skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cultural neutrality is a fiction because all auxlangs inevitably reflect the culture of their inventors

Good examples would be the immediately preceding examples of vocabulary simplification:

> the equivalents of “good,” “better,” and “best” would come out as “good,” “gooder,” and “goodest.”

Why not "good", "a-little-better", "a-lot-better", and "goodest" ? Using three steps in such comparisons is a cultural choice.

> “black,” “gray,” and “white” could be “black,” “semi-black,” and “anti-black.”

Why not "white", "semi-white", and "anti-white" ? Using black as the base form is a cultural choice.
seems the spez /r/the_donald controversy has tripled voat's user base.
Haha. Glad you were able to translate that.
Facebook suggested a link between me and my insurance agent.

1. I have not visited the insurance agent's website.

2. He is not in my contact list. (And I've not given FB access to my contact list).

3. I've never been to his office.

I have visited the website of the national insurance company that he represents, so if he was my local agent I could see them inferring a connection. However, he is not my local agent. He's from the city I lived in two moves ago--a city I lived in before FB existed.

As far as I know, I have no friends that use him as an insurance agent. I did switch to that insurance company on the recommendation of friends, but that was three moves ago, when I lived in a completely different state. Those friends and I both moved to this state at about the same time, but to different cities, and we switched to different agents when we moved.

It was rather creepy.
Why does that cost 30x more than a personal 100mbit connection?
I support these kinds of lists. Like #BlackLivesMatter, the focus on a purportedly disenfranchised group doesn't mean that the "main" group doesn't matter -- but it's an acknowledgement that we see plenty of representation of the main group -- in this case, men -- by default. Unless you believe that there really are no barriers specific to women (and it doesn't necessarily have to be sexism) and that women just are terrible at business/tech, why see such lists as threatening to non-women?

Note: There's a (very gray) "View All" button in the top-right of the slideshow. I was just going to complain about the hypocrisy of stuffing a list of purportedly successful women into a photo slideshow in a cynical attempt to increase page views.
I do like McLuhan's work, and there's more to it than that sound byte--though it's very memorable.

He has a pretty wide body of literature, and some of the more interesting aspects of it are about how technology (especially media) become an extension of the nervous system and body itself. (Of course this logical extreme is hive mind, singularity, etc...)

One of the other more interesting points (that has seemed more or less accurate) is that connecting the world via communication technology returns man to a mentality more like our tribal ancestors (I.e. 'the global village').

He also has some very interesting narratives about how new technologies create pain as they are introduced to the world, going back to stirrups, the printing press, and other historical examples.

Some of his books are full of illustrations and are generally very strange and forward thinking; most of all, McLuhan was an extremely creative person with an agile mind and mischievous sense of humor. You can get the sense that much of what he did was trolling the media & academia at some level. And that's where his quirky PR personality comes in. Above all, he was enjoying himself and his 30minutes of fame. Nothing wrong with that!
If you are asked this in an interview, it's not longer an interview... I would simply reply "what circumstances would dictate the necessity of such rather than producing clean code for my coworkers?"
I attended CTY three times but I definitely wasn't one of those "genius"es. I was a goddamn stubborn nerd who wasnt smart enough not to give up. I remember the fundamentals of comp Sci course finished with a short section on C and I amused myself not implementing data structures as assigned but seeing what sorts of segfaults lead to what pop up messages...

There were real smart people there. I mean they just took one look at a red black tree and just got it. Not me I sweat all the way through that stuff.
Here's what I've found along the lines of "mathematics for machine learning":

* DS-GA 1002: Statistical and Mathematical Methods (http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~cfgranda/pages/DSGA1002_fall15/inde...) by Carlos Fernandez-Granda of NYU

(There is a 2016 version of the course with different lectures notes as well.)

* Numerical Algorithms (http://people.csail.mit.edu/jsolomon/share/book/numerical_bo...) by Justin Solomon

* Math for Intelligent Systems, 2016 (https://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/mlr/teaching/maths-...) by Marc Toussaint & Hung Ngo of University Stuttgart

* Math for Intelligent Systems, 2015 (https://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/mlr/teaching/mathem...) by Nathan Ratliff of University Stuttgart

* Mathematics for Inference and Machine Learning (http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/sml/teaching/mathematics-for-machine-...) by Stefanos Zafeiriou and Marc Deisenroth of Imperial College London

Most of these are lectures notes. Some are very detailed, but I think there is still space for a completely fleshed out book on the subject.
>Was that Algeria you were in?

Yeap. Still in.

On a side note, how did you match it? Is this part of the stuff you usually read about, etc?
prll https://github.com/exzombie/prll is a very pleasant and approachable alternative that I've used in preference to GNU Parallel.
As someone that has just spent the last 27 months building an OS from scratch in a University research environment (an OS that can survive catastrophic hardware and software failure [0]), I am very impressed with the quality of this document. I only wish I had found it previously!

