skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I didn't take it personally. I only responded to be helpful and clarify.
Specialized AI - think about retina neurons, capable of detecting direction, edges, depth etc.

General AI - think about thinking machines

We can do the former, have no clue how to do the latter.
Eat better food, and eat it mindfully. Really good food lights up every sense but hearing. Think of it like sex - you don't just hurriedly hop on top of each other and rub genitals as fast as possible until orgasm, that would be awful.
But Netflix! /s
Tesseract was one of the best publicly-available CAPTCHA solvers when I was playing around with that stuff a few years ago; I remember somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90%+ accuracy on ReCAPTCHA, no wonder they've changed those considerably since then to make it difficult even for humans.
He runs an on-prem services company. So, of course, it's time to reconsider going on-prem.
I would sue the company. most definitely. There's no need to make a scene publicly, but if you were let go without much warning, you would be able to win. CA protects workers and a good lawyer would be able to find a good cause for this.
This may interest you: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/23/442761531/one-mans-mission-to-...

It's about a man who bought the Hydrox brand to try and revive the cookie.

People do it with old brands all the time. If you google "buy expired trademark" you'll get a ton of info.

Although most of those people are buying old good brand names. :)
Assuming that AI-generated wealth is accruing to some person or people, you can just tax it as ordinary income. The main difference is quantitative: in a world where all wealth is generated by AIs controlled by a small number of people, you'd need to tax and redistribute their incomes at much higher rates than we currently do (or just socialize the AIs entirely).
It has several you can choose from in fact, can be enabled in the options pane.
Why is this being down voted? If user can't promote their service in a thread asking for options the service directly addresses, what good is this site? In fact, this is accepted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559012
The biggest disadvantage of UTF-16, IMO, is that programmers blindly assume that they can index into the string as if it were an array, and get a code point out — which you can not; you'll get a code unit, which is slightly different, and might not represent a full code point (let alone a full character).

UTF-8's very encoding quickly beats this out of anyone who tries, whereas it's easy to eek by in UTF-16. The real problem is that the APIs allow such tomfoolery. (Some have historical excuses, I will grant, but new languages are still made that allow indexing into code units without it being obvious that this is probably not what the coder wants.)
Your repeated attempts to raise your status at my expense are quite amusing.
Get a decent blender, and you can turn frozen fruit and yogurt into delicious sherbet. Quick, healthy and _much_ tastier than soylent.
Build and Run Your First Docker Windows Server Container
I was also wondering how long your probation period was.
A few .NET wrappers exist...but it's always felt heavyweight for me (my use case is pretty rare). I am hoping this makes it trivially easy.

We'll see how it goes.
>I don't understand your use of 'clawed back.' Commonly stock options don't vest until the first year - were your options really clawed back or were they unvested at termination?

I believe they're saying that they had less than a week til their options would vest, but the company pulled the rug out from under them.
Just don't buy the green version.
Yep, correct. I posted a link in another comment, but this is a good picture of all the components for small dipoles and loops.

http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/near-far-field.h...
Nothing was mentioned about payment processors like Square, Stripe, Bluepay, Heartland, Authorize.Net, CCNow, Transfirst, etc.

They have their disadvantages too, but the writer doesn't even evaluate them.
Ping Pong FM
I think about natural disasters.

Remember that footage of Japanese drivers fleeing from the tsunami floods? How many more would have died if their cars had been slower? How many more would have survived if their cars could have gone faster?

There are plenty of survival situations (e.g., tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, gas explosions, etc.) in which it's desirable for your car to go a lot faster than one should drive under normal driving conditions.
Soybean nitrogen breakthrough could help feed the world
Totally agree from experience that if/else flagging is vastly better than separate branches - you will get burned _hard_ if you take the wrong approach!
"Wire transfers usually have zero fees for the merchant, and usually low or zero fees for the purchaser"

Domestically? Sure.

Internationally? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I'd love a new alternative but it has so much popularity and it's hard to find an alternative people use. I try to use Snapcash whenever possible or an app I found on the Android Store - Cash. Was surprised Venmo was owned by Paypal.
Looking at billboards
aiui.

its not linear.

either it induces a voltage high enough to cause disruption or it doesnt.

the limiting factor is the voltage not the power (power is tiny)
Do people really not care about some large corporation tracking everything your children do for ears at a time? There's no way in hell I'd let my child use a Google notebook that's tied to all that tracking crap.
But rather than providing an advantage for employees, Penn State’s Golden warns that services such as PTO Exchange may exacerbate the underlying problem. It will provide further incentive for overworked employees to cancel vacations or go to work sick

People need to take all their vacation and more. I've averaged 6 weeks of vacation a year since 2009. I take my 2 weeks paid, and the rest unpaid.
What does Musk have to do with the modern Paypal, that is generally disliked. The primary issues with Paypal come from the freezing of accounts, that doesn't affect the majority of users. It mostly only has effects for business with spiky sales that may appear fraudulent.

