skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

To the creator of this site:

Take into consideration the commonality between all of these:

https://www.python.org/

https://golang.org/

https://www.rust-lang.org/

https://dlang.org/

http://elm-lang.org/

http://plt-scheme.org/

Each of these language homepages clearly explains that they are introducing a programming language. This new racket-lang.org page doesn't. It has a huge impact on what users will think when they load the page.

The PLT Scheme homepage is leagues better than the new Racket one because it tells me exactly what it is for. Don't let yourselves go backwards.
Given he has been a longtime libertarian/GOP, he probably is using elitists as a euphemism for liberals. And, he isn't wrong about Vail in that sense.
Ask HN: Any advice or lessons learned as a Software Engineer
I just turned 26 and find myself to be slowing down.

I am a SR. Software Engineer for a mid sized marketing company (120 engineers), I own properties (bank won't give me any more loans), and brainstorm daily for niche ideas to make ANY impact in the industry (failed a couple times).

I feel like my career has become a slow crawl, only to progress with the tenure and time. Unfortunately, I am impatient, and would like some advice from the successful guys out there, and lessons learned from the guys willing to give it (negative or positive).

Thanks!
How does one secure a deer to their bumper anyway? I figured a better place would be the roof or the bed of a truck. A Google image search for "deer on the bumper" only turns up roadkill.

I'm beginning to think either these quotes are fake or James Hetfield doesn't actually hunt.
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority
Home site seems to have CSS layout issues on my Nexus 6p.
If you or your employer would be totally cool with giving away the stuff you make money off or were funded to do, sweet as.

What do you commercially work on btw? Can I have a copy? Got a link?
So it begins:
http://craphound.com/scroogled.html

This is an incredibly worth while read by Cory Doctrow that has only gotten more pertinent.
Colorado's way better than Texas.

>Coloradan living in Texas
"Deer on the bumper" is a common saying for "attached to car for transport". I'm sure he has it in the back of a truck.

Edit: James hunts. Well known. Don't be silly.

http://www.thatsnonsense.com/images/giles2.png
Total Inactivity from IBM. Re: IBM Considers Donating Power8 Servers to OpenBSD
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240497
Throwing away big chunks of your company for VC cash before you've done a lick of work is risk taking?
This is followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12757594 .

IBM didn't do anything this year. Seems they're officially out of budgets for donating 10 Power8 devices to open source.
I was under the assumption that at some point in the US, there were "fake personas" who didn't exist, but their proof of citizenships did (ssn, birth certs etc).

What I am trying to say, i guess, is someone will make money out of this, manufacturing fake twitter profiles with real looking history.

Now, the thing is, though, it's hard, because at some point your "followers" and "followings" have to be real people that interact with you ideally.
I thought the same thing :) How did things get so complex :)
> and a lot of people maintain minimum activity on social media

I suspect that's a fraction of a percent. Are there any cites for higher numbers?
good reason is very relative, i guess.

You can find extremists in any nation/religion, and it doesn't make much sense to make life hard for _everyone else_.
Well, the thing is there is no such thing as 'machine intelligence', so it's all just an assumption on top of an assumption about a thing we don't have a very good grasp of yet.

You're essentially saying that the author is wrong for saying the philosopher's stone can't transmute 100 bars of iron to 100 bars of gold, because a philosopher's stone could absolutely do that type of thing, because that's what philosopher's stones do.

To walk down arguing the merits of this position, why must a machine intelligence 'not share any of that complexity' of a human intelligence? What suggests that intelligence is able to arise absent of complexity? Isn't the only current example of machine intelligence we currently have a property of feeding massive amounts of complex information into a program that gradually adjusts itself to its newly discovered outside world? Or are you suggesting that you could feed singular types of information to something that would then be classified as intelligent?
I don't know what to say; what I said applied in both rural Idaho and Texas. People don't exactly bring it up in conversation, as it's kind of unfortunate. Dogs aren't nearly as much of a problem as hogs here in TX, but people do have to deal with them occasionally. It's usually not an issue because farmers know to keep their dogs chained/fenced up or to train them not to wander around.
This is awesome for playing with ideas and testing features!
I'm shocked Fox News was able to unearth something this newsworthy!
I think the current state of deep neural networking designs and research funding pouring into generalizing the simple neural nets we're working with now suggests that we are, in fact, pulling them out of a hat.

Right now we're just discarding all the ones that are defective, at a stupendously high rate as we train neural nets.

