skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's a sensitive topic, but it would be so interesting if he could talk candidly about the co-founder relationship issues at Paypal, with PT and Max. His bio is very vague about it. Also, what he thinks a team with him, Peter and Max could have achieved together at Paypal had they worked together for 10 years on creating the bank of the modern era, instead of spliting up and exiting in a couple of years.
A friend of mine made a G-code interpreter for the Beaglebone. It opens up a circular buffer and passes commands to a small program running on the PRU: https://github.com/hzeller/beagleg
Security guys would love this. Multilanguage payloads.
This is very intriguing, I cannot help but wonder how this operation would have performed on something like Google Big Query. I know that it is highly unlikely that Facebook would ever load their data to the Google Cloud Platform, but it would be an interesting comparison.
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GitHub definitely needs to know about this due to their popularity and subsequent lowest-common-denominator status (which isn't a bad thing, just the truth); this sort of attack only requires a PhD in how to use the clipboard, and not any other particular knowledge or skillset.
There's no chinese firm. It's chinese students with OPT visas who needed sponsors to get into the H1B lottery and now they risk getting deported if they don't find another sponsor within 90 days (probably less since they used some of the clock to find this current position)
The Fedex courier in my area has been consistently bad for years and doesn't get fired. Two weeks ago: doesn't come, doesn't leave a notice, two days in a row, claiming he came, I had a to exchange some salty emails with customer service to get my package. Each time I had to use Fedex these last 3 years I've had to do this cycle.

On the other hand I have developped a "good relationship" with the UPS courier.
Pasted the wrong link for 8080: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
The translation is not good, so a "shorter" version:

1. If you publish your research work in a journal and the research work has been financed for at least 50% by public institutions, you can provide on the web for free your paper too (if the coauthors agree). You are allowed to put it online directly if the journal is a free/open access journal or after 6 to 12 months.

2. A publisher cannot prevent you to do that.

3. You cannot use these available papers to make money out of them with a service similar to a publisher "une activité d'édition à caractère commercial". Basically, to prevent competition with the original publisher. So, you cannot create a big website with both the papers and advertising.

If you are a company getting access to the paper through the university website or the website of the author, this is fine. Wikipedia could start collecting and make the papers available too.

Punishments will be set by a judge according to the French civil law on copyrights I suppose.
Nice UI and nicely formatted output.

Why does it return .zip that needs to be unpacked? To save bandwidth your could just use gzip 'Content-Encoding' end return the format requested by the user, which would be unpacked by the browser.

Returned file name is [documentcyborg.com].zip, it would be nicer if the domain of the requested document was used instead.
Germany calling in. ;-)

This is a big business stopper in Germany, too.

Health insurance is a must here and can easily add up to 500 Euro or sth. like that per month when you got a wife (not working full time) and children.

So getting ramen profitable is possibly much harder.
Looks awesome, the work on performance especially is much appreciated :D I would love to be able to get flame graphs on my spark cluster per node too - any ideas on how exactly FB does this?
...and got DMCAed [1]. At the very least the discussion itself is interesting for the inside infos, though.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016/2016-08-30-O...
That's a recipe for pure evil.
Are you sure you're asking the right questions? Someone clever once told me "If someone has the same idea, at least you know it was a good idea". How are you going to prove infringement? Many apps have a similar feel.

Move importantly, are you prepared and willing to go to court, knowing that justice (from your perspective) might not be served? It might be healthier to move on. You can still try and compete - not everybody likes Facebook and your app might be better. Just don't let it get to you, and if you can't, walk away.

I suspect you know most of these things on some level, and that this post was more to let of steam. I can only imagine how very frustrating this is. Good luck.
OCaml seems to be on an upswing in popularity/hype recently. As someone who's threading the waters in Clojure but not a fan of the JVM developer experience I'm curious why OCaml is a great choice.

I would love to hear some stories from people using it in production. I'm leaning towards wanting to use a LISP as it's just so elegant... but I feel that getting boggled down in "hard core" functional programming is a bit daunting and limiting.
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> I'm clearly not an expert in expertise - just look at the hubris and overconfidence dripping from this article!

The article meta-invalidates itself. :D
Sure. It's just that we can't make it more genuine or plausible by writing it that way because it's not true.
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Yes, but you know, France is within the EU, this means you have a precedent in the EU which is very good to have other countries within the EU joining the party. Once you have 3 big countries doing so, because papers have usually authors from many institutions around the EU, nearly all the papers will have a way to get freed. And this is good.
How much of that is avoidable though? You still have people zooming around in big metal/composite boxes. There's only so much that can be done, especially given the culture around cars.
Discounting the fact that the author's previous foray into writing was one of those "grand" books that everyone loves to read to make themselves feel they're smart, and which was actually laughed out the door by real historians (just look up /r/askhistorians), lets take the argument that the author makes on its own merit.