But the current view of PayPal is different from the historical view. PayPal was a brilliant service through the end of the 90's and early-00's, while Musk was involved. You can't retroactively apply the dislike the service has generated since their paths diverged. And even then I would contribute much more of the social impact to Thiel.
The fact that you can't default to skipping tollways is ridiculous.

I have to manually toggle that every freaking time in a city with tolled roads. And you usually only end up saving a minute or two over free routes.
Obama's a thoughtful guy. I'm guessing he knew what he was saying. Perhaps it's a warning, looking at the history of tech, invariably all are tested for nefarious purposes, whatever the original purposes were.
It's not such a huge jump to the latter when you nail the former.
Yes, I completely agree with your takeaway and what it suggests.

(I normally prefer transcripts too, but the creators of TAL specifically recommend the show be listened to.)
If you wanted to do this right, you'd match the impedance to the antennae impedance of a typical phone antennae.

This gets around the square rule, sort of, and you won't need a suitcase full of batteries to power the thing.
"It is unknown to me why Facebook issued an Additional Grant of Patent Rights in the first place."

STOP RIGHT THERE

If you can't be bothered to do the research necessary to see why then your JD didn't teach ya much in the ways of learning about things. Which ideally should be a large portion, those big books of case law, now oft replaced with speculation and internet comments, do at least tell the story of "why". And if you jump the gun on researching the imminently googleable first sentence of your argument, how can I trust, nay, why should I trust, a single sentence thereafter.

Long and short APL has patent clauses, BSD doesn't, their PATENTS file kinda added that back to BSD without some of the apparent downsides of the APL in terms of forcing you to never ever sue about patents.

Small but not hard, I know, I just have a PhD not some fancy JD, but at least I can do the research that would've muted I imagine the entire post.

I still can't seem to write non-confusing sentences though. Oh well. Parse the above at your own peril.
Where to delete your Yahoo account
I feel like i read screeds like this starting in about 2000. Unlike then, there _are_ other options now. And in the US, the CFBP regulatory banhammer is about to drop as well.
I found that as I get older, and still try to learn different languages and platforms, that I have to try and work on my research skills as much as my coding skills.

As the OP pointed out - straddling several languages means that syntax and keywords are not always readily apparent when you sit down to code, but knowing where to look for them and refresh your memory quickly becomes an activity all on its own.

This from a guy who is a week away from being 50, and still occasionally puts a ';' at the end of his ruby code blocks.
That is such bullshit
bhyvecon was held at the same time as AsiaBSDcon, Mike Larkin & Reyk Flöter were invited to speak. I think OpenBSD vmm/vmd was announced around the same time, so it became an informal "BSD virtualization" event.

Mike's original announcement of virtualization support answered the 'why' regarding porting another hypervisor, but honestly for something as security critical as this, I'm glad they took their time to design something for OpenBSD's needs.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144104398132541&w=2
Almost certainly they didn't make you. The law says they have to pay you when they terminate you. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

They likely offered you an inducement (severance pay) in exchange for you agreeing to a contract that precludes disparagement or other action. If they did coerce or force you into signing, the contract is null and void and you should see an attorney.

Were you offered any severance above and beyond your due wages?
"They're all biased in different ways, some knowingly and some unknowingly."

All are biased knowingly.
We don't live in utopia, newspapers/media are paid enterprises.
What people mean by generalized and special AI is not consistent in the field, but everyone agrees that the current brand of AI driven by statistical learning techniques and large scale neural networks is far from explaining how even the simplest of nervous systems work. The key obstacle is adaptation. Several people believe that they've more or less solved the recognition problem. However, adaptation is a totally different thing. There are no tools in the current AI toolkit that we can use to make a robot that can go out unsupervised in the real world, do something useful and come back safely. Whereas even the Nematode C. elegans with only 302 neurons is remarkably flexible, it can forage for food, remember cues that prediction food, manage food resources, get away from danger or noxious stimuli etc. This allows it to survive quite well in a world that is constantly changing in unpredictable ways. This is the kind of intelligence that proponents of so called general AI want, and I agree we have a couple of major breakthroughs away.
ESD is not EMP.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692620
Ambiguity is a feature of natural languages, it's not a bug.

It's because of this ambiguity that you can pass a law and assume other laws will update their meaning accordingly. For instance, civil rights.

