skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you see that it's meaningful now? We didn't know about the galaxies only some 100 years ago. Now we know a lot even about how the universe started, read as an example, we will never see most of the first 500 million years, except on some places where the reionization process ended sooner:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-hubble-will-never-...

But we already see in the past all the billions of years: the further the object from us, the older is what we see.

And we see the glow of the Big Bang. In the distant future, much less will be observable.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/throw-forward-thursday...

"Instead of clusters and superclusters of galaxies, there will be… nothing. Dark energy will take care of that, driving all the other galaxies in the Universe, everything that isn’t bound to our local group, our beyond our visible horizon. Even the closest galaxies to us beyond the local group, like the Virgo Cluster, the Leo triplet, and even the extremely nearby M81 group will have redded out, and will leave no measurable signature behind."

"Even the leftover glow from the Big Bang would be undetectable! What appears now as a 2.725 Kelvin afterglow, with a relatively dense 411 photons-per-cubic centimeter, will look nothing like that 100 billion years from now."
the more outright hatred, disgust, and vitriol that we can shame/shun the police with in public, the closer we'll be to police reform-- the police feel intimidated and scared by a public that treats them poorly, and they will adjust accordingly.

alternatively, we could continue with the "be beaten then do nothing" approach, which has failed so far.
Once you've been a functioning adult for long enough you realise the kind of trap advertising is and how you just don't need much stuff. Or not even that you don't need much stuff, the fact that stuff is a liability you have to take care of. Food for example - you can make things that take time, if you like... or you can buy chicken breast and frozen vegetables, throw them in a pan, cook food for a whole week in half an hour tops while you do other things. Is it bland? Yes. Does it cover all macros? Yes. Does it cover all micronutrients and vitamins? That's what Centrum &al. are for. Or maybe buy soylent - it's even blander, but even quicker. With age, my stomach is getting more and more upset at food that isn't sufficiently bland anyway, so it isn't a big loss.

Your apartment should be small enough that you can clean it quickly. If it's big, I hope you are living with a spouse and children. Also, get the parents to live with you and help with the children, that's how it's been done for centuries. That's pretty much the purpose of grandparents anyway.

It's a double-edged sword, I understand. Bigger social groups means less individual freedom in house matters, but more time for personal ones. There's a balance there to be found according to everyone's needs. However, it's not "living completely alone and doing everything by yourself". You can, but it's a miserable existence with way too much time taken by upkeep.
Ah, I see, way as in path, not way as in direction (which is I think the misinterpretation that leads people to the root of the misunderstanding). So, there's one path to get from x -> y, but it does not imply you can't get back to the original x. In that respect, "way" is an unfortunate word to use, at least as it's used in modern English.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7423626

>. . . And yet: the money guys are offering money. Just swallow your pride, play "Stairway to Heaven"[1] at the wedding, and pretend you've never had crazy eyes when talking about homoiconicity, and the rent will be paid.

> [1]Nothing against the song.
"Why do you ask for my address when I donate?

We need your address to process your credit card payment. This lets our payment processor (Stripe) verify your identity and process your payment. We don't ask for information beyond what's required by Stripe. The people at the pardon campaign will be able to see your name, email address and physical address, but we will never see your financial data. Here is Stripe's privacy policy; here is our privacy policy."

That's a straight up lie. Stripe does not require physical address, it's entirely optional. Know what you're signing yourself up for.
> He's the only author I can think of who uses academic style citations for hard scifi credibility.

Greg Egan. He writes mostly "one big lie" hard sci-fi, but it is always grounded in hard science or math and often extensively cited.
I haven't been to many tech conferences, but RustConf was hands down the best I've been to. Classy group of people. Smart, entertaining talks. I can't recommend it enough. There's no doubt in my mind that the quality and diversity of speakers, content, attendees and general atmosphere was due to community that has been curated. And I think that curation has been very intentional and has paid off. It was repeated numerous times that the Rust community is helpful and inviting... including IRC.

(Thanks Steve, I think you're a powerful force in shaping the awesome, welcoming tone in the Rust community)
Your idea of Scandinavian democratic socialism seems to be rather misguided. You probably haven't lived here?

- Top marginal tax rates are not that different -- the difference is more in that the higher tax rates kick in earlier in Scandinavia, which is necessary because average earnings are lower. In the U.S., the high earners pay a larger proportion of tax revenue than Scandinavia. US: the top 2.7 % pays 51.6 % of federal income tax [0] while in Finland, the top 3 % pays 22.4 % of income tax revenue [1]

- Wage floors: Scandinavian countries don't have a legal minimum wage at all [2]. The minimum compensation for each job is negotiated in collective bargaining per sector, and several U.S. states already have higher and more broadly enforced minimum wages than what these per-sector agreements are in Scandinavian countries.