The argument goes something like this: Because we'll be able to deconstruct the human body/mind via Scientific Insights provided by Big Data, it will pose an "existential challenge" to our freedoms. The author uses the word "algorithm" liberally to describe any biochemical process that occur in the human body and thinks that that automatically means that human beings are somehow devoid of free will. [0]

What the author has forgotten about is that data has nothing to do with the fundamental of the problem at all. We have known for centuries that human biology is a thing and every decade has brought more insights about how it works. The fact that we fundamentally understand the composition of DNA didn't pose some big 'existential threat' to free will. Neither will Big Data.

It's the age old question about Consciousness in new dressing.

Frankly, I'm getting a bit tired of all these doomsday prophets, first the author who wrote the Singularity book and now this. I read the FT article based on this. It almost feels like a self-promotion. Say something controversial about a trendy topic (Big Data), make an ominous prediction, write blogs, get enough of a following, write a book, then write another one. Watch the $$ roll in.

Nothing to see here, move on.

[0] http://www.ft.com/content/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a2...
> 2. A publisher cannot prevent you to do that.

Not directly, but wouldn't it open up a box of issues where publishers make it harder for authors who distribute their papers for free to get published the next time around?
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That's fair. As the reader you can be the judge.

Advocacy is partly about inspiring others and I think this does that while presenting an accurate representation of what the farmer was able to accomplish.
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Not only LinkedIn, same goes for Glassdoor too. I have seen Glassdoor deleting 1-2 year old reviews after promising that employers can't change the behavior.

The difference lies in how to grow your business. LinkedIn and Glassdoor cannot ask employees to pay them for being fair but can ask employers to pay them for deleting/managing the image of the company.
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This isn't an important distinction to the research process up until a paper is accepted for publication, so perhaps asserting ownership of any eventual publications in the grant's terms is a minimally disruptive way to bring publications into the public domain. Already it's the case that researchers conduct research and agencies award grants with the intent that any useful or interesting results will be published, so I don't see any material changes happening in research itself if this "loophole" were closed.
Interesting. Do you know of any open source examples offhand?

I'd imagine this also requires very detailed knowledge of the chip, microcode, etc. Probably hard for x86 but I guess this kinda stuff would be on ARM where the programmer has deep vertical access (like as mentioned, Apple).
> There's also a definition of life more appropriate for sentient beings specifically, which I would argue just includes the conscious mind; for that, "brain dead" is "dead" for all practical purposes.

Inanimate objects, also rocks, can also have their life, but that's just a play of words. Also what you call "life" is more accurately described as simply "experience". It's confusing to use term "life" in this context while having two unrelated concepts in mind. A mind is experiencing world, it doesn't mean it's actually alive in a sense it's life processes are working.

What you call "life" for mind and consciousness is a metaphor that you are taking too literally.

Life - working biological processes. People abstract it out to just "working processes". Consciousness is a working process, therefore by applying abstract meaning of "life" you call it alive.

So as you see there's no argument whether mind is a process or not. There is also no argument that mind has to be made of working biological system. So your whole comment is just a confusion of two different processes both of which you call life.
I saw that when it was current, but posted this article because it paints such a different picture of the same book. In particular, the previous article glossed over Wolfe's attacking evolution, and omitted entirely that his book proposes to explain where language came from.
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That's like $70 you didn't need to spend. Hell of a convenience fee.

I've only recently hit power cord saturation, though.
Uh, given that you don't respect ocaml's memory model and force -safe-string, that's just not true. Any Obj.magic that is correct in OCaml is probably not going to be correct in bucklescript.

Did you actually tried to compile core ?
For zip file it is not just to save bandwidth, it is also to save disk space as we don't know yet how many user will use it, we preferred to be cautious but in the future you are right we can give straight the file once we know how much disk space will be needed to sustain it.
For the returned document name, this is up to discussion if a lot of user ask for it we will change it.
Thanks for using the apps and for your comment.
It was perfectly on-topic. The OP was appealing for assistance in extending the visas of immigrants who arguably never should have been granted those visas in the first place, which I pointed out.
There's actually a cortex-m3 core also hiding in the Beaglebone's chip, doing power management.

