skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please identify the evidence you see supporting your claim that it is impossible, in light of their words and actions to the contrary.

I'd even just like to see evidence that is is difficult to do. I mean, I can see how it's more work than doing nothing, but I find it hard to imagine it's all that challenging.
I just spat out my coffee. Unfortunately I think PEPDD is more common than we might think.
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Why aren't any of these geniuses working on AGI? Such as applying some of these NN advancements to agents in diverse 3d virtual environments attempting varied/gradually increasingly complex tasks and learning based on low-level (grounded) sensory inputs?
Huh? I'm still running my own sync server and it was really easy to setup.

https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html

Working fine with Firefox on macOS and Android. You can even setup the authentication server, but I didn't see why I'd need that. Having the data on my own server is enough for me.
Try Sublevel[0] if you feel a social itch.

0.https://sublevel.net/
123-reg DNS down
NASA Animation Offers a Accurate Look at This Year's Coast-To-Coast Eclipse
Maybe the refrigerator is the dock!
Why aren't any of you geniuses working on AGI? Such as applying some of these NN advancements to agents in diverse 3d virtual environments attempting varied/gradually increasingly complex tasks and learning based on low-level (grounded) sensory inputs?
I know of one [1], the Bruderhof, that maintains communal ownership of property and has existed for almost 100 years. It's not easy to do, though, so perhaps an exception that proves the rule. They do have some thriving businesses that make surviving in a capitalist world possible [2].
[1] source: I was born and spent my childhood there
[2] http://www.communityplaythings.com/ http://www.rifton.com/
I think since they are used more, and burn more fuel generally more total emissions come from heavy commercial vehicles, so at least the more rigorous testing was introduced in the right sector first.

This is also part of the reasoning one of the Tesla founders used when they moved on to creating hybrid drivetrains for trucks with Wrightspeed.
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I really like Vivaldi, but I cannot use it as my main browser because I really miss browser synchronization. With Chrome, I have everything synchronized, so setting up my browser environment I'm used to on new computer takes just few clicks. I hope Vivaldi will have this too soon.
Love the hack but I can't agree that they're a fad. Long before smartwatches my cousin had a bluetooth watch connected to his phone. And today I have a smartwatch connected to my phone to avoid having to stop and take it out when I'm on a bike. I bike everywhere, like thousands others where I live.

So there's clearly a market for some sort of wrist-device that makes using your phone easier.

The thing that makes it feel like a stupid fad is when you have to charge it every day and therefore forget to put it on. It hasn't become habitual quite yet.

Which is why I love my smartwatch for having an e-ink display and not an amoled display. So even after more than a year of operation I still only charge it once a week.
I understand that a lack of competition almost always leaves users/consumers worse off, but I really find value in a lot of the integrations Chrome seamlessly provides with other Google products, especially my chromebook.

Is this article asking me to sacrifice these benefits just to oppose the imminent monopoly? If the only difference between chrome and firefox was the market share then it might make more sense for me to switch. The problem is that I don't want to give up the extra benefits of chrome just to be one additional user for firefox.
Are you sure it's Medium you're talking about, and not Matter[1]? I couldn't find anything about Medium on kickstarter.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readmatter/matter
The users don't have to deal with it. No one forces you to use 1Password. They've been asked and stated their position and don't owe anyone anything else. If the folks in the thread (or here for that matter) don't like the answers, don't use the product. Pretty simple.
What marks does Obama's presidency deserve?
Kickstarter is like voting. Once you cast the vote, all bets are off on what actually happens. And they already have your money so odds are not good for you.
OpenTTD is in fact amazing, especially considering the amount of custom content that's been created over the years. 10/10 total nerd-bait, lose weeks and months of free time.

The problem is that the development of these things has been very ad hoc and all the defaults are based on the old Transport Tycoon gameplay, which... has a rather primitive idea of passenger/mail service. But if you turn on the right advanced options and have the right set of trains, it's a fun challenge to design networks with a mix of service classes (super express passenger lines, high capacity metros, branching suburban commuter networks, or trams/buses/ferries where you can't fit tracks) while facing capital constraints and the consequences of your previous decisions (like when your mainline runs through a major urban city center, which puts it close to all the passengers and was a super great idea, but now it can't easily be expanded to have longer platforms because there are lots of tall buildings hemming it in.)

