skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a personal project to do just this (windows). When you have a huge monitor having multiple browser windows open is the way to travel.

Main reason for the project is because I want some automated page processing.

Be interested in hearing about any projects as well.
The olympic marathon swimming was indeed mean. In any case, it's up to the sports organisations to determine what the rules are and what the rules should be. I don't say it's wrong what we're doing in rowing. In fact, using a photofinish with a minimum resolution of 1/100th of a second is an easy and pragmatic solution.

But it's not necessarily the way things have to be forever. My main concern is that it pretends to offer a precise measurement of relative performance when in fact it cannot because we can't guarantee a similarly precise alignment at the start. Or at least the rules don't ask for it (accuracy of alignment + precision of its measurement is not prescribed in the in the FISA rules of racing).
There's more to it than that though. David Chalmers who formulated the Hard Problem does not believe that subjective experience can arise from physical processes. Really. He calls it the Hard Problem because he thinks it's distinct from the Easy Problem of explaining how physical processes can constitute a thinking being. We haven't solved either problem yet, but Chalmers is distinguishing between them before we know what the answer even looks like. It his position that you can solve one (the Easy Problem) but that won't and can't lead to a solution to the Hard Problem. I think it will.
Anecdotal but yes sometimes certainly it sucks -- I find it useful when I'm in a hurry, so I'll use Siri and say "Remind me to buy milk, toothpaste, red wire." Most of the time it works fine. Sometimes it cuts short and creates a reminder "Buy," or completely botches the words. I've been left standing clueless in the aisle as I'm trying to decipher what Siri should've heard. Especially true in my native language, Swedish.
Sums it up perfectly. I might steal that quote :-)
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That's probably not what you think. The beggars you saw in front of supermarkets were likely part of a criminal gang and had a handler collecting their money.

Should be pretty easy to investigate, arrest, deport them and forbid them to come back.
Maybe that's how the universe came into existence at all, is "breaking the law" of conservation of energy? I'm not even arguing this, I'm just saying maybe we haven't been looking at things the right way or the proof will be obvious after we know about a new effect.
Without taking a side in the discussion, we should make a distinction between the research and the subsequent paper. The government funding is for the research. Scholarly papers are created for publication, not to meet the requirements of the research funding.
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Honestly,

I think Aaronson is clearly and transparently correct about Church-Turing and higher types. Computation on higher types is just a higher-order construct having no more to do with computation as we understand it than other higher order constructs like Hilbert Spaces.
Hmm, my account appears on HIBP, but Dropbox haven't asked me to change my password on login... Who to believe? (probably not Dropbox)
Regarding (1), can you give a compelling higher-order example for which Church-Turing fails?

On Scott's blog Neel talked about functions '(unit -> bool) -> (unit -> bool) -> bool', but this example seems spurious. He asserted that Turing Machines could receive the arguments Godel encoded but the Lambda Calculus couldn't. I don't see why. If you also let the Lambda Calculus receive its arguments Godel encoded then it can inspect them and perform the same dovetailing that the Turing Machine would.

Do you know of a more compelling example?
Same experience here: I did my PhD in France at a good research institute (CEA Saclay). The supervision was great as I was one of only three PhD students in a group of ten permanent researchers, so I could work with my supervisors every day. There was also a strong focus to keep within the three-year schedule, and a lot of opportunities to visit conferences and the like.

In addition, a PhD is highly valued by companies in Germany (where I live now), so your higher starting salary usually makes up for the low income during your PhD.

That said, doing a PhD for financial reasons is usually a bad idea. For me, a much better reason is that you can work on a deep (and interesting) problem for 3-5 years, becoming an expert in a given topic and training your gumption, which will help you to tackle difficult problems later in your life, even in unrelated fields. Compared to research work, most projects that you can do in industry are rather boring in comparison (there are exceptions of course). So, if you do a PhD, do it out of curiosity and not because of the title or the hope to make more money later.
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30 years ago he was "the Amiga guy".
Every big bank will also help you if you're about to put millions in an account with them. And some random "get-togethers" aren't really a big deal and not something I'm looking for from a bank.

What does "supported" even mean? What does SVB really do for you that another major bank couldn't? In contrast, they have less branches and ATMs, fewer business hours, weaker credit card offerings, more fees, and an utterly crap web interface.
Startups, especially tech startups, move power from capital to labor through sweat equity, so in a way you can see them as anti-capitalist.

