skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering about the allusion to Hatching Twitter, it describes in detail how, when Ev was CEO, Fred and the board told him he was doing a fantastic job and while secretly meeting with Jack and coming up with a plan to push Ev out and bring in Dick Costolo as CEO (with Jack under him).

Here's a quote from the book after Ev was told he was out with a vicious quote from Fred:

Williams, stunned, picked up the phone and began dialing. Bijan Sabet was apologetic and insisted that they wanted to keep him on in a product-advisory role. According to several people at the company, Fred Wilson, however, said he thought Williams had always been a terrible C.E.O. “I never considered you a founder,” he said. “Jack founded Twitter.”

Other portfolio investments of Fred's have followed a similar pattern of having the original CEO pushed out once they get to a certain level of success.
> our species will be fine

People keep saying that, but I wouldn't be so sure. From an earlier comment of mine (edited for clarity/formatting):

Most recent study of methane flux/storage in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf: [1]

Arctic temperatures are estimated to rise 1.9x compared to global average: [2]

During Holocene Climate Optimum (the warmest period in human history) the arctic is estimated to have been 4-6C warmer than baseline (yearly average): [3]

That's not all that much. We're now already at 400ppm CO2, and recent unmitigated projections to 2100 (538ppm) simulate an arctic yearly average of ~ plus 8C [4].

And that most probably doesn't take a positive methane feedback loop into account. This is a significant gamble. The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum boundary showed a global average warming of 5C, mostly from arctic methane at a time where there wasn't even a large ice shelf, so with significantly lower capacity [5].

We can only guess what a global average temperature increase of 13C could do to the ecosystem that's currently feeding 7B people.

[1] http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/2052/2014...

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL025244/full

[3] https://epic.awi.de/38441/1/Beierlein_2015_Holocene_page1.pd...

[4] http://climatenewsnetwork.net/arctic-is-set-to-reach-13c-by-...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene–Eocene_Thermal_Maxim...
Not at all. I'll be long dead before anything happens.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

It didn't "go rogue" it did what it was supposed to. People were just being shits to it.
ugh I'd argue that addiction is much more so a result of America's failed medical system, failed mental health system, long slow decay and the internalization of it's populace that the american dream has always been a lie and what little of it that every existed was a cruel and dehumanizing experience.
> most industries won't be protected by regulatory capture.

And that's s good thing. It's unfortunate for those whose jobs are automated away, but without automation, goods and services can't keep up with the increase in population and demand. What's needed isn't prevention of automation, but how to increase the number of people with enough education to implement even more automation.
That doesn't feel like a problem? As a PhD thesis, the cited works should cover the subjects, but there is no requirement for the citations to be direct, or even useful to the general public who want to "learn more" =)

If you just want to know the difference between CHAMP and HAMT, then Google gets you that information pretty swiftly. Maybe you were looking for https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/27/hamt which discusses HAMT and then discusses the improvements CHAMP brings to the table.
1) Google does not hire by sampling at random from a population above an IQ cutoff; you are misusing statistical ideas. http://crookedtimber.org/2017/08/11/from-a-logical-point-of-...

2) "IQ" (or math ability, or whatever) does not measure if someone is an effective engineer, which is what Google actually wants.

3) Women are also underrepresented throughout software engineering, at places far less rarified than Google. You don't have to be a genius to write a CRUD app--but somehow it's still mostly dudes. I wonder if there could be any other effects that would discourage women from taking those jobs?

4) Have you ever asked a women in tech--any woman, grab the nearest one--if she's had negative experiences in tech? Say, being dismissed, ignored, talked over, harassed?
Ask HN: Need help for editor for screencast
Need help with, recording handwritten videos like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Cbkoo4Gwg.

Don't want to use MS Paint. Want to write freely as running hand.

Please suggest!!
The hard part is usually in the execution.

Problem solving usually involves experiencing discomfort.

The ability to push past discomfort is key to solving non-trivial problems. Like a muscle, this ability improves with practice.

The problem could be to lift a heavy weight or to solve a hard coding question. Either way, there is certainly much to be gained from having the right understanding and approach but successful execution is mostly the end result of having a long consistent history of smaller successful executions.

Sun Tzu: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. "
What I Learnt in Half a Year of Mentoring
Goldberg also expanded this paper into a book. http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00762ED1V01Y2...
I just checked my "Soluna" glasses - I can see a high watt bulb in a lamp, previously I couldn't see any lower watt bulb :/
Yea it's just a mistake, it should be string literal.
GoDaddy tells the Daily Stormer to move their domain for TOS violation
People even used to drink distilled water as a health fad in the 70's. People are stupid.
Prototype #Design: What Is a Wireframe, and What Is a Prototype?
We're already at "machines should think, people should work" for low-level jobs, like fast food and order fulfillment. Robots are still not good at, or cost-effective at, unstructured manipulation, but computers are great at organizing work, communicating, selling, and accounting. What management used to do.
Surely the different bots would communicate via RPCs or some other API. It wouldn't be much different from 1 single bot, especially if 1 bot decided to coordinate everything and the other 4 bots decided to just follow orders.
White Elephants at Workplace
We still don't know everything about the biology of bird feathers but we can make flying machines.

