skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lenovo also makes not-cheap ThinkPads and not-cheap Motorola smartphones for Google ;-)
> We don't, however, try to understand what "thought" is, and work backwards to form a representation of it.

I had to laugh here, because that is exactly how I designed ibGib over the past 15 years. It is built conceptually from the ground up, working in conflict (and harmony) with esoteric things like philosophy of mathematics and axiomatic logic systems, information theory, logic of quantum physics, etc. Anyway, like I said...I just had to laugh at this particular statement! :-)

> Visual representations like the one in this video also have their shortcomings. The most obvious being, a monitor is 2D. Thought is not 2D. Going to 3D won't help either. Thought also not only spatial and temporal. For example, how would you represent concatenating strings visually?

> I think the more interesting question is how we can accurately represent thought?

In ibGib, I have created a nodal network that currently can be interacted with via a d3.js force layout. Each node is an ibGib that has four properties (the database has _only_ these four properties): ib, gib, data, and rel8ns (to keep it terse). The ib is like a name/id/quick metadata, the data is for internal data, the rel8ns are named links (think merkle links), and the gib is a hash of the other three.

The ib^gib acts as a URL in a SHA^256-sized space. So each "thought" is effectively a Goedelian number that represents that "thought".

This is essentially the "state" part of it. The way that you create new ibGib is for any ibGib A to "contact" an ibGib B. Currently the B ibGibs are largely transform ibGibs that contain the state necessary to create a tertiary ibGib C. So each one, being an immutable datum with ib/gib/data/rel8ns, when combined with another immutable ibGib, acts as a pure function given the engine implemented. This pure function is actually encapsulated in the server node that the transformation is happening, so it's conceivable that A + B -> C on my node, where A + B -> D on someone else's node. So the "pure" part is probably an implementation detail for me...but anyway, I'm digressing a little.

I'm only starting to introduce behavior to it, but the gist of it is that any behavior, just like any creation of a "new" ibGib, is just sending an immutable ibGib to some other thing that produces a tertiary immutable ibGib. So you could have the engine on some node be in python or R or Bob's Manual ibGib manipulating service where Bob types very slowly random outputs. But in the visual representation of this process, you would do the same thing that you do with all other ibGib. You create a space (the rel8ns also form a dependency graph for intrinsic tree-shaking btw) via querying, forking others' ibGibs, "importing", etc. Then you have commands that act upon the various ibGib, basically like a plugin architecture. The interesting thing though is that since you're black-boxing the plugin transformation (it's an ibGib), you can evolve more and more complex "plugins" that just execute "their" function (just like Bob).

Anyway, I wasn't going to write this much...but like I said. I had to laugh.
When will open-minded inquiries into 9/11 become non-taboo?
a court can't compell you to give up your rights, otherwise they wouldn't be rights.

but we already know there are nonrights at the border.
For what it's worth, there are git client apps that you can run on your phone. I've found them to be... usually nicer than GitHub.
Can't say that matches my experience, I've never encountered any problems with sending patches as an attachment. And find the process simpler than github.
This is the type of insight that I come to HN for. As someone who is drinking whiskey now and will be drinking coffee in 12 hours, I couldn't agree more.
I view Medium not like a news or blog, but at its best - like the OpEd page of a major newspaper. Medium destroys the average newspaper website experience - ad crazy garbage everywhere.

They should lock down public figures who are writing important articles.

For instance, why not put someone like a Colin Powell on a retainer, to write regular articles, and he writes exclusively for Medium. There are some powerful figures like that - retired, out of political offce. Meanwhile they should be also finding the young important voices of the future, who can be had cheap at this point.
lying to ANY federal agent is illegal.
This is how you submit a patch to an email list:
1. Clone the repository locally
2. Make the fix
3. Run $VCS email --to=<list>
4. Done!

This is how you submit a patch via github:
1. Clone the repository locally
2. Make the fix
3. Fork the repository on GitHub
4. Push your changes to your GitHub fork
5. Go through several screens to make a pull request on GitHub.

(This is assuming you have a GitHub account. If you don't have one, or if you don't know its UI well, insert several more steps in the middle.)

For a casual contributor, sending a patch via email is quite easier than doing it in the web. There are of course downsides to both approaches, but please don't pretend that there are no reasonable objections to web UIs.
At the end of the day software is there to support the business, so if that is the more cost effective approach, why not? I've even argued for disposable software to a few clients.

However, I bristle a bit at a blog that misdiagnoses the problem as "over engineering". The problem is bad engineering, not over engineering.
>Do we get to choose to live in a world where that isn't the case? No?

Why not?

Or, maybe a better question is, why do you think you could legalize child porn easier than we could outlaw or end programs like PRISM?
In China, the high speed rail tickets are just about equally as expensive as flights. Though not having to go through Chinese airport security and flights are worth it. No mobile devices allowed at all during flights!
So this confirms that men get paid more because they actually work more -- very much confirming the gender gap is a myth.

