skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As scientific knowledge advances on more fronts, extracting ever more marginal gains by spreading our intellectual capital more thinly across the expanding frontiers of knowledge, maybe AI will help reduce the decline in the rate of advancement.

A thesis like that isn't exactly career-making pop sci blockbuster material though.
Add BeOS, OS X drivers (IO Kit) and OS / 400 after they started rewriting the PL/M code, to that list.
How to write a web service using Python Flask
Two open source secure email services
Er, what? Optane has half the latency of DDR4? Source?
My personal opinion is a two part solution

1. Ensure private establishments can establish restrictions on all forms of smoking. Then they could establish designated 'smokers corners' far away from entrances and ventilation equipment (as often seen now around hospitals which ban smoking).

2. Handle the person-next-to-you situation the same as I would now with anyone whose behavior or presence was disturbing my experience. I would inform the staff of the situation and that it's ruining my experience and ask them to handle it. If they decline, ask for a refund and leave. Don't go back to that theatre -- vote with your money!
My understanding is as follows: You absolutely can receive a copyright for a picture of a face, just as much as you can receive a copyright for a picture of a mountain. The face does not receive a copyright, and neither does a mountain.

Your likeness is clearly something in the public. I can't sue people for looking at me without paying, for instance. Your likeness could very well be a trademark, though. Especially celebrities do business expressly based on their likeness. It is their brand and they can probably protect it. So you can't use that likeness/brand without their permission (as long as they protect that mark).

IANAL, of course, and I could easily be wrong.
My defence of that point wasn't predictated on the idea that what he said was atypical of his content.

It was predicated on the fact that WSJ took statements completely out of context to have the exact opposite of the in-context meaning.
It's really easy - you just have to bring out the interests of other people to have long conversations.

Don't worry about what interests you.. it's what interests them that matters. Assume you're boring, and they have no interests in your ideas.

Be curious. Ask questions. Get them to discuss the topic in depth. Learn from them.

And don't discount/minimize their interests. Make their most banal thoughts the absolutely the most interesting thing the world.

In the end, if they start to show interest in your ideas, then you have a match.
Go for it! I imagine your sidejob will be some sort of consulting? With your Gewerbeschein it takes little bureaucracy and you don't have much to lose. Just be prepared for taxes and the risk of Scheinselbstständigkeit. Don't make the mistage anyone does and ignore them.
Wilson’s Heart is a bold VR mash-up of game styles and film genres
Just buy a nicer M2 and you get plenty of performance without special drivers:
# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=131072
1953586+1 records in
1953586+1 records out
256060514304 bytes (256 GB, 238 GiB) copied, 159.18 s, 1.6 GB/s
The irony is that French food is often not very good. After some stays there, I formed the hypothesis that French like to talk about food all the time for the same reasons that the British like to talk about the weather all the time - because it tends to be bad...

(To be sure the "public facing" food in France is great, but the daily, mundane stuff often disappoints).
rkt does not implement the OCI runtime spec, which is what runc implements. It supports the OCI image spec.
What if you take a picture of your face and throw in some after effects, lighting and such.

Then it's a work of art right? And those can be copyrighted.

But then I suppose your new novel copyrighted artwork is subject to fair use for eg. drivers licenses etc.
Wouldn't a half-hearted boot of VMS be Windows?
But making intelligent killing machines is half the fun of heralding into a Terminator inspired future distopia.
The difference is that most of those things are not known to be impossible. Immortality exists in nature, genetic enhancements have been demonstrated in the lab for simple cases, and building a machine that works like a biological brain also doesn't sound impossible. Mind uploading might still be thwarted by the no-copy-theorem, if our minds depend on quantum states.

