skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, if their fund is $1B and they put $250M in Uber, then Uber's valuation goes 10x, so their portion is now worth $2.5B, more than the fund started with. (Numbers made up for example.)
Haven't read the article but what if General Intelligence precisely is the ability to explain oneself to oneself (or to others)? This could turn out to be a chicken and egg problem.
Telescopes exploiting quantum effects would be able to be much smaller and have higher resolution.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/how-to-build-a-qua...
Just wanted to say a big thank you for this site. I used it when trying to figure out how to hook up an RFID reader to the Pi. It was suprisingly hard to find the pinout, but finally found your site. This is what I put together: https://bitbucket.org/kruffin/rfid_play
What I mean is that the CSS should be minified to remove _any_ extraneous rules, and should be done automatically, just as it's done with most compiled binaries.

If you're using those font styles later on, but still using the same stylesheet, that's obviously alright, the performance-testing tool would need to be updated in order to spider through all the pages to verify where each one is being used.
Google CEO Pichai cancels ‘town hall’ on gender dispute
Well, how does one tell the difference between:

"many points raised in the memo—such as the portions criticizing Google’s trainings, questioning the role of ideology in the workplace, and debating whether programs for women and underserved groups are sufficiently open to all—are important topics. The author had a right to express their views on those topics—we encourage an environment in which people can do this and it remains our policy to not take action against anyone for prompting these discussions."

and:

"each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination."

Is there a definition for what constitutes "harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination"?

I think anyone interested in not having a note placed into their HR file now knows it is perhaps not a good idea to ask such questions.

> Everything, even open discussion, has limits.

Exactly - the author of the manifesto is free to discuss these concerns with his manager and have them ignored, or leave. They shall not be discussed publicly, or else.

Anyone that said "Kike, kike, kike, kike, the bosses are cheap Jews!" wouldn't be taken seriously, because such ideas are obviously false. The content of this manifesto cannot be dismissed so easily, if it could I suspect someone would have done it and intellectually humiliated this person using superior ideas. The problem is, that's not possible in this case. Hence, in the spirit of equality and harmony, there's really only one practical approach, the one that was taken.

I'd rebut some of your other specific points, but as much fun as these arguments are, they don't really serve any purpose.

For me, it comes down to whether we want to live in a society where we acknowledge reality, or not. Where people debate ideas, or not.
I still find that at least a quarter of the stories my friends post on Instagram are just their Snapchat usernames
RoboMQ is a docker and microservices based Hybrid Integration platform (HIP)
This site is a great reference, thanks for all your work!
Music and Mechanics: Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”
I'm not sure if realises Ireland is in the EU. It tells me I need a eVISA for most European countries.
And actually, if you want to run the benchmarks yourself:

https://github.com/timescale/benchmark-postgres
If we captured 100% of solar energy wouldn't everything on Earth be dark?
Actually probably not. You have to get the wheat (or grow it/harvest it) and then raise the animal/butcher it, save the excess. Will you eat everything before it spoils or otherwise goes bad?
I love Groupmuse! Great idea, and execution. If you're in the Bay Area I'd love to buy you a coffee/beer!
So true! Controversial topics and confrontation are avoided at all costs. So from one side metafilter it is very civil and quiet, but from the other side is quite uninspired and dull.

Metafilter is like the American suburbs of the internet. Nice and tidy, but boring.
Super cool!

I wrote something that converts png files to OpenComputer 3dprint .3dm files. Next time I play, I'll try to combine your code with my own for easy portraiting :).
> 'Almost' Edible

So the same as new fruit cake then?
NLTK in Python - it even has a basic example showing natural language to SQL translation that is pretty cool. Simplistic, but a good starting point for learning!

http://www.nltk.org/book/ch10.html
I'd like to set it up as a subscription service like Domaintools. I'm also crawling and storing user's comments, friends, posts and links to media published in other groups.

