skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, it's difficult for a committer to keep up with all of the different styles. Imagine being a developer on a project with 50 different committers, all doing it their own way.

That's exactly what tools like clang-format fixes. Code will be in the repository using one correct styling. The difference is that the commiter won't have to style it himself.

> As a committer, I would rather have it clearly explained what the rules are before I do it incorrectly. Sure, having tools that will do it for me is awesome, but considering how many examples in the OP are different because of historical reasons, those tools are difficult to configure.

Which tools you said that are difficult to configure? clang-format? It's 5~20 lines in a .clang-format in the root folder of your repo. Configure it once and profit forever.

* I'm talking about clang-format here because that's what I use for C/C++. I don't know anything about other languages.
He's traded fighting Weaponized Patents for fighting Counterfeit Goods in that respect, re: Chibsons.
I know nothing about this topic, but I can caution to point out that Scientific Reports is the lowest rung of the Nature journal heirarchy. When I published there, I was very unimpressed with the quality of the refereeing and editing. Certainly doesn't mean the work is wrong, but laymen shouldn't interpret this as having the same sort of seal of approval as a normal Nature article. In my field (physics), Scientific Reports is held in similar esteem to a run-of-the-mill specialized journal, with the added worry that the editors are not sufficiently specialized to give the paper a hard look.
I think there is a clear distinction between what we are talking about and your example. I'm not talking about refusing to learn a new tech, such as "computers", rather insisting to only use tech that respects my freedom. For example, Linux is my daily operating system largely for this reason.

Stallman knew these issues were and are important, he was simply a man so far ahead of his time most people fail to understand the level of importance of his arguments.
Progress isn't liniar though, I mean, if you asked the people, who were responsible for cleaning out hundreds of thousand tonnes of horse shit out of London each year, if they would ever be obsolete a year before the car assembly line. They would probably have laughed at you.
> I'm saying that fossil fuels have done more to advance the human condition than anything else in history of mankind.

I don't think this point is relevant to your argument.
Why would this be useful? They support NFC payments, if that's what you're asking?
At my Sam's, they just eyeball it. A lot of times they just seem to be counting to make sure you don't have extra items, not actually checking the contents. It only takes a few seconds.
Hilarious promo video from Snupps
I'm not sure if Musk's contention makes sense because intelligence isn't a uniform attribute to systems (biological or synthetic). Specifically, what passes for intelligence is just the proper applicable, discovery, and/or refinement of algorithms which we can do easily without intelligence (as in self-awareness and raw analytical capability). Just run through all possible paths or solutions on a sufficiently fast computer and you'll eventually get all the possible solutions to any given problem. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of lifespan and applicability.
Decimal is so mainstream
I was a little curious about the detail of this, since I didn't really know what Square offers beyond being a 'payments company' (which could mean anything).

It seems that they're claiming to be cheaper for small businesses. Is that true? Their per-transaction fee seems pretty high, and their device is about the same price as a chip and pin reader.

They also have mobile payment support, but surely that's just a gimmick at this point?
Within social media I've found the greatest impedance to conversation with people of different opinions is that we stand in alternate landscapes of "facts". I cannot see the information that they see, which shapes their opinions. Each of our "timelines" are unique, and so each of our landscapes are unique.

Print media provides a common landscape. And that landscape forms the basis from which meaningful conversation between different opinions can grow.
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This. The standards of vexatious litgtation are quite high, as they out to be. Otherwise every defendant would cry tort, and legitimately harmed parties would be dissuaded from using the legal system.
That's excellent advice! With so much experience, do you think I would be crazy attempting to move. Perhaps I should look into a newer low level language.

I notice there's a lot of finance work in C++. Do you expect this trend to continue?
> Certainly not, or else climate science would still be in thorough disagreement

Looking at Europe - I see the decisions, policies and agreement. Looking at USA I see conscious decision to ignore the science predictions when it suits some political goals in short term and not to ignore when it's vital - like when planning military strategy in Middle East.

So I think my point still stands.
I'm very happy about this.
Somewhat related: I wonder if this launch means they will now work to open up their (awesome) Square Cash App to other countries, and sending between countries.

The support says:

> Credit card processing with Square is available in the 50 United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Payments can only be processed in the country in which you activate your account. For example, if you activate your account in the United States, you’re not able to process credit card payments in Canada, and vice versa.

Hopefully they are working to open up now that they are launching in the UK.
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A side note: this historical recap references the 1997 fork and points to my note announcing it. At the time, forking was considered a deep disaster; this fork led to the current "fork often culture."

