skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being business-friendly is not a goal

Sure, it is, for lots of people. Even, apparently, the FSF, hence the reason non-consumer products are not subject to anti-tivoization rules in GPLv3.
Climate change will create the first trillionaire.

I quit my job because of David MacKay's work. Terrific, inspiring book. Now I'm building a global network of climate-change labs called Impossible Labs. Would love to connect with entrepreneurs who love SEWTHA, maybe we could do a meetup in SF (tito@impossiblelabs.io)
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While the capital class makes billions off their backs, colludes with each other to restrict wages and labor mobility, and exploits H1-B subcontractors to do more of the same.

Why settle for this?
I loled. This was much funnier than the actual video.
That never occurred to me until just now. It seemed like at least half the listings I reviewed when looking for a room in SF specified no kitchen access. (this was early 2015)

I didn't particularly care as it was a temporary situation for me and I was used to road life in hotels without a kitchen, but it quickly became a red flag as it always seemed to accompany some other sketchy situation.
Ouch, sorry Waterloo.
I am seeing a lot of investments and MASSIVE promised commitments by a lot of people/company. Is all this money going towards paying experts/ buying equipments ? Don't get me wrong, I like seeing all this money being poured in. It's just that i'm curious as to how this money is being used.

Tangentially, do you think any of this will trickle down to people who are trying to learn math/ML in the form of scholarships?
Isn't it abandoned by it's author?
From the article cited by tjalfi[0]:

Nevin collected lead data and crime data for Australia and found a close match. Ditto for Canada. And Great Britain and Finland and France and Italy and New Zealand and West Germany. Every time, the two curves fit each other astonishingly well. When I spoke to Nevin about this, I asked him if he had ever found a country that didn't fit the theory. "No," he replied. "Not one."

The correlation even goes down to the neighborhood level:

In fact, Mielke has even studied lead concentrations at the neighborhood level in New Orleans and shared his maps with the local police. "When they overlay them with crime maps," he told me, "they realize they match up."

[0]http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...
Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson (1813)
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I don't know if I might be a little less smarter than average but could someone please enlighten. e on why RobinHood is valued at such an amount? What special purpose do they solve that C.S wouldn't copy as a feature or own in the nearest future?
SourceForge still provide the best project web hosting service that I know of. They recently enabled https on project sites too.

It will be interesting to see what their big redesign is.
The $10 per month is only if you need some additional ability beyond basic trading. If you can live with three day clearing time (i.e. trading in a cash account) then the trades are free.
I haven't been here long enough to really judge (I've only checked the libraries in Clapham Junction and Clapham Common), but I can see a contradiction here:

> Libraries in London are very much like libraries in the U.S.

> Library has wifi too but the quality is not so great

When I was living in Canada, libraries would be open 24/7 during exams. That was just... incredible. In France you're lucky if you have restrooms in the library.
You really need to add an email signup for people interested in CoBattery for Android. At least by the time you write the next part of your blog post.
> you don't see a lot of Lisp/Clojure (correct me if I am wrong) in environments where you need to be pragmatic and move quickly.

I don't know if you're wrong but isn't that the opposite of what PG claimed in his famous "Beating the Averages" essay? http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
I think what Robinhood is doing with Gold accounts is pretty shady. I'm guessing that the vast majority of people who trade on margin don't fully comprehend the risks in doing so.
It seems objectively better for some people to have access to money -- in this case the GiveWell founder. He's done great work there and now he's helping OpenAI all via a Facebook founder's billions.
The amount comments from 1 day old accounts in this thread advertising graph.cool is silly.
Yes but in the rest of the US it isn't
When OpenAI was announced, they mentioned having $1B in funding. Why the additional $30M?
Your idea of "compromise" is to demand capitulation. There is no reason for anyone to comply with your demands because you bring nothing to the table.

In the end, it was conservatives who shot Milo down by exposing his advocacy of Catholic priest molestation. His remaining supporters are fascist and reactionary pedophiles.
Answer: no one cares
Architecture professional from USA. Yep, the language was the official reason why she was getting rejected. Actually, as a lecturer, he has problems not knowing Danish even at the university - internal staff refused to speak English on meetings.

As you said, it's just anecdote - one's experience.
It's free actually. The $10 / month subscription is for their Gold service which gives limited credit and removes the 3 day wait for transactions to settle.
You guys do your own thing and I'll do mine.

We'll see who comes out on top with the better job.

The power that I have is the ability to up and leave and go somewhere else that offers me a better deal.

