skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it sounds like the researchers are saying: we are so cool now we can tease you all we want because we can have 10 investors just by snapping our fingers. Sounds a little like a childish revenge after years of crawling for funding. I'm glad they like to raise awareness about hype but I would choose other way
Using their brains?
Nice, I wasn't even thinking of this, maybe at this point powers of 2 is just what comes out of my brain when I reach for an arbitrary number, ha.
How can 2 nuclear powers fight a conventional war?
> it wasn't so long ago that nobody did this for tech

Well, competition for jobs (especially the top ones) has never been so fierce. I remember my first job out of undergrad was programming for a (then) pretty well known hardware company. I cracked open a book on "how to write device drivers" the day before my interview and breezed through the interview and got the job. This would literally never happen today. Interviews (even at no-name "dog" companies) are so much tougher these days and there is so much competition that there is no longer room for mistakes.

These top employers are seen as kingmakers for engineers' careers. It's totally believable that one would spend months (or even years) preparing for a single company's interview.
I believe those EROI numbers also don't include converting the energy into the useful output that you need and so are a a pointless apple-to-oranges comparison

PV output is electricity already, to get electricity from coal you'd need to throw away 2/3rds of the energy as heat, about half for gas, reducing their EROI by that factor in a correct comparison. So if it's electricity you want then PV is already winning over fossil fuels I think.

Similarly, for powering cars with gasoline they're not as efficient in converting that energy "well-to-wheel" as EVs, as the losses in battery storage and electric motors are much smaller, giving you a "miles driven return on energy input" measure about 3x higher for a PV charged car vs ICE.

You can avoid the generation loss on natural gas by piping to the home and burning it directly for heat in areas that need heat, getting close to 100% efficiency with modern central heating systems, but then in those same situations you can use an electric heat pump and get 3-500% efficiency, since you're only moving the heat around, not generating it.
>What about parental controls, schools and libraries filtering proxies, corporate firewall and proxies and all other kinds of filtering software ? what about services such as readability ? Is there a difference between using flashblock so flash ads will only load after being clicked and not having flash installed preventing flash based ads altogether ?

Yes, there is an obvious and fundamental difference. Those are filtering and modifying the product, not the "cost". If you don't want to load explicit content, that is fine. If you want to change the formatting, so what?

But what you are talking about is cutting out the cost. It is like eating at a restaurant, and "customizing" your experience so that you never receive the bill.

>the question should not be whether ad blocking is ethical, but whether it is a moral obligation. The burden of proof falls squarely on advertising to justify its intrusions into users’ attentional spaces—not on users to justify exercising their freedom of attention.

I'm sorry, what? You CHOSE to go to their website. If you don't want "intrusions" onto your "attentional space", then don't go to their website. They are the ones paying to provide the service. They are not "intruding", you are.
The thing about the way ideas about programming are "sold" to other programmers, is that it has as much to do with the actual profession of programming as a typical tween's conception of being a "rockstar" has to do with the actual profession of being a touring musician. A lot of the really vital hard work is glossed over, and huge amounts of attention are paid to certain abstracted "sexy" ideas.

When people watch someone soldering, their attention is drawn to the iron, and to the shiny melted flowing metal. However, it's really cleaning the tip of the iron and having an iron that can provide enough power at the right temperature that matters.
For VCs who focus on AI, I think it would actually be irresponsible if they didn't show interest in a start up that was garnering so much praise from AI experts. Its not as if term sheets were sent.
Doesn't seem like it's a bug with animated gifs, actually (though it could be).

But you're right, we don't support animated gifs.
New collision attack against 3DES blowfish allows cookie decryption [Aug 2016]
This looks like a faster, less intrusive alternative to EasyMotion!
Yes.

Russia and the U.S. are members of the Open Skies treaty, meaning we already allow unarmed observation over each other's land as part of building confidence with each other.
I don't like that you're being downvoted. You're making a fair point. I do like the second half of the article, for the record.

I think that attribution matters; albeit probably more the attribution to Church and Turing than to Steve Russell over McCarthy. It matters because if someone finds the ideas the article brings up interesting and wants to dig into them, they should know where to turn. The history of ideas informs future ideas to come.

I also think understanding the details of high-level ideas matters. The misconceptions about self-interpretation, for example, are quite deep: no language can ultimately be defined in terms of itself, but always in terms of something lower-level. Chase this thread far enough and you start studying transistors; or, in another direction, Goedel's incompleteness theorems.
Hi throwanem. This is an excellent idea. I've created an issue about it in GitLab's issue tracker so we can move forward with it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25771
Thanks for making an idiotic and blatantly incorrect interpretation of my statement.
Funny you say that. Know what I'm doing right now?

Re-encoding MP4s to a slight variant of MP4 so that my demos are visible to Win7 installs. Because they flip out. Known issue, I'm told, but not fixable. Win7 is frozen!

