skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if time is somehow "leaky", if the barrier between future and present is not absolutely, 100% impenetrable, then it's quite a distinct possibility that a future superintelligence would meddle into the affairs of its own past, perhaps with the goal of enabling its own existence.

Both general relativity and quantum mechanics seem to suggest that time is not perfectly linear (GR) and not perfectly crisp or perfectly clearly delineated (QM). Of course, there is a long way from these suggestions to time travel - but the thing is, you don't need time travel in the pop-sci sense. All you need is a "leak" of some interactions, however tenuous, from the distant future into the present. You only need to manipulate the states of a tiny number of particles in the brains and/or chromosomes of various creatures, affecting the wave functions of a few atoms and then allowing the effects to play out from there.

To be sure, this is very highly speculative, and I'm not suggesting this is what is actually happening. I'm just saying - if this, then that. Or, to put it in clearer terms, the conditions are:

1. Time is ever so slightly "leaky".

2. A vast, extraordinarily powerful superintelligence will emerge in the future, or humanity will in effect be that for all practical purposes.

It would be essentially the equivalent of God leaving biologic evolution and human progress mostly to their own devices, but once in a while putting his thumb on those respective scales. In this scenario, evolution would be a bipolar process: powered by the usual push of genetics, natural selection, etc at the bottom, but also informed by the pull of a future ideal at the top.

Going much further, kickstarting life, or even triggering the beginning of this Universe could also be targets of interest for manipulation.
I'm still happy with KeePass. Currently using one of my cloud-drive folders to manage my password files (at this point I have some context-specific side files), but debating switching over to a Resilio Sync share (possibly an encrypted share with a "know nothing" backup node in the cloud somewhere).
I'm not sure how seriously you were proposing this, but I would rank it's plausibility as being in the vicinity of Guam tipping over and sinking from the weight of a military base.

Inside traders are usually caught because they make profitable trades shortly before significant company events, or they're caught communicating with the tipper. This wouldn't protect from that.

Once they're being investigated having a plausible reason for making the trade is mostly irrelevant. If you have no reason other than inside information for trading and just say "I felt like gambling" it doesn't matter. If they can't actually prove you had the inside information you're innocent.

If they can prove you had illegal inside information it doesn't matter if you can prove that you made the trade for unrelated reasons. You're guilty.
Does Digital Ocean come with a cape and a motorcycle like Amazon Lightsail?
It really depends on what work you're doing. Source: I forgot my headphones today, and here I am posting on HN rather than focusing on real work.

I found out a long time ago that listening to any music at all impedes my writing ability; whatever module of the brain is responsible for evaluating what I'm saying is jammed by the positive evaluations of what I'm listening to, and without aesthetic feedback one's output is lackluster at best. Code requires a different kind of aesthetic judgement, so this doesn't necessarily apply for programming- but there again, I concur with at least one point in the article; music with lyrics messes with my ability to code. Again, it seems as if there's some brain module that can't handle the two demands at once very well.

You know what music works best (IMHO) for distraction-dampening while retaining all necessary brain functions? House. No lyrics (usually), an energetic beat, and it constantly skirts the edge of unacceptable repetitiveness while at the same time having a texture sufficiently complex to (in the article's interesting phrasing) "keep you psychologically aroused."
Yes I know. Your argument sounds like you're justifying the notability guideline primarily by appealing to its implication for verifiability, and I'm asking why you don't just require verifiability (and possibly making it more stringent).
Half Life 2 (2004) uses it some for various alien ships. (new War of the Worlds: 2005, Cloverfield: 2008)
IIRC, that's true for the 'classic' transforming sound. The "wub---wub---wub--wub--wub-wub-wubwubwub" from every Michael Bay movie ever is a different story.
Network effects and legacy. Redhat was around long before Ubuntu, and they have a lot of inertia.
> I'm skeptical of the value of electron-ified applications when fully native alternatives suffice.