It will make a great tool for profiling a person, but I'm not sure on how (il)legal it will be.
Some of it is that, but much less so for the meta-analyses. We have a bunch more comments about this in the doc.
Seems to me the problem is the inverse kinematics. The actual coordinate transformations are just trig, right?
A SoundCloud API Wrapper Built with Retrofit2 and RxJava
x264 has a ton of settings for that kind of thing. This page has a good summary: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MeGUI/x264_Settings#qpstep
Body Count of the Roman Empire
Yep. And also a section of the Jordan River Trail a bit farther west in rose park.
Well, there is buy in bulk and sell at a cheaper price than it takes to buy a limited amount of ingredients and prepare. I mean that's economics 101. The preservatives are really just to extend shelf life but you find that a lot of places are just going preservative free as much as possible.
We discuss this somewhat in the post - the line at which you say something "works" is arbitrary. We explore how the choice of definition changes the stat.
> but max(f(x)) isn't a very good way to characterize a sampling distribution

That depends greatly on what your goal is. I would appreciate it if max (or something close to it) was the most common for comparing frame rendering latency (inverse of frame rate) measurements. The large number of fast QWERTY typists could be due to the greater number of overall QWERTY typists, who knows.
I built this 3d visualization of the upcoming Perseids meteor shower!

https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Perseids
Brings up a fun thought:

"What do with all the Uber fragments I can't keep in my arms grip!?!?"

---

So what do? How harvest. (Think of this as a thought experiment)

---

Uber collapses:

As an outsider, what are perceived assets and what are perceived risks/liabilities

What are perceived opportunities: how to harvest them NOW??

Experiment 1:

Uber shall die in x months; thus need to take action y now, at cost of x with projection z... resulting in A. What is A?

2:

Uber will not die but morph... Ned to take action x at y cost resulting in A?

3:

Uber won't die at all - and will continue perpetuitiously - A - how profit?

4:

???

5:

Profit.
Can anyone recommend a decent exchange that supports deposits and withdrawals from a UK GBP bank account without needing to do a SEPA or SWIFT transfer?

Neither Kraken nor Bitstamp do :(
Thank YOU for using it :)
I don't think layout matters for speed unless we're talking top 1% of typists. Go on YouTube. Tons of people typing 100+ wpm with two fingers.
Penn State 20-Year-Old Files Patent for Deep Learning-Based Solution
>and more physical conflicts in the 60s, and we still had the Apollo program put people on the moon.

The Apollo program was part of the space race against the SU. See my comment about conflicts motivating people to invest in this stuff.
I guess we need to discover life on another planet, to convince the military to start spending its budget on space related technology.
wow, very impressive! do you use a public api for the data?
It would help some people but for most of the people I worked with money was more a symptom of their issues than a root cause.

Lets say we have a child who is in 5th grade who reads at a 1st grade level. Most programs will say oh well he/she just needs more education so they create after school tutoring. That's great but there are so many things that can be hindering that child's ability to read. The real root may be a medical issue, family issue, cultural issue, structural or a combination of one or more.

People aren't equations, you can't just input x and expect y.
It's all a matter of perspective. The people in charge don't think of it as a problem. They think of it as one of several solutions to a much bigger problem. Overpopulation.

A problem they have been trying to solve for 100+ years. This is a solution they have worked very hard on. The fact that it is also a very profitable tool for social control is a bonus.
I think that story was largely debunked. It even turned into a dicey situation for gwern, though I respect his commitment to chasing down a lead.
> *Part of the reason is that the larger an organization gets, the more inefficient and bureaucratic it gets, the less it is able to adapt."

Which is a symptom of publicly traded companies, right? It creates this weird system where finding a niche and serving it reliably year in and year out is considered failure; you're only succeeding if you're constantly growing, which means you inevitably collapse under your own weight.
How is this relevant to the article?