One important activity at Cygnus was eliminating forks. People would make a local, non-portable change and then distribute the result (with source, thank you GPL!). At one point John had collected over 30 different version of gdb, which he eventually managed to wrangle into a single distro.

So when gcc development ground to a halt, and I realized we had to split off, I spent months on the phone with various key developers, and with rms. All the other devs were frustrated with what was going on, but feared a fork. The result we came up with wasn't owned by any one company (we had no interest at Cygnus in making a "proprietary" fork, whatever that would mean) but had a committee and developed a more formal process.

Of course later developments like git allowed much much finer forking granularity.

LLVM has been great for gcc. gcc development had slowed down IMHO and got better faster in order to stay ahead. These days I do a lot of compilation with LLVM first, switching to gcc for some different diagnostics, better standards conformance and cases where it generates better code (I'm using a mainline language, C++ on mainline CPUs, x86 & ARM, plus CUDA). I suspect I'll finally give up gcc in a year or two.
I'm looking for RFID POS systems and this just popped up, thought it was worth an ask.
Show HN: Cappy – http proxy with file based caching
I'm not going to explain it any better than the other guy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13970336
The proposed idea with a neural lace would be that we became the "AI". Any AI advancements would be augmenting our shared thoughts.

If you accept the notion that the internet is our backbone, then we're already a super organism with shared thoughts.

Or to reduce it to a catch phrase: If you can't beat [it], join [it].
Adding to this list of R books, I found Introduction to Empirical Bayes[1] very good for a Bayesian view into R.

[1] https://gumroad.com/l/empirical-bayes#
Did you try Biofinity toric lenses? That's what I've been using for several years after I started having that exact problem.
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Mercedes-Benz G500 vs. Toyota Land Cruiser vs. Nissan Patrol – Desert Drag Race
What makes you think human life on Mars is not sustainable? Mars has everything we need to live.
Efforts to Deal with Tech Firms' Market Dominance in the US Have Been a Failure
Teaching machine learning to a toddler
John Kennedy Toole doesn't really belong on this list. His most successful novel was published after his suicide.
"I think it makes sense to advocate a level playing field and having a situation where two companies are in the same market but one is heavily regulated and the other is not is not fair or desirable."

Absolutely. I think most countries in Europe have had a rigidly regulated environment for ride hauling because simply there was no real alternative, and the aim was to prevent the average Joe to start operating as an illegal taxi, with zero control on part of the authorities.

Now that Uber, Lyft are a reality, it's more than fair to require they follow regulations as the other actors in the business, but at the same time laws should be up to date to reflect the new reality.

It seems fair to me requiring that new ride haling companies can offer the same standards of quality as normal taxis, that the drivers they are properly compensated and pay taxes.

Less so that they carry "Fare Meters", when the apps themselves offer the same functionality.
Not in the regime Intel is proposing, because optane stores data without power like a disk.
That "developed expertise in patent matters" excuse is biggest pile of bullshit I've ever heard of concerning patent issues.
There's nothing stopping researchers from searching for correlations between certain genes and intellectual ability (or at least performance on standardized tests as a proxy). Bringing race or ethnicity into the issue doesn't add anything.
I've been looking to build a new HTPC. Most parts I want are cheaper through Amazon (with prime) compared to Newegg and in the end I could save about $50 getting all the cheaper parts through Amazon. I'll happily give Newegg an extra $50 when I do pull the plug. Now if Amazon would join the troll battle...
Amazon unveils 2 grocery pickup locations in Seattle
Pandas was started as a skunkworks project inside a big hedge fund (AQR) by Wes McKinney (who after a few years at Cloudera is now at another hedge fund, Two Sigma). So it's no coincidence that pandas is very well adapted to financial / investment analysis.
Ask HN: Custom search engine for website?
I was wondering what the current state of custom search is right now (creating search engines for specific websites and data sets). There's Google CSE, Solr, ElasticSearch, and what else?

If I wanted to create a search engine for a medium-sized website, what would my options be?
Google for publications by Deep Mind, Ogma, Good AI, Open AI, Numenta, OpenCog, 'Towards Deep Developmental Learning', projects related to new DARPA program 'L2M'. Also search for projects labeled AGI.
Like, for operator identification?
culturally/politically, yes we should be proud...

but 'everyone can communicate with anyone' also meant everyone has access to FB, snapchat, worthless videos, and so on for distraction :(
In German we have "Fachidiot", which is not pronounced like the Dutch 'vakidioot' at all, but many English speakers would do so nevertheless. You're free to rescind your own abomination of that word :D
May be only one facet, but "straight edge": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

I mostly remember the militant (and distinctly not positive) NYHC variant trickling down to Birmingham and Atlanta scenes in the late 80s.
Doubtful. According to this site, the author is an editor at landslide magazine, a legitimate publication of the ABA:
http://invention-protection.com/ip/partners/david_dawsey.htm...
> I don't believe knowing how to use assert properly has much contribution to productivity in programming.