You may not like Win10, but I think Win7 is a ghastly experience that is about as fun as bamboo shoots under one's nails (for developers). It has 0 affordances for modern software development EXCEPT misapplications of the Windows UI. Oh, also before I forget: old Win7 font rendering is substantially uglier than new Win10 font rendering! Critical stuff!

If "just works for email" is your criterion, it's a mistake not to use Chromebooks in the first place.
And Apple wasn't the first to make a touch screen smartphone. They were just the first to do it well.
Of course, if the effort turned out to be a massive wasteful boondoggle, they could say the same thing. How would we know the difference?
An approach to disease that requires virtuous citizens is unlikely to work. And even if we all stopped smoking and getting fat, we would still die a few years later than we would have otherwise. Prevention just means you slow down your inevitable development of cancer until Alzheimers gets you first. Progress on repairing the human body is vastly more important than "preventing" conditions that are inevitable if you live long enough.
Yeah... I don't see how anyone can do a survey of the current state of the art and come to the conclusion that we are definitively not approaching a general solution to AI.

It's just not credible to claim that you know what can be done with all possible combinations of current ideas, much less those that will be had tomorrow.
Well, too stupid to be computer programmers, that much is true.

That sort of statement is tech elitism, not Lisp elitism. Usually out of frustration when dealing with trolls.

I don't believe that there are any programmers who genuinely can't deal with Lisp syntax at least as well as they deal with any other syntax.

There are only trolls who lie in making that claim, and there are trolling non-programmers who tell the truth.

Simplified syntax is mostly a threat to those who hold mastery of some arcane syntax as their principal intellectual achievement: i.e. advanced newbies.

The fact that exactly the same semantics can be expressed in a syntax that lesser newbies can learn in a day is a big threat to someone who spent months memorizing some syntax, because it means something in which they take pride as a great value is actually worthless "fool's gold".

If you're a professional who does a lot of numeric work with arithmetic expressions, working in S-exps will make you grumble, but you can do it.
When Congress decides, before Obama takes office, that they will oppose whatever he suggests, his only meaningful option is to ignore them and do things that they disagree with.

[1] http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-det...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/politics/17mcconnell.ht...
How much does it cost to buy an article in WSJ?
And now he has the post, so even Google can google the magnitude of his devotion to them.
The median employee tenure at Google is only 1.1 years, so clearly lots of people are leaving. [0] They are right in line with much-derided Amazon.

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno...
This isn't journalism, it's an advertisement.
I'm pretty sure you can't get to AGI in the first place without it being to develop it's own goals. Even if you want a straight question answering machine, it's going to have to be able to form it's own sub-goals in order for it to be able to answer your question. Otherwise it's just following a mechanistic process of question answering and a normal computer we have now can do that.
Direct theft of hardware, however, is distinct escalation. The US's 'freedom of navigation' exercises have going on for quite some time.
Indeed.

"The single thing that will shift people off high carbon energy into lower carbon energy is going to be the price...When that situation is broken and free market decides to go for solar it will break like a dam is broken."

The dam just broke.
It's tough to say who will win. After all, the Soviet Union pretty much won WW2 with an enormous human sacrifice as much as the US likes to downplay it.

I agree two sides will do everything possible to avoid direct conflict just like the Cold War.
The whole point of bringing in H1B is to control labor costs and reduce the bargaining power of your domestic workforce. Changing jobs is unfortunately one of the fastest ways to move up the ladder. It defeats the purpose if this valuable bargaining chip is given to H1B visa holders.
This is tangentially related (and wholly anecdotal), but one thing I've noticed is that when dealing with other engineers or managers, it's often very easy to tell who has kids and who doesn't. I find myself drawn towards those who have them because they have a knack for understanding people better and can approach mentorship on another level. Easily the best engineer I've ever worked with had a couple of kids, only worked 30 hours a week, but did more to grow team members than any other engineer has done in 20 hours more per week.

It's not a perfect 1 -> 1 to between kids and age obviously, but working with older engineers (and managers/TPMs) has been invaluable for the growth early in my career and I wish we had more of them.
They're using their billions to buy advertisements like this 'article'.
Discover immortality.
That has slipped into my vocabulary. I moved to Norway, and started learning Norwegian. Folk is one of the words for people, and has some other uses too.

And it crept into my English vocabulary. I think I sound weird when I use it sometimes, but you are the first to point it out :)
Between "tryoldster.com" and "oldgeekjobs.com" it strikes me as a stunning display of blatant ageism. I'm in the second half of my career and I like the idea of writing articles and making the case for hiring experienced men and women.

