skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting, but getting a feel for the implications is pretty difficult without spending a lot of time.

A discussion of the implications in terms of speed, robustness, maintainability and future hardware would be really useful.

E.g. if some team did the crazy undertaking of re-writing all the software (kernel included) in a base ubuntu install using APL on the GPU what would the positives vs negatives be? Is this even possible/desirable or does it require research breakthroughs? Is this more suited for DSP functions, or even extendable to probabilistic programming?

What is the best hardware match? Does this offer advantages to push synthesise programs to FPGA's, or some of other hardware (can't remember the name, many small dumb cores with limited memory; maybe a bit like the Cell processor).
Social sciences cannot very well prove things by experiment, but one statistics you can look at is the price difference of apartment sales depending on whether it is vacant, or occupied by a tenant.

In a normal housing market there is not much difference. A bad tenant is a risk but a good tenant coming with the apartment is an asset.

In Paris, the price difference is significant, with sales prices around 10 % lower for an apartment which has a tenant, depending on area and type of apartment. This shows that tenants are seen primarily as a risk and the housing market is off balance.

This also means that an apartment owner does not wish to take the risk of leasing out in the short term, and the regulation actually increases rental housing shortage.
I have been trained by these guys, and the course is awesome, I feel now very confident making Apps with React - Redux and so on. Have a look, maybe they do a training in your country soon (https://reactjs.academy/)
I understand your point about having to give an honest shot at Windows - I bought a Win10 license some months ago. It's fine.

Until I wanted Emacs.

Until I wanted to uninstall software.

Until I wanted to setup a VM in VirtualBox (set up a Win2k12 Server VM tonight, and it simply failed to boot 3 consecutive times, then booted up in a "repair" mode, and then failed to boot again, just to boot up again after the 5-6th try. Wonderful).

Until I wanted a damned clock that keeps time (always have to manually stop/start automatic time in the options).

I really want to like Windows but I can't. It feels like it's going out of its way to annoy me. Booting up a fresh Debian install feels so much better... I just feel like I have to understand how things work much more. Linux is a sharp tool, and Windows feels like a clunky bicycle.
Well, it crashed on me. Not even a blue screen of death, just spontaneous reboot.
I wonder how irritated I would be if I were Bostrom and I kept seeing this

This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

[1] being attributed to Musk. Then again, since Bostrom himself is in the business of recycling old SciFi ideas and presenting them as his own, I suppose there is some poetic justice to the whole sorry spectacle.

[1] http://www.simulation-argument.com/
> Jobs was hardheaded, but reasonable. Cook is trying to emulate the hardheadedness but fails to recognize the reasonability needed to balance that.

I think we can be sure that under Jobs, they would not be in a situation where you cannot charge the current iPhone model with the current MacBook without a dongle. "Oh, it's not a dongle, it's just a cable." -> Get out of my face.
The part that made me certain this is more a marketing effort than a technical effort is when they described it as a followup to "Watson" and "blockchain".

"Watson" is currently a brand name for a bunch of miscellaneous NLP consulting, capitalizing on a fact that they made a very specific NLP system for answering Jeopardy questions that won on Jeopardy. The fact that the name is famous, but businesses are not actually looking to answer trivia questions, has required some marketing contortions.

"Blockchain" is, for one thing, a bunch of neat mathematics. It's also an enterprise fad that involves ignoring the neat mathematics. The logic for the fad is something like this: Bitcoin made a ton of money by decentralizing money, evading currency controls, wasting power, and selling drugs. We want to make a ton of money too! We'd rather not decentralize anything, piss off governments, increase our electric bill, or sell drugs, but maybe there's something else in there that makes money. Whatever that is, let's call it "blockchain".

I don't see a coherent category that includes Watson, blockchain, and quantum, as the author of this press release believes exists. But if I had to extrapolate:

IBM will provide an API for running a vaguely-related set of algorithms. The entire API will actually run on classical computers, but some of it will involve quantum simulators. They will leverage the confusion about where the quantum part is to sell consulting to companies where a manager has put the cart before the horse and decided they need some quantum right now.
Well in my experience you cannot really get to the same speed of the morning, you have been working for some hours, your brain is tired its only natural to not be as productive in the afternoon.

As another person pointed out what you eat and how long you slept play a key role in making you feel tired.

Every person is different but what works for me it's diving into my little word, basically try to achieve a level of concentration where whatever you are doing feels magical, I put my headphones in and every little code I write I try to appreciate and feel like I am doing some progress, this has the side effect of making me happy and to enjoy what I am doing.
Indeed; PhD _anything_ is a signal that you _might_ be the kind of person who can escape groupthink. Or being a successful entrepreneur, lawyer, hermit, anything really. That line stood out for me too.

