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I agree it's sad and tragic when this happens to a close friend or loved one, but I also have trouble wondering why it needs to be on HN, or really any news. Just because his famous and running a very large company? Lot's of people die every day. Many of us have lost close friends and loved ones. It's something that's affects us on a personal level. I think our obsession with celebrity is getting out of hand in the way media companies editorialize these types of events.
You and I must have vastly different definitions of "bright".
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The only coffee you'll find at that top price is probably kopi luwak...

I don't know about $120/lb coffee, but it's not that hard to find pretty expensive coffee. "Hula Daddy" Kona Coffee runs up to $90/lb, depending on the type:

http://www.huladaddy.com/catalog-coffee

And currently, Starbucks has a coffee going for nearly $80/lb ($40 for an 8.8-ounce bag):

http://store.starbucks.com/coffee/starbucks-reserve-coffee/

(I've noticed that Kopi Luwak really doesn't seem to show up on the radar of most coffee snobs, despite the claims of the sellers, which has always made me suspicious of it. Also, it's a lot more than $120/lb; it's not uncommon to find it going for over $300/lb.)
I think the term artificial intelligence is incorrect. What we're currently building is, IMO, artificial intellect.

I view intelligence as the capacity to use resources, including the intellect, wisely and creatively. The current system we're building have no self-awareness and no will, so they cannot really be intelligent.

If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind. We use memory as a sort of mental matter for the formulation of thoughts that we structure in a certain way to formulate ideas/concepts and then we go out and build things. We are builders because we are thinkers and we are conscious about being able to think.

But what is a thought, really? What is consciousness?

Look at the size of our brain next to the huge computers and data centers we're building for "AI". Our brain is small, yet was able to think about how to build these systems.

We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?

Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.
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just use amdefine

edit: not sure why people don't like amdefine

Paul Graham is wrong. Downvote discussion helps. Asking for feedback is something we want to encourage.
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Radioactive material in the soil and air accumulates in the moss. Apparently some plant species store the particles better than others.
Ask HN: What problem would you want us to work on?
My friend and I have some experiences with NLP and deep learning respectively. We are looking for side project ideas applying machine learning to any real world problem. What would you want us to work on?
>"Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with the law."

Who knows to what degree these lands are considered "the public interest" vs. "undue burden" in the Secretary of the Interior's mind. But the rules regarding drilling on public land are specifically called out for review, indicating that the White House believes they are currently too strict.
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Exploring and debugging the business layer app code end to end and documenting insights or calculation formulae. The next step is to talk to business in case there are bug or feature requests. This is when i can fill in the gaps in my knowledge and sometimes even to confirm if what executes in the code maps with what users intend. I believe beyond tools its a combination of human interaction and the art of debugging. Building an overall picture of the business process and flows is not entirely possible in real world of client support as most of us havent written the code we work with. However, I can say that understanding the business process and the problems being solved by the code is what makes software dev a passion more than a profession and enable us developers to seek the roads to our own entrepreneurial ventures.
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If you're bit older than a graduate then you have much more to lose and nothing to gain. Mortgages, kids and ageism when looking for new job are not your allies.

So support - OK - support as in how? "like" on facebook? That is not enough to make it work.
Ah, sorry if it wasn't clear. By storing an expiring list post IDs in the close cache for loading the user metadata, you could filter out the posts that were already visited by that user.
> To my knowledge, no one has created a business that takes maximum advantage of these strengths to provide value to the user.

Here it is, ladies and gentlebeans: Bitcoin, but for digital hats. I take cash or check.
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I will stick to the pretty basic definition that a pyramid scheme cannot sustain itself when less foreign currency enter the system. That is because the system is blatantly unable to produce value and only produce virtual currency from foreign currency.

I stil don't see any argument, just as-hominem as usual when defending bitcoin: "Pheeww you know nothing...".
Yeah seems like I'm still on the good boat where I'm not actually forced to be concentrated on something all the time, I just do it because I'm like that, and have free time to focus and obsess over the stuff that I like.

Getting life in your way often seems to be way worse.
Man. I feel like I got blasted with a word salad here. To me the main value of this piece is to raise awareness that the internet is serving as a kind of incubator for mental illness just as it does for, well, everything else.

