skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to understand that structuralism-post-structuralism-postmodernism is basically a far-left political movement. When the workers failed to overthrow capitalism, when the Soviet Union turned into a dreary dictatorship, and when the newly-independent colonies of Africa failed turn into social paradises, many leftist intellectuals looked around for a new way to attack capitalism.

What they came up with was a social-constructivist, radical relativist attack that goes back to Nietzsche, Kant, Hume, and ultimately Plato's two-world view of reality. This was supposed to work because the argument for capitalism is based on a belief that reality is such that it works better for increasing human well-being than any other economic system.

What is interesting is that the postmodernists are themselves not really radical relativists. They believe, for instance, that famine is a real phenomenon and that it is truly bad. Their idea was that deconstructionist arguments would cleanse people of their capitalist ideology, and then their minds would be open to see the truths of socialism. Needless to say, this strategy was a failure.
> or XMPP been around before Skype

It was. XMPP, aka Jabber, started late 1998, the first version of jabberd appeared in 1999, the standards group started in 2002 and the RFCs were ratified in 2004. Jabber.org, the first IM service on top op Jabber/XMPP opened its doors in 1999.

Skype was first released in 2003, about 4 years after Jabber had already become a thing.

Just because something was there first doesn't make it win nor does it mean it will remain the primary/principle protocol/option :).
It is indeed interesting, and useful from an privacy perspective (in the sense that it masks the correlation between different connections from the same machine).

You do need to define some "trustworthy" machines which get to see a constant (and known) address - or troubleshooting and debugging the network will be horrible. Also, I suspect some protocols (pop-before-smtp, stun) won't like it. They are unneeded in IPv6, but I suspect there exist ones that will fail horribly with this scheme.
Pardon my ignorance, can you explain what a "tent-pole feature" is (I'm guessing a feature that enables others, but that seems too general), and what a "radar" is?
There is a clear gap between the performance of the system and "perfect translation". I don't think Google has been misleading in any way here - the system is pretty amazing, and this is the research blog so it is reasonable to expect people to look at it at least slightly.
"And that -- the mere demand for equal treatment and respect -- is the only kind of "flat hierarchy" in the US. In every other way, that is, in any way that actually counts, Larry Ellison and Joe 6pack are so different in assets, life prospects for them and their kids, influence, power, etc, that Larry might as well be Louis XIV."

I think your language, above, is very indicative of the inability to understand this set of choices. Why is the demand for equal treatment and respect "mere" ? Why is it not something that "actually counts" ?

Don't misunderstand me - I find myself confounded by a lot of these aspects of US culture and politics, but I think it's worth trying to see something deeper at work than simply "they're dummies".

I would also like to take issue with the comparison between Larry Ellison and Louis XIV. Yes, LE is very rich and probably has a lot of hidden political levers that are meaningful but there is absolutely no comparison whatsoever and I really am taken aback by the confusion that people in this thread have between wealth and social class.

On the other hand, my entire thesis here is that given enough time, that distinction will blur - so perhaps your confusion doesn't matter.
That's actually not bad. I was fine with SpiderOak going for a term that is simple, catchy, and easy to market. Zero Access is the kind of alternative that might work. That specific one might have a problem: send perception of user having zero access to their own data when most clouds constantly reinforce "access from anywhere any time."

You're thinking along the right lines. I think variations of the words safe and vault have worked for other companies, too, given people understand what they do. "Your data is in a locked vault that we hold for you while you keep the keys or combination." That sort of thing.
"I don't mean to imply there have been zero new users"

Yes, you literally wrote "[Bitcoin] hasn't succeeded anywhere".

"I just don't believe there is much actual growth in users when accounting for churn."

? I honestly think you are trolling now... You can't seriously be thinking that out of this 8x tx rate growth, there isn't "much growth in users". Even being very very generous with your argument and assuming the average user transacts 4x more, then it still means the userbase grew 2x which would still be a significant success.

"Attracted VC investment in the past tense"

False, investments are still taking place. Here are some deals from 2016: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoins-biggest-venture-capita... Over the last 3 years (which is the period of time where you argued "Bitcoin hasn't succeeded anywhere") there has been $0.5-1.0 billion invested in Bitcoin companies, directly contradicting your claim.

"take it mainstream and all of them have failed"

Again, again, and again: tx rate grew 8x, # of ATMs grew, # of merchants accepting Bitcoin grew, price shot up, VC investment are being made, userbase grew, etc. But despite this growth which directly contradicts you, you continue to make statements like "EVERYTHING HAS FAILED"... Bitcoin going mainstream will take 10-20 years or more, and so far it's growing very nicely. The world is not a dichotomy. It's not either "Bitcoin is completely mainstream" or "EVERYTHING HAS FAILED". Sorry I think you are either (1) intentionally trolling or (2) have an issue with admitting when you are wrong (despite you stating otherwise).

