skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could add some fangs to it yourself[1] by forking it...

1: https://github.com/citp/ad-blocking/tree/master/perceptual-a...
Gopher!
Not only that, but bugs come and go. People add a bunch of tech debt issues into the system, then a bunch of feature requests, possible bugs, and whatnot gets added. Then some big milestone or release comes up and everyone filters through the list, deciding what to fix and what not to. And then anything that doesn't need to get fixed "RIGHT GODDAMN NOW" often ends up on the ash heap of history, never to be seen again. And then years later someone looks at the code or runs into a bug and remembers "oh yeah..., hey, we should fix this eventually".

If you want to fix/change something eventually at some indeterminate time in the future then comment TODOs are a good place for that sort of issue to live.
Came here to say the same thing. It seems like a complete oversight to not even mention reddit, but bring up platforms like Yik Yak.

For my 2 cents, reddit's model is absolutely the road forward for long-term sustainability below the Twitter-Facebook level. Subreddits give the ability for the larger community to grow horizontally in a perpetual, organic way.

Barring any really site-wide admin screw up, reddit will continue to enjoy its position. It's already weathered enough turmoil and scandal that I don't see it ever going the way of Digg.
New Zealand is currently running gigabit fibre to 85%(?) if the country, for no instillation cost.

In a couple of years NZ will have one of the highest (if not the highest) average internet speeds in the world.
> they completely leave out King of the Hill?!?!

cause this is a PR piece for the new season of silicon valley
Remember that 30% is it for tax, other than the 15% GST built in to all purchases. There's no city or state taxes, no payroll tax, no additional costs for health insurance and no cost of compliance - as an employed individual you don't need an accountant to do your taxes.
Assuming you're using tax prep software, you still have to click through all the stuff that doesn't apply to you, and it behooves you to at least skim the text to be sure that law changes haven't changed anything for you this year. Just the act of clicking "no" on everything will probably run you a good 20 minutes, with another 5-10 of actually entering your W-2 data and supplying payment information.
The machines are generating accurate semantic graphs of human generated text representations of human observations.
Intel could have allowed more memory in the real mode, instead of providing that only in protected mode incompatible with the existing software ecosystem.
Kenneth from 30 Rock doesn't make them uncomfortable. They don't get KotH because they don't get the humor. Because they don't get lower middle class red state suburban culture. They see it as an absence of culture. They'd rather move to New Zealand (another HN thread that's going on right now) than learn about domestic cultures.
I don't know where you're getting those figures from, but they're off by more than a factor of 2 based on information I have from friends in Google and previous disclosures here on HN by Googlers. Google won't pay most new hires out of school much over $100k in the bay area, and they adjust based on living expense. AFAIK the higher end of junior compensation is close to $200k, which is where you start getting into the entry senior level salaries. There certainly are engineers at Google getting paid $350k in base + bonus compensation but they're not people who only know how to do basic competition problems and enough theory to get a 4 year degree.
> I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day.

It's pretty disturbing that it explicitly endorses eugenics to do that, though.

Edit: If you disagree, please explain how "the world is going to hell because stupid people are breeding too much" isn't eugenics.
The tax code is too complex, which is why it takes so much work to correctly compute what you owe. It doesn't matter whether the tax payer does this, or someone does this on their behalf to make it "easy". Taxes should be simple to pay because they're simply structured.

In the US, Congress derives much of its power from tweaking the tax code, it's how campaign contributions are rewarded. Do this for a hundred years, and you get a complex tax code. This is also why it's not going to be simplified anytime soon, since Congress will never vote to reduce its own power.
They were Chicago Department of Aviation police. They're hired by the City Aviation department and usually have police training, but are not allowed to arrest citizens or carry guns (although they have been asking).

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2017/3-Things-to-K...

tldr: They're rent-a-cops hired by the airport, not United.
As if other books on linear algebra have bullshit... This contributes to the "math sucks" culture. Math is fun an easy to learn. It just takes effort, like any other skill.
Show HN: Slingring – Chroot-based development containers powered by Ansible
The article puts a significant emphasis on the idea that bulletproof ad-blocking technology, assuming that's what this turns out to be in practice, will work long-term becuase of legal restrictions imposed by the FTC. If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to keep them happy. Lobbyists will be paid, and donations will be made. Anti-ad-blocking laws will be introduced, or the FTC's ad identification restrictions will be relaxed. Ads aren't going anywhere, and neither are advertisers.
How to Make Electric Truck with DC Motor – Simple – Easy DIY
Nvidia's Hackintosh Support Is an Insurgency Against Apple's Upgrade Policies
‪Self-driving taxi startup Voyage hints that its rides will be free
Notes on cryptographic schemes and attacks
...before this, I'm not sure I've ever seen a "for the children" argument that supported individual rights. And perhaps worse, I never even noticed until this moment.