As a 'trained' historian we were always looking down on the economists for their 'groupthink' tendencies. And on most fellow historians, and pretty much everyone in history.

It's a cheap shot, but armies of trained economists failed to spot (or do anything useful about) the credit bubble, the consequences of which we are still failing to deal with.
Yeah, would surely be interesting.
Yep, I'm aware of the recommendation to use your age as a rough percentage to how much you need to have invested in more secure vehicles. Solid advice I guess.

I still haven't looked at the numbers to see if it's worth it. In Australia, we're expecting a market correction to happen initiated by the real estate bubble finally busting. Which means that bonds would gain while the market loses. Of course people have been expecting that for many years now and statistically speaking it will have to happen at some time... Knowing this, I am still not sure whether to just invest and deal with the consequences if and when they happen or keep my money in my sock drawer.
Doesn't scale
for another example of this, try searching for "speed of USB 3.0"
There are other countries?!
This January, I launched Read Across The Aisle [1] as a Kickstarter and we pulled in 120% of our goal. Because this is software, there is no marginal cost of manufacturing — so we're basically profitable already. I think we got lucky with the timing, which led to a lot of free press. Just today we got a mention in a front-page article in the New York Times [2]. We'll build for Android and Chrome (desktop) next. Might raise money to do so, or might bootstrap.

1: www.readacrosstheaisle.com
2: http://nyti.ms/2mmJ4XD
Ever heard the phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"?

IBM is massive in IT consulting with basically half their revenue coming from the consulting side of their business, and the rest they're a service company in a lot of different IT verticals.

A somewhat informative quora link, because if you were too lazy to even google this you probably won't dig deeper than this: https://www.quora.com/What-does-IBM-do
Reminds me of the "Boss Key" you had in earlier games (or as a TSR in DOS), that showed some fake spreadsheet instead of your game screen. This is basically its cubicle cousin.
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A whole building in just 24 hour WoW
To put it another way: The neighbourhood I live in now is also usually lit in the evenings. I mentioned my childhood because I have very vivid memories of exactly that - you notice the light much more somewhere where the winters are particularly dark.

> And if you look at what gets build now in London (e.g. Nine Elms, or Docklands) it's not large luxury flats, it's almost exclusively studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms, i.e. targeting the lowest end of the market.

This is another trap people go into, though: London is far more than the central areas. Go further out, and things are still closer to "normal".
Assuming the homework assignment is happening in the hiring phase after the initial screenings, I don't buy this. Getting to that point means it's time to show them why they should hire you, and it's going to take up your time whether you do it in person or "asynchronously". If they give you the opportunity to spend those couple of hours at home rather than at a whiteboard in their office, but you don't care enough to make the time, I don't know why they should care enough to hire you.

If the "homework assignments" are just a scheme to get work done for free, or a competent engineer's time is not set aside to review them, then that's a different story. But as a fair test of programming ability, administered in good faith, I don't see the problem, and such a test is important.
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That's ideal and needs to be the first approach. In practice, people that communicate all day don't always understand than other jobs require uninterrupted focus. That's why engineers try things like no-meeting-wednesdays and schedule blocks for coding.

I wouldn't use the tool in question, but I relate to the motivation.
Guess it could have been. Our system didn't just call though, you could answer and it talked to (well, at) you.
You have to go a fair way to run anything on wsl, much more than "one click". Also, there's not much that you can do in bash that can't already happen in batch/powershell, with perhaps a little more effort.
I agree with your sentiment. Google is abusing its position of market leader to dominate other markets which it's not very good at, which results in providers that _are_ good at those markets going out of business.

If Google wants to make money by being the endpoint for every question ever asked, they need to accept the consequences when they get the answers wrong.
I'm not convinced that we have a good model for climate, either. I think we do not have any clue about large-scale cycles in the climate. Nobody predicted the long drought in California, but the Southwest has had a bunch of cyclical droughts over the past 1000 years. This year was supposed to be a La Nina year for California, but instead something else happened and there has been three years' worth of rain in northern California instead.
It's a quick side project that might be useful to some, presented in quirky and humorous way. Why does it bother you?
My point was that while that may be true for a small number of properties, the numbers simply does not support the idea that lots of Chinese investors are buying properties and leaving them empty - its a myth (it's not a myth that they are buying).
My Surface Pro 4 has a MagSafe equivalent power supply. Works quite well, albeit not as well as the mac version.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/0...

Not the FBI per se, but it shows that someone is clearly attempting to compromise TOR users.

Also there's been whispers about it forever. Much like the "black rooms" at datacentres before all the NSA leaks.

The FBI has a long history of tracking down and compromising CC theft and CP rings, along with silk road and the hoards of clones. Most of these sites are primarily or only accessible over TOR.