And I will absolutely use my power of leaving if a group every tries to force me to join a union.
I do discuss map/filter/reduce, but not in comparison to for-loops, as the book presumes that FP is the only thing there is (analogous to how imperative language books don't mention they are great replacements for assembly language). I just realized today that I don’t have anything about list comprehensions, and I may want to add a page on that topic.
Similarly I'd love to see an operating system that operated like a database.

Hate the arbitrary ascii-file nonsense. If the state of the operating system is in a proper ACID database it would be so nice. Tooling could make it just as easy as ascii files but under the hood it would be better.
LastPass remote code execution vulnerability (Patched – Project Zero)
New England (not a state, but let's not get too specific here,) but off the beaten track. Small town with a big University. There are really only about four companies around here who could credibly offer me offer me a job doing something I want to do at a rate I want to do it for.

That's a double-edged sword. On one hand I have to be pretty careful not to burn bridges or hop jobs, cause if I want to stay around here I'll run out of both quickly. On the other hand established developers around here all know each other, pretty much, so the network effect is very, very strong.

And that even means easy intros to people who work remotely for interesting companies elsewhere (which seems to be more and more a thing.) Just in the last month I've met people, through my local network, who work for places like Trello, Circle, etc.

The Circle guy in particular- well, he came up to introduce himself after a talk I gave, and some of what he's doing for Circle is very much up my alley, so if I wanted a different job or a remote job (I don't at the moment) I might hit him up.
They have invested huge amounts of money in the bay area. Reducing costs and making it more livable is a pretty smart decision. You don't lose employees who can't stand the commute, or want to be able to afford more than a tiny apartment at some point. You can improve your public image. Homelessness can be reduced. It's good for the environment. Etc...
> America needs to redirect the monies used to support a ten carrier fleet which can serve no purpose with regards to China or Russia.

The current administration wants a twelve carrier fleet[0,1] and a significant buildup of American military capability, so I don't think that redirection is going to happen anytime soon.

[0]http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a25555/t...

[1]http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/02/aboard-ford-tr...
Paving the way for human-level sentence corrections
The phrasing "Canada's AI Moment" to me implies that this is temporary.
No language I've used is exempt from the possibility of people writing bad code evoking those questions.

In fact I've had these reactions at various times to code in every language I've worked in (including Clojure, to be sure), but I don't agree with your argument about Clojure having greater than average inherent complexity.

Once you get comfortable with parens, the core seq functions, and even a basic understanding of laziness & immutability, so much of the inherent complexity you find in many programs just goes away. Well -- most of the time. Again, Clojure is not going to stop you from negating these niceties with bad decisions.

The one thing I'd maybe admit to it being a little above average on is the temptation to over-engineer due to novelty or feeling clever. Let's rub some core.async on it! Parallelize all the things! It's actually easier to do this because of the lack of inherent complexity in Clojure -- as the author mentions, everything is oriented around simple maps & lists, so juggling them and squeezing them through Rube Goldberg machines of transformations and mystery macros is definitely a thing you can do.

But, ideally, you just learn to . . . not do that. Like abusing Ruby metaprogramming.
I one person who isn't sure about that. I don't see why it wouldn't be good for us to evolve into something more advanced. Whether that's through melding with AI or advanced genetic engineering that outcome could be fantastic (assuming the transition is well managed, broadly distributed and happens through choice etc). It could lead to elimination of disease, aging, reduced ecological footprint, all kinds of benefits. And of course we've evolved before, it would be sad I think if this was the final state - I think we can do better!
What a peculiar thing to argue, but in the same spirit most nukes haven't killed a single person. The ones that did had really good delivery mechanisms, which don't come prepackaged with the nuke.
For a brief second after reading the title, I thought I might be getting a Google Drive client on Linux... jokes on me!
Well, in that case the Internet "map"'s problem is less the dicks drawn here and there than its being covered on every square centimeter by ads. Oh wait, I think I see the part of the map I needed... oh, no, just another ad designed to make me think it was part of the map.
This is why as much as I dislike Go, I'm glad to use it on a team
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dist-upgrade shouldn't try and move you to another release version, do-release-upgrade alone does that, as far as I know. Things get a little more confusing using apt update/upgrade vs. apt-get update/dist-upgrade, they don't seem to be quite the same in all cases for me. But I agree with the general frustration that it shouldn't be necessary to run apt(-get) autoremove frequently to keep /boot from filling up with old kernels.
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My team is responsible for building small services on top of existing databases (or other API) and we found real success with Clojure. It took a little while to learn, but after you understood the basics it was damn simple to dig into a deeply nested JSON response to get at only the data you needed.

