skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Futurama had a fun episode that dealt with this.

https://theinfosphere.org/2-D_Blacktop
While thinking about the FDa, please keep in mind how pervasivly Monsanto has inserted former employees into its ranks for their putposes (especially now in light of the Bayer buyout move). Sure big pharma et al have as well, but it's monsanto that pops up on my "6 degrees of kevin bacon" social graphs of them.
Yahoo to confirm big data breach – Recode
I think people like not having the usual Babel plugin/config + setup soup. There's value in all-in-one solutions with clear limitations. For example, TS doesn't implement JavaScript stuff below stage 2 while many devs liberally use stage-0 and stage-1 features with Babel. Some prefer TypeScript's way.
I would first tackle the mindset needed for peak learning.

Josh Waitzkin has some good coverage in his book The Art of Learning.

How to Solve it by Polya has some good strategies on how to solve math problems that are applicable to broader problems and learning.

Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt covers a broad approach to learning anything.

I would probably read these books and try to find a few others to really get my mind in a state where it needs to be to learn.
Drones would be a cool way to scare the Eagles away.

What about providing natural cover for the chickens. Things they can hide under. Or planting trees.

Also video would seem like an easy way to provide proof to the dept.
Jekyll created static websites, with no database for an attack vector. I learned this the hard way after having a few digital ocean droplets compromised, no backups, etc. Thats one advantage.
PG once said "PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories." And it's a way for startups to compete because they can't outspend the big guys on advertising.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
he'll still be in violation of the EULA though...
Small tips i learned when doing interviews (as journalist and as tech founder):

Ask the journalist what kind of story s/he wants to do and what role you play in this story.

It doesnt matter if it's about you or a general topic - understand what kind of basic arc/message/pov s/he wants to do. In 99% of the cases their job is not to be "investigators" but tell entertaining stories and they are usually happy to share their idea of the article.

- Help getting to the content s/he needs. Share the right infos, the right contacts, industry insights. Essentially help as much as you can creating the ideal article.

- Also make sure to create soundbites that work as quotes. Quotes tend to be highlighted in articles.

- Make sure to connect the journalist with more useful contacts and help finding new ideas for articles.

- Last but too often forgotten. Have good press images ready of you and your product. Some that work portrait, some that work in landscape. Some that show a business look, some that show a more personal look (depending on the story the journalist goes for)

hth - good luck!
This also seems useful for extracting a model, creating an interpretable version of parts of it, and proving whether it is prejudiced against certain races, genders, etc.
If you implement TypeScript as a Babel plugin, you would likely lose all the superb IDE support that TypeScript has. Which is one of the major selling points of TypeScript IMO. When your language is unstable like in a typical Babel setup, any number of features might be on or off, the static analysis done by IDEs becomes almost impossible. Performance would be affected too.
> How is it to use?

Depends on how you configure it, it can be a lot of things. The UI is pretty amazing, but I don't have the knowledge or time to do it justice in the least, sorry :)

To be perfectly honest, the first time I finally tried it after hearing so much about it for so long, Sublime Text kind of disappointed me. You can't even print out of the box -- waitwhat? It does other cool things, true, and there is room for more than one text editor, text files are awesome that way. But still, I felt a bit like when everybody was going nuts over Firefox because they didn't know about Opera. I love Mozilla (a lot) and harbour no ill will towards Sublime Text, but god damnit, software isn't as tight as it used to be. I don't know anything about anything and even I can tell.
Perl is full of strange grammatical rules and even stranger conventions that it's one of the few languages I learned 15 years ago that I can't just pick up and use. I've forgotten basically everything I ever knew about it and yet other languages from the time period, even some odd ones, I can still grasp enough to restart the process.
I pay $1150 to rent a 1600 sq ft house with a giant corner lot and a 2-car garage in North Houston.
It appears you're right:

> Read-only properties may have initializers and may be assigned to in constructors within the same class declaration, but otherwise assignments to read-only properties are disallowed.

Thanks for pointing that out.
I like the filter idea then that woman you've been waiting to hear back from and whomever else, then that reduces the attention shifting thing except when it's worth it. Man, he's lucky his poison is email. It's the perfect medium to ignore for hours, well, unless it's something good.
How is the cast functionality with the apps? Let's say you use the Netflix app, will it cast like an android phone? This way you don't need to cast your chrome tab.
I think there needs to be more compassion towards those who are floating in order to muster enough energy to swim.

I'm snug as a bug in a rug right now, and about as "floating" as one can get, but my husband and I are saving money and paying down debt like gangbusters so we can buy a farm in 7-10ish years and leave this lifestyle behind us.
TechCrunch backed down from that pledge.

