skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know and appreciate RNG and James Clark of course.

However, for the web, like it or not, XML is a lost cause; yet the web is still the most important markup application by far.

In my project I'm trying to re-establish SGML (the good parts) for broad and practical web applications. SGML gives you HTML-style tag omission and empty elements, custom Wiki syntaxes eg. markdown plus markdown customizations, and injection-free templating, all based on an ISO standard.

I've just created a new SGML DTD with full coverage of W3C HTML5.1 [2]. As an outcome of this project, I also have been encouraged to push for a new SGML (ISO/IEC 8879) revision.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog.html
[2]: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/201611/msg00067.html
tomscott: the closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack
This is interesting in that many people get their only social interaction from their co-workers. Work from home would just isolate them even more.
I tried the docker image for gitlab-ce just 2 days ago and had to exec bash into it and chmod a workhorse socket file to get it working. Glad they fixed it.
Not only did Showden "share intelligence with Russian government", he shared it with everyone on the planet... And this is a big difference!
It's automated to a certain level, sure - but it's silly to assume we've reached maximum amount of automation possible in the space.
High IQ here too.

Used an algebra to rotate and combine equations back in school to solve them. Never knew what they were really about until the uni times.

Playing puzzles with the rest of the class was quite boring.

Discipline however plays the important role for success, I agree, so does the environment and DNA.
I was a member about 5 years ago. I also left the club soon, but my experience was pretty different from yours. I never went to the "official" meetings, but I did go to two of the "Mensa youth" (I was around 20, others there seemed to be 25-35) weekend gatherings in the countryside.

The gender ratio was around 60/40 men/women. I don't think anyone even mentioned the term "IQ". It was mostly like a student group outing with people drinking, talking, playing board games, going to sauna (this was in Finland), swimming, flying around in a inflatable boat someone had converted to an ultralight floatplane and such.
"Just" — but why should there be any "perspective" at all?
There has been a whole thread concerning this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5351734
Java 6 EOL should be your "have to". It will be easier to fix before you get a hard deadline, and it's easier to upgrade by one version twice than by two versions once.
In my opinion, the problem is not intelligence per se, but intelligence willing to change everything in a totalitarian/idealist way. No matter if it is "artificial" or "natural".
I don't think it's as bad as a domain parking web site, but there are some serious problems with it.

- The line drawings make it look like this is a charting library. Perhaps they have some mysterious symbolism, but to me it looks like the brief here was "differentiate these six main headings with... something". The "something" they ended up with is pretty devoid of value.

- Obviously, as others have said, the tagline does little to explain what Racket is. (cf. Rust's web site, which does a great job with this, even though it's incredibly minimal and has almost no design.)

- The code samples are low-contrast until clicked, and not really all that engaging even when clicked.

- The various links in the page go to all kinds of different sites, some under racket-lang.org and many not. The ones that are under racket-lang.org (with the exception of the blog) look absolutely nothing like racket-lang.org itself, and even have a different logo!
Much is luck, yes. But also, much seems to be doing the right thing.

I know a bunch of founders of smallish IT companies. If I talk to them, they don't seem too smart. But they did a company, and kept it running for many years. So they learned stuff about running a company.

Knowing how to run a company is a rather important skill if you want to get rich. And you can get this skill, even if you aren't smart. You probably won't make millions but more than a senior dev or something.

At one point you can even do it with a low skill level. Because you can employ many smart people who keep the company running even if you don't know what's going on anymore.

What angers me is that you often need money to get started and almost all people with rich parents I knew did it with their parents money. Yes they failed a few times, but who cared, they were young and their parents would help them out. By the time they were 30, they had 10 years of founding experience.
Unless you mark them 'static', which is common practice for constants and small inlined functions.
If it was below a certain threshold of personal investment I totally would (not saying I'd release something useless or dangerous carelessly out of hubris). I would love more accessible non invasive monitoring tools. I personnally suffered from nasty yet transient issues, that vanished enough by the time I went to my MD but were recurring for monthes.

I don't buy the money argument, price is not cost. I'm fairly convinced that the medical market is inflated at every level, ending on a premium. Ultrasonic devices may be as complex as he says, the dude is a reference. But I've just seen firefighters portable EKG monitor that they say cost a fortune, and it's mostly crap. Very bad cell reception, couldn't send data to the doctor. Not as sophisticated as an US echographer, just 7 probes, a LCD in a sturdy/friendly case; still pricey.

I'd bet a few dollars that any electronic company today can make something affordable, with better connectivity. It's just that the market allow for such prices.
The New Yorker did an article on Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute last year:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invent...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety goes through the a list, but basically you have active vs passive designs based on a range of features. Generally, passive safety refers to the primary loop.