Perhaps we should be pushing the idea that the traditional family unit is the best contributor to pursuing a successful career rather than chasing the unattainable goal of convincing employers to accommodate single parents.
They need reasonable suspicion and a link to the crossing.

For example, if you were an American, white college kid crossing the Canadian border into New York at a weird time, and behave in a manner that seems nervous or evasive, You're going to attract interest. If you start heading toward the Mohawk Indian reservation, you're going to get stopped as odds are good you're smuggling something.
That's the opposite of what should happen. One of the reasons we're stuck with broadcasters parked on beachfront spectrum was that back in the 1930s spectrum was licensed based on what would serve the "public interest" (in some bureaucrat's judgment). Back then, TV was revolutionary something something education.

Spectrum auctions were a good model when the FCC started doing them. Today we have the technology for devices to mediate spectrum use among themselves (maybe following very high level regulatory guidelines). To use an analogy: you don't "allocate road" to cars. You let drivers figure it out themselves against a background of rules for dealing with conflicts (e.g. Right of way).
> I mean what Medium is beside a glorified Wordpress

Wordpress (well Automattic) is a >1 bil company, operates about 1/5th of the websites on the internet, spawned a massive industry (and depending on how you slice it, also a subindustry) that provides jobs for hundreds of thousands of web developers and designers, and greatly shifted the nature of blogging and websites on the internet. So yeah, I'd say if there's a company that claims to displace Wordpress it's not unthinkable for it to raise hundreds of millions.
What do you have against DynamoDB?
I try to avoid eating vegetable oil. I understand that the polyunsaturated oils are preferentially stored to protect the body from these unstable oils.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest needs to eat some crow.
Because it's (well, at least 6 months ago was, now it could have improved) the only solution to reuse the GPU without rebooting X.

With a practical example:

1 - You boot up your Linux base system.

2 - You fire up KVM with GPU PCI passthrough with a Windows guest to play some games.

3 - You shutdown windows.

Now you can't use the GPU anymore, the module was assigned by KVM and you can't - for instance - run a CUDA simulation in the Linux host. You need to reboot X (you don't need to reboot the system).

The workaround/solution is to fire up KVM with GPU PCI passthrough to another guest (This time a Linux guest) and in there you will have full access to the GPU to do CUDA computations (or whatever else you want).
Could this result in criminal penalties for the executives who signed off on the data?
Activism Hits Even the Less Flashy Tech Companies
exactly, and before him too. the real enemy is the patriot act.
There is a loading indicator at the bottom and you can go forward as well using the native wkwebview gesture.

We might add a force touch menu for reload, forward / back and share which is important if only for app "actions".
Is there any reason Heathrow couldn't be moved out to the suburbs where expansion could take place to allow London to continue to be a worldwide travel hub, but then use high speed rail to connect with London proper?
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Yes, that's my idea as well. In Intel it was already a bit of an hassle, I'm afraid that at least for quite a few months it will be an even bigger hassle on AMD.

Then again, I think this is just a very particular use case. I unfortunately have it, but for most people it shouldn't matter.
This is one of the atrocities involving civil and human rights abuses by government that has nothing to do with neither Trump nor Clinton. However, the media, even in the UK, is more concerned with Trump than the abuses of government, which are what really threatens human liberty and welfare.
>Does having direct access to Python really make your work in command line faster/easier?

Easier for me to write custom commands/aliases. I'm sure I could come up with creative uses for it - just haven't taken the time to do so. Also, I'm not a super sed/awk user, so that's an example where knowing Python helps.

>Is there some paradigms that are more difficult to express in xonsh (redirect, pipes, …)

Haven't run across any. I think a few may be mentioned in the docs, though.

>Did you happen to encounter bugs, or made mistakes without intent to do it (like overwriting/removing files, …) ?

Bugs: Yes - only applicable for Windows. In Windows, environment variables are case-insensitive, but xonsh still treats them as case sensitive (as in setting ABC=5 and subsequently abc=7 ends up with two env vars) caused a problem with bat scripts I ran as part of a build process. Filed a bug - I'm sure they'll fix it.

Anything serious like overwriting/removing? Nope.

Caveat: I'm not a serious, power shell user. For me, just having a decent history, line editor, autocompletion was great. However, there is nothing that I'm used to in zsh in Linux that I clearly miss in xonsh. I'm sure I've thought a few minor things where it'll probably trivial for me to customize xonsh to get that zsh behavior...
New Zealand just experienced its largest whale stranding in decades
> loss from operations ($367B)

I think (and hope) that you missed a dot there :-)
I'm surprised you haven't been called a pedophile/pedophile supporter yet. Every time I tried to have that argument, it happened (tho not in HN).
I had to look this up when you said "specially welded"...