I appreciate you attempting to be friendly. But I don't know if you are doing (1) or (2) so I can't afford to waste any more time in this discussion :-( I came back from my trip and started a company. Busy times ahead.
Didn't Twitter use Rails at first and it failed under load?
I don't care if it's Microsoft or canonical or whoever wants to have their go, but I am so, so ready to leave both Android and iOS. I have a pc so half of the iPhones features are useless to me (I never really cared for the platform to begin with), and android constantly annoys me these days. Give me a phone with a browser, nice screen, and a battery big enough for me to never worry if I charge it every night. Nokia and Microsoft were close with the lumias, it's so frustrating that they stopped.

Edit: I know I can still buy a lumia 950/xl or an older Windows phone, but some amount of platform support would be nice.
It's even bigger than that: ~ 6e23.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
I don't understand. Would you work at Apple itself?
I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.
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It wouldn't be surprising if they're angling to be acqui-hired. I think that's why they're so forthright about the Apple pedigree.
> there's awesome beaches within an hour, mountains and snow within 4 hours.

True. They aren't in Melbourne though.

By 'no landscape' I mean 'flat as a pancake'. I like a city with hills, views, and especially views over water with an interesting coastline. Wellington and San Francisco are good examples of cities that I like the shape of. Valparaiso and (less so) Santiago as well.

Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed being in Melbourne. It's an easy place to live with great people and a lot going on.
Previous approaches to AI couldn't beat game of go. There is not as much qualitive difference between pre-decesors of RoR, Pony and Scala. This makes me think that DL hype may be warranted.

Anyway, I am working on deep learning and it enable us to solve problems of our users better than previous computer vision approaches.
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And that's why Britain is an exception. If they don't want to be part of the EU, it's not a failure of the EU.
Robert Sapolsky has dealt with this field quite a bit and is a plain-spoken and engaging academic concerned with much of what is being discussed in this thread. I highly recommend a documentary he co-produced, "Stress: Portrait of a Killer."

A short interview on the topic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2008/09/23/heres_o...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs
great to see a melbourne company here. physical wall idea is excellent - https://devblog.kogan.com/blog/transform-your-stakeholder-co... & cards - https://github.com/kogan/eClaire
A better question is 'why HTTP for anything'?
Sounds right, maybe Diaspora or XMPP would not become popular if they were advertised today. Software like VLC, Firefox, LibreOffice would because they're not communication platforms.

Chance might play a larger role than advertising in the early game, for communication platforms.
Exactly. The obvious counterpoint. Those people aren't buying shit from them and represent basically no market share. It's privacy-conscious users of services like DropBox they're going after. Most of them don't know crypto or a lot of terms people suggested here. Marketing wisdom dictates you call it whatever gets them to see its value & buy it. Then ignore the haters as you roll around in cash.

Business 101 if goal is max adoption & profit.
But it's impossible to even plug it in: it has a male USB-C and a female mini-DisplayPort sized plugs.
My question is:

1. How often does this happen?

2. Hoe many tests did SpaceX do before the first FT launch?

Considering that most rockets don't use supercooled fuels, I would expect insane tests (they can't rely on NASA's historical data).
The exception that just happens to start wars whenever we feel like it?
Are you going to pretend that no civilians were killed during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
If you don't, you have your crime. Killing civilians was pretty damn widely agreed upon on that it's not acceptable.
The US committed a war crime, and a crime against humanity. Accept it. It's not the first, and there are plenty others to follow.
Casetext and Judicata are great companies working on searching through judicial opinions. There's a lot to be said about PACER and publishing state judicial opinions. Suffice it to say, those companies could probably save a lot of time on parsing and focus on other problems instead if judicial opinions were released with some structured information, e.g. party names and procedural posture. Open Law Library makes it possible for legislatures to, among other things, publish their laws in structured formats.

One thing to consider is that on a day-to-day basis, an individual might be impacted more by city/county/state law than by federal law.
>Now, there are certain ideologies (democracy, free market, capitalism) that are considered as the apex.

At this point, I would say capitalism is eating both democracy and free markets.
I am slightly disheartened that you would consider running something on a linux machine with cron "devops" ;).

You can also have Lambdas execute commands on EC2 instances. This makes it easier to run non-web-app code in response to various AWS events since most things can be hooked into Lambda. Maybe that is more along the lines of what you want?
That's not irrational. Also, try building things for yourself, and trading rather than living a life of consumerism. It's the only way to opt out of having your personally created wealth redistributed.
I was implying a compile-time solution, i.e. where the result of the mapping is constexpr.

On second though, maybe it can be done at compile time, with this: http://b.atch.se/posts/constexpr-counter/
I have a coworker who uses an old thinkpad, and he's swapped out the optical drive with another battery.
Any pointers on what the encapsulation for that would look like? It seems like one good option, but I'd say it's only feasible if it doesn't require work on the part of the manufacturer.

My other thought was just mandating a method of loading CA certs onto all IoT devices using an open standard connector. If the owner so chooses.
> To me it does. How do you know? We don't even know if it's a they a him or her.