I can't speak to what method would generate the first strong AI, but I suspect the overall process - if not the details - will be similar. Training, discarding, training, discarding, testing, and so on. And the first truly strong AI will likely just be the first random assemblage of parts that passes those tests.
I am 51. Age 17 was long ago and far away. I have no idea how it worked.
There are benefits even if you aren't sharing the entire back-end. I develop an internal Mojolicious webapp, and there's been quite a few times where I would have loved to just have one or two of the backend libraries I've written available to JS, so I wouldn't have to write it again in JS or pass it to the server. Just knowing that I could write it once and have it be the same in both places, even if I changed it later, would be a real boon.
I really enjoyed the Mirage theme. Reminded me of Cerberus from Mass Effect 2 or the OS in Tron Legacy.
> There is no tax _difference_.

No.

The TechCrunch author may have a misunderstanding but you do as well. Assets which always trigger AMT can result in very different tax outcomes than assets which _may_ trigger AMT.
My Lichess & ICC ratings are typically within 50 points of each other. It's the same for a friend of mine who plays on both servers, too.
I don't know that they're really different. It's just a first-person frame of reference.

When something else is conscious, or something else has a mind, that's the same thing.
How is it not "just" ending up at Facebook or Google when you could've BS'd your way through high school, gone to a mediocre state school, and landed a new-grad position at one of those companies? Stanford or X State University, suddenly all of those years mean nothing and new graduates of both schools come to the same starting blocks, only this time at a massive software company where tens of thousands of others follow suit.

Sounds like a let down to me.
oh, interesting! I don't have a deep understanding of how bash auto-completion works, I'll read through this to adapt it.

I'm glad you liked it :)
It's more how it was done. It was watching Metallica who made their money selling rebellion and raw emotion turn into litigious corporatists. It was a real generation clash. Image is everything.
Yup. I go to an ivy and many of my best friends are construction workers or service workers who will likely never attend college. It's because I wasn't sheltered (nor particularly wealthy as a kid).

And when you're there, talk to people. Not just ones who will help you climb the social ladder in whatever elite clubs and orgs you want to join. People of all stripes. It's a much more diverse group in every way than the author describes.

Honestly it sounds like the author was elitist and sheltered as a kid. And now they've realised this, but have decided to blame it on their university rather than deal with the fact that it was their own personal fault.
what advantage does `eshell` have?

And yes, the primary goal of writing this was to have a small CLI app in Haskell, but I've found that I use teleport a decent amount now to quickly zip between common folders
I kind of envy that. But years ago I cared a whole lot about HN and tied my personal self to it. I owe a lot to the community, too. For better or for worse, I'm stuck. I don't know of a community I'd rather be part of. It just is what it is.
because
1. it's a nicer UI that does the same thing.

2. the goal of the tool was to be minimal, useful, and a way to show off Haskell's ability to be able to write real world code that beginners can understand.

3. (personal opinion) Haskell is way more maintainable than bash is, any day of the week.
Here is list of books i read in 2016 -
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2016/15676150
Perl 6 users should also check out my library inspired from versor.

https://github.com/grondilu/clifford

It's not as well optimized but it's much easier to use.
I cant even access this because of the bad ssl used by the site. What is this?
Mz is not for a caste system. I am homeless and the top woman on hn.

Viva the difficult American social non system.
I think everyone posted, replied under this thread (and many other stackoverflow threads) experienced the same issue. The issue seemed resolved for us just yesterday for a day, but today, it started acting up again, had to switch up wifi to log into Instagram. We also added email login after this incident.
Is it  a good idea to unmont a middleware during the runtime?
It’s possible in JS, but I didn’t see this kind implementation in other languages.
Sure, but I think that the self imposed barriers the author talks about may be more common in ivy league graduates.
> The side effects of viewing ads are that in addition to supporting the sites you enjoy, you're supporting malware distributors

No, I'm not, because I'm using ABP's vetted ad provider list. This risk of getting malware from one of those is greater than zero, but a whole lot less than the risk I accept by using the internet at all. I might get struck by lightning too, but I don't waste a lot of time worrying about it.

> and helping companies compete on ads rather than the quality of their products.

I'm sorry, you do not get to blame me for the continued existence of capitalism. That's just ridiculous.

> Maybe you don't care about your own attention or data security, but your actions don't just affect you.

Once again, you are trying to turn your personal software preference into a moral issue. My actions re:AdBlock affect you or anyone else exactly as much as my choice of desktop wallpaper.
You're making several very large assumptions.

1) That you have to trade your health. I wonder if lawyers at Biglaw live longer than the bottom 75% of income earners. My opinion is that they very likely do.

2) Smart isn't applicable to the context you set up. It's dependent on what you want out of life, these are personal life choices. If I prioritize money over life expectancy, and I get rich but die at 63 years of age (due to the work lifestyle I undertook to get rich), that was my subjective choice - smart doesn't enter into it.

