skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For startups... the biggest disadvantage to a SPAC is fee structure. The biggest advantage for a SPAC is timing. In tech startup-landia I believe timing greatly outweighs ~13% fee difference.

Many startups start the IPO process which takes 6-12 months from start to finish only to find that their IPO will be delayed due to unfavorable market timing. In tech IPOs, this can mean upwards of 20% pricing differences.

I'm surprised at how well this SPAC is trading at given how generally unsuccessful SPACs have been historically.

I believe there's a lot of opportunity in SPAC's little brother, the RTO on TSX-V, for startups. There are plenty of good startups that are no longer in a venture-fundable state (going after markets of sub $500M with less than 20% YoY growth) where liquidity and investment could help all stakeholders. If you know companies that fit this profile: $3M-$10M revenue, breakeven and 7-25% YoY growth... let me know.
I stopped using PuTTY (I was using the KiTTY fork) and have been exclusively using WSL(https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about) for the past 6 months. Love it so far!

My only complaint is that you have to run ssh as root to map ports < 1024 (a *nix security limitation) while in PuTTY you could just run as an average user.
Oh of course, thanks.
Ahh yes who doesn't remember their days in school doing gradient descent and backprop on millions of samples of text describing the solar system.
That's at least partially true. World population in 1850 (before the use of modern fertilizers) was about 1.6 billion. Then you have to take in account mechanization of agriculture and genetic selection of varieties, which also probably multiplied the yields several times.

But I would argue that all these practices are part of the aforementioned "traditional agriculture".
I was thinking the exact opposite of this. I thought millennials were not into subs.
That's used to generate electricity. The spacecraft still use propellant when they need to generate thrust.
Why wouldn't this be classified?

It is incredibly bizarre that we're reading what is ostensibly the report of a new poorly understand device (perhaps a weapon) used extremely recently against US interests from an unknown source. We classify everything under the sun and 'no-comment' anything that could in any way be remotely related to intelligence. But in this situation, that is genuinely directly related to national security and international relations, we spread this about to be headline news to the point that you may as well have the state department on Oprah?

This seems inexplicable and illogical.
You are aware that one can write macOS programs in languages different from ObjC and Swift, right?
Each was overhyped at the time, and each hit its ceiling.

That each was over-hyped I can buy. I'm less convinced of the latter part of that statement. Take ANN's. You would have thought that they had hit their ceiling at one time as well, but eventually the confluence of more compute power, more data, and better algorithms resulted in the recent resurgence. I don't see any reason to think that some of the other existing AI techniques might not also experience an explosion in utility, if combined with massive increases in compute power, more data, and better algorithms as well.
I'd not be surprised if their growth this year is even bigger than last year. 2017 is the year of the Youtube Adpocalypse and more and more creators are looking for alternate, more stable, revenue streams.

There is still a lot of potential of revenue coming in from existing big content creators switching to the platform. When Philip DeFrance started his Patreon a few months ago he became the #2 most sponsored creator in Patreon in a few days, and his channel is "only" ranked ~350th by number of subscribers.
It's perfectly possible to run the channel. You're just not going to make any money from it.

Can't really blame advertisers for not wanting to associate their brands with political content, especially if it's as toxic as a Jordan Peterson rant on gender, and can question the motives of anyone whose decision on whether to critique capitalism or not is based on whether they can get enough juicy ad dollars for doing so.
Family is usually the reason.
And the A5 Vigilante.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_Vigilante

US and Canadian intelligence had evidence that the KGB had a man on the inside of AVRO who was providing ARROW plans to the Soviets.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-boo...
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Wow I love this framework. I wish there was a book or something, seems a little neglected, but I have compiled a good week or two of papers to read. Thanks!
Why do we have to deregulate first?
On a 12 inch apple II monitor that font displayed at 28 dpi, so you have to zoom in 3 to 4 times to see it in the size it was designed for.
How to cook Salted Mutton without any Spices
There's two sides of this. The too-quick-to-blacklist one you mention, which is extremely concerning to me—I grew up in Evangelical schools watching the people around me become increasingly reactionary and paranoid, dominated by an us-against-them mentality, and if you didn't toe the party line on things like abstinence, swearing (especially in music), and drinking, you were quickly condemned. Now I see the same thing happening to my social liberal friends, and it's worrying, because once you start thinking in such closed-off ways, it's hard to dig out of that.