I often see it in action because a lot of my YouTube subscriptions are to people who are almost certainly schizophrenic. The videos they post have very little to offer a normal person. I think most of the people who show up to watch and comment are also mentally ill. Someone may post a video claiming that the NSA is monitoring their thoughts via satellites and then receive 10 comments about "yeah, it's happening to me too" and "it's not via satellites, it's from black helicopters" and "it's not the NSA, it's Satan", etc.

If you've not run into this before, I think it would be eye-opening to spend an hour or two watching videos related to "targeted individual", "gang stalking", "voice to skull", "v2k", "remote neural monitoring", etc.
Ritual helps me shut down. Power off the computer, make tea, curl up on the couch and read, brush teeth, etc. Going from 60 to 0 instantly is never realistic.
That standard is much more than just the QR code. It describes how transaction data should be handled in europe.

The swiss QR code is a normal QR code, just the data in it has a special format (and also the design of the QR).
https://www.iso-20022.ch/lexikon/qr-rechnung/
3) seems the hardest.

I would also recommend using f.lux or similar for your phone. I think it helps quite a bit, and it's the same principle as the candle-temperature lighting for your light bulbs.
Just an idea, install an 'easy' OS like Windows or Ubuntu. Then try out different distros in VMs. Once happy make the one your like your main PC distro, if you like.
Nice quote.

At least half of what I have learned has been because I was dissatisfied with what was available and thought I could do better myself.

Sometimes I could make a better thing, and sometimes I couldn't, but I always learned something. Even sometimes just the knowledge that it's harder than it looks.
Every person on the chain has own ethical responsibilities. Both management and engineers. If you knowing participate on something like that, you share responsibility. I know that not participating has a cost and somethings it is too high. However, plenty of times it is not that high and you actually can get different job. Take people who write spyware or write fishy parts of Uber code (not everybody working there!) - they have a choice.

I guarantee you that there were some engineers who recognized situation and left or were let go sooner. It is not just magical heroes. Normal people, men and women take decisions of the "less cool company, less cool project but it is fishy here so I leave" normally. Maybe we should praise and celebrate this sort of decisions more instead of automatically considered them losers. As of now, engineers nor valley don't really value doing the right thing nor are willing to discuss what is the right thing - it values winners no matter what path they took.
I agree, simple safe choice. There a various lightweight versions if the base version doesn't work well on the machine.
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Support as in donate to non profits that do this kind of work such as the ACLU, and suggest this opportunity to help to others.

Raising awareness can and does help make it work.

If you don't believe communication is effective then I don't know the point of this conversation.
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> In my experience conflicts are not "usually due to very wide, mechanical changes", they're due to two people modifying the same file at the same time.

Then it is likely a reversal of cause & effect. People are more reluctant to make wide sweeping changes such as renames because they're worried about the ensuing conflicts.

> Most projects don't go doing whitespace fixes over and over again

Again, for similar reasons. Projects limp around with broken indentation (tabs/spaces), trailing whitespaces, dos newlines, etc - because fixing whitespace is against policy. Why? Conflicts.

> You know what's even simpler? "Apply the same change to 1 version".

It sounds simpler, but not fucking it up is not simple at all, as evidenced by conflicts being a constant source of bugs.

When you look at the 3 versions, and "apply the diff to 1 version" you actually think you apply the diff to 1 version. You're applying the perceived diff to 1 version, which often differs from the actual diff as it may include subtle differences that aren't easily visible. This is detected by git-mediate the double-accounting of applying the perceived diff to both - validating that the perceived diff equals the actual diff.

Without git-mediate? At best you bring up build errors. At worst, revive old bugs that were subtly fixed in the diff you think you applied.

> then git-mediate just makes your job harder.

You're talking out of your ass here. Me and 20 other people have been using git-mediate and it's been a huge game changer for conflict resolution. Every single user I've talked to claims huge productivity/reliability benefits from using it.

> all you really need is a good merge tool

I've used "good" merge tools a lot. They're incredibly inferior to my favorite text editor:

* Text editing within them is tedious and terrible

* Their supported actions of copying whole lines from one version to the other are useless 90% of the time.

Let me ask you this:

What percentage of the big conflicts you resolve with a "good merge tool" - build & run correctly on the first run after resolution?