Oh, and you can balance the risk of live upgrades (potentially, crashes and death, if you do it wrong) against the revenue losses and operational complexity of shutting down the trains.
The long lost Aurochs might resurrect soon- Thanks to back breeding
So happy I replaced 1Password with a 600 line shell script: https://www.passwordstore.org
Everyone has phones in their hands with web browsers. We haven't needed shopping mall video directory boards for a decade. Or shopping malls, for that matter.
I remember playing this on the PS1

The coolest thing about this game is that you could directly play as any unit like it was a third-person action game
2016 Algolia community gift: Yarn package search
srch is defined in search.ts so no, that's not obvious at all.

Having a naming convention is no reason not to do proper dependency management. This global approach just obscures things and makes it untestable.
Is #1 considered this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_pattern
Om+Puri+is+now+more,+Om+puri+passes+away+Bollywood+mourns+his+demise
Qutebrowser v0.9.0
Related to the
IGA (I'm Gone Anyway) Methodology.

Where you know that you'll leave the company by the end of the month and don't give a shit.
> Is it discovery? Because I've never browsed medium.

I've used it for some short notes that I want to share with people on Twitter. It's mostly when my reaction to something is too long for Twitter's character limit.

This is a terrible use of medium. In 2017 I'm going to move away to a minimal blog on something like NeoCities, or maybe even something mashed together on Nearly Free Speech.

Reading Medium is not great for me. I'm really interested in stuff around mental illness - treatment, tackling stigma, suicide prevention. But most of Medium is American, and the information is just a bit too foreign to be interesting or useful to me.

Medium is very easy to use. It's ridiculously easy. And it removes the need to think about styling. So it has a little bit in common with "distraction free editors". So that's one reason why people write there.
Radio is great at broadcast, sucks at point to point with thousands of people. Multicast doesn't work on the internet. Broadcasting digital signals is a better way to use bandwidth.
"Just don't artificially dilate your eyes then stare at a super-bright LED bank for 24 hours!"

Looks like my weekend plans are shot
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328549
Well, considering Sonos has multi channel and multi room capabilities wirelessly, it can work. That said I have no idea how this spec works vs whatever proprietary magic they've got going on.
I've seen some Edison kits on the shelf at my local Fry's. Looks like they've been untouched for a long time.
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Sounds like C&C: Renegade
> We know that we are all a little bit sexist

Speak for yourself. I'm not American, so I'm not force-fed this proposition at every turn.

> 'by noticing sexism or trying to change it you are sexist' argument

No it isn't. This argument requires that sexism to exist. What sexism is there to notice in the experiences of a child yet to be born?

We are talking of the authors own experiences here, and how those are being projected on her son.

> it is going to be different for a boy over a girl

So she also worries that her girl might not see things from the perspective of men?

All her viewpoints and experiences and from one direction, she never considers enlightening herself with another perspective. That's why I'm skeptical of appeals for objectivity from someone who thinks they already possess it.

> You simply think that feminism is a bad thing to teach a child when it isn't

There is no such thing as singular 'feminism'. This becomes clear when you confront one feminist with the views of another feminist that they disagree with.

this type of feminism is bad. This kid will have its behavior interpreted in bad-faith - that is not normal parenting.
Looking at these creaky cheap looking clones really makes me feel a lot of respect for the Surface team. They're clearly working to a far higher level of quality and implementation than the rest of the PC industry.

Really hoping for a stand alone Surface Studio screen before 2018.
> sites which insist on using a webkit/blink-based browser

Does a user-agent switcher addon not help?
While I'm not sure how much of this might ever be perceived by an average observer, it's worth noting that this is quite likely the most accurate depiction of the path and timings of a solar eclipse ever. Just the sheer amount of data that would have had to be processed to take into account a peak on the moon affecting the light coming through by a couple of seconds and then combining that with the topography of the area of the earth it would be hitting on to understand what area it would actually be covering is a little overwhelming to even think of.
You guys need to rotate your screen 90 degrees.
This is built using Emscripten. They compiled native Graphviz to JS and there is a thin shim that renders the .dot files to the browser. Dot command gives output that makes this relatively easy.
Sorry for what might be a stupid question but I haven't used Medium and last used Tumblr a few years ago: how do you know how many readers you have? Do these platforms offer stats or is it based on Google Analytics or user comments?