3) Most people with careers trade their youth for work to some substantial degree. The exceptions are extremely few, and extremely far between. Just working 35 to 60 hours per week, from the age of 20 to 67 (the soon to be social security retirement age), is heavily trading your youth for work.
Frankly, I'd be disappointed if mob justice prevailed in the case that you highlight above. Stanford hired a (presumably) competent lawyer to investigate the case and found the accused's case to be more compelling.

Nothing I have seen in the case indicates anything beyond a large amount of awkwardness and lack of comfort. Most of the evidence that she was actually discriminated against with regards to tenure is entirely circumstantial.

Having been intimately involved with these systems while at Stanford I have seen how cunningly many intelligent people at these institutions co-opt and leverage the prevalently liberal political attitudes towards race and gender issues for personal motivations, interests and grievances.

In fact I served as a residence assistant and witnessed someone who is now a very prominent politician wrongly accuse one of our students of racial discrimination. Having known the accused student ... I knew for a fact that no discrimination was involved. The student that made the accusation instantly leveraged the incident on several public forums to build political and social capital. His entire persona was based around "fighting racial oppression" -- even when said oppression was constructed purely for personal gain.
Tolle is full of hand wavy pop psychology junk. At the end of the day Tolle is full of mashed up philosphies he mixed and matched until it tasted really sweet. What are you left with? A loosely defined mess that reads like so many other self help books. I am critical here but with good reason, this is like going shopping at the philosophy store and just buying candy. It comes off as blatantly anti reason in places too.

Read Epictetus, Aurelieus, Minsky (Society of Mind), GEB, even Thoreau. Get inside your thinking machine. Feelings are okay. Thinking is okay. Orient around what you will create. Learn to meditate a little. Read Tolle if you are set on it, but I say most thinking people are better off with more original sources that challenge and ask more of their readers.
Yes, you're missing a few things. Maybe not obvious, though.

First off, the replication thing. It is true that ES, C*, and Mongo replicate within their cluster mostly automatically. However, this is not without cost. It takes non-trivial amounts of network capacity, disk I/O, and CPU cycles to migrate shards from a failed (or downed) node to a newly stood-up node. Often, many GBs must be moved and for something like ES, where shard replicas reside on many different nodes, that means much of your cluster feels the impact of this. The cluster can heal, but healing isn't easy.

Why would a cluster node go down? It's not always hardware failure. CoreOS regularly self-updates and reboots itself without intervention. In a Kubernetes cluster, this is a non-event because pods are simply rescheduled elsewhere the the degradation is momentary. If we were talking about 300 GB of persistent data, though, that's a serious amount of data that will get reshuffled every time there is a node reboot, especially when you consider that an Elasticsearch cluster may span dozens of physical nodes and experience dozens of node reboots in the course of a normal day. Maybe we could hack something that would disable shard reallocation in ES (there's a setting for this) when scheduled reboots happen but that's pretty hacky. Besides, ES is just one of a number of different datastores in use at my workplace.

As for Cinder, it's reliant on OpenStack APIs which (at least as of Juno) are reliant on things like RabbitMQ. We've seen a number of OpenStack failures due to RabbitMQ partitioning and split-brained scenarios. We're also back to the disk-on-network problem again: SCSI backplane ---ethernet---> client will never be as fast as local disk.
Well, except in the Senate and the Electoral College. To the extent that California's consumer laws have fucked things up for the rest of us, they deserve to be exorciated.

Fucking up the design of gasoline cans should almost be grounds for expulsion from the union...
Is something more elegant than grafts [1] on the agenda for any functional package manager? Right now, it seems like the options are:

1) Forego timely and efficient security update deployment because the functional discipline demands that we rebuild the entire system if glibc is updated

2) Forego strictly functional package management and undermine the associated guarantees by deploying hacks that work around the functional model.

edited to add: does this perhaps tie into the work on reproducible builds, e.g. could that work yield tools able to prove that a given package need not actually be recompiled?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Security-...
China doesn't do that. The US makes China look free and friendly.
Ridiculous, after tons of non relative paragraphs, just one sentence : when white people give you more respect, you will earn more.... Ridiculous
> The upside here is that these are the sorts of measures that will allow visa-free travel to continue.

The only danger to visa-free travel is from governments. Visa-free travel is a thing that exists naturally and gets taken away. The only requirement for visa-free travel to continue is for governments to not become increasingly paranoid and authoritarian.

> It's intrusive, but why should your virtual identity be different than your physical identity?

Why should they be the same? I'm honestly kind of confused with this question. "Why shouldn't the government lock travelers in a room and torture them for information?" Because it's unpleasant and the costs outweigh the benefits.

Additionally, it's trivial to fake a social media presence or deny having one. These Orwellian measures don't actually accomplish anything productive.
Well I guess you or your employer will just roll over like like chumps then when a commercial entity pirates or "liberates" whatever it is that you produce.
I agree, the underlying assumption is faulty (and common).
Since when is Social Media participation a compulsory activity?
> "Roughly, what do you think 2^512 to be?"