See https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/going-too-far-the-techcrun... -> "Do we break embargoes? Sometimes. Do we break embargoes even after agreeing to them? Sometimes (but very rarely). Do we agree to embargoes and then respect them? Sometimes."

or https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/24/the-lyft-launch-that-could... -> "For the most part, though, all the TechCrunch writers are cool with embargoes. I don’t know a single person here who doesn’t accept them and we generally all play by the rules."

That second article is a good example of another problem with close-hold embargoes. You might wonder "why not just wait until the embargo lifts, then interview someone, then publish?" This article shows a reporter who decides that they couldn't possibly be reduced to posting an article about something another reporter posted about twelve hours previously.
That's interesting they didn't just collaborate on alembic.io, despite being sister companies.
> to kill those doing the development themselves

Maybe that's considered a noble sacrifice, but I don't know what they think.
Embargoes are an effective tool to ensure an certain minimum depth of reporting, control timing and prevent misunderstanding causing negative publications. They can be used to implement some limited idea of fairness and they can be used to exercise control.

Embargoes are a communications and marketing tool. Whether public institutions should value story telling over letting the facts stand for themselves is really the question. The culture today puts a lot value on stories...
Seed AI is possible, but it requires first building an AI which is at least as intelligent as human AI researchers. We are nowhere near that point, and once we get there we will already have strong AI.
That's a fairly deep technical analysis of a tool-assisted run with an unusual constraint. I'd suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNX-GQt67M#t=7m30s instead, for a live speedrun race between two of the best players in the world.
It is also possible to edit all the Jekyll files from the GitHub web interface. So no Git is required to change contents.
Then that is a discussion that does not belong here.
The problem is that UX became a buzzword, and now unqualified graphics designers are 'practising' it. It's hard to find an actual UX designer, and as a UX designer it's hard to find an actual UX job (as opposed to a job that labels itself as UX but is just graphic design)...
s/TensorFlow/a deep RNN like this/ would make more sense.

TensorFlow is just a framework (as are Theano, Torch or DL4J) for expressing the network architecture. Framework:Network ~ ProgrammingLanguage:Algorithm
The maps led me to wondering what a similar diagram of cities in the UK would look like, and I found a map of England and Wales with dots coloured by race.

It's much more mixed. Where black/white/asian areas still exist the boundaries tend to be pretty blurred.

http://projects.andrewwhitby.com/uk-ethnicity-map/
It's indeed very interesting to imagine how a mechanical lifeform, that would have replaced DNA based life, be like..

I personally believe that as nanotechnology will advance in the later part of the century, biotechnology will be revolutionized and we, as humans, will eventually head towards becoming an immortal society. I'm not sure how long it will take but the developments in nanotech could also lead to teleportation (signs of which are theoretically quite evident among Higgs Bosons).. I wonder if Stephen considers that those phenomena could ever scale up.

The great filter is my favorite hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox too. But as much as I would like to think we might be the first civilization ever to cross the higher levels, I also hope that we don't destroy ourselves with our fast evolving technology.
Yeah, definitely a bit intense in it's snobbery. This makes sense if you're trying to run a high quality restaurant, or don't mind spending a bunch of money. But, for most home cooks, you're going to be hard-pressed to taste really meaningful differences in most kinds of dishes you'd be making at home.
Firebase is a general backend you can use from JS.

For content, you could look at Prismic.
Microsoft has absolutely done an amazing job with typescript IDE integration. But are there any end-user IDE benefits to typescript over flow/eslint? (Not being snarky.)

I've been using both on separate projects (with MS IDEs) and haven't noticed anything major.
Here's the problem: what do you do when somebody has managed to describe, over the phone, a convincing scenario that demands an immediate and severe response. Like "people are dying in that room right now and will continue to die if nobody stops them".

Fundamentally, there is no good answer to that. Both options can result in lives lost. One is an active shooter being allowed to continue killing freely, the other is sending police officers ready to deal and face lethal force.

Obviously no-knock raids on suspected drug-dealers are a different matter - those are unacceptable by any sane metric. But you include swatting in your list. Swatting generally involves a violent emergency where delaying for verification would cost lives.

For that case, all I think we can do is treat the swatters as people committing aggravated kidnapping or even attempted murder. They're attempting to send men to detain somebody at gunpoint.
Google launches its Daydream VR development tools out of beta
Thanks for mentioning that. I've edited my comment to refer to yours.
> Why does it matter what's the time in US west coast

For the same reason that stories about real estate and homelessness in San Francisco seem popular on HN.
OT: I like Jekyll for blogs, but I'm looking for something simpler to better fit a simple use case.

I want to generate static HTML files, the simplest example being a 5 page website that uses the same header and footer template across all pages. I want static files for simple scaling, not PHP or JS templating. Ideally this tool would be node based for simple automation with gulp. Anything out there that fits the bill? Handelbars.js with precompiler looks like a good fit, but I'm curious what others use in this scenario.
I'm really skeptical of the idea that one salt is at all distinguishable from another.
Is it appropriate to use this thread to promote your (well established) service, when others get down voted to oblivion for doing the same thing?

