skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he-yo. I'm one of the earliest users of del.icio.us and also pinboard, made similar tools to buku for my Linux desktop, and added a custom tabless web browser on top of it to make bookmarking as convenient as possible. it was a very productive setup, but I don't use it anymore; https://github.com/azer/delicious-surf

Storing bookmarks locally is definitely cool but it's still not convenient enough for us to bookmark any page that we found value. If I'm browsing 30 pages about my upcoming trip to Patagonia, I won't bookmark most of it just because it's not convenient enough. If I google a solution for a problem for hours and go through tens of pages to find information, it's likely that I won't bookmark most of the pages.

You can keep bookmarks in Chrome, Safari, Pinboard, Firefox, whatever. But they are all not innovating bookmarking and likely won't.

And this is exactly why I'm building Kozmos currently. It has a desktop and mobile client, and will bring completely new perspective on bookmarking. You won't need to organize anything, it'll all be done automatically and you'll easily find your stuff thanks to advanced search engine. My goal is to bring good design and good tech together, and provide everyone the most convenient way to bookmark.

You can sign up to the private beta and get an invitation within a week, here is the link; http://getkozmos.com
Not sure if this spot was included in the change or not, but for a long time there was a little piece of South Carolina that was not accessible by land without driving into North Carolina first.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Myrtle+Beach,+SC/@33...
The other distinction is that the mafia would be the big NPE's, big incumbents with patent portfolios, drug companies given patent rights aren't sector-specific enough, politicians they bribe to make patent suits hell for targets, and a corrupt judge in East Texas. They work together to make all the bad things happen for their mutual gain.
Who Contributes to PostgreSQL Development?
Some fool flew a drone just prior to embarkation at Schiphol airport a while ago right in front of the terminal building. Drone confiscated, fined on the spot.

https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2017/maart/20/11-dronevlieger-...

He still made his plane.
I could not agree with this article more. On the point about reaching out to angel networks for lawyer referrals, being on the lookout for conflicts of interest is an important point.

For many lawyers/firms (including many of the most well-known names out there), professional investors are a source of regular, repeat business. Some of those lawyers/firms may be (even unintentionally) guarded in their legal counsel to startups, so as not to take positions that will anger professional investors.
Citizenship by descent, from the UK. Parents who live in France, but work in Switzerland. I would have to pay rent to live at home. They refused to pay for anything now I'm over 18. The article is saying that society ignores merit, and I agree, because it's much more about rich families supporting their children who inherit wealth. Earning wealth seems impossible.

I'm now 27. I was 21 when I graduated (accelerated Masters in 4 years straight from high school). I was 23 when I tried to start the PhD program.

I went for a terrible job in India because there was nobody else who would hire me. I sent hundreds of applications, mostly to Taiwan because I wanted to come here, but also other countries. Most companies just ignored me, or required me to fly somewhere at my own expense for an interview.
Or rather, why not go on reading? There is enough great work in even a humble public library to fill a lifetime.
What kind of proof do you need?
https://www.symantec.com/connect/tr/blogs/symantec-ca-propos...

Works for me without Javascript.
externalities are different, no?
It's so great that they shared all these findings: I hope the XCode team takes notice and fixes some of the nagging compile time and indexing issues!
Yes. Having done a fair bit of C programming in the kernel, where generic data structures are simulated with preprocessor macros and unsafe casts, I much prefer either static languages with generics, or dynamically typed languages.
Lost Job Due to Popular Article [on Software Estimates]
That's a clickbait book title, not an academic study. The book cites examples of prosecutorial overreach, not all of which obtained convictions. And the examples tend to the arcane, like importing food, not activities most people engage in.

The most commonly commotted one is lying to an employer to claim a paid sick today... And frankly it's unclear to me why people thing that's acceptable, but taking $100 from a convenient store cash register is not.
Ladder – The New and Easy Way to Autoscale
I didn't read the whole article... of what I did read, I didn't find it convincing. Few things:

AI doesn't need to exceed humans in every dimension to become a threat. Just sufficient dimensions.

Humanity is basically a bacteria colony in a petridish with I/O. Disrupt infrastructure, and you disrupt input leading to changes in the size of the colony. And mind you, much of our infrastructure resides in the cloud.

Of course, It will be a while before this even becomes an issue, but this is basically how a machine would frame the problem.

Implementation wise, AI doesn't need to be general. At its most inelegant (and not too distant) design, ML can be configured as a fractal of specific of algorithms, with one on top with the task of designating goals and tasks, and subordinates spawning off generations and evaluating performance.

