skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neural interfaces are an obvious direction to go, and we already have well established commercial nerve-interface products, like cochlear implants.

But I think there'll be significant problems in interfacing with the brain in a meaningful way, if you want to bypass the existing interfaces (hearing, sight, touch etc).

I think it will turn out that the internal implementation is a lot stranger than the external interface, it could vary significantly between persons. Perhaps falling into major categories for some aspects, analogous to blood types; but then varying in the details as much as our finger prints - note that even genetically identical twins have unique fingerprints, as they are highly developmentally affected, like the branches of a specific tree. Simikar for retina prints, an example closer to (some say part of) the brain.

I think interoperation with the internal implementation could require actual understanding of the brain - enough to build strong AI. We might even have strong AI before.

It seems very difficult, we haven't the faintest clue at this point. We may need new fields of marhematics. Could take even more than 20 years.
You might just as well “analyze” dice rolls at the casino. Except that people routinely lie to you when they want your money (in case you didn't know already), there's no insight to be had. It is already a well established fact that in gambling, the house always wins.
Law was invented specifically for this reason: to regulate behaviors into socially acceptable norms.

Yes, occasionally it may degenerate (as the patent trolls show), but a social issue should be solved with social/legal means, not technical ones.
I am aware of them, but I am not convinced they tell the full story. For example there was the one of professors choosing PhD students (or assistants, something like that). It seems possible that they acknowledge the likelihood for women to drop out is higher than for men, so women are simply the worse investment. The bias was also shown by both male and female employers. The elephant in the room is: what if they had reasons to be biased (like having had the experience that women drop out)?

Also, it doesn't seem as if getting hired is the problem for women in tech, the problem is that there are not enough applicants.

And there also studies showing bias against men. For example the one where they made women conduct phone interviews with male voices and vice versa, and the women did slightly worse when they were given the male voices. There was another one were women were twice as likely to be hired for tech jobs than men.

I'm too lazy to look them up, but I find it interesting that only the "poor women" studies are being mentioned, and the others are quickly forgotten.

Edit: OK, I googled https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/women-twice-as-likely-to...

https://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-ma...
One of the biggest problems for startups in Germany is that Germans are reluctant to change. The prefer a complicated but reliable process over a new but simplified one. I guess you could call it risk averse.
"So mapping over an array of integers to increment each one won't require error handling, since the operation itself cannot fail."

Nitpick: in Swift, "since the operation itself cannot fail" isn't correct. The operation will fail on overflow, but it will terminate your application rather than throw.
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> They will destroy the old framework, put in place a new and undefined one, 99% of all extensions will die, and even more people will abandon the browser, because add-ons are the chief reason why people stick with Firefox.

The WebExtension API is "undefined"?

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
2. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index
3. https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

To name a few sources.
I wouldn't look to a workaholic to invent new ways to eliminate work. You might have to figure that one out on your own.
I don't really know.

- georgespamungus@gmail.com
> which only offers traditional food

Bavarian restaurants are just one of many other options and they "only" offer traditional food, just like an Italian restaurant only offers Italian food, for example. It's quite delicious, too.

Waiters rarely wear costumes (certainly less than 10% of them).
And there is also IARPA and HSARPA:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSARPA
And people worry about Google having too much of their data?

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-in...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-private-dna-data-l...
I don't really know, but I do hope to get a lot of email at georgespamungus@gmail.com.
True that. 1880-1950 (70 years) took us from train-and-telegraph to jet-and-atom bomb. Horse and carriage was the top-tier tech for personal transportation in 1880, and they were just starting to understand that diseases are often caused by these little blobby creatures called germs.

1950-2020 (70 years) will take us much less distance.

Almost everything we're developing seems to be about information processing. If you look at the technologies that actually do things in the physical world, it seems like almost nothing has changed since the 60's. Cars, trains, bridges, rockets, sewers... all more or less the same.
Why would it consent to you leeching onto its productivity?
Bezel-less phone from Andy Rubin, Android co-founder
That's not what schizophrenia is.
How angel investors value a business with no revenue
I wish I got more spam at georgespamungus@gmail.com so I could test it.
Speaking only for R, most of the performance-critical functions included in packages these days are just wrappers to a C++ implementation. It isn't until you need to implement something custom that performance starts to be an issue.

That combined with it's ease-of-use working with tabular data, and the myriad of packages available make it a very popular choice.
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Think and Grow Rich.

It totally turned my life around, no I didn't get a ton of money but it completely shifted my mentality, changed the way I saw the world, opened my eyes.

The strongest lesson the book had on me was that it made me realize that a man if he is willing can change his life, change what he doesn't like about his life and make it right. I just finished high-school when a family friend gave the book to me.

