skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered submitting that article this morning, but decided against it as it's too low quality and tech-illiterate.

As evidence, this wonderful phrase:

>> Palantir, the CIA-backed startup, is Minority Report come true.

Immediately followed by this facepalm inducing statement:

>> It is all-powerful, yet no one knows it even exists.

The whole article follow this idiotic "Palantir is Eye of Mordor Minority Report black magic!" trope. Apparently the author has never heard of number crunching, or that mysterious form of sorcery known as "statistics".

The only real-life example given is re-allocating police patrols to identified hot-spots, a common sense M.O. that the police have been doing (at least in the UK) for years, the only difference being that they probably crunched those numbers in a more manual way. Yay black magic.

It's quite ironic that this is coming out now, when the more recent news/rumors about Palantir have been that some of their customers are not at all that impressed by the results they got.
Hearthstone arena inspired by Starcraft
The self-rewriting interpreter model is so so interesting, and has already proven itself in things like peak performance, and cross-language. However, it can have the disadvantage of blowing up warmup time. Are there Truffle language impls that persist their specialized interpreter nodes across executions?
Bloodhound: Six Degrees of Domain Admin
success = luck + talent + effort
Where did you live in Asia?
"Thankfully this old rMBP I use is still running well (despite the screen covering deterioration in weird spotty ways)."

Does it look similar to this - http://www.staingate.org/ https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/17/apple-mbp-ar-coating-qu... . My rMBP had the same problem and I got the screen replaced for free (outside warranty).
> I have successfully designed systems which could be easily migrated between different RDMS' with minimal changes.

Not that I doubt you, because I know with the right trade offs it's possible, but is the operative word "could" or did you actually ever migrate one of those architectures?

> Obviously to go to no-sql or other less conventional storage is a different story.

Ruling those out feels a bit disengenuous. There are plenty of good reasons to need to migrate to or from a relational DB.
Scaling Blockchains with Apache Kafka
I Googled the first name you posted and he also appears to be wearing minimalistic shoes, looks like Nike Frees?

http://www.all-athletics.com/files/imagecache/photos_big/pho...
Ask HN: Minus price, would you buy custom tailored or mass produced clothes?
Java was slow and immature in the 90s but it was a huge step up from PHP, Perl, and ugly more closed platforms like old school ASP, Visual Basic, Powerdynamo, Cold Fusion, etc. Those really really really sucked. With Java you could write modern structured debuggable code with real tooling and have some confidence it would run in production like it did in dev.

Smart phones are disappointing in a lot of ways but they're a big improvement over J2ME flip phones, dumb phones, and PDAs.

The problem with the Amiga was AFIAK Commodore's management. They should have divested themselves of all the old stuff and doubled down on marketing and supporting Amiga. Instead they kept lots of irons in the fire, wasted a lot of money, and in the end got killed by the IBM PC platform juggernaut. I wonder if the clear superiority of their tech made them over-confident.
"Just see 3 Mile Island"

Really? How many people were killed at 3 Mile Island when it allegedly "accidentally turned into a dirty nuke"?
Whats the tech stack may I ask? I like the simple design and interactions. easy to noodle around and learn.
> "Do I have your position correctly, that scarmig is morally obligated to die in fire unless they can pay the rent on an apartment for this person?"

That's not what was said.

> "How many apartments must scarmig rent before they are allowed to evacuate in case of fire?"

Zero.

> "What if scarmig doesn't make a high enough multiple of the minimum viable rental price? Have you just decided they're obligated to die because they don't make enough money? That's kind of ironic."

Again, you're missing the point. The idea is to tackle the issues collectively.

> "Because if saying that conjured shelter beds into existence, we wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."

The money already exists within the government to solve it. It's just a matter of priorities.

> "I don't think the American people could message "fuck poor people" any louder or any clearer than they just did by electing Trump."

Bollocks. You do realise that there were poor people who voted for Trump? What message do you think they were trying to send?

> "The American electorate doesn't lack the will to help the downtrodden, it actively wills them to die."

Are you an American?

> "Are we obligated to fight the good fight? Sure. Are we obligated to die in fires unless we achieve a 100% reversal of the poiltical climate? No."

Again, you're twisting words, that's not even close to what was said.

> "There is no action you can take that will move the needle on homelessness anytime soon. At best, there are actions that a few hundred million people could take together that would achieve a marginal reduction in the problem in in a few decades."

What do you propose is done?
Humans are a much bigger threat to humanity than AI.

A super smart AI would come up with strategies to herd humans rather than eliminate them.
Let humans have the illusion of being in control, while setting up the game for them so that they will organically arrive at whatever the AI has as its goal.

The longer it (the AI) can maintain this illusion, the higher chances for it to slowly gain absolute power in the long term.