It would be fallacious to reason about the soundness of bitcoin based on the person who created it anyway, given that you are not being asked to trust it based on reputation - they are many better sources of information to use when making a decision about the soundness of the currency.

> I understand the blockchain concept but still we can't accept it as infallible.

No one is saying to accept it as infallible, and in fact not knowing who created it helps with that sort of thing, given that you have to actually evaluate it for what it is instead of just saying, "Well, X created it and I love everything else they've done."
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Maybe. Apple's too large to have 70% of their employees come from the same company. I've worked at "startups" like this before, and there is a caste system with the former $BIG_CORP-ers and everybody else. No thanks.
"In the USA wealth has been concentrating since the 1970s. We now have the most uneven distribution of wealth of any of the developed nations."

I agree with everything you wrote.

However, I wasn't talking about wealth - I was talking about social class.

The inability to recognize the difference between wealth and social class is probably a good indicator of a relatively flat social hierarchy. In times and places with deep social class division you wouldn't be prone to making that mistake.

You would know exactly which rich person to call "m'lord" and which not to.
That's exactly the case, what.cd had its own image host (whatimg) for cover art.
It's a great read, you shouldn't be so thin skinned
I just need to jump in here and harp on the thing that I'm sure regular readers of HN are sick of seeing me harp in on all the time. :P

The network effects of Facebook et al are entirely artificial! The beauty of the internet is that there are no real barriers to keep everyone in the same box. Instantaneous, exact communication is possible across the whole world now. "Other people can't hear me when I'm not using Facebook, so I have to use Facebook" is NOT an inherent problem in a digital system!

The problem is, simply, that the law in the United States, Europe, and most of the rest of the world explicitly makes it illegal to provide third-party federation systems that would bring that permeability to the "walled gardens" of the modern web.

The walls aren't really there. We don't need to install millions of miles of compatible cable to hook up diaspora and Facebook. We don't need the government to step in and do anything to stop the behemoths, we just need them to get out of the way. The web's natural mechanisms can solve this on their own if the USG stops putting developers and entrepreneurs in jail/financial ruin for trying to innovate.

Users need to be allowed to access sites with a browsing device of their own choice instead of allowing vendors to cut off access based on the use of browsing devices that preserve content, and then we need to update our copyright and contract law so that normal use of these browsing devices doesn't constitute infringement or breach.

Repeal the CFAA, fix the Copyright Act, retake the web from phony monopolies. Let's get these guys competing on merit again and make room for the revolutionary iterative improvements of the little guy.
I think MS may have been too early on mobile. If they had come out later they might have come up with something original, rather than just putting Windows on a phone. I remember a friend tapping the start menu with a stylus and opening up the D: drive. On a phone. Who wants that?
? All Schenker laptops come with a 24 months warranty. Not as convenient as walking in an Apple Store (I see you are an Apple fan), but I'm fine with paying for shipping to get a replacement if it breaks. Only 1 out of my 5 previous laptops (various brands) has ever needed a warranty repair.
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The solution here is to use a cloud based CMS (we use Contentful ourselves) and then just import the content during the build process of the static site. The client gets the CMS, you control the site. Best of both worlds.
I would not be sure that mapping of discrete linguistic objects to a continuous space is necessary. Why can't we handle the original space?

There are just a lot of things that have to be figured out still.

+ Different time scales. There is semantics on a sentence level while there is also semantics on a plot level. It's convenient to know key elements from the start of a story if you want to understand the plot. LSTMs are a perfect starting point.

+ When to stop learning. The so-called stability-plasticity dilemma. Our ability to pay attention to what matters might be tightly linked to our capability to forget vast bodies of texts that we just read. Current NNs do not seem to forget correctly. This was the rationale behind ART and ARTMAP (Grossberg) and might enter AI mainstream again soon.

+ Grammar constructions. Some aspects of grammar seem simpler than computer vision, where we also have a lot of structure in the environment, models like things that can be inside of other things, be balanced on top of other things, temporarily occluded by other things, etc. Other aspects seem more complicated, like the pleasantness of a poem. My gut feeling is that some of this gets spilled over from (a) structure in other modalities and (b) idiosyncrasies from our generative system (vocal cords, etc.). In other words, our grammatical preferences might be sampled not only from listening and reading.

+ Emphasis.

Just a few things that might lead to interesting NNs. Contrary to the author I think they are definitely in line with current research.
I think by default hitting the left and right mouse buttons in linux emulates a middle click. You can also configure three finger clicks as a middle click, which is my preference.
The New York Times does not allow genuine native advertising. Pearl Automation was not able to pay the ad department a check, in exchange for writing a "native advertising" story about them.

They could have instigated it. But they didn't pay for it. This wasn't paid for out of their ad budget.

It's a huge win for their PR department - because they got the NYT to write that article (or were very pleasantly surprised to see it). Not paid for it.
Stash, Bitbucket and Gitlab all tend to disagree that theres only one way to build a UI for git websites.

I agree that no one is being harmed, but personally I just thing it's shameful.
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