skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see what the expected outcome's distribution is with buying lottery tickets for $X/month vs. doing a startup (and potentially earn less by $X/month than one could have had at a larger corporation).
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Their Ruminations on C++ book formed out of Koenig's columns is also excellent, if anyone is looking for an extra read. I have it on my desk right now :-)
That's a human emotional response to an observation. We do it all of the time; we see beauty in landscapes, grace in the movements of animals, peace and tranquility in the sounds of a babbling brook. None of these are really out there in the world; they're reflections of our own minds upon nature.

A human player might have made that move in a burst of creative inspiration. Or they might have made it after careful analytical deliberation. Or it could have been random desperation. If they don't say why they did it, observers are free to interpret it any way they like. That has no bearing on what actually happened.
I'm a recent college graduate. It's, frankly, ridiculously easy to build up an excellent credit score. Just open up a credit card (any card, even a secured one) and consistently pay it off every month.

At this point, I have enough credit from credit cards alone to buy a small house.
"Clear Waters Rising" by Nicholas Crane. An account of his journey on foot across Europe--literally across Europe--from Cape Finisterre, Spain to Istanbul, Turkey. The route Mr Crane takes is particularly interesting: one day while looking at a physical map of Europe, he notices that the major mountain ranges of Europe (more or less) form a continuous chain across Europe--eg, the Pyrenees -> Alps -> Carpathian (+ Tatras). His path follows follows this chain.
Here's the official repository:

https://github.com/henrycg/balloon/

A better link would be to the Balloon site itself:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/balloon/

Balloon is interesting because:

* Its contributors include Dan Boneh, who has rock-star status in the crypto community.

* It's designed to be easy to implement and to build on top of standard hash functions.

* It's provably memory-hard.

All the password hashes are good. I use and like scrypt, but if you used Balloon and had me look at your code, I'd say, "good for you for using Balloon". The authors warn people about their pre-production quality interface --- but if you're in a (generally) safe language, password hashes are among the safer thing you can implement.
Both the lottery and working at a startup are rational bets if you believe the value of money is non linear.
>But really, few programming books are as good as K&R.

Agreed.

I asked about the price because it is, or at least used to be, a lot less expensive than that, in India, from the time when I first bought a copy (when first learning C, near the start of my career), to at least some years ago, when I bought several copies of it to give to the students of a C course I was conducting for a company. In that whole period it was just a few hundred rupees (INR) in price, which is just a few USD (under $10 or so, even with the change in exchange rate over the years). I do know that publishers have variable pricing for different countries, of course.
I will never buy another German car as their maintenance and getting the right parts is a pain.

I bought a 2002 VW Jetta with 88k miles on it in 2013. I'm not one who needs a fancy car and or car payments. The upkeeps on this thing has a been a headache(mechanic shops don't have great access to VW parts and it costs a lot) and it's on it's last legs; lucky if it lasts me to the end of the year.

My last car was a 1997 HOnda Civic in which I bought in 2006 (88k miles on it then too). I drove that til 2013 until I ruined it mistakenly; still would be driving that now at probably 250k miles on it. Civics are reliable beasts ... Hondas in general are. VolksWagens stay away from if your anything like me. This possibly holds true for other german cars to in terms of reliability and more so maintenance.
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Become a journalist or enter the armed forces.
Kinda an obvious post; the name dropping of schools is a bit obnoxious in my opinion esp since the current highest valued private company is run by a UCLA dropout - something Suster would obviously have loved to invest in after the fact. I find the exceptionally smart "startup" people are very knowledgable about their competition and their companies relation to them and can project out to the future.
Manual of Photography: 10th Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford_Manual_of_Photography
>web-of-trust like identity system

The most important thing about a government-level identity system is extreme difficulty of obtaining any identity other than the one you were born with. It seems inevitable in a web of trust that fraud rings would emerge to manufacture identities for those looking to escape debts, criminal convictions, etc by some combination of tricking and bribing people to sign authentications.

>You should be able to use any compatible product/software you like to sign orders to your bank with your private key

I'm not sure you should be able to use, say, a poorly written IE extension on your unpatched Windows XP machine. Something federated would be great, where any manufacturer can technically make something compatible, but it has to meet a FIPS standard or something.

Keys could be generated onboard, and then you upload your public key or something.

We're getting way ahead of ourselves - banks are extremely hesitant to use anything better than secret numbers. I'd rather a shitty 2FA implementation than that.
To quote scott alexander, "Mysterious “time crystals” may hold the secret to outlasting entropy. No word yet on whether you have to get all seven, or whether they are hidden in temples themed around the seven elements."
Decades back when I was a competent C programmer, I liked Harbison and Steele's C: A Reference Manual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.#Books
I have a about $90k~ worth of available credit to me on my CC's alone.