And, you rarely hear of Dvorak typists that will say they switched for speed and stayed for the speed. It’s almost always that they switch for the myth of speed and claims of comfort, but stayed for the comfort.
That wouldn't be an expense though, unless they wrote it down. Nitpicking, I know. What's $200MM after all ;)
Wow, are all of you software engineers? That would be cool to have a family engineers.
Technically, Intel continues to sell similar products. For example, i5-7Y54 consumes same 4W of power, the CPU is about 2 times faster, GPU is about 3-4 times faster.

The main downside is the price. These atoms were sold for $20-40, the newer ones for $280. Not sure whether that’s a huge problem for MS Hololens, but everything cheaper than that gonna switch to ARM for sure.
I didn't see your comment for some reason.

Brooks Adrenaline GTS :)
Study finds climate change altering Europe’s river floods
Noticed a typo in the onboarding flow: http://i.imgur.com/qbXQHrR.png

Should probably be something like "Kozmos will add the <3 button to your browser..." or at least "Kozmos will add to your browser the <3 button..." (which sounds awkward but is grammatically correct)
When you learned to drive, was there a big book of every accident to avoid? Or did you slowly learn the overall patterns, from experience and near-misses?

I'm being facetious, but you get the idea.
If it were an exception, we wouldn't be having a debate about healthcare coverage in the US.
Holden HQ Kingswood, an Australian car. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_HQ)

It had 2 seatbelts in the front, and none in the back. It was a bench seat in the front though, so we had 3 in the front and 4 in the back.
This link is just to the Washington Post's technology section, there's no article here.
Curious about your comment about "upserts" WRT time series data. When and why would you update a record in such a table?
"just collision avoidance with GPS"

This is basically what all driving is, no? Go on the road, don't hit other cars, obstacles or people and navigate to a destination.

Computer programming is just typing words!!!
Sure, it doesn't need to be all or nothing.

The point is to grab perspective about how achievable these goals are, using money that's being wasted in such large supply right now on tools to kill people.

If we found strong evidence of life existing on another exoplanet (due to finding oxygen in the emission spectrum of an exoplanet's atmosphere), it would be a game changer. A story of the year, and influence the outcome of the rest of our century.

It would compel, very likely spending on space probes and exploration to go way back up to levels seen in the 1960's or even higher. That was a time when we had both robust spending on space exploration and social programs...
It's always been to the left, which has suited me pretty well, better than some of the glibertarian and technoutopian edges of HN. But I think the moderation had a lighter hand and less of a political slant in the past. And it used to be easier to make an argument against the grain and get it engaged on its merits (on top of the usual clever mockery and insults).

It's not as if there isn't anything good to be gleaned from the site, so I'm not likely to flame out (though I do find every moderated comment provides a nice motivation to take a self-imposed break from the site and find other places to speak my mind). And it's not as if the past was a golden age of nothing but enlightened philosophers arguing betwixt hilarious quonsar shenanigans. Nor is it the case that I always feel like I'm fighting a battle and most of my comments disappear. There's plenty of my comments that are also decorated with many favorites, so I guess you win some you lose some.

But sometime in the last 3-4 years (out of the 15-ish that I've been frequenting it), the comment deletion started happening more often with rationales that looked thin to skewed to me. Along with that I think I've sensed a change in the gestalt of the site. And when stuff like the Google Memo and subsequent firing comes up, I know that even if I think the Metafilter gestalt is wrong about a handful of things among other opinions that I agree with, and I think can articulate a good thoughtful case that might be worth considering.... I know it's not a good idea to put in the time there. And my guess from the Metatalk discussions I've monitored and other interactions on with the site, Josh and the current mods largely consider that a win, believing that Metafilter is a better place without pushback on some opinions/politics/ideals, even if it's expressed politely and thoughtfully.

