skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you have a general intelligence, you can have something that can recursively improve itself.

The first few improvements may be tough for it, but when you consider that it could think 1000s of times faster than humans, you can imagine how this could happen very quickly.

And then once you assume that it can recursively improve itself, we enter the realm of "the intelligence with the IQ of 5000."

The person with the highest IQ ever was 190 [1]. Imagine the kind of things we could do with an intelligence of 5000. We're talking atomic reassemblers, grand unified theories, and (my dream) a personal paradise Matrix for everyone [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
[2] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183

Note, this sidesteps all ethical alignment issues. This is assuming that the intelligence is on the same team as us. My thought process is "we're all going to die anyway so let's give it a shot," but a lot of people disagree with me (which is fair).
Possibly the construction choices you make change when you know that you won't be able to spend a few hours on maintenance each day?
Ask HN: Would you like to share your goals/resolutions for 2017?
I think it helps to share your aspirations with fellow HN patrons. It'll hopefully inculcate some reinforcement towards the will to achieve those.

Mine are:
1. Read one book every week.
2. Proper diet and exercise and aim for gaining at least 20 lb muscle mass.
3. Reach substantial milestones for the personal projects that I started last year.

Have a happy new year!
Really solid advice for everybody really. Especially the first point!
NumberWang with Vue.js and Socket.io
Same with camera shake. In real life we try to reduce it, in CGI we add it.
You can reduce a lot of specialized knowledge to "trivia" by noting how it can be easily looked up, nowadays. But asking candidates about data structures is hardly the same thing as asking them to spew out memorized responses. There's a big difference between "tell me the exact steps involved in the rebalancing algorithm for an AVL tree" and "here are some requirements for an application, what data structures would you consider using and why?" These sort of questions are designed to test for generalized background knowledge and experience working with data structures, not simply whether the candidate knows exactly what a skip list is. It also demonstrates a general ability to apply CS knowledge to real-world situations.
That's ridiculous. The nazis eradicated a peaceful civilian population. The USA nuked cities where literally everyone was somehow engaged in a war against them, and who had started it in the first place.
An absolute classic. One of the most underrated games for the Gameboy Advance! :)
Absolutely - and by the way, I was in no way knocking you or your code! The level of polish or viability of a custom plugin for us would just be secondary to the fact that it was custom to begin with - that's all I was trying to get across.
Adobe branches out into many different types of software for Windows and the Mac. They have more than just Photoshop.

As I recall they gave a good student discount for education that the other competitors did not do. Once you get the students hooked on it, they beg their employers to buy it for them so they can use their skills on it. Also Adobe had Acrobat Reader, Shockwave, Flash and other free apps that would get people to their website and order Photoshop or the full package.

Deluxe Paint was only for Amiga, DOS, and a few other platforms. It was used mostly for video games and designing graphics on it. Electonic Arts had it along with Game Construction games and other things.

Quark was faster than Photoshop but cost more, Adobe had basically undercut them even if it wasn't as snappy as Quark could be.

Paint.Net and The Gimp are too free/open source alternatives to Photoshop but can't match PS' filters and other things like plug-ins.

In doing a bundle, Adobe did what Microsoft did for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc and made it into an Offie Suite.

It really does not matter what company had a product out first, what matters is being able to bundle to lower the price, innovate, and offer a student discount, etc to get more customers.

I used an Amiga 1000 with Deluxe Paint, it was fun, and did what I wanted it to do. It might have been out before Photoshop, but once Photoshop had plug-ins and filters and other stuff, it basically out-innovated Deluxe Paint and others. Then undercut them in price by bundling software.
I think a fork should not be a casual decision as the main developer would have put in hundreds or thousands of hours on the project and was motivated to get it to this state. A project by a small team or even a single person will obviously be constrained in many ways.

Now if the project has potential or takes off a 'community' should fork it only if all other avenues have been exhausted and with good reasons.

Its important for a 'community fork' to let the community know the exact rationale or 'community' can easily becomes a excuse for some to seek to control or capitalise on others work. This does not help open source especially if the main developers are too busy developing while those who fork have time to market the fork to a community.
Gogs is a great way to have Github-like private repositories for free on your own infrastructure. Github is still Github for open source projects.
I'm curious if the author was aware of our implementation at HashiCorp (https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist). We use that implementation in Serf (https://www.serf.io) to provide membership, failure detection, and an event system. Serf is in turn, used by both Consul (https://www.consul.io) and Nomad (https://www.nomadproject.io). The point being, our implementation has seen significant production hardening and is known to work on clusters with 10K+ machines.

