skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be right. Though, as much as I complain about not being able to show the MVP to users, waiting to be sure feels like the lesser of two evils; part of the problem is that I don't even know what risks I'd be running by not getting an attorney's counsel.

No incorporation yet. I'm hoping a lawyer can help me determine if that's necessary, too.

Thanks. I'm glad you checked it out :)
I've never once written a line of Go or C to help me with an ops problem

Mostly true for me as well, but I sure have read a lot of C in my time. At the end of the day 90+% of all the underlying code I had to deal with was written in C and whenever it didn't do what I expected and I couldn't figure out why, I would pop the hood and take a look what it was going on. Also it was very handy to know C for all those times I had to try to get some 'Unix' application that was actually a Linux application compiled on not-Linux.

That being said I have no idea what Go is doing on the list.
Tax Day and the Technology Behind the Mail System
While I agree that it's funny (see Louis CK's cell phones and flying rant), it's IMO a weak argument when you think about it in earnest. This is a post about redesign, so we talk about the redesign. Also if you go further down, the device you're even typing this on is a mind-blowing wonder machine by any historic standard. Heck, the chair you're sitting on is! Things are getting better. And if no one ever complained, they wouldn't.
Because I've worked so much with native Android bugginess (versions of Android that crash if you try and pause an HTML5 video, crashes after X number of MediaPlayer loops where X is a large number around 5000, etc.), it can hard for me to use React Native because there's so many workarounds you're hoping the people behind components are implementing unless you want to start augmenting them yourself
> If I work a 70 hour week and we deliver on-time or early, I can take extra time off.

Well you'd need to work 6 hour days for 3 weeks straight just to break even, so how long do you need to do it for "extra" time off? A month, a month and a half? Never. I'd be shocked if I saw someone allowed one 30-hour week.

And what if you still deliver late? If management is poor enough to allow you in a situation where you need to work 1.75x beyond capacity just to meet a deadline, it's just as likely that you miss the deadline working that much, too. So if you miss it because management sucks you don't get your "extra" time off, I bet?

> I've had plenty of coworkers who are content with working the 9-5, not thinking about anything that's outside the box, because "that's not in their job description". I would not want to work with people like that.

The hours someone works has nothing to do with the quality of their work product or how committed they are to the business. I do plenty of things that aren't in my job description, I am well regarded professionally in my company and elsewhere, and I work 40.0 hours a week.

I've had plenty of coworkers who sit at the office all day, not thinking about anything other than work, because they have no personal life, no hobbies, and their entire sense of self worth is wrapped in what they do for a living. I would not want to work with people like that.

It's a good thing we can all decide what kind of life we want and do everything we can to live it!
Seems to fail for me on Chrome on all my OSX machines. Colleague on windows/chrome it works fine..
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It should probably be mentioned that I am in Australia, where the majority of people have less than 12Mbps down, and even more likely less than 1Mbps up
Atlassian or Microsoft. Although I hope not.
> labelling doesn't help anything

> You're being a bit of a bellend
That's only part of the marvel. The other part is the data that enables this. I am not sure 10 years ago Google had the 3D planimetry data it has now (I am looking at my small hometown and seeing it all in 3D, for example.)

Other than that, the web version has some new features, possibilities etc., compared to the old desktop version. But that's more debatable perhaps.
Is a college education necessary to become a great web developer?
As far as I'm aware, that relates to the only major poll since Brexit that suggested sufficient remorse on the Leave side to affect the referendum decision. That's why it was big news.

Even so, it was still well within the margin of error. Your rounding was misleading: the referendum result was 51.9% to 48.1%, almost a 4% gap.

It also still assumed, probably incorrectly, no remorse on the Remain side to cancel out the remorse from Leavers.

But probably more significantly than any of that, I think every other poll I've seen from reasonably credible sources in recent months has pointed the other way. The one you're talking about appears to have been an anomaly.
That's pretty fun, thanks for sharing ;)

Actually with a machine learning approach it's not immediately obvious to me how to incorporate it. I suppose an RNN or reinforcement learning could be used, in principle, to learn good reactions to a given sequence from the opponent, but it would take so many failures to train it, which would have to be generated more or less manually. I don't see how it could be done easily, and certainly not in an "online" way without delivering a pretty terrible play experience.

Are there any good examples of computer-controlled players using an online (or offline) machine learning-based approach to player control, that doesn't suffer from these problems?

The image that comes to mind for me is a computer player that gets better and better at beating you, but the problem is that with reinforcement learning there is no guarantee that this happens reliably and in an amount of time and gradient that would provide a good playing experience -- and then you'd be faced with the problem of it getting "too good", equally not a particularly good play experience.