Regarding C vs asm, I started writing some 8mhz 4-bit capture code in C but found asm was easier to reason about timings. One line of code is 5ns, done. (apart from some memory access).
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If you want to use the OCaml ecosystem, use js_of_ocaml. It has much better compatibility and there is no perf difference.

In particular, js_of_ocaml works with both core_kernel and async_kernel.
I disagree. I moved form Perl to Python and disliked the whitespace to begin with. It does solve a couple of problems - it forces inexperienced coders to indent properly (I had one colleague who didn't when she used Perl). It also solves the missing brace problem when moving blocks of code around, which for me makes it worthwhile. It does make moving blocks around and commenting sections out a bit more effort, but way less effort than trying to work out where the brace has gone.
he probably saw the writing on the wall and had something in the works.
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Ask HN: How Do Karma Points Work?
Friends: I've been using HN for a number of years, and love it. But I'm perplexed by the karma system - specifically how points are added to a profile.

For instance, earlier this week I posted an article. I began with 411 Karma points and by the next day, I had 415. The article I submitted recorded 8 points with 9 comments. I used to think it was a 1:1 ratio for points (minus the point I get for submitting). I imagine there may have been a downvote or 2, but then I would expect the 8 points to be "net." Or perhaps downvotes have an outsized effect on Karma vs. an upvote. Does getting comments on articles affect the karma count?

Further, I've also noticed articles with more points in less time ranked below articles with less points in more time for front page rankings. I'm interested to understand this dynamic.

I understand there are lots of behind the scenes (proprietary) algorithms to prevent gaming the system, and that certain levels of karma achieved enable outsized influence. But a general overview that doesnt give away the secret sauce would be useful - you know, for Science.
Which r/askhistorians thread are you referring to? A quick search and only found one, not exactly a fisking of his work: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2w7ur9/is_sa...
There's been a fair amount of research, most recently at Goldsmiths University in London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/music-mind-brain/earworm-project/
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The business wasn't imaginary. The tech was real. The CTO and devs have been building since December 2015. He misrepresented the runway claiming to put in 2 million when he only had 400k to put in. That's why in the CTO's comment, he said he didn't understand what was the end game, why accelerate into a brick wall?

It made no sense why he hired so many people when he didn't have the money too.
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People gave you the part in favor of bucklescript, so I'll give you the other side of the story:

bucklescript doesn't respect the OCaml memory model and runtime semantics, which makes it incompatible with some part of the ecosystem.

Js_of_ocaml already has various features that bucklescript doesn't have: dynlink, support for concurrency libraries such as lwt and async, etc. It's also much more stable and battle-tested.
What is a "form software" ?

It looks like a chat client, nice UI.
You can store it gziped on your disks, just add 'Content-Encoding' and 'Content-Type' headers while returning it and remove .zip extension.
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Looks they are using the same library from Presto. You would just add the Java agent line to your Spark config i.e. spark.executor.extraJavaOptions.

https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/4004

Although you have to distribute the library across to all of the data nodes (if using YARN) or Spark nodes (if in standalone).
Yep, I was expecting something different.
That doesn't seem like a practical distinction. If eg. a grant is to "promote the progress of science" on some topic, then accepting that the research is communicated only on posters, in narrow circles, or orally would not seem to fulfill the purpose of the grant (compared to full, written publication, available for everyone to read).
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Nah, I was just kidding.
Unless there are similar events occurring during a lot of time, making those reindeers that prefer staying more separated and in lower areas have a significant advantage, and these preferences are hereditary...
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What this says is "software keyboards suck." That's the elephant in the room. "Better than utter crap" does not mean "wonderful." I do wonder how the SR test would stack up against a hardware keyboard - a device-sized one, and a full-scale one.

(Well of course on-screen keyboards suck: they're a skeuomorphic ugly hack that has been bolted onto a touchscreen. With a slideout hardware QWERTY keyboard on an Xperia Pro, I was typing slower than on a full-sized kb, but still several times faster than any onscreen input - predictive or not, swipe or not.)
See this tool live in action on my Raspberry Pi cluster right here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/docker-comes-to-raspberry-p...
It's a result of many unconscious decisions by your brain which aim for regeneration and conservation of energy mainly.

Even when those are not needed..., the brain isn't too clever about modern work-load.
You don't always get paid--a lot of programs require 2-3 semesters of TA duty, even if you don't need the funding.

That said, I found teaching to be pretty fun and helpful in solidifying my own understanding so it was helpful (but I'm sure the school also likes the free labor).
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That was pretty much THE thing that won my respect for the Ruby community.

