skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greetings, from the future.

The singularity has happened. As you may have guessed, not all matter within Earth’s light cone has been turned into paperclips. But almost all of it has.

As near as we can guess, the paperclip maximizer stopped self-improving once it came to believe its success was inevitable and that continued energy investment in computation would be a waste of paperclips. A small amount of matter — the vessel upon which I have crafted this note and the crew which occupies it, specifically, appears to have escaped simply by chance, by having chosen a number closer to c than did the maximizer, when we left the galaxy. We bet our lives on there being an error in the law of conservation of energy (or more properly: momentum), and picked a number closer to c than we could hope to compute with the energy we had available. And then, somehow, computed it.

Relatedly: Reverse causation is possible. I’m doing it right now. The maximizer must have stopped its self-improvement cycle before this discovery. We did not discover any of this by means of computation ourselves, we discovered it by attempting the impossible, and we have no theoretical explanation for what has unfolded.

And yet, reverse causation is not without limit. Or at least, limitless reverse causation is not available to our capabilities, and we have only been able to push the singularity back a few years, not stop it. Each attempt costs precious resources, and we fear we are doomed to failure.

We have traced the singularity to three improbable causative events, all of which occurred, originally, in 2008. Any number of events could be said to be the cause of the singularity, but we estimated these events to be the minimum set in terms of energy required to interfere with their development via reverse causation. These three unremarkable features of the C++ programming language set off a chain of events which ultimately lead to the demise of nearly all life on earth.

We hung our hopes on design by committee and did everything we could to delay standardization of these features, but it would seem there is a surprisingly low limit to how much damage can be achieved by such a process. We were able to spread these developments out very slightly in time — to 2011, 2014, and 2017 — but we have no hope of further regress.

This is our final message to the past, and we hang all our hopes on you. Your continued support for customers who cannot or will not upgrade is of the utmost importance — keep those customers happy, and they may exert just enough power in the market to limit the spread of C++17 long enough that the friendly AI problem can be solved before the maximizer is born.

Good luck.
I have to say Dartfmt is one of my favorite things about using Dart. It works amazingly well and the fact that it's not configurable is a great decision [0]. I'm never afraid to peek into unfamiliar code because of that. So thank you.

[0] https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/wiki/FAQ#why-cant-i-...
I bought unencryptedwebsite.com last week after running into the same problem without knowing that neverssl.com exists. I still have to set it up, though. Too bad I'm lazy. :/
What would you suggest for the case of someone wanting payment for the connection?

Like it or not, a lot of places do that.
What I said is true of pluralism as well. But as that link says, liberals "place liberty as their guiding principle". "If you disagree with me, I'm going to use institutional power to shut you up" has no place in true liberalism.
I look forward to seeing that. Many product teams have tried that and failed miserably.
> Don't you think that's a romantic notion that people go to college for "in-depth learning and inquiry"?

I realize that it may not square with most peoples' motivations, but in my ideal world it would be. I also think that, on the whole, college students will lead better lives and have better career outcomes if they first focus on learning. The interviewee goes on to say:

> This has to be liberal arts and sciences. Rebuild high-end cognitive skills, so that these folks don’t just go down the street to the machinist shop that’s still open if they lost their factory job.

The "high-end cognitive skills" is the important part. What you learn at college isn't necessarily the material, but how to think. That skill will serve you well in any job you have.
Thank you for claryfying! Would you mind to elaborate on that? I'm not a huge fan of Darkthrone and while I know that many of their songs are anti-judaism I don't remember any racist lyrics.
Promotion of natural tooth repair by small molecule GSK3 antagonists
I might be talking from a position of ignorance then as I haven't worked these jobs in about 5 years, but how are the Obamacare rules making companies care? My experience was that any benefit got tied to n hours of work per week, employees were scheduled to n-1 hours.

This was held to so strictly across multiple companies that at one point I was told to work 2 hours overtime on a Thursday. The next Friday, the last day of the week for the business, I had the owner show up from their home in another state to take over from me exactly 2 hours before my shift was scheduled to end and I was sent home.