For git-mediate, that is easily >99%.
I agree with you that the public use case makes more sense than the private one, though really I feel that it's not about "public" or "private" but rather about different sides in some market, whether it is public or private.

But I'm not sure I understand, were any of those use cases "private?" When I mentioned "manage property, contracts, microtransactions, data commerce, file storage, or certification, to name a few things", I think pretty much all of those besides file storage (on which I'd defer to Blockstack) represent agreements or exchanges between different sides in a market or platform.
The great depression was triggered not in small part by irresponsible fractional reserve banking. With bitcoin, there is no such thing. Your coins belong to you, and you can be certain that someone else has not already withdrawn them.
For caffeine, I'm probably consuming way too much. I use french roast (less caffeine + less acid) with an espresso machine (course grind folgers rather than fine grind). I think it comes out to roughly slightly less than 1.5 cups (12 fluid ounces) per dose.

I take a dose within about 1 - 1.5 hours of waking up and another dose half way through the day. I need to start taking the second dose earlier so 1) I don't experience the mid day crash and 2) there's less in my system when I go to bed.

For melatonin I take 3mg about an hour or two before going to bed and another 3mg right before going to bed. Sleep is generally good, but not as much as I would like, which I think is partly due to going to bed too late, thus light entering my room due to insufficient window blackout methods.

Something weird I notice about melatonin is that it helps me get work done just before bed, because my mind thinks less about it and just does it, but this probably isn't the best way to work.
tell me that there's a video of the presentation..
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Yes - I've come across the same breathing suggestions via Headspace.
Save the game! I had the same issue because I was terrified of forgetting things...so I've started taking notes and reminders for the following day(s) in order to resume the mental processes. Even a to-do list using todoist would free you some CPU cycles and will make you sleep better.
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Let me phrase it this way: one would expect that the class of file formats for subtitles are easiest to handle (as opposed to say, the class of file formats for images or videos).

On the other hand, images and videos are likely to be handled using some library, which might be better at safely handling the files.
I agree. Engineers have the same ethical obligations as anyone else and that means you don't delegate your ethical decisions on management.
She committed identity theft or fraud and this should be celebrated? "She bought fake papers."

That's a crime.

How is she get SEC licenses as someone who has admitted to fraud? Why would Goldman not catch her fraud during their due diligence when hiring her? She's being trusted with financial instruments as someone with a flagrant disregard for the law?

She should be deported. If she's any good, she can trade derivatives on Goldman's Mexico City desk.

For those here that would defend her -- are you suggesting we only follow laws we agree with?
Ask HN: Tools that can notify us when our REST API call fails
Hi,

I have just observed that my production REST API calls are failing (timeout or error status codes) even though the server itself is running. I am not sure since when. As I have very limited user base, no one reported the issue.

I am looking for tools that test our REST API calls continuously and report to us if those calls start failing. Also, are there any other solutions such that the above scenario does not happen again?

Edit: I will/can debug what the issue here is. I am looking for specific simple tools/products that can take my GET API request, call it every n minutes, and notify me if the api request fails.
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Would it be feasible to have two tests? One public, and one where the details are hidden. The hidden test has a significantly lower pass bar, so that the only way you would fail it whilst passing the public test is if you are manipulating the outcome of the public test.
You can't vote posts down on HN. If it has low votes it just means people aren't interested enough to vote up.
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I don't think the op has anything against the LoC. More like they are lamenting that the LoC has its hands tied.
They pivoted a lot in that direction. Dart's strong mode is statically typed and sound and all that, except that you can say "dynamic" if you really need to.
When did you stop being a psychopath? Were you aware of the change?
Yes, I noticed. That's a very significant departure from Datalog syntax.

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Do you remember when the first iPhone was released and one of its main marketing points was that it could browse the REAL web? ... Nowadays we are crippling the real web (or at least it's design) so we can have a version for small screens. Oh the irony :(
Once one has more than 500 karma one gets a downvote button..
I buy shirts that are made in San Francisco, but the fabric is almost certainly not made in the U.S. The global supply chain enables products that are in some sense "made locally". Same goes for coffee. So it's totally reasonable to be against protectionism and for buying "locally".
Great article. I especially like the interpretation of the statistics by the author, which is, well, hardly any interpretation at all:

"One 2014 study of more than 3,000 people in Finland found that the amount of sleep that correlated with the fewest sick days was 7.63 hours a night for women and 7.76 hours for men. So either that is the amount of sleep that keeps people well, or that’s the amount that makes them least likely to lie about being sick when they want to skip work. Or maybe people who were already sick with some chronic condition were sleeping more than that—or less—as a result of their illness. Statistics are tough to interpret."