But there's also the impact of anonymity and zero-cost (dollar wise) widely-spread speech. Both of these are major recent changes compared to how things had been for decades previous. Maybe you're expressing it in the most extreme terms in part just for the reaction—this is obviously generally not productive from a societal perspective, but used to be restricted to a much smaller set of people who didn't mind the public blowback. Now you can do it for free with a throwaway identity. This also contributes to moving people further and further away from each other.
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I am having a rather large problem with our server's reputation after someone did something very bad. I cannot find anyway to resolve our problem with gmail.
Canadian software devs are making more like 40-80. Not too many at 150/he.
> In reality science is far more messy than he acknowledges.

Funny you should say that. I take Kuhn's whole point to be that science is far messier than the empiricists acknowledge. What is the complication that you think Kuhn overlooks?
Exactly. We have a working group tackling these problems:

http://program-transformation.org/WGLD/

However, it seems to be drifting back to traditional SIGPLAN topics lately. The problem is the conferences: there was a concerted effort to make them more sciency and less designy in the last 15 years and....well, design no longer sells to acedmics.

The HCI community has similar problems actually. You can't really equate empirical evaluation of user behavior (a topic in itself) to design, where many aspects are quite difficult to validate empirically (things like Fitts' law can evaluate simple behaviors, but don't really scale to complex behaviors).
150 CAD at current exchange rates is 123 USD. That puts the 2-3x range at 246-369 USD. That's actually a bit low for a good senior developer in the current Bay Area market.
I thought that little quote was the most important part of the article, it's really a shame it's buried at the bottom. Especially with all the activities outlined in this kid's life. Is it any wonder he started acting out?

Very important reading: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Privilege-Advantage-Generation-...
This is the reason it's not useful for me

I have separate LastPass accounts on each chrome profile (one for work and for personal use) and there's no way to keep them separate like this
JPL actually does a pretty good job of taking care of their employees, with many projects in action at once.

I went to grad school with a JPL employee who was getting her master's degree in astronomy during the cruise part of Voyager 2's flight between Uranus and Neptune.
As an aside, whenever I click on a Slashdot article about Mozilla and Firefox...ALMOST ALL the comments bash Mozilla and Firefox to pieces...and mostly from anonymous posters.

On HN we seem to get reasoned arguments for or against Mozilla and Firefox, but not seemingly mindless hate.

Now I know that HN is a higher class forum these days--Slasdot is not still in its heyday--but I have to say it is refreshing.
https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/

I believe this is used to generate some of the official Microsoft documentation.

We use it on our team -- it's pretty basic, but allows Markdown formatted content and ingests the triple slash comments.

The biggest downside is that it is extremely slow.
Having grown up in Canada, I would say that Canadians are in general, a nice bunch to be around; and that in itself is a benefit of living in Canada.
Anyone else get a pop up that says "congratulations! You're visitor X and winner of..."? Pretty bad for Reuters if someone can inject JavaScript into their site.
Probably not. Apple specifically said that they've tested Face ID against masks (even Hollywood quality ones). Also, Face ID checks for user attention, so a static 3d-printed would not work. I wonder though if it worked if you put a mask over your face with eye cutouts? When the devices arrive I'm pretty sure some very clever people will try to tackle this problem, this should be interesting :)
Even worse, there are often huge bugs in routers or switches with regards to IPv6 that aren't often discovered because IPv6 is so rarely used.

I remember reading about Facebook's migration as a great case study. One example problem they had was that their switches couldn't handle getting a BGP feed with IPv6 addresses when they had not been configured for IPv6.

In other words, when they added IPv6 to their BGP feeds they crashed an entire network segment worth of switches.

This is another massive headache w.r.t IPv6 switchover: all the bugs and edge cases we've found with IPv4 thirty years ago are all brand new wild country problem with IPv6.
Wouldn't autoplay start before your browser can know whether the file it is playing is over 250k?
This man's life is definitely worth studying. Before it closed the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, GA had a wonderful exhibit on Redding's life, including much of his correspondence and newspaper interviews. He was incredibly shrewd both in matters of business and culture at such an early age, and I firmly believe that if he had not been taken so young that he would have been a major force not just in the music business but in American politics.

Also of note is that he married extremely well - Zelma Redding has a huge story of her own. Due to the nature of the music business back then Otis Redding owned none of his catalogue at the time of his death. Zelma took the insurance money (from the plane, not life insurance on Otis) and used it to systematically buy back his songs over the years, financing the next purchase with the accrued royalties, until eventually his entire output was returned to the family.
Being able to walk/wheel chair places regardless of your income or station is freedom. If my car breaks down today, I'm not stranded where I live. I can walk to everything I need, including my job if I was really committed (but I'd rather take the train).