Venues which seem to explicitly encourage candidates/jobseekers to focus on age violate the spirit of the law if not the letter (29 U.S.C. § 626).
Google Contributor Shutdown
They didn't roll out the red carpet for Obama, you're being stupid.
If the actual work is going well, you can try working under someone else, in a different department, etc. Of course, no one should be treated like this in the workplace. However, it happens because the workplace can really suck.
Sad really? Read the whole article...he even mentioned that by studying hard and setting him self to aim high...even if he does not get into google...he will be so good that he can get hired anywhere else....that is anything but sad
http://www.metosin.fi/blog/schema-spec-web-devs/
> is insulting much as if Premier Xi in China started having friendly chats with the governor of Hawai'i or Alaska while publicly pouring scorn on DC

speaking somewhat loosely, actually there is no "much as if" in this sense. The Chinese have a "face saving is the most important thing" culture, and the US does not. Think of it more like the tribal regions of the -stans: China is metaphorically ready to do some honor killing over this in a way we can't grok. Doesn't mean we should acquiesce of course. I'd perhaps make the analogy that everybody in the Chinese government is as thin skinned as Trump. (I'm exaggerating to make analogies here, no need to jump all over me, of course it's more nuanced.) Meanwhile, our neighboring Mexican politicians publically pour scorn on the US all the time and it doesn't particularly affect our relations (not sure if Trump can take it tho)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

In any case, it would not actually bother the US all that much if China talked to Hawaii, nor does it bother US that China talks to the Philippines; it would be to our benefit if China and the Philippines resolved their differences mutually, and the same with Taiwan; it does bother US that the Philippines would make short-sighted unwise bargains inasmuch as we get the sense that we will be involved in cleaning up the mess later, and inasmuch as it reinforces China's belief that they should throw their weight around more WRT the Biển Đông (the East Sea, off the coast of Vietnam;)
Most of the time there's just a handful of cases to be aware of when communicating with others to avoid offending anyone. And it's actually a pretty stress-free experience if you choose to speak to people in a professional setting using professional, formal language.

This is very much a cultural issue. From my time in Korea, a young person speaking to an older person in a familiar way would've been a major faux pas. On the other hand, the reverse (and consequent potential for put downs on the younger person) seemed quite common (older referring to younger more familiarly than had been earned). Similar experience in Spanish-language communities and cultures. English, particularly American, speaking communities have developed an incredibly tendency towards informality and unearned familiarity in our language. That's not a bad thing, strictly speaking, but it is something to consider.

When you enter into a professional setting, or a setting with people you aren't familiar with, just speak to them in more formal, professional, or polite ways and you are incredibly unlikely to offend someone (outside the occasional, "My father was Mr. Such-and-such, I'm just Bob", or random enlisted Army guy, "Don't call me sir, I work for a living"). It is stress-free if this sort of language is something you practice on a daily basis, it's just how you speak to people.
> OK, it all depends on what the cash flow looks like

I was making $150k/yr, which is pretty standard for a developer in NYC.

> Also, the average apartment in Manhattan (if you do rent without roommates) is pretty close to your cited figure for total monthly expenses.

I take it you don't live in NYC. The average is a useless metric because it's distorted by millionaires and billionaires. Just go on Craiglist and you'll find plenty of suitable apartments in the $2-3k range.

Nobody I know pays more than $3k/m for their apartment. Heck, my friend just rented a beautiful luxury single-bedroom for $2.8k.

In my case, I chose to go for a non-luxury apartment for $1.8k/m. This was definitely a deal, but even though it wasn't luxury there was plenty of space and I even had a back yard.
Sure, but I had to make some assumptions about what was being implied and what might actually be meant, because how do we actually know how many people read the article?

I'll admit, I was using the comment as a springboard to bring up something I wanted to talk about. It wasn't really meant to come across as chiding, which I thought it unfortunately read as after I posted it, which is why I posted the edit, which I'm not sure really helps. It establishes it as me calling out the parent comment, but them tries to offer a way to soften it, and I'm not sure the net result was worth it.
The point is that both void and Unit can only produce a side effect. In everything-is-an-expression based languages Unit is exactly equivalent to void in C*.
I have a few family members like this.

The best way to I've found to collapse this type of deflection, without angering the person, is just to ask them which part of the article in question is biased and wrong, because it causes them to start thinking critically about the information whereas before they weren't even considering it.

i.e. Did China really not say that they captured a submersible drone? Is CNN making up information about what China is saying now? etc.
> Note that here the United States, Britain and China together recognized Manchuria, Taiwan and the islands off of Taiwan as Chinese. Japan would need to extricate itself from Korea.

Doesn't this ignore a long-running civil war around the same time that has some relevance to Taiwan's situation? Namely, which Chinese government was Japan giving Taiwan back too?
Let's be honest here, we both know what you were doing. I'm surprised the mods tolerate this type of virtue signaling and inflammatory behavior. You're clearly trying to bait the person you're responding to.