We have since moved away from it because of the inertia required to get past the curly fingernail stigma. But even with Go/Python we haven't been able to get the same velocity compared to Clojure services.
TeX source for the book is available at http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/. I believe this is the latest version.
I've always thought that arcdegrees should be what we measure UI's in: how much of a user's field of view does this thing consume? After all, what makes text "small" is that how much of my FoV it consumes (or doesn't). Not inches, or points, or pixels.

(Admittedly, "points" are still likely a good measurement for print. Perhaps one can work backwards and fudge point as a measure of angle if you consider 12 point font at a typical viewing distance.)

I assume the real hard piece is figuring out the distance the display is going to be viewed at. Some definite defaults exist (phones are typically about the same distance away, same with desktop monitors) but unique situations certainly can exist. (I'm also assuming that the monitor can report it's physical size and resolution; combined w/ viewing distance, it should be possible to calculate FoV.) If you did this, you should be able to mostly seemlessly split a window between two displays, and have it be equal "size" in the FoV. (of course, some displays have borders, so that fudges it a bit.)
How is that working out for you? Isn't the pay significantly less being a sysadmin?
Time to log off the internet, thankfully it's on Saturday.
Sometimes the outcomes are better when appointed technocrats to decide things, particularly when the people are manifestly incapable of making good decisions.

Of course, there is something to be said for allowing people to screw up their own government irreparably and be forced to suffer the consequences.
Wow, that is an important point that I did not know about. Luckily we do have the resources to pay for OnShape, so all of our files are private and have been private.
FYI - you will not have a good time buying and selling stocks onesie-twosie when it comes time to filling out your tax return.

If you want to avoid commissions, Schwab & Fidelity have commission free ETF's - just buy and hold.
"yeah we're done here"

You're proving my point. Precisely BECAUSE somebody discharged a firearm, in your mind now the case is closed it's ALL fake news. I'm saying that the reporting on this guy is light, but we're supposed to dismiss the strange coded emails now. Nah I think I'll continue to keep my eye on it.

Lesson learned for anyone want to sweep something under a rug. Just pay some mentally ill person to discharge a firearm nearby, say they did it because Jodie Foster or Alex Jones told the place was suspicious and then CNN will ensure to brand the act as a "lesson of fake news" and impossible to discuss now.
Flashforge, about 700 to 800 on Amazon. qidi clone is 400. Monoprice.com has a basic one for 349. Parts cost about 200 if you diy, I am told.
I agree. Especially when most of their user base is probably millennials who are < 2 years into trading. A bit scary.
Can you make a numerate argument that solar is more cost effective than nuclear?
I started using LastPass because I found that for all but my bank, Google, and Amazon passwords, I was using the same password on every other page. I've found that it's really great to just let LastPass pick a lengthy password for every new site I join and know that I'll still be able to log into it later from my phone or my laptop or my desktop without problem.

I get that it's got some serious security holes, but it's better than not using it, because if I don't use it then I'm just gonna start repeating the same username and password across sites again.

The enemy I'm fighting is my own laziness. I'm not choosing between "use LastPass" and "lock my passwords in an encrypted fileystem." I'm choosing between "use LastPass" and "use the same password everywhere," and LastPass is better than that.
Winning me over is easy.

Give me a better deal.

If the union job pays 50% more then I will take it. I'd have to be stupid not to.

But don't expect my loyalty to the union. As soon as it become a better deal to do something else, I am going to do that thing.

I don't care about solidarity, or "crossing the picket line" or whatever. I will take the best deal that is offered to me.
Also there is an object system called Flavors for the early Lisp flavor ZetaLisp.
As always with human language, the word ends up meaning whatever a substantial plurality believe it to mean.
Also? I haven't been a proponent of any raids. I'm not even sure if in-the-mail charges are in order for creating these trojans without using them offensively. I'm talking about the intent and purpose of the application, not what should be done about it.
Unix 'capabilities' (before Capsicum, iirc) were a different thing with the same name. Confusing. Unix actually does have a different construct that is like a classical capability: an open file descriptor that you can send to another process over a Unix domain socket.
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1) Robinhood Gold is margin lending i.e. lending money to customers who want leverage. The monthly fee is effectively the loan's interest rate, rebranded in less shady terms.

2) They have very valuable order flow, which they sell. Almost all of Robinhood's customers are unsophisticated investors. Trading firms pay a lot of money for unsophisticated trading flow as there's room to "skim off the top".

3) Add in the typical "successful VC-backed startup" premium.
Well put. The Open Philanthropy folks take a broadly similar view of the probabilities, both of when strong AI is likely to arrive and of how much positive influence per dollar they can have on how things turn out:

http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/potential-risks-advance...
Out of the whole agenda, privacy is the only item for which it matters at all that we're in tech. Everything else seems to be things he hopes wealthy people in any booming industry care about.
It's illusory to think that we have a choice. It's hard to avoid becoming obsolete over a long timespan.
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Ask HN: If security is so important, why do we make it so hard?
I think we can all agree that server security is important, and general security like protection from man in the middle attacks.