A law is an abstraction, and its meaning gets clarified or even updated when cases occur. For instance, marriage discrimination is now unconstitutional. The text of the constitution didn't change, its meaning did.
Words have very specific meanings. Most employee equity contracts require 1 year of service before vesting. If the company played dirty and terminated him at 51 weeks to avoid granting the options, that's not cool but it's within the scope of the agreement.

Clawback in this context has a specific meaning - http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/clawback.asp.

See also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/business/dealbook/wells-fa...

Clawback is taking back something given. Since quite likely the options were never vested or transferred, they weren't clawed back.
First off, I'm sorry this happened to you. That's a really sucky thing for a company to do to somebody.

That said, you're not in a good place right now. Don't make any rash decisions in that state of mind. It's really not in your best interest to take this public.

At the end of the day, the company didn't do anything illegal. You most likely signed a standard 4 year/1 year cliff vesting schedule, and it did what it was designed to do. What they did was immoral and wrong, but not illegal. Sure, you can still sue (unlikely you'd win but they may settle to avoid a costly legal battle). And if you think a year of your options are going to be really valuable, it may be worth discussing with a lawyer if you're willing to foot the bill.

My best advice - focus on finding a new job right now. Land somewhere with a great track record for employee well-being so you don't run into this in the future. Get settled into that first. There's no benefit to making a big deal about this right this second. Bring yourself to a good place, then explore your options.
In a perfect world only the person on trial is subject to that kind of scrutiny, but in reality that's often not how it works. If you can crush someone in the public sphere, that's what happens. I.E. The "Cosby" defense.
Pretty sure (IANAL) that is coercion. And a coerced signature is void.
>some kind of licensing deal to provide Android and a stripped down offline version of Google Maps as a backup

I don't think a default offline android will ever be in the picture. If everyone is offline, how will it make money? (android is free, so its far fetched to think it will start charging for that). It is risky for google to just give away lot of map data. Google spent a lot of money trying to acquire it. If it starts distributing it in a nice little package, people will start flashing their in-car devices with it.
Almost certainly much better for you too.
This is rude move in several ways. First of all, at several prominent companies where I've worked both as a manager and an individual contributor, you would let the person cliff their year if they made it that far. If you were so bad a fit that it was worth firing you in the first year, they could have fired you in the first six months just as easily.

Which leads me to another way this is rude: when I'm looking at an employment record and I see someone was somewhere 6 months or less, I don't think much of it. Clearly something didn't work out, even if it wasn't mutual. When I see someone having been there one year, I assume there's one of two options: either the employee just wanted to cliff their shares and then move on or the company let them vest and then fired them. Either one of these does not reflect well on the employee. To let you stay 51 weeks and fire you without options is a double whammy -- I'm going to have the same negative reaction and you have no upside. :/

When you look for your next job, you may want to emphasize that you were at UnicornCo for less than a year to avoid this bias or at least offset it some. That will obviously require you to have a reasonable explanation for why there wasn't a good fit, but you were going to need that anyway.

Forgot to add: contesting your unemployment at a reasonably sized company is really unheard of. Even when someone is fired, unless they are fired for cause (like, they stole stuff, harassed someone, etc) you're going to give them unemployment. If I'm interviewing you, this detail will make me want to dig further into your story. Take that as you will.
Modafinil may be a safer alternative to Adderall which has more benefits and almost zero side effects.
My basic litmus test for "does this language support Unicode" is, "does iterating over a string get me code points?"¹

Rust, and recent versions of Python 3 (but not early versions of Python 3, and definitely not 2…) pass this test.

I believe that all of JavaScript, Java, C#, C, C++ … all fail.

(Frankly, I'm not sure anything in that list even has built-in functionality in the standard library for doing code-point iteration. You have to more or less write it yourself. I think C# comes the closest, by having some Unicode utility functions that make the job easier, but still doesn't directly let you do it.)

¹Code units are almost always, in my experience, the wrong layer to work at. One might argue that code points are still too low level, but this is a basic litmus test (I don't disagree that code points are often wrong, it's mostly a matter of what can I actually get from a language).

> try to reverse a Unicode string.

A good example of where even code points don't suffice.
I have heard from a staffer on the GCE team that they deploy three CPU cores for every user facing core. That might have something to do with the cost.
I'm doing a contract for one of their clients, it's quite a challenge to develop against that.
"Loiter" is especially used in military and strategic contexts to mean simply holding position. No implication of violation or anything. Aircraft loiter over a waypoint, etc.
They are called precedents.
I eat super healthily, and I've managed to get my daily prep down to about half an hour in total, with a little extra time on weekends.

Breakfast - yogurt and frozen fruit blended into sherbet. I have 8 different kinds of frozen fruit in my freezer so there's plenty of variety.