A machine is not limited or motivated by the notion of mortality (of the body), so it can plan ahead for hundreds of years and also make it so that these plans remain transparent to the mortal human 'overlords'.

This system exists today, it's The Internet. The AI systems created today are just extensions of the Internet.
Each one of us - humans - is just a node - rather, a neuron - in the hyper-cortex that is the network itself.

At this scale, it might become self-aware without any human being able to understand or stop it.

Slow, stealthy, peaceful take over, while improving human being's lives - a symbiotic relationship - is the optimal AI strategy IMHO.

So I'm not worried about AI at all.

Dictators, fundamentalists, crooks or paranoid schizophrenic world leaders, that's a much more serious threat that I'm quite scared of.
I thought the 50 move rule has been lifted for a few cases where a position is known to require more moves to win.

However, http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/10... doesn't mention that, and even has the in some sense stronger "a game is drawn if any series of at least 75 moves have been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without any capture.", which doesn't require either player to claim the draw, and, thus, cannot be avoided.

So, even if the players wanted it, a game can't be longer than somewhere around 96*75 or 7200 moves.
One thing that makes traditional forums and groups work is that if any one participant leaves, the group conversations will continue without them.

I'm not really sure how that would work in a site where the conversations are focused around specific users.
> Please saw the movie the China syndrome and then 3 mile island happened.

Yeah, I'm surprised by how little attention this gets. A significant accident occurred that wasn't supposed to, and subsequent investigations showed that there were significant lapses, including from regulators. People can't be experts in nuclear plant design, construct, regulation, inspections, etc., so they need to be able to rely on the authorities in charge. When that trust is betrayed, it naturally has consequences. You can't just say to people, "Well, yeah, last time we told you to trust us we were completely wrong, but this time will be different!"

When problems happen that aren't supposed to happen, people are naturally going to be overly cautious and skeptical of future assurances. That's not an entirely unreasonable reaction.
This is closer to reality than you might think. Doctors get less and less control in this as Healthcare costs continue to rise due to the aging population. Healthcare has to be come more efficient to be able to keep up or nobody would be able to pay for it anymore. So where we sold to doctors Five years back we now sell to hospital MT. Hospital MT controls the money and are constantly searching for ways to perform more cases a day. AI is their only viable option and so they will buy in sooner than later.
>No one knows what really happened.

Probably more accurate to say that no single person knows the whole story. And those that know parts of the story can't necessarily be trusted to tell the truth, either from forgotten facts, or deliberately self serving commentary.

If you look at all of the stories from everyone, the facts that they all seem to agree on is that IBM went to Microsoft first, then went to Digital Research, and Microsoft came out a big winner. You could eventually buy an IBM PC with CPM, but at a much higher price. The reasoning behind those events are what's up for debate/speculation.
Here's this from 2009.
(https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast)

I says Rackspace, but 2009 is a long time ago so it could have changed.
making reddit more homogeneous for everyone will probably be a mistake. customization was really what made everyone flock to reddit post digg
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Freest Little City in Texas'
A lot of package manager tools download their packages from Github. If you happened to be refreshing your dependencies at the time, or doing a clean build, then you'd be SOL.
"2. Someone brings up an incident that actually happened"

Generally an "incident that actually happened" in which no one was actually, you know, killed.
Cool talk by Leijen about Koka and algebraic-effects:
https://youtu.be/hrBq8R_kxI0
For some reason I could never get flow's in-editor errors and type information to work. Personally I use TypeScript. Their sublime support is nice and fast.
The part quality can be impressively good - the test parts I've seen match or exceed the resolution of typical FDM prints (from ~$2k FDM machines).
I support traveling wave reactors, explicitly to reduce our stockpiles. If we get some other benefits, like some electricity, bonus.
Why 2017 won't be like “2017”
I don't particularly think of HN as lacking humor. There is an extreme attitude against puns, jokes and such which I think is well deserved, since the conversation devolves into who can be most creative with them.

And I kinda disagree with your assertion that this site lacks intellectuals. There seem to be intellectuals from very diverse backgrounds (doctors, lawyers, even farmers). Sure, the discussion may not be as intellectual as, say, r/AskHistorians, but its still more intellectual than most other forums.
The fact that USD is "backed by the full faith and credit of the US government" is not the reason for its value. There is nothing the US government can do if everyone decides GBP or milk is worth 10,000 more relative to 1 USD. Things like USD and Bitcoin both have no intrinsic value and their market value comes from the collective fictions of society.

The collective belief in the value of intrinsically useless mediums with certain properties is one of the major technological breakthroughs of humanity. Currency is the bubble that seemingly never pops. Bitcoin and its future incarnations aim to improve it.

Proof of work has nothing to do with giving Bitcoin value. PoW is the cost the distributed network pays for trustless consensus, nothing more.

