skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least you're better off than those guys who created the "pc" market category, only to have those two letters come to mean their competitor, and not them.
> My point was that I just don't want to encounter bugs.

You purposefully installed a pre-release version in which they heavily mentioned there would be major bugs and other unfinished things in it.

I'm not sure what you expected here but unless you're talking about the release version I don't think you're being fair at all.
If windows supports the linux system calls by apis that are compiled natively, would the functionality be considered native?
This thing is screaming for solar panels on the roof.
A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
When skiing with a diesel car, I've had to dump wastepaper bins full of hot water from the motel's shower to get it warm enough to start. The Germans had to light bonfires under their tanks while invading Russia. Most modern tanks use kerosene/jet fuel to power turbine engines. This designer is making a vehicle for upstate New York where winters can be pretty chilly.

His frustration with small utility vehicles and a pickup truck are more likely due to types of suspension and weight distribution. Low enough gearing will give you the equivalent of high torque to get over small boulders, but getting through snow is not even that difficult. The challenge is getting your tires to dig in, not a shortage of power.
Anyone know why the author seems to be setting up to SSH into Termux? It looks like Termux itself has a perfectly good console, what's the deal with trying to SSH into it from a local client?
Not to mention the minimum file size charge, which I think was a few kb per file in infrequent access S3.
This is when I cancelled my Prime account and started trying to figure out how to put a gift wishlist somewhere else.
I think that shame doesn't help the people already addicted- it makes it harder for them to deal with their current issues. It encourages avoidance of help, and avoidance of looking at the problem head on. A better deterrent in my opinion would simply be ads about the consequences, like successful anti smoking campaigns. It would be hard for me to disagree more than I do with the advocacy of continued shame for addiction.
In Europe it's even crazier both ways.

Amazon UK sends me tons of counterfeit products, and their stock of many items I like is extremely unstable. That is, many products or supplies I need often get discontinued.

That said, almost everything is 1-day delivery on Prime. I often order at 10 pm and have my products at 9 am. Sadly, they now use contractors to deliver on their Amazon Logistics, instead of good parcel companies. And the quality of service is going down.

They still use DPD for expensive items (that's how much they trust their own Amazon Logistics), which is cool as they offer a 1 hour delivery slot. When they used DPD for everything it was awesome.
An organization is not independent of its owner. This is a tautology.
>> Wasn't that the first beta release of insider? I thought they fixed inode support

> They did. My point was that I just don't want to encounter bugs.

What an awful response. If that's the problem you have then the solution is that you don't run beta software. You're not really making a sensible point by citing bugs in explicitly-marked-as-beta software as a reason to avoid release software that has already fixed those bugs. I would give the final version a try before complaining about nonexistent bugs.
Yes education helps the community grow.
Cogent bought PSINET some time ago. http://www.cogentco.com/en/news/press-releases/279-cogent-co...

Cogent has large scale hosting capability
That's a fairly standard retailer request. Walmart doesn't want you selling them something for $15 that they sell for $20 at $15 on your web site either.
Science is always political. It's always been political, and it always will be political.

As easy examples, 1) a lot of underwater research was driven by the US military who wanted better ways to detect Soviet subs, 2) much of computer science in the 1960s was funded by the military through ARPA, 3) the Tuskegee Syphilis study existed because the people running the study thought it was better to let black people suffer in order to get scientific data - a decision solidly rooted in the race politics of the time, 4) much of Near Eastern archaeology is driven by politics related to the Abrahamic religions, far beyond what 'impartial science' might do, 5) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds so much education research (and journalists, think tanks, lobbying organizations and governments) that it can overwhelm opposition, including objections to the quality of the science.

(Eg, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulle... for how $200 million, which combined research and advocacy, helped convince many states to switch to the Common Core, even though there were no pilot studies or other solid evidence that it was worthwhile.)

Nor are scientists impartial. When Rowland and Molina published their findings about CFCs and the ozone layer, "they also made an effort to announce their findings outside of the scientific community, informing policy makers and the news media of their work." (Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_J._Molina .)

They didn't decide to be impartial and apolitical.
Developers might find an iPod Touch useful for iOS app development and testing.
> Can we really expect people to dedicate their time to vote all the time on these decisions?

I think the solution to voter fatigue is sortition - you select a random group of, say, 1000 people, they come together, hear the issue, vote on it, and disband. For every issue you repeat the random selection.

It is a statistical law that a randomly selected group is representative of the whole. When you have a few thousand people, they are within a couple of percent precise compared to an actual election. So a random selection (just like jury duty) could be the cheapest way to go about solving the voter fatigue problem.

