skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite that simple. DOS is not like what we think of as an OS today; more like some libraries that sit in RAM at known addresses plus a loader barely smart enough to transfer data from disk to RAM and start execution. All the intelligence is in the application program itself. And those programs were still stuck with 20-bit pointers.

It wasn't just a question of rewriting the OS, it was also a question of rewriting all the application software. Which eventually happened.
Allow me to be a bit skeptic about it.

This reminds me a lot of Bayesian spam filters. Those things worked great very few false positives and negatives, once Google started using it on a large scale (GMail) spammers started playing the system and often they are successful.
It's at least as much do with the industry's youth fetish; ideas that were common on mainframes are going to seem new and groundbreaking to you if you never work with anyone old enough to have used a mainframe.

The tech industry has no mechanisms for developing institutional memory, so we are constantly reinventing old wheels instead of developing new ones.
The NZ government bending over for the US government was not exactly very popular with the locals. A different government may have had a stronger spine.

You also forgot the part where Kim Dotcom is a convicted fraudster, who was making money through deliberate violation of copyright, is all tech talent like him?

Oh, and then there was the time he tried to get involved in NZ politics. That was not superpopular.
Saying they're going to release details at the end of this year is not the same as launching at the end of the year.
'Breaking' the internet for 50+ million people is a no go, they would just add a 10$ / month fee at the ISP level just like music CD's, because company's just want money and politicians want to get elected.
> He runs an extremely influential organization that administers a sort of purity pledge that, for most Republican candidates for Congress, is necessary to sign in order to avoid being primaried

How

in the hell

is that legal

Ugh, subproblems everywhere. Fucking campaign finance private-sectorizing the practical viability of taking public office.
You do realize they're closer to the Democrat's side on most issues? The Democrats aren't doing so well lately.
The first video linked is a very accurate representation of the users view. We have a current gen model at my company.

It's not vaporware, though you may not be able to find the exact videos you personally are looking for. Maybe that means it's just not for you. No bigs.
I'm still waiting on an A:B test that shows that UB in the compiler makes my computer run faster.
But the whole point of this approach (as I understand it) is that companies may be able to deliver the ads in the same HTTP response as the content, they may render the whole page as a <canvas>, they may go to crazy lengths, but by sitting on top of all of that, this software can still block pixels that look like an ad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban... :

> On 26 February 2012 the Danish newspaper Berlingske reported that US authorities have sufficient control over SWIFT to seize money being transferred between two European Union (EU) countries (Denmark and Germany), since they have seized around US$26,000 which was being transferred from a Danish businessman to a German bank. The transaction was automatically routed through the US, possibly because of the USD currency used in the transaction which is how the United States was able to seize the funds. The money was a payment for a batch of Cuban cigars previously imported to Germany by a German supplier. As justification for the seizure, the U.S. Treasury stated that the Danish businessman had violated the United States embargo against Cuba.
> Ubers bet is autonomous cars.

Out of the following contenders:

1) GM (+Cruise Automation), Mercedes or VW with their enormous supply networks, vendor lock-ins, economies of scale and ability to massively ramp up a car production when needed.

2) Tesla with their (allegedly unique) battery storage tech, working manufacturing facility and massive amounts of data harvested from thousands of Tesla vehicles on the roads today.

3) Google/Waymo with their unlimited budget, ability to partner up or buy whoever they choose, and nearly limitless amount of software engineering talent they can suddenly relocate to this project when desired.

4) Avis/Budget, Hertz or other fleet management company that already has a relationship with car manufacturer and can own/maintain/wash/clean/park/dispatch a large number of vehicles on the cheap.

5) Uber.

Why is #5 the strongest candidate? Does the dispatch app that displays available cars on the map create such a strong moat that #1, #2, #3 or #4 will never be able to replicate? Does Uber have a bunch of aces up their sleeve that will allow them to build/buy automobile manufacturing facilities on the cheap? Do they have a know-how of maintaining a large fleet and take care of simple things like changing a tire or cleaning the car after the previous passenger puked in it? And do that at scale?
The 640K thing precipitated the first program I ever wrote. If you can call it that.

I had a bunch of games I wanted to play in the early/mid 1990s, including Wing Commander. Each one seemed to require it's own config.sys/autoexec.bat, so I wrote a menu type thing to choose the game and do the appropriate setup.

The experience made me think about what else I could do by joining a few commands together. I wish the internet had been available to me then, because I would have made much faster progress if something like stackoverflow had existed.
And how cheap are the cheapest plans ? Also is an unlimited connection ?

