skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but just to play devil's advocate, don't forget that Apple spent a lot of time and effort on toll-free bridging between Objective-C and Java back in the day.

Java was close to a first-class citizen on OS X and could even have eventually supplanted Obj-C (despite lacking some key features). Then Apple decided they didn't like Java any more, and running Java on OS X has been increasingly painful ever since.

I don't mean Swift would be ditched, if an analogous situation arose; rather, Apple could very easily decide to axe Obj-C if they don't feel like supporting it any more. They don't care at all about sunk costs (correctly, in most cases).
Apparently the following (humble and honest) statement made by Doudna to a UC system magazine[1] hurt their case[2]:

>Says Doudna, "Our 2012 paper was a big success, but there was a problem. We weren't sure if CRISPR/Cas9 would work in eukaryotes-plant and animal cells." Unlike bacteria, plant and animal cells have a cell nucleus, and inside, DNA is stored in a tightly wound form, bound in a structure called chromatin.

[1] https://berkeley.app.box.com/v/catalyst-9-1
[2] https://twitter.com/antonioregalado/status/83200343447163289...
Hyperbole is occasionally used in the English language.
Fandalism was bootstrapped too (and didn't much affect DistroKid's growth; at least not as much as I would have hoped).
No, never heard of it. Thanks!
A typical cup of coffee has ~100 to 200 mg of caffeine. Here is what happens when people are dosed with 30,000 mg in one go[1]

It’s not clear just when someone realized that things might have gone a tiny bit wrong, but the story does mention “violent side effects”, which you’d have to think were neurological seizures, and those must have kicked in pretty shortly. The students were hospitalized immediately and put on dialysis, and appear to have recovered with no permanent damage, which is pretty remarkable (one of them has some short-term memory loss). Each of them apparently lost over 20 pounds during the whole thing, which makes me hope that this doesn’t catch on as some sort of idiotic emergency weight loss plan. Being hospitalized near death will take off the pounds, but it’s not recommended. There’s a literature report of a fatality with a 12 gram dose, so I think we can conclude that (1) taking multigram amounts of caffeine is extremely dangerous, and (2) these two students were fortunate to have survived, and without immediate medical care they might well not have.

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/27/how...
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Indeed.

Rock on inopinatus
Congrats Pud.
You probably want to take CalTrain to Mountain View rather drive up and down 101. It's awful at the best of times and right now it is covered in potholes so there is a non-zero chance that you'll end up hitting one and blowing a tire.

45-50 minutes if you get on an express. 1hr and 10 for the local trains. It'll take 47 minutes to drive if there is no traffic and anywhere from 1hr 20 to 2hr in rush hour.
Yep, it was on integrating GTA V into Universe[0].

Interestingly, that post links to a specific blog post on GTA V integration[1], but going to that link redirects to the initial "Introducing OpenAI" post[2]. I can't find the GTA V blog post[3] on their blog anymore.

Edit:

In addition, the GitHub repository[4] for spinning up a GTA V server instance from the post[3] no longer exists.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375543

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/

[2]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

[3]: http://web.archive.org/web/20170112173923/https://openai.com...

[4]: https://github.com/openai/universe-windows-envs/blob/master/...
NYC Event: CoFounder of $400m Tech Fund now investing in cannabis
Would have been so much better if it was titled "YC startups"
Nation states have gravitated to cyber because it carries less risk than espionage in the field, and because of the difficulty of attribution. Despite a mountain of evidence, Russia denies the DNC hack. The US pretends Stuxnet didn't happen. And N. Korea obviously is not owning up to Sony.

This puts tech companies in a bind. They want to innovate on society changing ideas like autonomous vehicles, but with nation to nation cyber attacks, they are potentially putting civilian lives at risk by doing so.