Lunch - replaced by a protein shake at 11, then another one at ~2. I mix it with powdered drink packets, so there's plenty of variety there too.

Dinner - a crock pot with some kind of bean (again, I mix it up), a can of some kind of green (spinach/kale/collards/etc), some spices and some kim chi.

Elevensies (yeah, I'm like a jacked hobbit) - a piece of smoked meat and some sauerkraut.

The key is to keep the structure of your meals the same, and just have a rotation of ingredients that you swap out to keep things fresh.
Damn it. Every time I read a Stephen Wolfram entry I am so divided between if what I read is there for its own sake or is it just another shameful plug for his products.

I wish he could simply write for once in a neutral way. He has good messages, even if some disagree. But makes it so distasteful by these Wolfram mentions again and again...
Ask HN: Battery life consumption with OpenGL
Would appreciate any information on differences in power consumption between having an OpenGL based fullscreen app and having an app using the native platform toolkit on both Android and IOS. For the purposes of this question, we can assume that the OpenGL app displays a triangle. The native apps would display a single image of a triangle.
I must disagree, not having the implications of laws obvious and runnable and checkable by anyone owning a computer is a big impediment to the democratic ideal. To have interpretations running in the brain of a specialized workers takes away from the ideal that anyone can know plainly what are the implications of laws. These laws can tie into economic models and make the ethical choices a law makes more obvious and checkable by anyone. There is are parallel between mathematical proof checking and computer proofs where flaws, loop holes in arguments can be more easily checked for. It also allows one to run counter simulations for alternative laws. And ideally can allow us to shift away from representative democracy to a more direct form allowing anyone to contribute to laws when they can show the new law can be better in some practical utilitarian ethical model. It also forces us to make our models of what a free ethical society should be more concrete rather than sticking to abstract buzzwords with open interpretations. Just a personal opinion.
I feel you are concentrating on a very small and negative part of the post in a very disingenuous manner.

I read the article more as: "I have found throughout the years I've become a decent programmer in iOS and Android, I'd rather be a good or excellent iOS developer."

The end just briefly describes why he decided to go with iOS instead of Android briefly, but that's about it.
NSA backdoors might violate 3rd Amendment because horses were used for war
I'm the OP and author. I figured that because it's on the company blog with an about us that says what we do this was properly disclosed. But maybe it could use an additional lead in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684980
Legal documents are hardly "rewritten fresh each time". Lawyers have standard legal templates for things like contracts for example, where only few things change.

Moreover the content and legal rules predetermines what will be written in such legal documents down to the phrasing. While there will be differences, it's not "free writing"/"express yourself" kind of thing.
The problem for Mr Hooft is that his statements apply equally to him. So many simplifying assumptions made that do not exist in actuality and he ignores these factors. As every engineer is taught, one must understand what simplifying assumptions are made because the reality is that any one of those assumptions can be the cause of significant error in the theory being utilised.
That would probably be completely ineffective on something like an old-school fully-mechanical diesel, which will run as long as there's fuel and air. I suspect a lot of military vehicles use those for the same EMP-proofing reason.
They were mentioned in the Credit/Debit card section just not by name. Mostly it's because they use proprietary code that the organization doesn't feel aligns with it's ethics.

". Most merchants outsource to third party card processing facilities (which won’t be mentioned here), typically redirecting to a page on that providers website, for accepting payments. The problem with this is that they often serve proprietary JavaScript"
GLFW Tutorials (OpenGL3) by Bastiaan Olij
Give us a break. There's a world of difference between Cosby (rape accusations) and a tech worker who was fired at 51 weeks (1 week ahead of a vesting date), which almost everybody can read between the lines on (was likely a marginal fit and the company dropped the ball/took a long time deciding whether to keep them or not). The company might respond with ''they sucked, and deserved to be fired'' but that's hardly being ''crushed'' in the public sphere.
In my second paragraph, I was actually talking about your company sending such requests to know what you are logged into. Doesn't matter if you're using it right now. If you're logged in from days before, your cookies will be there. In incognito they won't be.
Netflix serves an evening rush concentrated in the 4 US time zones; they actually use elasticity.
Now isn't it going too fast? 2.0 release was just few days ago.
Lawyer.
He's more Libertarian than right-wing. I'm surprised of the endorsement because I wouldn't consider Trump even close to Libertarian. But I guess he is a lot closer than Hillary.
ISIS killed enemy fighters with an exploding consumer drone
Oh yeah, I forgot about that article - I think that it's actually printed in the back of some ebook versions of Cryptonomicon now. It's a great read.
I agree. Though sadly keeping your JS validation messages in sync with the ones your server produces can still be a surprisingly high amount of work and headache. Many people can think of the time it takes to build functionality like this as gold plating.