I learned about goals, how to set goals, it gave me the audacity to dream big, I learned that the man can influence the mind which influences matter.

I just started learning to code at the time, fast-forward seven years later, a kid from a humble background living in the lower-middle-class Africa who couldn't afford a laptop had no access to stable electricity and could not even afford to pay for internet connection, is now a Software Engineer in a big Co. in Europe.

With all those challenges and even more faced by a poor African, I was able to scale through, motivation and drive that was ignited over 8 years ago still burning strong.
If you're working in IT together with old-timers, a good way to get them to talk is to ask "Which systems did you use when you got your first job?".
Do you have a citation for the interest of girls in STEM? And also, especially, citations about the peer pressure? Not my experience from High School - in my Maths class, there were only 3 girls out of 16 pupils.

When I was in school, there was also nobody being encouraged to pick up Computer Science. Boys were into computers despite the disdain by society, peers and parents. On a scale of 1 to 10, how attractive did being into computers make you to girls in High School?

Also, much is being made of the performance of girls in High School Maths, but let'S be honest, Maths at school often is not really Maths, it is calculating stuff. So it is perhaps not the ultimate measure.

Also, significantly more women than men study Medicine or Biology - somehow they don't seem to count as STEM? Why not? Given the choice between Medicine or Computer Science, I am not even convinced that Computer Science is the better choice in the long run. My stance has always been that women are too smart to choose CS - they shun the long hours in front of a screen in a windowless basement, devoid of daylight and human contact.
Apparently The Mirror was not ready for the sudden influx of readers...

Though, on the article, Germany is hardly ready for the Startup boom, the bureaucracy is hell.

I have been thinking about going self-employed as a sidejob, boost my student-income a bit.
Thanks! Couldn't have expressed it better.
India girl and boys on break मस्ती कारो
Probably happened when proto-people developed complex grunting noises.

Or maybe before - with grasping digits? Hard to tell.
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Is node js is the trending one. Which one going to boom now?
I tend to think about APL as an alternative to R. When working with array-based datasets it's a very nice tool to use.

APL has a small number of very flexible operations, and the key to using APL efficiently lies in understanding these primitives to achieve your goal. Once you learn them, it's more comfortable to use than learning all the intricacies of the R language.

I wouldn't recommend anyone writing a full application in it though. But then again, I don't think anyone uses R for that purpose either.

As an example (which I believe I mentioned last time APL came up on HN) is that one of my solutions to last year's Google Code Jam was a single short line of APL, but then there was about 20 lines of supporting code just to load the dataset and format the output so that is exactly matched the correct format for the submission.
If grandma won't give things that are explicitly wished for, maybe you should have a talk with grandma, or only wish for money in the future. Your sample size seems to be 1.

I must admit I also have mixed feelings about the disapproval of boys doing girlish things. The adults doing so might actually save the boys from embarrassment later on.

You might see that as proving your point, but there are different expectations from society to men than to women. The assumption that expectations should be equal is just that, an assumption, because there are differences (wombs, physical strength). So men can not simply opt out without issues, and neither can women. The expectation that men should literally do the heavy lifting makes sense, for example.
> In New York, even dinner with friends tend to be catered

In Paris it's kind of rude to not cook yourself. Not "very rude", not "I'll never see this person again rude", but a little désinvolte.

If you can't be bothered to buy the food and cook it yourself, why invite people to your place? We can all go to the restaurant and share the bill -- we do that too, of course.

But if it's at your place, the expectation is you gave some thought to the menu and the wines, etc. -- including, yes, the seating of the people, who should seat next to whom, etc.

Or it's a cocktail and there are 30+ people, then catering is fine.

Catering for 6, I can't imagine.
Right now gun has multiclient offline-first capability. If the clients go away (and the data destroyed), there's no way of loading data on the new client.

WHat I'm looking for is a "gun-server" with persistent storage, which can act like the persistent storage node, always ready to provide data to new clients. (Couchdb does this for pouch clients)
Any clue as to what they do with the hole on each floor after they lift the crane through it?
The main problem with (GNU) APL for me is the line editor: I can't feel comfortable using a REPL to write a program without keybindings like ctrl-a, ctrl-w. Everytime I try to learn APL I eventually give up.
Yes, IBM is putting some money into supporting Swift, just like they did with Java in the early days.

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/kitura/

https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/de/swift
dang and sctb have been giving explanations for years now.
Has anyone tried fooling the system as an experiment? Considering that computer vision remains relatively non-robust, I imagine this shouldn't be too hard.