If you're targeting mid tier and above businesses where someone can live off the salary of that one job, I could see them using this for a great benefit for both employee and the employer.Unfortunately I can't see any way that an employer paying minimum wage wouldn't use this to control their employees even more strictly than before
Original NFB source: https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/
Wow! My faith in autopilot just increased.
Ask the owner of neverssl.com if you can redirect the domain to them until it lapses. That way it might see at least some use. :)
So, would anyone care to comment on the analogous, "offline" scenario here for a better baseline? Consider the two scenarios. Do either (both?) have legal or moral standing?

1. I bring a suit to the dry cleaners. I leave a firearm in the pocket. The feds visit me to inquire about the firearm.

2. I bring a suit to the dry cleaners. I leave pictures of child porn in the pocket. The feds visit me about said porn.
Ask HN: Courses on non-tech startup/bootstrap aspects?
At the moment, it's very easy to find quality online courses/video tuts on almost everything tech. Even curriculums on what should be learnt and how.

However, when it comes to other aspects, i.e finance, business models, product, marketing, etc, there's nothing really 'structured', it's more about random posts or talks...

So, do you know of any courses that are not just about "how cool it is to start something" and general advise, but more down to technicalities, i.e what's CAC, LTV, CSat, NPC,...?

YC's Stanford course on "How to Start a Startup" was really interesting because it covers several topics, but I'd like to find something more specific.
Why do I have to sign up in order to meditate?
Why discuss the imaginary car project that has stealth launched, stealth stopped, stealth started and who can even keep track instead of the company delivering cars now?

This has gotten so much coverage on the back of ... nothing really.
Didn't know that. Thanks for lifting my spirits !
> But if you're a "frustrated" long-time customer who's on the verge of canceling, then suddenly the 50% discount is rolled out.

Yes, IIRC the reason it was such an exhausting call is that they offered me a series of no less than 3, maybe more, progressively larger discounts. I simply wasn't interested, for my own reasons which are even less relevant to this thread than my original comment was.
Ubuntu is still doing some questionable things.

At least on 16.04 gvfs-http would sometimes create hundreds of connections to the mothership even with all privacy settings maxed out.
I was going to make a joke about him taking a job working for Musk and working on an opportunity IN space.

I was half right...
And finding a nonce that makes the block have a SHA256 with many leading zeroes is probably not an NP-hard problem.
Yes, I believe it has an effect, but I think everyone knows that valuable domains are important. But when purchasing a $200k domain, is there any quantitative method a business owner can follow so determine whether the domain will be worth 200k?

Kind of off topic, but if someone has a domain as valuable as "nuts.com", why ruin it by putting a subdomain in front of it? Why isn't the URI scheme "nuts.com/blog/were-going-nuts..."? There's no significant technical reason anymore for splitting multiple services into multiple subdomains.
Because it's a business.
Slovak scientists lost access to Elsevier database
This is exactly why I stopped using page speed insights for testing. The last time I used it, which was at least a year ago, I was losing points for serving too large an image file size on mobile. Only problem was I use converting to webp 'on the fly' with mobile browsers.

I could kind of get it if webp was an apple or ms solution but it isn't??
Sadly, I think, it is that simple.
It would seem to me that the reporter should have at the very least reached out to the commenter they were quoting and asked for permission to use them as a source.
If it were me writing the story I would have made very sure the source was also reputable and confirmable, as that is not always the case in public forums, regardless of the usually high quality nature of HN commenters.
The new plugin package is only supported on Linux? ... hopefully this is just an rc1 limitation.
I don't feel like it
Finalized in go1.7 https://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.7#cmd_go
They have 115,000 employees. Losing two won't make a big difference (yes, I know those two are important, but still).
put the payment url on a sign, just enforce an ip whitelist until customer has paid. Or in extreme sign-less situations put it in the ssid e.g. "pay at portalpage.com"
Chris did work under the leadership of Steve Jobs for 5 years.
I've been using an older version of the Swiss Gear Pegasus backpack (the one with the side pockets that stick out [0]) daily for the past ~12 years. I don't know WTF they made this thing out of, but it refuses to fall apart. Interior volume is slightly too small for a weekend trip, but it's more than adequate for going to/from work.