My understanding was that it costs ~100NZD to get a decent connection and I was very surprised to notice than in most hotels / airbnbs it was one of the first things advertised - free WiFi. With our French mobiles, which costs 20e/month, you have unlimited data while in France and 5Go per stay, up to 35 days in a year in many countries (all Europe, US, New Zealand etc).
> You'll find occasional fossilized skeletons, but all that would tell future species is that a bipedal mammal with a large brain once existed.

Scrimshaw seems like it would be pretty good evidence of intelligence.
It makes sense for the simple case but I can see it getting a bit hairy if you're doing a variety of joins.

Then it would be FROM X join Y on .. join Z on .. join (..) as T SELECT X.A, Y.B WHERE ..

I guess it's jarring but that's due to me not being used to it. Some people prefer doing joins using there where clause in which case the FROM ends up being in closer to location to the WHERE.
I was thinking of moa, as the other comment mentioned.
I use 'self' as well, but for me it was because I used Python before JS.
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Yeah, as a Kiwi, I get very envious of housing quality when I travel to Europe. That said, we are (belatedly) fixing the problems in new builds at least, and there have been attempts to bring our rental stocks up to scratch in terms of insulation, but the issue being our centre-right government really doesn't like rocking the baby boomer boat (who make up the majority of our landlords), and so went for a carrot with no stick solution.
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The audience isn't obligated to listen, but it's also not entitled to use content in a manner that the copyright holder doesn't want them to either.

If a copyright holder (like Forbes) stipulates that their content is paid for using ads and they won't let you consume it without looking at the ads, then you're neither obligated to or entitled to consume it.
What I'm probably missing indeed is that scoping of universality to humans. Lately I've been trying to be more explicit in my written communications in an attempt to understand both the limits of my knowledge and perceptions and the limits of the sources of information that I digest.

Is suggesting that pleasantness is a sentiment that's not unique to humans really that controversial?

super late edit: it's specifically flowers, not plants, that people are biased towards finding pleasant
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But how important is the function vs. method distinction, really? I can't think of a reason the typical higher order function should care about whether its argument is a method on some object or not. That seems like a concern that should mostly be encapsulated in the function/method.

Dynamic `this` assumes we want methods to be portable between objects. That's nice and all, but I can't think of the last time I thought it was the best approach to solving a problem in real application code.
I think you're underestimating the difficulty of getting a system in tens of thousands of vehicles cheaply and easily.

Do you really think with this many players, that anyone is going to get a huge market? They're not. Uber, even if they manage to survive their lawsuit and build a working system, has plenty of fast followers in the self-driving systems market. So the competition will be at most 24 months behind. Not nearly enough time to acquire and retrofit a fleet of vehicles, and then deploy the fleet in numbers big enough to make a difference to their current cost structure. (Keep in mind the fleet acquisition is a capital expenditure.)

Second, they won't have a large market to distribute this technology, because they don't make cars, and the people that do make cars are already players in this space. I find it hard to believe that Volkswagon, Toyota, or General Motors would simply ditch their internal projects and license with a newcomer that has no manufacturing experience to be a supplier, especially when they themselves would be close to making their own solution which would be able able to be manufactured at scale.

Look, everyone knows that auto manufacturer navigation and entertainment systems suck, yet they still roll their own instead of wide partnering with Apple, Microsoft, Google. My Acura's infotainment system is awkward, slow, and outright user antagonistic, yet there it is.

At most, Uber's self driving kits could be what Alpine is to car stereos. Sure people buy them, but most don't, and if you already have one that works, you probably won't swap it out.
I don't mind ads in sidebars, banner ads, etc. I whitelist my adblocker and there's only three reasons I've ever blocked a site:

* The ad prevented me from getting to the content (popup modals, youtube preroll ads)

* The ad made noise (I've recently started using an autoplay-blocker which is on by default and helps with this, as well as annoying autoplay videos that aren't ads)

* The ad massively slowed down or crashed the page (for some reason, wikia seems to be particularly bad for this). This is much less common now that I have flash disabled by default.
> Even stuff like mars rover could be engineered to mine, manufacture and duplicate - eventually creating a colony of rovers that populate the planet and consume the planet's resources.

That's one of my favorite thought experiments in approaching the definition of life:

Suppose we build some robots with AI, and send them into space, and they land on some planet.

Those robots can mine raw materials and build other robots like themselves.

