstrate anything; I could equally well say "the great thing about predicting Utopia is that you only have to be right once." All predictions, of good or of ill effects, will, or at least can, be (by the predictor) loudly trumpeted if right and ignored if wrong.
Today we have automation on a scale never before experienced. Ultimately we will need approximately 0% of our population to work. This is not a problem; its actually the goal. We are not there yet, but a BI is a step.
His quality of life has deteriorated. I'm sure he wouldn't feel that way if he were in better shape.

"For the past three months he has needed to bathed and spoon-fed, and is becoming increasingly frail"
> And I single out domestic abuse because unlike robbery or selling drugs, "stealing a loaf of bread to feed his hungry children" is a nonsensical excuse for beating one's wife (or spending one's money on drugs and tobacco)

Your fallacy is the same as of microeconomics: You try to explain human behavior with only one tool, rational maximization of return on investment.
"Canvas API" seems like a bad name for a new product. It immediately conflicts with well established https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API
FCC admits defeat in municipal broadband, won’t appeal court loss
There are three possible reasons for the quizzical look you get.

1) They misunderstood you to mean that you have no money and that you will run aground any minute. Whereas in reality you're fine for now.

2) What you got was a "first reaction" from someone caught up in money worshipping. People sometimes act contrary to their personal beliefs for the purposes of conversation.

3) You're making a horrible miscalculation and you're fated to be punished by unseen forces.
It is incredible how much we know about objects mind bogglingly far away and also how much we don't know and have yet to discover.
Accessing RAM sometimes costs extra log(N)
Why add more?

Same reason fast food sells. Exploitation of innate sensory pleasure. "I'm perfectly aligned with my friends and it feels great"
Yep I read Random Walk on Wall Street too, a while back. More recently I read a stack of books on quantitative investing strategies, which referenced a lot of academic work. Turns out quite a few academics don't really believe in the EMH anymore; it's just not holding up to historical evidence. There are all sorts of factors that can make markets less efficient.