skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing probably wouldn't be such a big deal if people didn't pay so much for something that's designed to be disposable and unrepairable.
Still my all-time favorite song in a musical: Pure Imagination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI
Sure, I know lots of the big boxes do, but I was imagining something in a downtown area accessible to a car-less urbanite
If you'll attend mass at a Gregorian monastery with the right acoustics, you'll wonder too. Recordings don't do it justice.
I think 'autonomous' is the more problematic term in the article because implies some kind of `intelligence`. AFAIU this `robot` doesn't do much to be considered intelligent in any way.
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Hi @naveen99.

We upload precompiled samples but time to time Google marks us as harmful when they aren't. Feel free to download the source code from https://github.com/nektra/. Visual Studio projects are provided too.
The business model for the creative industries is broken
Prompted by this comment, I went and looked up Conquests of Camelot. Turns out I missed about a third of the game. Always wondered why the ending was so unsatisfactory! If only I'd had internet access in 1992.
Strangely if I select text on this page and select copy then the page disappears.
Wow, that's tight!
I used to be really excited about new gadgets, but I'm totally unmoved by a slightly thinner phone that does roughly the same thing my old one did.

It isn't like 2000, where I would _need_ a new graphics card to play a new video game, or I could get an ipod and not have to haul around a backpack full of cd binders
That all depends on how you define "choice", surely.
Wilder combined with Mel Brooks... that's a high-water mark.

It's nearly criminal that he wouldn't make any more movies after Gilda died, but I admire the gesture.
> array of pointers to pointers to characters

Wouldn't that be char ***argv? (with three stars)
A four bit full adder built with dominoes
Yes, we are working on that. Basicly Google is giving that notice because the samples were not signed.

We don't plan to make an antivirus since we don't see a business there but some anti virus companies are using our products.
One thing I do to young people is show them things like "The Music Man" so they can't say they've never been exposed. They usually like it.
I find both Trello and Asana to be effective for personal projects. Each supports team environments to a degree but their core functionality is simple enough for a single person. (Frankly, I find both to be terribly under-featured, insufficiently structured task managers for a team of more than 2-3 people.)

A backup would be a nested bulleted list in some editor that supports a "strikethrough" text format.
I seem to remember reading somewhere recently that you can in fact quantize space in a hexagonal grid in a way consistent with quantum mechanics, but I can't find a link now.
Do you mean ExpressCard? I don't think I've seen a single laptop with an external PCIe slot.

Even so, neither ExpressCard or internal PCIe are used for generic, everyday connectivity (like projectors / external screens). Thunderbolt on Apple laptops is marketed to be used for those.
It's the underlying, intrinsic, emotional connection, rather than the extrinsic muscle movements.

On intrinsic goods:
http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/intrinsic.html

P.S. As a side irrelevant note, I think in the future, for the protection of humanity, any strong AI must be built with a desire for intrinsic goods.
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Hold up on my last line ^

Where do you get the soylent/electricity/housing/phone/internet from?

Are you proposing that the government fire up soylent plants, buy power plants, build, own and maintain housing and become a telecom provider?

Or is the government going to buy from private companies?
I have written about it all here (I maintain searchcode.com )
http://www.boyter.org/category/searchcode/ specifically http://www.boyter.org/2013/02/why-code-search-is-difficult/ is of note.

If you want to see implementations I suggest looking at https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
https://github.com/google/codesearch
and my own https://github.com/boyter/searchcode-server
Dr. Cohen! But I don't care about titles. Thanks for posting about it! Do you know a hacker news post launched the site in 2014? I was chatting about it at an event in Boston and someone posted it on here and it went crazy. The machines we had hosting data had their 20Mbps connections maxed out for weeks. Now we are prepared and it's just another day!

Here is one of the plots from 2014: https://i.imgur.com/Ecr44AZ.png
Well, sorta. I'm suggesting it's a stable pattern (like a standing wave) in some (maybe-)discretized field resulting as a natural consequence of simple locally applied rules. Its properties (mass/energy, charge etc) are fixed by the properties of the field.
here's a comparison of the LSM and Fractal trees.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/6/tokutek-white-paper...
Why isn't this available on Apple's US App Store?
That's a great alternative take.

I was seeing it as a conflict primarily because the world does not provide us with an infinite supply of resources or human capital. This pumping can therefore only work to the extent that it can generate some medium-long term real ROI. Otherwise you get an eventual deflationary collapse when waves of debt defaults occur because nothing anywhere is generating a return sufficient to maintain payments on your also-inflating asset prices. (See also: house prices vs. median income in major cities.)

The conflict, therefore, is being fought by major powers via their ability to generate real ROI. It's a game of chicken. The loser is the one who deflates first and gets purchased by the winners.