How many cards do you have? I understand it's mostly theoretical but I'm wondering why would anyone want to use their high-interest credit card to borrow even a few tens of thousands? Or any high-interest vehicle of debt for that much money, for that matter.
You are talking about two different things.

With regards to credit score, of course, I never said it did.

With regards to getting a first credit card thats simply not true. Maybe if you go into a bank and open an account but if you have had a relationship with that bank for several years it is going to help you get one to begin with. Of course it helps you if you have had a history with the bank. And of course there are americans who can't just get a credit card thats still not what I am talking about.

I know plenty of 18 year olds who never had to deal with what I had and no matter what it doesn't really change anything from my original claim which is that the US credit history system is built on distrust not trust.

Citibank offers customers credit cards based on how much they have on their savings account. So it's simply not true that history doesn't help. Of course it does as it should.
>Credit card management has no indication how I'll manage a loan (whether a house or car) due to the nature of spending and utilization

I think the actuary-types who design the scoring models would disagree vehemently with this one. Scoring models are built from regressions on actual default rates.
If you want to buy a cheap printed version search on abebooks.com. They usually have international editions at competitive prices. I used to buy all my college textbooks from there.
It does, but for some of us Legomaniacs it explains why some things are hard to find.

But you need to wonder, do people throw Lego away? Hopefully they get handed down from generation to generation.
As a counter point, buying any 12-year old car (2002 model year would have been built in 2001ish) comes with it's own set of caveats. Also, there is more than enough information out there on common issues with Mk4 Volkswagen's of era to help inform your buying decision. I'm definitely not defending the car, as I owned a 2001 Jetta for a while and it wasn't the best.
Yes, everything you can do in VBA you can do in another language, and probably more easily. But then you have to persuade the users to use your app - if they're already comfortable with spreadsheets, VBA can make it easier to get them using your product.

If you can work your way through an intro book, it'll be super beneficial! Everything in either of those books will probably be useful at some point or another. No way I'd be able to do that in your position though. Personally the only way I can learn new technology is to have a goal that I find motivating (often, 'build a system that can solve some pain point in my life') and then identify the minimum useful step I can take towards that goal, and then mess around with books, forums, documentation, etc until I've achieved that step.
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Each individual inquiry has a tiny effect. The point is that lots of inquiries indicate you are desperate for credit, and people who try to get a lot of credit at once are much more likely to default on it.
Okay, I guess.

For utilities, it's usually safe to assume that whoever is running it is running a comparable version - the most commonly used options are decades old at this point, and it's relatively unlikely you'll use the new stuff.

As for checking for GNU tooling, a grep against <tool> -v does the trick. This can also get you the version number. You can probably even write a command to do it.

It's nonstandard and suboptimal, but it is, once again, possible.
I would argue the opposite is true: the perfectly anonymous population can have policy and management at only the broadest granularities of abstraction.

Data collection is all about machines being able to treat you as an individual.
The "lookup table" is constructed at parse time. Yes, the items are just key/values on the wire, but when parsed (in C++, at least) they are placed in a google::protobuf::Map, which is hashtable-based. I guess it could differ across languages -- some might not have any specific support for maps yet.
The regular LinkedList in Java is implemented as a doubly linked list, which is cyclic.
The purpose of disclaimers is to preemptively shut up bozos that would accuse you of commenting in bad faith, not because it's right to do.

And it isn't bias if you're right.
##c isn't a bit deluded.

They're very deluded.
VW did have some quality problems with Mexico-built models in the 90's and early 2000's.... but also a 14 year old car that's on it's last legs isn't particularly surprising. It probably also depends on how it was treated in the first 88k miles.
Sadly I can report having had a similar difficulty with them earlier this year. When a customer is opening a follow-up ticket to report that the generic copy-paste advice (given to them on their first ticket) doesn't actually work, fastmail's support replying with the exact same generic advice is unlikely to be helpful.
No, many people believe the value of money in non-linear but most of those people believe that the marginal utility of each additional dollars diminishes as your wealth increases, rather than increasing. I.e. even if you might earn more money on average at a startup (which the article claims isn’t the case), it still wouldn’t be worth it because it’s better to earn a decent salary from a big company with high probability. Who seriously believes that the marginal value of money increases as you have more?
Since we're on the subject of sweeping generalisations, my 1999 VW T4 Transporter is bloody reliable and I've had no problems getting new genuine or after market parts, or second hand parts. It's got just over 250,000k on the clock.

