skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you too. I agree that as I get more jaded, I consider it more "work" than fun in C#, but at home when I get my webscraping/scripting jobs in Python or even my front end styling working, I still get the thrill of achieving. From what I've heard, even more jaded devs than myself enjoy it when the work they produce is going to their own/their future employee's own benefit than when they are working for someone else, underpaid.

Question for you: Is hiring good people refer to hiring good people, or hiring people who pass your exams and interviews?

I'm still recently out of college, but when I first joined a company, our interview questions were more along the lines of Palindrome/FizzBuzz and being able to write good, simple SQL queries. We found out relatively quickly if you were competent for the job, and if not, you were gone.

Now, even MVC/CRUD Apps are asking interviewees to complete Google coding interview questions such as "Implement a Binary Search Tree" - which most of us even just a few years out, have not done for quite a while.
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There's no reason to presume that.

It's not like conveying knowledge in the sense of information transfer (where by definition a student can't know more than their teacher -- without external help).

It's like teaching a skill.

In human terms, a person can get to play better piano than their piano teacher, better poker than the person who taught them poker etc.

As the "training set" she just gives the basic skills for the recognition. The algorithm could discover further patterns she can't see beyond what she knows (e.g. she knows just that greener ones are usually better, but the algorithm notices that greener and taller are usually also better), do the calculations much faster and consider many patterns while the woman does a more shallow examination, etc.
Both models are equally powerful in the things they compute in terms of the Church-Turing Thesis. The TOP view also has other consideration. My point in the article was not to settle the debate on Aaronson's blog but to show that language models and machine models are objectively and inherently so different from one another that comparing them in terms of programming concepts (like types) is meaningless.
I would pay $10 for something to block those email subscription popups.

$15 to block the ones that have the cutesy and smug "no thanks" messages like "no thanks, I don't enjoy money saving tips"
>appointed by people appointed by the public.

So they're not elected; they're hired by the someone who is hired by the people in congress with an 11% approval rating. Great.

>most ISPs are a monopoly

When this occurs, it is a result of shitty municipal government line leasing policies.
use slz ( http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/ )
for web traffic and non-beefy servers.
> Separately, optimizing for being able to pay out of pocket for a top tier nursing home seems like a strange life goal to me.

Being able to afford a comfortable life after I am literally too infirm to work is the vast majority of the reason I continue to want to earn money. I'd be really interested if you could persuade me that I am misguided on that!
Already extensively discussed in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
> If you want another "wtf, do we need this" service, check out TrashDay.co, saving us the indignity of taking out our own trash.

One more startup that makes the statement "assisted living for the young" that much more true about SF.
Came across this, Stallman announcing GNU. http://article.olduse.net/771@mit-eddie.UUCP
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That's a misleading statistic. No one votes on "congress as a whole", they vote for their individual representatives. And individual representatives typically have a high approval rating (and are frequently voted out when it falls).
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You could, but you'd need to spend even more effort before beginning interpretation to turn the number into a form that LC can interpret.
I'm a founder at Wefunder, and I'm happy to answer any questions about Regulation Crowdfunding.

We recently closed $1m each for three different companies. Here are our stats: https://wefunder.com/stats
What New York are you in? I see multiple new high-rises each year in Manhattan, and continued gentrification/refurbishment pushing into the boroughs.

TFA is talking about so much new construction in Brooklyn that it might push prices down.
You're inadvertently falling into the slippery slope fallacy with a bit of a strawman mixed in. Nobody has said that "smooth, comfortable transportation" is a human right. Human rights cover the basic dignities required to function in society, which can change over time. Due to the ubiquity of the Internet, it is reasonable for neutral communications to become a human right.

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W.r.t. urban vs. rural communities and localized politics, those communities are less homogeneous than you seem to think. It's not terribly uncommon for people to find themselves trapped in a rural community when their personalities and values are more suited to an urban community, but they can't afford to move until they become adults and save up money, which may never happen.

There are floors of dignity below which no human should be allowed to fall, and allowing every rural community to set its own standards for human rights only makes sense if everyone in those communities has total freedom and means to leave, and total awareness of the other options available to them. Think of isolated, repressive fundamentalist or polygamist communities, for example (not that every fundamentalist or polygamist group is necessarily repressive, but it is certainly common).
Feigned or real but out of place moral disgrace is even more shameful.
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Oh, interesting. I remember reading an article [0] when it came out that mentioned that the integration was only visible on devices with Uber installed. Unless the parent was referring to a different ad?

