skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Believe me, people don't mind being in touch and coordinating through more direct means

I feel like you are from an older generation, not that there's anything wrong with it, but you probably no longer have the same needs as the younger generation. When I organize stuff, I don't always do it between 1 or 2 people. Once we were a dozen that went to an Escape Room, even more people were interested and even more were invited. It was barely organized days before. Sure it works coordinating through more direct means and people did that for a pretty long time, I feel like you had to when you had similar needs, but the thing is, there's a better tool for it nowadays which is Facebook. It's like saying you don't want to use the all good new framework because of the good old way that worked.

Also, it's partially true, people do mind being in direct touch, we had some people that just disappear from our events (and some of them came back using a pseudonym later on) because of that reason. It's a central way to put everything if something goes bad, this is where it's updated if anything changes. Again, it's like saying you don't need a bug tracker because you can easily do it using emails. Yeah, it works, but it tiresome to do it that way.

I personally don't care much about this tracking. It tracks mostly what I give it. I know what it does and I work with it. I'm not afraid of personalized offer, it's all good, offer me a new laptop for a great price, I would be happy to take a look and buy it if it does fit my criteria and my needs.

I don't want Facebook to know that I'm interested in software engineering? Well, maybe that was dumb to tell it in the first place (and in that case, I would use more private means to follow that passion).
I could imagine (encrypted) health records could benefit from a blockchain model for distribution and dissemination as a distributed database...maybe.
This example isn't about branch prediction (not exactly), but it might still be interesting:

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015...

It's about how sorting + random access can be faster than random access, because you introduce locality of reference. And in this case, it absolutely is faster to sort the data first and then do the work, even counting the sorting.

Edit: Aw crap, adrianN beat me to this a few screenfuls down, sorry! But, it is a different post, so maybe this is still helpful. :D
That's fine, just pay for the societal costs you impose while exercising such a liberty. The article isn't is talking about taking away the liberty to drive, but rather not subsidizing it through tax loopholes. It's kind of a libertarian perspective, actually.

EDIT: wording
So far, @otheruser@custom.website is probably @gamergater@assholes.town in practice.

If you're happy with having people like that show up in your mentions, then you're quite free to go find an instance that is "focused on free speech" that will cheerfully federate toots from brownshirt.party, angrywhiteboysontheintern.et, and babyrape.horse.

Personally I consider this a feature, not a bug. Nonetheless, it seems to have been been fixed in the latest release of Mastodon: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422

As to the "social graph is not portable" problem, this one applies to every single social network. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, that app your kid* downloaded yesterday that you've never heard of but will be constantly told is the Hot New Place All The Teens Are Going next year, all of these social networks face this problem.
It's about knowing what the function expects to receive.

What you got seems unexpected initially, but as you read the doc on this function (which took me a good 20 secs) you may think it is indeed well conceived, and realize that it was weird to expect passing an array of strings to it and expect it to work.. I don't even know what it should've done.

Should it have given you a single line of comma separated values? But then what should you give to the function to have multiple lines of csv? An array of array of strings?
After the Avro Arrow project was cancelled a number of the employees involved joined NASA to assist in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. It's a shame that the same kind of "brain drain" occurs to this day. Canada produces a lot of talented people and many of them head South.
Docker didn't invent the term 'container' for... well, _containing_ an environment.

It's not really overloaded here. 'Container' means a contained environment that can see itself, and cannot see other contained environments on the same machine/network. It has the same basic meaning for both Docker and Firefox.

Docker was released in 2013, so if you search for "software container" or "software virtual container", or "chroot container" on Google filtered to before 01-01-2012, you will find plenty of examples of it from the past.

LXC - Linux Containers – was released in 2008... Virtuozzo Containers since at least 2000.

Here's something called Aurora for containerizing CORBA services in 1998: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0054506?no-acce...
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Definitely! Another factor is how fun is it to write in? That is a hard one to measure.
Oh that's awesome. I had been wondering about zstd!
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This is why we spend our money on Disney World and other experiences for the kids instead of saving for college. That might be a controversial idea, but we'd rather have them grow up with a fun childhood instead of just making it to a university, feeling empty and hollow inside, and have it all just be some lotto ticket anyway.
"I'm skeptical of things I don't understand."
I don't think that's correct. There are a lot of people who should know better that think that the current ml technology will lead to agi.
This just in, banker calls competitor a fraud. No reason to question this.

Loved his past employer's take. https://twitter.com/agurevich23/status/907692985424371712
Facebook's motivation is not that users of the site want it. It's that when they autoplay it they get to lie to advertisers and claim that "users engaged with the video content for x seconds," and charge them accordingly.

