skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Words? Who needs them? Let's just say anything and/or assume we heard whatever we wanted to hear. What could go wrong? Right?

gh-pages.

The intent of GH's offer is to assist and support OS projects. Not let some wiseass freeloader treat GH like a proper hosting company. Clearly ppl are taking advantage of that, but GH is the bad guy/gal?

gh-pages.

Geez. Why did I bother? Words? They have no value.
You are confusing narrow AI for AGI. None of those things have proved anything practical about what an actually achievable AGI would look like, rather than some theoretical construct that is provably incomputable.
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Quentin Hardy of the NYT on Bostrom: His career amounts to: "Assume hummingbirds will speak French. Let's discuss their novels." https://twitter.com/qhardy/status/806003812431319041
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If issues are being opened faster than they are closed, the number of open issues is going to grow without bound. That's just basic queuing theory.

It's also the case that the average age of open issues will grow without bound. (As the number of open issues grows, eventually you get to a point where more issues are untouched in any given period than are either opened or closed.)

So, it's very easy to get into the state where there are lots of stagnant issues. It's going to happen automatically unless you do something to fix it. Something needs to happen so that either fewer issues are opened or more issues are closed.
There's a UK-based duo called Autechre who've been making interesting but not theoretical electronic music since the early 90s. I think they might be a model for popular, intelligent future music.
They are not unaware of classical developments--for example, one classical composer who influenced them is Bernard Parmegiani.

Roger Scruton, author of the article posted, is a controversial figure. He's not someone you'd go to for tips on the latest digital deconstructivist architecture, and probably not for actually cutting-edge music either. More about him here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/enemies-of-roger-...
Very true, and there probably should be some case law on what truly constitutes confidential information in the employment law sense. So while, the lunch menu may be non-public information it does not constitute confidential information whose release could lead to employment termination.

Those familiar with the law put all sorts of unenforceable stuff in contracts in the hopes that the less informed will comply with stuff they really don't need to comply with.
and these same people vote in people that shut down the epa and do everything possible to poison their children. let them get what they asked for.
One upside to automation is that comparative advantage with regard to labour costs becomes much less important. This means that manufacturers can more easily afford to keep production in high wage economies.

There are other considerations of course, such as proximity to resources, transport hubs, and markets.

Ultimately though, this doesn't change the fact that automation is mostly beneficial to capital owners and not the wider workforce, so capitalism's tendency toward inequality (as described by Piketty) still applies.
> Fashions and preferences come and go. And, for many people, they change based on their stage in life and changing priorities.

I think the highway-focused building plans of the USA from the 1950s thru Now is the fad, rather than the dense city. Extremely dense cities were "fashionable" for the couple thousand years before that. You could argue this was because we didn't have sufficient transit technology, and you might be right, but it doesn't feel like a truly compelling argument against the dense city.

> So can stepping out onto a deck or patio without a lot of noise and nearby neighbors--or the ability to hop in a car and be in forests or mountains in 30 minutes.

(1) These things can certainly exist in a city if you choose a neighborhood wisely and (2) pretty much every dense city also has at least one suburb available for people who desire these things.

> If you have a "personal driver" at your beck and call, I have to believe that makes being able to walk to a nearby restaurant or taking the subway to see a play less compelling as tradeoffs against more crowded/noisier/etc. housing.

Compared to taking the subway, I agree.

Compared to walking, I agree that many would rather take a convenient, inexpensive driverless car, but a sizable amount would also rather walk, assuming the time taken to get from A to B is relatively similar regardless of mode of transportation.

Walking has a lot of benefits, but driverless cars really do throw a big "what if?" into the whole urban planning situation. I personally believe that many will want to remain in dense housing for the social/community benefits, but at the same time, we'll have to wait and see...
Or having several offices across the country and departments/teams split between theses offices, resulting in having just 1 or 2 department/team members in a few of the offices.