Perhaps something in between? A machine learning approach that helps select and maybe parameterize these "scripts"?
How many drivers' numbers will I collect? I need the app to contact the nearest driver. Also, the pool service is highly difficult to recreate without the infrastructure uber provides. You'd basically have to start another uber.
Does anyone have a solid place to start with functional programming? Don't really care too much about the language it's associated with but would really like to jump into learning the concepts behind it.
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Dane here. According to the article he is from the Danish People's Party. Although pretty right wing on issues like immigration, they're not exactly a fringe party these days but also they have never been a governing party.

As for the official foreign policy, I think our government is sorry to see the UK leave ship as we have often had similar objectives when it came to EU politics. I don't think there is any desire to "punish" Britain as far as the Danish government is concerned.
Is there a list of editors which support RLS or is it just VSCode at the moment?
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I wonder if knowing the different strategies would make pro-humans better at playing the game. I feel like they might already have internalized the different strategies the computer uses, but still pretty surprising to see how simple the source code is.

Also cool to think about would be AI-vs-AI street fighter competitions. Or SF AI that learns from live matches currently being played online.
The old google earth was like an atlas and you could look at anything you'd like and draw your own opinions and experiences based on what you saw.

The new one is marketed like the plague of interpretive centers that turn free discovery into a linear factory commodity experience of being told what is important, what to look at, and what facts to regurgitate on command.

I suspect the new one will be very popular for school teachers.
So in total it's about a 2% shift which would reverse the current result percentages.

No, it wouldn't. Your maths is off by about a factor of two, one way or another.
I was dealing with Selenium tests a lot. I noticed developers are often skeptical about these tests saying it is not reliable. I do not agree with that, I have proven in several projects that you can have stable and reliable selenium tests. Just like any other tests, it requires proper test environment and continuous maintenance. The most common mistake I noticed is using `browser.sleep` instead of `wait.until`
Hs-quake-3: Quake 3 map viewer written in Haskell
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Norway has it as well (in Norwegian). http://slikbrukesskattepengene.no/
Works 5 hours a day, sleeps 10? Nice work if you can get it.
QA Engineer – czyli tester do zadań specjalnych
"Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth."

thanks for nothing.
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
Go to C++ transpiler
What tech conference are you going to this season?
I thought this was the famous paper by John Huges[1].

[1]: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...
bkkssnn hit the nail on the head, but I'll leave this here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-literary-mind/20091...

as a reply to your snarkiness.
Super cool. We're primarily looking for senior folks at the moment, but it never hurts to start a conversation. We do contribute to open source projects commercially as well and sometimes we staff newer members of the team on these projects. Give us a shout at careers@nilenso.com
LibDems/Labour should just go into these elections saying "we'll keep the kingdom together".
I think there is a fair chunk of people who voted leave who didn't actually realize they were voting for England and Wales to leave Scotland and Northern Ireland, rather than voting for the UK to leave the EU.

If Labour and LibDems play their cards right, couldn't they make these elections about the mandate for Conservatives the break the United Kingdom apart, rather than a mandate to negotiate with the EU.

Under those circumstances: how big an upset is needed for the election results to be seen as a complete disqualification of the Brexit vote?
Acer Chromebook 14 http://amzn.to/2oICxpa I bought it last year
In the late 19th century, a Russian Orthodox ascetic named Nikolai Fedorov was inspired by Darwinism to argue that humans could direct their own evolution to bring about the resurrection. Up to this point, natural selection had been a random phenomenon, but now, thanks to technology, humans could intervene in this process. Calling on biblical prophecies, he wrote: “This day will be divine, awesome, but not miraculous, for resurrection will be a task not of miracle but of knowledge and common labour.”

This theory was carried into the 20th century by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and palaeontologist who, like Fedorov, believed that evolution would lead to the Kingdom of God. In 1949, Teilhard proposed that in the future all machines would be linked to a vast global network that would allow human minds to merge. Over time, this unification of consciousness would lead to an intelligence explosion – the “Omega Point” – enabling humanity to “break through the material framework of Time and Space” and merge seamlessly with the divine. The Omega Point is an obvious precursor to Kurzweil’s Singularity, but in Teilhard’s mind, it was how the biblical resurrection would take place. Christ was guiding evolution toward a state of glorification so that humanity could finally merge with God in eternal perfection.

Transhumanists have acknowledged Teilhard and Fedorov as forerunners of their movement, but the religious context of their ideas is rarely mentioned. Most histories of the movement attribute the first use of the term transhumanism to Julian Huxley, the British eugenicist and close friend of Teilhard’s who, in the 1950s, expanded on many of the priest’s ideas in his own writings – with one key exception. Huxley, a secular humanist, believed that Teilhard’s visions need not be grounded in any larger religious narrative.

