skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://coin.dance is a good site for data.

There is a pro-blockstream agenda on reddit, and bitcointalk (theymos owns both). coin dance shows what % of users are running whatever fork, shows volume , transactions, node counts, etc. etc.

Why does that matter? You can see the truth (data) for yourself rather than what people are saying/censoring.
I've heard people pronounce it "eck cetera" many, many times, presumably because they've never actually seen the word in print.

I've never heard anyone say "ect", which would imply that they've seen the word but can't read.
Interesting. I wonder if the "forward slash" bit is making people start thinking literally rather than making associations to what they already know?

If I'm talking about a common system location, I don't even mention the slashes, e.g. "user bin", "etsy init dot dee", "var log httpd" and so on. If someone started off telling me to go to, say, "forward slash user forward slash library" I would just start transcribing /user/library, assuming it was something nonstandard. For /usr/lib, I'd expect to just hear "go to user lib".
Here's another pretty cool one using Elixir and Phoenix Channels (Websockets): https://github.com/ernie/venture

It also has markdown based slides but syncs the presentation to clients via websockets, and allows for interactive slides with things like Polls and live chats.
The biggest about this is not being able to 'compress' images to 25%, but that you can now take (some) images that we're previously only low-res, and upscale them!
This isn't about that. It's about how many women in public are put in danger when breastfeeding because people like you are unable to separate breasts from sexuality and people who believe that such a display should be censored or punished? You might not belong to that second group but the first group's opinion enables that line of thinking
It was 12 days from his first attempt.

It sounds like he had some trouble reporting it. Looks like he never received a call back so he decided to release it to the public. The timeline reads like he did it out of some spite.

It would be frustrating to go through all of this free highly specialized work and not find someone who cares at McDonalds.

But I'd at least give it a bit more time. Especially considering his first attempt at contact was around Christmas...
How does this differ from other tool like hotjar or heap analytics?
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One think I find lacking in books about building languages is a focus on tool. I am working on one (available for 0$ on leanpub: "How to create pragmatic, lightweight languages" https://leanpub.com/create_languages
) with the intention to focus more on building editors and simulator.

If you are interested in the subject you could take a look to my blog (https://tomassetti.me) I write 1-2 posts per week on building languages. Most of the time I talk about DSL.
Are you on forums for creative professionals?

A good friend is a videographer who uses everything apple. He's seriously concerned by the lack of ports.

I run an online business, write and make videos. I'm also concerned by the lack of ports and by the lack of a consistent set of keys on the touchbar.

Neither of us are thinking of switching, but we're in "wait and see". I bought a macbook pro for a project last year, and was planning to upgrade when the new model came out. Haven't - the new one doesn't seem compelling.

And people have bought macs and iphones due to my influence. Apple is foolish to ignore the professional demographic.
Send me an email (my username at google.com). We may be hiring an intern this summer for a physics project.

Yes, Google does interesting science research as well as hiring physicists, though we have plenty of those, too. I'm one of four on my team.
Google at least has the organic option.

"If your content is fresh and linked to from reputable sites, we'll promote you in the search results... for free."

Facebook is purely pay-for-play. Paying for boosted posts is the only way to cut through the noise (unless your content goes organically viral, which only has a 24 hr shelf life).
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Looks really cool! Any chance you'll let us sign up at some point with an email and password, or username and password, and not google?
I'd be interested to see if similar techniques could be used for scaling up pixel art. Tools to upscale pixel art do exist already, but the results are a bit hit and miss. Could be a good stress test for the machine learning algorithms too.
Actual quote is:

...while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one.

Stephen King doesn't give a shit if anyone else writes a book or not, he is at this point incredibly wealthy and has certainly made his mark, even if you confine it to the "modern novel" or something.

The quote actually comes from his rather popular book On Writing, where he discusses the craft (presumably to the benefit of competent writers).
That's like asking evidence that sugar consumption leads to obesity but pick the one you like the most:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=headphones+hearin...
Isn't there in the US a formal obligation of gender equality? In other words is it legal to state that a man can do X but a woman cannot? Or state that, say, a site will only accept pictures of men and women are not allowed?
I was under the impression that at least the formal part of non-discrimination was strongly in place.
The BCM283x chips don't have an onboard ethernet controller at all. You'd be expected to go through the USB interface for that.
Wouldn't 90%+ of your target market ad block your ad?
I'm more impressed by how the coordinated migration to Australia took place around 50,000 years ago! Thanks for the link.
Honest question: what is the incentive/motive to go back to the moon now? Part of the motive for the Apollo missions was initial exploration. What is the motive now? We've already proven that we can do it.