The only difference with home office and the only thing that matters to them is that there is a warder (they call him a manager).
I believe windows support is really nano server support which doesn't support full .net. Please correct me if I am wrong in this.
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neatz, I guess I just need to be more patient and set my expectations :)
As a product owner who uses LaunchDarkly, my preference is to always abstract complexity if its not core to my product. I am always an advocate for tools and services that allow me to get to market quicker, while reducing long-term overhead. An internal service like LD would need to be built and also maintained. I think many people overestimate the complexity of services like this; it seems simple but execution is always more difficult (scale, bugs, features, etc). Cheers to LD for providing this service so my team can concentrate on our core.
What's the best way to look for a cofounder via HN?
So unwittingly launched a company back in 2010 that is now maxed out runway wise but is cranking out the highest top line revenue ever: 350K. I'm a biz guy and have gotten away with outsourcing all tech but now I need someone in-house to help build the vision. What's the best way to get in front of hackers who are willing to co-hack and raise a major round?
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Makes sense, reminds me of these (hoax) meme on mixing letters within words:
https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

Unclear how this font in question addressed any real issues though; interested in the topic though, since I'm not aware on any science-based font system.
Disclaimer: I'm writing this on Firefox. I was one of a couple of ten thousand people who donated money ten or so years ago for their famous NY Times ad when they were still going head-on against IE. I like them.

This being said: if their Sync platform works for you, great. Here are my reasons why I choose 1Password as my password manager:

1. It's made by a company that focuses exclusively on this one product. It's their raison d'être, not a side project.

2. They're old-fashioned in a way: they provide me with something, and I give them money for it. 1Password is not cheap, but very good value for money - for me.

3. I've been using it for over half a decade now. 1. and 2. together give me a good reason to believe I can continue to do so for a long time to come. This is in stark contrast to Mozilla, who have been throwing stuff against the wall for quite a while now and abandoning it whenever things do not pan out

4. Various sync options. I'm not required to trust any one "cloud" provider when it comes to privacy, security or continued availability

5. The 1Password vault format can actually be opened in a browser. Even if by some strange fluke I find myself without a client, I can simply download the file on pretty much every machine and still access my passwords

6. UI. 1Password is very well thought out, and that's an important thing for me for something I use about a couple dozen times every day.

While I cannot swear to it, I think I only paid twice over the last six years - the initial purchase plus one paid upgrade some time in the middle. I actually hope to pay for the next one; not only because of what I consider to be fair, but because I want them to do well and be around a long, long time.

And when it comes to security, I've seen HN's resident crypto luminary tptacek give it his thumbs-up. This is something I am not able to properly assess on my own, so his word is good enough for me.
Nice. For me it seems a little ridiculous to spend $99 on an IR sensor + LED since I don't have any more home automation.

Given I gave the Echo I had away, I'm hoping the next iteration of the Echo or Google Home device has the $2 of components required to implement this functionality so that it just works out of the box.
This is the author of the blog post we're all discussing
> If the compiler knows about multidimensional arrays, it's easy to make those checks once at FOR loop entry.

Or you could just use a little unsafe code to implement iterators and matrix multiplication on top of the array, and then never use unsafe with the matrices anyway. This is what gets done with regular arrays and vectors. Directly indexing these types is pretty rare. You would do the same with matrices. "Put it in the language" is not a solution for everything, especially when the tools are there to build it with almost the same level of ergonomics.

Requiring unsafe for designing some kinds of abstractions is not a bad thing. There's no need to shove everything into the language if it can be implemented as a library with a smattering of unsafe code.

It's almost equivalent, really. Making a mistake when writing this unsafe code and making a mistake in the builtin optimization are mostly equivalent risks. There's nothing inherently worse about doing it as a library, aside from the minor issue that the indexing syntax isn't so great.
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Yeah, you are right. But makes life eaiser
That only allows reacting to button pushes, though. I'm assuming that by default the mic is only active for initialization by default, but if you can get the microprocessor to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet, you could presumably access the hardware directly and add more capabilities.
I think this is exactly it.

Before reading these HN comments, I forwarded the article to my wife, saying effectively "I was amazed that I was able to read the paragraph of whacky text in Ivo font, even as, after reading it, I went back to look at the font and then realized I couldn't read individual words or letters!"
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After you merge everything you could just diff the originally committed files against the deployed and tested versions. If there are any differences, then those need testing!

Presumably if you're merging a bunch of other changes in anyway, you're going to need to do a bunch of testing in any case, that's just an inevitable result of splitting the deployment into two phases.
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And during the same time, they changed the JS engine to use a generational compacting garbage collector, which was also a bizarrely large amount of work for a more flexible future.
Fair 'nuff.