True AI is not going to happen tomorrow, but I expect it to come within my lifetime. It's easy to get hung up on the complexity of biological systems like the brain, but sometimes all that complexity is not necessary to the function. Complexity is the result of an evolutionary process, and may not be a necessary component of intelligence
This reminds me of a passage from "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman. It's the difference between mechanical time & body time. You can read it here: http://members.iif.hu/visontay/ponticulus/britannicus/einste... (the 24 April 1905 entry).
"Super Intelligence" made a nice point that AI will likely be very stupid until it's suddenly very, very smart. I thought the AI worries I read about in the media were a bit hyperbolic till I read this book - it makes some good and sensible arguments as to how a human dangerous AI might come about. It doesn't claim general AI is necessarily very likely, but more that, in the event it does come about, it will be very sudden, very swift - it won't be the gradual curve of innovation and improvement we've been used to elsewhere - and so our time to react to it's birth and implications will be very short.
For logo generations, did you check this project? https://emblemmatic.org/markmaker/# It's quite well done.
Rather than GAN or Deep learning, they use a genetic algorithm
Real-Time Tactical Game Champions and Challengers – Adventure Time Comes This Fall
Backtraces work without that.

http://yosefk.com/blog/getting-the-call-stack-without-a-fram...
Yes, because even basic AI can be hacked at the hardware level.
Actual AI? No. But if I were super-rich I would be, because I'd be concerned an actual AI would look at the problems that the world has and conclude that resource hoarding at the top of the wealth pyramid would be the first problem to solve.

The things being sold as AI? Absolutely. Weapons systems, policing systems, and the like, being run by poorly-understood algorithms infected with the unconsidered biases and assumptions of their creators seem like a great way to make things worse, not better.
It's a bad idea to use the perfect term, because "oh it has perfect secrecy! that will keep my data safe no matter what!"
That looks amazing. However I am not sure how it plays, it says RTS, there are some building in the videos but it looks more like a diablo style hero-focused gameplay.
Look at the route. There are twists and turns to avoid various underground obstacles. Most station work involved acquiring and demolishing something before work could even start.

There was supposed to be a Crossrail 2, running north-south, but it looks like that's being canceled. After Brexit, London will be much less of a banking center, and traffic is expected to drop.
Are there any walkthroughs from zero to all done of best practices to setup a product website using a static generator (Jekyll, Hugo, or whatever) rather than a blog?

I started looking at the Hugo "quick start"[1], but then apparently the right way to work things as branches for GitHub pages is more choices[2]. Grabbing a theme that was optimized for more of a product page than a blog led to another warning[3] that the normal documentation wasn't going to be helpful. After that, I decided it would be best to ask for help!

[1] https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/

[2] https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

[3] https://themes.gohugo.io/kube/#GettingStarted

"There are a few concepts this theme employs to make a personal documentation site.
It’s important to read this as you may not see what you expect upon launching."
I don’t blame the protesters for standing up, shouting, and using other tactics of dissent against the white supremacists. This was the third time this has happened in Charlottesville this summer. Richard Spencer’s torches in May, KKK in July, and this mess yesterday. Ignoring them didn’t work.
I have a real groaner that I heard from a friend.

You have a carrot, and put it in a pot.
You have a tomato, and put it in a pot.
You have a potato, and put it in a pot.
What's in the pot?

三つ野菜だ。"Three vegetables."
It sounds like "Mitsuya Cider," a brand of soda.
I am talking about projections of growth and their relationship to interest rates. Interest rates have to be paid based on future earnings, but projections for future earnings have always a big variance. Therefore, small changes in interest rate have little meaning in terms of capacity of repayment, but have great meaning in term of money made by banks (or in terms of policy, by central banks). That's why it is so easy to manipulate interest rates within certain limits, contrary to what you said about resulting inflation.
Still going to kill a lot of people. We need smokeless fuels like gas or electricity.

The water ways are still going to be deadly since it will only get a percentage. I doubt it'd pay for toilets...

Not new.

Doesn't really make sense since if it was a good business then the functioning sewers would be the cheapest place to start.

Cool to try stuff, cool on them, cool business, but not a HN level save the world idea.
Nothing wrong with being an atheist or an introvert, those are totally legitimate beliefs and personality types.