There is no reason that American suburbs are so hostile to walkability. It's very bad for human health (lack of movement and all of the air pollution that cars cause). And of Course sprawling, car-dependent lifestyles are horrific for the planet.
Just libel? What about slander and RICO?
Wouldn't be surprised if they just call it "Android 10.0" or something. If they keep Java/NDK compatibility, the rest doesn't matter to most people.
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I feel that Numenta will break the ceiling that we're coming to now. I have quite a few upcoming personal projects that I plan to use there neural network(HTM) structure to enhance, the key being enhance.

The mindset that I feel is lacking in the ML/AI community is that we should be creating systems that can be augmented and improved using AI, the product itself should stand alone without using any AI at all. This is similar to how JIT compilation can improve the machine code as the program runs. Part of how our own brains work is that the cerebral cortex doesn't really have any direct control over the body at all, it can only watch and identify patterns and project intentions to the the rest of the brain/body. This is a passive structure initially, it observes both the environment and how the lower structure interact with that environment. Only after it's observed and learned the "commands" can it begin to influence how the body moves around and interacts with the world. You could look at the CLI terminal as an example, on it's own I can interact and use it perfectly fine. But lets say I added some patterning matching and prediction AI that could make really good suggestions about what command I will type next, at some point you could promote these suggestions so that they always execute when the AI predicts you would use it. This is exactly how the brain works.

Most of my ideas of applied AI revolve around improving our HID interfaces to computers themselves. For example, I'd like to reduce our chances of developing RSI related to keyboard/mouse/trackpad usage and I feel that chorded keyboards are more ergonomic. But chorded keyboards are slower to use and harder to learn. The mapping of the chords is where I plan to apply some AI, initially I'm going to randomize how chords are bound to character inputs, these random values will use many fingers to input 1 character. As the user learns and uses the chords to input characters the AI can identify common patterns and promote those patterns into chords that use less and less fingers to input, thus improving the input speed potential of the user. The next place to use AI in this project would be autocorrection and using the user's input context(program, filetype, time, surrounding text) to continue improving these bindings and making completion suggestions.
No. Oil prices are semi-low for two reasons.

1) An endless oversupply due to the US oil boom. Even the OPEC cuts + Russia restraint + Saudi cuts to the US market + OPEC cut extension + modest demand growth have not been enough to inflate prices. There's vast supply perpetually waiting on the sidelines, between Russia + the US + OPEC, there's no scenario where $100 oil returns anytime soon.

2) The strong dollar. Commodities are largely priced in dollars globally. If the dollar goes up, oil goes down. Oil tanked exactly in line with the greatest dollar bull run in decades. July 1st 2014, the dollar index was at 80, eight months later it was at 100 - a massive move by the dollar. Over that time oil got cut in half.

ISIS is entirely meaningless in this context.
The old TV was a flat screen. Samsung UN55B6000.
It already costs nearly that at some 'elite' universities. And it's not worth the money if you purely consider it as a financial investment in most cases.
How much does WITH RECURSIVE help to reduce pain with graphs in PostgreSQL?
Authagraph World Map turns the Earth into a rectangle using tetrahedrons (2016)
Ah I see. Yeah, still not a fan. As someone else mentioned in the thread, some bots are mainly integration, shuffle content from one system to another. This will break mentions in IRC gateways for instance, no? Or, something Slack might care more about, make it a lot harder to have a mention in a ticketing or project management system trigger a mention in a Slack message.
I could be interested, but this landing page is really awful at conveying useful information about the product.
The Australian farmer might not, but the machine that replaces him will.
you have a matrix, one axis is names of programming languages and the other axis is names of things a language can do

the entries are 0 or 1.

If language L can do thing T, then there is a 1 in in cell L,T. Otherwise there is a 0.

For example, a thing could be, "you can feed it a math text and it will give a list of defined terms and expand the definition of any term in the list in the signature {<-}.
The reason I bring up property taxes is that the vary wildly in the U.S. I paid about $3,500 for my place in the DC area area. We have industry and income tax, so my property taxes are rather low. My parents live in Ohio and pay around $12,000 a year for a similarly priced home.
Ok well settle your case if you wish. But that was what YC themselves claimed, according to this: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...
This trend must be a price over preference issue. The desirable cities in the US are just so damn expensive to live in town. If you want to buy, it's either the 'burbs, or most of your income going to rent/buy in the city.

Of course, if you really do the math, even beyond being unsustainable from an economic and infrastructure/governance standpoint, on a personal level, owning and maintaining a house in the suburbs has many hidden costs.
Google has actually fixed this in the latest version of Android (that nobody has): http://www.zdnet.com/article/android-oreo-google-has-just-ma...
It seems like the Firefox team intends to only have what maximises the privacy security protections, and that this extra functionality (hereafter referred to as SameCon, versus the current DefCon) is ideally implemented as an add-on. I'd imagine they're thinking that if a user wants SameCont, that user can just add it as an add-on

I don't think this is the ideal solution, because I'd imagine there are a population of users who just wouldn't consider the possibility that SameCon could Be an add-on. Especially if the community is split roughly down the middle.

