skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some questions:

We act like stimuli are exact things but the brain is all about abstraction. In fact, a certain amount of entropy/information enters your beain every day from vision, smell, touch, etc. Its not stored in full fidelity. There arent enough nuerons or energy for that. So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right? You celebrate your birthday. You remember blowing out the cake in pristine vision. But how much of that 'movie reel' inside your head is actually a superposition of abstracted reality vs actual observed reality?

All Im asking is, is it even worth it to think of a human being in terms of absolute information when their memories are so sparse from reality. We remember whats important. And the things that are important, weve remembered to remember. But ultimately, the actual holding power of the brain is quite small. The brain is a master of deep abstraction from sparsity.

Is it like a quantum system? Where the superposition values of one subcortical system are flattened by another? So that a whole brain belief/memory is a function of the fuzzyness of each subsystem being exacted/wave function flattened by the heuristic correlation/connection between all the shitty data? I think we need to start thinking about sparsity. The universe is sparse when it comes to using 3d space. Holographic principle says physics is so symmetrical that we sparsely use 3d space. Such that our entire universe could take place on 2d space. Max Tegmark gave a talk about how deep learning works so well because of the sparsity of faces or music or voices, the overwhelming symmetry/redundance in physics and nature. And transitively, humans.
Can only have got worse since the EMC merger.
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how do I get a career as one or learn about and what is the salary?
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> So what do you actually want them to do?

Adopt my framework and put me on the same playing field as their engineers in terms of information and resources. Flask-Ask is just way better than anything they have for Python. Even their Python related tutorials are terrible. Also, they're so focused on JavaScript they neglect a lot of important languages like Python and Ruby.

I could see them building their own Flask-Ask on top of Chalice, but I think it's counterproductive they push Lambda so hard for Alexa. Cross pollination I guess. Lamdba doesn't support WSGI (which Flask relies on and Lambda doesn't do unless you use Zappa). Personally, I don't think serverless is a panacea. It's good for some use cases, but nothing beats a VPS with a database on it for the wide majority of things including Alexa.
Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.
> So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right?

Raises a most curious question.. what ever isnt abstractable?
Related: work is also being done on a $1 microscope -- to identify disease in poor countries, and/or for education/classrooms.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/525471/the-1-origami-micr... and
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/origami-microscope-les...
Yes. Meanwhile they prepare for the transition to the era of driverless cars. Once you dominate the market you can penetrate into markets like pacakge delivery and other industries where moving stuff is still profitable.
The biggest cost is labor, so if they could theoretically shift to self-driving cars soon, fares would pay for more than 100% of ride cost. What that timeframe is would be the $69 billion question. Given that self driving car technology is in its infancy, and will likely require a driver to be ready to take over, they can't ditch drivers anytime soon (unless they make passengers serve as backup drivers?).
I guess I should have been more clear in my advice about not using regular expressions: if you have a tool that allows glueing multiple regular expressions together and erasing the cost of the abstraction (e.g. no allocation of temporary match result objects, substrings, etc) - then certainly that would be a preferred way to code the lexer. Just don't sprinkle a bunch of unconnected `new RegExp()` / `re.exec` around the code and expect that to be reach peak lexing speed.
> It's almost like those kuh-razy V8 people

I don't get what's the connection between V8, less_dart and naive implementation that `RegExp.matchAsPrefix` had in Dart VM.
If they had't, it would have been entirely too obvious that the embassy was fake.
This is pathetic. I cannot imagine how horrible it would be for that person. I was considering buying a dell next. Looks like I have to stick to a mac again!
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If a new edition of the Manuscript is ever published, they need to add this XKCD as a forward.
Name collision: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
I've never returned a disk under warranty after hardware failure. At most, I've removed the top plate from the drive (rendering it unusable) and mailed that in, then destroyed the drive through the usual methods.
This is a great example for the RPG Call of Cthulhu.

It is an ancient text, written in an unknown language. It appears to have some relationship with our world, because there are plants from earth, but there are also... different plants. Or are they different? It's hard to tell - you might be fooled by the style of illustration, but there might be something wrong about some of these plants in a very strange way.

And you can kinda guess the meaning of some of the words based on their relationship with the images, something must be connected to the sunflower, something must be connected to that nightshade. But who knows fully?

And thus, it takes months and months to dig through some of the old text, the texts the cultists read so freely. Months of relating to other, equally or more obscure texts, months of lying in bed without sleep until an idea pops into your head. That's why reading old occult texts is hard.

