skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did authors (e.g. Azimov) came up with fundamental robotic laws?

To criticize them by highlighting their failings in the stories they wrote, in order to show us friendly AI is not an easy problem?
> people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own ... are ignored while companies fawn over people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed.

This is really a regrettable choice of words. There is no "fault" involved in becoming a parent. The point you are trying to get across could have been communicated so much more convincingly if you had checked your attitude. "This is a great first step, but many of us have responsibilities to other family members, also -- sick or disabled parents or siblings, for instance. It would be terrific to see benefits that support those needs as well."

EDIT: It has been (correctly) pointed out that my translation was lossy; I dropped the fact that no one chooses to have a sick sibling, and thus it might be even worthier of compensation / support than parenthood. That was unintentional, and I regret it. I still think there's a less caustic, more productive way to make that point.
Can you recommend an alternative?
I really don't think it's all that much "over engineering".

I mean, if you want images, history, tabs, to support every language under the sun, and support for most platforms, I'd say a browser is a fantastic way to get most of that "for free".
Could someone explain what `index.js`[1] is doing? It looks like code to figure out whether someone is actually reading the article or not but I'm curious why the various timeouts and scroll listeners, and what they're doing exactly.

[1] https://github.com/ncase/ballot/blob/gh-pages/js/index.js
Device Innovation Opportunities in Mixed Reality, Gaming and Cellular PCs [video]
There is no market in predicting where I sleep at night because no one is willing to take the other side of that bet.
All Hail the Pizza Saver, the Tiny Piece of Plastic Protecting Your Pie
Radically Simplified GPU Programming with C# [video]
Exactly! Sure, I can use eclipse. But I'll probably write 10x code if you let me use vim, exactly as I've configured it on my own laptop. I did configure it that way for a reason.
Vue: Easy frontend, I'm still learning this one a bit right now.

Phoenix: Good one if you need lots of concurrency especially for an uptime bot, or a chat service or similar style app. This one's on my to do list.

Laravel (is a very profitable one php is everywhere and has good integration w/ Vue). This is my bread and butter, and I really enjoy using laravel and would recommend it to anyone.
No problem ... I just thought you'd want to know. We're in the beginning stages of container orchestration and have to keep parts of our pipeline and server infrastructure on premises. I'll email you if we have portions that can realistically be put on the cloud.
Is it possible that some people are a burden on the state? If someone is a recidivist violent criminal they might have some redeeming qualities but their net effect may be negative. They have a financial cost on the state and an emotional cost on the people they interact with.

I think one thing that is crucial when we look at titles like "burden on the state" is they are not things that define a person, but may sum up one aspect of their current state. A state that can change.

They are not nice words, but there are individuals that cause problems for society as a whole. Does it do them any favours to sugar coat this?

I don't think the article was suggesting loading them into cattlecars. It's more about finding predictors that can help identify individuals that could be better helped. How awesome would it be if we found a way to turn around these lives before they started getting into trouble.
Ask HN: How did your failed startup affect you and how did you bounce back?
I've come to realise that one of the things that's personally stopped me in the past from starting a company or going independent is this idea I had of what failure looks like.

I've realised that one of my biggest fear of failure scenarios plays out like this: I start some business, it fails and I end up destitute, sleeping on the streets, to never get a job or ever recover again. I realised how much of a nebulous vision that is.

It also occurred to me that this is actually really illogical; I mean, it's not like I'm swimming in savings now and I get by. If I started a venture and it failed, couldn't I just go back into the workforce?

What this really made me consider is that I actually don't know what failure looks like at all.

So, to the HN crowd out there that's been down this road for real, what actually happened when you failed at a startup or at say, transitioning into contracting? How did you bounce back?
My first experience with Stephenson was Snow Crash, and it was an abomination. I tried Cryptonomicon next, and while slightly more coherent, it was the end of the line for me and this guy. Stephenson likes to write like he's smarter than he really is, plots that are literally everywhere, and characters I really don't care about. Let's not forget the third person present tense writing style.

Regarding Gibson, I only read Neuromancer, and enjoyed the writing. Obviously the concepts were ahead of its time, so reading it much later didn't have the same impact. But neat story.
When setting parental leave policy at my company, I suggested making it available for any FMLA(1) suitable absence. This seems to be the most fair way to go about it.

(1) FMLA = Family and Medical Leave Act, a US law requiring employers to offer unpaid leave and hold jobs open for employees who have to be out for an extended period for medical reasons or to care for a family member.
You're probably right. Btw I didn't want to point out flaws in what you said, but b/c I have fond memories of ND. Out of boredom on a gig a couple years ago I even did a clone of the sintran shell, or rather its unique trie-like command completion over hyphens.