Also, I imagine as a non-founder I am in the majority here.
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The biggest problem in rowing is that you look towards the back that you can't possibly know exactly when you'll cross the finish line. And you're so tunnelled after even 200m of racing (very narrow field of vision, due to unbelievable exhaustion + pain, with the nagging though of 1800m still to go...) that you can't count the buoys either to make out the distance to the finish line. For most of the races I had in my active career, I can barely remember the final 500m of a race. You're just concentrating on every single stroke and trying to squeeze the maximum out of your body. Trying to "rush" to finish line is absolutely impossible.
Do you think that's really true or do you tend to mainly interact with your smarter friends? This may give you a skewed understanding of how your less gifted friends might feel.

My closer, "gifted" friends are in tech or finance and we interact more often. My less gifted friends, I see less often and I mostly interact with them via Facebook and the likes.

This makes it seem like my smarter friends are more reflective and thus less satisfied with their lives whereas my less gifted friends seem to only have fun.

Just food for thought.
> SF goes further than any city I've seen to provide services to the homeless.

Maybe? It's difficult to track the money. Per capita SF doesn't even have the highest amount of homeless and yet you rarely see them on the streets in NYC and other major cities (and it's not because they're all in jail; NYC spent over a $1 billion in 2014 on homeless services and shelters and recently NY state started a $10 billion initiative to help the homeless). I wish SF did a better job tracking where the funds go and how effective they are being spent.

> a city that likely ships them here

This is a bit of a myth. In a 2015 report [1] only 10% of the homeless in SF came from another state. 71% of the homeless lived in SF itself and then became homeless.

> "takes care of it" so you don't see it

NYC has over 200 shelters. Many of the shelters in SF have waiting lists of several hundred people to the point where they have to live in tents which can be pretty dangerous in and of itself. Granted not all of the shelters are like that but many are and when you can't even stay in a shelter it doesn't really give them a lot of choice.

> The poor will always be with us, and we are judged by how we treat them.

I agree! It's far safer to have them off of the streets in many respects by providing affordable housing, temporary housing and even shelters. SF just doesn't have enough of that to go around for the homeless. I would love to see them expand their shelter services to provide more places for them to stay. But that certainly doesn't mean I want someone to "take care of it" so I "don't see it".

I think your comment came off a bit crass by assuming parent wanted to not see them and calling them naive.

[1] https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran...
Lol, that was my initial thought too. Also, I obviously once had an account on vBulletin.
Dropbox discontinues rendering of HTML content
This is an email Dropbox sent to users today:

"
We’re writing to let you know that we’ll be discontinuing the ability to render HTML content in-browser via shared links or Public Folder. If you're using Dropbox shared links to host HTML files for a website, the content will no longer display in-browser.

Please note that this change will take effect for your account on October 3, 2016, and only impacts how shared files are displayed on the web. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.

Thanks for being a loyal Dropbox user.

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Oh yes, please make the docker binary also contain an http server (oops, it has one) serving http webpages with websockets and shit. Why stop at containing container libraries, a certificate authority, a raft / consensus / key-value store thingy, leader election, parallel file downloading, signing and verification, a copy of nsenter, a tcp and udp proxy, and a scheduler.

I'm pretty sure including 20 different things that barely work is the only way to make a low-level bit of software better than including 19 things that barely work.

Really though, this should not be built in to swarm. This should be an "addon" which can be deployed on top of swarm (as the Kubernetes dashboard is a totally normal pod you run on top of kubernetes).

I'm pretty sure swarm's security model right now doesn't allow exposing services behind tls client auth or such, so there's no reason to serve this and leak information to the general public.
A simple excel pivotchart on 10k-100k financial entries often works better than the best BI / MIS packages.

For most companies, all their data science fits in excel easily. Full transaction history with each individual item sold since founding the company? No problem. Every single visitor/page view on their website? I've seen such logs imported to excel to do some rough aggregation. Manufacturing data about each particular widget sub-part that ever went off your conveyor belt? Again, for many companies with hundreds of employees that would still fit in excel without issues.

There are so many companies who speak about big data while their largest datasets can fit into RAM of a cheap laptop. That doesn't mean that data science and analysis is worthless to them, quite contrary.
I don't understand why people say there is no way a non-Google engineer could do this. It's not rocket science... This farmer obviously has an engineering background, either as a job or a hobby.

The electronic/mechanical engineering of the sorter is actually much more demanding than training tensorflow on a custom data set - which is a fairly trivial task.

