skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You're proving my point. If it were node.js, I highly doubt I'd have a person coming out of the woodwork with cleverly placed quotes as if it's a legal threat.

The irony is that you came out to defend Go from any sort of criticism without any direct argument as to why Haskell is bad. Your post talks about the people who use it and criticizes them for criticizing other programmers, yet that reflects perfectly on what you are doing. And yes, I am also defending Haskell when I see your comment. I'm sure Node.js programmers would defend Node.js. Programmers care about their language choice as much as they care about their text editor/IDE choice, and it's something that we all love to argue about.

>At the end of the day, your reaction is predictable. I'm not reading too deeply into what you say because, like my prior experiences, I think you have your mind up, and in spite or proof given, you're going to be on the defense / offense.

So you haven't made up your mind already by criticizing Haskell before even evaluating it as a language? It's not making up your mind on it when you based all your judgements from personal anecdotes of Haskell and Scala programmers you've met before?

>xmonad literally has haskell mentioned as a feature

AwesomeWM lists Lua as a feature [1]. Maybe Haskell programmers care about that a bit more strongly, but both groups use their configuration language as a feature. Hyper lists JS/HTML/CSS as a feature as well [2]. Although I would argue the real argument between Haskell and other languages is safety -- just like Rust or Ada programmers would list those languages as a safety feature, Haskell programmers are inclined to do the same. It's pretty similar to saying "code has been tested extensively by our quality assurance team" or something "code has been formally verified," etc.

[1] https://awesomewm.org/
[2] https://hyper.is/
I really hope that Uber serves as a warning to companies who think they can ignore customer complaints. I've never dealt with such an opaque company in my entire life, in terms of getting any actual human support whatsoever regarding anything.
What are the other 4? Python, C++, Java, and what other language?
I hate "clever things" as well, but it's worth being precise about what constitutes cleverness in different languages.

Dynamic languages - ruby, python, bash, objective C etc - allow all sorts of cleverness - such as monkey patching, attribute injection, dynamic lookup - because of their dynamic runtime. All the checks about whether the code makes sense is performed at runtime.

Languages with more mature/strong/static typesystems are initially restrictive - but the emphasis in cleverness is to be able to know upfront - and at compile time - if the code expressed is consistent in the way data and effects are represented and expressed.

Of course - there are other kinds of code complexity -in terms of ease of understanding, and maintainability - that will always involve tradeoffs considering the task at hand and nature of the programming environment (solo, community, commercial, academic etc).
Let me ask you a question: Do you view Upcall as a stop-gap solution?

Bcs your answer above reads that way.
This is mainly from personal observations and after reading tons of material. The answers to all personal or self issues are deep within us and that can be bubbled up only through deep meditations. I remember when I was a kid, started reading books on yoga and meditation all by myself even though there was no one in my family doing it. I sometime reflect on why at that age felt the need to do meditation. The only reasoning is due to past life habits and inclination.

I meditated even though sometimes it gave me headaches but now i can easily sit 2-3 hours.
Anyone can see.
Key ideas of the speech.

Some people remember transition phrases but that never seemed helpful for me.

In the end spend time remembering a few core ideas and practice the speech freely a few times.

I actually don't write speeches anymore - i just think of a rough structure and practice until i get through it in a way i like. Then refine beginning and ending, make sure the core ideas are clear to me - and it's in my head for a while. Means I'll never give the same speech twice, but it's also more fun for me as i learn new things/ideas while speaking :)
There are problems where humans need to use intelligence, but which are amenable to brute-force computing - chess is an example - and that does not, in my view, make brute-force computing class as intelligence. It does not accord with what the term AI originally meant, and the first moving of the goal post was to apply it to these cases.
This gets at the heart of the biggest problem with AWS status reporting -- if you're going to build a platform for people to build atop, they need to be able to pass through your errors to their customers in a reliable, visible, honest way.

Though to be fair, most sufficiently popular projects don't even need a real status page. One which simply reported its own traffic volume would suffice to know if the service itself is down (crowdsource your status!).
I would suggest you really enjoy your break for a month, maybe two, and then start doing some freelancer job, only on the projects you enjoy. I believe it's important not to follow out of the routine completely and to keep oneself disciplined, especially when it comes to work. Obviously, do what makes you happy, but take into account that at some point you are going to want to/have to come back to work.
No, maturity is an asset
[Funny] a few things you should know about programming and hardware
You are some other people, then.
This can get you flamed, and in a way rightfully so, because you just made the author do more work for seemingly no reason. If no one else regularly has a problem integrating, being That One Person https://xkcd.com/1782/ is a great way to declare that you're hard to work with.

Then you find that GitHub forbids multiple identity contexts for free accounts in their terms of service ("One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free account"), so if multiple people want you to do things on GitHub but you don't want to mix the activities together, your options are to pay for a monthly subscription (possibly forever) or break the rules and hope your ability to continue participating doesn't suddenly get taken away if they catch you.