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/06/google-maps-on-mobile-gets...
Yeah, and when I was over in Indonesia for a month a while back, I even had randos thinking I was an Aussie tourist and trying to sell me pills, weed, etc. on the street. Sorry buddy, but as much as I might love to roll up a spliff out on the beach this evening, I don't feel like either getting set up by some crooked scam where I end up having to give some cop all my money to let me go or, worse, end up in some prison for buying and possessing some cannabis or shitty E.

Needless to say, I stuck to the Bintang.
>That's the thing. In some languages, this mapping doesn't always exist.

The mapping exists, just not necessarily within the language; the CTT is orthogonal to practical difficulties of massaging the data into a usable input format. (e.g. how to convert a binary tree in to the TM's format and vice versa)

>The Church-Turing thesis says absolutely nothing about abstraction barriers your language might enforce, e.g., what you get if your language has parametric polymorphism ...

Those all speak to the issue of how difficult it is (for e.g. a human) to implement the function, not whether language/computation model can compute it at all.

>Compilation translates programs in a source language into semantically equivalent programs in the target language. Compilation doesn't guarantee that every target language program is expressible in the source language - in fact, this is often not the case.

If you have a computation for which no TM (or asm, C, etc program) exists that computes it, let us know! That would be real progress on the CTT towards a negative answer and a Fields Medal for whoever found it!
I may write something like you have described. It would use OpenCL rather than CUDA. Though I would like it to be scalable, the starting goal will be simplicity and ease of deployment on a range of devices.

Do you have any suggestions for the API?

If you wrote some simple code that would work if there was a functioning learning module, what would it look like (if you feel like contributing to this)?
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It is a philosophical choice as to whether humans should change nature by eliminating the wildfires or adapt to it by constructing buildings that can survive frequent fires (or be quickly replaced in their wake).

Clearly, the trees in the article, not having the power to stop the fires, adapted to live mostly underground.

Humans could do the same, building the houses underground. Or coat exteriors with fire-resistant coverings, as the corky-barked trees do. Or build on tall stilts, like redwoods, such that a typical grass fire cannot spread upwards to a burnable canopy. Or build only on permanent firebreaks, such as by making broad concrete pads part of the foundations or putting big paved rings around settlements. Or use movable homes that can get out of the way when a fire comes through and return after it passes.

Is it justified for humanity to remove fire from every biome--even those that need it--just because one species finds it to be inconvenient? Maybe. The debate hasn't been settled either way, and I can think of valid arguments supporting both sides.

It would seem that for something like earthquakes, we have opted to adopt stricter building standards, rather than attempting to prevent the disaster. But that may only be because it costs less to do it that way. Fireproofed homes sound rather expensive, and it seems likely that hiring even a legion of firefighters to protect most of the burnable ones might be cheaper.
The comparison to breaking out the PCB software is a touch misleading. You'd certainly also find it to be an onerous task to break out the PCB software and design a board for the Sitara SoC that sits on the Beaglebone. Realistically the comparison would be to use an FPGA devboard. Modern FPGAs often have an ARM processor build right into them, and if not you can use a Microblaze/NIOSII softcore processor in conjunction with the programmable logic. Such a setup will happily run linux, do your real-time tasks, and use all the typical peripherals that one of TIs soc's will.

I'm not saying that using an FPGA would be easier necessarily--indeed, likely not just because the tools a so terrible--but there are many options. Last I checked the documentation for the PRUs was pretty bad. Mostly a smattering of wiki pages and a couple powerpoints. And even that is a huge improvement over even just a year or two ago.
> that's when prices fall.

Good. Low prices for things people need is a good thing.
For protons, the muon-derived radius is 4% smaller than for the electron-derived radius. But for deuterium, the discrepancy is only 0.8%.

Is there some obvious scaling argument why adding a neutron should reduce the anomalous effect by a factor of 5? Actually, why is it that the deuteron's charge radius is so more than 2x the proton's? It obviously doesn't work like you'd expect something volumetric to work.
Next someone is going to suggest that we all learn to program by voice:

https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-...

I cannot find the article at the moment, but there was one discussed on hacker news recently that mentioned a privacy device for telephones before the 1950s that achieved the same effect as cupping your hands over the receiver so that others in the room could not hear what you were saying into it. If programming by voice takes off, I imagine such a thing would be a necessity to keep office environments sane. The same goes for regular text input by voice.
How? You'd need someone to develop the app you're deploying. Openshift is pretty straight forward using the gui web interface.
This is the issue I have with speech to text systems as well. None of them have an intuitive, reliable way of making corrections that I don't have to painstakingly learn. Also, Google's keyboard (like SwyfteKey) is far far faster than typing normally. Amusingly, it also suffers from poor correctability...
> Brooklyn, he said, is still “the coolest place on the planet.”