It's been a while since I read Singularity, but does Kurzweil mention Teilhard or Huxley?
How does it compute the frequency response of the various configurations? Is there an aerodynamics solver at the heart of this?
From further down in the thread:

http://langserver.org/
> Also cool to think about would be AI-vs-AI street fighter competitions.

That's a fun idea. Provide an editor for the AI script files so you can program your own AI, then inject that into the ROM and pit AIs against each other.
I thought that their imaging was all from satellite, but this image seems to show a very-close-to-the-camera windmill which would seem to hint at a drone....?
https://earth.google.com/web/@32.65401271,128.717528,189.113...
I suppose I'll throw a shout out to www.opensecrets.org, who have an API I've used on a project in the past. You can see the top contributors to congressional campaigns and presidential. You can see down the $5 your grandmother gave to your senator's campaign, as it's all a matter of public record. It's interesting to see how businesses in your area will vote with their wallet.
I couldn't find any at the time; especially ones with long battery life and a 1080p screen. Also 300 euro is more than $250.

Do you have links to models you'd recommend?
"Third, I thought -- what I HOPED -- would be true is that the platform would allow me to respond to all these great posters, and get a response in return, but this hardly ever happened."

So I was going to reply pointing out how this is impossible. No single person can address the stream of hundreds or thousands of people who want to reply and/or ride your coattails to Twitter fame.

When it occurred to me there's a decent opportunity here for someone who wants a machine learning project; given a stream of replies to a tweet from a celebrity, what's the 3 most popular questions/sentiments being expressed? (Or whatever number.) After a while, even a human secretary wouldn't be able to perform that function, it just gets to be so much, but you can't tire a machine.

Twitter's got the data streams you need already.

Of course, it still isn't necessarily going to satisfy you from the individual questioner's point of view, but maybe you feel like it at least contributed to the stream.
I'm surprised more commenters aren't noting the racism/sexism/anti-semitism component. By far that's one of the worst parts of twitter - if you follow any prominent women/minorities, you'll notice the kind of daily maintenance they need to do just to be able to use the service properly.
You mean no password? Or to skip the confirmation process?
Take a different domain, invert the colors
I've had plenty of coworkers who are content with working the 9-5, not thinking about anything that's outside the box, because "that's not in their job description".

Those two things seem rather orthogonal. I'm very much a 9-5 sort of guy these days, but I'm always thinking outside the box as it where about work projects and will happily spend my evenings and weekends reading papers and testing new models and algorithms that might be relevant to what I'm working on. Just don't expect me to miss dinner my family.
> Unfortunately such a nuanced reality doesn't fit into a sound byte and people prefer to neatly put their opponents in a reductive box

> lots of people who are not nationalists voted for Brexit lots of people who are not particularly racist voted for Brexit

Sounds like you're doing the exact same thing. Are the majority of Brexit voters racist and nationalist (assuming you consider nationalism a negative)?
We would love a rule like that. Unfortunately, Indian LLP (Limited Liability Partnerships -- the only way of creating a technology co-op in India at the moment) Partnership Agreements are easily 6 pages at a bare legal minimum. :)
Hard to navigate and full of strange beasts, some of which will bite you if challenged.
Copyright is 2014.

Past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921699
"Divide and conquer recursive implementation" - so is that backward-chaining inference then? Or something different?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_chaining
No one believes in infinite growth except Economists and VC Angel Investors.
That train undoubtedly has a caboose.
If you ordered each subpixel linearly, that would work too. You'd see pretty much the same effect of horizontal distortion. Because the input data is PCM (just magnitude values), same as audio, it "works" just fine. If the input data were some other representation, like text, you'd get gibberish out.
They're fighting games. Why do we need to incorporate machine learning at all? If the computer wanted to they could always play perfectly because it could react to any input perfectly.
It is a smart move. The next election was due in 2020.

By doing this she gives herself a full five years to hammer out all of the deals required to "successfully" Brexit.