Running compromised TOR nodes would be an extremely cheap way to monitor a large portion of illicit Internet traffic. The frequent busts are usually attributed to other reasons to shift attention away from TOR, but this is classic parallel construction.

The feds will nearly always get you on secondary evidence when the primary means is too sensitive... See stingrays. The sheer number of TOR based site busts however is telling.

Anyone relying on TOR for security is a fool. It's more heavily monitored than the regular net.
It's things like these that really get you into understanding the underlying "truth" of things.

Four other examples really come to mind that I've encountered:
- Void pointers and structs in C (what actually are objects?)
- "Curiously recurring template pattern" in C++ (how does template metaprogramming work?)
- Ruby's declarative syntax in class definitions (ex: rail's `has_many`) (what are ruby classes?)
- Monkey-patching instances of Ruby objects (what are Ruby objects?)

It's a similar feeling to those moments when you realize almost everything you've ever interacted with is artificial: other people made the decisions that made that thing this way...

...and different decisions are possible.
The picture is a bit old as those two ladies have been replaced with offshore workers.
Macs were already popular with developers.

Apparently as someone that favors Xerox PARC way of thinking, I am not a developer, as I don't embrace the UNIX religion.
I used to run a Debian 5 server with full-blown LAMP stack and it was enough even for larger sites. Today, the latest version will just say "out of memory" while installing packages. :/
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It could be that the SIDS inspections are in place to prevent catastrophic structural failures.

One single edition of Flight Safety Australia in 2015 lists five reports of corrosion in Cessna singles, including specifically relating to the main wing spar.

http://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2015/06/24-march-20-may...
Huh? There's macs everywhere I look.
If the sun is bigger than 100 what?
Indeed, and that's the heart of the problem. Something like Google news needs more than just algorithms.
> The reason we believe the exclusionary rule works so well is that it strikes directly at the incentive structure for the police.

It also strikes directly at the incentive structure for defendants.

If you prove that the government wronged you but even then you still go to jail, you have little incentive to spend your resources proving that. And neither does anybody else, because prosecutors are not very interested in looking for prosecutorial misconduct.

But if proving government misconduct will keep you out of jail then you have every incentive to do it and the government won't be able to get away with it as much.
+1 to you friend, there is no problem in saying: can not now please. People will understand you.
> in less then a century

The industrial revolution has been going since before 1800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
It's a nice idea, and it's one I proposed some years ago:

http://arachnoid.com/restoring_mars
[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798130
I live right near OVH in Quebec, most of the data center was retro-fitted inside an abandoned factory. It's also apparently the biggest data center in the world and features it's own hydro-electricity station (although I'm not sure if that still holds true). Amazon AWS is moving in there too. They have a little youtube clip of the project!

https://youtu.be/f4NgsUiCJ8c
And your point is? Advertisements can still be useful to discuss. And commercial products and services are featured on HN all the time.

Plus, it's not like HN is anti-commercial either.
What an outrageously annoying website. I love it!
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Something that strikes me here: Coming from a european standpoint, using commas as a delimiter for 3-digit groups seems like a very silly decision. In the german speaking regions, the apostrophe is generally used for this - which reduces the probability that someone could mistake it for a decimal mark.

On the other hand, the Germans seem to use commas as decimal marks, which is even sillier. Both of those habits combined can cause much confusion if you're not sure where the data comes from...
Does that change anything I said? All this marketing doesn't seem to lead to anything tangible unlike similar releases from other big companies. It's just fluff.

I'm aware the IBM does consulting and that's possibly the most boring software realm there is.
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I was lucky enough to sit in his lectures :)
If anyone is considering this OCW course, I highly encourage Leighton's lectures.
"You cannot not communicate" -- Paul Watzlawick[1]

Incidentally, most of his writing is pretty amazing. "How Real is Real?", for example.

One of my favorite example is the experiment where two people are (ostensibly, as in all psychology experiments) asked to figure out how to spot disease patterns in certainly images of blood cells.

The experimental setup is that subjects A and B each have a screen a button to indicate whether the picture shows a diseased or healthy cell and a light showing them whether they were right.

The nasty bit is that whereas A's light is hooked up to his answers, B's light is not. It is also hooked up to A's and they aren't shown the same pictures. So A gets proper feedback whereas B gets essentially random feedback.

Since the task is not that hard, the As quickly figure out the simple rule, whereas the Bs concoct ever more elaborate theories.

The really nasty bit is that they then bring A and B together to discuss and present their findings. And it turns out that the Bs almost without fail convince the As that they are wrong, because how could such a ridiculously simple answer be correct, whereas the As are convinced by the sophisticated answers the Bs have come up with.