Anyway, cool work!
We have enough problems in creating programs. This is the equivalent of an instagram selfie or math geek with a favorite way to generate a pattern of numbers, where someone is trying to be overly clever just to say "look it's clever"...it's just noise.
I would disagree. If someone chooses to choose getting high over getting help, it's a failure of drug policy in that country. The government has still failed them, you may just be blind to how.

This is not the only way a country has to be.
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Your view is a bit rare these days. Nearly all my friends who started PhD's who've dropped out or quit early with a master's wasn't because they didn't get this experience. They all loved doing the science, that's the fun part. It's just that as a young scientist it's so clear looking down at the end of the tunnel that the light keeps stretching further away. Grants, tenure, and politics are the new extracurriculars needed to show you're capable of being a scientist.

Being at a top research school probably helped, but the majority of grad students in this country are not at those types of homes.
Yes, but it goes a little further. I can't say my way is superior to yours if my way means solving a harder task and paying market price for it.

I got the leather seats because I chose to pay full price for them. That they come as a standard option with the car because the car is more expensive is not an argument. You can choose to pay the same difference in price and have them installed in your car, too.

Whether those leather seats matter or not is no longer an objective question but a question of values, and here is where caring about completely different values is the point.
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You're in luck. TeX is written in literate style, and its documentation/source is available here: http://brokestream.com/tex-web.html

You can also read Knuths description of the Web system he under to write the code here: http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf
Thank you very much for the answer!
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I just tried this in Android Studio, Eclipse, Emacs, Gedit, Nano, Vim and all of them get this wrong.

I feel the sudden urge to test every Java syntax highlighter in use and file lots of issues.
Yes, my experience is the same setting up kubernetes seeems hard.
Thanks for sharing your view.
Baidu gets approval to test self-driving cars in California
You rewrote your comment in such a deceptive way that I've banned your account.

I've also killed this pointless subthread.
You can get it for your PC too https://www.google.co.jp/ime/furikku/. Very good for coding.
No, he doesn't. In the type view, the computation is asked to do two things: compute the output and check a proof that the output belongs to a set. Each of these questions has its own computational complexity. You may say that the first question comes from free by deciding how to think of the apple; the second certainly doesn't.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403508
What do they mean by "...cannot be commercially exploited?" Would a for-profit corporation be violating copyright just by viewing it? What are the punishments for "commercial exploit[ation]"?
There's an easy way to tell if you're talking to an expert or a faker
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> zero for the machine models

That's absolutely not true. It takes non-zero effort to determine whether the code for a Turing machine actually implements a valid Turing machine.
> How would you feed trees to the computation

Um, well the computation (can be set up to) proceeed(s) on algebraic datatypes, so this seems trivially easy.
Thanks for sharing— I was hooked after that insane 30 second intro. Having people play themselves definitely gives the recreations a certain charm.
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Despite the unclear wording, the intention here is clearly to protect the commercial publisher who is otherwise being harmed by this law (the author usually gives some exclusive distribution rights to the publisher and this law changes that by declaring this exclusivity void and mandating open access, perhaps via a parallel publishing channel).
Actually it's a bit more like 42.
> Computations consume and produce strings.

Really? What's so special about strings? Perhaps I want computations to consume and produce trees. It seems like you've picked an arbitrary setting for computation and said "Look! My constructions which are naturally suited to this setting are naturally suited to this setting!".
"I fully expect Amazon to build out a logistics supply
chain that others can use. Over the next five years? I
doubt it. Over 10 or 15 years? Oh yeah."

From this speculation arguing that Amazon will "kill FedEx" is just nuts, IMHO. But printing nutty things is part of journalism, so enjoy the ride.
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I think the most popular tool is Slack but I highly doubt its capability to scale for a team of more than 100 people.

What is the solution that you use? What are the problems that you face with current tools?
I am not so sure, I've seen examples of Rust code where I had no idea what was going on, the syntax is heavy (e.g. sigils), it's encouraging functional idioms and introduces several concepts in addition to C++ besides ownership. I don't have time to list them, anyone can find what they are.

How many C or C++ programmers will understand this: (1..n + 1).fold(1, |accum, x| accum * x)?

Anyway, I am just offering my opinion as someone doing mostly C++ programming. I have no problem with a language like Swift or Go, but feel that Rust is too complicated for what it offers.

Taking a pointer into containers refers to &p.second. We now have a pointer to an iterator's member variable. That is unreasonable.