Will nation states play nice? No one expected direct attacks on private companies -- then Sony happened. No one expected attacks on a US election. And no one expected an attack on the grid without declaration of war -- but then Ukraine. Without defined international norms, anything is on the table -- even in peacetime.
Yeah, idiot GitHub programmers.
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And there was also a Mario Kart 64 one before that.
http://kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart
If they deem it an "act of God" (whatever that means), it could be excluded.
I'd love to hear more about your experiences with this! My daughter does not appear to be autistic, but I have long suspected she has hyperacute hearing.

Did this work for you or someone you know? Their intro video only states that it "strengthens and balances your hearing system", which is too fuzzy for me to reason about. Thanks!
Does anyone that has taken the Udacity self driving course have comments on the 2nd and 3rd modules?

There isn't as much information available on those.
Living in south east Asia I see more than 40% of US American expatriates who are living here not having even a single native/local friend...
I mean, sure, I want them to be able to work anywhere, but as American citizens we are enriched when they work in our schools, our private companies, in our government and especially in our military. I also don't believe that they are any less deserving than Americans at those jobs, or that Americans have any birthright to them.

Why don't Americans, discouraged by the economic prospects of our careers here go to foreign nations and support a family? Foreigners are willing to uproot themselves to start in the United States. And we are all better for it.
Just world fallacy much? Did you read the decision?
Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath talks about that example (among others). It's a pretty interesting read.
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Another way to look at this is American students don't engage with 40% foreign students on campus. It takes two to tango.
> ^ This is always amusing to me, because people who get really successful do it by compounding earlier wins over decades.

The weird thing is how someone who does this is lauded for it, but if it's a family rather than an individual that compounds earlier wins, suddenly it's 'wealth inequality' and terribly unfair.
I'm not a VC, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but while the numbers look a bit high to me, they are probably in the ball park for SF VCs. I use to work with startups in the Ottawa Canada area about 15 years ago. Even at that time, they might give you $1-10 million in seed money, with %20 ownership, expecting a 20:1 exit. So they'll want $20-200 million back, which means your valuation has to be in the $100 million to $1 billion range. If you're not showing how to have $10's of millions in sales in the next 5 years, they have absolutely no interest in you. (Well, in those days, the main exit was a buyout from the big guys, so having an "industry disrupting" demo was the other thing to do and was much cheaper to build).

These days, if you are looking to build a "niche" business with $10 million a year in sales, I think you'll have absolutely no competition from VCs. If you're looking at $100 million a year in sales, I think you'll butt up against the "failed" VC funded companies. And larger than that, I suspect you'll be getting quite a lot of competition.

There are definitely angels who will fund smaller projects, but I think you still have to show an open ended potential. For example, I worked with one startup that had only $100K seed money and was looking for a quick $3-5 million exit. I've never actually seen any of these be successful, because $100K represents only a year of development costs, so companies usually reimplement good ideas in house.

Again, I'm not an expert in this area, but I have always thought that bootstrapping a sustainable business has been hugely undervalued for the last 20 years or so. Everybody is so focused on putting hundreds of millions in their pockets that they turn their noses up at mere millions. Lots of opportunity in this space.
No Dumb Questions - https://www.nodumbquestions.fm

It's new, but I'm interested in seeing how it develops.
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Not many. I too enjoy meeting people from different cultures but...it's difficult, for me at least. I mean I find it hard to make friends period, regardless of culture.
Era of Boomerang
Agreed - warm recommendations from people reaching out to their professional networks have by far the highest conversion for us.
Honestly, I still prefer http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Try https://bestmotherfucking.website/ too. (I actually submitted both, but apparently someone thought it was a duplicate and flagged it.)
I'm sorry you're reading so much hostility and negativity into my replies. It's very much not intended.
Will battery-powered planes democratize aerobatics? Sure looks like it
I don't know, I just consider a rather nasty move to hand your employees piles of options with no intention of ever going public and making them worth something.
> - once a pod has been scheduled onto a node, it never reschedules it anywhere else. The node may be experiencing problems, thus the pod is affected. k8s doesn't do anything to heal that -- it could simply delete the pod so it is rescheduled somewhere else.