It's a bit funny, I regularly argue for youth rights, but standard "for the children" arguments are purely rights-restrictive.
You're missing a /s there.
*losing, every

Yeah, it's actually kind of amazing how many 'traditional' checkboxes Uber seems to miss with its 'rapid growth'. Little network effect lockin, low (ish) barrier to entry (with the hardest thing being brand recognition, with news of new/cheaper/'better' ridesharing plats potentially spreading like wildfire), opportunistic customers (and even drivers) without brand loyalty.

If Kalanick implements some sort of amazing plan to pull them through despite all of that (not counting the moonshot of expediting SDCs into the market) he'll be a walking testament to the whole 'market doesn't care who you are as a person, but if you can get the job done' maxim.

I'm not necessarily bearish - I'm not expecting an upset like that, but I'm not particularly invested in Uber so am more keeping an eye on it for the entertainment than anything.
Sure, let's move to Nengo forums. Do you mind creating a topic there and sending me a link?

I actually don't know much about spiking NNs (software or hardware), but Spaun seems like the only real competitor to HTM. Unlike Spaun, Numenta's algorithms are not currently limited by computational resources, because they focus on a rather small part of neocortex (2-3 layers of a single region, working with tiny input sizes), and they abstract spikes. Numenta claims that if we understand what spikes are doing (computation and information transfer), then there's not need to emulate them exactly, we can construct algorithms which do the same thing using traditional computations and data structures. Instead, HTM wants to understand what the layers do and how they interact.

There have been an interesting discussion on Numenta mailing list, with James Smith, who is developing his own spikes-focused theory of the neural computation:
http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic-theory_lists.nument...

I believe he has been working on it since, and plans to publish a book.

The internship offer is from HRL, a small company in Malibu. It's quite possible that they are looking at the ideas of your lab-mate, and they might even ask me to implement them. I'm still deciding though.
Yes, but that doesn't seem to cover "Oops. We don't have available seats." Surely no one is suggesting that an airline can't deplane a passenger because there's a broken seat or because some condition means the plane will be overweight if they fill all the seats. There are circumstances where an airline has to reduce the number of passengers one way or the other. (Of course, there are reasonable ways and decidedly less reasonable ways to do that.)
I've already given you my reasons. Why not think about them for a while?
From what I've seen Mastodon shows an anti-capitalist message in its home page. I'm not surprised it's a left-wing echo chamber comparable to what gab.ai is for the right-wing. I don't understand why would they limit themselves to that. Many of us see the value of open source but are not anti-capitalistic, Marxist, or liberal.

Edit: I made a mistake. I saw that message in this instance: https://oulipo.social/ (the one that was popular a few days ago for not allowing you to use the letter "e") and I believed that to be the default message for a Mastodon instance. Sorry for any confusion.
Correct. Writes need to be directed to master. May be not only writes but some reads as well. Only application can know which statement can be executed on replicas and which must be executed on master.
Not just in DAU either. Mind-share wise, it has a huge influence on the wider web and is increasingly the platform for content stealers (the 9gags, buzzfeeds, and facebook pages).
Ah OK well I will do in a few days... Don't want to SPAM. Thanks
Hints on High-Assurance, Cyber-Physical, System Design (2016) [pdf]
I think these guys haven't read pg's Submarine [1]. Assuming everything works as they claim (it won't), the ads will just pretend to be articles.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Check out "General Adversarial Networks". It's basically training a two-part AI via an arms race; one part is trying to fake out the other, the other is trying to detect the fake.
Google Searchs for World War 3 at all time highs
That's a terrible idea. It would be a PR disaster each and every time you tried to do it.
I guess look for salaries to explode in adtech.
Hi everyone, I am the author of Slingring. It is in a very early stage and I am interested in your opinion on the basic concept as well as my approach. Please ask anything you want to know :)
Galois Inc is an awesome company that does difficult R&D, product development, and uses/creates cutting-edge tech. Much of what they do gets put in their GitHub. This paper, which doesn’t have any math or anything, describes general principles they used in their work on high-assurance security of UAV’s for DARPA. Some of the tools, like Ivory and Tower languages, are also open-source.

https://github.com/GaloisInc/

https://galois.com/blog/

http://ivorylang.org/ivory-introduction.html
If I understand the article correctly, DOS extenders weren't feasible until the 386, because the 286 couldn't switch out of protected mode and back to real mode except by doing a full reset.
If you are looking at custom domain + self-hosting, I suggest looking into cloudron.io. They have wordpress as an app (but I recommend looking into Ghost as well).
Oh, great idea. Main thing missing for me in readthedocs is the mobile table of contents view feels somewhat unfriendly / poor usability. But I'll do some more mobile ToC usability research.
:D thanks for the shoutout. https://www.productmanagerhq.com (link for PMHQ Weekly newsletter)
And yet people somehow still manage to live happy, financially-secure lives in Sweden. There's a lot more to consider about livability than just "what would my tax burden look like?"