That's within the rights of any online publication or community, of course. Not every space has to be purely open-speech or even polite speech with a committed culture of critical review, editorial slant is and probably will inescapably be a thing no matter who you are. But I also think it's reasonable to say that it's changed notably in that regard.
i have never seen this behavior, so it isn't that common, and even if it were it would still be illegal unless it is something that has been agreed to contractually.
This is super interesting to read through, and was very happy to see the Pentax K1000 mentioned! That was my first camera and I used it all the time during my teenage years. The thing was a beast, you could own the same one for 30 years and it would never die on you.
For anyone new to this issue: keep in mind that when Khosla bought the property, California Law and prior Caselaw were crystal clear that there is absolutely no legal way for Khosla to close or reduce pre-existing beach access. This is not a case where someone is fighting a gray area of law. This is a tried-and-true legal rule system that has been in place for 50 years.

It is equally clear under California law that if he wants to develop any new structures on the land or augment existing structures, he will be required to open up access even further than it already is.

You can think this system of law is good or bad, but nevertheless it is the law.
I don't know about this infighting, but don't you think that someone like Meg Whitman would suck badly at being Uber CEO, not that she did wonders at HP.
If anyone has opinion, I would be interested to hear.
http://dinopacks.com

I fill out those 'other comments' on order forms with a request for a dinosaur drawing.
Looks like this link goes to the wrong place. Here are some related articles:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-abruptly-cancels-town-hal...

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ceo-must-answer-these-qu...

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-ceo-pichai-cance...
http://randomport.io

My first attempt to create something using create-react-app. Generates a random ephemeral port if you can't think of a port for a service.
Log structured merge tree.
This reminds me of this year's xyzzy award-winning interactive fiction game, The Mary Jane of Tomorrow. https://emshort.blog/2016/06/05/the-mary-jane-of-tomorrow/ (It won Best Single Puzzle and Best NPC.)
This article is very skewed, it's annoying that she wrote things like "which he claimed was backed up by studies." rather than "which are backed up by studies."
Looks like it's time for you to learn about the magic that is youtube-dl. It will change your life.
All those names are actually pretty clear and not confusing at all.

Boring and uninspired - yes - but certainly not confusing.

No different from MapKit and WebKit and ARKit and HomeKit and HealthKit
Extreme heat in Europe decimating crops and stoking drought
I ended up being the only software engineer, but computers definitely stuck with all of us (both my sisters ended up working in the gaming industry).
How can a company hope to grow if its narrative is "made specifically to appeal to Americans who were born after 1995"? The next wave of American kids will have something else they arbitrarily like better because it was "their thing". This has happened so many times it's not even worth debating. At the same time, Snap is totally irrelevant in places like Asia, where the big numbers for growth are.
It's over for tech startups – just look at today's earnings reports
Not to be "me too", but ME TOO!

Commodore 64 BASIC got me started, but HyperCard kept me moving.
What's wrong with Russia, green characters? :)
I thought I was the only one! It seems to be some primal fear that while I'm concentrating on something, someone will pounce me. So it discourages me from focusing too deeply into a problem.
Microsoft intern here. Got my own office for the summer.
termite

https://github.com/thestinger/termite
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/termite
Walmart Apologizes for Sign Advertising Guns as Back-To-School Item
freecodecamp, for web development
Not sure what happened to the link...

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/10/16128380/google-cancels-all...
> and suddenly large amounts of the board seats are elected by the employees

Any stats or info on this? Would be interested to find out more.
Yes, but it's an extremely low amount compared to the heat we trap by emitting greenhouse gases.

Solar panels also add heat to the Earth, since they are black and absorb more solar radiation than a lighter-colored surface. This is also extremely minor compared to fossil emissions.
Yup. It's still a super cool demo though.
Watson's Natural Language Classifier, in particular its categorization API, is actually pretty impressive...
I wonder why they split GP vs LP money into two separate companies.
I'm sure I read your linear algebra book in my undergrad to help me get a grasp on it. I probably still have it on my computer. Thanks for all your work.
World's biggest bike parking garage opens in Utrecht – but Dutch dream of more
I think it's more likely that we're seeing the average drift upwards and a non-trivial percentage of the community is less involved than they were in the earlier days of the web, so the active community isn't as varied as it used to be.