On the lighter side,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-RXDCEErWQ

:D
Sooo bullshit marketing as usual ? Just new with your relations with intel.
Need some suggestions
The complication risk of modern LASIK is actually nearly identical to wearing contacts every day.
Hi, I'm moving to Berlin soon, do you mind getting in touch? Thanks!

Contact info on my HN profile.
But does controlling the number of taxis achieve those goals? The countries that I have experience with all have regulations attempting to ensure those very things that you mentioned, but none of them actively limits the number of taxis.
Forresters was right about Instant messaging
dont know about the valley but being a Frenchman in New York, I have plenty of dinners that no one calls "seated". And I jave plenty of buffets in Paris as well.

This all sounds quite cliché to me...
Why specifically SQL?
No, that's not a good description of the difference.

I can prefer reading or watching things quietly over interacting with other humans, without having thoughts stuck chasing rather around in my head.
The monetary incentive aside - on principle, it's a good thing that a group of people can arrange with a politician to specify the policy they want to see and then vote for that politician to enact it, right?
i agree with you, but in the fact that fedora uses a experimental software(wayland) is not user friendly
You just made me realize how blindly i am reading comments, on and on.
compared to what though ? are we assuming a linear rate of development ? in evolution organisms change gradually with occasional bursts, and the same seems to be true of human tech evolution. There are periods of stagnation with tiny increments or even regress in places, then there are rapid bursts of unpredictable change, often enabled by information from one area reaching another previously unrelated one.
For most of the thing you have to do in your life that matters, you have no past experiences about it. You are not competent before you accumulate a lot if experience in it, which may or may not arrive, and late in life. But society assumes you know from the very first time.
It's just statistically likely.
When you see one spider...
You can always use a vaporizer. Or butter. Or anything with fat.
I haven't tried it out, but maybe rlwrap can help here.
Dailies aren't appropriate if you want the option of sleeping with your contacts in. I rarely do it, but I still want the option just in case I end up spending the night somewhere unexpectedly.
It's APL. First time I heard about it was in those "how to shoot yourself in the foot" lists [0]:

* You shoot yourself in the foot and then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.

* You hear a gunshot and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.

[0] http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foo...
Good find. Likely yes.
This vedio change your thinking completly
Hi. Sorry I don't have a good answer for you, but check sbt docs, it's pretty comprehenful, but it's not best.

Your best bet is to visit opensource projects and look into their build.sbt's, how they do things -they're usually not big enterprise projects and you can quickly 'get' how they setup what.

Always feel free to visir /r/scala and ask sbt-related question there, there is active community happy to answer both sbt/scala/fp related questions.
yep, call function-fitting/optimization "learning" and it's suddenly a form of intelligence!
There's also the winrt crate for getting at uwp apis.

https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust
The writer is conflating "legitimate" with "legal" and "reasonable", the latter two of which it isn't.
And, I believe, it will stay like this for the foreseeable future. Any really new technology, that is anything that isn't an iteration on what we've had since the 60's, is going to require a leap in the ability to manipulate energy and the harnessing of forces hitherto beyond our grasp.
No, this is different for me but apparently not for vegans (no animal product of any sort because it's exploitative, every animal is a person, etc).
It's not as daunting as it sounds. I consider myself about halfway between introvert and extrovert. On a Friday, I'll semi-regularly will go to a quiet bar with 1-2 friends and talk. If we start with dinner, that's 6 hours until closing time.
When I was living in Rome, the main topic of discussion at dinners was always food (with colleagues who were also software engineers). My experience has been that the Italians, French and Spanish love talking about food - which is probably why their cuisines are regarded so highly.
Since we are on the topic, how do the big firms (Google, Facebook, etc) view Singularity University? Is it considered positive, neutral, or negative? Would appreciate inside perspectives.
There's something about this post that really bothered me. It took me a moment to figure out what it was.

Partly it's that he picks a very specific dinner experience in Paris and generalizes it to a French dinner. Idealizes it, even. And then on the Silicon Valley side, he describes a lifestyle. And then he compares the event in Paris to the lifestyle in San Francisco. Intimate hosted dinners for a small group of acquaintances happen all the time in Silicon Valley. Business meals happen all the time in Paris.

That alone is more of a weak comparison or flawed cultural commentary, but then this comes out:

> Why? Silicon Valley people get bored easily.

> They look around and assess who actually came to the dinner. If they do not see enough friends or if they do not see enough people they can do business with they will leave fast. Dinner invites typically say “from 6pm to 9pm” and that means you can arrive anytime in that time frame and leave anytime no-one will be offended. You can stay for 10 minutes and no-one will pay attention. You can either show up at 08h50 and just say hi then leave at 9. Everyone knows the “rule” and no-one shows before 6 and rarely stays after 9.