Yes, I love lovecrafts work and that RPG.
That's a very disappointing shirt Erik is wearing
If you are in the US i would start with Coinbase and their trading platform GDAX. With regards to trading strategy it is dependent on your personal preference and the time/resources you have to devote. I am using the buy and hold method which has worked out well due to the steady price increase and minimal volatility the coin has had over the past two years.
I just want to say that I have been using leaflet for visualizing datasets and appreciate your efforts.
Programming projects? One at a time.
See the Product Hunt example. It's not that dashboards are bad, they should immediately be obvious what the user should do. The eBay example is good too - just wtf is going on there?
Several international organizations (the EU, UN, and Interpol) issue travel documents which can be recognized like passports even though they don't have military control over any territory.
> including Common Lisp Recipes

To be fair, that's a 2016 book. Pretty awesome though, I have to say - I'd highly recommend it for anyone who knows a bit of Common Lisp (e.g. after PCL). It's basically the "Effective C++" of Lisp world.
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It's been already more than a month since it expired, and I still can't purchase it. This is horrible business practice and I find it amazing that registrars are allowed to do such a thing.
You can sign up for the newsletter at http://www.mlyearning.org/. Andrew will be releasing more draft chapters in the next week.

I've already read the first 12 chapters. I found it very practical for developers who have already worked with NNs. Basically the book discusses common problems and how to deal with them. Gold resource.
Yup, that is what I meant
Perhaps a stupid question, but can't this be generalized to arbitrary size integers?
Get a ThinkPad
I think that web stack has its problems, but generally problem is developers (or their managers) who don't care about performance. It's possible to create awesome and performant websites with current web stack.
It is sad that I cant really tell if you are being sarcastic.

Sure memory is cheap vs. developer time, but still.
R is about as close as it gets (it is quite lispy underneath all the C-like syntax).
For that use case there's the ISO standard for ZIP codes, as used in paper mail:

Short Country prefix (same as on international car ID plates), then a minus, then the ZIP code.

So, for Germany, D-24107 would be one such code.

Yet, it doesn't handle that either.
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Makes me wonder what they thought they were going achieve. I'm assuming it's based on a Linux distribution?

I guess when your entire nation is a state controlled echo chamber it's easy to just think that criticism of your code is just jealousy of your achievements.
Please explain to me how this Guardian article constitutes such. It's an article which goes into moderate non technical methodological detail on what Pielke did wrong and why, providing links and sources.
Here's the link in this thread so you can study it https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
I'm not sure solving Pacman on a Raspberry Pi would be terribly worthwhile. Deepmind's research into getting their software to play Atari games was interesting because they used a general algorithm that just received the values of the screen pixels and game score and learned from there. They used the same software for each game - it wasn't tuned or set up differently and so was a form of general AI if a very sub human one. It was interesting research that it worked as well as it did and played some games very well but wasn't good as Pacman because it lacked the ability to plan ahead.

They are primarily a research company, not a marketing setup. The latest stuff the released on letting the networks do something like dreaming which reduced the time to learn by up to 10x seemed interesting and I look forward to seeing how they do with Starcraft and the hippocampus. A lot of this stuff is cool because it gives insights into the human mind and how the brain works rather than practical gadgets. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/240163-googles-deepmind-...
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Hmmmm. Clausewitz and Situationism is not a connection I would have imagined.

The article's first paragraph is poorly written. A game known as Kriegspiel has a much older heritage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame) and it appears that Debord's game was either a reinvention or merely a variant of it.
“/load=prompt(1337);”
Side question, is there any free games you can develop ai strategy/tactics for, having an active community? Maybe designed exactly for that kind of purpose? The platform and license issues with Starcraft are just too much of a barrier.
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Some numerically unstable problem require a lot of precision of solve successfully. Similarily, well-behaved problems can be solve with 32-bit floats, but many require 64-bit floats.
This is actually a good thing IMHO. Since the majority of the websites are just affiliate or Adsense focused with poor content. They rank just because of the content keywords.
We went in search of the world’s hardest language
Roughly comparable to a real US Embassy:

