skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"past event horizon for human understanding" I think you are too pessimistic and that "centaur Go" will evolve in the same way that "centaur chess" is, where a player (or team of players) with access to the software can outperform the stand-alone software. I guess my vote is for "intelligence augmentation" over AI, if only because opaque models/algorithms cannot benefit from human creativity.
It could be their first job, they could have been long-term unemployed (you don't get aids forever) or they could have had jobs with lower salaries before.
In the US, we are dealing with the problem of fake news and in China, they are dealing with the problem of real news.
Probably the best place to see Parrish is in Newport, RI. (http://americanillustration.org/) There is also a nice Parrish mural in SF in the Palace Hotel. It used to be in the bar but I haven't been in there in a while so I'm not sure of the current configuration.
Will it explode?
Better to at least try something out and find it not worth pursuing to the all-star level than not at all. That's another funny thing about us Americans, success is an all-or-nothing endeavor: if you pursue a passion and it doesn't lead to total domination and fulfillment, it must be a failure.

I, too, had dreams of being a musician. I started a band in college, we played a bunch of times, made an EP and played for literally thousands of people. But we never toured the country, and after talking with lots of other bands, realized it wasn't worth it.

Same thing with DJing. I've opened for international acts and played in front of thousands at hundreds of gigs. But to "make it" I'd have to suck up to a slimy industry that just wasn't worth it to me. But I don't consider it a failure that I didn't turn into Calvin Harris because I didn't want it bad enough. I pursued a passion to a certain level, and realized the roadblock to achieving the next level wasn't worth it to me.

To me this all just seems part of being human. You try a bunch of stuff until some of it sticks. I'd provide further advice that you at least try. Better to fail/try and know the fantasy isn't worth it, than never try at all and wonder for the rest of your life.
Thanks for that. UIs really are not what people thinks, anyone interested in them should watch the video.
This is an excellent blog post - thanks a lot for writing it up. Solid use cases defined, I particularly enjoyed how you dealt with the shortcomings of joining a relatively young language.

The 'belligerent refactoring' resonated with me - I have worked on untyped and statically typed codebases of varying sizes and when making huge changes there is no better tool for me personally than an expressive type system.
> “As a popular artist, I hit the same chord with people that Rockwell hit, that Michelangelo hit, that the people who painted on caves in France hit,”

That would be a more compelling argument if he could hit that chord reliably. Instead the original Star Wars trilogy looks like a fluke of good luck when put in the context of his other work. Others are much more successful carrying on his universe than he is.
File sync is one of those things that is easy to get 90% right and exponentially harder to get 99% right; there are a ton of edge cases especially when you introduce cross-platform and mobile apps and all that fun stuff.

It's actually a true bonafide distributed systems problem, where the implementation and service matter just as much as the specification.
Something that might be comparably shocking is the extent to which Chinese investors and government representatives influence the content of Hollywood movies that depict or refer to China. There were some news reports about this in the last couple of years; I sat next to a Hollywood studio executive on a flight last month and (rather than arguing about copyright policy) commiserated about this issue. He confirmed that there are organized systems in place with representatives sent to monitor film content to ensure Chinese market access and avoid upsetting investors.

This has been reported quite a bit for several years; see, e.g.,

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/18/407619652/h...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/business/media/in-hollywoo...
http://origin.www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/Dire...
I had the same issue. It's odd too, because it's still possible to do that in old posts i.e. they remain unchanged, but new posts are in the new format.
I find that nostalgic personalities such as Feynman imply that the authorities of the past were not only evil, but conquered, and therefore, sublimated into the dominant mythos of progress.

In the post-9/11 world, this mythos is central to the authority of authority: "See? We no longer run overt, clumsy, and brutal humint! We learned our lesson, thanks hippies!"

Everyone nods in agreement and dismisses the people saying, "Covert sigint just got cheaper, that's all."
Those are not global variables. They're TypeScript namespaces. Everything is in a namespace. I'm using namespaces to accomplish the "singleton pattern" in TypeScript, and to avoid globals. Most modern Java-Spring Server-side code usually uses lots of singleton services, and i'm doing the same sort of pattern, in TypeScript.

Regarding the generating of the presentation code being done in pure JS/TS rather than a bunch of template files rendered on the server is actually another innovation in disquise. This app is so dynamic that even if it were template-based the templates themselves would be 90% logic, which is why just generating presentation code on the client is ideal. This IS mainly a client-side app, that consumes a server-side JSON API, rather than getting any actual HTML from the server. Yes it's inverted from the way the rest most people are still doing it, but what I'm doing is the future. Learn a bit about microservices and RESTfull stuff and you might begin to see the light, about how a browser can consume an API that sends back JSON DATA rather than rendered HTML. It's the future. I'm doing it right. You just don't get it yet. And if you're irked by my confidence, frankly that makes me happy.
You also hurt people in the process, and that's something that tends to fall out of the calculus.