And you're not even doing it correctly. Gendered pronouns in general shouldn't be used. Please use "Xir" or "Zhe" when referring to a group of individuals whose sex may be female, but whose gender identity is unknown.
I'll tell you what worked for me:

I walked over the bully and told them to their face that I did not appreciate the way they were talking to me. That I will not accept or tolerate being treated the way they were attempting to treat me. I then wrote an email to their manager with what happened, copied the conversation that was had in chat and explained that we are adults and that behavior was not acceptable. Their manager had a talk with them and it hasn't happened again.

I was/am prepared to forward my communication to HR if the time comes where they try to bully again.
I'm sympathetic to the sentiment, but it's unworkable in our anarchic system of nation-states, where there is no authority binding states to any system of justice. There is no international court to appeal to for surveillance warrants. There is no international police force that will quash bad behavior.

As Thucydides observed: "Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

This isn't a statement of how things ought to be, but how they are. Tie your hands at your own peril, for those who gain at your expense might not be so generous.
Ask HN: Best city/country to move my startup to?
Hi HN, I have a startup in the ed-tech space which has good potential but is growing slowly. Meanwhile, my burn rate is 3x here what it would be in Vietnam (for example.) I'm considering moving abroad to extend my runway so that I can get to the next level of my business. Anyone with suggestions/experience/warnings?

Thanks in advance.
Business acumen is a combination of a mindset/attitude + skills relevant to running a successful business. It is best learned by apprenticeship. Failing that, get the best books out there and start reading. Negotiation, organizational behavior, thrift, psychology, forecasting, hiring, execution, sales, etc Read read read. And read some more for the message hidden between the lines. Adjust your behavior to reflect your newfound knowledge. This is my current reading list:

The E-myth by Michael Gerber
Felix Dennis: How to get Rich
Execution; The Discipline of Getting Things Done: RamCharan
Shoe Dog : Phil Knight
> If disaster struck, are you saying it would take you weeks to get your site up and running again?

No, because I'm smart enough not to use bare metal. :)

But if I were running a full bare metal datacenter, then yes, it would. Because I would either need to procure a whole bunch more bare metal or I'd have to move what I've got somewhere else.
They are brigaded to the top. It's profitable.
> unwilling to run the same 60 hour gauntlet that a 25 year old _can_ etc.

Older people _can_ run 60 hour gauntlets. We're just wise enough to know that it leads to no good outcome.
Open Observatory of Network Interference
Yes, I really like Taleb's books because they are about the gap between theory and practice -- and in particular, how to make bets and take action to discover that gap.

His later books go into this too: how academics rewrite history in favor of the ideas they created, but "tinkerers" create history.

I believe he uses the example of the Wright brothers. Were they physicists? No, they were engineers and tinkerers. And what is amazing is that people still argue about the physics of how planes fly!!! Practice often precedes theory.

Whether there's a similar phenomenon in computing is an interesting question. Computing is sort of special because the finished product, a program, is probably the closest thing to a pure idea that you will find in engineering (as opposed to a plane or a telescope). It is created almost entirely in the human mind.

On the one hand, you could say that what you learn in school is idealized and gives academics too much credit. To use a recent example, what was the contribution of Phil Katz vs. academic research in compression? That would make for an interesting essay I would love to read.

What about BitTorrent, or BitCoin? I believe plenty of academics were trying to create systems like BitTorrent, and publishing papers about them, but Bram Cohen said he pulled a bunch of magic numbers out of his butt and dealt with router quirks, and made it work. But certainly he also used computer science.

I like this essay, "Notes on postmodern programming": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16064138633971247...

Some excerpts:

The word “algorithm” is often claimed as the central concept of computer science [35]
“Algorithm”, however, leaves out large amounts of the discipline of programming:
components, patterns, protocols, languages, data structures [76].

There is equal acceptance of high and low culture: Visual Basic and Haskell
are equally of interest, as there is no reason to applaud the one and disparage
the other

Postmodern programming rejects overarching grand narratives.
As a result, it favours descriptive reasoning rather than prescriptive. Rather
than working top down from a theory towards practice, postmodern programming
theories are built up, following practice.
Counterpoint: the continued employment of Wolf Blitzer, The Worst News Anchor In Human History.

All joking aside, CNN is basically TV clickbait, and they're consistently terrible at actual journalism. Their news coverage is basically talking heads that read out the wire service updates for you.

I may disagree with the editorial bent of some of the other news outlets but at least they're competent, provide some context of what a story means, etc. That's really the value-add in journalism versus just having AP Wire provide an RSS feed.

US media is pretty much trash in general though, BBC and Al Jazeera English are where it's at (just don't look to AJE for any hard-hitting coverage of Qatari issues, they won't touch them). Not Al Jazeera America though, they were always terrible compared to AJE's coverage.