A nuclear battery can be 100% passively safe for decades but they don't produce a lot of power. A pure passive system that's producing 1GW of electric power is producing 2.5GW worth of heat. Which is really hard to dump into the environment passively without connections to external systems. In the event of a tidal wave your pipes to and from the sea are likely blocked which means there is some pool that is going to boil.

Even cooling tower designs often actively cool the tower through the use of water curtains. It's not needed but significantly reduces costs. Now, that that is building up the internal passive designs starts to reduce power. But thus only operates over a range. Further it is going to produce as close to 2.5 GW of heat as it can.

So, now there is no external pool or connection to the sea and here is where you see problems.

PS: Which all comes back to passive designs costing more and being less efficient. Sure, it 100% passive is possible physically just not economically viable.
Sorry but this is not an invitation
It puzzles me that people think that the nanosecond some superintelligence comes into being, that it also has the capacity to destroy humans/earth/whatever. No thought is given as to how this intellect gets said capacity, bar 'launch the nukes'.

Seriously, if "it" turned against "us", we'd have the upper hand. For example, quality electronics are hard to make without sending African children down into mines and having African adults shoot each other over the results (ie: conflict minerals). If a superintelligence is reliant on us to propagate its physical-world interactions, we're going to be just fine.

I mean come on, we all work in IT, and we all know just how difficult it is to keep hardware running securely, safely, and in good order. Stuff fails all the time. Similarly, we all know people who are really intelligent, but this doesn't translate to success in life for them.

In short, "being intelligent" isn't enough - the entity also needs ways to effectively work the world around them.

edit: heh, just saw another article on the front page: "IQ is only a minor factor in success"
Why isn't Holacracy working at Zappos?
Wire messenger bot API available
George was and remains right. Economic growth is captured by landowners; the solution is to tax and redistribute at that point.
L’alcool fa bene per la bellezza delle donne
Even if they weren't, the cars are made in Italy. I'd consider it reasonable for the police there to purchase the cars.
Bitcoin doubled in value this year
More recent news http://www.nature.com/news/lhc-scientists-bring-conference-t...
Discord (the chat application targeted at gamers) had it shipped much quicker and it works as well. They had it come with searching and skin colour setting too.
That quote continues,

... But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we’re all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.
It is an upper crust public school thing. Most people do not attend those schools.
Less so when you have a lot of money.
"I wear clothes from companies we partner with (sports science..."

I'm intrigued... would you mind sharing a bit more about your business?
If risk of scalding means the price can be reduced to a point to where every ambulance or high-speed paramedic car can have one, then it is worth it. If it means that every back-water third-world doctor can have one, great. Sometimes knowing if a patient has internal bleeding, and where, is worth the risk.
It is easier being egotistical when someone is able to live alone with enough comfort. I guess that it could be somehow "solved" with tax discounts by having kids, by sharing home with elder people, or even by sharing home in general, in general.
I said that people that can't find joy in the happiness of others should not have kids, not the other way around. That would be a stupid thing to say.
The UN Just Gave Scientists the Green Light to Mess with Natural Selection
If you had enough data, I imagine you could just re-learn the parameters on the new dataset (and also finetune the network)?
I don't often drink, maybe twice a year and I've been given the advice you just gave the previous poster. The truth is drunk people are insufferable while sober I don't recommend anyone do this.
What sort of political views do you think would cause an issue?
I would suggest we start by blacklisting certain Emojis from being used in Hotspot names such as "️ ... ... ... 🇮🇷"

( image for those with clients that don't support those glyphs - http://i.imgur.com/hvz8yHY.png )
I would be scared about toxicity, is that not a possible problem?
I was tempted to work for a company of Dubai in 2005, and discarded it because of the legal stuff involved. Scary.
Artificial intelligence make it easier than ever to fake images and video
> In which case government already knows?

How? A citizen's own government might conceivably know who you work with professionally via the tax agency, but a foreign government doesn't (not without specifically requesting such data on a case-by-case basis). For most people who use Facebook, their list of contacts will provide any big data analysing actor with a very nice outline of their life and interests, especially if you are the type of state actor that can coerce Facebook into cooperating.

Even if your own profile is clean and seemingly meaningless, mom will have you tagged as her son/daughter, and who you communicate with and when will quickly filter out the uninteresting friends.
The strata in the article are based on the work of psychologist Elliot Jacques who as far as I can tell created this independently of Dalio and Bridgewater.

Strata are related to a person's ability to handle complexity, and Jacques argued that this is related to the time horizon a person can handle. For example, the role of a shop floor employee selling widgets does not need to consider what happens more than 1-3 months in the future, however the store manager has to think about a year into the future, the owner of the chain has to consider what happens 2-3 years down the line and so on.