- Corporate profits to labor's pocket: compensation per employee as percentage of GDP at factor cost per person employed is not substantially different in the U.S. from northern EU. [3] Yes, it's somewhat falling because of technological development and increased regulation and taxation everywhere.

Overall, the difference in fact is that in many areas, the Scandinavian countries have less socialism, more market economy - more open competition and less protectionism. It seems that you think the Scandinavian success is socialism, when in fact it is neoliberalism. [4]

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/13/high-income-...

[1] http://www.stat.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_tulot.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share#/media/File:Adjuste...

[4] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1629940
LinkedIn.

I'm not on Facebook or any other social networks.

LinkedIn is basically like a Rolodex of friends and colleagues that automatically keeps updated. So it's useful to query, for example, who in your network works at a particular company now. And then you find out that guy from college who you hung out with a few times but otherwise never would have kept directly in touch with, is now a senior manager there.

The regular network updates can be interesting, to see who's gotten promoted or moved on to new positions.

I don't do any of the socially networky things on it, though occasionally read what some people postings.

Regarding keeping in touch, you can contact people via the internal messaging feature, though most of my contacts also have their email address visible for their connections, so I mostly email people as needed.

I'm in the financial industry now, after finishing a PhD in physics. And via LinkedIn, for example, I've been contacted by the dean of the business school at my university (even though I was never involved with the biz school in any way at uni) who was visiting London to invite me to an event he was speaking at. I've had students I don't know from my uni, or friends of friends, reach out to me to ask questions about what it's like moving to finance, advice for getting jobs, etc.
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> It's clear he tried to grow and acquire as many of Monsanto's seeds as he could.

What's wrong with that? If your patent passes on its genes onto my corn, then it's no longer exactly your plant.
You can send a GraphQL query as part of the query in your HTTP GET request: http://graphql.org/learn/serving-over-http/#get-request.
The Developer Advocate's Guide to GitHub Universe 2016
And exactly how the WW2 recovery happened. Government created demand for products, and deficit spent until the economy roared back. Subsequent gov't surpluses from increased tax revenue were then used to pay down deficit.
Just a heads up that it kind of name collides with re-frame which is a frontend clojurescript library.
What is your use case?
This seems like a contrived task constructed to be convenient for Clojure.
I need to check out Guile's suitability for embedability in applications. Traditional suggestions have been TCL, Python, and Lua. For Guile, the conversation always focuses on FSF and Emacs, but that's boring. Has anyone [other than FSF/Emacs] used it as an application extension language? If so, what's your experience? What's the overhead? memory usage?

Ideally, I'd like to use it on embedded systems/firmware (as opposed to embedded in an PC application), but I'm assuming it's either too memory-intensive or requires too much platform support, and certainly the license won't fit :(
You're absolutely right. Though I'd argue the real value in that exclusivity was not only exclusivity itself making people want to join (though I'm sure that was part of it), but also in enabling a culture of honesty about names, interests, and life. That honesty was only possible at the time through exclusivity. When FB started there was a long-standing cliche about social interaction on the internet: everyone lied about or exaggerated who they were. Facebook encouraged people to use their real name and share real information. Of course that honesty made it all the more fascinating to look at - you got to see who people really were. The honesty was only possible because it was a small network of more or less peers with a high level of trust.
Three by Kafka
Not arguing that the following method can be trusted as much as in Haskell but properly used also prevents this kind of scenario:

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/io℅21

The 'io!' macro marks a code block to have side effects which prevents using it in a STM transaction as 'dosync' might need to execute the functions multiple times in case of conflicts during the optimistic locking.
That's what I was going to say too, and that makes me the fourth person to say that was their favorite!
Smiling at the underpinning argument that a law cannot exist if it would be impractical to actually enforce.
Haha, one to keep around: "The parents seem to have some vague concept that spending hours each evening on Facebook and YouTube will impart, by some sort of cybernetic osmosis, a knowledge of PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Haskell."

And it's so true, you know, you learn about computers when you need a floppy with drivers for the 4x cd-rom drive you just installed yourself (or when you later install Slackware and then Gentoo... also helps). You don't learn about computers using a modern smartphone.