Every person I see using Facebook scrolls past the vast majority of videos in their feed as fast as they can because they don't want it to start playing. And then when they do find one they want to play, it's this race to pause the video and rewind it to the beginning as they make it full screen and start it over so they can see the whole thing. Then at the end, they have to stop the auto-scrolling to the next one so they can go back and see the funny part they liked, or whatever. It's so ridiculous.
They definitely did, at least in the JPL 360deg stream (can't say if the commentary was identical across all locations, but probably not).
> I especially liked the shot they took at the kids about being
> "negotiators," as though the ability to compromise rationally with
> authority figures is some sort of behavioral issue and not, you know,
> life.

One of my kids is a born haggler. She will try to maximize her personal benefit in every interaction with every human, even at that human's expense. Conversations with her like this are typical:

Her: Can I have some tablet time before bed?

Me: It's getting late, but fine. I have stuff I need to get done after you go to bed. Five minutes.

<Five minutes later.>

Me: Alright, it's bedtime.

Her: Five more minutes?

Me: No, now.

Her: That's not fair!

Me: You agreed to five minutes. That was five minutes ago.

<She gets off tablet.>

Her: I want some time to read now.

Adversarial negotiation is one way that humans interact, but it's not a particularly common one, and is rarely the best way to work together with someone else. Most interactions in life not zero-sum, and most people should not be treated like resources to maximize your exploitation of. Only in some sort of Randian libertarian hellhole would an interaction like this be acceptable:

Husband: Could you please pass the butter, dear?

Wife: Sure thing honey. That'll be $0.57 for the butter and $0.13 for the labor.

With a kid like mine that naturally goes into zero-sum mode, it is very important for me and my wife to train her to not treat people like that. Part of that is encouraging her to use empathy, but also a big part of it is knowing when to recognize when negotiation is not appropriate. Interacting with an authority is a bad time to start haggling, and authority figures are a part of life. If you get pulled over for a ticket, things usually don't go well if you tell the cop, "No, $200 is too much for the fine. I'll accept $50."
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Holy crap. As a kid, I had minor privacy and personal space issues, and I can only imagine how bad they'd have been exacerbated by being watched by strangers through a camera all the time.

I have to imagine those cameras might have lasted maybe two or three days in my case.
Of course her LinkedIn profile does not correctly reflect her experience and qualifications.

Yet here we are, on Hacker News, with people calling her out for not having security experience based on her LinkedIn profile having an Art degree, rather than a Science degree.

I agree wholeheartedly with you that LinkedIn is as meaningful as Facebook. We absolutely should not be here evaluating her qualifications based on her LinkedIn profile. Any conclusions therein derived would be obviously wrong, by your own point.
Exactly. Whenever people talk about the specter of brackets, I feel like a Siberian hearing about global warming. With a properly-configured editor, brackets are a tool to improve code navigation.
In Safari it auto-blocks ALL video, not just with sound.
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> no doubt they are less convenient for individuals.

It depends; in New York, it would be incredibly inconvenient for me to own a car to go from our apartment in upper manhattan to my job in midtown.
I think Fred Wilson when asked by a reporter about Jamie Dimon's comments said it best:

"You have to have an open mind to be able to see the future"
If your employer owns a house, and let's you stay in it for free, that's definitely compensation to you. A parking space is no different. The base state is not that you're a allowed to park wherever you want, but rather that it's private property and you're not allowed to park unless someone permits you to.
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Exactly. It's the devil's bargain that you make when you take venture capital. VC is a hits-driven business. If it looks like you'll only be a moderate success, they will push you to take risks and spend more money in hopes of being giant. That will push up your odds of total failure and worse.
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> “They also pushed me to have them in all the kids’ bedrooms

How do they avoid capturing images of naked children?
I know it's been discussed to death, but whatever. I like talking about cryptocurrency. Satoshi acknowledged that Bitcoin's value would need to be bootstrapped by hope and self-fulfilling prophesy. That already succeeded. Now it's a rare, conserved commodity, that is digital, and can be transmitted around the globe. Seems valuable to me on that basis alone. Supply is essentially fixed. Demand is likely to increase. Speculation will continue to add significant volatility for the foreseeable future.
Not the OP, but I'll reframe that as "teach them the value of accomplishment" because I've always had an issue with the concept of work being its own reward.