Andy Grove had a good saying, "anything can be done will be done"

Autonomous AI, if it does not break the laws of physics, will exist. It's development will be spurred by our curiosity or profit.
Well, first, you'd need even a single person in his party not to be in it with him, and to be willing to cross party lines to do what's right. That's obviously not going to happen.

Second, you'd need corruption to be illegal. Since the people who benefit from it are the ones writing the laws, it's not, at least not in the particular ways they generally do it.
> I'm not a historian but I have read that some scientific discoveries are made through pure logic

What you are talking about is scientific hypothesis/theory which obviously needs to be tested using experiments to make sure it works. Without experiment there is nothing much you can do in real world.
We got a couple of big ass whiteboards and carefully went through the math. Lots of big expressions simplified to zero that Mathematica couldn't see, and we were able to factor out a lot of shared expressions.
That's a fair point. Personally I don't like that style either so I avoid it at all costs but I've seen it practiced. It usually revolves around creative use of 'void' pointers and terribly hard to isolate bugs.
Today, one can buy good hardware and get a seriously long run time on it.

A spend for a fast, robust, ECC machine is worth it.

During the rapid ramp up early on, price arguments were stronger because replacement came much sooner.

Today, particularly on desktop, one can get a killer machine and run it more than long enough to factor out the cost of ECC.
AWS ELB as backend for example.
Still, you must ask yourself, what does it mean to criminalize theft when huge segments of the population either does it, or has the privile of not needing it, or is an supposedly unwitting beneficiary. If I indirectly aid a possibly criminal act to feed my family, why are my spouse and children more innocent than someone who lacks a criminal benefactor?
Exactly this. Eliminating net neutrality is all about incentivizing rent-seeking business models for incumbents. Not about encouraging innovation.
Bostrom is in no way in charge of people who happen to agree with him wrt ai risk. For the book he mostly collected and organized a lot of existing thought on ai risk (not that he hasn't made his own novel contributions). That's very valuable, largely because it makes for a good reference point to contextualize discussion on the topic. Unfortunately the critics don't seem to have read it because (in my experience) they repeat the same objections without reference to the existing responses to those objections.

People do sometimes overblow alphago/ dqn playing Atari, but it's not meaningless. These systems (and other deep learning based systems) can truly learn from scratch on a decent variety of environments. One of the most important unknowns is exactly how difficult various cognitive tasks will prove to be for a machine. Each task accomplished is another data point.
Here's a nice followup article that discusses the outcome for Lewis Efird's gas station, as well as other people impacted by the change.

http://wfae.org/post/corrected-nc-sc-boundary-set-now-big-ch...
I'm saying that user agents are a completely separate issue from what Browserprint is measuring and using for fingerprinting. Browserprint's fingerprint of your browser doesn't change when you change your user agent.

tmalsburg2 appears to have tried to make the same point.
It wasn't necessary because we've already had systems whose hardware and/or software reliability reached decades between events of unplanned downtime.

https://lobste.rs/s/jea4ms/paranoid_programming_techniques_f...

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.2.pdf

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/whitepapers/high_avail.htm...

http://www.enterprisefeatures.com/why-are-iseries-system-i-a...

Now I'm not including all the anonymous, zero-knowledge stuff since the market won't buy that. All kinds of costs come with it that they don't want. Besides, most consumers and enterprises love products with lots of surveillance built in. ;)
Hackers got chance to steal from millions as Microsoft took months to fix flaw
Can you blame them though ? If you've been to one of these old roadside stops, you'll know how bad Indian toilets stink. I'm guessing the lack of piped water does not help.
A Hedge Fund Manager Who’s Shorting America’s Malls
HN is one step away from becoming 4chan.
It doesn't solve the problem of getting sued by a troll -- what patent are you going to use to counter-sue a business that doesn't have any business?
The difference however, is that interest rates were 5.5% in 1999. They currently sit below 1% (and it's been almost 10 years where they've been below that level). Interest rates are lower for longer than they've ever been in US history. And interest rates are extremely influential.
I find that the problem is often the context switching.

To get things done, I often have to take a step back and make a list of things that need to get done. This is the top-down brainstorming, that gets me more in the mood. I can do this when I'm not working, to get me thinking about the problem.

Then when the time comes for working, you choose the easiest or shortest task and start on it. The "McDonalds theory" as stated on phpjs is that you can do a shitty job on your first iteration as long as you get it done. When you did it, or usually even as you are working, you have the urge to improve it. And that's where the excitement and emotional investment comes.

Russians have an expression for this: Appetite comes when you start eating.
Ride-hail service Gett is buying rival Juno
Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
Ask HN: Best practices for log format?
We're currently going through a bikeshedding discussion about the log format that our microservices will generate.