Centralization of interaction by type creates social paradoxes like this.
> has been so incredibly successful in such a short time.

1) Our industry is obsessed with new and shiny.

2) There are a lot of developers and companies who don't have the time to invest in a new paradigm or language.

3) By learning/using golang these developers and companies can look "hip" and forward thinking with minimal effort.

With a Java background and a 10 hour investment in golang you can write decent software.

With a 10 hour investment in Haskell you can't do anything.
I don't understand the critics this article receive here. It makes a very good counterpoint to all the hype the AI field is living at the moment, letting people from the general audience believe that algorithms will replace humans quite soon.

You may think it doesn't matter, but we've candidates to the presidential elections here in france building economical programs assuming "robots will do everything soon, so let's provide everybody with a universal revenue" as a likely immediate future.

It is extremely healthy to let people understand all we've been able to build so far are number crunching machines, which absolutely don't give any kind of meaning to the numbers they see passing by. Meaning as : i see what this number represents, and the consequences it has in real people's context.
Great! There’s no reason why you can’t use it. You have to install Windows Updates manually, but MS still provides them (as they have to, by law, in the EU, during the warranty period).

And you don’t end up with a system forcefully updating and coming up with a bluescreen after every boot (my win10 test machine atm), nor do you have ads and telemetry in the megabytes after every login.
I got started with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Minute-Meditation-Expanded-Quiet-Chan...

I highly recommend it.
I think you highly underestimate the effect they have on you. A small number of bots can completely disrupt discourse, eliminate stories that might make the top of all, and instead only get a couple dozen views. One of the tests they (point) ran, consisted of voting every story in new on a particular, decent sized sub, either up or down, as soon as it was posted. the stories they voted up, once, had several times more likelihood of making the first page of hot, and consequently all. The first few minutes can make or break a story with just a handful of votes with great consistency. The $ spent on such narrative control are absurd. For instance, David Brock's "correct the record" burned through 10's of millions of $ during the election, used new and purchased accounts, custom 3rd party anaylitics, offices of shills domestic and foreign; there are several different leaks which came out, showing the conversations in their slack groups, and how they go about effectively killing a story, or fabricating an entire narritive. It is VERY difficult to distinguish shills from 'legit' posters in some circumstances, often those who laid low and applied only mild pressure, weren't discovered until they posted images with correct the record filenames, or accidentally used the same verbiage from separate accounts. Currently, since the termination of correct the record, shareblue has taken over their 'mission' and does the same stuff in the same places. The FBI and CIA make enormous use of the same things, to discourage leaked Intel and damaging natsec information on Reddit and the Chan's from spreading, and he FBI has gone as far as planting child pornography to scare people off and even threaten prosecution of those who are influential/damaging. Correct the record has lists and ratings of Reddit users, one which leaked recently, which you can download right now and import into RES. The same thing occurs in the movie/TV industry, and we are starting to see the evidence come out now, of the massive operation mansanto was running out of large corporate offices, as well as partnering/contracting researches and those of larger social significance to discredit and dismantle the compilation of evidence and investigation into their wrongdoings. Judging by your comment, I'd guess you are among the highest tier of impressionability among those partaking in this discussion. Ignorant comment.
While the whole brain thought interface is a great idea, I really just wish I had some kind of keyboard and mouse I could control with my mind, and a pair of glasses with my screens. That would eliminate so many ergonomic issues, and probably increase speed as well. I wonder what typing looks like in the brain...
If you're taking 45mg of oxycodone an hour, you are definitely going to have discontinuation symptoms when you stop.
Crafting Hammond's Cane from Jurassic Park [video]
SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft returns to Earth
This seems neat.

Are there any other future verticals which you would consider domain specific perks for?

Also, what exactly constitutes an AI startup? If you utilize a ML library to handle a small feature of your product, are you an AI startup?
How do you structure it? Do you have a palace ordered by months/dates with people placed in?
Worked for me on Firefox for Android 52.0.1.
Our society basically worships grasses, for some odd reason.
Unintentionally gigantic? I really kind of thought the first order of business was to make that social media platform into a giant.
In the cases where I've had a sub-par experience with Uber in the past, I've had the opposite experience. Giving a poor rating for the trip triggered a response from a Uber employee who resolved the complaint. This was quite a while ago, so things may have changed and YMMV.
> Culture is the essential catalyst of intelligence

I liked the article on many fronts and thought it tried to justify most of its claims. However, the quoted claim goes unsupported.