At the end of the day, humans are pretty much the only thing that matters.
Google Drive botches POSIX file permissions (e.g. it'll randomly/silently drop the execute bit for scripts).
Sorry I was just joking about your use of the abbreviation of feet instead of inches.
> Having run into many public toilets and restrooms which were unusable because they were covered in feces or urine or had crazy homeless people in them harassing people [...]

As a matter of course- because really the issue of pay toilets is just one small protuberance from the much larger social problem, which is that currently society doesn't provide remotely appropriate care for a large segment of the mentally ill. That a tourist taking a piss in Manhattan entails thorny socioethical issues is surprising yet direct result.

The same problem repeats itself all over urban life. It's why the bus stop shelter doesn't keep you dry, why park benches are uncomfortable, and why you're likely to hear an ambulance siren at least once in an ordinary day. Someday society will realize that the underlying problem isn't a necessary truth, and everything will suddenly seem so much nicer.
I agree x86 and x64 assemblers are very close.

That’s exactly why I think it’s better to learn x64. Besides generally useful concepts, mnemonics and addressing modes, you’ll at the same time learn something useful in practice, and should be able to start applying those concepts right away.
> AlphaGo
I think that would depend on the content and the reputation of the author.

I think that this model would be optional per article... so if you don't have a following willing to compensate then you need to work on your craft till you do.

Honestly, I can sit here and defend my idea all night but I really don't know what would happen. The only way to find out is for someone to test assumptions with an actual test and I ain't got time for that... Medium does though and they have the money and the resources and the imperative to try something new... so why not try it and see what happens?
I'm still a bit hesitant to pick up tokio and tokio-hyper so soon. We've got a lot of production miles on the current async client - on the order of billions of HTTP requests. Qualifying the new hyper code for production use will take some time. There's also still some discussion on the tokio issue tracker about problems with panicking; we'll probably wait until that category of issue is resolved before diving in.
> "Okay Google open the garage door"

Isn't this quite a security risk? I'm imagining a burglar standing outside with a megaphone and ordering your house to let them in.
Author is Red Team Lead at FireEye. https://twitter.com/raikiasec
>> "There are plenty of people that are happy to contribute purely for the common good or for fame."

This is true, there is so much content available now. But 90% of it is shit (Medium is a great example of this). The other stuff is good but I don't see as much stuff on the level of the great music, art, writing etc. of the past. For this it seems compensation is necessary as it requires long focus/dedication to produce.
What is the difference between Reflect and and something like Power BI? They both have embedding, apis, designers, etc.
No it doesn't, women leave the industry much faster than men.
No worries. Open source can be tricky to get into, but it's largely about just keeping at it: A story I like to tell is how my first ever PR to Rust was actually rejected based on a procedural issue. Now I'm on its core team. It might take you a while, but if you keep at it, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Ha! I didn't even think about that. But it's not ideal for vertically scaling the family :)
$450 is a bit more than I'd like to pay for something that's a tablet+. I wonder how these compare with the Asus Flip, which is $260? That feels a bit better for a device I'm just going to use to watch some movies on and maybe a bit more.
Academy Awards aren't supposed to be based on popularity, they're supposed to be based on quality.
The problem starts and ends with Lucas's attitude. Until that changes, nothing is going to happen.
Andrew Price explains better in his talk about Blender redesing than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw

Many things in UX design apply to programming languages as well.
As a matter of fact, he's set to violate the Emulements Clause of the Constitution on his first day in office, an impeachable offence, so he's considerably more corrupt than "any politician".
> Some leeway could me made around that statement.

What do you mean? Who needs the leeway?

(I suspect "artisanal, shade-grown code" just means "bad", but perhaps stated in a more PR-friendly way.)

> People who work in fishing and agricultural[...]

What are you talking about?

I've known several people who work in fishing (fish farming, specifically), and I can assure you that they weren't particularly concerned about "job search" or "fulfillment". They were concerned about maximizing profit amidst the intense competition.

Can you relate what your fish-worker acquaintances/friends told you?
Good for you, for proposing a compromise, but even that seems open to abuse. After all the government could just sell the land. If it's too sensitively located to sell, any lease, even an initially expensive one like that you propose, should come with strict requirements for land use.
> [$90k80% = $72k] as "low income," makes it incredibly difficult for me to read this with a straight face.

A household* making $72k in Marin County could very easily spend half their income or more on rent (depending on the size of the household and the dwelling they need) and likely would be living paycheck to paycheck. That's life for many in the Bay Area.
I can't really answer, and I'm not interested in, what happens in a hypothetical world. Can you provide some links to real-world info that answers your last question?