Cooperative behavior is not mutually exclusive with this hypothesis. It's in the best interest of individuals within all of these major super-states to hedge by investing in the others. Whether or not this overcomes the game of chicken aspect and leads to a win/win/win outcome depends on whether we can all -- collectively -- scale and grow or whether limits to growth are reached.
Of course context matters, and I fully understand that no country here is innocent, but it is important to gauge the severity of one action over another. In this case, the US is making allies with Russia's neighbors, and Russia is annexing another country. Do you agree that Russia's actions are much more severe than the US's? One could also argue that Russia's actions in this instance has sped up the exact thing they do not want (more countries joining NATO). What was the ideal outcome for Putin in Crimea? Ruin relationships with Ukraine and the US while scaring many bordering neighbors into joining NATO and/or building up their military? For what?

As for wanting Russia destroyed, why would I wish that on my home country? I love Russia and its culture and ~5 years ago I was excited to finally see the relations between Russia and the US finally maturing and opening up to one another. Putin's terrible decision in Crimea (among others) has ruined any chance of that happening anytime soon.
Another example of this is The Martian book. Well written, great story, and so full of foul language. What for?!
Huh, cool concept!
I am inviting foreign nationals in a nonimmigrant F-1 Post Completion OPT (EAD) status to meet in San Francisco and discuss their thoughts about the proposed rule.

I am drafting a response from a nonprofit research organization and H-1B cap-exempt employer perspective:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-discuss-proposed-rule-by-u...

or SMS text WHOMENTORSDOTCOM to 50500 to obtain my contact information.

This year, my organization endeavors to maintain a relationship with startup founders of a startup that would not otherwise be a qualifying institution to work part-time on-site at the non-profit research organization anywhere in the USA.
Believing "it's all traditional physics" has no basis, the only evidence from the past is that models keep getting overturned in counterintuitive directions, and current ones have been long at odds. Has the world raised a generation arrogant as to blindly accept we know it all, and trade away scientific inquiry for a little scientific rigour?

Science and philosophy are names for different phases of a same process for reaching understanding. Shouldn't we at this confused point in time go back to the drawing board of philoshophy before piling on hopes in search of a holy grail of superhuman intelligence? What does human intelligence even mean and how is it limited, what are the constraints applicable? How does the perceptive, probing imagination and profound insight of someone like Einstein or Tesla work? Can machine learning create a theoretical physicist? We don't know.
Thank you.

That's one that comes up a lot. The trick is knowing the difference between the two which I am still thinking about how to implement.

If you could email me at bboyte01@gmail.com that would be very helpful. It looks like most of these are down to just not having enough code indexed.

For the record I tend to crawl bitbucket/gitlab more often then github simply because they do not have a search and I want that code to be available. I have started a full refresh of everything though so hopefully your results should improve in a few weeks.
This is actually a very surprising statistic to me. I lived in LA and was not happy with the job offerings at all and moved back to the bay area where I'm originally from.

I'm also surprised that San Jose has 2x the concentration of software developers than San Francisco. Maybe its just because I have a startup bias and that seems to be the trend for startups. Very few startups in SJ compared to SF.
But it managed that without sentiment. Dahl had such a deft touch. the book is, of course, a top level masterpiece of children's fiction. It was unashamedly pointed about moral issues in a way no other children's books I've read are.

The irony is of course that Charlie never had the resources to develop the bad habits the other children had.
Firefox tells me: Secure Connection Failed

EDIT: No idea why it would redirect me to https. I only clicked the link like everyone else.
That's only true if they were ideal devices, but they are not.

I have not tried it myself, but from what I read if you leave two batteries connected in parallel for a while they will have less charge than if you had left them not connected to each other.

Batteries also don't discharge at identical rates, so each time you use them you will end up cross charging them, which wastes energy.
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GitHub usage spam
Hi, just curious if anyone else has received anything like this, but I received an email from a company today stating that they saw i had contributed to an open source project on Github and they currently have a product that i might be interested in. Its currently in open beta but clearly going to be a commercial product.

This really rubbed me up the wrong way they are going about it.
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Yes, probably one of the highest areas in the country.
the second "x264" in the title should be "x265", was very confusing to parse
For some reason, I thought it was:

char **argv[]

It isn't. I've been away from C too long. Fixed in GP.
tl;dr in the name of fairness, US campuses are run under a regime of fear in which men have lost many basic rights.

It is an object lesson for the software industry, where we see Codes of Conduct being pushed on projects and events. The US campus shows the end game.
An 8 hour work week is definitely something I can get behind.
Check out https://github.com/derhuerst/terminal-styles ! The description is a bit aggressive though.
> x265 outperforms libvpx for almost all resolutions and quality metrics, but the performance gap narrows (or even reverses) at 1080p.