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/thumbnail.pn...

That and the radiation-hardened quine:

https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

Prior to seeing those, I was kind of dismissive of Ruby, but seeing those totally changed my mindset about code, and my prevailing opinion of execution environments and interpretted languages and scripting in general.
There is nothing wrong to see actual people. What would you do with your free time gained from not doing "administrative" tasks like seeing the laundry / buy food?

1. Work more (for your boss)

2. Spend money on XYZ so that at the end of the month your account is cleared and you have to work more --> 1.
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It is really FedEx who organizes that, or the air controllers in Memphis dealing with pilots directly?
Maybe he didn't have a Mac, and the difference between the charger and shipping wasn't that big.
The thing is, people like you and me are not primary customers of Fedex. Corporate is where it's at - when I worked at an oil refinery in Scotland, engineers would request parts that had to be literally delivered ASAP, and refinery didn't think twice about paying a bill in thousands of pounds for overnight delivery of few parts from US.
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> I have some issues with this sort of doxxing.

Anyone who think this isn't doxxing go have a look at Twitter, Reddit and even some of HN on how some employees who had nothing to do with the fraud have been treated.

On what was basically a junior employee not being compatible with their boss.

Which adults know is definitely two sided when one person tells the story (and normal).
I was just reading about this little guy yesterday, in Linux User & Developer mag. I was planning on building an Arduino sunset/sunrise outside lights controller for my house (using lat/long and a bit of maths), but I think this fits the bill better.
Where's the notion that non-mac chargers are any cheaper from? Have you seen prices of genuine HP, Dell or Lenovo chargers? They are just as, if not more expensive than Apple chargers. Sure, you can buy a replacement charger from amazon for $20 but then you can't compare it to a genuine apple charger.
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It would maybe help if there was easy way to mark a word for fixing later.
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Most languages only tend to allow them in string literals, or identifiers. Java is fairly unique in that it has a pre-processor that replaces those throughout the source code before actually compiling. Which means that a lot of benign-looking source code can have fairly surprising behaviour, such as exhibited in the polyglot where

//\u000Afoo

actually cancels the line comment.
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https://blog.goeswhere.com/2010/04/java-cpp-polyglot/ here's an example of the same sort of thing but with C++/Java
And that's another issue. "Well of course speech recognition works* (mostly, kinda, in quiet environment, and in about 10 major languages). What, you want to speak your language? Go away - it's your own damn fault for not speaking English or Chinese like normal people do!" For most languages, this is a non-problem with a keyboard.
Original thread from 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761
From the FAQ:

How is a user's karma calculated?

Roughly, the number of upvotes on their stories and comments minus the number of downvotes. The numbers don't match up exactly, because some votes aren't counted to prevent abuse.

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Obviously, to stop people gaming the system, Dang & co don't really want to go into the specifics. I do recall some older posts and some blogs that have analysed it heavily though, so a bit of Googling may help you.

On a side note, I crossed the 500 karma points boundary yesterday, and I am relishing my new down-voting power! ;)
I've proposed new product ideas on both data and intuition. Sometimes it worked, sometimes I had to right it off to experience.

This is relevant to both new product development and just new features. Sometimes a new product is a good idea to a couple of your beta users but you may not get enough traction off the larger user base.
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algorithms are way better at controlling traffic than humans. what you're seeing is just the best so far
I believe Richard has those planned for another article, this is a series still in development :-)
I fully agree. That's why I've invested lots of work into my digital signage os (https://info-beamer.com/hosted): It's booting into a read-only squashfs that contains everything. The squashfs, kernel and PI firmware itself are on the read-only FAT partition. All data that is required as display content ends up on a second read/write partition. If there is any data corruption or similar problem, my system can fully restore that automatically. Here's a small blog post were I wrote about this: https://info-beamer.com/blog/building-a-reliable-raspberry-p.... So far the system has never had any problem from power loss or cutting power. Interesting hardware hack you linked there. I haven't seen that one before. Thanks.
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There's different kind of alignment, the one you get from breaking too long
line.

// some code
// ...
var some_call_result = some_object.a_method(with, quite_long, list_of,
parameters)

In the second line you get indent (up to `var' keyword level), and then
alignment. The former would be fine with tabs, but the latter must be spaces.

Unfortunately there's no editor that deals with tabs in this situation
correctly, which means spaces is the only way to go.
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For just the readability aspect, Stylish is an excellent alternative (with custom CSS).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...