American Citizen Services, Telephone: (03) 9526-5900 Monday to Thursday only 9:00am – 12:00noon

https://au.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/melbourne/u-s-ci...
Five Ways to Run a Program on Your Raspberry Pi at Startup
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UK Government memo ordering a crackdown on leaks leaked
128i[3] would be enough for 390x observable universe discrete grid in Euclidean space with nanometer precision. Or 0.39 observable universe with picometer resolution.
This reminds me of the use of silk in early bulletproof vests. Natural fibers can make surprisingly effective armor. Dr. George Goodfellow, who treated the wounded Earp brothers after the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, wrote about the bullet resistance of silk:

https://archive.org/stream/southcalif02losa#page/94/mode/2up

People then went on to make silk armor, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Zeglen
I recently made an appointment through an AI secretary to set up a meeting with them; it worked surprisingly well.. They are not hiring a secretary any time soon. Real effect. Also: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephe...
Wouldn't that be just "I", and the whole field of cognitive neuroscience?
All valid points that one needs to consider when writing low level code.

The good thing about Rust is that you actively have to circumvent the languages safety checks with unsafe code to run into those problems.

And if you are using unsafe code, you should be aware of such low level considerations anyway, and would refrain from using types when not appropriate.

The consistency problems you describe apply to any datastructure after all.
I suppose that you could just use C with std::vector and std::unique_ptr from C++, and you’d be much better off. The you could still write "C" code but not worry about memory leaks.

Of course, you also need std::sort because it is much faster than qsort. Thinking about it, you probably want to implement all time-critical algorithms with generics.

... never mind, this quickly becomes a stone soup.
How about the Japanese katakana-ization: ok googuru
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People from American Samoa are US nationals but not US Citizens, and get a different US Passport[1]. Apparently the ILO issues travel documents, too although it is unclear how widely they are recognized[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_document#American_Samoa

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_document#UN_travel_docu..., http://www.icao.int/Meetings/TAG-MRTD/Documents/Tag-Mrtd-20/...
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You can read code in most languages and guess at what it does. But that doesn't mean you can write it - or debug it.

I'm not complaining. Herb Sutter has his arguments for why experts should write code this way.

But I don't think newcomers should attempt to write in this way. You can't understand iterators before you understand pointers, or templates before concrete types and functions, or emplace_back before push_back, or Concepts before classes, or auto before concrete types. You may be able to use them, but you won't understand them, and you'll be useless when things go wrong.

One last illustration: you mention your experience with statically typed languages. But C++ templates provide much less static type checking than non-template code. It is definitely not a place to start.
Not really. BCDs are (can be) four bits per decimal digit. That's something different though.
You are describing it well, but not countering the point I raised with anything other than "yes, but I don't understand how people work so here are some numbers that if people were robots might justify this idea."

But they aren't. So it doesn't.

Peoples reaction would be exactly what I described and your explanation doesn't change that. It just shows you're incapable of understanding why they'd react that way.
I have downloaded a copy from here.

http://www.openingupnorthkorea.com/downloads-2
I work in a group in which nearly every developer has a MacBook Pro, and they are all used pretty much just for this. It's quite common. It's a cheap way of getting a relatively decent Unix workstation. We all use the terminal or iTerm2 for local development and work on remote Linux systems, and around half are vi or emacs users. The rest use a bit of Sublime Text or Eclipse depending upon what they are doing. The mac is useful for maybe 5% of each developer's work, otherwise a Linux box would be just as useful (I'm one of the outliers who uses Linux and BSD nearly exclusively.)

Certainly for our purposes, the new MacBook is pretty sub-par. All the lost connectivity options were used heavily. I doubt when the time comes around to refresh them they will be as compelling as they were in 2011-2012. I'll probably just get a stock Dell or HP and find it massively less frustrating. It's not like the old MacBook Pros didn't make compromises either, but now it's making so many its use is difficult to justify.
Not being able to find volume controls by touch will be infuriating me forever I guess.
Although I doubt personally It would much value for me I can see how TouchBar could be a nice addition to a laptop for many people. If they would have just placed it above the current row of function keys...
I also read about some issues with the power button, sometimes requiring you to close/open the lid. Can;t find it now, does anybody know more about that?
This is true today, under Prop 13. It doesn't help much.
I don't think anyone serious buys this version of the GUT. You'd be spending your time better reading Randy O'Reilly's work (CU Boulder). Or: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking_Innateness
Do you intend on founding your own business or leading other businesses?
I currently jump between 3 clients. All of them have more than one project.
HTTP Sessions under the hood (Apache)
H265 is a patent licensing minefield at the moment.
Forestry can also have very long time lines.