The reasonable thing would be to use an interator to keep track of the selected item, this is what they are designed for.
oh please do.
"Lived in SF before becoming homeless" is self-reported in a survey of people who do not want the city to start sending them elsewhere, and "lived on a friend's couch" technically counts but shouldn't. What we want to know is whether they were ever able to support themselves here, and only 30% of them owned or rented.
Guess the encryption key? That shouldn't be possible, even if you use something as terrible as ECB.
I remember getting a course years ago. and they said that scientific studies "with guys with clipboards" as they put it found that 6 spaces was the optimal width for readability. Not that I have ever seen anyone use that.
I put in all my interests (and current meetup groups) and Brisbane was in the top 10 list. The funny thing is I moved FROM Brisbane to Sydney (for better jobs)
i think the purpose of government funding is both for research and a public communication of its effects. is it not the effects (a carefully designed text / 'publication') we should share with the stakeholders? a public mandate is a reasonable strategy for sustaining quality research, in contrast to a money wall filter system.
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The early auto industry? They'll likely think we're crazy looking at our current auto industry. Who doesn't know anyone who was killed or seriously injured in a car crash?
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That would be unpractical. You already cannot copyright the ideas (the research). You can patent it, but the issue addressed here is specifically copyright.

The thing is, for the last hundred years or so, publications have been the communication channel about research, so the two are often conflated (for the most part) - most importantly in science evaluation, which is where the money comes from, so research without publishing is not incentivized at all.
>Japanese agriculture is notoriously unproductive compared to other countries' yields

As an aside, my dad swore the produce was notedly better than what we have locally when he was travelling there. He on multiple occasions also discussed their dedication to quality.

Maybe they're onto something given this related discussion was on HN earlier this year...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10997485
Hello everyone,

AKASHA founder here.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, happy to answer your questions!
Output is the same, though this and knitr are produced by a plain text file rather than in an interactive notebook in your browser.
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You are aware they have television, newspapers, books, and, yes, even in some cases cell phones in prison, aren't you?
Agree the professor track is tough but a PhD is a great idea even if you don't want to be a professor. It's just a unique experience that both gets you deep in a specific area of science and teaches you how to conduct open-ended research in general.
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Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
In EU it's called a Blue Card.
I am aware that using buckets the way you have described works fine for the cuckoo hashing collision resolution technique. But it would not help to ensure the same kind of locality of memory references as you would get using the linear probing.

I do not know what exactly the commenter meant by suggesting to use buckets. I assumed (as the conversation is predominantly about the locality of memory references) that they suggested to use buckets in order to avoid two (or more) cache misses. And I just pointed out that it would be a bad trade-off, because then the cuckoo algorithm would only operate within a bucket and the expected load factors would be low.
They have the AWS Marketplace https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

That along your lines?
Pretty disappointing that it relies so much on comments.

You can write an arbitrary 'polyglot' program in any N languages that have incompatible comment delimiters: just write the same program in each language and wrap it in the comment delimiters of the other N-1 programs. That's not interesting, though.
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I actually find that one much more boring. It's basically a nested string.
There are now actually open source decompressors[0] for Oodle formats, and yes, many use rANS. Especially LZNA's clever use of SSE2 to decode and update 16 symbol models is interesting. FSE (which is tANS) is a different beast, though, and more suitable for rarely updated models.

[0] http://encode.ru/threads/2577-Open-source-Kraken-Mermaid-Sel...
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Hello Aaron,

First of all thank you for taking the time to check out our project! Indeed the website feels a bit outdated atm as it was designed for the project announcement[1] and alpha signup, but we will change our website when we enter the alpha phase (Oct/Nov most likely).

We progressed quite a bit since the website release/announcement and we are now weeks away from sending pre-alpha invitations to the people who have signed up on our website.

The challenge you are pointing with regards to quadratic voting and proof of identity is indeed an interesting one and difficult to solve. Fortunately there are many bright minds in the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond who are working on this specific issue.

For us, especially in the pre-alpha/alpha stage, the quadratic voting is mainly used to support the authors with ETH for their contributions with minimal cognitive effort for the supporter - in a couple of clicks you could send anything from 1 cent to $1 for example.

There could be weird side effects such as a sea of alt ids created with the purpose of trolling, but it is worth mentioning that there are some costs associated with broadcasting these new identities on the blockchain so in some sense "trolling" will involve money.

That alone should discourage trolling to some extent, but again without real data and real people using the system this is just a theory. We will know more once the dapp is out in the wild :)

[1] - http://blog.akasha.world/2016/05/03/unveiling-akasha/