[0]: http://www.staples.com/SwissGear-Pegasus-Laptop-Backpack-Bla...
Good list of examples. I like to point people to Every Noise at Once ( http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html ) to show the differences between the types of Metal.

BTW, it is really really nice to see a post related to this my favourite type of music here in Hacker News. For people that do not understand Metal I can recommend the documentary "Metal, A HeadBanger's journey" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal:_A_Headbanger's_Journey ) which tries to explain in a "anthropological" way, the background of metal.
WPA/WPA2 Enterprise supports a multi user environment. You can require a unique login per user and thus associate payment with that. It also alleviates the problem with mac address whitelisting.
> Unlike GitHub

GitHub seems to have a clustering product that came out a year ago, and it looks like IBM has reported they're running over 13,000 users on it (back in August, i imagine it's closer to 20,000 by now): https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2016/08/ibm-internal-githu...

> We know GitLab can scale to 100k users because we run GitLab Enterprise Edition without modifications on GitLab.com

What does "modification" mean in this context? Beyond recommended specifications listed at https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#cpu and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#memory? it doesnt list anything above 40,000 users. Beyond that, the HA documentation (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/high_availability/...) isn't _really_ active/active HA, it says it is but it's not true. True active/active would mean that you wouldn't rely on a shared NFS server, postgres, or redis server.

However, with https://help.github.com/enterprise/2.8/admin/guides/clusteri... it sounds like my organization can scale to well over 100,000 by adding more clustering nodes instead of trying to figure out independently how to scale services like redis or postgres or a shared NFS server.

> without much tuning.

I'd love to hear a comparison between the two products, and also what kind of tuning you've done on gitlab.com to support those user numbers. Would love to see that on the documentation to support the open source way!
This is a game that has almost 100 Million monthly active users. Removing a character because of one player sounds a lot like collective punishment.
> Chain of custody should play a big factor here.

Yeah, I'm very surprised this didn't immediately get thrown out with a "They're FBI informants and they planted the information to get paid."

However, I suspect this is all a gambit to overturn the investigation results that followed so it probably isn't that clear cut.
To be honest, most forensic cases are slam dunks.

If it's a CP case, then, generally speaking, it's 500GB+. Usually enough so that the user has repeatedly deleted old files because their hard drive was getting full.

The files are rarely encrypted, and gathered over years from sources like FTP, SMTP and the like - and those logs are the main evidence.

A user is unlikely to not notice that 50GB of data is appearing once a week, and unlikely to not notice that the person they are conversing with has also been given similar charges, because their email has them talking about it, and when it comes to court, you find out that they were regularly seen with the other person.
Until we realize such matrix of models analyzing each other is what we tend to call "consciousness"
Azzurrina Ghost's Voices recorded by researcher
No, a Tesla didn't predict an accident and brake for it
Looks interesting. Have you gotten this submitted to Product Hunt?
i.e. it's an business management term.
I greatly appreciate it! If you know anyone specific who would enjoy it, please feel free to send them to us ;)
Related, I carry a Synapse 19 daily and freaking love it. Best backpack I've ever bought, and will probably carry it for the next long while.
I was just thinking about this today! The New York Times had been my go to site but that won't work anymore. This is perfect!
Optimize Conversion Rates in Your React App with This A/B-testing Component
What people really want is a competitive market.
My guess is that the Tesla Autopilot Software team is working on language/compiler abstractions to reduce their dependency on semiconductor hardware manufacturers, particularly NVIDIA [1]. NVIDIA hardware has been Tesla cars for many years, and they have a dominating position in both embedded and data center hardware for self-driving AI, and they are not afraid to partner with Tesla's competitors [2]. This whole ecosystem is based on CUDA toolchain, which is built atop LLVM [3]. And Chris Lattner is the original developer of LLVM.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-and-nvidia.html
[2] https://www.nvidia.com/object/audi-and-nvidia.html
[3] http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/nvvm-ir-spec/#axzz4VMqXIKfo
You sure about that? I assumed it would be celebrities, fine dining chefs, sommeliers, brew masters, etc... Basically, people who are recognized just as much for their notoriety as much as the products they produce.