Faith totally worked for me, and might work for you or anyone else too. I didn't include my specific beliefs and community because it may not be for everyone, but if you can get similar benefits (community, hope, belonging, volunteering) from any other positive place then more power to you!

Life is an interesting journey, and I hope you can live it to its fullest :)
You're still thinking in terms of one version being the default and the other an alternative that must be positively proven to be better. If you are in a situation where you have cases A and B and no particular reason to believe a priori that either is more likely to be better than the other, that's a fundamentally different situation.

And in that situation, yes, if you run both versions with randomised visitors and you observe a small but non-zero sample where one converted and the other did not, that is evidence that one version may be better than the other. It's not particularly strong evidence, but it is a non-zero amount of evidence in one direction over the other, and that's better than the nothing at all that you had to separate the cases to start with.

Therefore, if you must make a choice about whether to adopt one version or the other at that stage, then in the absence of any better evidence, it is more likely that the version that has converted performs better than the version that has not and logically you should adopt the one that converted.

Of course in reality you would probably prefer to collect stronger evidence before making a decision if that is possible. But if it's not then, as closed wrote before, any information is better than no information at all.
Here's a few expert perspectives you can start with: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/some-scientific-arguments...
It's been said before
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY
if you work or visit China you basically must use WeChat, Alipay, and Baidu. the great firewall blocks the competition and everyone in China uses the homegrown equivalents.
> More that 50%

was supposed to be "more than 50%"
That bootstrapping page is full of great links! I just added another link to the end of the in-tray section -- I hope it wasn't unwelcome.
Well, everything everyone says is some kind of summary of the facts. This doesn't mean no one is trying to tell the truth. Thucydides may have combined and paraphrased speeches because he is trying to put down the essentials.
It is an issue for brands that treat it as old media. What brands need to understand is that you have to do your research before hiring am influencer. I dont hire anyone unless they provide enough convincing data. Its also important to know that most scams are aimed at the lifestyle/fashion industries. If you are a plumber you wont need to worry too much about it.You cam find worthy influencers to help you promote your services.
>Apple used to charge for all their software. I give FOSS credit for changing that.

I give the credit to Microsoft's market share. The fact is ~99% of Mac switchers like me previously owned Windows boxes and ran mostly proprietary Windows software. The free applications you get with a Mac are a way to cushion the blow of giving those up and in some cases offer features you just can't get direct equivalents for on Windows. Offering Time Machine, Photos, iMovie, Pages, etc for free has nothing to do with the existence of Libre software and everything to do with marketing the platform to switchers from Windows.

Clearly Libre software has had a huge effect on OSX, in fact the OS itself is based on free software and large swathes of its base components, tools and services are free software of one sort or another to this day. But none of those are name check features marketable to consumers other than just as MacOS.

In the dev tool arena yes, free software has had a huge effect. Specifically I think making very capable versions of VS available free was a response to the existence of high quality free .NET development tools. MS want people to develop on Windows using their own tool chains and if roughly equivalent free tools exist and become popular, there's really no cost to offering an equivalent for free any more given VS has to exist anyway.
My worry with any new technological leap is that we simply forget how to do things that we needed to do prior. When it comes to the AI we have now:

* when self driving cars are mainstream, will we forget how to drive?

* when ai can answer all questions we need and want will we forget how to think and solve problems?

* when robots can print anything and everything, will we forget how to manufacture things with our own hands? What happens to agriculture and food production as well?

We don't even need to get to the point where we build weaponised AIs that kill us SkyNet/Horizon style; We might just forget how to do stuff.

My theory for the near future is that society will need to form guilds of arts/sports/craftsmanship to preserve the skills that brought us here.
IIRC AI will probably emerge from and incorporate ML, but it's unlikely that AI will be entirely ML-based.
There are alternatives to this mainstream style of computer architecture, such as dataflow or hybrid quantum-classical systems, which both require a very different kind of compiler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture
Not afraid of an hostile take over by AI. Everything is data all the way down so I'm afraid of those that wield that data.
One nice thing today is the source code to professional compilers is readily available. Pick one for a simpler language, and just read the code.
> When I was dumb and young I'd look at the sun for seconds at a time without any problems developing so far.

Hopefully this was during hazy sunsets. Or maybe you just have mega-strong pupils that can contract more than normal and that's why you're not blind.

> Is the danger that an eclipse encourages you to stare at the sun without encountering any pain?