You're mileage may vary.
Pretty cool. And far cry from the hole they were into a few years ago:

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/innovation-almost...
It absolutely is, I don't know how someone wouldn't notice.
The evolutionary process does not automatically prune elements. It is possible that previous non-useful features of a network become helpful at a later stage of evolution.
He'd be stupid too at the moment. You want to leverage that asset to get other companies to open up there data.
Two-pole balancing (2009):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqk2Ve0C8Qs

Double inverted pendulum balancing (2015), a much harder task:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t3i2WPpIDY

Double inverted pendulum balancing with a physical cart (2011), a much much harder task:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vr1x6KDaY

Triple!!! inverted pendulum balancing with a physical cart (2011), a much much much harder task:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E
They use it with NodeJS and SocketIO. (In another comment someone wrote they're using it with C++)
Sounds the opposite to me: if the radar says "stop" then the car will do it. It won't go though if the camera says stop.
How was the wiring between neurons and synapses created?
That depends on whether you believe it is sub-linear or super-linear. Many people treat the value of money as sub-linear (e.g. better to go from $0 to $50k, than to go from $100k to $150k). If that's the case, then the riskier, lottery style model would not be rational if money is the only value in working for a startup.

However, most startup employees I know make the choice for more than just the direct monetary rewards. There's the culture, the potential influence and impact, and several other potential reasons.
Unless I'm looking at it wrong, the synapse above the output takes input from 2 up and 2 to the left, which is a path that leads back to an input.

But you're right that the synapse right below the outputs has no input, which doesn't make any sense. The original generated network had a neuron with no inputs at (6,12) just to the left of the outputs, left over from the evolutionary algorithm like you suggested. We ran a program that was supposed to prune the network by removing the evolutionary noise that had no effect on the outputs. It looks like that program just removed any neurons with no inputs, leaving behind that meaningless path of synapses.
> Moreover, there are only two algorithms you can't game - one that perfectly addresses and solves explicit and implicit aspects of the problem (impossible in practice), and one that is perfectly random.

Care to explain?
"...some hardworking person loses their savings"

No they don't. Loans are insured against default. Interest rates more than cover extremely low default rates and then some.
Always clearly remember when I was studying for my commercial pilot licence many years ago. In one class, an engineer took us for a tour of an airline hangar. He stopped in front of an engine on a rig and explained that EACH blade on the intake fan stage cost something like $40,000. That was about 4 times the price of the car I drove to that class!
Quick question: I live in a city with a density of >1000 people / km2. Where will I charge my car?
In LA you can lease a Fiat 500e for $3500 down and $49 plus tax / month right now.

If you have any lease already it's only $2500 down. If you make under like $250k you get $2500 back from CA, $4000 if you make under $36k

That is all 36 months, 10k miles per year. I've been researching the EV deals here for like a month and this is basically the cheapest you can get any car for - $2,922.76 total lease cost if you don't have a lease and qualify for the $2500, only $422.76 if you have a lease and qualify for $4000

My guess is it totally sucks though
You're mileage may vary
Do they do it for every release? What about OOM error testing? IO error tests? fuzz tests? UB tests? Fuzz tests? Malformed DB tests? Valgrind analysis? Memory leak checking? Regression tests?

SQLite does all of that and more with every release (https://sqlite.org/testing.html). There's a reason I consider their test coverage impressive...
The armed forces route makes sense. Could you elaborate examples regarding the journalist path?
They made a plugin hybrid 3 series as well but it's basically just a more expensive 3 series at the end of the day
Also interesting that the trademark for Lego bricks has expired. Does not seem to hurt them too much though: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/09/15/eu.lego.trademark...
All the automotive radars are phased array devices, and have been since the Eaton VORAD of the late 1990s. No moving parts. They're usually 1D scan (horizontal) only, although 2-axis scanned automotive devices exist.
You might be able to create something like React. The API would be composition-based, and the library would bottom out against an existing UI toolkit.
Code-golf anyone? Here's my bash one-liner:

pngtopnm puzzle.png | xxd -s14 -p -c3 | uniq -c | awk '{printf "%c", $1}' | xxd -r -p

Explanation:

pngtopnm converts the image to an uncompressed bytestream format (pnm)
xxd converts the bytes to hex representation
-s14 skips the pnm header
-p gives plain hex output
-c groups by 3 byte values (RGB pixel values)
uniq -c counts the run length encoding of the hex triplets
awk / printf %c converts the RLE count to an ascii value
xxd -r reverses the hex dump to the final encoded message
Interesting that they are silently crowdsourcing a map overlay. When you drive a route in your Tesla, you're playing the part of a Google mapping car for them.
When I saw "at least since March 2016," I wondered if it was a typo.
There's a brief description here http://neuromorphic.eecs.utk.edu/pages/research-overview/#pr....