We've made significant enhancements to SWIM to make it work at scale, but overall it's a simple algorithm to understand and works quite well in practice. Glad to see more implementations of it!
"Do or do not, there is no try!" -Yoda
Since I started the thread, I'll name my best read first. It was "Mastery" by Robert Greene.

https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X
What Nutmeg Can Tell Us About Nafta
Thanks for responding, I appreciate.
One of the few developers getting paid to work on Gogs is (was?) on payroll at GitLab.
My favorite books I read in 2016:

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure - Grant Cardone

Hack Upwork: How to Make Real Money as a Freelancer - Danny Flood

What are your favorite books of 2016 Andrey?
And lens flares and chromatic aberration - lens manufacturers go to great lengths to remove these as much as they can, but games and VFX re-create them.
Geology and hydrology are enormously different between those locations. Not saying you definitely can't do that, since I'm no expert either, but it's kinda silly to just say "dig deeper" like it's a no-brainer.
How does this look with numbering in base 8 instead of 10?
Mastery by Robert Greene, just looked at that link and I'm putting that on my reading list!

Thanks Andrey
Ancient Greek Geometry
The kind of stuff startup CEOs say when hiring an engineer
BI is a form of forcible redistribution that weakens private property rights, which is a key market institution, so pointing put that stronger market institutions are better for wealth-generation/poverty-reduction is absolutely relevant to the topic of what the expected outcome of instituting BI is.

Putting your head in the sand and being optimistic is not going to make the potential problems of forcible redistribution go away.

When the evidence suggests that a particular idea is a bad one, even if that idea seemed wonderful at first, a d even if that idea is wildly popular, it has to be discarded, for the sake of society.
Unemployed farmers and butchers, that's all that remains, if you state-distribute the drugs and fire the thugs.

With the rise of synthetics, and the first maker-chem-bot not far away- i wouldn't wonder if the Narcos would do what all businesses do, if the change is upon them- lobby for protectionism.

Im against drug liberalization, but just to reduce the economic and social Fallout this would be worth it.
Three Body Problem trilogy.
A Theory of Nested Cross Simulation
Ask HN: Social networks and profiles of dead people
While looking for some utility today, I stumbled upon a useful project which will probably cover my use case. The project page sadly reports the news about the author's death. I wondered what would be about his online presence, since the person was running a business, he probably would be on LinkedIn (he is and the profile is not up to date).

A great percentage of developers have online projects and a very detailed profile on LinkedIn at least, and in general the same happens on Facebook and other networks. Sooner or later these profiles will be out of date, i.e. unaware of people's departure, the number is destined to grow in time.
How are social networks going to keep up? Will families always take care of removing this data, do they even bother or know?

LinkedIn and Facebook have processes [1][2] and settings [3], I'm not sure how well these perform, but are they going to scale anyway? Is LinkedIn/Facebook/your-preferred-network willing to keep online thousands of dead profiles, taking the risk of being labelled "graveyard", "cemetery"? What kind of ads are they going to show on these pages, or else what's the business model to monetize dead people?

(I guess it's one of those 1st world problem, but still)

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/2842
[2] https://www.facebook.com/help/150486848354038
[3] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security&section=memorialization
It's interesting the writer didn't get sensory deprivation and, yet, still wrote about it...
I didn't say it was a terribly good idea. I agree, usually.
May I ask which service you use where the cost barely grows from 100 to 10 million subscribers?

We use Mailchimp and it's definitely not the case. Might be time for a change!
I enjoyed duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com) for learning Swedish. I liked the game mechanics, honestly. Here's why:

* Positive reinforcement: cheerful noises and visual progress once I completed a section.

* Negative reinforcement: if I didn't practice at all that day, I would get a notification at 11pm. If I ignored for a while, they were super passive aggressive, saying things like "These don't seem to be working. We'll stop sending them". I felt guilty and would start agin.

* I wanted to keep my daily streak going. It made me feel like Jerry Seinfeld with his "write a joke a day; put an X on the calendar" technique.

* I liked the concepts of experience (exp) and levels; it let me feel like I was making concrete progress, even if I was totally incompetent. I indulged my gamer side while still being productive!

* duolingo works just as well on browser as mobile

* Training sessions were short enough that if I only had a few minutes of downtime, as long as I had my phone on me, I could actually be productive. This made subway rides that much better.

* duoolingo offers a practice mode where I could work specifically on my speed if I had longer chunks of time and wanted to dive deeper.

And today, I can totally speak intelligible Swedish [1]. It worked.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxoXe5FDIkA – some phrases are off (I should've said "hur man sköter marknadsföring själv") and pronunciation is off.
From a software and algorithm perspective, yes - although what with measured materials and lights (in other words in physical units that match what they are in the real world), it's pretty trivial now to set up scenes in CG which match simple materials like the ones in this example.