Does that include Brownsville and East New York?

Brownsville is were Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe grew up. Tough neighborhood
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Humans could be judged against each farm's reference human. In this farm's case, there is only the one human sorter. That reference human is the basis for comparison for the machine as well.

The machine sucks at it right now.
Oh hi!

I wasn't expected this to be posted on HN, but I'm happy to discuss in the comments rather than having folks head over to Twitter.

I assume many people here already are self-employed or work remotely, but I can throw in my two cents on any questions you might have if you aren't... or if you are but just want to hear from someone else's perspective.
Cyan4973/Yann also is well known for xxhash[1], which is one of the faster hashers[2] out there. Post a new hasher and people will probably ask about xxhash (ex: metrohash[3]). Guy is an absolute machine. If you search Google for 'zstd' right now, you'll find him, not Facebook, namely: https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd . Glad his work is being supported by someone now! Immensely well deserved, after so many years of helping make everyone fast.

PS - I didn't know a lot of the terms you used, but the Finite State Entropy (FSE) link you provided does a good job intro'ing some of them, and the linked paper Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding [4] (ANS) seems interesting.

[1] https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash

[2] https://github.com/rurban/smhasher

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613098

[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540
Seeing "multiple new high rises" is meaningless when you're talking about a dense area that already has well over a million people. What's the net increase in housing stock as a percentage of the population? That's the key.
Isn't the computation done with logical cells represented by a composition of boolean functions? And which are synthesized via functions sometimes from a functional language? What does this say about idea that, at ISA or abstract level, you're just doing computation if it's implemented as boolean, state machines.

Note: Next step down are analog components that are basically specific functions on real numbers. That's what I got from studying analog computers anyway.
Quantum pseudo-telepathy
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It would be much better for the cities and the environment, for one.

And not everybody would need to have a horse, the same way not everybody needs to drive (and most don't) in cities designed for humans.
Sure, I've used other machines in the past. I prefer not to though in most circumstances and assume that any account / password that I use on said machine is compromised from then on.

This was something I changed when I realized that a tax related government agency's machine I was using about 10 years ago man in the middled SSL connections to my online banking. Who knows what was logged and what the retention on that was? I don't have time or the inclination to ensure every relative's / customer's devices are secure, so I use my own or go without.
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At a glance it looks like you might also do some management of grant proposals. Do/will you help proposers publish those proposals? See eg http://riojournal.com and http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...
Keep in mind NYC median household income is still 50k citywide.
Of course they want that; who wouldn't want more money for their business? But competition can drive the price down just like any other sector, and allowing for more housing to be built means more competition.
Given the state of many of those post-war projects, I think it's gonna be a pretty tough sell to build more.
It will not catch on unless a privacy device is made so that people in office enivonements csn do it without disturbing their co-workers.
What relationship did the companies have with the investors
Main question with vagrant was: why?

It's just adding yet another layer to the stack, so another interface to learn. And if things don't work you have to deal with the “low level“ docker setup anyway.

Seriously, I've never looked back at Vagrant ever since.
I'm getting comfortable with talking to my watch. Its pretty discreet if you do it correctly. The mics on these things are very sensitive, so you don't have to yell. In fact, whispering works just fine. The problem is that no one tells people this and as we have seen from the popularity of Siri and other tech that people just automatically start yelling commands like they're using a computer from a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Even in places with loud background noise, its a non-issue considering everything nowadays has two mics for noise reduction. I'm very, very surprised at how well Google voice-to-speech works. When it fails its almost always because I have a poor signal from t-mobile or am saying something that's just too difficult for machines to parse correctly.
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This was a cool read. Fun to dig through the Internet to figure out where the article came from.

Searching around, this appears to be Part VIII of a collection from Howard Bloom[1] entitled "History of the Global Brain" that looks to have been written over the course of 1997 for Telepolis[2]. It looks like these writings were put together in a book, published in 2000, called Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century[3].

There are a lot more links, images, formatting, and other stuff in the original articles. You can start with Part I of this series, called "Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain," still available online[4].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom

[2] - http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2227/1.html

[3] - http://www.abebooks.com/9780471295846/Global-Brain-Evolution...

