skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found calculus and academia generally very difficult. I'm happy to know that you don't suffer from this terrible affliction which makes studying difficult.

You don't need to know programming if you understand your workers and they understand it enough to convey to you the time & resource constraints.

I have a million dollars for this project. What are the features and functions that will maximize my returns? Hire a couple of smart engineers who already holds the technical knowledge, able to communicate when asked all the pitfalls, potential roadblocks and unknowns so that their productivity is maximized. Set expectations on how they will be able to trade their time for money. At the end of the day, it's a naked call option with limited risk and unlimited reward by utilizing the correct knowledge workers.

Why spend time learning the reference when you can look it up or hire somebody who already has a distilled version in their head which you can utilize?
Why yes, there's engineering that goes into stopping a fire from spreading. Here's some info about a fire safety test done to a Tesla Powerpack:

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...
>Everyone who doesn't think exactly as I deem acceptable is evil

"Tolerance"
Wow, that's the complete opposite of my own experiences with American healthcare. Doctors here always seem to want to do the "yeah it's probably just a headache but let's get an MRI just in case it's cancer" thing. Maybe it's because my insurance covers it, and I tell them that up front so they won't try to save me money by limiting the tests they order?
On the other hand, there's a significant number of religious people in the US that believe they can't ethically support an LGBT wedding by offering services as a photographer, baker, etc. There's a very real tension between the rights of LGBT people to not be discriminated against and the rights of religious business owners to act according to their conscience. It's a snaggly issue, but hearing this kind of rhetoric from Democrats and left-leaning media("they give up rights when the went into business") is exactly what caused the center of the country to swing further right in the last election.
It's race baiting by implying the only reason the electoral college was created was to leverage the slaves. It creates a false narrative that amplifies racist thoughts against the government.
Docker for Devs Part 1: Containerizing Your Application
This reminds me Wolfram one-liner competitions [1]: "Participants in the competition submit 128 or fewer tweetable characters of Wolfram Language code to perform the most impressive computation they can dream up"

[1] http://blog.wolfram.com/2016/11/09/the-2016-wolfram-one-line...
Lovely list. I'd add ways to address problems with "congressional fund raising" as discussed by John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk), so congress members can focus on the needs of their constituents rather than those who pay for their re-election run.
I'd really be interested in whether intentionally showing your cards instead of mucking them was taken into account by the AI. (e.g. showing your poor hand after a successful bluff)
Or even that the opinion that dominates the comment threads on a particular issue represents that community. There is a subset of people who have very strong feelings about Apple and the current Mac lineup, and they tend to be the ones participate the most in these threads.
There is no year-over-year growth in Mac unit sales.

It took 2-3 years for Nokia's handset revenues to collapse, from when people started noticing warning signs and complaining that they were falling behind.
Excellent post
Thx, very interesting documentary.
Why not? WKWebView has a delegate callback for the policy to load any given URL. You can implement ad blocking that way. Or you can chose to inject CSS rules if that's your fancy.

What's the technical issue?
Since September I've been reading nothing but how much of a failure the iPhone 7 is, and how removing the headphone jack was going to be the final straw for Apple. Similar story for the new MacBook Pros.

It seems that the geekerati have very different priorities from the rest of the world, and maybe Apple still knows what's it's doing.
I feel like this is the type of thing that people say they want and know they should do, but won't work at wide scale because it flies in the face of our biology.

"Filter bubbles" exist because we seek them by default, it's proven to be cognitively expensive to challenge your beliefs, so the people who actively seek out challenging information are outliers.

I don't see anything here that takes cognitive science into account to truly change behavior, which I think would be required.

Good idea but I think we need to fundamentally change biology for this kind of thing to work.
Your line of thinking, though (as you noted) easily misconstrued by ideologists, seems quite reasonable and interesting.

I would guess that current AI tech is many orders of magnitude away, competency-wise, from being able to improve on the efficiency and agility of loosely connected networks of generally autonomous humans.

Even so, ignoring such technical limitations, the issues of control and individual agency are incredibly thorny. How are preferences aggregated? And how does a completely centralized system continually update itself to best serve all participants? Perhaps the competing AI systems can campaign every 4 years :)

Perhaps some sort of AI-human hybrid governmental system could offer a more modest path forwards. We are arguably already beginning to take first steps in that direction.
Looks like a good move, aimed at reducing H1B misuse by the outsourcing companies that arbitrage wages for large employers like Microsoft, while enabling move visas for other employers.

Curious to see how this bill would prevent the major outsources from forming a load of subsidiaries and gaming the system anyway. Maybe it's more of a bill for show, than to actually solve anything.