It's not clear if this means libvpx is sometimes better than x265 at resolutions > 1080p or <= 1080p. I think the author intended "occasionally better when <= 1080p"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385232
I believe these cases should be judged on case by case basis. If the entity acts in bad faith I think it's fair to held it accountable. The laws should not be treated as a compiler. If you make billions profit in a country and pay no tax I think it's fair to assume that you acted in bad faith.
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That would be a categorical error as Talia did not leave Yelp.
the commute to the middle bay area is a lot better from SJ than from SF.
I read it as "at 1080p they become equal or libvpx is better"
Stop hunting unicorns
> https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics

Yikes. Please no.

Don't get me wrong. I like /r/nootropics, and I'm glad it exists. I think it's neat that people are willing to risk frying their brain looking for cognitive enhancers, and sometimes I wish I was as cool as gwern and willing to do blind LSD experiments on myself. Very cyberpunk. But telling people with serious conditions to go there for medical advice is dangerous and irresponsible. If you have depression or anxiety, please see a professional.
Reminds me of gitx (a good thing!) :)

Is there a way to only view commits that belong in the current branch (like git log)?
The commits from the other branches are distracting when you're trying to read the history of a particular branch.
Logging, mining, and agricultural activities is hardly an exhaustive list of economic activity. It is also strange to think about what people should do with land they don't control. Or even to assume that natural resources are the only resource of importance.

Connecticut has 3.6 million people, Wyoming has roughly 0.6 million people.
6.2% of Connecticut's 5543^2 miles of land is public
56% of Wyoming's 97818^2 miles of land is public.

So Wyoming has about 8 times as much private land as Connecticut and about 1/6th the number of people.

I realize that there is a lot more involved than just land, but it looks like in the aggregate, there is about 50 times as much private land in Wyoming per person than in Connecticut.

It is easy to poke holes in my analysis, but I'd be surprised if scarcity of land is the roadblock to a healthy economy in Wyoming.

I'm also not trying to take an opinion on whether the federal government should hold all that land, just pointing out that there is a lot of land in Wyoming on a per-capita basis.
The Web is bad and getting worst, not better. I still don't understand why browsers became operating systems.
Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway
What does a judgement like this add to the discussion? Are you trying to shame people who know less than you?
Now I wonder what would happen to our time complexities if we were near a black hole...
Ahhh PHP, where `assert()` `eval()`s strings passed to it.
It's not secure, it's http...
Is it me or this home page doesn't say much?

Ant what on earth is this "Xv modular site generator"?
That might be because a larger share of the moon shots are in SV.
Some of these are poorly worded:

* Kleptopia is ambiguous about what gets stolen, and what toplogy the boxes/padlocks must have for the solution.

* The "clever" solution to Unwanted Expansion isn't a complete proof, unless you add some complicated reasoning or use the non-clever proof, but if you do that, you don't need the "clever" proof at all.

* The Wimbledon puzzle doesn't explain the scoring rules of tennis :(
You, sir, win the "Educated Guess of the Day" award ('81 California-spec Vanagon Westfalia). Though we're content with the air-cooled 2.0L for what it is, the 50-odd horsepower diesel would have me seriously deciding whether I'd be doing the engine conversion myself or letting the shop do it. If I see a VW going up Snoqualmie Pass more slowly than we are, I'll be sure to wave as we go past. :-)
Does }__ appear in your logs? All versions of all branches of Joomla prior to I think 3.4.6 had a problem with serialization that allowed arbitrary PHP execution.
I'm not telling them to go there for medical advice (and I'm not sure how well these things work when it's clinical depression that's the problem), I'm saying that's another potential resource for information and anecdotes.

Also, I'm not suggesting one ignore a doctor's advice or take them out of the loop altogether. Rather, I'm presenting other options (that will likely help many) such that everyone can become more aware of other alternatives.
Brainfuck FTW
Depending on where you are, any job at $BIG_CORP is generally more stable than any startup I've worked for... at least outside SV. I've spent most of my life in the Phoenix area, and the job market for developers (outside late 2001 through mid 2002) has been very good, especially compared to cost of living. It's all been line of business work for the most part, and none of it too exciting. But it pays consistently. And does leave enough time to work on secondary projects.

I've never really seen the draw into the startup lottery, it just seems like a bad bet as an employee most of the time.
I applaud the idea of helping people with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and that cluster of symptoms and illnesses. We talk a lot about how it's prevalent, but we don't talk a lot about what to do about it.