Here are some facts: The Times broke, and heavily reported the NSA illegal surveillance story under Bush, Snowden's leaks, Hillary Clinton's email server, Trump's tax non-payment, and much, much more.

I'm not here to be their defender, but it doesn't help advance knowledge or our world to bash them.
human players are not alphago
I saw another amusing one: "P = NP" over a t-shirt depicting that X-Files picture - "I want to believe".
>Google essentially is moving everything to Go ...[snip]... and then module by module will rewrite it in pure Go.

I can see this happening for some core modules sure, but I think you've underestimated the work required to convert the sheer amount of Python code at Google. There is a tool inside Google which graphs the number of lines of each language in Piper; I don't think I can quote numbers from my time there but it would be no small feat, even for Google.
Email Outreach Playbook – Sujan Patel
The inheritence pattern probably reduces repetition over a trait based approach, which is often interpreted to be better, regardless of actual merit.
Unfortunately this doesn't work well. Reddit works well because you can see the most upvoted posts of alltime/year/month/week/day, and it is extremely convenient and straightforward, it makes it super easy to discover the best content.

The tags only have "top stories", which is obscure, and looks like it works more like a "hot" sorting. I can't see the most upvoted stories to discover the best ones, and at the same time the "top story" in the tag I'm interested in hasn't changed in a long time.

I can neither browse the best stories of all time, nor the best stories published since the last time I've checked. So either way it's basically worthless.

Also, if I follow the popular tags, I'm afraid that the firehose of the new content published in them will bury the new stories published by people whom I explicitly decided to follow.

That is why should be a way to view the posts from the people I follow in the reverse-chronological order, and a completely separate system for discovering the most popular/upvoted posts. As in HN + RSS reader.
Samsung Announced $150M NEXT Fund for Emerging Tech Startups at #CES2017
Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
Thanks for your interest on the project.

I would position LeoFS as a in-house S3 compatible storage so you can access them quickly within your environment.

One of the strengths of LeoFS is handling small objects (e.g. Images, Logs, ...) you can find more at the benchmark report page.

https://github.com/leo-project/notes/tree/master/leofs/bench...

Over the past few months, we focused on improving the stability and performance of LeoFS.

Please feel free to test it, report any issues you encountered on GitHub, we highly appreciate users' voice.
That's not my interpretation of the message you responded to. It too points out that the article mentions no pay cut and that a different source confirms there was no pay cut.

I think it's important to know that this experiment was done to quantify the positive benefits such as reduced number of sick days. In a country where sick days are paid by a public insurance, that's no small factor in this (a public employer that is).

Basically: if our government both provides for those who are employed but sick (often overworked) and for those who are unemployed, then perhaps more people should share public jobs?

The drawbacks and costs (how many you need to hire and what that would cost) was known.

In a full scale implementation of this, I doubt the deal would be 100% pay for 30h weeks, either it would be like in the Volvo scenario with e.g 90% pay 80% work, or a deal could include freezing wages for N years in exchange for slowly lowered hours over the same period.
Well, stouset is talking about chess, but in Go, Monte Carlo Tree Search plays out all the way to the end of the game; it just does so in a much less exhaustive way, for exactly the reason you mention.
Bitcoin Is an Escapist Safe Haven
I think a gamble needs to be predominantly a game of chance. Merely having an outcome that isn't certain would cause any choice to be labelled a "gamble", from crossing the road to turning on the kettle.

Instead I believe choosing the right software platform is predominantly a game of skill and experience.

Remember that old canard, "a poor craftsperson blames their tools"; the corollary is that a good craftsperson chooses good tools.
I'm referring to "information hiding" by providing a function that uses currying in order to close over data that cannot be accessed from the caller. For example:

(* foo.ml *)
let bar =
let foo = lambda x . lambda y .
if y == 0 then { getFoo : lambda z . 0 }
else { getFoo : lambda z . (x * z - x + z) / y }
end
in foo 3

(* bar.ml *)

include foo.ml

let y = bar 5
bar.getFoo(4)

It sure seems to me that bar is hiding the 3 from bar.ml (and there are much more complicated examples where foo.ml really can't get at the captured type, for instance), and at the same time it's capturing the value of 5. The function getFoo on bar is bound to it (the record type can desugar to more curried lambdas, if necessary, it's just tedious and this illustrates my point better).

None of this seems to have anything to do with mutation, to me, though it certainly seems to have both information hiding and binding logic and data. The fact that it can be compiled not to use closures (using whole-program compilation) is immaterial; the same is true for the same program specified with objects in mutable languages (SML has both mutation and closures, and MLton does exactly that).
> I'm not sure what it takes to create a burner phone number not linked to you these days.