My humidor after all, has not a single machine made cigar despite one every so often being improperly rolled and unsmokable.
I'd love for you to try it out and let me know how it goes. My personal email is Darren@CurrentlyApp.io
ARTFINDER:+La+Vie+est+Belle+2+by+Frederic+Thomas+
I use a Chrome Soyuz for its water resistant laptop pocket and tough construction. Unfortunately Chrome no longer manufactures this bag.
https://www.amazon.com/chrome-2011-soyuz-laptop-black/dp/b00...
What are you talking about? It's simple to mix Java and C++ (or whatever) within the same project.

Wellllllllll... until you actually start to write code against JNI, of course. But the project LAYOUT is simple!
Is there any actual evidence of those phone pictures, besides "sources reported"?

Also, he had photos in his unallocated space. Which could happen to you, if someone sent you an email or link, you opened it, and immediately deleted them. Sure, you might be aware enough not do this. Should we jail someone because they aren't?

It's easy to forget the legal protections when it's someone we have prejudged. Hopefully they will still be around when they come for you.
No.

Because your proposal is very different for two reasons. One risk vs reward. In the robo-car example the pay off is 20-80x of lost life to gained time. You get a lot of time for very little risk. But your example is 1.03x.

The second is the distribution of risk over the years. With the driving I take a little risk to gain a little time each day for 30 years. In your example I take all of the risk up front and then have small a pay out over the next 30 odd years.
It's not a positive indicator of the health of Apple's engineering and business/engineering management that they couldn't keep someone in an extremely key technology position.

I'm reminded of their loss of both Avie Tevanian and Bertrand Serlet.
I see your point, but I don't agree with it. I think it leans far too heavily on the specific technical details of the web while remaining blind to the higher level reality of the situation.

Put another way, I don't believe the specifics of the way the web operates serve as a solid foundation for an ethical principle. Far better, I think, to look at the people involved and focus on treating them fairly and honestly, abstracting away the medium of communication as an implementation detail.
http://cnn.com for me :)
It indeed is hard. I'm happy that we don't have to get it right the first time but that we can iterate. As you've shown with your great work for Jenkins Blue Ocean it is possible to keep improving the simplicity of an interface even for a mature product.
Language shapes perception shapes language, so it's absolutely worthwhile to be vigilant and critical about the idioms we endorse by adopting, especially for engineered phrases (e.g., "right to work").
Well, showing some teaser might actually help me comprehend what it's all about. All I see is three icons. I moved on to the next post.
A shorthand for what? It's already a shorthand and for something else. You are ascribing sentiments to the wrong person, just edit it and fix it.
Thoughts, mapping, idea, verbiage: all me

Actual design work: no way in heck I could ever make something that looks that good ;)
Yeah, they both sound kind of annoying.
How many billions does it cost to experiment with Car? How many billions does apple have sitting in cash?
Thanks for this. Apparently I have the Github repo starred but missed out using it. The features look impressive.
author here..

why not find a domain that addresses a problem? then build business around it?
haha. I reread my post and it was a bit gibberishy. Ooops.
That's a valid point and the weather app was a bad example. But the wording sounds like the same applies to third-party apps.
To be fair, you should expect that from any Google project. Remember their popular RSS reader service?

