skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, who cares? Fuck both of them

they're both incumbent, bloated, shitty companies that we'd all be better off with if they just didn't exist
Does that include entitlements?
Are these the Neuromorphic chips [1] Jeff Hawkins of Numenta [2] has been talking about?

[1] Neuromorphic Chips https://www.technologyreview.com/s/526506/neuromorphic-chips...

[2] Numenta papers/videos http://numenta.com/papers-videos-and-more/

It would also be good to see a major chip manufacturer or cloud provider that makes its own chips (Google/IBM) get serious about graph processing chips [3,4] and moving beyond floating point [5].

[3] Novel Graph Processor
Architecture https://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol20_no1/20...

[4] Novel Graph Processor Architecture, Prototype
System, and Results https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06541.pdf

[5] Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y
It's made affordable for most people because it's heavily subsidized by the primary's employer or the government. Without a subsidy it can cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand per month.
No reason they can't rename something more appropriate after Calhoun, like a dumpster or sewage plant or something.
No, that's not how it works. The guide itself doesn't need to be bulletproofed against zany accusations that the authors are selling snake oil; there are other ways to accomplish that without crudding the recommendations themselves up with verbiage to placate angry nerds.
All of the subjects you mention at the end of your comment, especially memristors, are indeed the focus of neuromorphic computing. It's a nascent technology field, but there are plenty of papers available on IEEExplore or ACM Digital Library to satisfy curiosity! I'll take a look at the survey paper I wrote a couple summers back-- if it's decent I'll edit this post with a link.

Edit, links:
Paper: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiU3RxSHZSNFh2cEdv...
Slides: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiSE1ET2ZTb09aNFBP...
Europe doesn't have index funds?
That's a tenuous argument. I've yet to meet a developer who thinks a trailing comma is the slightest bit ambiguous when the next character is a closing bracket.
I used GnuCash years ago, then switched to KMyMoney. Now I use a hybrid of KMyMoney and ledger. The former makes it easier to enter transactions. Then I run a script that parses the KMyMoney file and creates a ledger output.

Better?

For me primarily: If you do envelope type budgeting, GnuCash does not support it. ledger/hledger does with virtual transactions (although hledger discourages it).

Other than that, I think there are other benefits. I could never remember the ledger/hledger syntax, but they conveniently let you export to csv, and I use Python scripts with pandas to extract what I want.

If there's any calculation you would like to do, it's easier with these tools. Say, for example, you want to calculate the effective rate of return for all your investments combined. I don't think GnuCash will let you do that across accounts, etc.
I'm not 100% certain of all the details but isn't that exactly what Google tried, and failed, to assert originally? If I remember correctly, the 'fair use' argument only came up after Google lost on the 'can't copyright an interface' argument, and the real travesty here is not that Google are being denied fair use (because, you're right, it's not fair use), but that Oracle's copyright claim over the Java API ever held up at all.
Would it be possible to build an analog neural network with hardware?
Entitlements come directly out of payroll taxes, so it's not a legitimate comparison. You'd want to compare defense spending, as that is the largest spending item that comes from federal income tax receipts.
There is so much truth to this. I interviewed recently with a company I really liked, and had this exact experience. The deciding factor came down to how I approached a specific problem they gave me. The challenge was, I was solving the problem while answering and asking questions, dealing with interruptions, and making sacrifices to code quality due to time constraints.

Super frustrating.
Let's assume Oracle wins on appeal... What's next? Is everyone suddenly writing .Net code? Or are we left to find languages with lapsed copyrights? Fortran IV and Snobol are the new hotness! Everyone in to the pool!
How does OpenJDK stay out of violation if Oracle wins? Doesn't OpenJDK basically copy the API as well?
Oracle should stop that, in my opinion. That attitude could kill Java in the long term.
Going to express this in C terms since that language has a longer history in the space. For little processors like AVR, and bigger but specialized ones (e.g. DSPs), standard ANSI C is neither necessary nor sufficient. For instance, nobody is ever going to do IEEE754 floating point arithmetic on an AVR, or on a DSP56000. But these processors have other properties that a programmer is likely to want to use that are not expressible in standard C (sometimes, not even with intrinsics); for the most common cases, C has the TR18037 extensions¹.

In the AVR case, on the biggest chips a RAM address takes 2 bytes while a flash address is 3 bytes, and on the smallest a RAM address is 1 byte while a flash address is 2, and of course the values overlap (flash-address-0xFE points to different memory than RAM-address-0xFE), and the indirection code is different. So how big is a plain 'char *', and how do you dereference it? On a small AVR you don't want to be wasting precious memory storing and copying 2 bytes when 1 will do, and you sure don't want a run-time test on every dereference —​ if you had the cost/time/battery for that you wouldn't have picked² a small AVR in the first place. So you need to be able to tell the compiler what kind of memory a pointer points to.