Contrasted with articles that take one example (a 94-year old making a breakthrough in some field) and directly generalize it ("to be a genius, think like a 94-year-old"), this is a much healthier and saner approach to interpreting statistics.

(I didn't make this example up; it was on hacker news)
There are downvotes on HN, you just need to reach some karma (500 if I'm correct) before being able to do so.
I find getting rest, along with better diet and exercise, makes it easier to learn and do additional stuff outside of work. Flux is great for the blue light issue and cheaper than sunglasses. I've found music that makes thinking and relaxing at the same time before bed much easier.
After I noted that I start making errors when I work late at night, I have learned to stop working at a reasonable time. For the times that I do work late, a red-light filter and adjusting the brightness of my screen to the minimum do wonders.
Don't worry the post didn't sound patronizing at all. I don't always have problems sleeping but I definitely believe I have a harder time than most people even on regular, mostly care-free nights. I definitely don't think I've exhausted all the solutions. I've tried many and they seem to work on "regular" days but they seem to become less effective the more I use them (or just not work on bad days). I sleep eventually either way though so I'm better off than others I think.
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“Most frontend developers still remember the dark days of JavaScript dependency management.”

As opposed to now, where even the smallest “app” has hundreds if not thousands of dependencies for the most basic of functionality (‘need to iterate an array, better bring lodash’), often there being multiple copies of the same dependency due to conflicting versions?
> Prior to Deep Learning, Machine Learning community don't really associated themselves with Artificial Intelligence very often. The AI at the time, if I recall correctly, related more to 70s symbolism and heuristic search approach.

It's more complicated than that.

First, the AI community had periodic tendencies that oscillated between philosophies and approaches. Every once in a while, someone would make a big contribution, that approach would bloom, then progress would slow for a number of years. There were previous periods where ANNs and other statistical methods were in vogue.

Second, it depends on what you define as the AI community and the ML community. For example, speech recognition people have been using Hidden Markov Models for years, which is a statistical/learning method. Is that AI? Is that ML?
> it's definitely NOT in departments of computer science. Instead look at selected programs in pure/applied math in some of the best research universities.

Slight qualification: It's in pure/applied math in some of the best research universities, BUT, it needs a CS treatment, i.e., it needs to be utilized as numerical programming, not pen-and-paper math.

I would also claim that the pure/applied math guys (MS, PhDs) don't have much edge here unless they shed their pen-and-paper habits and embrace computer-science. (likewise, CS MS,PhDs don't have an edge as long as they keep calling their discrete-algorithms class, free of numerical analysis and scientific computing, Algorithms! the exceptions are computer-graphics researchers, DSP, numerical-analysists etc).

And those who are good at both pure/applied-math as well as programming/software-engineering, (cough humblebrag cough) boy...!
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The Atlantic stopped publishing serious research article several years ago.

The two examples you​ list are personal essays/confessions
They're so right about that.
As a frontend dev, I don't care about that extra 1-2% of bugs that, say, ownership types could catch if it kills my productivity by having to annotate everything.

However, if I can figure out what a method actually returns and click through to it in the IDE, that's the real gain from types for me. Type analysis has to be fast to be able to do that.

My impression of research in academia is that it's disproportionately focused on even stronger types that are even harder to compute. Not everyone builds spaceships.
Never heard of it until now. It's an interesting concept and sounded a little far-fetched but considering there's a reddit subreddit with 128k users I will definitely try it out.
And it also ignores the very difficult problem of counting "calories out". There are so many factors that affect calories out.
Yeah, that's my take too.

I agree the campaign over SF taxes was a bad misstep. But it was just a bad PR move, probably conceived by an agency or staff member (though of course management is ultimately responsible). But it wasn't a criminal act, and nobody got hurt. They accepted the criticism, withdrew the campaign, and haven't done anything like it in the 18+ months since.

To me it's more notable that they've had so few scandals or skeletons dragged out of the founders' closets, given how much of a tall poppy they've become and how much of an appetite there is to cut them down.