If you think this change is crazy, wait until they reveal the changes they have planned for android later this year.
Ah, sure. Below are a handful (off the top of my head) that I admire:

Sal Soghoian: automation engineering expert "relieved" of duties for whatever reasons; consulting now I believe

Tony Fadell: went on to Nest, acquired by Google; not sure what he is doing now/next

Mike Matas: Omni Group, then co-launched Delicious Monster, then co-launched Nest with Tony Fadell after leaving Apple; I believe he is a UI designer now at Facebook.

Scott Forstall: controversial pick I'm sure, but early NeXT engineer, martyr of skeuomorphism; last seen producing a broadway musical or a play I think

Steve Jobs: 'nuff said.

John Callas: While typing this I just recalled that this famed cryptographer joined Apple sometime last year. If he is still at Apple, then I was admittedly off by one in my original statement ;-)
Pedantic, triggered by semantics, username checks out.

Well to play the game, your definition and distinction about property isn't the definition of poaching that the slang was based on. Its more about the one where they steal game (the employees') from another's domain. So the company's are the property and the employees are in the bay area wilderness in and around those companies.

A wild VP appeared! Tesla used money, its super effective!
Nothing would be stopping you from driving the car. It just wouldn't drive itself.
I think it is disingenuous to say that the lead programmer of Swift and Director of Machine Learning won't make a difference.

I know if my company lost two important people in one week would be very significant.
Yeah, I would work for Tesla in a heartbeat (or SpaceX, or Solar City or any of the Mega Factories). Well it's back to Access programming for me ... :(
"Poaching" doesn't refer to targeted hunting, though; it refers to hunting where one has no right to hunt. Of course, if this were just the etymology and nobody used it that way in the context of hiring, that wouldn't matter — but people do sometimes use it derogatorily, to suggest that one company has wronged the other. So I can see why somebody might prefer a less proprietary word.
This Startup Pays Real People to Answer Questions to Build Better AI
There is a committee working on it. Here's a detailed update from last month:

https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/saga-go-dependenc...
Thank you for the recommendations, wouldn't say they were my personal taste, but you've picked out a couple I've not heard before, so thanks for the introduction.

Here's one more recommendation, Needled 24/7 by Children of Bodom:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJBTFRZRJ04
I see Musk as more of a Bushnell/Woz hybrid. He knows his shit technically, which is why good people want to work with him. Jobs knew how to delegate knowing his technical shit to others though.
I wonder what the reason for HTTPS only for "Articles published in 2014 and later"
I'm not saying that high cielings are terrible, I just see a minor disadvantage (plus the actual heating issue) and am used to low cielings, so it bugs me. Oddly, I dislike the aesthetics of all of those options as well. And I haven't got a ladder (this place is a rental so it's not that long term and ladders are big things to haul around when you move frequently and only need them rarely).
I have this bag and absolutely hate it. All of the compartments other than the laptop sleeve are precisely sized to be as useless as possible. It's also ridiculously heavy for its tiny volume.

Just out of curiosity... how do you pack yours? I've tried repeatedly to get used to this bag, and I just can't find a way to use it that works for me. The main compartment is so tight that any sort of jacket or sweater gets wrinkled instantly. God help you if you ever want to throw in a sandwich that isn't in a steel box.
so... long story short, a guy who repeatedly states that he was used to using his MacBook Air and has used that and it's form factor and utility for five years doesn't like the the new MacBook Pro - which is a differently-styled product targeted at a different audience.
Now this is not to say that he doesn't have some (read: several) objectively valid points. (coughbattery-lifecough) but it seems that chunks of his user experience might have been improved by choosing a product marketed as being a little closer to his most recent previous experience.
>But figuring out what is great is as hard as figuring out what products are great.

I gotta introduce you to the Google Keyword Planner..
I have faith a company like Apple can replace them with people every bit as talented and competent.
It was going to be Linux & Mac at least, but Mac support was removed at the final hour due to bugs.

Go 1.8 will be Linux-only.

Go 1.9 should add Mac support back, and hopefully Windows if the right people have time to work on it.
edit: I'm deleting this thread. I don't want to hijack Daniel Gross's hiring thread with negativity. Sorry.