The big free toolchains (gcc/llvm) don't pay much attention to non-mainstream processors, which is why a handful of commercial compilers still exist.

I suppose (not being a Rust expert) that a Rust compiler could figure out that a non-mut 'static can go in flash, and track address spaces, and auto-genericize functions that take a reference… but I'll bet it doesn't, yet.

¹ http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1169.pdf

² no pun intended originally, but I'm leaving it and gratuitously calling attention to it.
Why wouldn't it be fair use? What exactly is your understanding of what the criteria are?
Here's another one that was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619406
We're closer to having one, since the smart people like to convince themselves not to support the second one through sophistry.
Colorado is a great place to live, and this is one of the reasons why we (Gusto) decided to start an office in downtown Denver. It's significantly more affordable, people are extremely friendly and open-minded, and there's an appreciation of the great out doors.
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On my dad's birthday, my aunt got one of those "reply 1 to post happy birthday" texts. She replied 1. And it posted 1 onto my dad's timeline, not happy birthday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/2qbg9j/reply_1_to...
As Tycho Brahe[0] once said: 'because I don’t have time to babysit the Internet'.

Maybe because the moment he would try to actually go and even, say, enforce the verifiability policies that already exist, an angry crowd of self-important ignoramuses would stop him in his tracks shouting 'Stop right there, you filthy deletionist! The article is notable!' and drag him to the dramaboards to have him blocked. And I should know, I have had the same thing happen to me on Commons.

> A Nature study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm) found it to be comparable in accuracy to Brittanica.

Are you seriously referring to that one over-ten-year-old study which used a non-representative sample of articles?

[0] As in, the writer of Penny Arcade, of course.
Copyright would apply to the documentation itself, or the published header files themselves, as works; it wouldn't apply to the API itself.

Mind you, Oracle was suing Google for using the header files themselves; since Google could have easily just typed up their own versions that did the same thing, it's almost more of a "plagiarism" case than a "copyright infringement" case: they shipped something that was exactly from Oracle, rather than just paraphrasing it. Oracle was probably in the right to sue over that.

But re: APIs—there's much more well-resolved case-law for this, coming from the gaming vertical: games have copyright, but game designs (including things like their network protocols) do not. It has both pros (Microsoft can't use the Minecraft IP to sue Terraria or Factorio; people can advance AI by writing bots that play Starcraft) and cons (the iOS and Android stores being saturated with mechanical clones of each successful game) but it's very certainly "the way things are."
> Trying to edit wikipedia is a hellish experience. The vast majority of articles have one or more de facto owners

I'm so tired of this meme. No one owns an article. [0] You say "de facto", but just because someone disagrees with you on something, it doesn't mean they disagree with every edit or do it only for that article. The vast majority of articles barely have anyone watching them.

> who will do everything they can to preserve control over their turf.

The fact that you describe it as "turf" only further proves that you have this mentality of the article being a battleground.

> They tend to be experts in rules laywering which is how they got their power in the first place.

What power? Even admins on Wikipedia can't overrule consensus and discussion. What's this about rule lawyering too? They just understand the community norms better. I don't walk into a fancy restaurant and complain about "rules lawyering" after I get kicked out for breaking the dress code. Once someone tells you about a rule, you should read up on it, not boisterously claim that you should be above the community rules.

> Just the rules covering acceptable usernames are almost 4000 words long

Seems simple enough to me:

> This page in a nutshell: When choosing an account name, do not choose names which may be offensive, misleading, disruptive, or promotional. In general, one username should represent one person.

Those 4000 words should only matter if you don't find the above to be sufficient explanation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content
Oracle does:

"Oracle's clout will come in part from the presence of its CEO, Safra Catz, who did not join the pro-Hillary Clinton chorus of other Silicon Valley honchos, and who is now working on Trump's transition team. " (http://fortune.com/2017/01/17/oracle-trump/)
The "horrendously massive number of these types of workers" is the result of a violent imposition of a Capitalist ideology that masquerades as some inevitable, invisible, and inviolable logic. Robots and AI deployed by an oligarch class are just the newest incarnation of a truncheon waved in the face of the engineers who enable them. Better the poor be beaten with it than you.

I say we change the trajectory of the future instead of embracing a nightmare of our own invention as an inevitability.
> She was on the team that developed the first computer language, “compiler,” in 1952

Yup, journalists at it again.
Can't be a terrorist with skin like that.
Since you would self-host your own Beehive instance, there's luckily a way around that: create your own Facebook app for development (you will never publish it) and use its tokens to connect your Beehive with it.

That being said, there's no Facebook Hive yet (any takers?), but that's exactly how it works with the Twitter Hive.
> If you zoom out a little, to, say, the 1910s to 2010s, it's hard to make the argument that people are worse off on average.