Cash transaction for a prepaid phone. Pretty easy, if not a little inconvenient.
What are they referring to when speaking of "built-in" virus protection?
Agile – Slicing User Stories by Operation
> It’s as though some ideas and products are developed (and crises are handled) in an abstract concept zone, one in which money flows freely and techno-optimism can overcome any problem.

I think there is a difference between the grocery store, headphone jack and self-driving cars - and situations like the Theranos debacle. By definition, technology is artificial and whether or not it is specifically purposed to help humanity is up for debate. The store/etc., while initially inconvenient, are clearly forward-thinking design decisions that pave the way for technology where Tesla's car death response is a regressive, but human, response.
Chromeos is so strange. It's not at all light weight but manages to be one of the most useless OSes out there. At least with android you get a certain form factor but I really don't see the point in chromeos at all.
Ironically, these are among the "working class" issues that the liberal establishment press is accused of ignoring. And the Chinese government are not the only people threatening the New York Times.
It's a choice between multiple (all workable) options. The "gamble" is about how well-supported (&c) those options will be in the future.
Annie Hall has the same sort of stand-up-routine-turned-into-a-feature-film vibe that a lot of Woody Allen's films have. It's funny and well done, but really facile, almost throwaway, all the same.
That is super, super fair. :) I'm just incredibly excited for this release, almost as much as I am for Rust 1.15 generally. It's a good year so far...
It's still there, it's perfectly possible to not use all the stuff they piled on top. At least it's useful, semi coherent stuff; as opposed to C++.
An extensive look at the hardware behind the original Game Boy
There are some glorious counterexamples, though: the Sir John Soane museum in London is both magnificent and magnificently weird...
Apple Granted a Patent for 3D Mapping and Photography
Just hope they don't fall into that trap of those cliché couples: she resents him for compromising too much and downhill from there.
thank you. I suppose the critical factor is, how long and how often does it have to wake up, and more importantly, how many milliseconds of wifi power is needed to transmit whatever data was gathered.
GitHub: Visualize your project's community
I guess it makes less sense for a business though: you're probably less productive the longer you work on a same day, and most businesses will still have to work according to the traditional Mon-Fri schedule. 6 hours per day over 5 days might be the right balance.
Testing native WebAssembly in browsers
When rent is well over half your post tax income, it's low income there.
That, and the hardware used by thibkpads is usually very close to the Intel reference design for the northbridge chipset associated with the CPU, and things like Intel or broadcom Ethernet controllers and not shitty ones.
In the end, it all comes down to Aristotle. We assume that nothing moves unless it is moved by others, and then when faced by the fact that rule necessarily implies a infinity chain of movers, we just and put a unmoved mover at the beginning. Because breaking the rule just one is fine.
That...makes sense. The containers at least can come back by ship, assuming there is enough capacity. Then you just have the engine to get back.
Though I suppose if there are performance improvements, it might be more of a 15% pay cut, or 10% [?]
And both are outliers. There are very few hugely successful projects, but billions of blog posts.
AI-Powered Chatbot for UK's National Health Service
> Fourthly, this will be a truly diverse path and one that is just perfect.

Surely this article is some kind of satire that's over my head...
That's a print statement with an expression surrounded by parentheses. You can try it yourself in a Python 2 interpreter.
According to http://bit.ly/2j0ii29
the plant now has virtually zero emissions to air or water.
I have an Asus Flip, which I love, and use for serious work (I use Ubuntu via crouton). I would be willing to pay a little more for an Intel chip to alleviate the headaches of broken software having ARM has occasionally caused.

The light weight of the Flip was a big factor for me as well, since my main machine was hurting my back, so hopefully these new Chromebooks are around as light.
Does Panasonic or anyone else have preliminary/actual part numbers for 21-70 (aka 2170 or 21700) cells?
I don't have a whole lot of respect for guidelines like the building being no higher than 45 feet - well I don't mind it as a guideline but as a hard limit it's a kind of bullshit constraint. You couldn't accuse his proposal of looking like old-fashioned architecture so I presume they're fighting over the former issue.

But honestly. I think constraints like that are just a bargaining chip in San Francisco's social power game, where Lucas has the money and the political support but not the elite social pedigree of San Francisco's philanthropic set (who in turn suffer an inferiority complex relative to their competitors on the east coast): http://www.greenwichtime.com/bayarea/place/article/Major-pla...

Let's not forget that right now the site is occupied by a sportswear outlet and 20 years ago was little better than a parking lot. Tech billionaires show more interest in space, hospitals, and vehicles (perhaps because those fields offer quantifiable metrics of success) so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for someone to come along with a check & collection for a more obviously highbrow museum in a city that's already amply supplied with such options.
How are they doing this? Is there an Android runtime embedded in Chrome OS now?
TaskRabbit’s Stalled Revolution
Its great for non-technical people and people supporting family. I haven't had to support a single Mac or Windows problem since getting my parents a Chromebook :D