The other big thing which is hard to under-estimate is how much the web has homogenized over the years. MetaFilter was where you went to find someone's personal blog, collection of cat scans, etc. and people just don't do that the way they used to: instead of blogs that largely happens on Facebook or Instagram (and it's private), individuals are competing with for-profit content mills and SEO spammers, etc.

HN has followed a similar arc – you used to see more personal tech blogs and open source but now that's competing for attention with major companies paying staff to blog as a recruiting effort. Nothing wrong with that but it feels rather different and it changes the values of aggregator sites.
The best modification that you can do to your keyboard layout is to adapt the MIT Lisp Machine keyboard layout. The changes are small but very significant, work with either QWERTY or Dvorak, and you can do them on any PC or laptop keyboard[1]:

1. Change the layout of modifier keys from Control-Windows-Alt-Spacebar-Alt-Menu-Control to Windows-Alt-Control-Spacebar-Control-Alt-Windows (bind the outermost modifier keys to Super and Hyper if you use Emacs). This will let you do keyboard chording easily with either hand and eliminate "Emacs pinky": https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/495/what-...

2. Change Caps Lock to Backspace (RUB OUT on Lisp Machine keyboards)

3. Swap parentheses () for square brackets []

[1] Not on OS X though. Apple does not provide a way to do these remappings on OS X, and breaks the keyboard internals and consequently third party tools like PCKeyboardHack/Karabiner with every OS X release. I tried early this year with Sierra and Karabiner-Elements and this did not work. Install Linux or OpenBSD.
What a hypocrite...
My experience with this is it's more of a gimmick. It's cool when it works but most of the time I've found it simpler and more accurate to just select the data you want.
Associated HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985001
PureScript is amazing! Thank you for making it.
Serverless is going to make resource usage a focus in a way it hasn't been for years. The quick feedback, the absence of "all you can eat" pricing and the possibility for savings are all factors in this.
Good. People try to do this in Malibu as well.
I wouldn't mind the strict demarcation if the internal format was UTF-8. Then a simple validate call on input would be all that was needed.
I did exactly the same as a kid, only I didn't have a mac. But my parents bought me some kind of German learning program (Addi?). It had a card painting mode with visually programmable events exactly as you describe - must have been a Hypercard clone then.
How would this work together with something like Stolon? https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
Free OpenStreetMap Data extracts (be kind, it is a rushed POC at the moment)

http://propdata.io

I have created a free site containing extracts from OpenStreetMap data. Unlike the metro extracts sites (Geofabrik, Mapzen), my goal is to extract specific datasets such as buildings, schools, hospitals, fast food restaurants etc from OSM rather than standard map/gis data.

My overall goal is to make the extracts available, and then to encourage people who use them and get value to actively update OSM to improve the quality of the data they are interested in. By doing this, the overall quality and coverage of data in OSM should (in theory) be improved.
Indians?
Fair enough. As my eldest says 'we'll burn that bridge when we get there'.
You seem to know stuff about actuation systems; are there any that function like muscles? E.g. strands of wire hooked up across pulleys that repel each other as current flows to increase tension and hence move a part?
I have a hard time believing this will be as big an issue as many believe.

The biggest reason is generational die off.

We're already seeing younger people forgoing even getting a license. Urban population growth is rendering it less valuable.

The only cohort that licensing is up is boomers. 55-75 are more likely to have a license than they were a generation ago.

Licensed 16 year drivers is way down. Something like half the number are licensed versus a generation ago.

Some of it is "blamed" on cost of owning a car. Those that can afford it but don't buy say they just don't need it. Rides are readily available; friends, Uber/Lyft, and pub trans are enough for a lot of folks as urban density increases.

I'd post references but this is easily Googled from multiple sources. And I'm on a slow mobile connection right now.

Younger folks tend to see cars as noisey, smelly, expensive, and passé already. Not sure that status symbol thesis holds up