Only want to point out this is a horrendous fallacy. Technology has increased wealth to exponential levels. Yes, I do expect things to be at least a bit better but there are measures of well being that cannot be expressed in the size of one's flat screen TV. Job security, access to healthcare, education, basic services and living in an inclusive and just society.

By these metrics are we doing so much better? And let's not justify the unfortunate conditions of the present by the worse conditions of the past.
Negative income tax extended to 55,000 more Israelis
One wonders how much the taint of Java factored into the decision to invent Go.
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A great choice! Grace Murray Hopper is an amazing inspiration not only for women but computer scientists in general.
Big data may be reinforcing racial bias in the criminal justice system
So released individually / batches over the course of multiple burns at the upper stage. An animation would be cool.
"a newer CSS proposal"

This is of 2002: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-box-20021024/#L706

15 years ago, Carl!
The term "internet troll" could be used as defusing terminology by the defense to imply that the comments were solely made to elicit response, rather than threaten or harm. The Guardian would then use the term in the title to show how even a self-described internet troll isn't safe from repercussions, regardless of stated intention.
There is a long history of the API around chips not being copywritable. EX: The IBM clones needed 1 chip that at the time was not off the shelf. So, people figured out what it did then implemented that.

Method signatures would appear to represent the same situation because the chip needs to respond correctly not just respond to those inputs.
Maybe it's only my anecdotal experience, but I've seen a lot more merchants lately flat out stop accepting expensive payment methods like Amex, and these were all merchants that I had previously been able to use Amex at before.
> Is Oracle the biggest troll in Silicon Valley right now? Can't think of anyone else that would claim the title. Maybe Theranos.

I'm not aware of Theranos being a troll. Fraudster for sure, but troll has a different meaning.
This tutorial includes configuring it as a "redirect-gateway" which will include all DNS traffic.
I have a few questions:

- how long will my data be stored for?

- how big can a single key be?

- how many requests can I make per hour/day?
You mean "glad you no longer have to make excuses for your inability to lead the project into the future."
The recent changes in direction and actual tackling the hard problems has not gone unnoticed by me / others in the community. Kudos to the current team.
This is actually not true. Their cloud offering is doing really well. There's some impressive figures here:

http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/09/15/2016/oracles-c...
There's a meta-lesson about the structure of the software industry, though:

Different market niches in software have wildly different sizes & profitabilities. It's worth doing everything you can to get into a market that is both huge and wildly profitable, and once you're there, you should do everything you can to defend that niche from new entrants.

Pretty much everything in Google's strategy - the constant rewriting, the expansion into adjacent markets like web browsers and mobile phones and ISPs, the highly-paid employees, the 20% time - follows from this. Also, most of the counter-intuitive advice in the startup world - the obsessive focus on growth, the companies that shut down because they aren't growing fast enough, the existence of venture capital and willingness to accept significant losses of control in exchange for capital infusions, the use of disposable coding practices and technical debt - also follows from this principle. A lot of things about the software industry that seem stupid, irrational, or short-sighted become perfectly rational when you understand the market structure of technology.
"A few experimental attempts have been made to elicit parapsychological phenomena through the controlled administration of LSD-type substances... None of them produced statistically significant results" http://stanleykrippner.weebly.com/lsd-and-parapsychological-...
Languages without a corporate owner.
But, and I think this is really the main point, Google didn't just use the API signatures they used the API documentation to preserve the semantic meaning of those signatures which are necessary to make the API actually useful.

I think Google could argue very successfully that literally just the API signatures should fall under fair use but that's not really what this is about.
As a buyer, I would rather send in a check or not make the purchase before using Pay Pal.
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This article on Steve Bannon was eye-opening: "What Steve Bannon really wants"
https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants/
Seems like the sort of thing FPGAs could be good for. I have a few synthesizers that use them; elaborate feedback loops are a staple of sound design.
The Guardian report misses out a lot of information, which is available in the linked to sentencing remarks.

Here's one example:

Guardian: "Throughout, Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, was on bail awaiting sentence for making claims on Twitter that several people were paedophiles."

In fact, it's much worse:

"You are currently serving a sentence of 40 months imprisonment, imposed on 17th December 2015 for stirring up racial hatred against the Jewish community in Golders Green. "

and

[On] "28th October, you appeared in court at Yeovil, your home town, and pleaded guilty to six offences of sending malicious communications and an offence of harassment, all arising from false and hateful allegations against innocent members of the public that they were paedophiles. Sentence was adjourned, and your bail was renewed. "

The Guardian says she got 2500 tweets. The sentencing remarks say that at its worst she got 2500 tweets in just 3 days, meaning she got more than 2500 tweets.
Emacs as an Operating System
> shocked if more than 0.1%

MIT has ~1000 non-emeritus professors. So order 0.1% would permit 3 cases. But that's including biology, and non-science/non-engineering, which I didn't include. So it's at least low order 1%. And I'd be unsurprised if it's at least several percent. And not shocked by ten.