Can you please elaborate this? When you are using replication controllers or deployments, don’t they drive the state to the desired/goal state, which is N replicas of a pod? So when the node is shut down, I guess it should be rescheduling those dead pods somewhere else to satisfy the goal state?
> Youtube recommendations occasionally put me onto a new content creator/creation group

I have begun to appreciate YouTube suggestions. They aren't so bad.
I know this sounds lame, but after reading that, I felt that I can magically access my mobile apps via PC :-D
What is the argument here ? $66.2M 'actual' net profit is still net profit. Indeed there were losses in previous quarters, but it seems that they managed to turn it around. Yahoo is by no means a healthy, growing company at this point but I fail to see how they "need" Verizon.
Isn't the goal of software development to reduce complexity, both in real life and the software itself? I would argue is if your work is on Heroku and you know what your doing, why chase after intermingled microservice hell?
Looking back, the most unrealistic thing about Digital Fortress was that people actually used email encryption.
Bad Thinkers: The Intellectual Character of Conspiracy Theorists (2015)
Pharo Smalltalk, in particular, when it comes to VCS, it's very similar to git actually. It uses source code files, it distributes them via zip files, it works locally instead of centralized, it supports merges, etc.

Pharo works well also with usual VCS because it can export code into source code files.

The image plays no role in VCS whatsoever because VCS is about code, not data, and image is mostly about live data and less about live code.

So any tool will and does work with Pharo outside the image. Problem arises with a majority of people that prefer to stay in the image; in that case you gain more control because you have more Pharo code to play with, but you lose a lot of power because we are a small community not able to compete with behemoth projects like git.

Another interesting thing which Pharo does emphasize is remote debugging: though not a Pharo monopoly by a long shot, we do have several libraries that can achieve this, and because the image format retains live state and live code execution, it's easy to resolve issues.

Besides the image format, the Fuel format has the advantage of storing only a fraction of the image. You can email this or share it via git or Dropbox. Like an image, a Fuel file is a binary file and, like the image, it can store live state and live code execution. This way, you can isolate live bugs and share them with your team, each one in its own Fuel file.

STON is also another alternative format which feels familiar for those that have worked with JSON.

So you see, you get the best of both worlds. You have the fantastic Smalltalk image, and you have ways to deal with the file-based world.
That gets my vote for having better text contrast, but IMHO I prefer the serif font.
If both sides are aware, sure. I suspect that they would begin hiding this information though as it would prevent a lot of potential hires from people already in stable jobs.
Yes, sort of. They are used like they are in finance.

They can make lots of cheap, low precision decisions, but at the end of the day, humans make important decisions about other humans.
Wow. That is a BIG screw up if they're having to push an entire month's security updates across the board.

If anyone from Microsoft reads this: This is why cumulative updates suck, and you shouldn't force them on everyone. :)
Stopped me from signing up. It's a bit deceptive to say "Fly Now" only to, well, not be able to. I also refuse to log in with Facebook or Google.

Looks cool though...
Its because 65K is for workers without degrees from US colleges & another 25K is for people with degrees from US to get the OPT.
The 65K gets 85% applicants from IT companies based out of India, those jobs don't pay well but companies willing to pay decent salaries get thrown out of it coz of sheer probabilities. There was a post some time back recommending a application fee based on the number of applications from a single entity.
Unbelievable, a guy posts a link to some course and gets 458 HN upvotes (as of this writing).
Seems to me like the Server APIs group (https://swift.org/server-apis/) is pretty much about running Swift on non-iOS/macOS platforms.
The specs given by the wire you linked is much more impressed than I would have guessed. Particularly the ability to maintain performance at tight radius. Glad to see things are progressing!
W.E.B. DuBois' Hand Drawn Infographics of Black Life (1900)
Python Bytes Podcast #13: CPython moves to GitHub, Dropbox Dropping Pyston
Are you using Mesos in production? Or DC/OS?
Why am I constantly lambasted by commenters on Reddit about the superiority of the Canadian healthcare system... while in threads like these I you see Canadians upset about massive wait times?