Also, for those jobs with lower income potential, the question still stands - can the employers find enough US citizens to take on those jobs (and do them well), given the the low salary.
You make a fair point. I clearly didn't know what I was talking about. I edited my original post to reflect that.
If you want to be a venture capitalist, then you need to bring money to the table....
They're not the American Bill of Rights Union. They have a conception of what "civil liberties" amounts to which many sympathize with, and they fight for that.

If you think they do good work in that arena, great!

If you think they do good work in that arena and others do good work elsewhere, hey, you know what? That's still great!

(And if you think they do poor work, or work on the wrong goals or whatever, well, of course that's your prerogative.)
>"AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers"

Renaissance Technologies already is one of the top hedge funds in the world and it's fully automated.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Accidentally knocked, or dragged by the cable because the laptop was moved a bit.
So you CAN build your own browser without WebKit, you just won't get any JIT-based Javascript running. There might be a way to directly call JavaScriptCore and bridge it with your web rendering code to use Apple's JIT.
Because the arbitrage opportunity isn't present in the academic papers but at a higher level involving business problems.

I say this is an arbitrage opportunity because AI is essentially commoditizing human intelligence. It didn't take much brains for people to realize cars could do away with horses. You don't need to understand how a car works down to the formula. It's enough to view it as a black box and still know all the outputs and constraints associated with it in order to orchestrate capital that allows you to seize the business opportunity.

Again, the arbitrage is buying something for cheap and immediately selling it at a higher price...if you can't understand why a deep level understanding of the academia is not necessary in order to capture the opportunity then less competition for me which is great.
Introducing: Autocap
This is being downvoted because of the intentionally passive-aggressive language that was used by the poster. It's fairly clear that the poster isn't interested in engaging in a discussion due to this. Even ignoring the phrasing, it wasn't a post that merits much discussion -- simply responses in the form of references to groups similar to the ACLU that are anti-abortion.
That dude on Reddit must be having a melt-down.
>Why should they disregard a market signal in regards to a NON-profit?

Really makes you think...
I've had complete brake failure due to a rusted brake line. There's no need to panic: I applied the emergency brake and pulled over to the side of the road, then drove to the nearest auto shop that was conveniently a block away.

Unfortunately, their insurance didn't cover dropping the gas tank that was in the way of replacing the brake lines, so then I had the fun of driving to the next nearest place two miles away with only a handbrake and engine compression to slow me down. Fun times!
Hacking Printers Advisory 1
I suppose it depends on what you value most within each political sphere and how you decide to splice the two together. For example, Trump wants to lower taxes across the board, and reduce regulation - both staple libertarian positions. He also wants strong borders and to invest in public infrastructure - both nationalist positions. There are some conflicts between these positions, but they aren't in any way incompatible in my opinion.

I think the assent/dissent situation around Trump is a lot more complex than "conservatives for, libertarians against", precisely because his platform consists of a mix of ideological positions. He has almost nothing in common with neoconservatives (which seems to have been a big hitter for public appeal), and both conservatives and libertarians seem to differ depending on their concern for specific libertarian policies. Hence the fracturing of the GOP, with as many representatives condemning him as supporting him. After all, the GOP is nothing if not a grab-bag of varying political positions.
Okay, I can understand that viewpoint, it is logical. However, I'd argue that while liberty would be gained, it would come at the expense of there being more hate in the world. I personally don't think I would want to live in a society where people are denied service because of something about themselves that they cannot control.
With big companies, it's pretty common. There is probably something about your contact info or education/experience that was auto-flagged as a rejection.
Hah. The devil doesn't have to do homework. He just needs to set up all the devices to produce an alert whenever someone is wrong on the Infernet, and we'll all voluntarily torture ourselves.

J.P. Sartre got it right: "L'Enfer, c'est les autres." ("Hell is the other [people].")
Of course they are. Regular people don't listen to nerds piss and moan. The never ending cacophony of Apple complaints:

"How could they remove legacy USB...."

"How could they remove the headphone jack..."

"Steve Jobs would never ..."

"I need an escape key..."
It's not as rosy as it sounds on paper.

Q1 2017 sale should've benefited from Mac Book refresh, but Apple essentially sold the same number of units as Q1 2016.

Increase in revenue came from higher pricing strategy in US and Europe.

Don't expect that to stick. Apple is in worse shape than these numbers indicate.
I almost mentioned that too (basically nobody makes money out of paper, it's too fragile), but it ruined the snappiness of the quip.
I've only heard of additive referring to synthesis through summing series of sine waves. Ring mod and hard sync are pretty common in subtractive synths (my Minilogue has both for example).