Does a moon base help? And if it's mining for minerals, is it economically a viable plan?
One word: Barcelona. Best city in Europe :)
So you're saying we should build a wall...
Please also stop.
On the scale of tragedies that are currently occurring or for which there is a significant threat of occurring in the near future, the possibility that there might be a period of time with no living humans who have walked on the moon is so trivial as to trivialize the entire concept of "tragedy" by using that term to describe it.
Not citing prior work is a grave issue in the academic world. Papers can get accepted/rejected based on their novelty status. Missing citations of central topics of a work can therefore lead to retractions. I am not an expert on the issue in this particular case, but if Schmidhuber is right, from an academic perspective, he has all the right to be pretty pissed off. I certainly would recommend to reject a paper if the author were to refuse to cite prior art.
Check out "Opal" and "SED" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification. Many (most?) drives support it these days. When I briefly looked a year or two ago basically all drives had the physical capability, but some firmwares didnt expose it to the iser. As always key management is the hassle.
Use postfix. It's (one of the, it not the) most common, and it's got a security secord to rival dovecot (the author is competent and cares). It integrates with everything under the sun for filtering. There's good documentation in the form of bundled text files.

Don't use qmail unless you really want to, as you need to patch it up a lot in any modern setting. And don't use sendmail if postfix will suffice. Exif will also do the job but there's really nothing it does better than the others.
> Are you saying once a program passes a test, we should stop using that test?

No. I'm saying that programs have to be proven correct. Then you can use tests to rule out other pesky problems that have nothing to do with your design being incorrect. (For example, you could prove a program correct on paper, then transcribe it incorrectly to a computer. It has happened to me before.)

> These are corner cases in the concept of user input

“undefined” and “null” aren't special cases in the concept of user input - they're special cases in languages that happen to have “undefined” and “null”.

Octal numeric literals aren't special cases in the concept of number - they're special cases in languages where octal literals begin with the prefix “0”, rather than something more sensible like “0o”.

Failing to distinguish between escaped and unescaped strings is also a language problem - they should have different types!

The list goes on.
This is terrible.... But the easiest way to be able to offer all employees full coverage is to hire only young people. Specifically young males. Yeah it's illegal and shitty but anything else will have very high cost. Young males hardly use any health services on average and don't get pregnant, the biggest healthcare cost in young employees
>>Canadian here, as far as I know you can't pay into the CPP if you're not working in Canada (I have a friend who is in the exactly that situation)

I came to the same conclusion unfortunately. Would gladly pay to contribute to CPP on the assumption that I'll (probably) be retiring back home. Unsure how it is in France, but in Canada (for now), I believe future CPP payouts are based on contributions made today (i.e. supposedly we are paying our future retired selves). This is unlike the US social system where current payouts are based on contributions made with today's generation of workers.

>>But, that said you can put a lot of money into TFSAs and RRSPs.

I'm not an accountant or a lawyer, but my understanding is that unless you have contribution room left for your TFSA or RRSP prior to your departure from Canada, there's little point to contribute since the "contributions" will not be recognized as such and hence the tax "benefits" in both cases will also go unrecognized. I think the only exception is for Canadian income (e.g. rental property).

Transferring funds into Canadian TFSA/RRSP accounts may be possible, but the CRA will eventually ask for a reckoning unless your friends are willing to roll the dice. Based on personal experience, penalties and interest per year add up quickly.
The more you contemplate these questions, the least likely you are to do anything. The only question I think is valuable is: "How many months can you go without a paycheck?" I think the original idea is seldom where most startups end up. It's more than likely a problem you encounter while working on the original idea. In fact, I think the less money you have to start the more hungry you will be for success.
should be "RWC Levchin Prize" (the reddit article is also incorrect).
I do not disagree with you. 25 year old white male libertarians from Stanford (or earnest 28 year old hippies) is a more likely description. Merely staying with the example given by the OP.

For that matter, I wouldn't want to be in a company of progressive women only, either. Any monoculture is a bad idea. I'm happy to have friends and colleagues who span the spectrum, thankfully.

Given the massive downvoting the comment got, that doesn't seem to be a concept that the HN crowd agrees with. I'm not surprised about that, either.
I found this to be useful. Still should check local laws (and for the truly prepared, research a local attorney in advance).

http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
It's very much within the realm of possibility to have a pre-trained neural net on the client, which then simply asks it questions.