Serious question, this post is nothing more than marketing blurb, contributes nothing to the discussion. What's the site policy?
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Vegetables and especially fruits in Japan are very expensive.

And I agree with the other guy; the fruits and vegetables (and portions of most other things you buy) are smaller.
Thanks a lot for your very wise and weighted reply. Of course I entered into this business because first of all I wanted to earn some money, otherwise I should donated to charity.

And your point that some applications of stents can be useless or even dangerous are also valid, but we should take in consideration the other factor - number of stent operations per 1M of population. Russia is still way back from the value recommended by WHO, which means there are still a lot of people who need stents for live-saving purpose.
Had the ps1 a dedicated chipset for 3d graphics or was it a pre-written software renderer library kind of thing? Was writting a software renderer (with perspective correct texture mapping and a zbuffer, amongst other things) out of question?
Thanks, looks very interesting. But it seems more 3D-oriented than 2D oriented.
I've always been fascinated by these decades-long coal mine fires. Too bad they can't harness that energy somehow.
The truth is worth waiting for? I like it.
Vi Hart and Nicky Case made an interactive demonstration of how easy it is to accidentally create segregated neighborhoods: http://ncase.me/polygons/
I gave TypeScript a try but honestly thought it was more trouble than it's worth in most javascript applications/libraries. Maybe that's just the lazy person inside me, or maybe my projects aren't big enough to make use of it's features.
Google VR SDK graduates out of beta
>>(I assume you don't believe in god)

Probably not a good assumption to make, irregardless of my own beliefs or possible lack thereof. 79-89% of Americans do believe in God as of June [0] and '~1/3rd of scientists' (very nebulous here) believe [1].

I would not say that our brains 'emerged... from simple principles' in any way. Maybe in jellyfish in the pre-cambrian, but not in mammals today. A very large amount of your genome is dedicated to neural development and 'proper' patterning (I think is ~2%, but can't find the citation) and that ballet of in utero development is fascinatingly complex, even in a zebrafish.

But, on to your question. No, I agree with you, we do not need to understand the brain to let a simulation happen. However, to properly simulate the brain, we do have to know. Otherwise, how would we know that we have properly simulated it? I know that is a cop-out answer, but it stands. Look at physics. We can set boundaries for the experiment, calculate noise floors, have a 5-sigma threshold, etc. We would have to do that with a brain simulation in order for it to have any real meaning. Yes, we could inadvertently simulate a brain, but then we would not be able to definitively say we have done so without understanding it. This discussion is much more complicated and nuanced and really hinges on the definition of the word 'understand', an argument that has been going on since Plato and before that even.

Speaking as a person working deeply in the neuro field, it is going to be a long time, not 'a couple of years'. Yes, surprises happen, and history is littered with paradigm shifters. But is is precisely because those events are so novel and rare that we celebrate them. Most science is very long hard work and consists of experiments that just set ever smaller limits to more and more nuanced phenomena. Take it from me, neuro has a very very long way to go before we have even a passing understanding of the brain.

Still, you are correct, our current internet may already be a super-brain, a silicon demi-god. If that is so, then it is behaving just like the one that many people in the US believe in: taciturn and quiet.

[0]http://www.gallup.com/poll/193271/americans-believe-god.aspx

[1]http://www.livescience.com/379-scientists-belief-god-varies-...
Standard library packages are not the same thing as the language and are not mentioned in the Go specification. The standard library is just a collection of packages that implement common functionalities that might otherwise lead to multiple competing implementations (like hyper, tiny_http, rotor-http, and solicit in Rust). Including a plugin mechanism is not an endorsement of that style of architecture, but simply an acknowledgement that there are programs that will need plugins.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's even harder to get to "machines are taking over" from "here's a bunch of networked processors". :-D

Thanks for the book recommendation - I'll have to read that!
You don't need to understand how birds fly to build something that flies. Heck, you don't even need a good understanding of aerodynamic lift (or rocketry topics). But it really, really helps.

You can simulate the brain by simply increasing the precision of your measurements of it, and throwing more nodes at your simulation. But it really helps to know which parts are functionally relevant so you can focus on simulating those parts rather than e.g. the ion channels that implement the spiking (if those details turn out to be irrelevant).