I like this part a lot: I've messed up, as I'm sure many of you have. When we purchased an XBox it was Techno-Dad to the rescue. I happily played about with the mess of cables and then created profiles for everyone. When my son's MacBook was infected with the FlashBack virus Techno-Dad to the rescue. I looked up some on-line guides and then hammered away in the terminal until I had eradicated that bad-boy. When we purchased a 'Family Raspberry Pi' Techno-Dad to the rescue. I hooked it all up, flashed an OS to the SD-card and then sat back proudly, wondering why nobody other than me wanted to use the blasted thing. All through their lives, I've done it for them. Set-up new hardware, installed new software and acted as in-house technician whenever things went wrong. As a result, I have a family of digital illiterates.
Introvert vs. extrovert has more to do how much energy being with a crowd gives or takes, or do you prefer your own company over that of others if given the chance. Any social skill, unless natural, can be acquired.
They're doing quite well, and have been pretty much since the beginning.

https://www.quora.com/How-close-is-GitHub-to-returning-to-pr...

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-is-now-worth-2-billion...

It's historically been tough to compare them to Atlassian because Atlassian has provided tons of other enterprise services like Jira and Confluence, and an 8 year lead plus going public, but I think Github is definitely working on better squeezing into the enterprise space with this current announcement.
Well, we have to put human into comparison in order to know exactly how impressive 6% metric is. I would guess it might be pretty close.
If it was free money, everybody would be doing it. If it has no downsides, what's stopping you?
That's one way to create a permanent underclass and cause a whole lot of other social issues.
I assume that's list of languages that are commonly used to host web services or power databases.
I didn't read everything, because the universe is still young, but randomly clicking got to this [0] in which this self-proclaimed expert, in stereotypical fashion, veers wildly between claiming secret knowledge that proves him right, claiming that everything important that Snowden released was already well-known, claiming that Snowden's releases harmed USA, and an idiosyncratic form of definite-article-based hermeneutics.

That's nutty. Like, Payday-bar-nutty. Greenwald was like, "is this dude serious or just off meds?" Although I do support the elision of the definite article before proper acronyms that signify organizations of questionable ethics.

[0] https://storify.com/AthertonKD/greenwald-and-schindler-fistf...
I'm a huge start-up fan but this article makes doing a start-up sound more fun than they actually are on the ground. Here are a few things the article leaves out.

* Years of grunt work. You just did that on your Ph.D. Don't kid yourself, start-ups are just as hard and can take longer before they are successful. As they say in show biz, it takes years to become an overnight success.

* Business smarts are non-optional. If you are in a leadership position you need good business acumen. (I.e. like Andy Grove, not like Bill Shockley.)

* You need to be an all-rounder who can roll with the punches and pitch in to do whatever needs to be done. Chances are only some of that will be science and some fraction will be downright unpleasant. My personal favorite: the head honcho in a small company is the top of the product support escalation chain. By the time users get on the phone with you they are often downright steamed.

Finally, if you don't fit the mold there's a reasonable chance you'll either just flame out nothing to show for it or get fired. That's in addition to all the normal stuff that goes wrong when you have a good idea, good funding, good co-founders, etc. Doing a startup is not for everyone.
I apologize for being harsh here. But if you're submitting your own articles to HN, I think it might make sense for it to not read like an ad for your company. There is nothing technical in the article, not even links.
How about diffs on pull request? The biggest gripe I have with github is the inability to compare my feature branch with the branch I'm merging too. The diff you see is comparing the feature branch with the "base" branch which would be stale when working on a dev team.
I think he meant he has to spend so much time keeping up with JS, that he does not have the chance to use Clojure more.
Thanks for providing the feedback here - I've passed it along to the Engineering team building out Projects.
Microservices – Please, don’t
For those not familiar with the NIST 2000 Switchboard evaluation[1] it is a series of 8kHz audio recordings (ie. crappy phone quality samples) of a conversation, including things like "uhhuh" and other pause words. So, 6% seems pretty good.

[1] http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/mig/tests/ctr/2000/h5_2000_v1.3....
I wouldn't blame the audio quality. It is more about different humans have different kinds of accent which makes the same word sound differently. Considering the different accents, I would say 6% error rate is pretty good compared where we started.
Screw the statistics.

If you feel compelled to start up a company, I say do it.

Put yourself 100% in. You might be 100% successful, or, you might be 100% a failure. But do not think the statistics make you one or the other.

Only advice I would give is to get yourself on decent financial footing before making the leap. It helps you from making impulsive/bad decisions later.
That's very cool, it's amazing what's become possible.
Ruby protected nobody, and thwarted a possibly avenue of information on the Kennedy assassination.

Snowden has done a service to the world, revealing the threats they're under (through both the NSA and any other entity which could exploit the weaknesses they use), and promoted a great deal of relevant and useful information into the public discussion. As you've just conceded.

Snowden may have broken regulations, and may have broken laws. But he served both the US Constitution, and the cause of Justice. Regulations, laws, and the NSA, serve the Constitution and justice. A pardon is a means for correcting instances where laws fail to serve justice.