That said, I don't agree with the advice of the original poster. Self-medicating, /especially/ when you're in the thick of depression, is dangerous; there really isn't a whole lot of data around with regards to either safety /or/ efficacy in patients with depression. It's important that you have a support system around you.

So the paragraph that's buried in the middle -- "discuss with whoever's relevant" -- I think is the crux of it. And beyond that, the most important thing is to begin. Talk to your primary care physician; if you don't trust them, talk to a close friend; find a referral to either a psychiatrist or a psychologist. There are forms of therapy these days that are grounded in evidence, and once you have a support system in place, you might well find that experimenting with pharmacological therapies that are outside the gamut of institutional medicine is something that you want to try.

But if you have pain every day, the most significant bit is that it doesn't have to be that way, and there are ways to treat it; and beyond that, there are tested ways, and it's probably worth going with those first, so that you have the highest probability of feeling better faster, with the lowest risk of feeling even worse or compounding your problems with other side effects.
Numbered Hats: Are the guesses secret?

Colored Hats:

The first one makes a sacrifice and says the color of the next hat. He has a 0.5 chance. The next person thus has a chance of 1. The third has to make a sacrifice again. Naively that is an average 0.75 chance over all. An exact calculation is too complicated for my taste.
Unless you're the first owner of the house, you probably don't even have meaningful engineering drawings for it. And even if you did, they are not what you care about. (Well, it'd be nice to have some documentation about the wiring, plumbing, which walls are load bearing, etc. but that's another rant.)

What you care about as a homeowner is that your house is solid, watertight, safe to live in, acceptable to look at, and meets your needs as a tenant. Whether your builder designed it down to the last tack and cable-tie in SolidWorks, or sketched it on a napkin, or made it up as they went along, makes no difference to you as the homeowner.

Quality of process is only ever a proxy for quality of results.
Obviously if code works it doesn't matter what it looks like to users, but the whole point of code design is making code easier for programmers to work with and maintain so that it stays working for users. Writing and maintaining Google scale software without design principles would be a nightmare.
Because they have client facing products and backward compatibility is important to clients.
At the same time, Penny is not the brightest bulb in the world. I don't see what she gains from exposing the company. The downside is huge from the potential lawsuits and virility of the post unless she plans to somehow monetize the audience. I guess she could start a gofundme to pay for legal fees
There's a bunch of short funds you can buy into. A buddy has an unlisted one set up and they are waiting out the next 12-24 months waiting for an Asian market crash. It's quite interesting to hear how they set up the strategy of what companies/industries they have focused on.

A quick Googlefu brought up this article. No idea if these funds are good but this kind of things is a Good investment point if you want to bet on a crash:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/090115/top-5-...
It's a little more clear in the abstract. (At http://spie.org/OPO/conferencedetails/digital-image-processi...)

> x265 outperforms libvpx in most cases, but the performance gap narrows (or even reverses) at the higher resolutions.

So libvpx is sometimes better than x265 at resolutions > 1080p.
For small projects, I typically use a text file. Or a draft email left in my personal gmail.
It sounds as though they tested at only 3 discrete resolutions (none of which were > 1080p, btw), so I think it's a strict equality.
Any news from Daala?
quantization consistent with QM is tautology; issue is this can't be made consistient with GR. see raattgift's comment in thread.
Thomas Sowell: Abstract Immigrants in an Abstract World
Couldn't you try compiling OCaml or another language to Emacs lisp bytecode [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp#Source_code
LinkedIn I think?
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sorry for the late reply, i somehow didnt see this.

"I think that argument at best supports the claim that there might be some things that not (almost) everyone should know/should be able to do, but certainly not that programming specifically is amongst those"

true, good point.

"If not, what distinguishes programming from those that it should not be a skill that's taught to everyone?"

reading/writing are useful as they are important for conveying information. world news, stop signs, history, etc. Programming is useful, but I wouldnt call it a fundamental the same way reading, writing, math and history are. when people cant read or write, they can cause traffic accidents. They can vote foolishly(if they can find the polling place). People who cant do math will not understand their personal finances. People who dont know history will repeat it. I dont see society falling apart because people can't make their own apps.

Now for what its worth, I think it might be worthwhile to teach people some basic shell or python scripting, as that could make their jobs more pleasant by reducing the repetitive, boring work. But would we add a year of mandatory schooling? or would we cut something else? Because I do think those other subjects are necessary.

I just dont see why everyone should be a programmer, and I dont think I've ever heard a good reason, other than asserting that it's the future, and there is no other way.
> Ireland joined the European Economic Community which essentially became the EU

Forgot to finish this sentence:

"Ireland joined the European Economic Community which essentially became the EU back in 1973"