The things transhumanists believe are possible are engineering problems. Historically we managed to solve those when we put our minds to it.
That the United Stated are a scary place and that you can't trust ancestry.com and ancestryDNA. They will take your DNA samples and put it in a big database to be crunched and analyzed and used for their own marketing. May be used by current or future government for whatever nefarious purpose, or hacked and stolen or sold for profit.
That's ridiculous. Everyone has a personal computer in their pocket and can communicate with anyone in seconds across the world. The world's libraries are at your fingertips by mail order or on your screen.

We may not be on the cusp of a singularity, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

We should be proud we haven't seen a major world war in 70 years.
I haven't pinned anything concrete down but I'm leaning towards SaaS, something with low maintenance (hopefully).
Google moves into the Certificate Authority business
Any idea why my corporate security policy would be blocking this site?
Have you got a source for the telemetry inside the compiled binary claim?
Yep. But... What could be better than a car, I mean the concept of "mechanized individual transportation". Same question with train "mechanized mass transportation". Sewer ? What could be better ?

While any of these is "not perfect", it's tough (at least for me) to come with something conceptually better right now.

And also, I think we have to rememeber that many of these were possible because of oil. So, I think that if we don't find a significantly better energy source, the material world will just evolve very slowly.

When I think about it, it's obvious that new stuff happens in knowledge/information space : it has a very strong innovation/energy ratio...
> I have been thinking about going self-employed as a sidejob, boost my student-income a bit.

This costs you 10 minutes and 25 bucks (Gewerbeschein). Then you can file taxes for your side income once per year, which takes another 30 minutes, because at the side-income level the calculation is: income - expenses.
It's a series of articles the author is starting. Check back soon.
Those lines of research are usually shut down because of claims of racism. Researching genetic differences between different societies is frowned upon. There are for example people who claim that Jews tend to excel in science because historically they have been banned from many trades and retreated into more intellectual fields like banking.
I only read the first three paragraphs and decided it was probably yet more self-indulgent rambling on the interwebs, came here to read the comments and find out if there was anything interesting here. Apparently not.
Companies that knowingly waste the courts time by filing frivolous lawsuits should be heavily punished. Acushnet is not defending their patents, they're just trying to prevent competition. They're fully aware that no patents were violated because they've already examined the KS balls extensively for infringement. This case will never make it court for the simple reason that their hand has been thoroughly exposed.
spot on (for me at least :-))
Being successfull with OKRs requires better communication
Chatting for 40 minutes about cheeses sounds like a specially engineered form of hell.
You need a change of scenery and I am not talking geographically.

As someone who is active in Munich's and Berlin's startup scene I can tell you that so far most people I've met are entrepreneurial minds that focus on getting stuff done. You will always have some lifestyle startup whose founders only care about their status or a business executive making a tech decision that he shouldn't be making. However, in saying that success depends on narcissism you are generalizing your personal experience which I cannot corroborate.
Can someone elaborate?

The picture in the tweet shows a phone that appears to have a bezel.

Is "almost bezelless" a better phrase?
I've always hated the argument that said "but look at how much technology has come out of the military [with all of those tens of trillions of dollars invested in it over the span of a few decades]!"

Yeah, and imagine how many orders of magnitude more it would've come out if say NASA had gotten that money, or some other government agency with specific goals of doing R&D for the consumer market, like say investing $200-$300 billion a year to create better batteries, LCDs, processors, VR tech, and so on.

The military has spent much of that money on buying weapons, then a large chunk of it on researching weapons, and whatever consumer technology came out of that was incidental. It only seems we've gotten "so much", because the investments were so huge, so even if only 0.1% of the military tech rubbed off on the consumer market, it still seems like a lot.