The EFI bits, and keypress combo, however, are true of any Mac.
Of course there isnt a NOSQL database groan its simply a term used to describe a category of databases that store data in a non relational manner.
I went to my water utility's website to find out their numbers. First I was shocked that they publish their numbers only once a year! And even in that report they say last lead measurement was in 2013 because Department of Health only requites measurement every 3 years! With Trump about to set loose entire Oil, gas and fracking industry like never before this might get lot worse.
I use Namecheap as my domain name registrar and use Route53 as DNS Server. I'll never use godaddy.
Ask HN: Recommendation for an API / self-hosted software for user preferences
Hello

I am in the process of learning to create a mobile application, and would like to copy / move the user settings (typical settings screen with few options like theme name, etc) to a DB / API on the server.
Instead of rolling out my own DB backed api, are there any open source recommendations ?

also - im self-learning these things, so any better approaches / standards for this is appreciated as well.

Cheers & happy holidays .. :)
My ex-employer (Meraki) was VERY insistent on people cleaning up their histories. It was very good not just for keeping a clean tree, but also for code quality - once you have code changes in neatly-separated commits with discrete chunks of functionality, any leftover test code or unrelated changes pop out immediately to both the original coder and the reviewer.

By the way, this also helps with the issue this developer faced because part of the problem seems to have been that the backend and frontend changes were mixed in the same commits (hence the ugly hack for committing). Doing this kind of history-cleaning as you go makes it much easier to manipulate the order of committing changes to master.
I always use '/' in the branch name and have never had any issues. Can you explain why this would be an issue?
What would you recommend if you aren't within the standard use cases. Are there more flexible services out there, or at some point do you just roll your own?
"Forty-thousand men and women every day (Like Romeo and Juliet)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
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I have no idea, I'm just interested in hearing thoughts on the topic, I don't know anything about atlantic city.
Integration outside of the browser is why I use keepass. I can press ctrl-alt-w and it will enter my passwords for things such as Steam, Skype, etc. in the applications themselves.

I use passwords outside Firefox. Ergo, a password manager tied to Firefox is inherently too limited.
How easy is it to get Kafka and Rust working together?
> Isn't that an old fashioned way of thinking about people in societies headed for more and more automation?

That's the capitalist way of thinking about people. Old fashioned or not, it dominates the lives of most people on the planet, and the value of most lives can be summed to a precise monetary amount - that being the value of the labor extracted from them by society over their lifetime, as determined by the market.

We should be considering what to do about the likelihood that most people made redundant by automation will simply be left valueless to society. No one seems to actually be trying to use automation to build a utopia and free everyone from the struggles of work. Rather, automation is allowing the elite to reap the benefits of labor without the burden of supporting society through compensating human beings for work.
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> data scientist who can figure out what data you need, and the questions that need to be answered.

Isn't that describing a statistician?
>Eh, I'm going to question her ability to identify the difference between a Strad and non-Strad based on this double blind study

lol! That is a brave statement. As @dcsommer said, sample size is tiny.

When you audition for an Opera (well, her auditions anyway...) were always done blind - ie behind a curtain or similar.

When you practice and play at that level, you notice the little things. Same way I can look at C++ source code, or Java, C#, Objective-C or Node.js. I have to stop and think to explain how I know it is C#. I just know.

Again, I didn't say one is better than an other. Just different...
>This is trivial to do now that there's a real record facility

Last I heard, there's still no way for a function to masquerade as a variable. Has this changed?

>One thing I do like is that parameters are lexically distinct from regular variables, so it's always obvious whether some particular variable is lexical or fluid.

See one of my other replies for a usecase of dynamically bound functions (intercepting calls to a function within a certain dynamic extent) that makes me wish otherwise.
ADS-B transponders are a good example of this. They are mandated for most aircraft by 2020 and I've read/heard that the cost can be in the thousands.
My apologies if it seemed hostile. I get worked up about bad science, and PNAS's process in particular is very bad-sciency, allowing anyone famous enough to bypass the peer review process. Nothing about you particularly, or your comment :)

And hah, no beef with the scientific process here. I'm definitely very pro-science, and pro-scientific process. But that also makes me very anti-bad-science, and that paper is definitely a jumble of bad science that somehow scraped by the peer review process because of nepotism in PNAS.

Yep, [3]'s my 3am brain dump. Mostly unrelated but dumped in that comment cause it's the only one I can edit.