Instantly I spit out "a 4 followed by 153 zeros"

Now... looking it up it's actually more like a 13 followed by 153 zeros.
California is a whole different beast from the rest of the country
My advice for you is the usual "find a problem, scratch someone's itches and work on that ".
Absolutely agree. We just haven't solved node storage management. We need a better way to deal with data storage than simply using StatefulSets and tying database cluster members to a given Kube node.

That's what I'm hoping for in 2017.
The link you provided seems to omit the fact that i^i is multi-valued, which is a consequence of a fundamental property of the logarithm.
What are you a record company shill or something?
Thank you, I thought there was more choice regarding ASICs, but even then yeah, why would they sell them on the cheap rather than use them?
Your whole line of reasoning is predicated on the following huge flaw:

>If you are a candidate, getting an offer a day or two later than you're expecting could seem like a big delay, after all.

In your very unrealistic CEO hypothetical, do you suppose it would be a big delay for you if you were offered the "CEO" position a week from Thursday instead of Monday, since between Monday and Friday they were trying to recruit another person?

I mean just how fast do you think these companies move! Do you imagine these people are basically in the waiting room, interviewing the same day - "So are you interviewing for the CEO position too?" "Yep. Do you know anything about this company?" "Just what I read in the Journal" "Me too. Hey, they're calling me." "Good luck!"

:)
> But there's also evidence he won't follow through on some of it. If he doesn't then he can claim people were crying wolf. He probably will do this strategically. Certainly his rhetoric is strategic.

Far be it from me to question the rhetorical strategies of Trump, but how's this rhetorical strategy going to work exactly?

Trump: "And as usual the media cried wolf and was flipping out, saying that I was going to bulk up our nuclear arsenal"

Sane Person: Well, you did say you were going to build up the nuclear arsenal. They were just quoting you really.

Trump: But I didn't do it! Typical crooked media, always crying wolf.

I'm resistant to call this a "rhetorical strategy." It is totally reasonable for the media or anyone else to take a president elect's policy statements as, well, policy statements.

If Trump backs out of those statements, Trump can explain why he changed his mind, I have no problem with that. But no, I don't think the blame shifts to the media because they took Trump at his word.
Yes, it (buying vs mining) makes sense, thank you.
China does have a social score though. Sorta how we have credit scores but there's are not just financial.
If you treat Bitcoin mining as a lottery, with your hardware generating multitudes of tickets for every ~10 minute (on average) block, then you can just fire up any old CPU, GPU, or ASIC and wait.

If you treat Bitcoin mining with a short term profit seeking mindset, you will be disappointed.
Regarding enslavement with robots. Superintelligent means that if it is not feasible to enslave humanity with robots, then SAI will find feasible way: human collaborators, genetically engineered fungi, backing of puppet president candidate, fabricating external threat and convincing people that only it can handle it, and so on and so forth.
On the contrary, without the words to describe such structures, they remain hidden from discourse and direct criticism. This protects the implicit structures by rendering them unassailable by democratic processes.
"We’ve learned that at least one American plutocrat (almost certainly Elon Musk, who believes the odds are a billion to one against us living in "base reality") has hired a pair of coders to try to hack the simulation."

-->source?
Great... Maybe now they can use their precognition software to find more adulterous women (rape victims) or hostile employees (slaves from South Asia).
i think the killer feature of gitlab is still self-hosted instances. it makes it really hard to justify using github enterprise. as far as gitlab.com, i've toyed around with it on personal projects and it still has a very long way to go in terms of reliability and speed.
> an automated interface for ordering (as in "push button for what you want, pay, order shows up in the kitchen with a number") would make fewer mistakes, move customers through quicker, and cost less.

Having sat behind people trying to figure out how to exit automated parking garages on multiple occasions, I'm not convinced this would move people through any quicker. Also, what happens when the button wears out or malfunctions? Are the line cooks also skilled in IT diagnostics or do you just begin hemorrhaging cash till a tech comes out? I've seen skeleton crews continue to make money even through complete power outages.
Which is the one main reason why PHP is still around.
If you are starting a new language or a new project, it is better to have examples and guides available.

I am preferring python to "R" because it gives me better search results.
Dramatically disagree with the premise.

I'd like to see someone put a value on owning the global reserve currency over the next 30 years (in a nation that owns 43% of all global private wealth, which is mostly accounted for in USD; with a global economy powered by commodities almost exclusively priced in dollars).

US Government debt is worth maybe 1% to 2% of what the USD is really worth today. I don't believe you can account for a currency's realistic worth while ignoring all the assets primarily or solely denominated in that currency, to say nothing of the immense leverage / power / economic benefits that the global reserve status brings along (that alone is blatantly worth more than all US Government debt).