He devised an interview protocol to determine at which level a person is capable of thinking at to be use to match employee's with roles for which they are suitable. Being in the highest stratum means having a time horizon of 20-30 of which Jacques believed only a handful of people are capable of in each generation.
That's not true, if I know my neighbors are coming I'm loading my Remington 870 and I'm waiting for that door to open. In America we're allowed to bear arms for protection.
Out of curiosity, were you using spark-scala or pyspark?
We don't know how neural nets can do stuff like schizophrenia from CCTV footage, merely from how someone walks, but apparently this and other things are already emerging, and with some earnest effort could provide some real results.

Mind you, I was talking about neural suggesting people for clinical diagnosis, not about neural nets diagnosing people. And to be perfectly honest, I'm not even that much interested in the idea (which strikes me as a bit Orwellian), but in the cold feet it would give a lot of people with skeletons in the closet. They don't know that it's not fool proof, they just know they don't want to be found out.
While the decorrelation of user data and application provider is important, I feel like the proposition is relying a bit too much on a centralized service. Perhaps reusing some ideas of OStatus would be helpful ? Something like that:

- UserA starts a feed at dat://UserA, and publishes stuff in Activity Streams format

- UserB follows dat://UserA

- UserB comments on UserA feed: it creates dat://CommentsFromUserBonUserA, and publishes a comment in Activity Streams format there

- UserB pings UserA telling them about dat://CommentsFromUserBonUserA: UserA is naturally interested, so they just subscribe to this feed, and republishes stuff into dat://UserA

- UserC subscribes to dat://UserA. They get UserA's posts, along with UserB's comments, without every subscribing to dat://UserB. All activity about UserA is in one place, completely under UserA control, with no dependency on a centralized service

- Same can be done for mentions of UserA

This obviously assumes pinging is easy, which it isn't. Perhaps some polling of a DHT ? It also doesn't solve the issue of hashtags... but it makes dependency on centralized service less important
Dobby Pocket Drone Review, Yes, the Selfie Drone Has Arrived
Oh I didn't know that that's pretty cool then
For me as an all round analytics manager in enterprise there are plenty of pain points. I am not sure I'd call them ideas, but it would be great to share those, also to see who else has them.
Totally agree. I think the internet and social media have just exacerbated the existing problem that society is fracturing into countless splinter groups, with no tolerance for any of the others' views, and it's really difficult to find and keep up with those handful of people you can actually tolerate enough to keep a close social bond with. I don't think that it takes a degree in sociology, or a controlled study, to see this happening. As for WHY, my own, personal theory is that "we" (the US) came together to support the war effort in the forties in a way that the world had never experienced before or since, and it's all been a snowballing disassociation since, made worse as a reaction TO the perceived stifling effect of the dominant societal norm of that day.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Carrying Trays on a Cart
This is very exciting. Python got me into programming. So I watch its development very closely.
They do not check but they ask for it. You got off like most as they did not have a reason to ask further, however when you travel a lot to any of those, you still might get unlucky-ish. I for one got asked for detailed itenary and names of friends I will visit (because I was visiting friends) at the US and CA borders. And at the Thai border for that matter. But then again I travel a lot; when I go for business (once or twice a month) to UK (very strict even though I am a regular and from the EU) & China (where I never had any issues or questions asked), I often add on a trip somewhere else just for fun. The US is mostly quite easy, UK the hardest of all (very annoying).
Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages
You're right, every city I used to live in France, I had at least 1 Monoprix within a short walk distance. Where I currently live, I can get to 3 different Monoprix in less than 10 minutes by walk.
Never seen a Monoprix outside of a city anyway:)
Scientists just discovered a huge cluster of galaxies hidden in Earth’s backyard
If anything, sociopathy will actually help them do it.
Gods and goblins? Are you being metaphorical?

When things that were assured to be perfectly safe blow up, people tend to distrust the people who said they were safe. I think the pro-nuclear side faces extraordinary skepticism at this point, and not unreasonably so.

The problem with nuclear is that we don't have the perspective yet to know the risks. Maybe in a couple hundred years we will know the actual costs of the installed nuclear capacity we have today, but all we have now are projections, and we know how easy it is for humans to be overoptimistic.
So does Sam's club to my knowledge. They can do that due to you having membership agreement in place, but places like Fry's have no legally enforceable reason to require it for every customer.
And since you have zilch recourse if they don't, making predictions based on their past behaviour and personality is your only bet. Also, marketing budgets in the millions of all sorts of people and corporations engineered to make them seem less banshee-like speak another language -- you may not care, but most people still have the hair on the back of their back stand up when faced with the alien, barren inner landscape of a sociopath. Faking it is, uhm, kind of important to everything they do and are. Without it, they have a meltdown, at best only destroying themselves. If we're talking about the real deal and not just someone who is sometimes a bit of a jerk, that is.