A good example of this is how the U.S. government has largely refused to invest in anything other than radioactive nuclear reactors, preferring nuclear reactors based on uranium over say thorium, because it could also use the uranium to build weapons. Perhaps people wouldn't be so against nuclear reactors now if most of them were using thorium. And maybe we'd even have nuclear-powered rockets by now, making those Mars trips much shorter.
Where would you suggest someone begin with Foucault?
I was under the impression that filing baseless lawsuits was a tort. Furthermore attorneys are required to make a good-faith investigation of their client's case and refuse to take part in frivolous lawsuits. This may be a pretty low bar, but it sounds like Acushnet's attorneys may be failing to clear it.
Why is Hawaii labeled Caribbeans?
Toronto has stunk like weed for years. It was pretty common for the elevators in my condo buildings to stink like it. Walking down sidewalks, etc. My wife is from Australia and use to comment on it all the time. I hate the smell but was just use to it.
True, and more and more people are turning away from smoking and towards vaporising
Goto dermatologist ? My dermatologist said some brands and from those I chose Rilastil 50+. Get the white-color one.
The article says 5 years old, so it's probably not deep learning.
Keeping the whale happy: How to clean up after Docker
Plastic welding machine in mumbai, Plastic welding
You'd do it to make money. Boatloads of delicious, steaming venture capital. Mmm.
Traveling with a Quantum Salesman
As of today, iThings are even harder for police to probe
Wrong paradigm: imagine being able to have perfect recall of information you looked at once. Or being able to check point your active memories and recover that state of mind at will.
More pleasant? Cigarette smoke is awful but there is a reason it's called skunk and it's not because it smells nice.
Relatively speaking, food is just not as big of a deal in a lot of places compared to France (I see this living in Berlin as well).
Classic Art Transformed into Contemporary Video Game GIF Art
philipkglass probaby refers to pain inflicted as a side-effect of aging (joint pains etc.) not the immediate precursors to death.
It was something a specific patch version (of Update 2, iirc) did which was blown way out of proportion. The CRT in that version sent two events on startup and shutdown to the windows event tracing/profiling framework. (Which show up in performance analysis tools like WPA.) People just latched onto the scary name.
Why is everyone so certain his motivations are noble?
The Code of Conduct strikes again.
I pretty much said that - it's an ad hominem, but it's not fallacious.
The best thing about this is that it's an admission that some aspects of a document are better when authored as plain text.

Now, I'm of the opinion that this is actually true of the entire document, especially when it's a book. This is why we're creating Markua as an open spec: https://leanpub.com/markua/read
I didn't see this in the article, but is it correct to think that if the isotope decays after 23 years, the reason that natural lead contains it is because natural lead itself is some kind of decay product.
The fact that this pretty accurate comment (written in layman terms) is so downwoted tend to actually reinforce it's accuracy.
Oh hmmm, I thought I tried it just the other month and it wasn't working. Maybe I hadn't updated IE, but I thought it was the whole Edge/11 split problem. Thanks for correcting me!
He probably doesn't want to be on record saying that he is lazy
> Plus government store generally carry a wider variety of goods

Are you nuts? BC private stores carry a dramatically wider variety of goods than public. Where do you live...?

Have a look at Legacy Liquor or Brewery Creek in Vancouver vs any government liquor store. The difference in variety is staggering.
You probably now about LyX already, but I found it to be a very solid wysiwyg editor able to spit out tables, images, and formulas in plain Latex.
As a Canadian, Canada should also look at legalizing non-hockey metaphors. Stickhandling as a way of describing legislation? Really?
And rightly so, on top on everything else google has a copy of the whole human genome and has been in this DNA business for almost 10 years.

23andme, Google Health (discontinued), Calico, Google Genomics, Baseline Study to name a few out of the long list of why google is scary.
Because we would build in those restraints into the programming of the AI and make damn well sure they can't be skirted around. It's not impossible to create barriers within the context of AI.
Sure, I get that. But I also love SF and fantasy.

And yet, I doubt that the German laws that you cite would prevent the BND from collecting data, sharing with NSA etc, and so on.
Perhaps I am being a bit cruel, but that's just to point out the fundamental difference between what an "operation" means in computer science and what it means in classical math (constructive math is a different story).