An advantage of sortition is that it does away with the need for elections and political campaigning, cutting off lobbying at both ends - can't lobby a random group that always changes, and the system doesn't need political campaigns or even parties in order to function, unlike representative democracy. And it's not a new invention - sortition was the original form of democracy in Athens.
It's about intersection of "anti-competitive" and "big enough to alter market dynamics".

In your hypotheticals, if Ford controlled all dealerships then refusing to sell GM would be anti-competitive.

If Apple controlled all physical stores where computers are sold, it would be anti-competitive to refuse to sell Microsoft.

Amazon directly competes with Chromecast and is dominant on-line retailer in US so they do have have the power to alter dynamics of Chromecast vs. Fire TV competition. That's what makes that anti-competitive.

Notice that a big part of amazon.com value is being a platform to others to sell their stuff. I certainly bought stuff via amazon.com that was not sold by Amazon, merely distributed by them.

To go against that platform "neutratlity" (if you will) and refuse even 3rd parties to sell a very specific product, while allowing thousands more, is pretty damning evidence that it's straight up, anti-competitive leverage of their position in one area to gain advantage in another area while negatively affecting customers.
Well then the value of that stock reflects the future dividends of that stock in that scenario, weighted by how likely that scenario is to happen. Not sure what your point is then.
The dependency to make this work is transforming the calls but the Ubuntu itself is not. Not everything has to run through that translation layer either, only specific types of calls to make things work. Code that isn't using specific *nix commands will run like normal without that layer.

It's pretty complex. I don't think I would call it an emulator but I can see why someone would.
I really hope they make WSL's /home/. symlink to /mnt/c/users/. by default. What's the point of having a separate filesystem and home directory? I want native POSIX in Windows. The WSL implementation feels like... not that.
So is this complementary to the linux subsystem in windows, or a completely unrelated option?
They claim to have multiple data centers. It sounds fishy to me. I would like to see some pics / info af their setup before I trust them with 1 byte of my data.
NetBSD, and also storage related[0], confusingly enough. Wasabi brought journaling (WAPBL[1]) to NetBSD.

[0] http://www.wasabisystems.com/

[1] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wapbl++NetBSD-current
Cogent/Psinet are a transit provider.

Servers look like they're in VA-US.

In this case Cogent on the IP space is roughly equivalent to seeing Comcast or something on IP space whois.

The end-user is:

network:IP-Network:38.27.106.0/24
network:Org-Name:Bluearchive, Inc
network:Street-Address:44060 Digital Loudoun Plaza
network:City:Ashburn
network:State:VA
network:Country:US
network:Postal-Code:20147
I hope my Macbook days would be over soon. After using Macbook Pro many years, I find good Windows machines are as reliable as Mac's ones.
Apple products are usually overpriced, much less options for hardware accessories and upgrades, very expensive to fix.
I have to keep running both Mac & Windows machines which is very inconvenient sometimes.
The SaaS Rule of 40
A mirror of WSL is WINE, and we know that WINE is Not an Emulator ;)

But, yeah, jokes aside - it depends on the definition.

Still, the translation (or emulation) layer is partial at best. No cgroups (so no native Docker and rkt would work only with fly stage1 and a few patches), sockets are limited (e.g. a number of setsockopt stuff is missing), no tun or tap devices, no netfilter subsystem at all (so no iptables/iproute2/nftables), no GPU access, etc etc etc. Even though it's out of beta it's a bit early to think of it as a "real deal". Best it can do is run some desktop apps and build some software. Would probably work for basic webdev stuff (without containerization), but that's about it. It would probably never come close to the real thing, just as WINE probably won't ever replace Windows. But they try.

And, of course, it's non-free.
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Google is the original writer or significant contributor of these tools. So presumably they first get clang work properly on Windows, then port these tools to Windows, then profit.
I think the question to ask is: does Amazon make things better for consumers? The answer is an emphatic yes. Their practices squeeze every dollar out of the price of goods and then put that money right back into something else you want. Magical overnight shipping, digital books and videos, fresh and local food delivery -- what more do you want?
Tool to search IMDb episodes/movies by rating distributions?
e.g., say I really like episodes of the always sunny tv show where the rating distribution has a mode of 10, even if the average is lower, vs one with a mode or center of 8, with the same average.

I'd love to be able to find all the episodes of the show, by how their ratings distribution curve lines up.

Even better would be recommendations based on what episodes I've liked to predict my rating of an episode, but this is a hack to get that.
> Top people including DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Prof Stuart Russell, a AAAI and AAAS fellow who is a co-author of the AI textbook most used at top universities, agree that AGI is definitely possible and going to happen.