Does anyone know of justifications for the quoted claim?
Put yourself in a position where you would have to publicly admit it on a constant basis and it would make you uncomfortable. I started spending more time with my significant other and hating to admit that I spent all day doing nothing, I just started doing stuff to avoid the shame. As a side note, I also became good at giving (increased) value to what I do, or at least presenting it as something important. Also, if I need to do something, I will sometimes go to a cafe or a coworking, because when I come there I think to myself "Well I didn't get here to do nothing, so I will be working". If you have people who support you a lot to the point where you could do something just for them - just keep a reminder of it somewhere on your eyes level.
It is directly affecting end-of-life treatment. My grandfather is jumping through more and more hoops to fill his prescriptions each month.

The insurance company has the gall to tell his doctor they know better, and often want the doctor to justify the prescriptions. My grandfather is on deaths door, he stays alive through sheer will. The doctors gave him 2 years to live...6 years ago. Fair to say that's end-of-life, right?

I moved out here to take care of them, so I'm in the thick of this day in, and day out. Insurance companies, Picking up prescriptions in triplicate in writing and hand delivering them, etc. I'm scared to pick up the controlled substances alone because of the way the clerks look at me, so I have to drag one of my poor grandparents to the pharmacy with me, again and again. every month.

Why do you think they're looking at me funny? It's narcophobia. They think I'm an addict pulling a fast one.

Keep that in mind next time you say it isn't affecting end-of-life care.

Someone's grandfather out there was and is affected, directly, by the recent upswing in what can certainly be described as "narcophobia."

A doctor shouldn't have to explain himself to a fucking insurance company, ever.

If I paid my premium, pay my fucking bill. Keep that corporate nose out of my personal medical affairs and pay the bill like I pay you to do.

I'm sorry, but you painted with such a wide brush that I couldn't help but retort.

Unless you meant hospice care. In which case you're probably more wrong. These guys are trained sticklers. The second your love one stops breathing, hospice will be there not to comfort you, or have a kind word. They're there to bag up all the painkillers and fill the bag with kitty litter.

If that's not narcophobia, I don't know what is.

You can't undertreat pain and expect the problem to go away, btw. All that does is encourage blackmarket diversion of legit meds.

The harder you make it to get them, the more money they'll be worth, the more risk people will take to steal them wholesale. Expect more delivery truck robberies, more pharmacy hold-ups and break-ins. There will always be abusers, no laws will change or reduce that.
> In theory that would work, but in practice that kind of thing dies within 1 minute because, "It's not seeking an objective explanation" or is a "Loaded question". More often than not, in subreddits like that, you get over-moderation.

My ELI5 example wasn't meant to call out shilling in that subreddit. It was meant to be an overtly obvious example of shilling and I used ELI5 in jest.

> As for "shill mods"... ok, yes, but then I'd ask you to point out the pattern you'd expect to see as a result. It's not shilling, because there's no dishonesty about it, but this website actively prunes items they don't want to see form the nucleus for a discussion. The pattern is obvious, and would be frankly impossible to hide.

It's inherently dishonest if the subreddit itself purports to be impartial. The classic example of this is /r/politics with content that is pro-conservative, or, more generally, content that's isn't pro-liberal or explicitly anti-conservative.

> So... do you see that pattern in ELI5? I don't. Climate change questions come up from all sides of the debate, likewise with a lot of other issues. I'm sure people try to inject questions that lead to certain discussions, but does it work?

Again, I didn't mean to call out anything specific to /r/ELI5.
I'll add the most common use if intelligence shilling appears to be burying legitimate leaks in similar but provably false claims, or completely unverifiable, but equally absurd claims. On the Chan's '' for instance, there is no way to tell whatsoever, who is being sincere.
Very interesting. Did these ideas bear fruit?
I think the main discrepancy is that you see networking in a single zone not working as a catastrophic event, but AWS doesn't.

In all the AWS documentation you are reminded time and time again that if you want any guarantee of availability: choose two zones. If you want more availability: choose two regions. If you're operating globally, you probably should anyway.
Presumably those boogeyman foreign investors are rich enough to buy in cash so interest rates have no bearing on their decisions, especially US interest rates.

It's not like Chinese peasants get million dollar loans to buy a property in London or that Russian walks into Wells Fargo and gets million dollar loan for a house, even if he's rich in Russia.
It's cool how articles like this are able to take a vague feeling that probably a lot of people have and put it in more concrete terms. It is well-written.

They mentioned that some post had gotten big enough that it had merited commentary by Snopes. When the vast majority of political discussion takes place over a distributed mess of memes the nature of fact-checking changes tremendously. On top of that, a lot of these pages are building up the ideological armor to rebuff attempts by the platforms themselves to provide more rigorous filters (e.g. "corrupt Twitter / Reddit algorithms"). Maybe this is just the way the world works now, but if so that's kind of depressing.
Jeff from PipelineDB here. We have been rolling Stride out in developer preview in waves, prioritizing the strongest use cases and customers with the biggest need and immediate budget for their projects. We've had a pretty massive backlog of demand for Stride so apologize for the delay in getting everybody who wants access involved in the developer preview. We will keep you updated via email and hope you understand that we are also working hard on the open-source development of PipelineDB and supporting PipelineDB Cluster customers while we continue to improve Stride.