Classical math is concerned with relations between "preexisting" objects. The statement 4 + 5 = 9 does not mean that the numbers 4 and 5 are added by some algorithm to construct the number 9, but that the three numbers are related via a ternary relation. The statement 9 - 5 = 4 is an equivalent statement in classical math, expressing the very same relation, but means something radically different in computer programs. I think it's important for computer scientists to understand this difference.

Jean-Yves Girard, the inventor of system F in functional programming discusses this difference in Proofs and Types[1], in the very first section, called "Sense, Denotation and Semantics".

[1]: http://www.paultaylor.eu/stable/prot.pdf
wouldn't say noble, just consistent and different from your usual businessmen who treat amassed capital and/or net worth as a measure of success.
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Testing Java 8 snippets on the new App Engine Java 8 runtime
> old people ... eventually seem to stop catching up to the rest of society

If (happy to be proven wrong here) we can assume that this trend has to do with an age-related decrease in brain functionality, maybe this could be mitigated anyway.
But smoking isn't the only way to consume cannabis. Vaporisers are becoming increasingly popular, as well as edibles and tinctures.
Agreed, FI -for fake intelligence- would be more accurate :)
It's also just not necessary for most of us four-eyes. The costs of the surgery appear to be about what I would pay for 40 years worth of glasses (I buy a new pair once every four years or so), so it won't safe me money — or not a lot.

I'm so used to glasses that I might not even be more comfortable or live a more convenient life (and glasses are simply part of my identity after nearly 30 years of wearing them).

So there is very little (to no) incentive to actually get surgery to correct my eyesight. But the surgery is not without risks, as small as they may be, so there is a disincentive.

I can imagine that this is different for people who wear lenses because they are slightly more cumbersome.
I think it all depends on which technology. They all seem to follow a sigmoid curve where progress accelerates and then tapers off. The fastest improvement may be say 1860 for sewers, 1960 for jet engines and now for computer tech.
Historically, the few women in tech were often not the most attractive ones. It seems to have gotten better. Likewise, the male nerds were often not the most attractive ones.

Perhaps there are not that many unattractive young women, so their number is not sufficient to increase female participation in tech by a significant amount.
Since when can you downvote on HN?
Eh. Brain stem, reptile brain, mammal brain, primate brain, neocortex, cybercortex.

Half my mind is already in cyberspace, why not make it half my brain, too?

Edit: Dystopias don't come from technologies, they come from people being shitty.
Arguably Brits talk about the weather because it's so changeable
Supposedly, there is a guy on E-Bay selling TempleOS merchandise. It's okay.

Heh, what a cool guy.
#OfficeBleed anyone?
That small business' response here is hard to fathom. Either the reporting is bad, or they quietly settled for a nice sum off the record (to prevent other businesses from getting ideas).
Well that's why I said go completely passive. Not involved at all beyond getting a dividend payment
Gor is a fiction community, as others had said before the Bible and other fiction books have similar views on women. Gor as all bdsm is a game, it is a play, an act between consenting adults.

Garfield has never (to our current knowledge) acted in real life upon the things said in the context of Gor.
I expect automation to replace most human jobs. At some point in the future we'll move to a universal basic income funded by the work robots do. I think we'll be forced to.

Automation is already displacing massive numbers of workers. The Economist argues[1] that the current rise of populist leaders is partially a result of this. People in poorer areas are angry at offshoring and trade for the lack of jobs, and vote for Trump and Brexit to fix it.

[1] https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/835429157475528705
I do realize that, of course! However I was only talking about parts of Bavaria and not Germany as a whole. I also meet people like this, also mostly in Munich but never really in deeper parts of Bavaria - there are hardly any startups and if so they are of exactly the lifestyle type you mentioned. That's not subjective also, a lot of Bavarians start to realize themselves. Munich can not be regarded in this way, Munich is much more similar to Berlin as it is to the rest of Bavaria.

Northern Germany is a different topic all together, they have been making some nice advances but yet still the whole foundation around them is stuck in time.
IMHO, it's mainly the lack of any and all venture capital. There just is nowhere near enough cash available to do the classic VC route, much less investing 100 freaking million dollars to an app that does nothing but broadcast "Yo".