Even though they are high-profile people, in DL, since people still don't know a lot about it, their confidence means nothing.

When I was in college, my professors/textbook alike, claimed that in order to conquer Go, we probably needs quantum computer or something really sci-fi, maybe in 50 years, even 100 years. Guess what, no one, not even the most optimistic person, would predict it will beat the best human player in 10 years. So, yeah, AGI might happen, maybe in 10 years, maybe in 100 years, but until it happens, no one really knows when is that moment exactly.
> initial version of Agar.io took 1 week

The protoype of my successful (non-game) software took 2 hours (though it percolated a while).
But I still haven't finshed a prototype of my recent ideas, after years of research and development. Could it be that successful ideas are simple enough to prototype quickly?

But what about complex games, like Horizon Zero Dawn, or Zelda: Breath of the Wild?

It turns out they did prototype BotW... and not the beautiful 3d graphics or physics, just a 2d top-down version.
It was not on Fidelity's list of IPO's. Even then, you need to meet certain qualifications such as $100k in assets sitting with them or being a member of premium services who placed a ton of trades the past year.
I think you've fallen victim to Microsoft's somewhat awkward naming scheme - the Windows Subsystem for Linux is the name of the "linux subsystem in windows" that you're referring to. It's not complementary or unrelated, but the same thing.
Another name for air bags is "supplemental restraint system".
You don't believe for a minute that financial decisions have any weight? Their stock split of a few years back shows Jobs' unconventional financial ideas were only followed as long as he was around.

I don't know of any other tiny, strong, so easy to use access points with style like the express from a company with a known track record. Doesn't need any more features, maintenance could be done on a shoestring, guess that's too boring though.
I'll add to this that you can add a very crude (separate) model for the document length and number of distinct words, and use that to flag outlier documents that might bump into the known weaknesses with respect to document length.
> . For example, I read a persons blog post who said amazon had a rule that you can't sell your product on amazon and sell it for less on your own site.

I don't know how much of a choice Amazon really has here. Amazon is the ubiquitous online marketplace for everything. If I find your product on amazon, and then later find it for cheaper on your website, I'm not going to visit amazon anymore to purchase said product. You just used amazon as an advertising platform against itself.
Right, but that doesn't mean digital token sales are securities offerings until proven otherwise. The recent SEC communication did not assert that, and only concluded that DAO tokens, which are among the most security-like tokens to be created, were securities.

The investigative report they released [1] is quite informative, and suggests to me that the vast majority of tokens being traded and sold do not meet the SEC's definition of a security. Mind you, I'm not a lawyer, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf
"The AngularJS framework for HTML5 is relatively new, and a valid concern is whether it will be replaced by a new framework in the future." I'd say AngularJS is pretty battle tested at this point... Not to mention that it's now considered old for the industry and is not necessarily performant.

I get that this is put out by qt and is pretty obviously bias, but it seems like they should have given html5 a stronger chance...
> The "can't" is the stifling part. Why does the marketplace care what the prices are?

Not that I have any insider information but from what I read above I assume (perhaps incorrectly, please correct me if I am incorrect) that these agreements only apply to "ships from and sold by" and "ships from" Amazon.com.
Maybe I'm missing something here.

First of all, I know a lot of the popular perception of artificial "general intelligence" is overly simplistic - I don't believe in the nerd rapture, and I agree with a lot of what was written in the three articles tweeted by Chollet that have been linked in this thread. And yet, I still don't see how AI is not a plausible existential threat.

Unless you believe that some magical business is going on in the human mind that isn't subject to the normal laws of physics, then I don't see how you can believe that there's anything our brains can do that another machine can't. Even if no cognitive skill can be increased to infinity, we have no good reason to believe that our brains represent the maximum performance of all possible cognitive modes. That's an appeal to the discredited idea that evolution has a "ladder", upon which we stand at the apex as the finished product. Natural selection doesn't optimize for intelligence, and it is not "finished". So, if our brains are machines (albeit highly complex ones that we only partially understand), and if they probably don't represent the maximum potential performance of cognition, then how can we say with any confidence that it is not possible to create another machine with higher cognitive performance across all (or nearly all) modes of cognition? And if that is possible, how can we say with confidence that such machines could pose no existential threat to us? Sure, maybe they won't, or maybe we'll never figure out how to build them. But how is it implausible? How is it something to laugh out of the room?

Furthermore, AI need not surpass us in all modes of cognition in order to be an existential threat. As AI gets better at accomplishing a wide variety of tasks, it becomes an ever more powerful lever for those who own it. The near-term threat from AI is socioeconomic: the replacement of vast numbers of jobs with AI/robotics controlled by a small number of people who receive all the profits of their "labor". It doesn't take much imagination to see how thie could be, at the least, an existential threat to our current society if it is not addressed with adequate forethought.