Since you seem interested in norwegian IT history,
around 1988 ND had a dept in Kiel/North Germany where I did an apprenticeship and then some freelance work. They did Pascal compilers in cooperation with CAU (Kiel Uni) there, and a commercial system for public libraries.

Very recently, I heard ND also provided computers for controlling parts of the legacy particle accelerators at DESY Hamburg (which is about 3mins from my place).
tech could do a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.
That may be what I'm remembering it from. I've played HL2 with the commentary on, and it would be pretty easy to get HL2 confused with new War of the Worlds.
Puzzles Collector, 0.2 released
I'm going to need a source on that one. That sounds like bunk.
They are static pages served from the same webserver but there was a bug where we were erroneously hitting a DynamoDB table.
I'm actually using the bash that's bundled with git-for-windows as the shell in Hyper and it works great.

Just kind of pointed it to that bash for easy switch and didn't really see a reason to try and find anything else.
It may be possible to anticipate the predictions of others working from the same data if you know what techniques people tend to apply.
A Skip List for Multicore [pdf]
I love the topic of voting systems, but... we can't even get rid of the fucking penny over here. The odds of the U.S. changing its voting methodology are so infinitesimal, I'm having trouble conceptualizing it.
It's actually awesome to hear of someone with the same symptoms (also, I'm terribly sorry, it blows).

For me, I was drinking a ton of soda, like 4+ of those Mexican coca-colas a day. If I would sleep in I would 'miss' the dose and feel like garbage. I loved that stuff. I think the first time I cut it out was just to see if I could and I got very sick. Going back or forth a few more times I noticed that it was withdrawal. For me it's a sinus headache and pseudo-ephedrine (sudafed) really helps (wish I knew that a few years earlier).

I know other people have withdrawal symptoms, but I've never seen any reported as severe as what I get. Maybe people just aren't aware, idk. I started paying a lot of attention after I gave up gluten, to what I was eating and how it affected me. Maybe it's that increased awareness or maybe my body responds differently.

I don't drink at all, same thing about no appeal. That might just be because it's a bit of work to find drinks that are gluten free, and not high fructose (ciders / HFCS syrups) and I'm lazy. I also prefer programming and mental challenges, I really feel a night getting drunk is a bit of a waste. Hanging with the gf, programming, or gaming is more fulfilling to me. It's been long enough that I couldn't even tell you any effects, just that I'm a light weight.

I would happily induce these symptoms if anyone wants to study them. I'm so curious about the science behind it. I'm curious if I built up the reliance on it and if it will go away in time. In 10 years can I eat chocolate again? Drink tea? My diet is really strict now, pretty much meat, rice, and water. I eat chipotle bowls with chips (gotta avoid most the ingredients due to cross contamination though). I haven't seen much science on withdrawal either, though I haven't looked too hard.

There is some science that gluten can be treated as an opiate by certain individuals [1]. That link is for people with asymptomatic celiac disease, you also hear it come up in association with Autism [2].

1. https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41043-015-0...

2. http://www.autism-help.org/intervention-casein-gluten-free.h...
> Both the Intelligent Alien and Simulation ideas just push the question of 'purpose' up a level

They do, but while the 'kid in his garage running the simulation' may have no purpose, I guess the article author is suggesting that in a simulation our 'purpose' is to let the experiment play out and entertain this transcendental 'kid'.
Ask HN: LMS(learning mgmt system) designed for distributed part-time workforce?
Looking for an learning management system designed for part-time flexible distributed workforce.

Most seem to be for full-time employees and are priced accordingly.
You're arguing that because the info on rsync.net is contained in other Wikipedia pages, there's no point in having an rsync page. But the page discussing ZFS support doesn't link to the discussion of the warrant canary, i.e., there's nowhere to go to find all the rsync.net info on Wikipedia. And the reason to not have this page is...because it's too much of an exposed surface for bad actors?
No, there's no connection, as far as I know.

Facebook bought the Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft. However, Microsoft outsourced its non-Bing ad sales business to AOL, along with 1,200 staff.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/aol-is-taking-over-microsofts-...
I'm not really criticizing. I've not had a TV in the house for 20 years but I watch plenty of TV via the Internet. It's better for all the reasons you mentioned. I just don't feel right saying I don't watch TV.
How do you turn these predictions into cash?
Hillbilly Elegy is excellent and touches on some of the points, but really just read conservatives. We're not exactly shy about what we don't like about modern liberalism. Go peruse the pages of National Review or Commentary Magazine.
Point taken, and yes, that is a big difference, but specifically the actions of the black elites were super weird. More weird than you would expect from someone who just postulates that when the chips are down, we run with our race brothers.

It was the weirdly sexualized race and gender based cannibalism that I think puts it over the line, not the actions of Joe, except in the context of the former.