I get the impression from this description that the actual issue is that Parisians and San Franciscans use different language to set expectations, and that the author is actually describing a difference in how the two cultures express expectations around social gatherings. But that in no way implies that people in Silicon Valley get bored easily. It just means the two cultures communicate differently, which should surprise nobody in either location. Why try to make an ambiguous cultural generalization out of it that is neutral at best and insulting at worst?

The whole thing feels lazily written and uncharitable to the colorful variety of both Parisian and Silicon Valley culture. It makes me specifically think less of the author's startup that is advertised at the bottom of the post.
Talking about clichés, I can confirm that (in my circles at least) we almost always talk about food while eating, and it's usually completely unrelated to what's in our plates.
The other fun part is getting your office connected to the Internet - Deutsche Telekom will happily take 5 weeks to respond to what should be their most simplest of requests
This whole debate is people sharing opinions and not facts.

But give me a culture where people have a healthy reltionship with sex. Morality, religion, security, health, children educations, gender status... All major actual cultures screw it up massively in some way.
I'm from Munich. Bavaria is by far the leader due to BMW (Munich) and Audi (Ingolstadt), as well as their boatload of highly specialized suppliers.

Munich also has the German HQ of Microsoft (which is suspected to be the cause of the city of Munich to drop Limux, according to some conspiracy theories)... and EADS Astrium has a huge complex near Ottobrunn.
> then we all know what happened

What happened?
What acover said plus OpenAI is a way for Musk to network in the AI space and recruit more talent to his self-driving program.
The hope is writing a formal description of required architecture functionality (formal proof) and then validating the proof. Not 100% safe against non deterministic issues or very complex but good against most others.
Instead of VS try out IntelliJ IDEA with Rust plugin: https://intellij-rust.github.io

It gives you the comfort features known from the IntelliJ platform and doesn't add phonehome telemetry to your exe files (like VS2k15).
Is a face that is created with surgical methods still not copyrightable? How about a particular style of makeup?
You make it sound like Terry is completely innocent. Have you seen his comments?
Also, if using VS2017, you may also have to set the env var `VisualStudioVersion` to `15.0` to get some cmake-using crates (libssh2-sys, etc) to build. See https://github.com/alexcrichton/cmake-rs/pull/16#issuecommen...

(Note that 15.0 == VS2017, not VS2015)
I just test dva-hacknews is real time synchronization to this website
just a test
HFT is only a small part of financial data analysis. Everybody I know who works with mathematical modelling in finance use tools like SAS, Matlab, R and even Excel to build and run their models. If you're working at something like a pension fund and thinking years into the future then shaving a few milliseconds or even minutes here and there isn't just isn't a priority.
> pervasive data trove from other services

I would believe that, although there has to be several alternate ways to measure a site popularity, Google Analytics are a huge part of a site ranking. Do users stay long on your website? Do they come back to the search results after that? Do they click through to "Pricing", then back to "Features"? If so, that must be the right answer.

Alternate example: I would bet that shops where Google Maps geolocalises a lot of customers have a higher-ranked website than similar websites where their physical venues are empty.
Amazon can realistically do something run-of-the-mill shops cannot: choose its customers. In any case, this is bleeding-edge territory. The point of such experiments is to measure and modify. The margins are too close for armchair philosophising.
Well, Google chipped in $3m and hired Kurzweil so presumably they kinda like it.
I did, i can only encourage you to try it. I dropped out of University even because of my self employment. I would never look back and change that. There's not much bureaucracy as a Kleinunternehmer (small business owner), depends on the niche you work in tho but for IT stuff and even importig/exporting electronics i never had big issues.

I am part owner of a US startup now, we have to deal with as much bureaucracy there...The big thing that makes the US different is that it's way easier to get capital, but there are as many weird laws which differ from county to county..
> huge order backlog with paid deposits

fully refundable deposits, whose quantity hasn't been disclosed since very early on
Dunno, I find 1.2-1.6GB/sec on my samsung s950 all the time. The benchmarks I've seen do not show any noticeable difference between SATA and NVMe. Sure geeks like the idea of a lower head protocol, but truth is the protocol is not the bottlneck.

Seems like Optane is a solution looking for a problem to fix. Normal M2 SATA's do fine:
# 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

(cold cache on a machine with 16GB ram).
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Hard to time that kind of thing. Not worth it when you risk losing your shirt. You can lose an infinite amount of money shorting, whereas going long you might only lose all of what you put in.
That grsec issue was resolved, if you still have issues please open a new issue. Looks like grsec may become completely closed now though.