All in all, I just do not see how AI is not an existential threat worth thinking about and sinking some money into researching how we can make it safer. The tired old argument about the need to spend those resources on more urgent matters doesn't hold water. There are seven billion of us. We can specialize - indeed, it's arguably our greatest strength! We can - and must! - devote resources and talent to a great many urgent issues, such as poverty, conflict, disease, and illiteracy. But I think we would be very unwise not to put a little of our wealth and time into researching how best to mitigate the long-term threats that don't seem urgent yet and might not even come to pass. If we don't, then chances are someday one of them will in fact come to pass and we'll wish we had worked on it sooner.
Id rather they say iRobot does not have the right to sell my data. Why did they give themselves that right in the first place if they don't plan to use it ever??
Correct. ARKit can keep the chart fixed above the car if you put it there, but it can't yet identify it as a car nor can it distinguish your car from your partner's car, and if you close the app and leave the lot and come back, you're going to need to place the chart over your car again in almost any realistic scenario. The best you get at present is "here is the floor" and "there is a wall", neither of which help the app provide contextual relevance for you. This doesn't make for terribly compelling charting applications beyond the first 15 seconds of "that's so cool it totally works" (which is a pretty cool 15 seconds).

The HoloLens will likely be able to keep the chart over your car if you leave your garage and come back, but not if you move your car and probably not if you park your car outside in the sun (which swamps the spatial projectors and prevents proper environment scanning), and you still need to have manually placed it over your car in the first place.
You are arguing from disbelief, but nevertheless relatively independent observers really do seem to believe that Bezos is taking a hands off role with the reporting choices of the Post:

https://www.poynter.org/2016/whats-life-at-the-washington-po...

It is possible that a well run, honest, independent newspaper is still a viable business model, if guided smartly in the online environment; maybe Bezos really just believes that? If so, then robust editorial independence would be part of the business model.
Imagination Is Your Only Constrain
Isn't migrating away from so-called Excel hell exactly the sort of thing a traditional RDBMS is for? It's already tabular data, I feel like MongoDB (the tech behind the platform allegedly) is just adding another layer of confusion for this use case. Don't get me wrong, there are places where NoSQL works great, but spreadsheets aren't one of them.
Sometimes people get addicted to drugs starting from painkillers, which are prescribed by doctors. http://www.businessinsider.com/heroin-drug-overdoses-prescri...

At least in this case, perhaps it's not just a moral failing. Maybe it's an education issue? Or some other way we should help prevent situations like this.
The linux filesystem has to be segregated from the windows filesystem. If I remember correctly, the linux FS can read from windows FS, but not write to it, due to locking issues. Or something like that. Whatever it was, it made me discount it as a way to write windows code. Instead, I'm using Git Bash, which is based on mingw
Apparently, the HTML5 version was built with AngularJS. They didn't even give it a fighting chance.
Seems like you have an axe to grind. I don't have a reason to be this suspicious about amazon. What's your reason?
The Barkley Marathons: Few Know How to Enter; Fewer Finish
You don't need AGI to do a lot of harm with AI. I'm reminded of a piece of malware that used Instagram comments to encode the instructions it was using to communicate with its control server [1]. This is rudimentary software that any script kiddie could devise with a bit of social engineering. Neural nets / deep learning of today could scale this to the point where it's undetectable.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/07/russian-malware-hidden-b...
No worries, I should have been more specific initially.

But if Gates was just doing everything great for education, we can still question the concept that wealthy business owners have the power to influence things like science and education. This is one of the more subtle yet still troubling aspects of wealth inequity (of the capitalist sort in this case).
The Sandisk Clip line of players do that. So do models from a lot of other brands.
Any time a company starts to try to compete with their own vendors, things get awkward really quickly.

When Amazon was selling other people's products, there were no problems. Now they have their own, and any time they push those in favor of a competing option that they used to sell without any qualms they're going to be in trouble.

Apple has this same problem, but it's mostly limited to accessories. If they stopped selling Belkin and Beats and LaCie in their stores, we'd hear a similar clamor and people would be justified in being pissed off.

By that logic, one could I think make an argument that Apple are being jerks by not carrying Logitech products in their physical or online stores. Considering Logitech (no affiliation) has without exception made the best mice for OS X for over 15 years, Apple offering their overdesigned and underdelivered 'mice' and excluding Logitech is a protectionist move.
Climate Change, leading to frequent crop failures, leading to the collapse of most nations and most industrial capacity.

That's what keeps me up at night these days.