Developers without Ops responsibilities want the logs to be as readable as possible to aid their development process (traditional timestamp, severity, component, action and a quick description in a single line and, depending on the type of event, maybe a JSON object in many lines with details about the request, possibly with blank lines and indentation to make everything very easy to read).

Ops people want the files to be easily parseable for injection into ElasticSearch. They want to avoid complex configuration and want more flexibility to generate reports. If logs were generated in a single line in JSON format, they would be happy.

It seems there is no way to please everybody. Are there any standard formats that microservices-oriented architectures are using these days? Is there a standard at all? How to approach this?
Accompanying video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fkl312lldQ
Saying that people who have access to a public squat toilet in a rural area have "access to [indoor] plumbing but don't use it" might also be taken as disingenuous, but I suspect you were mainly not thinking carefully.

No one fails to recognize the convenience of indoor plumbing. Running water right in your home is incredibly convenient. With a properly constructed drain system, it means you can also have a completely private place to defecate, indoors, a near-miracle of convenience.

I do not think that this is a fair characterization of the proposal that is being rejected by some in India.

It is possible that you have been inside a public squat toilet in a densely populated rural area, or for that matter even a poorly maintained public squat toilet in a busy urban shopping area.

If so, it probably takes little effort to imagine yourself seriously considering defecation in a ditch, or an alleyway, as an alternative.

If one had already been doing such all one's life, then there would be no obstacle of unfamiliarity, inexperience, or or public shame to discourage you. I do not see why one would not generally prefer to defecate in a familiar and comfortable manner, in the open air, rather than a small, dim room begrimed with the stench and trace faeces of thousands of previous acts of defecation, performed by strangers.
There are a lot of 'obvious optimizations' like this lurking in swift. I get the impression they are somewhat engineer constrained in an interview with chris latner.
This service is not for defending against non-practicing entities - but to defend against patent suits from large enterprises that the startups might be competing against (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, etc) - not that Microsoft et al. engage in that kind of warfare against small-fry, but it's plausible.
Needs some milestones, like "will name and shame the company" at $2500. A link to the article would be good too.

Finally, that's some extreme title inflation in the header image their. If you're working for someone you don't deserve a CxO title, especially if you don't have funds to make it through to the next month.
Basically, the main problem with signalfd is a problem with the Linux implementation of signals in general: if your program requires some kind of logic where each individual signal delivery somehow "counts" in some way, you may run into a problem because the kernel may coalesce/collapse multiple identical signals delivered consecutively into a single signal delivery. So if your program has some kind of logic that relies on responding to each individual signal, you may have a problem. (Note that this problem does not apply to POSIX real time signals.)

But as far as I know, the only reason you'd ever care to actually count individual signal delivery events is with SIGCHLD. So when waiting for SIGCHLD, using signalfd is not sufficient. You'd need to also use one of the wait/waitid/waitpid variants to ensure that you can respond appropriately to each individual SIGCHLD delivered.
Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name?

Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
> People got to Australia around 40,000–60,000 years ago by boat

It's generally accepted that over 80,000 years ago people crossed the land bridge over the Torres Strait before it was submerged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait
Is training DL models in the cloud too expensive?
Does anyone here have experience training models with Google's Cloud ML? We're currently training a model based off Food-2000 that takes about 5 days using a single K80 on a local machine. I'd like to estimate doing this faster using Google Cloud ML.

My estimates use the pricing located here: https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/pricing#machine_types_for_custom_cluster_configurations

Cost = (ML training units * cost per unit / 60) * job duration in minutes

The "ML training units" for a standard_gpu is 3 and for a complex_model_m_gpu is 12. I'm assuming a standard_gpu is equivalent to a single GPU on the K80 (which has two GPUs). So my assumption's that a complex_model_m_gpu is 4x more expensive because it's equivalent to 2 x K80s.

The "cost per unit" in the US is $0.49 per hour. And since I'm training with 2 x K80s in the cloud now, my training should be closer to 2.5 days which is 60 hours.

Cost = 12 * $0.59 * 60 = $425. Given that a K80 costs $4,000 on Amazon, it would take 18.8 training runs to match the price of 2 x K80s. But we ran multiple experiments to fine tune our model to this point so likely went way past 18.8 training runs total. Maybe running in the cloud is too expensive?
> I said it feeds into PRISM.

It doesn't. That's my point. How many more times are you going to show that you don't know what PRISM is while claiming that you do?