Additive would generate sounds without any sort of time series "filter", and would attenuate the sine series before generating them.
Why some software companies still make you talk to a salesperson
You could and again many buttlers are well paid and passionate about their work. You could argue that even a high paid engineer is a servant to someone. It was more about the idea that someone would only do it if they were forced to by their economic situation, rather than because they want to.
Well the "startup" still has to pay roughly 15% (or whatever the number is) more than market rate, so this loophole won't work. They can't just reduce the salary once it's "acquired".

EDIT: Also this is one of three H1B related bills in Congress. I suppose there will be some compromise between them, considering that they are sponsored both by Republicans and Democrats.
Not nearly enough material. Probably enough for a good blog post. Lan (the guy) probably has enough material, but I only worked with him for a few months.

I think the best quote came from a mutual friend (paraphrased, because decade ago) "When I first met Lan, I made a resolution: I'd be as good as he was in a year. Then I got to know him, and realized: I could be as good as Lan was; he got better faster than I could catch up."
> It's hilarious that you think progressive extremists are pure and good, meanwhile the evil "Conservatives" pervert America with their traditional family unit, working-class values, and newly elected president.

> Here's a newsflash -- the Dems are just as responsible for our current state of affairs by doubling down on pointless identity politics, hateful rhetoric, and hopeless fake news. Such adherence ideological extremism will only serve to destroy the Democratic party before 2018.

1) As the other person mentioned, its a ridiculous exaggeration. You ignored the second half of my comment and went on a tangent like the other person did.

2) The Conservatives won through white identity politics, hateful rhetoric, and propaganda news produced by Bannon who now holds various key government positions. This is the pot calling the kettle black (at best).

3) The Conservatives already are launching attacks on the 1st amendment (and other portions of the Constitution) against legal residents of the US and its citizens. That is evil in its most pure form in America. It is also evil when Progressives do it. They just, frankly, do it differently and the problem here is you are clearly OK with one and not the other. I call either party attacking the Constitution evil.
Is 6-handed a significantly harder game or is it just (from the computer's point of view) just like playing 5 single games of heads-up?
My new laptop is the buggiest Apple product I've owned.

Programs are always crashing, has issues waking up, and has connection issue with the new LG monitor.
Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016)
Well, in your case you're using the webkit exponentialRampToValueAtTime or whatever it's called, so you could just recompute the envelope (it's an exponential sweep... actually it's sort of double-exponential, which is another thing I need to fix in mine) and issue new filter sweeps every time the knobs move, right? you could set it based on when the envelope was triggered in the past and it should work fine.

edit: nevermind, I thought you could specify a startTime in addition to endTime but you can't. so you'd have to use audioContext.currentTime to figure out where the sweep should be now, ramp to there, and exponential sweep down to the final value at the end time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13529792
$AAPL has requested the mint start making them 1 trillion dollar coins
Declarative REST Data Loading for React and Redux
How linting and ESLint improve code quality
I'm not race baiting, its really not a lot more nuanced (the popular alternative explanation is the sales pitch made to New Yorkers to get them to buy off on the scheme, because we've taken 18th Century campaign propaganda as unvarnished truth as part of our national cult of veneration of the four ding fathers), and your source doesn't even address the motivations (well, it briefly addresses one participants description of the reason of the change from the Virginia Plan, which had the same salient features and served the same purpose, to the EC, but that doesn't address why the basic alignment with Congressional representation underlying both the Virginia Plan and EC was chosen; the reason, like the 3/5 compromise and the express protection of the slave trade.in the Constitution, was to overrepresent the slave states and alleviate their fears that the long term course was toward abolition), only the mechanics and the history of operations under it.
Well that is a zero-risk move politically. Defending Nazis gives you credibility and it's not like that makes Republicans any more influential.
They played in pairs using mirrored hands and did equity splits when all in. This eliminated not all, but a large amount of variance.
I just checked because I remembered something about that. It turns out the guy was faking having taken those AAPL short positions, as expected.
In summary: Researches upload valid PostScript programs that capture all pages printed indefinitely in the future, and provide a facility to download them. They then show how this can be exploited by any website via some clever tricks with WebRTC and CORS.
This is exactly it. It's also a good approach when constructively criticising technical solutions. But we tend to like silver bullets too much.
You're reading much too far into my comments. I posted the quotes to see what other people think of them, nothing more. If the response is that data beats logic, then that's a fine point.

you should stop assuming your ideological opponents are idiots who don't understand simple concepts

This is a personal attack, though. Please don't do that.
More importantly: shingled recording slows things down as well.
Bag-like sea creature was humans’ oldest known ancestor
And not only did they sell more Macs, their average selling price per Mac was up significantly.