I mean I see what he was trying to do, but rather than basing his African elites on anthropological evidence, or on real white cultures that were horrible to other races, (which would have gotten his point across better, I think,) he based them on the most disturbing (and to me, last believable or sympathetic) racial fears of the time, and because of that, it is kinda uncomfortable.
Here's the research paper.[1] "At 3 years of age, each child in the cohort participated in a 45 minute examination that included assessments of neurological soft signs, intelligence, receptive language and motor skills. The examiners (having no previous knowledge of the child) then rated each child’s frustration tolerance, resistance, restlessness, impulsivity and lack of persistence in reaching goals. This examination yielded a summary index that we have termed brain health, a global index of the neurocognitive status of three-year-old children. Variation in brain health at three years of age significantly predicted economically burdensome outcomes in each sector, except injury claims."

The Prof. Terri Moffitt quoted in the article has a web site.[2] The data seems to come from the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, where all 1,037 babies born in the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, between April 1972 and March 1973 were followed for their entire lives.[3]

[1] http://www.moffittcaspi.com/sites/moffittcaspi.com/files/fie...
[2] http://www.moffittcaspi.com/content/terrie-moffitt
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITcsYRjZuo
2017 will be the year of “Augmented Writing”
The Future of Cities
You've stated all of that as fact, when there's some debate about some of it.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Page 209 onwards.

It's worth reading those few pages, but here are some snippets.

> Products sweetened with HFCS are not necessarily significantly higher in fructose than foods sweetened with sucrose as HFCS has a similar composition to sucrose, which is 50% glucose and 50% fructose.

> The body absorbs free fructose and glucose, or the same sugars derived from sucrose and HFCS, in exactly the same way. Therefore it appears unlikely that fructose, as consumed as a component of most HFCS or other glucose-fructose syrups, causes metabolic abnormalities or promotes weight gain more than other sugars consumed in an isocaloric diet (Klurfeld et al., 2013).

Especially this:

> A3.10 Therefore on balance, it is considered that there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that fructose intake, at levels consumed in the normal UK diet, leads to adverse health outcomes independent of any effects related to its presence as a component of total and free sugars.
The first month without caffeine was absolute misery for me. After that it improved. I normally would come home from work and do work on personal projects. For that month I just couldn't, it was horribly depressing. If it had kept up for 6 months I would probably be drinking caffeine again.
Yes, we can kick off a kubernetes deployment based on the pipeline rules you specify from any CI server that can make an API call to our service.

So you can use Jenkins or Gitlab CI or any other CI you like and when that system reports a CI pass we can kick off the deploy to your k8s cluster.
HP Spectre x360 review: the best Windows laptop of 2016
That's exactly what it's doing -- it's trying to figure out if your viewport is looking at the content 'above the fold', so that it can show the "splash iframe" [1] while you're looking at it, and stop JS-animating it when you're not.

[1] http://ncase.me/ballot/splash/splash.html
I suspect Gary Johnson getting chosen by a Borda count isn't as weird/surprising as the number of question marks implies. Caveat: I didn't see a raw distribution of preference orders on the Vox survey; if it's linked somewhere, I missed it. But I think Johnson is effectively acting as a compromise candidate: a lot of Clinton voters really hate Trump and a lot of Trump voters really hate Clinton, enough that they'd both prefer Johnson over the other candidate, even if they don't actually know much about him, or even mildly dislike him. Borda count tends to choose compromise candidates, so that's what you end up with. Now, Johnson's policies are fairly fringe and weird, and so are the other third party candidate's (Stein), but that's because serious candidates don't run on third party tickets that have no chance of winning. If the election was actually conducted using a Borda count, you'd probably see a number of relatively boring centrists running, and one of them would win instead of Johnson - which is a perfectly reasonable result. Well, except that that would also fundamentally change the coverage of the race, so there's no reason to expect the election would go anywhere near the same way overall (it would probably be less polarized), but the point is that to the limited extent the survey results reflect this hypothetical world, they don't cast it in a bad light.

Edit: Also, I like Clinton, but her being the Concordet winner doesn't mean much in terms of that world either. When almost all of the ballots give the top rank to one of two candidates, whichever of the two gets more votes is the Concordet winner. But that's only the case because of first-past-the-post, both because there aren't any good third-party candidates (neither centrist nor extremist), and because the structure of the race strongly encourages voters to sign up for one bandwagon or the other .
That does deserve deeper consideration, but the page is already long for an intro for a mass audience, who need to hear about this if it's to make a difference. Also it seems very unlikely for strategic voting to become a worse problem for approval voting or score voting than it is for the systems we're stuck with right now. Perhaps they'd end up making no difference, though I doubt it. If you feel like writing up your thoughts on this, or pointing to a good writeup, I'd be interested.
The linked file is a companion to the wonderful BBS Documentary.
Their point does hold water, given that as soon as you decide not to work for the company, you're SOL. "Universal" would imply that I get it regardless of what company I work for.
IMO, we should abolish elections entirely and select legislators by lottery out of pools of people who pass qualification exams. Random selection has a lot of benefits. There have been a number of studies on its use in promoting workers in the private sector. Sortition has a long history of use in government, from ancient Greece, to the Irish constitutional convention of 2012.