I would much rather pay more to a Sweden-/Europe-style system and feel like I was actually getting something for my taxes, vs. the current state in the US where I only feel like a small fraction of my tax bill actually goes toward expenditures I think are reasonable. And to top it off, this year my tax bill is going to an administration that actively hurts people I care about with its policies. Gross.
Dang marked it off-topic, fairly, so I deleted. Regardless, there's no button in the interface to do that.
Patreon works around the concept of subscriptions, rather than one-off payments. One-off payments seems like the better idea, and a cryptocurrency seems like a natural fit. Perhaps not bitcoin, since the fees are so high, but maybe ethereum or litecoin.
Does anyone know of an online, public, shared mindmap type thing?
I wouldn't say he considers it a negative signal considering how he said if he had to pick someone off the street he would prefer the one who is good at programming competitions.

However if you are above the bar required to get hired by google, then a higher success rate in programming competitions correlates negatively with job performance.
The Crisis of Attention Theft – Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return
I've seen in person how an attempt at creating a novel data processing engine just ended up reimplementing the vast majority of the SQL standard. It's almost like a fundamental property of nature.
Nice! And looks like there are some jekyll+scrollspy combinations.

i.e. https://knanne.github.io/posts/how-to-create-custom-post-nav... (no ToC on mobile w this implementation, though)
> I've always subscribed to the theory that depression is an indicator that you need to make changes in your life.

Depression is an umbrella term that covers several different forms of the illness.

But most people treating depression talk about the "bio psycho social" model - that people may needs meds for the biological stuff; a talking therapy for the psychological stuff; and lifestyle changes and interventions for all the rest.
I use a hosts file, and uBlock Origin. I can't remember the last time I've seen an ad on a website. I'm thinking there's not a lot of room for improvement.
I just use factory functions that return an object that has arrow functions as properties, then I get private information via closures, and I don't have to worry about dealing with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwrezYhw4w
I did some work for the IRS several years ago to explore the same idea. There are many benefits, including simplicity and accuracy of filing (closing the $500B tax gap), as well as better fraud protection (another $25B).
Protectionism of the tax return industry is common, but not the primary reason. Instead, the biggest pushback is from taxpayer advocacy groups. The issue is this: for many Americans, particularly low income Americans, their tax refund is the largest check they receive all year. Delaying that refund in order to receive all tax information (e.g., from banks and employers) and pre-populate a tax return would push back initial refund checks by 1-2 months. This is tantamount to political suicide.

More detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14004152
Don't mean to jump on you, but yesterday you posted with the interesting fact that you'd never heard of SWOT before. Maybe hang back a bit more next time? Maybe do some Googling so you don't come off like "I'm 12 years old and what is this?"
I would feel less opposed to over-withholding if the government were required to pay interest along with your refund.
Freely Available ISO/IEC Standards
This is a very interesting story about a Stanford professor that tried to get California to pass a law to make paying state taxes easier.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

More: https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
> And doing all those at the same time only requires a couple processors.

A couple of general-purpose CPU cores you mean?

How about: at least one CPU in WiFi subsystem, another in the Gigabit Ethernet card, another as high-speed interface host controller, video subsystem probably several (8K resolution / stereo, decoding + transcoding + (de)watermarking + error concealment + post processing), audio one or more (Dolby Volume, spatial sound), demodulation + demuxing of container formats at high speed at least one more maybe?

My point is really -- laptop should be able to do all that great stuff you enumerated, and more yet, all at the same time. As data volumes and our expectations grow, and Moore law comes to end, more cores will be needed, and I say there will be work for more of them than just 4 or 8.
They don't want to have that higher-up with authority on every airport. The fewer people can dole out compensation, the less compensation you end up paying.
Is there an open source forum-CMS like phpBB that works like imgur but can be self hosted? Discourse would be the only candidate I can think of and I don't think I could teach my welder buddy to admin it for his welding group (he doesn't like FB).
> How can one not know what they make post-tax, at least well enough to not be off by a few dollars? That is, after all, what one has to actually pay bills with.

In my case, because I spend significantly less than I make, so I don't really need to think about my monthly bills. Yes, that's an incredible luxury, and yes I have friends and family for whom even a few tens of dollars of unexpected expense at the wrong time can mean disaster (and yes, I help them out).

Like you, when I made minimum wage I knew my after-withholding figure. But now? I honestly don't know.
"Because advertisers must comply with these regulations..."

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. sigh
Australian internet is leagues behind NZ internet. NZ reliably has fibre in most places in the cities, and a plan to get fibre to 80% of the population by 2020 (FTTB). This is in contrast to the botched Australian plan (search for NBN) which targets FTTN. In NZ there's also plenty of good, reliable fast public wifi (especially if you have a Spark mobile plan).
> Math is fun an easy to learn. It just takes effort, like any other skill.