One of my 7 year-old's chores is refilling the bird feeders. He really likes doing it and is excited when new birds come to visit. There's a clear work->reward path there.
Safari 11 has this option. It defaults to "Stop Media with Sound", but you can configure it to "Never Auto-Play" as well, and you can override this setting for individual sites.
Music is incredibly intellectually challenging and stimulating. I'm getting a STEM degree because I couldn't handle a music degree. Music students I know work just as long if not longer days than I and my ECE peers do. This personal attack of the CSO isn't relevant.
I think his quote is out of context. If he is saying that back propagation networks alone are insufficient for AGI, that is neither surprising nor controversial. Hinton has never been working on the AGI problem. It sounds more like the author is making use of the quotes he/she got from Hinton in the most clickbaity way possible.
£250k - £300k total-comp possible in finance (hedge funds / prop. trading firms) and large tech companies in London. Currently earning that, as do a few of my peers. £250k seems to be the standard, and if you're a high performer can get it up to £300k. This is for a 'staff' or so level.
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"Fraud"? Like he's one to talk:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/07/jp-morgan-b...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/business/dealbook/jpmorga...

https://consumerist.com/2016/01/05/jpmorgan-chase-fined-48-m...
Or bitcoin happens to be eating into a market which wants to effect transfers of wealth between currencies and/or nations - something which wealthy clients might normally call up a large bank to handle... an example of automation eating (finance industry) jobs?
maybe how to solve higher level task using POS tagging and dependency parsing etc...
Or you can invest in low-cost index funds and match market returns instead of playing a game of economic Russian Roulette.
Thank you for pointing this out. I did K-12 in the US and it is indeed a different world now. I now have two children, in KG and PK, and I see the same thing with 3-5 structured activities. Part of it is an arms race of getting kids into top colleges, which now starts earlier and earlier. People realize the right college is a way to potentially hockeystick your future.

We have swimming, soccer, and language #3 for the kids. We're hoping the whole college mess gets figured out by society so we can live a more normal life.
(Hopefully obsolete) anecdote: in France, the ISP 'Free' offered IPv6 ahead of the competition (2009? I forget). I was glad to hop onto the bandwagon and enable that.

A while later (2014?), I was annoyed by my poor bandwidth. A bit of sleuthing revealed that IPv6 was the culprit: turning that off in the ISP's control panel doubled my bandwidth!

I know that a lot of internet routers didn't have IPv6 acceleration. IPv6 packets jumped out of the (fast) data plane to be processed by the (slower) control plane. At the time this made sense considering the rarity of IPv6. I suppose Free, being a cheap ISP, were still using these older routers.

In 2013, the telephony-focused router company I worked for still hadn't implemented data-plane processing of IPv6, because there was no requirement from it.

Hopefully in 2017, driven by Comcast or other IPv6-dependant phone operators, most routers do IPv6 acceleration.
Meanwhile, JP Morgan is a big investor in Ethereum, has built Quorum, the private chain version of Ethereum and is a big player in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

But Dimon probably still would say Ethereum is a fraud too, it's strongly implied by his Bitcoin comments. He's talking about the whole cryptocurrency market, not just Bitcoin.
Why is now "a nice time to buy"? What is underlying value that makes the current price attractive? I'm really curious to know
You're not wrong. Because of their browser share, Google on the desktop and Apple on mobile basically can control how people experience the internet, and they're now choosing to exert that power. It's something to keep an eye on. People might like what they're doing right now, but what if they don't like something they do two steps down the road?
Ok, done!
CTRL+clicking the "+" sign will open a new tab on the same container!!

It's a bit awkward although it works, until they get the CTRL+T solved.
I think to be fair, he said two things:

1. There is no way governments will just let an unregulated currency take over in a meaningful way.

2. Thus, the current Bitcoin rally is simply speculation and is being driven up by those who will profit the most from it (which is fraudulent in the way the Tulip mania was fraudulent).

I get that he's the CEO of the horse and buggy company dismissing cars, but I don't think he was that tone deaf.
The special purpose vehicle described doesn't add up. By definition, "unicorn" references a $1billion valuation minimum and a 600M fund isn't sufficient to acquire it. Unless they mean the principals will identify and acquire startups with unicorn possibilities before the companies reach that stage. ...Which is what regular VC does anyway.

Also confusing that they tout ability to help build product market fit as an advantage for targets when in almost all cases, a unicorn startup would have achieved that:
“We, i.e. the team that helped build Facebook, will help you build a bottom up understanding of product market fit”
TIL: the optical mouse works by taking a picture of the desk surface and does Optical Flow with the previous capture to get relative position.

The result reminded me of the old Logitech Scanman handheld scanner. except that had a 1d light sensor (like a flatbed scanner) and a radial encoder attached a to a roller to advance the scan lines down and the user pulled it down. (kind of like a 1d mechanical mouse.) I had a ton of fun with that growing up.
Yep, fair points. To clarify, I think Mastodon is really cool and a big step in the right direction. I don't mean to come across as overly critical.