Elections inherently favor those who desire power over other, demagogues, and narcissists. They also result in the creation of an insular political class, which often trends towards oligarchy.
The current nuclear arsenal is over 2000 times greater than all of the munitions used in WWII (including the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

* The total energy of all explosives used in World War Two (including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs) is estimated to have been three megatons of TNT

* The total global nuclear arsenal is about 30,000 nuclear warheads with a destructive capacity of 7,000 megatons or 7 gigatons (7,000 million tons) of TNT
In case you're wondering about how we knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, sexist, racist, homophobic conservatives really think

Spare us the martyrdom schtick.

Mark Steyn Dinesh D'Souza, Mark Levin, or Ann Coulter would be a much closer approximation

Oh come, you have much greater intellectual heavyweights on the right. Why not cite William S. Lind or Paul Weyrich, or the brilliant strategic analysis of the Council for National Policy?
> There are many ways to achieve a sense of self-worth besides grinding away in a cubicle to make someone else rich.

I kind of read it that many people don't know of any other way to achieve a sense of self worth. They've worked for so long and it has become such a big part of their identity that they don't know what else to do with their time.
For the rest of us, what is the TLDR of what Elsevier is?
Not a solution. Leaving it up to massive cashed up corporations only isn't fair. It hurts small businesses who cannot pay this. It needs to be mandated at the government level, means tested and subsidized. One more advantage to mega corporations and one more weakness for small business, add it next to the health insurance clusterf*.

You also need a huge cultural change in the American workplace, where people act like an employee taking time off will crash the whole company. Theyve hardly even heard of maternity leave contracts here.
Well, mostly one form. The religious one.
Totally fair - I developed the tool for a product that won't be released until early next year so the cost savings are estimates based on expected production volumes. Its performance in a lower volume development environment has been consistent, however.
And for another naive question: Why kind of practical/"boring" things can be done with this kind of hardware?

I'm in Latin America, and wonder which kind of niche could be satisfied with this, for more "normal" kind of customers.
The Telegraph is a UK Right of centre newspaper. This "burden of the state" language is prominent amongst similar newspapers, and the Telegraph is actually much less horrible than other similar papers.

I agree with you though.
CentOS has a different versioning scheme now with v7. Indeed you're correct this is effectively CentOS 7.3, but in the project's own vernacular it's "CentOS 7 (1611)", therefore the OP is technically correct; however to appease all parties may have benefited from putting both 7.3 and 7 (1611) in the title.
Clarity.fm could be a low commitment way to do this
Active sitting on SpinaliS – solution for back pain?
Disclaimer: I have no experience implementing any kind of ML.

How easy will it be to update your model if/when the downstream process changes?

At a previous job we had a process that relied heavily on visual inspection from employees. I often considered applying ML to certain inspection steps, but always figured it would be most useful for e.g. final inspection to avoid having to update the models frequently as the processes were updated.
Is there a particular reason you were running the controller regularly with just one AP?

I used the controller once to setup my AP and haven't touched it since.
Good to know. There wasn't a serious visible change, so that would make sense.
We have our own software to create k8s clusters in AWS using weave for networking. We looked at kube-up etc but our customers wanted functionality that didn't force them to create a brand new VPC created but instead just launch multiple clusters in an existing VPC.

FYI we are going to release our kube laucher as open source in the next few months. If you sign up for our mailing list or email me at rsingh@distelli.com (or follow us on twitter / fb) i'll notify you when thats available if you're interested.
What if we're just a school science experiment for a higher intelligence? Like some kid's ant farm, where we are the ants!
Hey word on the street is Fitbit didn't take many of the hardware people from Pebble. (Not sure why?) But if you're a hardware person from pebble reading this then reach out to me, I'd love to take you out for coffee and have a chat! :)
Harvard's newest student startups
I don't think he'd have a problem with it considering he released the specification for the Zip format freely[1].

[1] https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
If you're interested in WiFi access points beyond the consumer level but still affordable, check out Mikrotik. It's a Latvian company that makes really cool stuff. Their cheapest dual band ac access point is around $40, very small and nicely designed, PoE in and out, and works together with their ecosystem of access points and routers. They are almost endlessly customizable through ssh, a web interface, or a Win32 program (supported on Wine).

I only got my first Mikrotik a few days ago but I love it so far. Haven't yet actually connected it to another one so I can't really comment on using several access points.
What's the Harvard student startup landscape like? Do you think student founders can actually be valuable assets and bring unique viewpoints to the table?