[4] - http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2102/1.html
AFAIKT, "recently" in this case is 2012. There was something in 2014 but it was for a non-default experimental feature.
Clearly we have a fundemental disagreement about how to stop elephants from being brutally killed in Africa. In the long term I believe safely harvesting the tusk by governments and selling them in a tightly regulated and legal marketplace will greatly reduce the ability for poachers to both harvest and sell ivory illegally, which in turn will drastically cut the occurrences of elephants and rhino's from being brutally killed throughout Africa. I'm not "embarrassed" by this position at all and I'm not sure why you suggest this.

I have no issue with you advocating we keep the trade illegal. After all that's how it is right now and I don't see anything changing in the future.
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I don't. That's why I'm worried. One of two things will happen:

1. Technology innovation velocity will increase, with the results distributed through society, driving down the cost of living (this is already happening with almost everything except real estate, healthcare, and education [1]). You won't need to invest, because it'll cost nothing to exist (let's call this "Star Trek Future").

2. Technology innovation velocity will increase, but it'll be locked up with copyright, patents, etc. Rent seeking will drive more of the population into serfdom. You will not have a pleasant life, nor will it be long (we'll call this "Elysium Future").

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-s...
Don't be obtuse, and address the point. How are you going to retrain an entire generation of people that will experience the effects of joblessness immediately; essentially overnight.

Cars took at least a generation to become mainstream. This time around it seems technology will destroy jobs almost at the flick of a switch.

Unless you're arguing that the adoption rate will not be significantly quick, which I think most would disagree with.
In order to get the necessary data for a machine to bootstrap new criteria, wouldn't you need an independent scoring function for each sample? How are you going to get that data - are you going to auction off individual cucumbers?

Alternatively, you could track each cucumber with an Independent ID to see when it is sold, relative to other cucumbers - on the assumption that people are selecting the best from any given batch? But then you'd need to control for things like the position of the cucumbers in the display. Now you're in pretty deep into someone else's business, because you're a wholesaler, and the data will still be insanely noisey.
Would you pay $10 a month + (some budget you determine) to receive a "You're doing X this weekend" type email/calendar invite . It would be complete with instructions of what you need to do, where you need to be and what it is.

Thoughts?
That's a good reply, and you clearly know much more about this topic than I do.
It's a big step though. Killing cancer cells is easy. The difficult bit is killing only cancer cells. This seems to be a promising way to do that.
how far C++ has come in .. oh heck, it's been 22 years since that article was written! Modern (C++11 and newer) approaches to solving this problem are made much better by language advances like variadic templates (no need to supply one template for each different number of arguments!), perfect forwarding, and of course lambdas.
So, just to be clear: this isn't a blanket belief I have about technology. The modern Internet, however, appears to me to have developed largely in response to consumer demand, first for email, then for web pages with pretty pictures, then for secure web pages, then person-to-person audio, then small-scale video, then large-scale video. At each interval, some random company introduced software demonstrating one of those features, and it caught on, and the Internet was built up in response to it.

An ISDN BRI was zippy fast in 1997. I liked my ISDN! And if it weren't for Youtube, I might still like my ISDN.

If the Internet were a regulated utility, we'd have to petition for the local Internet authority to roll out something faster than 128kb/s. But of course, I didn't petition to get my DSL line: I just switched ISPs to one who'd provide it.

Lord only knows what Google would have had to do to get Youtube connected to the counterfactual regulated Internet.

Like I said elsewhere, I think regulated utilities work reasonably well when there's just one figure of merit (usually: price). I think the approach falls apart when the number of variables increases.
3.5 billion years ago the skies were orange, the oceans were green and the land was black.
Seeing "multiple new high rises" is absolutely meaningful when there are already a ton. It means that, out of limited space not already occupied by really tall buildings, tall buildings are still being built.

Most of Manhattan is about as developed as it can possibly be, short of replacing 20-story buildings with 50-story buildings or something (probably not profitable). The push to the boroughs is the bigger portion of new housing stock for our income class.

Yes, a few blocks in the west village are still really short, but that's about it for all of manhattan.
If I double-click on the globe, it zooms in, and then I can't rotate the globe anymore. I also don't see how to zoom back out!
After Brexit, some Brits want to ditch the metric system, too
Apologies, the British Virgin Islands, not Bermuda.

"Apple has assigned partial ownership of its Irish subsidiaries to Baldwin Holdings Unlimited in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven, according to documents filed there and in Ireland. Baldwin Holdings has no listed offices or telephone number, and its only listed director is Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, who lives and works in Cupertino. Baldwin apples are known for their hardiness while traveling."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...