How does that work?
Anything public-facing that you can share with us, so I can follow along over time? I find such work both fascinating & important.
On the contrary, I'm explaining how the words you wrote are perceived.

You mark yourself as out of touch as soon as you said the feedback of the world would be mismatched and out of date. The translation is "we have solutions, but you lack the education and foresight to understand them, so we don't need your input." This is colonialism revived as techno-utopianism. Of course you'll say you didn't mean it that way, but that isn't the point.

The rest of the world sees that technology has unintended side effects and that the benefits tend to be swallowed whole by Moloch, and they suspect your "long view" is just another delusion.

> If the supercomputer could be used to feed a million people today, we would be doing it.

Unless it could generate better ROI by optimizing some Facebook ads or some trading algorithms, and then we would probably be doing that.
Most foreign students are in the US for a two years masters program, which is not that long a time to assimilate to any culture. I am from a relatively similar western culture, I arrived here thinking to myself in English 50% of the time (not my native language, but my main "Internet language"). I still spent my whole first year with my closest group of friends consisting chiefly of Germans, Greeks (from actual Greece, not a frat house), Indians and Chinese. It wasn't that it was easier to breach that cultural gap, but more that other international students were aware that there was a gap to be breached. Americans seemed always more likely to only understand overtures of friendship in their very specific cultural context, and even with extensive American media exposure it takes a few comical mishaps to become fully conversant in that cultural code, independent of language. English fluency was the lesser of the issues for me, but admittedly having a strong accent can make it even harder to be understood at a loud party even if it is perfectly fine for asking questions in class. I don't blame the natives at all for it, but do keep in mind that it is the foreign students who often do 9 parts in 10 of the effort. Wonder what is the statistic - even for colleges that are 50/50 overall - of "American student with no foreign student close friends".

For the curious: I did end up having a much closer group of friends including roughly 50% American students later, though, after bonding over one of the most American experiences possible, a Spring break trip.
I find it hard to believe that 8+ years of APIs and OS level code would be abandoned just like that, especially given the scale of Android.

If this ever happens, it would probably be an extremely slow, well thought out (hopefully), well documented (also hopefully) rollout.
Fetuses are relatively easier than infants because they are effectively strapped into the womb and don't even know they're getting an MRI. They can obviously wiggle around some, but don't move as much.

Infants are harder:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/499273_11

My daughter had to have a second, sedated MRI because she moved too much during her first one.
I got a question about severance and new job. Some companies (like mine) will ask you to report new job and they will cut severance (monthly salary). If so, how do you deal with that? Many of my previous co-workers told me they just lied and the company never checked (all verbal or writing).
interesting.

I don't really have a horse in this race, but I am new to working in the Biology field. I will say that biology seems to depend on the work of many people and is kind of incremental. Its weird that some are getting rich and lots of credit, while a lot of the researchers work in obscurity. That was my take away from the Cell article.

Your first article was a good critique of the Cell article.

The second one was a little hard to take seriously first[1] (plus written by someone from the other side of the dispute), though he does come around to my original point in my original post: "And, as I have long argued, I believe that neither Berkeley nor MIT should have patents on CRISPR, since it is a disservice to science and the public for academic scientists to ever claim intellectual property in their work."