And even engineers at BMW or similar don't get paid in stocks, which means that the supply of engineers made rich by big exits is next to zero. Just look who founded all the hot startups in SV - it's mostly ex-Paypal/Google/FB/MS/BigStartup employees who found or invest the boatload of monies into new startups. And regular salaries may be enough to pay off credit on a house, but not enough to save for funding and bootstrapping a company.

Here, basically the only way to fund a company if you don't happen to have rich friends/family is by a line of credit - and thanks to EU banking regulations the banks now require real deposits of securities (eg a house/car) for a credit line; this again reduces the eligible persons to rich people. No way to see a poor immigrant fund a multibillion dollar company like in US... given the more and more xenophobic neonazi appearances (Pegida, AfD) immigrants actually more have to fear for their lives. (Okay, I've exaggerated here, but the xenophobist trend even in government massively worries me)
> “Why is there almost no field of study which isn't tainted by the politics of left vs. right?”

You lost me there. What did you mean when you included this statement here? Are you saying this particular incident is tainted by politics? I discerned nothing political in Wansink's papers, the feedback they received, Wansink's responses, or Andrew Gelman's reaction pieces. Did I miss something?

I ask this because the rest of your comment became about politics vs ___, which didn’t feel natural to follow when I didn’t understand why politics is relevant here.
Here is my annoyance with AI Hype: people seeking extra tailwinds pitch their startups as "ML companies" even with the most tangential usage of ML. It drowns out real ML companies. Most people cannot tell the difference.

At a hackathon recently, someone pitched their app as an "ML-driven app" though the only ML in there was some 1-line language translation feature they were consuming off Watson REST services for a tangential feature on their app.

Meanwhile, my submission actually used a self-trained CNN on a custom dataset using TensorFlow and changes to start/end layers on the NN. The image classification features were the core of the app and it wasn't something that was just a wrapper over an Off-the-shelf API. We actually tried multiple networks and went thru the trouble of parameterizing everything.

At the end, I wonder how many judges actually understood the difference in effort/value to the two attempts at ML.
I think the point still stands: FP is different.

None of the things you listed are particularly hard in an FP context. Classes/traits and parametric polymorphism will allow you to do these things just fine (Haskell code):

class RectIterable map where
iterateRect :: map -> (Point -> a) -> Rectangle -> [a]

// define map data structures
data TileMap = ...
data HexMap = ...

// make them instances of the RectIterable class
instance RectIterable TileMap where
iterateRect = ...

instance RectIterable HexMap where
iterateRect = ...

> Object oriented programming ... is good for UI

I don't know, but React begs to differ. A pure function (state -> UI) is basically one of the best UI programming paradigms we've come up with so far, the other probably being FRP.
at the moment yes, however we are building the Android SDK. What platform are you building on?
I'm pretty sure we had electric cars before we had ICE cars.
With just a Gewerbeschein for a single person company you're personally liable for all debts/obligations! Been there, done that and nearly went to jail. Never again.
LTP is a wonderful thing. Your brain grew that network before and now it is fading away. The only thing stopping you from replicating it is the missing medium and if we provide that before you lose the network, it may be able to.
Microsoft sued for millions over Windows 10 upgrades UK
2018 pffff
I should really find some time to upgrade to VS2017, my understanding is it's a bit faster than VS2015, not just the install. Can anyone comment on this, I always found VS to be a beast, even on an SSD, HDDs being nearly unbearable.

I really do like VS Code though... looks like there's some work going there.
Perhaps it was a greater achievement to get the first 10^4 people online than the next 10^9. More of the same-or-slightly-smaller.

I certainly got more delta-value out of pre-web Internet (email, Usenet, chat) and Web 1.0 (online papers and libraries, nearly-free publishing) than Web 2.0 onwards (Facebook, etc). Maybe it's not accelerating constantly.