Exactly. Human eyes aren't very good at handling ultra-high-dynamic-range scenes. During an eclipse, your surroundings are somewhere between twilight and night-time in brightness, so your pupils dilate. The small un-covered sliver of sun is still as bright as it is during the day, and can damage your eyes without triggering a painful 'too-bright' response. It's somewhat similar to the danger posed by a laser.
Chema Nox – Techno Live set session podcast (13 – 08 – 17)
Fascinating for sure. I’m looking forward to see what this gets implemented in
I am concerned. People think AI = Skynet but in reality, the next couple of decades, AI = millions of humans out of jobs. I am concerned the change will be too fast for us to adapt. Not only do we need to invent a lot of new jobs, we may need to re-learn basic paradigms like job = goal of life = success. I suppose we can imagine millions of humans that are freed from work to devote their time to hobbies, art, sports, entertainment, etc. What if that does not happen? We plug them to media and keep them calm? Bored jobless youngsters are dangerous, no?
Godwin suspends Godwin's law
So, Permian-Triassic exctintion, anyone?
I don’t think you’re helping your case there with that comparison.
Hey, not the poster you responded to, but I am an off-gridder in Puna who codes and actually was classmates with Luke Evslin (super good guy back then, sounds like he still is). I would love for a group of big island Hacker News reading off-gridders to get to know each other!
Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More? [pdf]
Ah, sorry, thought it was something more like Contentful that provides an API.
Bitcoin has existed for 9 years. While you are waiting we are reinventing how money works.
> The codebase may be ugly but who cares

Code quality matters indirectly here. Wordpress is known for it's massive number of security flaws. If you don't watch for new versions and update regularly ( and who has time for that ? ) consider yourself hacked
True AI, not in the slightest. However, the current implementations of machine learning I believe have the potential for disastrous results, especially as ML is being used for ever more critical roles; We're due for autonomous weapon platforms this year, and self-driving vehicles are soon to follow, while there is limited research on the security of the algorithms, especially in the case of induced edge cases.
> Some compilers translate source code into another programming language. These compilers are called source-to-source translators or transpilers

I was wondering how compile-to-JS languages would be classified. Technically they are all transpilers, but seeing as there is no lower-level for the browser than JS (barring WebASM), one could also argue that they are in fact also compilers.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
How so? At least in our area, the fixed portion of the electric bill is only a few dollars. And, hell, I imagine I could cancel my service and pay nothing, connected or no.

(And the grid is vital to a future of country-wide renewable power IMO, so I'm not personally eager to undermine it)
Sadly the trend seems to go backwards with people around me, since many enthusiastically jumped to Signal and now are leaving again to more reliable messengers.
Glad you liked it. We welcome submissions esp since we aren't strict now. We might prune some stuff in the future if it's not very good for bootstrapping. This one is a really neat project but has some pros and cons for our purposes.

Pro's. Small, cleanly written, safe, and runs through multiple compilers. The latter is especially useful if using David A. Wheeler's technique of diverse compilation.

Con's. It says no files or macros. We can probably tolerate no macros. What does no files mean? It can't support multiple files/modules, has no file I/O... what? Depending on meaning, it might be something easy to work around or not.

EDIT: I like that Ghuloum's paper was an inspiration for this as it's one of main links I push on the topic if one wants to use Scheme. There's a few repos in progress with I think at least one done on what's in that paper. I've sent messages to a few hoping they'll publish it in a readable form or write a tutorial. Time will tell... Also note I wrote my reply in response to the overview at the top. His related work section looks equally interesting but will take some time to go through.

EDIT 2: "This is what Darius Bacon did with "ichbins"." I'm guessing your that guy. Good job maybe being part of inspiration for this work. :)
Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation
> That would be like taking a programming language's syntax for assigning data objects and turning it into it's own standard for a text file format.

Looking at you, JSON...
Yes it does. You think China having 1/6 of the world's population is just a factor of modern policy? That's probably (estimates are fairly fuzzy) lower than its proportion of the world population in 1600. See e.g. [1] which estimates world population in 1600 in a band centered at 550m, with estimated populations of late-Ming-dynasty China around 160m.

You seem to view the mid-19th to early-20th centuries, when Europe temporarily had about 1/3 of the world's population because it went into its demographic transition so early, as a good baseline. It is not.

The reason I mentioned Europe having gone into its explosive growth so early is that it was so early that it affects your assumptions, such as that Britain "should" have a quarter instead of a twentieth of the population of China.

[1] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpo...
Not without precedent. Many of the great problems of human history are this way. Government, for starters.
The answer is yes...like the article says.
Also like the article says in a huge bold font, "Fake Instagram Influencers Are A Problem For The Industry".
Quarantine it's a full novel. I feel like minded and the Egan books hit upon so many of the things I dream about. This author along with William Gibson and Neal Stephenson really resonate with a lot of the cutting edge concepts we deal with. I had no idea Egan was a programmer but it's apparent he is a genius reading his books so it fits.
Hugo is a single binary that works on Linux, windows and osx. That's a godsend compared to setting up Jekyll - which needs you to setup ruby and then install all dependencies.

It is also many times faster than Jekyll. Both were the reason,we chose Hugo.