It's a symptom of the problem, not the cause.

It demonstrates that they don't really understand the code they are writing, and it's that attitude and approach to programming that has a contribution to productivity.
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I get (and perhaps even agree) to the sentiment, logically at least, but realistically all marketing is deceptive. It's pragmatically more useful to understand the how's and why's of that and play along.
That might work as long as none of your relatives use the service and submit their real details.
Guy got down-voted for providing an excellent free alternative and mentioned the fact that it linker / libraries indeed does not add crap to your code.

Btw Microsoft representative itself called it telemetry, confirm they added it without any warning, cloud it all in high grade bullshitspeak, while order for removing it in hurry, or just rename/disguise functions "to remove any suspicions" as they do with spying (sorry, complete anonymous telemetry that helps to improve the product) services in Windows 10?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
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Unfortunately not at the moment, though changing the client is pretty easy (one line change in Constants.java).
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What a person thinks says something about that person not about the reference objects of their thoughts.
The idea of the atom bomb was well established prior to 1940, the question was who would get there first, not if it was possible.

1934 was a turning point in this respect, by the 1940's it wasn't a question any more of whether or not atom bombs could be created, it was more a question of 'how' than 'if'.
Unfortunately, no - that is the correct content for the site...
I see a lot of coffee shops and market stalls with iZettle too.

Interestingly Square seems more expensive than iZettle. Square is flat 1.75% in-person 2.5% online while iZettle is sliding 2.75%-1%. The threshold seems to be £6200/month at which point iZettle is going below 1.75%. That's pretty low so I suspect most shops would still chose them.
Or run Cargo from the VS 2017 developer command prompt
I understand about movies being released early in cinemas, but that's artificial. If everybody stopped going to the cinema, they'd release movie online/DVD/whatever.

> socializing is a thing

Surely you don't talk while the movie's on! And if you like to drink/eat while socialising, all cinemas I've ever been to have worse and more expensive drinks and food than any bar/restaurant/home.
Ideas give you hints where to look for evidence. Ideas don't come from nothing of course, they come from first principles or from circumstantial evidence that you happened to observe, but in a large and chaotic system you need to know where to look (or in most systems, this is true for most of natural science).
Looks like my data science degree is gonna be worth it then!
I'm not sure I follow. Multiplying through by two to get tau would simply move the nested square roots from the denominator to the numerator in the relation with the golden ratio (as is explained in the link).

I certainly don't see any step in the outlined derivation that gains or loses the ability to be intuited simply due to a factor of two.
In that case LASIK isn't going to last long, hence you're a poor candidate for LASIK if you're needing a new prescription that often.

I just looked it up and the LASIK website said a stable prescription for at least two years is required.
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I've always wondered what it was. Does cold air carry the smell better? Is it the humidity and the cold weather is incidental? It also seems to change the character of the smell too; I notice it's even more stale smelling than it usually is.
Yes, exactly, thank you.
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Thanks Apple, but we need more
Researchers Solve Critical Flaw in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
I'm not sure which I find more annoying; the AI hypers, or the who people who insist that machine learning is "basically just matrix multiplication". As a researcher none of it makes a difference to me either way.
Although I never read the book, this is Azerrad is often referred to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life

Edit: only saw now that it is mentioned in another comment.
The incenvives are too screwed up for this to help consumers.

If they undercharge, they get fined. If they overcharge, the tax authority gets more money.

It's almost like a bribe.
There's a big difference between technological advancements and engineering & standard development. Deploying a cell network is an engineering and logistical task, not a feat of invention.
How well does clang-format handle subfolders with their own rules? I don't know, as I'm not a C/C++ developer; but I know that the tools I use don't handle them very well. I still provide them, of course, because it's better than nothing.
How many coal mines or tar sands fields are there in europe?
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This is about Dalvik bytecode format, but the same applies to standard Java bytebode files. Practically any obfuscated Java code will have this, which makes reverse engineering much more difficult without the tools to handle it.
No need to apologize, that was a good example :)

I liked this big:

>> unique collect [foreach val blk [keep type? val]]
== [word! time! email! url! paren! file! issue! pair! tuple! set-word!]