Me too, although in the case of terminal apps, they really haven't moved on since the 70s. How many support images? Completion popups? Browsable history? Current directory widget? Collapsible output?

Honestly if it takes some insane over-engineering to get some actual innovation in terminal apps I'm all for it! And when I say "innovation" I mean "obvious features that should have been there decades ago".
Ask HN: How to use AI/ML for improving software development process
Do you use AI/ML to make your everyday tasks as a software engineer easier? Are there mature ML based products for bug-detection, coding-defects identification, or other areas of software development?
We're a very retention focused energy company. I just signed up for a trial. Count me interested! :)
As this article points out, Zimmer "scores more movies than he actually does" because he's built a kind of film score workshop where dozens of collaborators turn out scores in his style by the bushel.

I first discovered this when Pandora spun up a rousing number from Klaus Badelt's Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack and I swore I was listening to Gladiator. Badelt is a longtime Zimmer collaborator.

It's interesting that Zimmer himself took credit for composing the music for the Pirates sequels once the franchise was an (unexpected) smash.
Because the political spectrum really is a 2d (if not 3d or 4d) field. Progressive <-> Conservative and Liberal <-> Authoritarian. If it were really just two candidates then perhaps there would be just once metric to track.
Disagree. I'm talking about building basic editor muscle memory and knowing the base set of ex commands that you can use literally anywhere. For that matter I'd say what's really important is that you learn ex.
Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver (whereas glucose is useful in the rest of the body) so in terms of generating energy it's not particularly useful, but your liver has to deal with it. If your liver gets more fructose than it can use, it turns it into fat which is stored on the liver, leading to fatty liver disease and insulin resistance (same thing with alcohol).
Slavery has thousand faces.
NB: if your purpose is understanding such a messy thing as a human social group then reading about how they present themselves as thinking isn't really more or less informative than reading about how they are inferred from the outside to think. You'd need both views and some understanding of how they act (regardless of rhetoric) to get started.
"No, we don't. We don't make them do anything."

Yes, we do. This ignoring of reality, and what it requires to survive is really damn old.
A pleasing explanation is that it is a book store.

(I'm not saying it is a good or likely explanation)
I think the discussion is severely lacking a proper consideration of how strategic voting affects the systems it likes best. For example, score voting encourages people to exaggerate their preferences, and approval voting makes it non-trivial to figure out who you should approve.
net core

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Agreed. Evolution doesn't even have a purpose, let alone a higher one. Also, fusion doesn't have a purpose, nor does gravity.
CMDER.
Thank me later :)
A handy Lorem Ipsum generator
Lattice Path Enumeration [pdf]
2 dimensions is required for the examples with a third candidate.
Verifying Software with Timers and Clocks
Disclaimer: I know nothing about ML.

Would the standard models used allow for the fact that humans could, after buying a coffee table, choose to click on the coffee table in anticipation of then getting suggestions for similar furniture. Presumably the machine sees that the end goal of those continually clicking the same item is actually to arrive at similar items .. but wouldn't it be an obvious optimisation for Amazon to set the ML up to already look deeper than the first page reached.

I have a similar thing with Amazon, I don't know how you're supposed to access the bestseller list for a product type. I just know that if you search a product and follow related products that you eventually get a "#5 in ObscureProduct" tag and that tag takes you to the list of the top-10 models of ObscureProduct available. That sort of learnt navigation must play havoc with a suggestion algo (but IMO would be very easy to fix with just a link for any specific enough item to the 'top 10 in this category').
I know it's popular on HN and Reddit to bash the MBP, but could be just me.. I love my new 2016 MBP 15". Haven't experienced any issues with battery life. Use it to program on and have been very satisfied with it.
They don't have data access controls and monitoring?

Doing something like this at Facebook would get you promptly fired.
Sneaking into Techcrunch Disrupt 2016
Thanks.

Are they meshed like Eero, or does each AP have to have a physical connection to your lan?