[1]"Lander’s recent essay in Cell entitled “The Heroes of CRISPR” is his masterwork, at once so evil and yet so brilliant that I find it hard not to stand in awe even as I picture him cackling loudly in his Kendall Square lair, giant laser weapon behind him poised to destroy Berkeley if we don’t hand over our patents."
That wasn't technical incompetence, per se, but an unsustainable financial bubble.
Yeah, I'm not sure what coffee they've been drinking, but I've never found e.g. chicory to be anything even slightly like good coffee.
We've been using Docker as well and I can attest to the shear number of bugs and constant regressions. I don't think a release has gone by without a bug that prevents us from updating. From slow pulls, to slow extractions, to issues with SELinux, to namespace incompatibilities, to the daemon just hanging repeatedly. It's frustrating because the technologies around Docker (Mesos, Kubernetes, Marathon, etc) seem to be getting better and more stable while Docker just continues to have issues.
Has anyone downloaded them into their own separate folders and zipped the whole thing up?
Modernizing Make
I'm trying to figure out if that is a flaw, or an inherent feature, of our educational system (assuming you went to high school in the US).
After digging around some, several sources indicate this is pseudoscience.

Here's one such link: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

I'm still interested in hearing your experiences, but I'm more skeptical.
I thought google would do something like this. They didn't want to fully embrace linux so they locked all the freedom of linux away behind restrictrions in android until they had a replacement and now they are going to try to drop gnu+linux anything GPL they can...

The new kernel is MIT/BSD... Welcome to Tivoization all over again.

I get the need for a better kernel, the gnu+linux kernel is out of control at over 14mil+loc, but why not put that effort into making a minix3 style microkernel that's gpl, or fix hurd?

I wish people understood the dangers of BSD style licenses, I hope this fails, the last thing we need is another proprietary OS on a device they built on the backs of the FOSS community but doesn't give back in a meaningful way.

We don't need another OSX, or android apps on your PC, we need someone with the money and will to fix the future of GNU!
This is the reason I rent old videos of "Anpan man" (a Japanese cartoon for 2-4 year olds), etc. I learn karaoke from the 80's and 90's (and even enka!). But even still, after nearly a decade in Japan, most of my social connections are actually my wife's friends and family.

It is quite interesting, though. My biggest goal in learning Japanese was to make a friend who could not speak English. That's what led me down my path. I think without that focus, it would have been quite difficult. Also a bit strange that my first real Japanese friend was actually the person who became my wife. For the first 3 years, we spoke only Japanese, but now her English is so good that we hardly ever speak Japanese :-P
That's what I'm saying :) An (extremely) gradual phase-out of the Android API.
DistBelief was a CPU-only special purpose neural network system that would have been difficult to modify to support arbitrary neural architectures like theano. TensorFlow is not based on DistBelief in any meaningful way other than that they were written by mostly the same people.
Can you add a v4 option for plaintext?
I think it's bootstrappable, but I haven't tried:

rustboot, the OCaml Rust implementation, was removed in 6997adf7 on 13 May 2011. It looks like it was fairly actively maintained until then.

A file named src/snapshots.txt showed up in the repository in cb53065a on 2 May 2011, and remained there until 02538d46 on 13 April 2016. During that time, rustc was buildable from specific snapshots of previous versions of rustc, which were listed by both source commit and hashes of binary compilers.

From 13 April 2016 onwards, stable rustc compiles on previous stable Rust, and specific versions are listed in src/stage0.txt in a similar fashion.

So, you can probably take the last version of rustboot (it didn't change between 2 and 13 May 2011), compile that with some version of OCaml, then go from 2011 to 2016 by repeatedly building the newest snapshot possible with your current snapshot, then build stable Rust 1.10 onwards, thereby reducing it to the previously solved problem of verifying that Ken Thompson has not compromised your OCaml compiler.
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Putin happens to be someone who is good at scheming. This is because he is largely unfettered by politics, and he sticks to fairly simple goals like "destabilize the enemy".
Launch of social opinion platform – Whats next?
I developed an opinion based social network, www.whuut.com where you can discuss links or write your own posts. The discussion system is divided into positive, neutral and negative. And you can do everything anonymously. Something I lacked on Facebook. Its not perfect (better done than perfect) , but perhaps what the next steps would be to gain traction. Thx