I think it could almost be read and understood by a person who does not know REBOL or Red.
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Hey guys, I put together this guide to help anyone getting started with machine learning and deep learning. It's a work in progress, so you can send edit requests (like pull requests) by clicking on the "Edit this page" button at the bottom.

I'm also trying to build a community of ML and DL enthusiasts on my site, so you are welcome to join. The cool part : there's a chat room to discuss ML and DL topics, so signup and start chatting! Chat room is is here https://metalmanac.com/topics/machinelearning/chat/
Given the proliferation of tap and pay in the UK, I can't help but think any other "mobile payment" solution is dead in the water.
The 1980s Research Unix editions are now available for study
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe even after sharing with "everyone" it takes the approval of N people on your team to fully share it out.
With a safeguard like that I bet a lot less docs would be accidentally shared to the public.
> Would something like the Millau Viaduct have been possible in the 1960s?

That's two questions in one.

The crossing of large spans was a solved problem in Roman times (pillars and arches).

To do it exactly like that did not require anything new in terms of materials, but there would have been quite a problem getting such a design approved without the computational homework done that it would work well in all weather conditions. Which in turn would likely lead to it being overdesigned.

Computers are excellent at such simulations leading to a higher degree of confidence in designs that have never been tried before or that push the envelope in some manner.
I miss the morning paper, and I miss the pre-dawn sky.
Nature do not always give the correct roadmap. Planes are no birds. Humans tried for a long time to mimic birds with flapping wings and failed, sometime to their death. I think it may be the same with AI: trying to mimic human, or even animal's intelligence is the wrong path. We need to find "Computer intelligence", which might be very different in its process and usage.
I am not. I asked because it was not clear to me and seemed relevant in the domain space described in the title. 'Bring your own device' is not uncommon these days and when businesses provide devices, it is often Android. Then there's Windows Mobile 10.

Good luck.
it took a little searching, but I found one for an alternative manufacturing process of the measles vaccine.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01536405?term=AMP&ran...
Interesting. Maybe they're renting it and measuring the benefit of having that redirect, and trying to decide whether they should buy it outright.
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You're not welcome to post personal attacks like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Eating Cheetos influences your health, and being around smoke influences your health. I don't think smelling Cheetos on your breath, or smelling smoke in someone's clothes does.
The smell of marijuana will never have influence on your health. Eat cheetos does.
Oddly, ABC and CBS are the two channels I don't get with my OTA setup. Rather than subscribing, though, I expect to upgrade my antenna system when the weather gets nice.

It is no surprise that ESPN is unloved; really you can get a lot of good sports on Network TV, all you get with ESPN is sports highlights and lowlights. If I want to see the scores I can get them on the web. If I was going to pay for sports it would probably be a regional sports networks because they do have games from teams I want to follow.

As for news, cable news has always had bad ratings because it is bad news and bad TV. The same pundits having the same conversation every week, always blindsided by each turn of events. Fox News has to run an alert crawler whenever the camera leaves the newsroom because objective reality is threatening and dangerous. CNN solves the problem by never leaving the newsroom.
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> It's a damn good thing for "savages," women, LGBT folks, etc

When will religion die out? In time to save the religious from persecution?
Wasn't it the case with the first AI winter?
When the field was overhyped, oversold and then imploded?
I take it Company names mustn't clash, but trademarks can if they are in different sectors? (unless is a name made up especially for the product like CocaCola?)
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Even the Java compiler uses that trick, by example with a bridge method.

public static void main(String[] args) {
class Fun implements Supplier<String> {
public String get() { return null; }
}

Arrays.stream(Fun.class.getMethods())
.filter(m -> m.getDeclaringClass() == Fun.class)
.forEach(System.out::println);
}
You forgot Lotus Notes.
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I guess I am curious about what range of equity one might feel comfortable asking for a $20k-$50k check.
There's a lot of C++ code in the Crypto currency space on Github.

You could try getting some pull requests going to gain some experience.

You'll be able to figure out if it's a direction you really want to head in.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls
Amazon acquire souq.com, the Middle East’s largest online retail and marketplace
I think that was rhetorical.
If you don't test read with some writing, you might be misled by performance of an SSD. 100% read or 100% write are very different from 50/50 or even 70/30 r/w. The mixed bandwidth typically drops by a lot. If you haven't pre-written some data, that dd test might not even be touching the flash. Just reading internal metadata...

But yes, nicer M.2s will perform better!