What's still a not-quite solved problem (at least efficiency-wise) is displacement / lean / bump micro-surface detail (linked to microfacet response) and stuff like scattering and absorption (for skin, hair in particular) - we can approximate it very well, but still not quite 100%.
I, also, feel much better when I capitalize on the placebo effect. I take Vitamin D every day, but days I forgot, I become grumpy and depressed.

That isn't to say that your sugar-free experience isn't meaningful, significant, or impacts your life.

My point is that your sugar-free lifestyle results are indistinguishable from placebo. Or little green moon men, really.
Why I write CollectFile app
Investigatory Powers Act goes into force, putting UK citizens under intense...
It's odd that something as broad as this and IMO not really innovative as this was granted a patent.
Background processing using Elixir, GenServer and the Erlang queue class
Even it's a duplicate CD in their catalog they still have to rip it. I'm not sure if they're allowed to store the digital copy with deduplication, but if someone sends in 50 of the same CD they have to pay someone to rip each one.

It's a ridiculous way to skirt around the law.
I'm aware, just explaining what the original commenter might've been referring to.
If you are in the US, what is your opinion on the common prison trope that smokes are money in prisons?
He might be associating Vipassana with the Goenka courses. Any time the guy speaks, it's nonsense. He explicitly states his whole course and meditation is a way to make sure you reincarnate better.

Also lots of inane physics talk, mostly attacking scientists for figuring out stuff then claiming Buddhists knew such technical details all along.

Also, gems such as "a cat killing a mouse is not true nature".

The many days without any communication is great. The schedule, up at 4, hours of meditation a day, is great. But everything from the guy's fake accent/guru style to the words he says is "hocus pocus".
Favorite Bugs: errno and Idempotence
I'd love WordPress to be on GitHub rather than squirreled away on... Actually I have no idea, I've never actually found it. I bet you can't find it within 2 minutes from reading this, go on, give it a go...

Told you. Get it on GitHub and watch how much better it becomes.

Also sorting out the versioning would make it more usable.
Another happy customer here.

Notable features that I like: automatic password changes, security challenge (warns me about weak/previously used passwords), primarily web-based (works equally well on Linux).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13289040
[edit: I see @erlehmann_ beat me to it but am leaving it here anyway]

I would be great if someone could enhance the programs `style` and `diction` [1] to incorporate these hints. And make a browser add-in for good measure!

I used `diction` religiously back when I used a UNIX System V system -- it helped me a lot.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/
I mean, they could only be "worthless" to our current application of said patterns. Maybe in the future, those patterns will find use in quantum computing or cryptography or other avenues.

For the mathematician a pattern will be useless but applied in a separate field can yield meaningful results.

That is not to say, it is worth anyone's time to map out these patterns, but simply that they may become useful in the future applied in ways not yet thought.
I have always been curious. What if the master password is compromised?
I will add as a Software Engineer, I use WordPress to document my world expeditions[1] because it works, and I don't want to mess with code while using crummy internet in West Africa.

I have never seen a better alternative for what I do.

With Varnish in front of it, the server doesn't break a sweat with 1,000 concurrent connections (according to Analytics)

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com
In social science we use Stata/SAS when possible but CSVs show up a lot.
If you require front end then you are obviously not his target employer. There plenty of companies that would hire a backend only developer.
If I have some object I want to test in multiple ways, I find it more convenient to create a single instance during setup and then testing various aspects of just that single instance. Since the constructor of the object in question needs a bunch of values passed in, and each unit test only checks the effects of one at a time, I'm just going to copy and paste a bunch of object initialization code if I don't have a setup step first.
`very` should almost never be used. It simply doesn't add anything but leaves the reader guessing.
There's a mirror of it at the obvious place[1], with instructions on how to contribute in the header.

This took me the time it took to type in the URL as a guess. "wordpress github", "wordpress source" both have this as the first result.

[1]: https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
No mention of the Cornell box, the OG real life render!
- Read some books, like The Gene.
- Improve my soft skills.
- Work on some idea.
Thanks for the reference on Google's load balancing. Is this the Maglev load balancer paper [1] available on Google Research?

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
TiDB – A distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol
>These videos are not real; they are hallucinated by a generative video model.

I'm not sure why, but the fact that they used the term "hallucinated" is a little unsettling.
I'm a huge fan of Pass. (https://www.passwordstore.org/). It's command line based but there are adaptations for various platforms. It works best in a UNIX-like environment, though.
> Dig deeper

The Vox article [1] specifically cites depth as a contributor to the Second Avenue Line's increased cost:

"the majority of the Second Avenue subway’s price tag actually comes from the stations rather than the tunnels. The line is being built unusually deep for a subway tunnel, which doesn’t do much to change the basic logistics of boring a tunnel, but does make excavation of station caverns unusually difficult."