Your comparison makes less than zero sense.
> Isn't this standard advice, to just give them your money and avoid escalating the situation?

Yeah, and I think it's the best advice for a one-off incident like a mugger or running into bullies in the park. Just worry about your own safety, get out of there as soon as you possibly can, and don't return. A mugger isn't the best comparison.

But what if the mugger is there every day at 6pm when you're getting out of the office? Do you just keep buying a new wallet and giving it to them every day? What if the mugger works for the same company as you, and sits 50 feet from you, and every time you walk by them to go to the bathroom they make that exaggerated knuckle-cracking gesture while staring your down and mouthing "six o'clock".

Getting bullied in the playground is one thing. It sucks. You can't go back to that park without being beaten up. But if the bully is in your school then your parents, teachers, government all mandate that you see that bully 5 days out of the week.
Facebook Allows In-App Payments to Messenger Chat Bots, Still No Bitcoin
I'd think a computer would be great at distinguishing unique beeps from each other. It'd just have to know which ones come from which named appliances, and that's something that could easily be crowdsourced.
Scott Walker, the John Doe files and how corporate cash influences politics
Generating avatars on-the-fly with Nginx
SIOD: Scheme in One Defun (1996)
Deep Mind was funded by Elon Musk as well as others in its earlier stages. Elon Musk is one of the individuals who speaks out as if he is wildly fearful of where Ai is going. Fundamentally, an individual has no control over what an AGI development group does unless they're invested in them. There are many notable groups beyond the handful that get the spotlight. They are for instance : working on a Conscious Artificial Intelligence. That is not a 'future goal' of theirs. That is the one and only goal of their efforts. Who do you think will get their first?

>A number of AI/ML startups would like to pursue AGI in the long-term, but why not make revenue along the way?
That's exactly the dilemma that many capable researchers faced. Some chose to make money along the way. It shapes the way you then go about solving AGI down the road. It saps up your resources, imagination, and potential and it redirects it to shorter term thinking. Being in the space, there should be an understanding of Short-term vs. long-term thinking based on a reward system that targets short-term success.

> Still, there is at least one startup - Vicarious - focusing purely on long-term research towards AGI that VCs poured plenty of money into, and there are probably others.
I'm familiar with Vicarious. You are correct and they notably publish far less details than others. They are funded by top names and are probably the least mentioned when people mention Ai. Why, given the impact that AGI can have, aren't more groups funded? A solution is seemingly right around the corner... Do people not see this?
> because what woman is going to do that with you when you can't afford your own place?

The good ones.
The SEC regulates public companies and ensures they disclose accurate financial information, who leads the company, etc to the public. How does an open protocol solve that problem?
This is a great review to see how pictures turn out in real-life but there is absolutely no scientific method or objective measure in their efforts.

You need a standard to compare things.

I stopped watching at "With the new release of telephoto lens, what is the best location to test it? Africa". That makes zero sense to me.
The very idea that somebody takes half and hour each to exclusively cook and eat three meals a day is absurd for a number of reasons, e.g. leftovers, the act of eating and reading at once, sandwiches, meal planning, skipping lunch, very-american-pre-processed-food, rice cookers, toast, etc.
> Note: It does find “dog” with no problem, but it does not yet find “gorilla.”

This is probably intentional, to avoid embarrasing false-positives: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33347866
Is that a private key to connect to your server in your repo? https://github.com/kaolti/Who-Runs-This/blob/master/key.pem
Cone snail “weaponized insulin” is far more efficient than regular insulin
1. Start with C#

2. Create research fork

3. Change it just enough until it can do what you're trying to get out of Vala right now (including whatever sweeping changes you want from the runtime by targeting GObject, so that it exhibits the static properties Vala wants here)

Result:

GNU/Gnome/Vala benefits from it, and the C#/.Net folks can benefit from it, if ever that research makes its way upstream. Which in turn brings another round of benefits to Vala's users and maintainers. My overall point is that symbiosis is nice. There's strength in numbers.
Thanks for the admiration. If there are features that people think that should belong in the open source edition we're all ears. We've done so before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931347 A feature comparison between CE and EE can be found on about.gitlab.com/features/#compare
I'm the other way around. The city I live in has a lot of trams. Driving in the city is unpleasant because I don't drive much, so my confidence on the road is low, and complex intersections and road layouts with frequent trams can be kind of scary. It's much lower stress and more pleasant to just hop on a tram and tune out for a bit until it's time to get off or change.

The tube during rush hour is a special kind of hell. People do it because driving through London at those times is pointless, you'd never arrive. Lesson learned the hard way.