As far as I can tell, TGV tracks are built to vey tight tolerances, but Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) is a worldwide standard on new railway lines, nothing special. I most recently saw some thermite welding equipment just about to be used in Dublin (Ireland) during the laying of new tramway tracks. So there's nothing exotic about the welding process, though it is quite dramatic.
> OK search

Damn... I can't even manage to figure out how it works. I consider myself extremely lucky when it returns the expected result, and that seldom happens.
thats not true, people simply don't understand how their privacy has been used against them. everyone still thinks this is about ads, but its much worse.
Somehow I'd overlooked this too: nice find
It sounds like you believe the only legitimate state is one where a criminal suspect can say "no thanks" and walk away in response to a court summons or arrest warrant. What brings anyone to walk into a courtroom to face charges at all, other than the knowledge that they will be tied to a chair and wheeled in if they refuse?

Of course the state uses violence to extract compliance with social norms. That's what it's for. The much more interesting questions are about which norms it should enforce (criminal codes) using how much force (sentencing, prison conditions, police rules of engagement, etc) and subject to what controls (due process, civil rights, etc).
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Ask HN: Started a GitHub profile a few years ago, now I'm looking for employment
I'm 21, in first-year comp sci (I've played around with programming for 7 or so years before), and I'd like to get a programming-related job pretty soon so that I can get a head start on my career. A few years ago I heard that making a GitHub profile and posting stuff might help my hireability. So I started a GitHub profile a few years ago, posted some stuff, and now it seems to be getting a little bit of attention (200 stars collectively, ~15 repos, a few people tweeting about my stuff, someone who works at M$ uses my software, but little to no forks which worries me.)

I want to make sure that when I apply I have a good chance at getting in. Would it be best to develop my portfolio further (get a much larger following, network, etc.), or should I just apply now? Do I even have a chance? My issue is that I don't know if an employer would hire someone with only one year of comp sci experience, even though I have a bit of a portfolio started, I can't really afford to make a mess of things.
I think OP is referring to this series:

The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series) https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0618582150/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?ie...

We read these in a travel writing class I took in college. Each book is a collection of top stories from that year organized by the editor and there are subseries as well.

Edit: Found the official site. Don't be misled by the pricing. Slightly used copies can be picked up for next to nothing. Highly recommended.

https://www.hmhco.com/at-home/featured-shops/popular-series/...
Well..I am not sure Cuba is terribly effective with sustainability but there was some pressure to be sustainable and self contained. We could certainly do better if forced to be under such constrained circumstances.

we might end up in the same situation as Cuba...without the ability to import food or have unfettered access to resources and fossil fuel and cheap energy. Not to mention unrealistic demand for food and not enough human labour force or expertise. What then?

We have to automate agriculture. But modern automation should veer in a slightly different direction to minimize and mitigate invisible environmental damage. But we have to do

It's a little bit of bizarro world right now re how we tackle our problems. Somehow the solutions to ag problems only seems to compound it higher.

What got me thinking about Cuba: http://theconversation.com/cubas-sustainable-agriculture-at-...

I must stress that..I do not think we must follow cuba's footsteps but we must study it as a cautionary tale but with a smattering of hope and use our existing system in an advantageous way.
I like that. The kids want to snack after school anyway, so a later dinner as the weather gets nicer makes a lot of sense. The tricky part might be keeping bedtime reasonable as my kids are still young.
Hmm. Is that their responsibility to enforce? Not really familiar with the details here, but it seems akin to holding Craigslist responsible for someone selling a stolen bike.
where have you been?
You're right, combination locks are protected by 5th amendment as Testimonial evidence. I was wrong in my original post, however this doesn't apply to computer encryptions which the court seems to treat more like keys to a safe which are not protected, I'll correct my post accordingly thanks.
Really, 12 factor is great. I've tried to implement these principles for any new projects. Back when I worked primarily with WP, I had a 12f setup that worked quite well believe it or not. Now that I work with Rails + Heroku, a lot of this is abstracted away and automated.
Yes and no.

Customs duties were a bigger source of revenue. Ships didn't just travel freely.

People were less of a problem, as most people didn't stray more than a few miles from where they were born.
readme says that it also works in ff and safari
Deal good till March 31, 2017
http://www.metroenergy.org/index.php/nissan-leaf-2016-group-...
While the scale is different I don't see that the underlying issue is.

What you are suggesting about making Twitter profitable (which I happen to agree with) seems to be what they are attempting to do at Medium with these layoffs.

An aside on the Twitter front though; at this point I'm not sure cost slashing is going to help their stock prices at this point even if they turn a profit as they are already showing declining revenues.
Welp. I didn't see your comment until now. I wonder if you'll see/get this reply.