Explains so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watzlawick
I have a Samsung GT E1200 and the fake call is triggered after a configurable timeout by pressing the down button four times while the screen is locked.
> Does building a magnetosphere for the purposes of protection require an atmosphere ...

No, it's the other way around -- for a sustainable atmosphere, one needs a magnetic field.

> If it doesn't require an atmosphere, could this approach be used to build a magnetospher around the moon?

That would have an effect on surface radiation from charged particles, but the moon can't have an earth-like atmosphere because of its low gravity. So the payoff is smaller.

More details: http://arachnoid.com/restoring_mars
I was going to jump on this before I realised that (1) I have my phone on DND when I am 'running silent, running deep', and (2) I found out from the comments here that it doesn't work outside the US.

Perhaps to address both issues, there could be a version of this that doesn't actually make a physical call? Perhaps a pairing of an iOS/Android app to a button on the browser which send a standard in app message (free) to the phone associated with the button. The app could then simulate a ring tone, which would be enough to complete the illusion of an incoming call?
Don't forget the opportunity costs! Money sitting in a sock drawer is losing value to inflation. That's years of dividends and growth you could be missing while you try to time the market. If you are really conservative, try 60/40 bonds/equities. Or invest outside of Australia. I'm Canadian, and Vanguard has "all world, excluding Canada" funds, I'm sure they have something similar for Australia. That way you can hedge against risks in your local market.
My old Nokia had that. Used it sometimes for sure.
I think Greenwald is trying, in his way, to build opposition to another Hillary candidacy in 2020. I think he's saying that she's dangerously hawkish and that Russia's apparent hand in her defeat is leading Democrats in general to be too hawkish as well. The last point is, to my mind, the most important: if Dems want to retake the White House in 2020, they're better served by building momentum locally and finding a better candidate than by hand-wringing about Russian interference.
"I don't see a coherent category that includes Watson, blockchain, and quantum, as the author of this press release believes exists."

Magical algorithms that solve everything, supposedly.

The target audience is most probably decision makers who want a business edge and not technical people.
> I wont buy a laptop without a magsafe or similar connection

Do Windows laptops have it, or you're going to use a 2014 MacBook Air forever..?
Just a question. In Germany, a city earns also income from renter's.

So, something like that happened in Frankfurt in some areas.

Rent skyrocketed. Only offices.

Later in self interest the city changed some areas to living areas. With affordable living and rent.

Is this the same in Canada?

On other side note. I think why no city stops it. They are hoping to be the next new York. High rent, high income renter's. High income for the city.

Usually reality proves them wrong.
There also cases where cops shot people and the cops went to jail, but nobody talks about those.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
This is a blatant advertisement for a way to collect phone numbers. I'm not sure breaching privacy and social engineering scheme are welcome or else HN would be filled with malwares and the likes.
I thought of writing an operating system in C++ in the 1990s. I didn't achieve it until after the turn of the century. But I definitely thought of it.

The "everyone" who knew these things about C++ was a small set of vocal people largely from the Unix and C worlds. Other people who were at the time developing Windows NT device drivers in C++, to pick one example, knew that a lot of the received, and loudly recirculated, wisdom about systems programming and C++ was just bunkum.
The complaint is that Apple software tend to be throughly lacking in the discoverability part of their UI. It is especially bad on iOS.
Thought this article was about WoW (World of Warcraft). Not the best way to write "Wow".
You're complaining about digitalocean because you tried to defraud them and that's somehow their fault?
What part of running SoftLayer into the ground is cool?
Questions about what methods investigators can legitimately use aside, the practical implications are clear. You can not count on Tor alone for real anonymity.

So what might these NITs be doing? In the simplest case, they'd be dropping malware that reports ISP-assigned IP address, local IP address, network hardware MAC, and whatever to FBI servers. And it's probably Windows malware.

To protect against that, you isolate userland and the Tor process in separate machines, or at least VMs. So adversaries that compromise browsers etc can't discover ISP-assigned IP addresses, and can't reach the Internet except through Tor. Also, you don't use Windows or OSX. Whonix does this, and you can run it in Qubes.

It's possible that these NITs are exploiting a bug in Tor itself. Even if that were so, however, isolating the Tor process from userland would mitigate that risk.

Perhaps the FBI has access to substantial numbers of malicious Tor relays, operated by the NSA etc. To mitigate that risk, you can hit Tor through nested chains of VPN services. Even if they identify the final VPN exit in your chain, they will probably need to track back through the chain to identify you. And by including unfriendly jurisdictions in your chain, you can make that harder.

Finally, it's possible that the NSA has sufficient global intercepts and logs to deanonymize any network connection, no matter how complicated and indirect. It's impossible to say.