With the opposition in disarray, they stand a good chance to securing more seats. This helps them to prevent other parties blocking the things she needs to pass in order to start revoking EU laws, which they have already said they will copy verbatim to start with into UK law, and then slowly rewrite the bits out they don't want. EHRC being one of their key targets.
Probably because the EU 27's rhetorical tactic is to claim all the ways they come up with to punish Britain over Brexit are simply inevitable consequences of Brexit, regardless how obvious it is that they're just things they've pulled out their ass for naked political reasons. For example, their bizarre interpretation of a rule forbidding countries from negotiating trade agreements unilaterally to mean the EU couldn't negotiate its post-exit trade agreements with the UK until the UK actually exited (hurting members with close trading ties to the UK), or cynical insistence Spain must get a veto on the deal because of the Gibraltar border but Ireland doesn't get one.
Specially when https://www.google.pt/maps/@48.8660753,2.291107,562a,35y,160... works alright in other browsers, if you have WebGL capabilities on your system.
Any recommendations for good wildflower blooms in the mid Peninsula?
Protip: anyone whose nutrition advice features the word "toxins" within the first two sentences should wash their hands before preparing food, because they just pulled that logic straight out of their ass.
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This is a kind of a foreword to the promised comparison of Clojure and Racket. It'll take another couple of weeks to get the following two posts out, I'll email those interested. Also, there's RSS feed on the blog now, feel free to subscribe :)
Twitter must grow, because it is unprofitable. It is alive only because they have enough investor cash available to use as rocket thrusters to keep from hitting the ground.

Grow, or SPLAT!
> but the coalition showed that this simply is not true

Actually, their behaviour in the coalition was the fact or that made me respect the LibDems tremendously. In my opinion they actually set aside party advantage in order to give the UK a working government. I believe that without their moderating influence the last government would have been a lot worse - hats off to them. And I speak as a (probably former) Labour voter.
Multi-faceted is the thing Twitter and other person-based share/follow don't work well with. I ended up creating another account for music/art, separating it from my tech/business activity. But its pretty tedious to manage...
Well you'd need to work 6 hour days for 3 weeks straight just to break even

Or you could just take Monday-Wednesday off the following week and go home early on Friday.
chrome is free, fast to download, runs on most platforms, and in no way forcing you to use it exclusively. It's not like they're asking you to download an .exe with direct3d drivers. you think they need to support microsofts 30 browsers or shouldn't release at all?
I personally like this one:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
> I wonder if knowing the different strategies would make pro-humans better at playing the game.

Kinda. Some of the AI strategies are based on the behaviour of human players. For example, in the later versions when Ryu dizzies the opponent, he will whiff several jabs. This is widely regarded as a tribute to a combovideo maker known as TZW[1] who often did this in his videos. With regards to actual Fighting Game strategy, the AI in Super Street Fighter II absolutely uses tactics employed by real players.

These are a few off the top of my head:

- Tick throws

- Whiff aerial attacks into command grab

- Footsie spacing into whiff punish

- Fake footsie spacing into grab

- Low/Overhead attack mixup

- Left/Right attack mixup

Using Lua scripting, a compatible emulator and a rudimentary neural network it's completely possible to build a "better" AI. I believe a more advanced one was recently created for Super Smash Bros [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0CidJaVS0Q#t=4m48s

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06230
I wouldn't say you can really compare the two. Sublime Text is different in many ways, not my cup of tea even if it were free. I was using Brackets before and Monaco in the browser and when I saw the VSCode preview I knew that was what I had been waiting for.

Of course it helps a lot that Microsoft is behind it as they can spend a lot of resources on polish and features while they also have a strong history in making good tooling (VS).
All parties will say that though.

Plus it's not clear the Scots would actually vote to leave and the talk about NI leaving the UK is nonsense. They voted, narrowly, to remain in the EU. Not to remain in the EU even if that meant leaving the UK.
I always wondered how many realized that "leave" would mean the union is dissolved (The Kingdom, that is - not the European union), and of give those circumstances would rather have voted remain, to keep the UK intact?
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They also have higher per-capita immigration from the EU, which is apparently also a political no-no for the UK.
At it's simplest, it's just the use of pure functions[1] and nothing but pure functions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
> The UK will probably get a deal like Norway and will be better off without Brussels.

EEA membership (which is what Norway has) includes:

* Freedom of movement.

* Contributions to the EU budget.

* Implementing most EU regulations without actually having representation in the bodies that decide them.

This would not go over well with Leave voters and would basically be a worse deal for the UK than remaining in the EU would be.
Nah, it makes more sense if you go to the 2D view of the same spot [1]. There'll always be some parallax perspective offset towards the edges of the satellite image.

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@32.65383541,128.71781037,186.9...
And yet Japanese cars consistently are among the top sellers in the United States (and are hardly uncommon on most of the globe's continents). It seems to me that there is nothing "unhealthy" about Japanese trade relationships.
There is nothing new about this. Google Earth the desktop app had all of this for many years now. Google Maps itself had all of this for at least 2 years, likely more now.

I looked at it and have no idea why it took that long to load or how it was significantly different from either Earth or Maps.

E: It also runs a lot more choppy than the desktop version.