They're able to learn and teach each other, and improve their design and invent new things on their own.

Fast forward a few hundred years. That planet now hosts a civilization of robots, with their own culture, planning their own excursions into space.

To an external observer searching for Life™ and Intelligence™ in the cosmos, what would make our robot civilization fail to be qualified as such?
Yes, every step of machine learning has potential bias, we know that, that's what this whole discussion is about. Nobody would responsibly claim that they have solved bias. But they should be able to do something about it without their progress being denied by facile moral relativism.

If we can't agree that one can improve a system that automatically thinks "terrorist" when it sees the word "Arab" by making it not do that, we don't have much to talk about.
For many apps, especially those that aren't AAA with a full team of dedicated engineers behind them, the constant churn of Swift major version upgrades is a pretty good argument for just sticking with Objective-C.
Computers used to have good manuals, and the games had instructions. And some magazines were good at explaining this stuff.
If that's the game you want to play, or watch, HN is not the place. Here the game is de-escalation. It's sort of like leaving a campsite in better shape than you found it.

The problem with trading barbs is that it triggers worse and ends in doom. There's plenty of room for critique that doesn't destroy the threads.
Making sense out of the ambiguously-worded instructions has always been the complicated part for me. I have always found this to be infuriatingly stressful, so I hire professionals to deal with it.
Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi
Is it really a bad thing? When I see "vast reliance on agriculture", or, say, "net exporter of agricultural products", I read it as "self-sufficient country that can feed itself even in troubled times". If anything, this sort of thing might command a premium in the current environment.
> 1. Let's stop overbooking in the airline industry. The seats are already prepaid for. Who cares if a passenger shows or not? (It'd be different if they were losing revenue when a passenger doesn't show up; they aren't).

So they are loosing revenue. Here's why. A certain number of flights will be delayed, and people who are supposed to be on those connections... won't be. This means if they don't overbook, they will have more empty seats. They are pretty good with averages, and even though they are overbooked it generally works out due to the math that some people miss connections.

These people paid, but they still have to be flown to their final destination. Which means putting them on later flights... if you don't want to be told, "Hey, sorry... we can't fit you for a week..." then letting the airline fudge the numbers a bit and squeeze people in and book based on statistical analysis is fine.

Plus... the cost of all this... if they fly with more open seats... the cost of all of our tickets goes up. We say with our pocketbooks that we hate price hikes... this is why we have those stupidly small seats in the first place... everyone goes to Hipmonk and selects the cheapest flight they can find... not the fastest, not the most luxurious... the cheapest. They are doing what we want by overbooking based on statistics of who misses flights.

Anyway, what needs to happen is much more simple. Just remove the cap on the vouchers. And bid on seats. No takers at $400? Go to $600. No takers at $600. Go to $800... and so on. Eventually, even on a flight full of people heading to their mother's funeral, they will hit a number that someone is willing to take in exchange for taking a later flight.

You know how after 9/11 we reinforced the cabin doors and that was the only meaningful thing we needed to do and everything else they have spent billions upon billions of dollars for was just for show? Yeah, let's not go overboard and fuck up travel any more with regulations and more hassle. The root issue here is the abysmally small cap on vouchers.
Haha. That's the "get everyone to look in the same direction, aren't we a lovely family, infesting a take more ownership than you take shares" story that private business tells. In the end the ones making equity investments in the business walk away with the surplus (both in profit and in valuation). :)

I think coops are more suitable for that "change the world" while being "revolutionary" story. In fact many anarchists (and market socialists, and mutualists) envision a big coop sector to democratize work life. I think it's pretty revolutionary in that way. Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin promote these ideas.
What exactly does banning lobbying look like in a representative democracy?
Here's the link, but the qualification round for this year has already passed. https://code.google.com/codejam/
Eh, but it makes sense we still follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right? When people ask themselves, "What's the point of Life?" That's it: We're agents of entropy.
When was it, what versions of Drupal?
8 ended up as a massive rewrite to replace all the key parts with Symfony components.
Has the Dublin property bubble burst yet? Our's hasn't :(
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Very interesting... Most people probably look for libraries, platforms and frameworks in languages they prefer. Perhaps the decline of PHP popularity has been the biggest contributor to the demise of Drupal, in the sense of user land action.