For you, and for me, but not for everyone.

Why worry about the title if it brings more people to the table?
Looks like an air conditioner to me. Its a liquid that absorbs heat, evaporates... while in gaseous form it is pumped to another location where it condenses and pumps heat out.

Yeah, its nothing more than a fancy air conditioner. http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/how_it_works/images/air_condit...

In any case: I'm curious why you think this cabinet hold any use with regard to nanometer scale engineering tasks:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/1985-Cra...

There's a big difference between "cooling down a cabinet" and "cooling down a 10x10nm hotspot"

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IBM's "liquid cooled chips" might be a potential solution: where water is pumped through channels on the die itself. (!!!). The water absorbs the heat directly from the die.

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-ibm-is-making-computers-more-l...

But the technological hurdles to accomplish this sort of task are massive! IBM's done it, but no one else has figured out how to do it. So its not a simple task by any stretch of the imagination.
I agree that if your goal is to build a machine that decides who gets to become a doctor, you need to do more than just let it loose on a bunch of text.

But I don't think preventing it from learning the current state of the world is a good strategy. Adding a separate "morality system" seems like a more robust solution.
Scrollspy looks great, thank you.

Single page guides with education on specific topics. e.g. "How to do X". Where the alternative would be writing a book, or a long blog post, or maybe an infographic.

And yeah, you're right. Maybe I should just do HTML/CSS. Now leaning that way.
NASA missions provide new insights into 'ocean worlds' in our solar system
An interesting note on 1: back during the Snowden and Manning leaks, Bruce Schneier strongly believed that there was a still-unknown leaker because some of the data shouldn't have been available to the other leakers.

Not sure if these are related, but the latest round makes pretty clear that there's been either a new leaker or a serious attack.
Both are true. Microsoft has gotten a lot better. There are other operating systems that are more secure.
Got offered a Delphi contractor role last week for £800/day but required travelling and fixed deadline.
I prefer to combine arrow functions with factory functions, and avoid classes completely. You get private variables and functions via closures. The only real downside is that it's slightly slower.

Here's a good video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwrezYhw4w
> In a GCed language, both the map and the original code can safely share a reference without having to worry about coordinating lifetime.

Go is GCed language. Show me the code that will do what you claim (map[var1] = var2 and use var1(type string) and var2(type string) in later code) in Go.
> You are not wrong but the question isn't whether a platform is allowed to have a pov and an agenda rather it is should we trust our time, our lives, our stories to such centralized platforms.

Surely it can be inferred that the question of whether a platform has an agenda is relevant to whether they can be trusted.
Not only that, but value is relative. Parent commentor's assumption that !walled_garden == value is not going to be true for everyone. Some people like walled gardens. See: Apple customers.
I've seen worse, way worse, than Drupal Core.

That of course does not include Drupal modules - there is, similar to the Wordpress ecosystem, the really bad stuff.
Oh my God. This is the first time I've seen anything related to AI research that's given me a visceral reaction of terror.

This is more than just making pretty pictures, the machine understands cats and pigs in a human way. It knows how many legs and eyes they're supposed to have, and where they go. And this isn't some human made algorithm, it learned that on its own.

The language of the paper even implies that the researchers don't quite know how the machine can do it. If this is a prequel to research on strong AI humanity is completely fucked.
At risk of being very unpopular, am I the only person that doesn't mind ads? I mean some are pretty intrusive, but largely I'm happy to make the trade off. I'll look at (and maybe click on) your ad, if it means you have the cash to bring me what I want to look at. It's fantastic to think we live in a world where the web can support itself without ads, but it's not really practical, is it? Some stuff I'd support - but the best thing about the web is that I can dip in and out of sites completely based on one off content, knowing I don't have to pay before I read.

And the HN crowd is the sharp end of the web. A lot of us ARE likely to support the web in another way. The blunt end not so much. They're also the ones more likely to click on ads.
Because people are selfish and might volunteer to get 800 for themselves rather than let some other guy get 1200 (even if 1200 is the legal maximum).
You may disagree but most books I read on math, or subjects that require math, contain a sizable amount of BS. Not in the sense of containing things that are wrong but in the sense of containing things that are there for the author to show off rather than for the reader to comprehend the subject matter.

I read books to learn about something that I didn't know about before. So I as a reader can't distinguish between the important stuff and the 'fluff'. The author has to do that for me. The best texts do that rigorously but the bulk does not, unfortunately.
This is an asymmetrical game because most ads are meant to be recognized as such (product placement and sponsored content are subtler than that). So the anti ad AI has an advantage over the ad publishing one. If an ad gets through because the adblocker doesn't recognizes it AI probably the reader won't notice it too.