Basically, the inputs and outputs are fixed, random neurons and connections are added, the networks are all tested, the better ones are changed and/or combined, and then repeat until a "good" network is found, where good in this case means balancing the pole for a long time without running into the walls.
The 2017 Chevrolet Volt doesn't look weird and has an fully electric range of 53 miles. [0]

[0]http://www.chevrolet.com/2016-volt-electric-car.html
Love that site
Doesn't really have an implementation-agnostic schema spec, as far as I'm aware.

(I use CBOR a lot -- I'm otherwise quite happy with it!)

EDIT: I guess there's a "CDDL" listed on the tools page, but... It's still single implementation (ruby) and I don't see a clear link to a grammar for it.
Writing an ebook
These types of reports seem overly conservative. Unless you think there is something magic about human or animal brains (many people still do believe this sort of thing or think there is some quantum (read 'magic') feature) then you have to anticipate a strong possibility that we will be able to emulate most of human capabilities and traits with hardware.

When we get to that point, it is very likely we will be able to improve the performance of these AIs by speeding them up or interconnecting them, etc. So another likely possibility is that these AIs could be twice as smart as us. Many speculate thousands of times smarter, but I don't think there is any reason to assume that is feasible -- and twice as smart as us is significant enough.

So these AIs could become much smarter then us and because they are not constrained by biology could take any type of physical form.

I think that if you are trying to speculate cautiously then you should consider this very similar to an alien invasion. The one advantage we have is that we will be training/programming the first generations of these things, so we had better get that right. But after they become say twice as smart, normal humans probably won't have as much sway over them anymore.

I think that when you look at all of the amazing abilities from the last few years from Watson winning at Jeopardy, Deep Dream, Deep Mind with WaveNet speaking and arcade game learning, Atlas walking and picking up boxes, winning at Go, etc. -- these are all amazing and people are very serious about pursuing general AI again. So how do we know how many more fundamental breakthroughs are actually required to get to our truly general humanlike intelligence? Are we even sure that we don't have the techniques already and just need to combine them in a certain way?

So my way of thinking is that to speculate conservatively, guess that there may be two major research breakthroughs required on the same order as deep learning. If we had not seen such an increase in AGI research then that would sort of console me. But because AGI funding has increased and the belief is back that these types of goals are possible, it seems like we should not assume that it will take many decades to achieve these breakthroughs (if we actually need more breakthroughs). How do we know that one or two of the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of literal geniuses with an adequate background who are working in this area will not come up with some new major breakthroughs in the next two years or five years or eight?

So yes my personal opinion is that we should start planning for an 'alien invasion' of superintelligent AGI which if we are being cautious could pretty much come at any time now, and certainly it might happen before 2030.
I read it.

>Presto allows querying data where it lives, including Hive, Cassandra, relational databases or even proprietary data stores. A single Presto query can combine data from multiple sources, allowing for analytics across your entire organization.

That doesn't sound like HDFS to me. I mean, I assume it can read from HDFS, but Presto is backend agnostic. You could probably write code to run it on Manta. That would be neat for people who like Presto, I guess.

Type checking and conversions, no, and table joins only matter when you're handling relational data.

Also, how many formats can Presto handle? Unix utilities can handle just about any tabular data, and you can run them against non-tabular data in a pinch (although nobody reccomends it). I doubt Presto is that versitile.
I think the author just isn't very good at weights and measures. According to wikipedia the max payload is 253,820 kg which is 253.8 tonnes or 280 US tons or 560,000 lbs.

A C17 can carry 170,900 pounds so it carries 339,000 lbs more approx.

Reminds me of one of my high school geograph teachers who gave the length of the Grand Canyon in miles and the width in km because he couldn't do the conversion.
In some sense, the Internet is a basic need because it acts as a more efficient way of filling people's other needs than what preceded it: the need for social interaction, for entertainment, the need to learn more about the world...
It sounds to me that while one license could be totally worth it, getting it for every developer would not be.
I just signed up and they advertised that it cost $1 to get a report.

BUT they sign you up for a $22 / mo service. It is not very obvious that they did this, and it's somewhat difficult to deactivate your account. (I imagine people here wouldn't have a problem, but I'm imagining the average person here).

That to me is a dark patten.
If you have a mobile phone, you are already broadcasting your location. Go to google maps, open the sidebar menu, select "your timeline".

Sorry. Privacy kind of went byebye.
Yes, but if you flood it with white noise, it'd screw up any transmit waveforms. The only alternative is to have a software radio that is flexible enough to switch bands when it encounters noise.
I hit the same wall, and opted to learn a new way of design after years of slavishly adhering to OOP.

There's not much that I miss from OOP, and I now see its utility as more about making the ability to program scale predictably with an unpredictable workforce.
I don't think it will upset very many owners. In normal use this change will never be apparent, only when you're really screwing up.