Edit: also, would you mind sharing the model you're using?
Ask HN: What are the traits unique to a software developer?
Npm shrinkwrap allows remote code execution
I haven't kept up with React like I should. When you say they're undergoing a re-write, is this going to be like Angular 1 vs Angular 2? I just took a quick look at their react fiber demo page [0], is it going to be opinionated react as redux based? That's the vibe I'm getting from this.

[0] http://reactbits.github.io/fiber/
>> " If you are a US taxpayer and have tournament winnings, you will be required to submit to Numerai a Form W-9 with your Taxpayer Identification Number, and you will receive from Numerai a Form 1099."

Bit of a stretch to say they do not know any of the names of coders.

Anyone know how many valid W-9s they've received? Seems like if the user was connecting from an IP in the US that the user would need to prove they're not a US taxpayer.
Except that there already exists a whole special mechanism for patrolling frequently created-then-deleted pages.

You only need to lock stub articles that repeatedly have people add unverifiable info to them.

Finally, if the pages doesn't exist, then anyone who wants to exercise the "option...to quickly add coverage" doesn't have access to the info that would have been contained in the stub!
Autopsy.io – Lessons from Failed Startups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLRhV1rWIpm_pU19bBm_2RXw&...

Counterpoint.
I think that's mintty, the Cygwin terminal emulator. It's the one I use, even with bash on windows (there's a variant called https://github.com/mintty/wsltty)
I was wondering the other day if anyone had applied this technology to EKGs. Do you also do that?
In general, different sorts of laws cover care of a relative. Besides, it would be the same sort of leave as if your child is sick.

In this case, it is more of a health issue (for women). They just gave birth. To a new human. It hurt, and people die from it. And afterwards, the infant has special needs for a while. This truly isn't the same as taking care of an elderly parent or a sibling.
Yeah GPL violations aside they make good stuff
Inequality Is Killing the American Dream
Yeah, I think that would have been a good idea, too, especially as they kicked it off with a "Tell HN". I think they chose to address it as it came up in the comments. That said, this is getting off-topic :)
As you allude later on, selection for environmental fitness is not the only form of selection. Blonde hair need not confer a survival advantage if at one point it conferred a reproductive advantage. That's sexual selection.

In some cases, traits can be disadvantageous in terms of survival but immensely advantageous reproductively.
Both the Intelligent Alien and Simulation ideas just push the question of 'purpose' up a level. Sure, the aliens may have a purpose, but if they are themselves a cosmological purposeless accident then by extension it's arguable that so are we.
Agequake: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2001290.Agequake
Gosh. You're really not getting it. They're not losing funding because of anything specific to their research (yet). Congress passed only a single budget covering the whole government in the last 8 years! They're only keeping the government funded by continuing resolutions that keep all allocations flat-line. The drop in funding he's talking about is from inflation when the budget is flat year-over-year.
Exactly.
>"Myth number three: Evolution couldn’t have a purpose, because it doesn’t have a direction."
"
>"on balance evolution tends to create beings of greater and greater complexity"
Just because something has a direction doesn't mean it has a purpose. A warm body cools, that is a direction, but there isn't an invisible man in the sky causing that, it is simply a law of thermodynamics.
One of the best and examples of this is the bald eagle.

In life, it sounds kind of weedy. In hollywood and TV, it sounds suspiciously like a red-tailed hawk.

So an iconic bird has an iconic sound, but it's not real.
Sure, just like we don't make people work in order to have food and shelter.
I use zero handoff. proof is easy. connecting to a wifi L2 network for me takes ~ 500ms, i can unplug each station in turn and observe no loss of connectivity at all for that duration

note that unifi does not mention requiring controller running (and i do not have mine running ever and it works)
When talking about the effect of voting systems on elections, something I think is overlooked is the game-theoretic implications on the candidates.

Take the second diagram in the article and move the candidates around. What's the optimal strategy? To move as close to your opponent as possible, while staying closer to the centre.

Now take the diagram with three candidates, and move them around. What's the optimal strategy? To move as far away from both opponents.