OS dev can be great fun and gives you a level of understanding about how computers actually work that is hard to gain from other sources. I have frequently found myself using the knowledge I gained from building the OS when working on other projects. It has been particularly useful when it comes to understanding performance issues. I would highly recommend it to anyone that is even remotely interested.

Other superb resources to help you get started include the OSdev wiki[1], along with this document[2] from the University of Birmingham, UK.

[0] http://www.hydros-project.org

[1] http://wiki.osdev.org/

[2] https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures...
I heard this opinion before.. but I also speak Hungarian from birth and a tiny bit Japanese (out of hobby). English is rather simple. Not as simple as Esperanto mind you, but simple enough (comparatively) that it beats most alternatives that don't try to bootstrap something new. Also, Hungarian has a lot of rolling "r's", so I wouldn't complain about English in this respect ever.. really.

Esperanto has it's perks though, so I do encourage you to learn it. It makes learning other languages that much easier and the community is nice and global, though somewhat eccentric. ;)
Part of the linked page describing the WWVB transmission station which I enjoyed:

"A computer is used to automatically tune the antennas during icy and/or windy conditions. This automatic tuning provides a dynamic match between the transmitter and the antenna system. The computer looks for a phase difference between voltage and current at the transmitter. If one is detected, an error signal is sent to a 3-phase motor in the helix house that rotates the rotor inside the variometer. This retunes the antenna and restores the match between the antenna and transmitter."

Cool technology :)
There was a radio controlled clock in the Computer Lab at Cambridge, but it seems the actual clock mechanism ran fast (gain a couple of minutes over the course of a day). More often than not, if I happened to be walking past at around 1600, the clock would be mid-way through a fast twelve-hour cycle to get back to the right time.
I have game development in my list...looks like I should pair up with you.
You could look into Beanstalk, it depends on what the code your app is written in, though. But yeah, I really wouldn't suggest AWS for something simple that DO or Linode could easily handle.

GCP is also far more simplified than AWS if you haven't tried it. The way they do server auth via Google accounts (using gcloud) is pretty awesome and simple. You can make project-level SSH keys that are automatically placed onto every server and you can block specific servers from receiving them all through the UI.

I do greatly miss AWS's breadth of service offerings, though.
No - They're definitely entitled to a better life. But so is everyone else.

The total untapped human potential is staggering once you take into account the effects of war, racism, sexism, general discrimination, mental illness, physical illness, disincentives, and poverty. At least most of these have improved in the last century.

I hope people realize this is not just about altruism, the economic boost would help everyone.
Most of those oil companies are huge multi-nationals, wouldn't that (admittedly evil) subsidy benefit the whole world?

Roughly 30-40% (depending on which source of numbers you look at) of greenhouse gas emissions are from base load power generation - which is something we can mitigate far more easily than the transportation sector. I believe strongly in building more walkable cities, but I don't want to hang the whole of the greenhouse gas problem on the car.
I agree. Despite the very limited number of phones affected, the damage to their reputation is going to be hard to repair.

...Though sadly, my next gen phone purchase will be dictated by which one still includes a headphone jack :/ I not into dongles.
Lilypond differs from most other music notation programs in that it's basically a compiler of source files written in Lilypond (and Scheme) syntax. Lyp acts as a package manager in order to allow Lilypond users to share and reuse code.
The connection could come from the other side too - your insurance agent. You could be in the insurance agent' contact list, etc.
FWIW lyp is the _only_ package manager for Lilypond.
That depends on your definition of genius, which seems to differ widely from mine but also if one takes "genius" to mean someone who does things a non-genius would not be able to do.

There have been attempts in recent years to roll back and debase the definition of genius to be more compatible with egalitarianism (especially in parts of Europe) and the tenet of homogeneity but this is not what genius originally stood for.

Fabian Tasano writes:
"Regarding the version of “genius” that is currently in retreat but still occasionally used: many people seem to have a simplistic idea of what it takes to be one. According to one popular model, all that is required is an increase in the magnitude of certain qualities which everyone already possesses in some measure. Make the particular qualities pronounced enough, and you get to genius.
But a better way to understand the concept — assuming we’re applying the word to (say) Gauss or Picasso, rather than John Cleese or Wayne Rooney — may be that a genius has a particular capacity, which on a certain level can seem obvious or unremarkable, but which no one else has.
A genius, on this understanding, is a person uniquely capable of making a leap ‘off the path’. With hindsight the leap may seem simple or obvious, but at the time no one else was, apparently, capable of making it.
A potential leap of this kind is made possible by preceding leaps. Nevertheless its actual occurrence may go on not happening for decades. During that time there may be clear pointers towards it. Yet it is not until a genius comes along that the leap actually happens."