What do you mean by "design Smalltalk computers"? That sounds really interesting. Do you mean you configure them to autoboot Linux into Squeak or similar? What are they used for? (...I'm guessing education-type environments...?)

I can understand what you mean. I tried to get it working, as I said, and while I got the main window open I had no idea how to configure it (and I must admit I don't have much incentive to.)
He seems surprised too.
As soon as I saw a logic gate implemented for a single keypress I was "noping" out of there. Visual methods, to a one, break down quickly when they reproduce low-level digital logic. At that point, you have a software circuit board, and this is a thing that your CPU can represent just fine by coding in assembly and possibly adding an abstraction on top for a dataflow representation.

Graphics are absolutely wonderful, in contrast, when they are able to stick to a domain abstraction, which is why we have a notion of application software at all. I have, in fact, aimed towards discovering what a "Pong synthesizer" would look like, so I have the domain knowledge to know that it does tend to lead to the digital logic breakdown if you aim to surface every possibility as a configurable patch point. As a result I started looking more deeply into software modularity ideas and rediscovered hierarchical structures(Unix, IP addressing, etc.) as the model to follow. I'm gradually incorporating those ideas into a functioning game engine, i.e. I'm shipping the game first and building the engine as I find time, and I do have designs for making a higher level editor of this sort at some point.

However, I also intend to have obvious cutoff points. There are certain things that are powerful about visual systems, but pressuring them to expose everything at the top level is more obscuring than illuminating. So my strategy is to instead have editors that compile down to the formats of the modular lower-level system, smoothing the "ladder of abstraction" and allowing people to work at the abstraction level that suits them.
all obama had to do was not renew bush's executive orders. thats it. he just had to do NOTHING. so yes, as far as privacy is concerned, both parties are equally shit.
I'm not a graphic designer, so I don't usually do that, but I'd probably email the author or development list. Projects with lots of binary files checked into version control are very different from source code, though, so I don't know how they normally operate.
Any significantly genuine attempt to remember the password will reduce the entropy to such an extent that your rpi could crack it. The fact that in our brain the fragments are hopelessly jumbled and you forgot if you added 1999! or 1990? to the end does not mean a computer cannot achieve a significant shortcut.

In fact I cracked one of my own filevault v1 passwords, from a Powerbook G4, using this technique. I had a muscle memory for part of the password, and that was enough to make it tractable. Cf vilefault, https://github.com/libyal/libfvde
>When you add to this the fact that it's possible to deliberately construct regexes that are much more complicated to evaluate (particularly if you allow extensions beyond a true regular language) - potentially being a DoS target

Only if you allow extensions, but then they aren't regular expressions.
Bah. My first impression was totally wrong in that case. Here's hoping someone builds a version of this that executes magically in the lambda cloud.
>The Nordic countries have been moving away from Nordic socialism for 20 years because it doesn't actually work very well, even with a society comprised of Nordic people.

Indeed. I suspect the main downfall of mono-ethnic social states is the development of hyper-vigilance against individual defection. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

One wonders if the same effect eventually develops in all societies that are composed of outbred ethnic groups.
More akin to Craigslist deleting a bunch of stolen bike posts right before snapshotting the DB, during an investigation of illegal sales on Craigslist.

~~~(And only deleting them in the city where the investigation is happening)~~~
While I have visited the states many times over the years, and enjoyed the time I spent there, I will never go there again.
Even if the airports are near max capacity (and I think that's probably only LAX) there could be a lot more passenger-miles.

Right now most SFO-LAX flights are on nothing larger than a 737 or A320, and on LAX-SJC I seem to wind up on some abominable regional jet.

There's a lot of room to increase capacity by flying wide bodies if the demand exists. Compare to the SYD-MEL route, a similar distance, where you're likely to wind up on an A330 or 767.
What kind of policies are you referring to? I don't quite understand.
people used to look at me like i was crazy because id always wipe my laptop and devices before crossing the border. but its the only way now.
A prerequisite to the cut-your-way-to-profitability plan is income. There's no evidence Medium had much income.
Well, we can't commit half a visible feature, for sure, but my sense is that the parts that are too complicated to review in a single setting often either involve a preparatory refactoring or represent a code base that has excessive duplication.

There are things that just can't be split apart, I admit. I had to do a truly heinous refactoring of some code awhile back to migrate from floats to doubles that couldn't be accomplished via a global find and replace (unsafe casts and other crap). That was the largest commit I've ever landed, and the code wouldn't compile for half the time I worked in that branch. Come to think of it, that refactoring was harder than it had to be because of duplication and badly written code, but it would've been massive no matter what.
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You don't even have to put the dates at all. Copyright notices with dates are stupid, especially when they're in every file and require you to touch every file yearly to update them.
"planning snafus" AKA politically motivated outright lies.
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." -- Bertrand Russell
I dislike Hg, but I'd much rather use Hg than have anything to do with the GitHub "community".