Also, surveillance is, by definition, close observation. Merely having anonymized phone metadata is not surveillance any more than having access to Google Maps satellite imagery without any other data sources to join to. More specifically, it isn't mass wiretapping, which as you recall was your original claim that you have yet to substantiate, instead pointing to this metadata program that I had earlier used to show you that no evidence exists for mass wiretapping of Americans.
I get that, and I haven't done any updates yet, but from the research I've done I don't expect much trouble until the next major version of macOS. We'll see how it stands up over time.
Online Bootcamp for experienced developer?
What are your thoughts on online Bootcamps for developers with a couple years experience? I am of course interested in programs that are not for beginners, but would enable me to more quickly higher paying jobs. I believe I am weak primarily in coding structure (such as OOP) and other higher level concepts. I do not want a program that is simply going to teach syntax and coding basics.

Is a Bootcamp a good idea or should I be looking elsewhere? Open to other thoughts on how to improve.
A Letter from the Frustrated Author of a Journal Paper [pdf]
Thanks, didn't know about that one.
Does payment in the form of equity rather than cash affect the incentives in a negative way? It's not enough to call out a distinction: how does it make a difference? If anything, the equity should mean that Google's incentives are more closely aligned with the startup's than the fire insurer's are with the insured.
It is always the case that Superhuman AI proponents comes up with the argument that "there is nothing magical about human brain". Yes, everybody agrees about that, even people who oppose Superhuman AI and are sane enough to not evoke mystical powers argument.
The problem is:
1. Understand brain and simulate it to get intelligence. Sounds simple right? How about simulating a nuclear reaction, which we already understands, on my computer and generating nuclear power?
2. Once you understand something you can create it. This is a fallacy, a big one. We understand solar system, lets create one, whats the problem?
3. Simulating a brain will give you a brain, with all its limitations and problems that we have with human brain. Oh then we can tweak it to make more intelligent? Sorry you cant do that without changing the whole model completely, in which case it will no longer be a "brain".
So, wait it out, and then raise prices? Assuming that won't affect demand I suppose. Give me a mountain of cash and I'll start a flat rate $25 airline and put everyone under. Then I'll raise prices when it's over. Guess what happens when the mountain of cash is gone and I have to charge something that makes margin? We're back to competing because my moat was artificial. Nobody has demonstrated a profitable quarter yet in this nuevo taxi game.
I think it was common for AM3 for example too.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Germany: 4.3 deaths/100k inhabitants, 6.8 deaths/100k vehicles.

United States: 10.6 deaths/100k inhabitants, 12.9 deaths/100k vehicles.
> and all the discovery (research) that goes into it.

Like researching how to try to convince their client to plea before the trial, even after they've collected their client's retainer that would cover the trial, and then get pissed at their client when the plea deal is refused for any reason (even a great one).
> The U.K. does a good job balancing the interests. There is a single, regulated monopoly that owns most of the last mile (BT Openreach), but the regulations are designed so that the monopoly is actually very profitable.

Yeah, the situation is similar in Canada, the CRTC has forced the big ISPs to lease to smaller ones. It's led to some great reductions in our costs, we used to be limited by extremely low data caps - they're now much higher or gone for a bit extra. Speeds have comparably gone up about 10x in a span of a few years.

I don't even think they'd need to be nearly as aggressive with the net neutrality laws if they could manage something similar - the competition creates a much better environment to address the problems.

It's a matter of creating a competitive market instead of restricting or destroying one.
Your example applies almost exactly in US law too
Couldn't the fund just use arms-length consulting patent attorneys to answer the question: does defending this case have a reasonable prospect of success?
There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514.

Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console.

He talks about future bash/Linux support.
And a tongue-in-cheek response from Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-ri...
> Afaik there are no wild animals exhibiting behavior that's comparable to human masochism

The context of this whole discussion is hedonism, utilitarianism, ethical theory, and philosophy in general. These ideas don't exist (to our knowledge) amongst animals, so I don't find it convincing to use animals to support your argument.
Sorry. I commented to explain the reason for the flag. I wasn't sure it was obvious.
Yeah, but then you don't make money by investing in the next big company.
This. It would also get the troll patents invalidated.
> Of course, that also means it'll kill any competitors not willing or able to pay the same extortion, so in the end you'll have less choice, but at least you'll have saved money.

You might save a few bucks in the short run, but lack of competition doesn't tend to be good for markets - especially ones which can rapidly change like online services. Less choice generally means you're paying more.
This solution works, but it's far from ideal - the trade of equity for protection (or rather: access to their arsenal) could be unappealing to startups without much equity to hand-over in the first place - given a $1m lawsuit (which might cost $1m to defend against), or giving up $1m of equity for access to counter-suit weapons (with no guarantee of success - and also probably costing $1m to file anyway).