To understand your fundamental misconceptions, I would start by reading the seemingly unrelated but actually very relevant book Sapiens by Noah Yuval Harari.

Finally, Monero solves the privacy problem of Bitcoin if that's the kind of transaction you want to make, but this is another topic.
I have a friend who makes that argument.

It sounds laughably absurd when he makes it, too. Do you understand anything about risk management?

edit: I've stated elsewhere in this thread that the absurdist language used by nuclear power proponents greatly undermines their credibility. This is a perfect example.
Ha! Poor little Lenny.

Although it says throwaway in the username, its not actually a throwaway. Just in the same way if it said poetteringsego in the username, it would not actually be poetterings ego. Ya savvy?
Can't wait for the peer to peer mobile malware!
I've worked in a medical imaging lab before, there are currently real, working models that are able to e.g. accurately segment organs in 3D to find info such as volume. And of course there are diagnostic tools as well. You're complaining about GPS apps with inaccurate information. That's kind of a non-sequitur.
Not trying to to be flip, but with age and experience much will be revealed. Until then, the author is boxing himself in by coming up with his tidy categories. Some people are naturally glib and conversational, some people can bench press 300 pounds, some people pick up geometry proofs right off the bat; most people can get better--even very good--at any of these things.

For somebody who seems to run into the same issues in all aspects of his life, I can only recommend the Costanza method. [0] I did however begin to wonder if the author was pulling my leg when he complained of partners wanting to talk during sex--because, based on the rest of the post, how is this guy getting laid? FWIW, when in doubt, whisper in French. [1]

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697744/?ref_=ttep_ep10
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
And how do you argue about the Diablo "safety" then? It's 6m above sea level, near a major fault line, in fact the only fault in the ring of fire which didn't go off yet in the last decade, and it's critical near to a major technical hub which will be destroyed for hundreds of years if the fault goes off, on land or at sea.

There's no safety, only luck and irrationality.
Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Leaving aside the content and focusing only on style, can't we agree that the internet made journalistic writing so much more dull? What an engaging piece.
Oh, I see we've met!

My current hypothesis is that a sever lack of self-esteem causes me to rely on esteem from others. But because negative interactions hurt so much more than good interactions feel good, I just end up avoiding others.

There's also my mother's hypothesis that some combination of drugs will fix me. I think this seems improbable, but she claims it's how she was fixed.
A manager could then point to the salary of someone in the same position and say

"Jane gets paid $X in the same position, it would be unfair to give you a raise and not her"

I don't work somewhere with transparent salaries and I already get that excuse — I've more than once heard "you're kind of already at the top of our range for X position" and "if we pay you anymore you'll be making more than me!"
Fracking sludge isn't a thing? Coal tar sands waste isn't a thing? Mines that leak sulfuric acid aren't a thing? Black lung isn't a thing? Radioactive coal dust isn't a thing?

Our current energy production has hazards and costs that we do not currently account for while we place far too much burden on the alternatives to justify themselves.
Because companies are valued in dollars, not social utility units.
If you get stuck on anything, come tell us about it on Slack. We can help you get unstuck! The majority of Elm users come from JS -- so while the syntax is different, it should not to be too hard to pick up. This is one of the reasons that Elm has avoided complex features from Haskell. It's really not very much like Haskell beyond syntax. Redux is very much like Elm, seeing as it is an implementation of the Elm Architecture.
I've come to the conclusion that nuclear energy is a good thing when done correctly, sadly we seem to be plagued by 60 year old power plants with severe safety problems still running because the power companies don't care about safety, they just want to run them as long as possible until they fail.
Free and Open Source Skype Alternative Ring 1.0 Released
While it is useful, I disagree with the concept, which to my understanding is:

> I have the following problem: "..I can’t do verbal processing and emotional processing at the same time..." Here are ways to mitigate it.

Mitigation, in my opinion, is secondary to actually solving the problem. I'm not sure whether OP believes it's solvable and chooses to mitigate, or just mitigates because he thinks there's no solution -- either way, I believe it IS solvable.

People who have that problem can learn to do both things at once, A person can gain control of his Farmer/Magi/Warrior aspects instead of just exhibiting a given, and most importantly: People can avoid win the war without engaging in battle. There are so many "fights" going on in that piece, when things can be solved without them.

Don't underestimate your own capabilities.
I can think of one. Google's material design. I love it and feel it tied their apps together while making them easier to use.
"Java was slow and immature in the 90s but it was a huge step up from PHP, Perl"

Perl was a mature, full-featured and very useful programming language when the earliest versions of Java rolled around. Java relied on the bloated, super slow JVM, was super buggy, and really did not add any value. The "write once, run anywhere" hype turned out to be just that. So I really don't see how it was a "huge step up" in comparison. More like a huge step down.
Professionals may try to get a draw by getting their opponent to make an error under time pressure, even if they know their position theoretically is a lost one.