It's not hard to believe Medium having more traffic than Tumblr, just wanted to understand how people measure this.
Imagine a framework/compiler that just detects hacks and refuses to compile hacked together projects.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/
intel botched their integration, ISA is a tiny tiny part of that. ARM solutions were designed for IP integration from the start by necessity of ARM being an IP provider instead of a whole package provider, so customers were free to create their own chips that contained everything required at a few (dozen or w/e) dollars less than intel was able to offer.
Tizen uses Wayland
Can I point out that we want to have our cake and eat it too? I really really want password sync, but I also really don't want you to know any of my passwords. This is going to be hard for you to pull off successfully. How are you planning to achieve it?
I never liked this approach. I am a dev. If all I did was solve my own problems all I would write is developer tools. Which is about the worst market to sell in. Many problems out there that aren't my own.
Jack Wisdom actually uses it in his research, which is in solar system dynamics. I think he converts it to C though in order to run it faster.
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Part of the problem is that basically the closer you run the diesel engine to its optimum mpg-wise, the more NOx it emits.

So, when you are trying very hard to make engines more efficient to get impressive mpg numbers, you also end up generating more NOx (Which you can then get rid of using urea, which I think is the preferred option in trucks and buses - think AdBlue or whatever it is called when used for cars.
Absolutely not, but thankfully for me many clients demand it even if I advise against it.
That's why he said it was a fad for him. And it is, for the vast majority of people, just a fad. Bar some use cases like biking and so on, having a smartwatch brings nuisances for no tangible benefits.
Fuckit Driven Development; when you're tired of your manager making nonsense decisions and not respecting your expertise so you give up caring and blindly do what they ask in order to avoid arguments.
Just launched http://ineedicons.com –– custom made outline icons. Will see soon if it has legs.
VF2 is faster than Nauty for EXTREMELY trivial problems (and many problems are extremely triial), but I've found many real-world problems where it falls off a cliff.

VF2 is basically the most stupid search imaginable -- if the problem is easy it stumbles into the solution very quickly, but if any work is required it degrades into a horrible exponential search.

On the other hand, Nauty is very difficult to confuse -- as it reasons about the whole graph (whereas VF2 just does local reasoning), your graph has to have global properties which make it hard, which are rare (and basically never occur in real-world graphs, unless they come from some mathematical problem).
I have never liked FM radio. Far too much time wasted fiddling with telescopic aerials.
I've always listened to AM broadcasts in preference.
I don't listen to much radio at all any more except via podcasts.
The web app seems plain ugly now. the mobile UI is so much better
I'm not an insider or anything, but I just searched, 'medium blog stats' and came up with this:

https://medium.com/@Medium/statistics-2971adaa615

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215108608-Stats

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215793317-Publicat...
Gotta say - the projects in the book made all the difference for me. It's one thing to read their high level, notation-heavy chapters, but I found that working through the exercises really solidified everything in my mind.

That said I got pretty lost near the end. I want to go back in a year or so once I have a bit more math background.
Except that:

- Not everyone has smart phones, do they? I mean, maybe 95% do, but it's still pretty harsh on the 5% to just abandon them altogether

- Your phone might not have any power

- A mall directory board is maybe ~20 times bigger than my phone - MUCH easier to use

- Much harder to locate whatever website I'm supposed to use than just walking up to a screen which is already displaying the correct 'site' and doesn't pop up all sorts of notifications / start ringing in the middle of your interaction / allow you to get distracted by a million and one other things.

I was actually in a mall the other day, looking for a video directory board and couldn't find one. I'm not convinced there wasn't one, but I had my phone on me, tried to find useful info. on what I thought was the mall's website, and just gave up.
Ask HN: What's the best charity in your country?
What charity do you regularly support and why is better than similar charities ?
I.e. "software".
Still, any solution based around a smartphone is going to be subpar, compared to the dirt-cheap FM receiver that can run for weeks or months on a couple of ubiquitous AA batteries.
One of the reasons, I am not proud to be a German, since it was/is my government (shame on them all!) that actively prevents real progress in the area of emission reduction of cars.

Reality is, that ADAC or TÜV years ago already warned, that EURO 6 cars may produce even more emissions than EURO 5 cars. So, decades of EU environment politics where just Potemkin villages to please German car producers.
I notice that nobody answers to the "what is the battery life" questions...
This sounds similar to what we have in Nim right now. There are multiple layers (from highest to lowest):

* Async await

* The async dispatcher (event loop)

* Selectors module

Each builds on top of the layers below it. The selectors module is an abstraction for the various system `select()` mechanism such as epoll or kqueue. If you wish you can use it directly, and some people have done so successfully[1]. But you must be aware that on Windows it only supports `select()`.

The async dispatcher implements the proactor pattern and also has an implementation of IOCP. It implements the proactor pattern for other OS' via the selectors module. Futures are also implemented here, and indeed all the procedures return a future.

The final layer is the async await transformation. This allows you to write asynchronous code in a synchronous style and works similar to C#'s await. The transformation works by converting any async procedures into an iterator.