We apologize for not communicating better about the Stride timeline and will do a better job of that moving forward.

Feel free to email me at jeff (at) pipelinedb (dot) com with specific questions or to discuss this further.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding here.
Slightly off topic but had 2 questions.

The last part reminded me of google training a bunch of robot arms [1]. Haven't seen much being done with it, does anyone know if anything is being done with the data?

We don't really know how much of each resources it takes to grow something. How much oxygen does 1 tomato plant take? I think growing in space would require one to investigate such questions in more detail. Ever since I came across ML and DL, I wondered if there was a way to train a deepFarmer. Something that understands relations between minerals nutrients and the fruiting body. Sometimes you want to grow stuff that might have less of certain stuff but you want more off it. Eg: low calorie high volume foods. Or you might want high protein food. If an "AI" could figure out how to maximize vitamin C for example in tomato for a population that needs more of that vs it learns to make the tomato more water rich for some other reason.
AI is interesting.

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/03/deep-learning-for-ro...
Edit:
Forgot link
There are JIT compilers, and even sorting algorithms that are adaptive. Are they AI too? What's wrong with the name "statistical learning" (as that's the flavor du jour of so called AI anyway)?
All of these aren't in defining a new product. There was no guarantee of a customer base for the S/360. There was already an established market for each of these listed items. Maybe if Apple had spent that kind of money on making the first iPhone you could make a similar comparison.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. @watter's comment was in extremely bad taste.

Frankly, i expected him/her to apologise because the comment

1) Sought to impugn kangpe's achievements,

2) maligned an entire country whose official language is English, and

3) went against HN's guidelines on civility.
shame that Gabapentin didn't help you, for me (spine surgery, couple of months before they opened me up, and now in recovery) it was a lifesaver when funnily enough the opiates seemed to make no difference (post surgery expecting pain to be higher for a while they switched me, when the Gabapentin ran out and I had a very uncomfortable night!). Was really glad, given all the scare talk about opiates, how easily I have been able to get off them - if you're seen me with a bag of chocolates, or when I don't get my coffee I'm pretty obviously a candidate for addiction :)
I do find the Gabapentin given me the dizzy/drunk feeling, but I'm lucky enough that I can dose late evening and sleep through most of the side-effects and remain functional (with the occasional Tylenol) during the day
> all we've been able to build so far are number crunching machines, which absolutely don't give any kind of meaning to the numbers they see passing by

All humans are just protein factories, which don't have any meaning other than electrical pulses and chemical reactions.
At Risk of being downvoted to oblivion and out of a very well-meant interest: what if you'd replace AI with Chinese traditional​ medicine in the post above? Why would AI be more viable than that?

(Note: I am very skeptical towards CTM and quackery. But also towards AI and ML in general. Any pointers would be great. Why is this the new industry to look out for, for example?)
"Recode.net"? What kind of site is this? What kind of journalism are they peddling? Seems rather suspicious. Some odd-colored terminology they used in the article:

* "is directly related to the multiple controversies there"

What proof do they have of this? What source that isn't Jeff Jone's PR-team said this? Where are they getting that from?

* "determined that this was not the situation he signed on for"

What kind of fluffy, bull-shit, non-statement is that? Give me a break, this sound like a personal puff piece for Jones.

* "to help him right the very troubled ship"

Excuse me? This is a multi-billion dollar company that's making a lot of money for a lot of investors and is going into self-driving cars. And somehow it is a "very troubled ship" because of one sexual harassment blog? Give me a goddamn break. Sensationalist and wrong.

* "when drivers began flooding Jones' Facebook page with angry comments and complaints"

Oh no! People on the _internet_ commenting shit on a Facebook page...you know what? Shut the whole Uber operation down, it's not worth going further any more.

Give me a fucking break.

* "that favored what board member Arianna Huffington called 'brilliant jerks.' "

As opposed to what? Brilliant angels? Right. Because we know every single fucking board-room member in capitalist corporations in America is a fucking Ghandi/Marx hybrid. Get the fuck over yourself and your stupid bullshit clickbait article. What a pathetic piece of journalism. Gross.

* Jerks indeed, as what has happened since then has made clear.

Okay. 7K employees. 2 were fired because of misconduct. I'm sure everyone is at fault here. Does anyone remember Kelly Ellis? Should we burn Google's hierarchy/org to the ground
for what she claims in a few tweets? This type of sensationalism is absolutely maddening and I cannot believe it's not buried/dead yet.
What kind of philosophy job?