Probably due in part to pent up demand for the higher-end Macbook Pros, but since the touchbar models are significantly more expensive, likely due to that as well. Will be interesting to see the ongoing trend, but I would guess that people keep buying these machines.
> make destruction of the system hard

One might argue it already is. Then you have a bad system with a lot of friction to change it.
> You or I or other technical folk might point the finger at particular apps but the typical consumer will just bemoan the "poor battery life on my phone".

You don't give people a lot of credit for even minimal logic with that statement. I've dealt with a large number of low-tech users and every. single. one. of them has understood the relationship between battery life and the applications they run.

They also understand what having GPS, active WiFi and watching a couple of hours of video will do to their batteries. The only ones that have a problem with this are the ones that pay $800 for a device that struggles with normal 2-day usage because thin trumps mAh.
It's fake.
The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
Your example doesn't result in a deadlock or undefined behavior though. It just results in some at-exit code not being run.

Really, programs shouldn't expect _anything_ to happen on exit. After all, programs can die at any time for any reason anyway. Personally, I'd do away with both atexit and static destructors. Your program needs to be able to handle the power cord being yanked, so it needs to be able to handle sudden death no matter what.
Their recent (as in, last 5 years) cases include defending a Confederate veteran group, Washington Redskins, KKK, Chick-fil-A, and the Westboro Baptist Church.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/19/a-...
I don't know why you expect to get ahead by hiring others to do your thinking for you. If you don't have a basic understanding of the technology you're hiring people to implement, they'll just pull the wool over your eyes, sell you something that doesn't work and make away with your money.
I wrote the Autocap post and helped work on the project — shout if you have any questions!
Key American allies
We've never tried what? Private schools? I don't see how this would work since schools are always expensive to run by nature and the working class is getting poorer (for those still having a revenue), I don't see this working very well.
Deutsche Bank fined for $10B Russian money-laundering scheme
Seems pretty easy to resolve this dispute: let's both act in the present and critically consider our past actions. Where's the argument here?
I fail to see how this was a dynamite quarter, in Cook's words.

Net income shrank year over year

Operating income shrank year over year

China sales imploded by another 12%

Margins contracted

Sales growth was a piddling 4% (it didn't contract granted, I don't see how that's "dynamite")

iPad sales continue to implode, down 19%

And there's Cook cheering on the results. It reminds me of the Steve Ballmer days under Microsoft. The profits were there, the sales were there, and yet you could easily spot the icebergs on the horizon.
If you want to go to grad school and you spend more than like maybe two weekends studying for the general GRE, maybe you should consider other options. (The subject GREs are another can of worms entirely)
The majority of the reactions I have seen focus almost exclusively on the restrictions themselves rather than the way they were implemented.

Among SV, the media, Hollywood, and elites in general, any call for immigration / entry restrictions almost immediately results in the usual "you are a bigot", "you are a fascist" "we are a nation of immigrants" etc. visceral reactions NOT the kind of more nuanced response you provided above. That's the point of the article to which I referred. Maybe it's time to stop calling people names and organizing against them for having completely legitimate concerns and instead debate the actual issues at hand in a reasonable manner.
> You mean technical people who generally know the topic they are speaking about?

Technical people have a tendency to say stuff like "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." when the iPod is announced.
Ifdefs would be required. Or some kind of wrapper in gnulib. Or, like systemd, just non-portability. Your philosophy means stagnation forever. I reject that. Programs that use getenv today will not break. Objection to the existence of a getenv_s is absurd.

The only way we move forward is by trying new things, and we can't possibly get everyone to try a new thing all at once. If the thing ends up being useful, we standardize it.
SoundHound raises $75M to take natural language and AI to next level
Awesome, love it!
This is what I am using for the square wave: https://github.com/errozero/js-303-instrument/blob/master/30...

I can't remember how I found these numbers or what I googled to come across them.
Relevant: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38637357
Fake. Pretty sure he's taking the opposite side. He's actually really good at predicting the market if you take the inverse.
Did you know that Microsoft's Surface line declined in revenue last quarter YOY?

If you are you making a prediction that Apple's total revenues are about to collapse, these results really don't support that idea. PC sales have been declining for years overall.
That's a shame, but this is the first I've heard of it - can you point me toward any specifics I could read up about?
Yeah - but they're not talking about mobile money - they're talking about bitcoin.