And now you've got me thinking about how feasible it would be. If I actually go through with this, I'm blaming you for it :)
Walking your day to day destinations, all of your destinations, is achievable in any 4000 inhabitants town, you know. You don't have to mess with calculating compared densities of big cities and deciding if you're going to invest 50 or rather 200 M$ per mile of public transit.
Lots of filesystems struggle with hundreds of thousands of tiny files. You also have to make sure that every tool you use can handle lots of files without blowing up. Searching without an index becomes difficult too.
Maybe Apache UserGrid?

http://usergrid.apache.org
I'm in the Midwest and I'm also not good at marketing but I'm learning marketing as I go and still made my product. Just do it because what's the worse that could happen?
Care to explain how your long r/iamverysmart worthy intro about being a Math genius is relevant to the topic of discussion?
China claims to have built a working EmDrive
Reflections on Code First, Persistence and Domain Modeling
Only feed them dry for breakfast using the machine; do wet manually at night.
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Well, in the worst case, you can literally revert all subsequent commits, merge the topic-branch, then reapply the commits.

In most real situations you'll probably find that only a small number of commits actually need to be reverted and reapplied, especially if your team is good about having reasonably self-contained commits.

If you're concerned about filling the git logs up with noise, you can always do use rebase to combine any revert/re-revert commits into single log entries.
Personally I've never understood why people would need bootstrap on a new project. Especially if you're able to use flexbox. If you have a decent practical understanding of CSS, you can write could use plain CSS and a couple of classes for various components with significantly less overhead than bootstrap. Its pretty similar to how I see jquery nowadays honestly.
The body certainly handles fructose differently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis
You can always get free upvotes by linking to one of Steve's articles.

But I'm not complaining. It's still a good article.
> Most tech companies have hours ~8-6, because that is their customers hours too, not out of a mandate to irritate employees.

The majority of tech companies do not have hours 8–6. That's farcical.

Only truly archaic companies require developers to show up at 8am. More importantly, most developers are not on "tech support" duty so setting hours by customer call-ins is pointless.
Thanks.
From a quick look, that looks a solid recommendation (it provides way more features than what i was looking for).
Will try to set this up on a VM and check it out.
For these? Probably none. Their batteries would be depleted very quickly if they were listening to the microphone more than at just setup.
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For me this is the Shark-Jumping moment in these "feature-as-service" startups. In the production systems I've worked on this is literally 25 lines of code.
Well. Remote work demands a little more active communication. If you are not upto it, you are going to have that experience you mentioned, ie solving non-existing problems.

Working in an office also demands a lot like for example all the social stuff and politics that goes with it. Putting in a bit more effort into communicating actively in case of remote work, pales in comparison to that.

To clarify what I mean by active communication: Instead of thinking "Oh, I am not really sure about this. Let me ask John next time I see him in the hallway", Open your email or what ever communication app you use, fire a message right away.

I have also find it helpful to maintain a "thought log", where you scribble down your random thoughts about the works or concerns that you might have, that other interested people can look up..
At this point I think it's either fix it yourself or look elsewhere :(. I don't think the current maintainers have the bandwidth to port it to WebExtensions.
TFA appears to be following the conventional wisdom when it describes "Higher Ground" as a "reincarnation meditation". But while it seems Stevie Wonder did himself connect the song with ideas about reincarnation, at least tentatively https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Higher_Ground_(St... , the one thing which the lyrics really plainly make reference to is Apocalypse 22:10-12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22%3... :

> And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

> And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Which admittedly is an slightly odd fit with the sense of having himself been given a second chance and a change of life which SW expresses in the song (and apparently in the NYT interview), but so it goes apparently.
Is this what they call anatta?
> voice recognition ... probably in the 80-90% accuracy range

State of the art systems are far better than this. Microsoft recently published a paper with a 5.9% word error rate for conversational speech. Speech directed at computers/assistants is already in the high 90s, though I don't have a figure off the top of my head.
Agreed. And considering that the most common uses of unsafe are for collections, I think a limited number of vetted libraries completely realistic.

Rolling your own collections is typically not that great anyway; how much better is your linked list/hash table/skip list than everyone elses?
Great resource. Thanks for posting this.
> Sounds like a terrible country

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I read the description of cli-get, and it appears to be similar to a feature built-in to the network tab of the standard developer tools. If you right-click a request in the list of requests you can select "copy as cURL" from the popup menu to get the equivalent curl command line.
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