For example, swiftkey does this already with its keyboard prediction. Prisma does it with image styling.
Honestly, I think the title from the New York Times as "the father of AI" is a bit presumptuous. I'm not an expert by any means in machine learning or artificial intelligence, but I do know a fair amount about computer history.

Potential "father of modern AI" - even that is stretching a bit!

The fact is, machine learning and artificial intelligence is a story in history of fits and starts; of springs and winters; of successes and failures.

If anyone could be called such, the fathers of AI would belong to Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943, who came up with the model for an artificial neuron:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

From there, it was people standing on each other's shoulders, building ever upward and outward. These steps and systems have ultimately led to today's deep learning networks.

Other machine learning techniques trace to various techniques and methods in statistics and probability theory; then you have the whole arena of computer/machine vision research.

Right now, we're in the midst of yet another AI/ML "spring", after a fairly long "winter". Mr. Schmidhuber can certainly claim a bit of status as being one of many who help institute a thaw leading to today - but he is by no means alone (I'd argue that one of the earliest for today's thaw might be Lecun).
> There's no well defined re-frame solution for this yet.

FYI, I just tried to address those issues in a small Elm-ish wrapper on top of re-frame

https://github.com/vbedegi/re-alm
These are somewhat irrelevant questions... one thing that is almost guaranteed is that your original idea will change, and all your loft projections will not come to pass.
The problem with statement "as adversarial networks compete against each other repeatedly they eventually will converge on a Nash Equilibrium" is that they often won't, and a big problem with training GANs is to ensure that they converge.

Intuitively, what can happen is that one of the problems is simpler to learn than another, and when one of the "players" becomes overwhelmingly good, then the other part of the network stops receiving useful feedback and is unable to find out a direction for improvement, the learning stops. A "sufficiently smart" method would be able to go to a Nash equilibrium even in this case, but current GAN methods can not, so you need to take steps to ensure that it doesn't happen - e.g. extra normalization or less training for the "simpler to learn" component.

It's not enough to train the "adversarial" networks to compete during each inference, on a meta-level you must ensure a form of cooperation to ensure that they are effective teachers for each other during the learning process. For a real life analogy, there's a difference between effective behavior during combat and effective behavior during sparring.
That "but" is dubious advice. There also is a hefty fine/clawback awaiting you if you "hire" the latter as "employees" and treat them as such. It's not specific to FR, in that the criteria that make employees that are mostly the same as those in CA, but FR taxmen and labor inspectors probably pay more attention.
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> This looks great but I honestly wonder - if China is under heavy communism oppression and noone can make enough fuzz about their lifestyle before eventually disappearing... why would Chinese government care about spending money and time building such vast (and beautiful!) network? Serious question...

China isn't under heavy communist oppression, not the kind that you're thinking. Their style of oppression is different. The Social Contract that the Party offers the People is this - you will not get political choice, you will always be ruled by us; in return you will not have to worry about money because this economy will grow at 7.5%pa. That rising tide will lift all boats, including yours. When all your material needs are taken care of, do you really care who is in charge?

Projects such as high speed rail help the Party deliver on its promise. The Economist points out the ways in which this boosts economic growth, as well as other bonus effects, like allowing people to buy affordable housing in smaller cities that are short commutes away from Beijing/Shaghai and other major cities. If the Party doesn't hold its end of the Contract up, it risks mass unrest, similar to the Tiananmen Square protests. That ought to answer your question.

The interesting question is whether their Social Contract will survive. So far, the people are generally satisfied with the Party's performance but in the years to come growth will inevitably slow, if only because their economy is so massive that compounded growth is difficult. I think the strategy is that by then the Party will have a much more efficient way of enforcing control over individuals than they did in 1989 when the Tiananmen protests took place Rather than crude measures like locking people up or beating them, the Party will use the social score [1] to subtly control the People. If you know that your house payments will rise, or your medical care will be deprioritized, or your friends will ostracize you, or you'll face harassment from strangers or you won't be able to apply to good schools for your children, or all of the above... will you still have the courage to show up to protest, much less stand in front of a column of tanks? [2]

[1] - http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21711904-worrying-expe...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
Plans differ wildly in copay/oom etc. So $0 isn't what you end up paying if you actually need to use your health plan.
another tip is that if you don't sell a product Adwords is not for you. Pure content sites will be vaporized by the cost vs the revenue you get from people seeing ads on your site :)
It always surprises me a little when I 'ls /' and /etc is up the top rather than at the very end. Mentally i've always placed 'etc' at the end, from 'et cetera'/'so on and so forth'/'misc'/'appendix'...
>It should be abundantly clear by now that many of the incoming administration's cabinet/agency picks are aimed at dismantling the federal administrative structure

I sure hope so.
Thank you. I'll be sure to mention that to him! :)

Exactly - talking with someone who is going or went through the same is invaluable as no one can understand you better than someone who shared the same struggle. It doesn't have to be an advice, but just the fact you are not the only one and not alone is extremely comforting.