This works even if you consider an n-dimensional space for every conceivable issue. Two-party system encourages both parties to move towards the centre. Three- (or more) party system encourages them to spread out.
perhaps you should change your Amazon password...
Looks cool, but for some weird reason I was expecting something related to Apple's HyperCard <3 :D
AWS Managed Services – Infrastructure Operations Management for the Enterprise
When the "choice" is to not be able to earn a living, it's not a choice.

And I see no problem with a government mandate for it. Because that provides "choice" for the new parents. Your way usually denies them that choice.
Getting to the Heart of It: Novel Discovery Could Help Reverse Brain Damage
Useful info and analytics about Do you know a lot about Second-Level Domains (SLD)
High protein, maybe, hi fat, not really sure. Sources?
The integration into Angular 2 was actually fairly seamless once I added vulcanize into the build process.
"You never get fired for hiring Zimmer"
Visa credit card brute force for CVV and Expiration date from the number [pdf]
I know this just sounds like me being jaded and cynical but being completely open and honest: I feel like filmmaking lost me some time in the last 10 years or so. Might be because of age, I don't know, but I used to be a huge film buff, huge. If you had me filling out a bio about myself and asked me to list interests then "Movies" would be right up there at the top of the list. I loved going to movies, I loved watching them at home, I loved talking about them, I loved knowing little facts and details about them. I used to be able to tell you the name of any major production company from the first half-second of their intro. I used to watch individual scenes over and over again until I memorized them.

Filmmaking was always a delicate balance between creators and business, and I feel like the 2000s are when business finally took over. I'm reminded of the famous morning meeting scene in Robert Altman's "The Player" where a new hotshot producer explains why he thinks creativity should be removed entirely from the filmmaking process, and proceeds to describe an alternative that is horrifyingly close to what we have today.

I have absolutely no illusions about Hollywood prior to my disillusionment. It's always been a cesspit, but it was a beautiful cesspit that seemed to create wonder in spite of itself. Now it's basically just Disney-in-screen-form, everything - and I mean everything - is carefully driven by the beancounters. The last little vestiges of creativity and brilliance were finally squeezed out by the arrival of global markets. Bland, boring sells.

And I read threads like this where people argue about how lazy filmmaking isn't really lazy filmmaking because X Y or Z and all I think is you're moving deck chairs on the titanic. This isn't about soundtracks or sound effects, it's about movies-as-business rather than movies-as-entertainment.

I get it makes the companies major bank, and I get that there's no going back. I'm not ranting saying we should regress. But speaking personally movies went from a big part of my life to something I find extremely off-putting, boring and frankly a little stupid.

I miss enjoying movies.
Panasonic Introduces Checkout Machines That Scan and Bag Items Automatically
I'm not saying it has to rank #1, I'm saying it has to move up any amount.

Renaissance Technologies obviously is a good name to tout but they could have invested for reasons that don't apply to other investors, such as keeping an eye on a new/competing technique in case it bears fruit.
Thanks for linking that. Interesting read about an experiment I hadn't heard of.
1Password. Can run 100% local(how I run it). It is Commercial, but on a Mac, especially with tools like https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss , it's totally the best there is, integration wise, and speeds up productivity an amazing amount while staying pretty secure.
The actual questions will probably never be distributed publicly, if they are planning on actually using this for something. If people can see what the questions look like ahead of time, it can bias them and lead to inaccurate results, so it's standard practice in psychology to keep the details private.

But yeah, there isn't a lot of content here regardless.
The argument is that money is uncorrelated to "job-satisfaction" which is believable, but using that to somehow conclude that you'd keep chasing "job-satisfaction" after no longer needing a job doesn't make any sense.

Of course there are plenty of other things that can make a well-paying job unpleasant. But the very idea of "job-satisfaction" presupposes a job in the first place. Why would anyone who didn't need a job care about how satisfying a particular job is? There are many ways to achieve a sense of self-worth besides grinding away in a cubicle to make someone else rich.
I can live with that and most of the other audio clichés. Hell, I sometimes even like them.