In 2003 a Danish forester (or whatever the title is) reported to the "war ministry" that the oaks ordered 200 years earlier for the fleet were ready.

Article in Danish: http://www.trae.dk/artikel/ps-hr-krigsminister-egen-er-klar-...
We never know, that is what the original parent comment was about. Regarding gradual progression, remember - we are now in a highly connected world, where things move at tremendous pace. And a lot more population have access to the latest information. Just like the invention of the wheel, or the invention of steam engines, or the computers, transistors etc, there could be a tipping point, which could happen today as I write or tomorrow or even after a decade. We can only guess. But looking at the speed of things, I would say the probability of it happening very near is very high and is worth the hype.
LLVM supports arbitrarily sized integer types, but sadly it's not exposed in Rust.

The only language I've seen where this is possible is Julia (which uses LLVM too).
> Every specialization has their own jargon to grok.

True but some communities go out of their way to obfuscate and complicate. I think you might become immune to this stuff if you'd studied related subjects at university but when I hear any of a set of particular words and phrases I begin to get the red mist and start reaching for my favourite book on the Sokal Hoax.
All those attacks are "theoretical". As opposed to actually having been usefull in the wild - FUD (heartbleed otoh.....).

padding -> irrelevent to an RSA public key, everyone has to know the exact modulus and product, even the bad guys (although I recommend keeping public keys relatively secret)

timing -> irrelevent to an RSA public key, there is nothing you can get from how long it takes to decrypt or encrypt even 1024 bits of data (which is more than most impliementations even send), sometimes the exact same data will take 1ms, sometimes 100ms, it depends what else the machine is doing at the time.
Same here for Safari. Feels really awful.
Right, any RTS perhaps?
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Considering the source (of the OS, that is), it begs the question whether these bugs are accidental or deliberate.

Or, put another way - would using a fully patched and hardened Linux distro of some denomination or the other warrant a visit from the secret police, suggesting you revert to using Red Star for -ahem- patriotic and surveillance purposes?
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I am particularly impressed with this interview. The level of self-awareness of cassie of her earlier self really helps the reader understand what it was like truly as a first employee of Kickstarter. I also really love how she managed explaining that although the founders are awesome, they were not perfect in a very balanced way. A lot of interviews I have read like this always tries to make the founders seem like people who have all the answers, but how she explains it, makes it feel like they were just any other company with a vision trying to figure shit out. Which is inspiring/encouraging.

Question:
I get the feeling, Kickstarter feels like a different life for you now. Out of curiosity did your equity at Kickstarter completely vest before you left?
Seriously? Bringing up a researched subject is trolling because I don't know all the answers you're postulating as if I've studied this extensively for years..?

Is this how "scientists" treat new theories? Unless they're bundled into a nice package the theory is completely untouchable?

Please don't tell me that's true because that would mean "science" is a joke. It literally means the community can't think for themselves: they need a leader to prove their understanding.

Pathetic. Call me a troll all you want, but I will never be that pathetic.
Hey I remember that! Jeez I tried to find ways to increase my score.
Life on other planets will likely have these telltale signatures
That's not true and it's a disservice to Linux.
Ubuntu will work out of the box.
So will it variants.
Probably applies to current Fedora variants as well.
Not in Australia. You get to keep the broken parts.
Big data helped Trump even after he scorned it
Cannot imagine him being sarcastic:

around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously.

1-2gb only left is something that greatly lowers the quality of developer time.
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You're pathetic. You're too lazy to think outside your echo chamber, so you completely disregard it BECAUSE YOU NEED GROUP THINK TO HAVE ANY OPINION.

Again, I think you're the most pathetic type of person to exist: a person too lazy and afraid to think outside their own comfort zone.

No? You're comfortable making scientific critiques with absolute no research? Then that is literally more pathetic.
Or Gregory Bateson
Amazon and others are trying this with food delivery, package handling, etc, and either the industry is smaller than the newcomers think it is (food delivery) or the industry is already so low cost that it can't be scaled well unless you have a certain amount of volume consistently transiting your infrastructure, which Amazon and DHL have been unable to hit nearly anywhere.

DHL at this point is just for same day business deliveries (where they have done an excellent job too!) and Amazon is just trying to break even on this being their own shipping company business, which is not going very well.
Yeah looks like they're telling the browser to not cache them for very long. Kinda silly and very bandwidth intensive. Still I don't think that type of minor misconfiguration really says anything about what they're doing in AR.