I could not agree more with this. Alan Kay also outlines an extremely similar point of view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc

Also see his blue/red world metaphor.
BLM is a group that represents economically disadvantaged people. This list is pulled from the upper most echelons of society. Do you think it's ok to represent the wealthy as somehow oppressed?

Please don't take my question as an attack, I'm genuinely curious how people who support these initiatives view wealth.
Here's what I see:
http://m.imgur.com/NklUwqe

It's also the same on my desktop.
h.264 or h.265 is going to yield a much better compression ratio for equivalent quality, even after transcoding formats.

On the order of 2:1 or 3:1 vs MPEG2 format for DVD.
>A developer room with desks and monitors and a door

I think you will have a hard time distributing this equitably. Since "everyone" wants a private office and needs to focus "all the time" I expect this will go to the person who shows up earliest/has the most social capital to not get kicked out.
Some of these cabs are lasting 30+ years, though they often use old cop cars which also have high mileage. The limitation is offen accidents not direct mileage.
Python 3.6, OpenCV 3.2, pyenv, and macOS Sierra
I quite like the idea that hardware intended for autonomy might benefit from being implemented on bare metal.

Some embedded OSes work by basically writing your application as an extension of the OS. So you're essentially running on bare metal there. Usually even for simple devices you want more than one thread/process....and then you start wanting OS stuff.

There's probably a better example than OpenBSD

Kaspersky's new OS is built for exactly that reason.

Also, for completeness, the osDev wiki has a list of OSes built for various reasons....some serious, some for research: http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
I would start at the OS-Dev wiki: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
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Vera Rubin, astronomer and dark matter pioneer has died
> I think you may have glossed over that paper I linked.

I've read it before, and not precisely yesterday or today.

> No, you can't have a non-strict impure language just fine, the semantics would make it too difficult to reason about side effects.

Sure, such a language wouldn't be very usable, but it's very much definable.

> See for example Data.ByteString.Lazy.readFile, which is more or less obsolete since the creation of iteratees.

You don't need to convince me that lazy I/O is a bad idea. If it were up to me, the type of a lazy stream would be:

data Stream m a = Nil | Cons a (m (Stream m a))

Where m is Identity when you have a strict (and guaranteed finite!) list. Of course, laziness is a monadic effect just like any other.

> On your second point, nontermination is treated semantically as a value in Haskell.

Nothing is a value in Haskell. (If you work out the operational semantics of a non-strict language, you'll see that you don't need to “carve out” a subset of terms that must be considered “values”, unlike the case for a strict language.) All you have is computations, some terminating, some not.
This unfortunately follows the conventions of the genre called "Falsehood programmers believe about X":
http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/falsehoods-programmers-beli...

I honestly think this genre is horrible and counterproductive, even though the writer's intentions are good. It gives no examples, no explanations, no guidelines for proper implementations - just a list of condescending gotchas, showing off the superior intellect and perception of the author.
BLM is a group that exists to call attention to the ways that American society structurally devalues the lives of African Americans, most significantly by stubbornly assuming that African Americans killed by police officers (and by their surrogates, such as homeowners patrolling their property with firearms) represent justifiable homicides.

It is not primarily an economic justice movement and cannot therefore reasonably be attacked on the grounds you're attempting to attack it on.

This is, obviously, a tangent not relevant to article. 'danso was drawing an illustrative parallel, between the (implied) "All Lives Matter" rebuttal to Black Lives Matter, to "where's the men-only event" rebuttal to women-in-tech initiatives.
I'm not attacking BLM. I support it.

This list however I don't support because the members are from wealthy backgrounds and are being presented as needing extra help.
You are dividing one constant by another -- surely that would be handled at compile time?
How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms [pdf]
That's for targeting musl, typically used for static linking. That should work when running rustup and rustc on FreeBSD as well.

What we're missing is rustc-on-musl and with that rustup-on-musl.
Yes, that's it, by the desc. and dates shown.
Lossy in top of lossy is never going to be the best approach for archival purposes, which is what the GP was looking for.

If the question was about balancing quality and file size I would've given a different answer.
It's not even a valid observation about BLM.
Part D costs twice as much as it would if run like Medicare. So, no it's a boondoggle worse than the Big Dig which had some difficult problems to solve beyond making campaign donors richer.
India successfully test-fired its longest range nuclear-capable missile
I developed programs on my computer and transferred them. There's some fantastic communities out there with all the resources and help you'll ever need [1]. I got my start working through this guide [2].

[1] https://www.omnimaga.org

[2] http://tutorials.eeems.ca/ASMin28Days/welcome.html
Since I follow alpine linux dev a bit, I thought this:
https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/testing/ru...

Is the port of rustc to run natively on AL? Bit outdated now but it seemed to work the last time I tried it.