Consider an old professor. They may well have not had a biology class in high-school or college, let alone graduate school. And never touched biology professionally. And either not have had kids, or was not deeply involved in their science education. So we're down to "ambient general knowledge". What percent of the general population of PhD's with only ambient exposure, have any idea what DNA is? And many professors are among the busiest people I know. Imagine asking a serial startup CEO, what do you mean you don't know who entertainer-X is, aren't you watching TV and following popular culture? Well, no. So no need for shocked?

Very rarely, a professor giving a talk, will put the audience on the spot. A room of EE/CS professors may not recognize astronomical tidal forces. Half a room of MechE profs may think red blood cells are thinly scattered in blood.

Sure, common curiosity trims the numbers. But it's not universal. A now-retired physics professor might respond to a suggestion that they use biological examples in their intro physics problems, with "WHAT! You want me to teach... biology?!?!?!".

At the other extreme, there are a few impressive polymaths. But even there, out of field, competence is uneven and has holes. Impressive, impressive, WTF basic misconception, impressive... Similar to comments that when Hans Rosling started doing immigration, he tripped on some basic misconceptions.

Out of field, one isn't "embedded in a critical community". Part of how science works, is people being very afraid of being embarrassed by getting it wrong in front of their peers, and so putting in the effort and questioning to avoid that. Out of field, no one cares. One still has some habits of thought, but the edge isn't there.

And baseline unmotivated competence is not high. There's an old video[1] made out of Harvard, which includes graduating MIT and Harvard students, given a battery, one long wire, and a small lightbulb, and asked to make light. And failing, and failing, and...

[1] https://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html

Re "PS: I loved the second link!", thanks! :)
I completely agree with your ranking/preference and your logic here, but I don't think listing a bunch of models nor even listing your ranking is beyond the comprehension or ability of journalists, lawyers, or activists. I think we differ in how much faith we have in the abilities of those groups of people.

In my experience, people, especially people with budgets like most mainstream journalists and lawyers, want a list of specific things, best of all SKUs, they can buy that will give them the most security.
Regarding the spam user deletions, I am not involved but my interpretation of what GitLab wrote ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27581 https://gitlab.com/MrChrisW/gitlab-anti-spam-toolkit/issues/... ) is that, currently, there is no auto-delete running, and a human must approve each deletion.
In the end, it all seems so mundane. Secretive to be sure, but a talented life accomplishing nothing.
Well, maybe an improvement on East Germany in the 80s but that's it.
Smith has hinted in the past that Kevin Mewes's ongoing battle with addiction has been a serious barrier to making more of those movies. IIRC, Kevin Smith mentioned that Clerks 2 would only happen if Mewes could stay clean for an extended period of time.

I enjoyed most of Smith's work (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma or Chasin Amy), so I hope another one comes out eventually, the guy has a knack for non-pretentious, easy-watching yet somehow socially provocative without being preachy flicks.
Well, it's already been around since May 2015, and it's been posted on HN a few times before.

Hopefully moxie will come speak for himself (he's pretty good about that, in my experience), but I think he's mostly interested in preventing naive users from accidentally stumbling onto a client that is insecure because it doesn't auto-update.

Here's his logic for why Signal shouldn't be in F-Droid:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281

I disagree with him about a few things in this space, but if you know anything about him, it's clear that he's more interested in security and privacy for the masses than selling data to make a quick buck.
Oh what a very well thought a and nicely implemented feature... Not

Typical of fb "new features". Annoying and half broken
Write a blog post but use few paragraphs ;) the story is interesting but difficult to read.
Does make sense. Any advice on best way to access the Tor network, if not the Tor Browser?
Is anyone from the TCPA bar here? How long does it typically take for a TCPA class action law suit to proceed?

The timing on this seems unfortunate (for professional TCPA claimants):

We have a president who might not like this law so much[1]. He also wants to reduce regulation (see his executive order). Ajit Pai has first amendment rights as one of his core issues[2]. I could, howe er, be incorrectly conflating Pai's conception of the first amendment and Facebook's.

Ready for a repeal of the TCPA? We could be headed that way.

[1]: Thorne v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

[2]: https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/ajit-pai
Congratulations, you've reinvented ZFS Boot Environments :)
Not much actually, the developers of Go mainly wanted shorter compile times than C++ offered.
Sadly, the choice wasn't quite mine to make, so I had to follow the regular Ubuntu releases. What can I say, I looked at non-LTS releases and looked and looked but didn't see the beta marking and I thought they were actually production-ready...

I used to run Debian stable at home a while ago and did like the stability, but the security update situation is not exactly something I'm happy with.