This is also single threaded and fully non-blocking and does give you a lot of control. In theory you should be able to work with any of these layers interchangeably (as long as you only care about non-Windows platforms).

1 - http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/25/nim-socketserver/
When you hand in an old cellphone they just resell it the same for used cars, so lease programs don't result wast the way you are thinking.
Imagine a world with no compiled computer code ;)
RPD - 'Random Push Development' - no vision, no roadmap, no plan, just a constant rush to some new feature ...
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Most humans are pretty bad at at least a few of those things. Also, some are tasks that the human brain is specifically optimized for - human natural language most likely plays well to lots of human-hardware-design-quircks. So using them a test sounds pretty bad / unfair - lots of human-level but independently evolved alien intelligences would probably fail miserably at them. You could have above-human intelligence barely reaching human performance at either of these tasks but vastly surpassing human intelligence at others...

Imho GI "will arrive" after the point that we have swarms of similar close-to-human-level ai-agents trying to model each other's behavior while competing and collaborating in artificial and natural environments.

All theories of self-consciousness that make some sense imho are about agents trying to model self-similar agents and then somewhow reframing this ability to model past and future self. So you could have self-conscious dog-level agents (yeah, I believe "self conscience" is quantitative and a dog can have some of it and a human a different level of it, not 0 or 1), or non-self conscious above-human-"general"-AIs (though I don't know if you'd want to label "general" any non-self conscious AI, and I think any non-self-conscious above-human AI would get "self conscience" quite fast if you were to push it be be "general purpose" - striving to solve more and more types of problems, you inevitably arrive to some formulation of the "model something like yourself in order to predict its actions" problem).
Ket is a minimalist approach. It's a maths text editor.
The basic idea is that algebra is just rapid text editing.
Equations are written in mark-down, displayed in conventional notation and edited with Vim commands.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ket/
SODD is not such a bad thing.

If it's been written by someone smart and has a lot of upvotes, it's probably better than most code.

There's an idea there ...
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It's interesting how nearly all algorithmic asymptotic running times can be specified just in terms of exp, log and powering. exp(exp(sqrt(log n)))=exp(exp(exp(log(log n)/2))) is a beautiful thing.
But how comes we so rarely encounter other functions? Clearly this class doesn't cover everything we might need. Where are the exp(exp(a^(-1)(n))) algorithms, where a^(-1) is the inverse ackerman function?
PEPDD is the reality based term for MVP :)
Hi, Is there a better way to reach out to you?
Not playing with cheaters is a better solution imo. The code defines the rules of the game. Change it in any way and you're playing a different game.
The other part is, that producing cleaner Diesel cars is just more costly -- that was the main reason for VW to cheat.
I even deactivate FB. Isn't enough to keep me out for long.
IDGAFDD, or Not-Driven-Development
Given your interest in rendering engines, you may be interested in the work being done by Mozilla folks on Servo: https://servo.org/
My year 2016 in commits [video]
It's also almost never 100% true. Even if the glasses are perfect, they also have to be perfectly clean or you get a bit of a blur anyway. Small enough to not be noticeable, but strong enough to blur the benefits of such a higher resolution.
Comparing fatalities based on distance traveled obscures the real risks, especially if you do that country-wide: Highways and other long-distances roads are a comparatively safe environment for cars. Accidents are comparatively rare, but often fatal. City traffic differs: speed is in general lower (< 50 km/h), distances traveled shorter and accidents will often not result in injuries for vehicle occupants.

Injuries for cyclists thus are far more likely. Even collisions at lower speed that basically leave a car dented and the occupants uninjured will result in injuries for cyclists: The classic dooring accident, run over by a turning car, etc. Even overtaking the cyclist with too little safety distance can lead to a fatal accident [1]

The stats in Berlin (2015) indicate that while cyclists are involved in about 4% of all accidents, they make up 21% of persons killed (pedestrians are even worse off: 1.33% involvement, but roughly 40% of all persons killed). They also make up more than 30% of all injured (30% of major injuries). Pedestrians make up for 13% of the injuries (24% of major injuries). So the group of soft targets that is involved in roughly 5% of accidents suffers 60% of all fatalities, 54% of nmajor injuries and 43% of all injuries.[2]

[1] see incident 10 on this list http://adfc-berlin.de/radverkehr/sicherheit/aktionen/62-geis... (sorry, german only)
[2] data taken from https://www.berlin.de/polizei/aufgaben/verkehrssicherheit/ve... (sorry, german only)