If people mind stuff like baby killers, Stalin and other things, they do mind sociopaths, whether they know what the word implies or not.
That's exactly what she said though:

> I will say that the ability "to not be rich" is, in fact, a choice not psychologically available to many upper class people

(emphasis mine)
Some SOAP GPS API I had to use recently.

Didn't know it could take so much code for polling simple data for IDs.
I don't find that particularly hard to believe. There's easily 20x more firearms per capita in the US than the UK. US police are routinely armed, while UK armed police are only deployed where a firearm is believed to be involved. The abundance of firearms in the US means that police need to be ready for a potential firearms incident in every encounter with the public.

Of course, the number of unjustified deaths will likely be disproportionately higher simply because all US police have the ability to react to a situation with lethal force. Sadly, as long as guns are as abundant as they are in the US, you'll never reduce that to the same level as the UK.
... but the "magnitudes larger" that they are sold is also endogenous to the regulatory framework around them. Suppose you had to get a PhD in physics to be able to get a drivers license. All of a sudden we would see a lot fewer buying -- and therefore far fewer people selling -- cars since it is so expensive to actually be able to drive them.

With these ultrasounds, there is such a heavy regulatory framework at work -- from regulations impacting the device itself to regulations preventing hospitals from being built to regulations preventing hospitals from having as many of these as they want -- that they make the actual quantity demanded of these things artificially small. Your point about evolution of the technology also falls trap to this same fallacy: Again, if all of a sudden you are artificially making something much more expensive to produce, it should be no surprise to you that the refresh rate on the device would be smaller. Here you also have the added effect that since we rarely pay for our own medical care and instead rely on insurance, many of the incentives that would exist for companies to make cheaper, faster, better equipment also disappear. Lastly, I fully concede that it is quite possible that there is some basic, inherent quality of ultrasounds that make them more complicated than cars or any other pieces of tech. But that isn't important. The importance is realizing that the derivative of the state of these machines looks very different from other technology industries where competition and the free market are much more of a factor.
> I don't want to learn languages, I want to solve my problem.

I think the idea is that there is one good approach to solve a given problem (eg: use class to do the GUI code, use match to traverse some xml, use thread for async io instead of an event loop approach).
wouldn't it be good to know upfront that they are likely to not do that precisely because of sociopathic tendencies?
Well said... sometimes choosing to be poor brings more wealth: the world-class, millionaire skateboarder comes to mind. I would have preferred the "narrowing" of an elite Stanford education myself. Still trying to escape my State Schoolitis.
I fly UK-Spain (and back) twice a month. In October and November, there were specific alerts about Galaxy Note 7s (you had to give them to the crew that would put them somewhere IIRC, I didn't pay much attention). In my last flight (December) it was only generic for all phones.
What GPUs are you talking about? Most mobile chipsets are so bugridden I would really doubt they follow any standard like that.
My impression is money gets more important as you get older because your ability to get other people to give it to you for work goes way down and your medical expenses go way up. At least that's what I've seen in my family
https://github.com/chvin/react-tetris
The west doesn't give a fuck. They say they do but it is not true. Most of us are just a bunch of hypocrites. Some people do have principles but a big portion does not. Just look at who all the evangelicals voted for in the U.S. presidential election. They voted for [1]You Know Who even after he admitted that he liked to grab em by the billy bush. Now every-time I hear them talk about Jesus I remember who they voted for and smile. They are not fooling me twice.

[1] Last time I mentioned his name I got down-voted to oblivion. Lets see what happens this time. :)
Pardon me, but were you born of evil in a fiery volcano?
How the smart machine era will change the world
It's a form of soft social control to affect self-censorship.
The rise and fall of beacons
Fluidly is hiring a junior software engineer in London
Ask HN: Any updates of YC startup MOOC?
Exactly. Everytime I write a feature, I have to decide whether it's a backend feature or a frontend feature. Sometimes I get it wrong. I'd like to not lock myself into my choice.
Thai immigration appears to be inconsistent about the requirement to complete this part of the form. Some offices say it is optional. Some offices don't ask you to fill it out at all. As far as I know they aren't asking tourists to complete it when they arrive. It seems to be only for foreigners staying long term. Time will tell whether or not they ratchet up the requirement for all foreigners to complete it.
Related discussion from a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13123156
Oh! Oh, well, that's okay then. All in good fun, lots of lolz.