But one thing that pisses me off is that everyone is using the same goddamn sample for wind effect.
thanks for including some fiction! so many "data" people miss out on so much because they mistakenly assume something that "didn't happen" can't help or enrich their understanding of what is.
No added sugar (or stevia or aspartame either). In the months after I quit I had a cookie or a chocolate croissant here and there and always woke up with a sinus headache the next day. I can eat berries and most fruit with no problems, but not bananas. I still have sinus trouble, a kind of a raw feeling in my nose most of the time, but without sugar in my diet I don't have constant mucus, congestion, and chronic sinus infections. I also take Allegra (fexofenadine) daily and use the Neilmed sinus irrigation when the raw sinus feeling is bad.

The other thing is my appetite decreased enormously and I lost about 25 pounds without trying. I actually decided to gain a little weight because I got too thin.
Do you think he's eternally mediocre, or is his recent stuff worse? Is all scifi mediocre? Is the problem that Stephenson "crossed over" and got more mainstream credibility?

Is Gibson also mediocre?
The conclusion of the study is that the failure rate is still high. I can't read the paper, but if that failure rate is too high for use in humans is an opinion, not a scientific fact.

I'm a little cautious and I prefer to avoid experiments with human cloning until the technique is more reliable. But this is only a taboo, not a scientific fact. It's like avoiding to use the carcass of your recently dead neighbor as a bow target. (This may be even be illegal where you live.)
I think it's important to separate health and obesity when considering exercise. A large body of evidence shows us that exercise makes you healthy. A smaller body of evidence shows that exercise helps prevent obesity. But there is virtually no evidence that shows exercise has a large part to play in curing obesity.
I work at an ISP with some gems that you just cannot find anywhere, in any language. We cannot just replace or rewrite them, some have been around for almost 10 years.
hi mmsmatt, you mentioned your worked on the weather/ag space, is it ok to ask you a few questions? thank you!
I wonder if in the end there will be just a single model, and a single faceless coder who actually makes the best predictions, and the whole of Numerai will be just an elaborate way of finding that particular person and his model to make the market.
Here's the URL to Heaven: https://heaven.uberinternal.com/

Heaven shows a top down view of all drivers in a city, updated live and with historic time travel capacity. Uber employees with 'tools access' can open heaven in for any city in any country.

Heaven has many filters and overlays. For example, you can see an indicator every time a rider opens the Uber app (nickname: eyeball).

You can click on a car to see the driver's name, photo, and their license plate. If they are on a ride, you can see the riders information with another click.

You can also search directly for a rider or driver with their name, email OR phone number. You can also write SQL that is executed on a read only replica that contains 99% of the Uber database; the only columns that are excluded are credentials (I.e. Braintree payment tokens, password hashes).

While access is logged, spot checks are practically unheard of and SQL exports of _all_ drivers and/or riders of a particular city is commonplace and not questioned; and these CSVs can be obviously queried offline without a paper trial.

Some employees have the ability to remove entries from access logging.
An Inside Look at Stack Overflow [video]
To that end, I have a simple benchmark that I run:

find /

Well crap. Years ago during an phone interview for a position that wasn't going to use Python, I was discussing that the current python script was exponential, then I wondered what would happen if I just let it run. It very quickly completely froze my laptop. In VisualWorks Smalltalk, I would have been able to Ctrl-Y interrupt into the "emergency evaluator." Python has nothing like an "emergency evaluator." How uncivilized of it! Interpretation of my interviewer: I am a stupid fake programmer person who doesn't understand exponential time/space complexity. [sigh] -- No I just don't understand why someone would build a tool like that! I guess I was spoiled.
Plus Snowden didn't study game theory at Harvard and he wasn't schooled on the utility of leaks.
The Diamond Industry Wants Millennials to Buy More, So They Called Nick Cannon
We're a zoo for a higher intelligence? Joke is on them, reality is a simulation! Turtles.