That even happened back in the time when games got adjourned after x moves (sort of an example: https://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/a-famous-bishop-vs-knigh...), so should be more popular nowadays, if the losing party has more time on the clock, or thinks to know the particular endgame better.
#1 can be done by creating a separate submodule repo that only stores docs+issues files. It's up to the repo's users to agree on a system by which the files should be organized, but it's doable.

I'd propose directories "issues/open", "issues/closed", with each issue filename being "{created:yyyy-MM-dd} - {subject}.md". Symlinks could be used to track ownership/responsibility if each repo contributor has their own directory in the repo too.
> Note:I'm comparing nuclear to fossil fuels which was the only tradeoff until some time ago.

Last I checked, it still is. Solar can't get anywhere near baseline production that we need currently due to lack of storage options. And solar is the only thing which currently has even the possibility of scaling.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

-- Socrates

Edit: So it is a common misattribution [0] but it's still pretty amusing. There are plenty of similar quotes throughout the ages so the sentiment is not wrong.

[0] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children...
[misleading headline]

> Here we limit our comparison to the dominant energy sources—brown coal, coal, oil, gas, biomass and nuclear energy; in 2014 these sources accounted for about 96% of global energy production. While the negative health impacts of modern renewable energy technologies are so far thought to be small, they have been less fully explored.
See my argument above, though... it's going to be faster and cheaper to replace a standard deviation's worth of fossil electricity with solar/wind than it would be to replace it with nuclear. So the "transitional power" argument doesn't really hold.
> So how did BluRay beat HDDVD and other standards?

BluRay won mostly nothing. But to the extent that it did win, it was mostly because it was cheaper, more reliable, and iterated faster than HDDVD.

When HDDVD disappeared people were still having problems producing the higher density disks. BluRay started as a low density format, and quickly evolved until it had more capacity than HDDVD had even even planned.
So no Google service has ever experienced an outage? I distinctly remember Gmail being down on several occasions.
Can you explain why turning up innodb_log_file_size is good?
It really comes down to storage. Solar is just now passing coal costs. when it falls another order of magnitue, most of the effort will go to pumping water up hills or batteries or whatever.
All that the 50-move and threefold repetition rules do is permit one player to claim a draw; the game may continue if both players wish to play on. (It has happened, particularly threefold repetition where the repetitions are spaced far apart and the players don't have much time.)

There are actually new FIDE rules as of 2014 or so, where after 75 moves, or a fivefold repetition, the game is immediately declared drawn without the need for a player to take action.
Most major redesigns end up being a mistake. It's cool that they're re-writing, but they should change things for users in an iterative way or they're going to get extreme backlash. People do not respond well to drastic change to the point where even quantifiable positive change is often met with complaints.

It could very well be superior, but the moment someone says "like Facebook" about any sort of newsfeed the response will essentially be "BURN THE WITCH"
So many comments here and not a single mention of "Slashdot Beta". It was a huge disaster, every single article had complaints about it while it was in effect.

They changed owners shortly after and it's still a running joke years later.
> alternate web UIs on planes

Could you expand on this? Sounds interesting. You mean like an offline UI powered by the in-memory mutation list?
I see one person posting an argument with numbers and links to the source and another just calling them absurd.

Wonder who I should listen to.
Indiscriminate visual targeting is a potentially hard problem if you're doing it against adversaries. One of the things that's underappreciated about machine learning is, since it's statistical, it can only be about anomaly detection, so the solution is to not be anomalous. You could conceivably hide from thermal imaging by using ice packs, and anyway, you only have to get to within the range of indifferentiability from the ordinary noisiness of the environment. Optical techniques suffer from similar problems, except that it's even easier to hide. Not to mention the occasinal voodoo that comes out about metamaterials.
What this car comparison is missing is that people accept cars getting crushed into flat metal sheets.

Agree or not, as a society we have accepted that traffic accident is a problem we don't want to pay the price to solve.

A "safe" car is just a mildly safer death trap.

In comparison, people haven't accepted that reactors would go shit and somewhat kill hundreds of people and trash whole regions for hundreds of years.

That's a risk that developpers have included in their plans to some point, but that the general public has not fundamentaly accepted.
Casting stuff has a ton of overhead cost and is very impractical for low volume production. EDM is expensive as all heck. For stuff that doesn't need to be made out of exotic material this is great.

For low volume production and prototyping this technology is great and cannot become mainstream soon enough. So what if it has to be finished. A casting or forging is the same way.
Creating a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database
Interesting to see this. I would be really interested to see a demo instance with a large amount of JIRA and Confluence content in it.
Super resolution using CNN