I think yours is the ideal solution, making SameCon a configurable option, but having the default option be DefCon. That way, the privacy and security protections are the Default behavior, but a user has the option to change it Built In
The Washington Post includes a quote from Google giving their reasoning, as well quotes from Gab's statement. They also provide background information on Gab.

Breitbart's article is 90% quotes of Gab's press release and statements from their management. Google's pov is completely absent. Instead, they add some speculation regarding Apple in the last paragraph, but it only serves to make a point, not to convey any information.

There are many smaller problems with Breitbart's writing: "suddenly suspended" doesn't make sense, because you can't be "gradually suspended". The scare quotes around hate speech make a cheap political point, the headline adopts Gab's self-aggrandising description as a "free speech social network" etc.
The russians have the correct solution of simply adding rockets vaugely looking like finns instead of fake fins!
You can counter by asking when was the last time they pulled their YouTube application from the store.
It seems like Google and the other progressive tech monopolies have grabbed a tiger by the tail. Maybe too late to let go without being eaten.
Cloudflare now serves F-Root instance
Just ML is never going to lead to an AGI.

I think there's a chance it could in principle. Or at least, I think it could yield something close. If human intelligence is largely rooted in a neural network with billions of neurons and trillions of synapses, then it seems reasonable to think that, in principle, a sufficiently deep/wide ANN could show "intelligence".

But here's the rub. Doing that would be silly. We already know how to make a neural network with human like intelligence using billions of neurons and trillions of synapses... it just takes a man, a woman, and about 9 months. :-)

Also consider the power consumption of an ANN of that scale, given the current state of things.

So yeah, to achieve anything truly AGI like, which doesn't need it's own nuclear power plant, I suspect we're going to need other approaches in addition to today's ML/DL stuff.
The reason I bring up property tax is that it varies so much in the U.S., and places without income taxes often have onerous property taxes. I live in MD, right outside of DC, and my property taxes are about 1/3rd of my parents in Ohio for very similarly priced homes.
Yes, but the top, hard driving, talent would make the trade and move to the US. Your prerogative is to kick back and chill up north. I'm not hatin -- just pointing out that you're not really a counter example to the point at hand.
I would wager Silicon Valley salaries are the main money sink.
> Gaming is maybe the one mainstream application where local compute is important

While it isn't as mainstream as gaming, music production also requires a lot of local computing power. Even with ridiculous bandwidth, having a high fidelity sample streamed elsewhere, processed, and streamed back to you would be extremely slow. Not to mention, as a keyboard player or drummer, the latency would be atrocious if you tried to play a synth that was being computed in the cloud.
I love it when you are troubleshooting and question how it ever worked in the first place.
Interesting, thanks! In the U.S., I don't think we have hot water delivery at all, water comes to your buildings cold and is heated individually by water heaters in the buildings where it will be used. Although now I wonder what keeps our delivery pipes from freezing in the winter; maybe it just doesn't get cold enough here for them to, when the pipes are underground.
Difference being that the railway was the only practical mean of delivery back then and is an actual utility. Also one couldn't sideload newspapers to circumvent restrictions.

Tagging everything as a "utility" and demanding they be regulated as such is as far removed from the conservative ethos as the altright apparently.
I'm still using the rig I built in 2006, though I have maxed out the ram (32gb) and upgraded to SSDs since then. It works fine for what I use it for--writing code, listening to music, surfing the web, image editing in gimp, and drawing with qcad or inkscape. I often do these things simultaneously with up to 100 open browser tabs. I have no reason to believe I won't still be using it 5 years from now.
There are two parts on googlesource.com, the ones without "-review" suffix (like the link in the OP) are on gitiles, and the ones with "-review" suffix are on gerrit.
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I like this but I like chrome multi profile model better.

I like that extensions are separate for each profile.

For example, I have two separate LastPass accounts. One for work and a personal one. There is no way for me to keep them separate like this.
>And instead of trying to solve that problem (make a concerted effort to drive him to his friends every day, or give him a bike, or give him money for a taxi, or…) they punished him with Pavlov training.

Or how about letting him do what he wanted in the first place... stay in England. That country is (in)famous for its boarding schools. If they could afford the 6-figure-invoice to have strangers discipline their children via webcam, they could afford to let Shep stay at a top-quality boarding school in London.