So why do we make it so hard? Why hasn't anyone taken up the mantel to automate even the basics like securing common server setups? Like letsencrypt did for ssl certificates.
Tomorrow? ;-)
It's so bad. If you offered the same people a loan at x% annual interest rate, I bet far fewer of them would bite, but that's exactly what the Gold monthly fee is.
Agreed!

Just being a SoC has another advantage: reduced part count, so you can fit more functionality onto a smaller PCBA.

Another commenter mentioned the Cyclone V and Zynq SoCs. My day job is in the telco industry. The equipment vendors we sell to are always pushing for higher and higher densities in their chassis and line cards, and it drives a lot of our design decisions. Chips like the Cyclone V and Zynq help a lot in achieving those aims. Our PCBAs have shrunk dramatically (with increasing functionality) over the last decade.

The continual pressure to reduce costs and power consumption also leads to choices like minimizing the other available system resources (e.g. clocks, memory bandwidth, RAM, flash), which can end up reducing the effectiveness of a GPU.

As with everything in engineering, there are many different problem domains, each with unique constraints dictating different solutions.
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See section 2, "Case for the grant".
Right? This is an odd choice. Google just built their massive new campus in Waterloo, and University of Waterloo is one of the best engineer schools and computer science schools in the world, but they build this an hour away in a market that is much more expensive? An odd choice for sure.
They know when they bid. The easiest way to think of it is that they check your cookies and have a few milliseconds to decide how much to bid. Whoever wins pays and gets the slot.

They aren't using your web history specifically, because it's actually pretty hard to do a good job inferring things about you in the few milliseconds you have to make a bid. Instead, there are multi-billion dollar companies including Google and Facebook who do the intetpreting for you and sort of offer a taxonomy of audience groups for you to choose from.

So the cookie check at bid time is usually asking one of these middlemen data processing companies for their read on you, which is derived from your browsing history or your Facebook post contents or even what you write in Gmail.

Only thing I'd add is that there are many heuristics for deciding how valuable you are as a pair of eyes. Retargeting is about getting an ad to follow you around the internet. But there's also geographical and demographic targeting, which depends on the advertiser having a hypothesis about which target audience is worth engaging.
pedantry and avoiding the whole logical point. the whole point is there can exist such secrets. how about if they leak seal team 6's location the second they touch down to kill osama? can you honestly not think of such a situation? if you can then why not refute the point instead of dissembling?
Ugh. How can it be possible that my favorite technology service in 2017 is perpetuating something that absolutely must die ?

Common decency dictates that we must do everything possible to make faxing as hard as possible.

When someone asks you to fax something, pretend you have no idea what they're talking about.

Then ridicule them.
Microsoft has definitely stepped up its open source efforts in recent years and should be lauded for that: projects like TypeScript are good for the community.

Still, their brag about being the most popular org made me wonder how the chips would shake out if you could truly count all the software published by one company. Google, for instance, tends to have separate orgs for its major open source projects: Polymer, Angular, Material, AMP, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Firebase, and Chrome are all examples of major Google open source projects that each have (at least) one of their own orgs.

GitHub's org/repo URL scheme doesn't scale well to companies with many unrelated initiatives, so measuring "most contributors by GitHub org" isn't a useful metric.
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WTF?

"Programmable Fax" - as if fax was somehow not accessible to computers before twilio invented a proprietary API for it. Yes, it was, believe it or not: You can indeed send faxes from software, via a fax modem connected to a landline, or an ISDN TA connected to an ISDN line, via a GSM MT connected to a GSM network ...

Or, if you like your internet and don't want to deal with older communications networks directly, there even is a frickin non-proprietary API for it that was standardised nearly two decades ago: T.37 and T.38. And there have been companies offering gateway services that allow you to send faxes to the PSTN using those APIs for about as long.
I understand that their advantage is the $0 trading commission. From what I've heard, they have a minimal feature set in order to support commissionless trading, and most of their funding comes from 'float' (interest on unspent money in their members' accounts) -- although, from other comments here, it sounds like this might be changing.

Schwab can't copy $0 commissions without removing their reporting tools; I expect the companies will be comfortably able to coexist.
I agree. It has all been quite vague. I wonder if any will go towards AI based startups.
I am a bit confused about what you are referring to. Are you saying that we do not have many choices when it comes to work? I am about to graduate, but a lot of people seem to be saying that once you gain experience it is easy to hop to different jobs.