You'd have to enable the testing repo to use it however.
We're way off topic but again I support BLM and do feel economics play a role.
What about N-series VMs on Azure? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-n-series-genera...
I don't know any evidence to support that idea. My frustration is that too many people are labeled, pigeonholed and also don't have the resources to ever do their best. Do we underestimate our potential, sure, but we're not all in the 99th percentile.

However my guess is real nootropics won't take another century to get here. We may all be smarter someday.
> Where is the Male only founder conference?

Sorry, but this is off-topic because it predictably leads to tedium (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241873). It also breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to do classic flamewar topics on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259484 and marked it off-topic.
Ditch all the communication mediums except phone and email.

Phone (or in person) for 'synchronous' communication where something is immediate.

Email for everything else; answer it 3 times a day and in batches.

Yes, phone isn't as 'easy' as slack, IRC, gchat; that's the point.

Add just a little barrier, and also a little incentive to know you in person.

There's an illusion of immediacy to all these queries. A lot of those calls will turn to emails, and a lot of email threads will turn into "question for you...", "Oh I've worked it out but here's a new question", "oh actually that's fixed now". A little more learning and initiative takes place too.

Phone/person = synchronous
Email = asynchronous
Oh, right. The Bundys just had the $530K unpaid SBA loan.
Totally agree, Google Container Engine (hosted kubernetes) plus managed Postgresql would be my dream setup.
The expense isn't so much money you pay to Apple, it's the typically multiple hours and hundreds of dollars necessary to get an EV certificate from a CA.
This is a great piece, and it puts most coverage of Malheur to shame. The one pang I feel after reading journalism like this is that it will not reach the people it should. It may increase our understanding of them, but it doesn't increase their understanding, nor our ability to reach them and steer them away from the cliff edge of, in this case, divesting public lands.

It's an old play, in a way: Vast, shadowy private interests manipulate the lumpen to demonize the only institution that can stop them, the government, in order to hack away at the general welfare and the public good.

The Bundy's are just sock puppets for the Kochs and other barons amassing fiefdoms at the people's expense.
Work from home several days a week after explicitly telling my immediate coworkers that I am "out to work on X". It works very well as long as you ignore non urgent requests (after reminding people you are unavailable).
I don't think that's universally true, some languages are quite sound and logical at their core.
You have a valid point. People that especially do video podcast could benefit from this technology like twit.tv.
Firefox will support Windows XP and Vista until September 2017
It is hard to get funding for a company that targets the non-rich. Your only option is to grow that company organically.

And organically grown companies aren't going to make a "Top N List" of anything until they're so big that it doesn't matter anymore.
President Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law
Black Lives Matter could consist predominantly of wealthy white people and it would remain coherent as a movement.

Similarly: there simply is a profound gender imbalance in technology, and celebrating progress toward correcting that imbalance is reasonable regardless of the underlying economic story.

It is reasonable to have concerns both about the structural privileges afforded to wealthy people in technology and the gender gap. What's not reasonable is to use one issue as a cudgel to beat back concerns about the other. If you think the tech gender gap doesn't matter, you'll have to argue that directly.
At 25k servers / day one would think pulling this into real hardware and doing capacity planning would be cost effective.
Yeah, certainly one of the first, I'd agree with that. First I'd ever heard about it was in the documentary Thumb Candy, at the beginning Steve Russell gives an introduction to Spacewar!, which is quite fun to see:

http://youtu.be/UAo4CZTGFQQ

Digging around, I found even more early examples of computer-based games that appear to have been largely overlooked, I certainly don't remember hearing about them before, seems like the first video games may have emerged in the early 50s (between 1950 to 1951, depending on whether it needed to be on a general purpose computer):

https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/
I think people might still start new s-expression based languages, whereas any respectable new language will use head/tail rather than car/cdr.
One of the devs here... looks like that was caused by an A/B testing template from the people dealing with marketing. It's been fixed.

edit: Just to be clear, the next kit does ship in January 2017.
> a H.264 hardware decoder can decode all H.264 files

and

> video decoding is easily parallelizable

At a previous job, I don't know if it was just the field I was in or just bad luck, but having to explain this over and over again was kind of a personal nightmare.

That being said, this is an excellent list!
>> English, like many other European languages such as German, has many loanwords from French, Latin, Greek, and probably even more.

That's what I hinted at with "it's a funny mix of other languages".

>> It makes sense Esperanto, an evolution on [in this case the commonly used world-languages English & Spanish] contains loanwords from those languages, perhaps even on top of French/Latin/Greek/...

Latin and Slavic with some Germanic in between. Zamenhof (Esperanto was his brainchild) came form Poland and spent his life on this idealistic project of his.

Also Spanish, French, part of German and by analog of the previous combined English are to a great part derived from Latin, so kinda the same roots here.
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