Plus, the bond it creates lasts for a lifetime and it just takes your friendship to a whole new level. Usually the people you struggle with, you remember for life.
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You are absolutely correct -- French speakers DO use their mouths differently than English speakers. Once I learned this in my Linguistics courses, my accent improved immeasurably.

The mouth is much more pursed, there are more sibilants, sounds either come from the very back of the throat or the very tip of the tongue.
What really gets me is how modern and futuristic the gear in the two photos of Cernan looks--although unfortunately we haven't had any contemporary lunar history to make anything from Apollo look old-fashioned (except for maybe the computers).
Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin. Most of the novel cryptography in Signal Protocol is Trevor's; it's good for people to know who he is.

Reprising a previous thread:

The prizes went to Joan Daemen, for AES and SHA-3 (on stage, Levchin pointed out that his interest in cryptography had been piqued by a xeroxed copy of DES when he was in school, and that it was an honor to present an award to one of the people who replaced the DES), and --- more notably, I think --- to Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin for their work on Signal.

Last year's winners were Phil Rogaway (a cryptographer of repute comparable to that of Daemen) and the miTLS team (of Triple Handshake, SMACK, FREAK, Logjam, and SLOTH fame).
> The US, at least in spirit, doesn't like government subsidies.

The US gives $0.6 trillion / yr in energy subsidies, about 70% of which goes to oil. Which reduces the cost of cars and trucks.
Highways (tolls) tend to be far less profitable than rail systems (ticket sales). If the US didn't like government subsidies, we wouldn't have built all these highways.
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How much does it cost Google Search to support an extra user on the margin? I don't really know, but I'd wager much less than $1/year - because it's very implausible that the extra ad revenue it gets today from an extra user is more than that.

(The world's poorest people are a really bad target audience for ads - they have very little discretionary income!)

Meanwhile, the cost of Internet access for the poorest people is at least an order of magnitude bigger, maybe two orders of magnitude (since the cost to Google probably is much less than $1). Also, poor people's main or only Internet access is often via smartphones, and mobile data costs much more per GB than landline ISPs.

On the margin, some people who can afford Internet access today would not be able to also afford (as many) paid services. I'm willing to pay this price, in exchange for everyone who could afford access and services (including most of the poor people who can do so now) getting much better and more varied service and much less surveillance. Also, a paid model would enable people who publish blogs and other sites, and various services.

Finally, if you treat Internet or Web access and services as very important and maybe a human right, then governments should provide it or subsidize access or regulate prices. Absent that, for-profit corporations paid by users would be much better than the same corporations paid by advertisers.
Here's one for $16k USD: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/31/11818358/sirin-labs-solari...

The website is the most over the top displays of form over function I've ever seen: https://www.sirinlabs.com/
By what metric are you judging largest companies? I suppose by us market cap you have Apple, Google & Facebook near the top of the list but it's hard to conclude SV tech companies are a large portion other than those.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

― Mel Brooks
Amazon already denied using tapes, which was mentioned in the third paragraph of the article.
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Far more people die because of drugs the FDA does not approve, when compared to deaths avoided by it, despite anecdotal evidence of the contrary.
> If this hasn't already started, I'm sure we're on the cusp of it and it'll only get more prevalent as these things become more outdated.

Apps on my previous Blu-ray player from just 2010 had been disappearing from the device for years, as the developers decided to stop supporting them. I replaced it because it started having trouble reading disks, but its utility had been falling for a couple years before that, one previously-supported feature at a time. It's one reason that I'm not planning on owning any smart devices in the near future.
> France has been in a state of emergency ("état d'urgence") since november 2015, having been prolonged many times.

...and the "temporary" PATRIOT act has (mainly) kept being renewed since 2001, plus all that nice extrajudicial surveillance and gag orders.

Fearmongering seems like the regular state of governance in the first world, at this point: it's not exclusive to France.
Do you have a source on this? In my state the government used the tolls roads as a cash cow, they were massively profitable. The funny thing was the toll roads still sucked because they dumped all the money into the general fund to pay for everything else