[1] http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/new...
It's too late. The cartels were allowed (even encouraged) to grow to the point where they are no longer controllable by the state. If you legalize the drug trade, they will continue to assert quasi-legal control over it the same way that mafias have historically controlled things like garbage removal, and probably branch out into other activities (as they actually have been doing, eg "taxing" avocado farmers). They have no reason to allow themselves to be "outcompeted" by a bunch of MBAs with excellent expertise in logistics but no guns.
As much as I hate the situation and as much as I agree with you, your contradiction answers why:

" But it's crazy that 100 year old scientific works can still be under copyright and illegal to distribute. These objectively have value to society, and the argument for the existence of the public domain is much stronger.

And why on Earth should copyright last last so long to begin with? How many works are worth anything after 10 or 15 years?"

The nature of capitalism means that because there's value to those scientific works, someone will try to extract wealth from them. That's why this happens across the board.
Your statement reminds me of the 'display device with rounded corners'[0] patent.

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/USD670286
Unabashed Elitism
Another Migration Story Xcode 7.3 to 8.2.1
Show Ethereum and Bitcoin price in command line interface (CLI)
Knifedge_deneme
The current copyright system is probably inevitable if you view monetization as the sole valid means of creation incentivization. There are also those who want to preserve the "integrity" of their work indefinitely and avoid any risk of what they would consider degrading or inappropriate reuse. If you come at this from either the monetization or the indefinite integrity camps, the public domain is entirely a negative proposition. This is unfortunate, since from a socitial standpoint there are many overall benefits to the public domain (renewal of interest in what would otherwise be lost works and lost effort, lowered barriers to entry for those needing older work on which to base new efforts, etc.) Unfortunately, most of those gains are also net negatives to those working within (and benefiting from) the current system, and consequently the public domain is unlikely to have advocates with the resources to sway the powers that be in its favor. I suppose a sufficiently broad and strong wave of public opinion might do the trick, but I don't know what the prospects of that are (I suspect dim in the short term, more difficult to calculate in the long term if copyright terms keep getting extended indefinitely.)
A real year for VR: 2016’s best on Vive, Oculus, PSVR, and more
The "war" on drugs has been abismal, and created horrendous conditions in Central America.

Liberalization of drugs is a funny way to put it. It's realism. We are spending ridiculous amounts of money on the war on drugs, that we could instead be spending on education and rehab. We incarcerate far too many people at far too high a cost to society due to drugs.

Incarceration is both a tax on society in the sense that it destroys families, and the cost on taxpayers to fund prisons, as well as the ridiculous for profit prisons that have no reason to rehabilitate the people in them. We in the US have a serious problem that we keep ignoring, it's not a liberal vs conservative issue, this is a societal problem that needs to be addressed. Drug abuse is rampant and our ignorance of how to deal with it is even crazier. We have basically allowed those with money to get legal corporate drugs, while we've made natural drugs illegal and has far more negative consequences legally for poorer communities.

The legalization of marijuana is one step to start correcting these issues, but it's not far enough in properly appropriating money in better ways to make our people and society stronger.
>Python's 'eco-system' for deployment and distribution is horrible, fragmented, clumsy and not easy to lear...

Can you elaborate. Last time I tried it was even easier than Php if you use nginx+uWSGI

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Nginx.html
True. Like rickyc091 pointed out, pis lying around and programming language would be a major plus for choosing it.
An alternative for this problem would be https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onion/omega2-5-iot-comp...
Onion Omega 2 is more awesomer than esp8266( atleast according to the kickstarter video ).. $5 and runs linux out of the box, has wifi module built into it and has mods if we need them.. like pi zero.. I'll be getting mine in a week.. worth checking out..
You have to change all your passwords.
... so you are for drug liberalization?
Then everything is open to be viewed/compromised.

Since I personally don't use the cloud options that would mean the person must also have physical access to my device and have my pin for my phone or the password to my computer too.

Not that this isn't possible but for the added security of having different passwords for every login I'll take this balance of security.
He can't get his $89 reimbursed by the NYT without at least churning out some clickbait.
I find it very upsetting that they even faked the block of wood!
I believe you meant it should be required for every freshman in college (to which I would agree), but I'd go farther and suggest that it should be required for high school freshman as well, and probably even students starting middle school (I found that the transition from one school level to the next was more abrupt than the transition from one year to the next).

We'd drastically raise the level of numeracy and critical thinking and even graduation rates for various types of students.
Lithium Race: China Electric Cars Sales Going Exponential