I wonder if platforms like Django are a few years away from this. It seems that RoR is also losing lots of mindshare, it wasn't that long ago that we had a RoR article on the frontpage every other day. Such is life I guess... frameworks come and they go...
Or cash. If you're involuntarily bumped, they have to offer you cash, not a voucher that can only be used on certain days and expires in a year.
We have to ban this account if you won't stop violating the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I fucking love Mike Judge, King of the Hill is one of the best shows of all time.
So it is basically a fancy solar still. It's neat, but the title makes it sound like it is some amazing technological breakthrough, when it is really just a high tech improvement on a technology that has been around since the stone ages.
Thanks, I had missed that aspect of the movie in my analysis. To me the eugenics premise overshadowed the things you mention.

Indeed, the fact that the entire economy is managed by automation and is outside of the control of actual people was an interesting look at the future.
Anyone know if it interferes with uBlock? I'm on mobile and can't test now.
To be honest, your post sets off a number of red flags: micromanaging, second-guessing employees in their area of expertise, and asking "how do I become a unicorn".

You should take this as a cautionary tale: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/2/10898762/uber-ceo-travis-ka...

> Kalanick is not a designer... Yet he refused to entrust the rebranding process to someone else. This was an unusual decision, on his part. When overhauling the identify of their company, most CEOs hire experts—branding agencies that specialize in translating corporate values into fonts and colors—or assign the task to an in-house design team. Not Kalanick. For the past three years, he’s worked alongside Uber design director Shalim Amin and a dozen-or-so other folks, hammering out ideas from a poorly ventilated space they call the War Room. Along the way, he studied up on concepts ranging from kerning to color palettes. "I didn’t know any of this stuff," says Kalanick. "I just knew it was important, and so I wanted it to be good."
You forgot that a) it's warmer and b) Melbourne has a sweet nightlife - not surprising when it has the same population as our entire country.

Yeah, come to New Zealand because you like mountains and temperate rainforests. Not to advance your IT career. I think in 20 years time that may change though - the tyranny of distance applies less to software than other products.
> Fugue machine

Speaking of musical interfaces, Fugue Machine is practically perfect. I just wish you could have a longer loop length.
There is a bill in the works with a simple rule: you cannot remove seated passengers for non-safety reasons [1]. If you care about this issue, please call your U.S. Senators and ask them to prioritize it.

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/328497-dem-plans-bi...
Do Ryzen chips have this?
Oh puh-leeeeeeeeze, KotH has a broad appeal and heaps of "city slickers" watched and enjoyed it without irony or disdain for the characters. People haven't been completely retarded by living in cities, most of the stories in the KotH are fundamentally human and very relatable.
> In the fifth year you think you're gonna spend $6 and make $10. And now you're profitable.

In theory yes, but tracking the the progress of UberChina http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/18/uber-losing-1-billion-a-year-..., situation in Denmark or Spain, inability to win market share from established players in Russia, India or Malaysia introduce some real-world corrections to an otherwise ideal business plan.
JUCE has always been music focused. Originally it was created at the same time as the DAW Tracktion. It was split out of Tracktion and become its own product and Tracktion was sold to Mackie. Roli ended up purchasing JUCE and Tracktion was spun off into its own company.

Source: Tracktion developer since 2005.
The internet, 70's & 80's, the web, 90's.

It's fairly well established that inventing things gets easier when there are other things that you can build on top of.
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Even history tells us that some tiny bit of harmless personal information may be disastrous in the wrong hands when circumstances change, especially combined with automated data processing.

In the 1930s The Netherlands recorded the religious affiliation of every citizen inside their resident register (stored on punch cards for use with Hollerith machines).
After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands they were able to easily find out who was Jewish, had Jewish parents or grandparents. The consequences
those people had to face are well known.

Source (german): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenkartei#Niederlande
Isn't that the Intercepts whole M.O. though?
I read somewhere (unverified) that they couldn't send the crew to their destination via taxi/limo due to union regs.

Wasn't aware of that feature of Delta's check-in; that's actually really smart.

I'd be in favor of a system where involuntary bumps are banned, and the airline just takes (cash) bids for people who might volunteer, and is required to take the N lowest bids. I'd be ok with something like allowing the compensation to be vouchers if the airline is willing to make the voucher amount 2x (or something) of the cash amount.
>No one is ever going to use word vectors to figure out what genders are capable of what jobs.

How can you possibly make this claim?

Biased word embeddings have the potential to bias inference in downstream systems (whether it's another layer in a deep neural network or some other ML model).

It is not clear how to disentangle (probably) undesirable biases like these from distributed representations like word vectors.