(For that matter, even if you did simulate the human brain well, it will probably only be good for mimicking things that evolution selected humans for in human contexts, like emotion identification; when it comes to general inference, the human brain structure is not optimal.)
I'm currently using the spread operator liberally. Why do you think it's unavailable?
Totally. I tell new devs to use typescript. But I don't think using babel precludes shipping a binary with a standard pre-built config.
I don't think they were offering up Go as an alternative to C, but rather giving an example of an OpenSSL implementation in a language that isn't C. Rust is mentioned because the prior comment called for the creation of a pure-Rust OpenSSL library as proof that Rust can be used in this context. No such things exists, but they were trying to offer up a similar example to prove the same point.
>Someone making a bet on that basis on AI back in 1960 would have lost badly. Everything always seems like it's 3 to 5 years away.

Of course, someone who says that 3-5 years before it really happens wouldn't be wrong.

It's worth keeping in mind that those old AI failures succeeded in doing much of what deep learning hasn't done, and failed to do much of what deep learning has now done.

I think, regardless of whether or not they add up to 'true general AI', we have the basic ideas necessary to produce systems that are much more generally intelligent than anything we've seen before, in the near future.
On the opposite end of Canada, in Vancouver, $250K CAD is enough of a down payment to get a parking spot where you can park a portable kids' play house from Home Depot or Rona, without having to pay mortgage loan insurance.

However, in the maritime provinces, with $250K CAD you can actually buy (completely pay for) a fully detached property with a decent house in an urban location.

I'd take the money and run while it's there for the taking. They are probably not going to up the offers for those who stubbornly wait it out.
I just read the Making of Crash Bandicoot blog post series. This limitation is why Crash Bandicoot had a camera-on-rails to limit the number of polys on screen, right?
We could meet food demand with quite a bit less production if we ate lower on the food chain, improved transportation infrastructure and reduced waste. People don't go hungry because farmers don't produce enough food, not today; people go hungry because some people don't get enough allocation of resources and/or transportation infrastructure is crappy.
I really appreciate this analogy, actually.

It's hard to construct a principled, narrow argument against profiling. If you have a single piece of exclusionary information, it's ludicrous to conduct a bunch of searches which are guaranteed to be worthless in the name of equality. (Leaving aside the accuracy of the tip for now.) And yet on a broader level, it's apparent that profiling can have all kinds of awful side effects.

An obvious example (and the metaphor carries) is secondary crimes discovered in the course of an investigation. There's another narrowly sensible rule: if a cop stops you for a broken taillight, they shouldn't have to ignore a corpse sitting in your passenger's seat. But combined with profiling, it produces a system where often-profiled people get the law enforced against them far more harshly than other groups. Add to that the cost and stigma of being investigated (a day in jail while innocent is a great way to lose a job), and you have a system where utterly sensible enforcement produces consistently biased harms.

The metaphor here carries really well. Imagine if those Kansas farmers torrented a bunch of movies, or that Seattle privacy advocate had a bit of marijuana. Well, those things are illegal, but it's still not fair that shoddy profiling amounts to selective enforcement against the profiled.

Even if you never, ever get incorrect data or wrongfully convict someone, profiling with limited data causes all kinds of secondary harms. This is a great non-racial example of why we should worry about it regardless of accuracy.
I'll always remember the first time I saw Super Mario 64 in front of my very eyes in ToysRUS. It was as if every other 3D game in history suddenly didn't matter anymore. Here was the future of 3D gaming. Here was a game with unbelievably fluid controls in really large levels clearly designed to be explored.

Unlike most previous Mario games, there was no timer either. This only further encouraged players to really explore the 3D environment, collect the side-quest coins, and not be stressed out.
I know they mentioned their SYN flood tool but I recently saw a similar project from a hosting provider and thought it was neat [1]. It seems like everyone wants their own solution to this when it is a very common and non-trivial problem.

[1]: https://github.com/LTD-Beget/syncookied
Are any new companies choosing Oracle products? Or are they really only relying on banks,insurance companies and other blue chips to take up their 'cloud' offerings?
Agree, and this is the case world-over.

Coming from Italy, I'm always amazed how large US tomatoes/zucchini/eggplants/etc are, and those big, watery vegetables are almost always tasteless in comparison.

I think it's a combination of selecting varieties that produce bigger fruit, as well as waiting longer to pick, so as to produce the largest (most water-heavy) produce.
Using PostgreSQL Array Type with Rails 4
Alembic is a baking format. Slightly different use cases.

Usd has support for Alembic baked nodes: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/tree/2eb01f5cd4...
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If you're talking naturally occurring salt, there may be noticeable amounts of other minerals or salts besides NaCl that could affect the taste. I understand your skepticism, however.
All forms of selection that differ from the current equilibrium cause evolution in a group that is either sufficiently diverse group (assuming HGT or sexual reproduction) or has a sufficiently high mutation rate.
There was a fair bit of discussion about the New York Times article on this topic last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733
woah... this is the stuff of science fiction.

when the supreme ai gains the ability to thirst for knowledge, it will steal all the machine learning models via prediction APIs...
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