I do feel the second issue he raises is still valid. re-following is a lot of friction, even in a federated system, albeit less so than moving from one centralized service to another. It would be nice if Mastodon provided some way of altering users when someone switches to a new instance.
Pretty much everything that article says about SF is wrong. A "small detached bungalow" in the suburbs will probably go for half what they suggest, and 120K is not subsistence wages. I currently live on less than that, in a nice area, spend money on things I want to, don't budget aggressively, and save a significant portion of my income.

Sure, you probably won't be purchasing a family home on a single (entry level) income, but that's true in pretty much any suburban or urban area.
False dichotomy. The alternative is not blind trial and error.
Oracle DB's preferred method of data storage is for you to hand it disks for Automatic Storage Management, ASM. It then takes care of replication and storage by itself.

In practice, this might be a little more performant but incurs significant manageability costs. If you're a committed Oracle shop, it's worthwhile. If you just want one or two database servers and you already have preferred storage methods, use those. (Or, more realistically, use PostgreSQL.)
> of an act of war the evidence must be much more than circumstantial

When does "circumstantial" end? When there are "little green men" in Tallinn? How about Alaska?
IMO, this is blind spot in the research community right now. The programming language community doesn't care about the ergonomics of language use and is only interested in theoretical evaluation of their work with rigorous proofs.

The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community should care about this, but is beset by two problems: people in PL don't take people in HCI seriously because the people in HCI don't do proofs, and, the people in HCI generally don't have the background to start tackling the mathematical principles of programming language design.

This seems like a natural time for some kind of cross discipline collaboration, but the two forces above keep potential collaborators apart. PL people talk about judgements and sub-structural typing and HCI people's eyes glaze over, HCI people talk about human subjects, experimental methodology and statistics and PL people's eyes glaze over.

I've advocated for the creation of a new field of study, call it Programmer Computer Interaction. No one takes it that seriously though, and the intersection of researchers that care simultaneously about things like good experimental design, statistical significance, type theory and constructive logic seems to be just me.
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I decided to commit to using IPv6 a couple of years ago and got my personal servers serving my sites in a dual-stack. I also got my home router set up for it, getting my subnet from my ISP and making sure that all of my home devices were getting addresses.

It was only after doing this that I realized the problem with IPv6 adoption in the US: the network sucks! Most ISPs (including mine) are using 6rd gateways to get their customers onto the IPv6 backbone. The gateway servers are poorly placed (rarely local) and totally overloaded. The performance was so bad that it was making my everyday web browsing experience feel broken. I killed v6 at home and haven't looked back.

Maybe some day ISPs will do a proper deployment with real routing and I will try it again.
Bitcoin's value just tanked a whole bunch because China's halted trading at its cryptocurrency exchanges. I think it's plummeted by a good 20% or something in the last few days. People are guessing that the value of Bitcoin will come back up, so they think it's a good time to buy.
Mastodon: Twitter, except with moderators who will kick Angry White Boy Assholes (Nazis, gamergaters, trolls, etc) off.

Mastodon: Twitter, except with a 500-char limit and no "sponsored tweets".

Mastodon: Twitter, except without a whole bunch of VC investment that it needs to try and pay back by monetizing your eyeballs and keeping you on the site as long as possible for as long as possible, regardless of whether that's by making you happy or enraging you.

Mastodon: Twitter, except a bunch of technical bullshit you probably don't care about unless you'd like to run your own Mastodon server for you and your buddies.
Do you really think that Dimon doesn't understand Bitcoin? Plenty of people understand it but are sour on it, why do you assume he is ignorant.
Provided some conditioning, mine is actually readable :D

http://synesthesia.go-here.nl

(the obvious: 3 height allows for a lot more lines than 5)
Lisp has a lot more of them. The same semantics expressed in Lisp will have a lot more grouping characters than in another language with a richer syntax and multiple levels of operator precedence. (The benefit in Lisp's case, of course, is that you don't need to know that richer syntax and precedence hierarchy.)
I did not know there was an option for this.

I have now enabled it.

Thanks
Maybe. I personally just use Whatsapp and messenger group chats to communicate with my family/friends.
I feel that trying to dismiss criticism of something by saying "It's different!", without actually saying why those differences matter is pretty weak sauce.
Its not so far off a stylised version? I mean, kind of round head, two eyes, two sets of side fins, a dorsal fin and tail.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNj0l0rVEAAdj2q.png
I'm not saying it was. I'm simply stating that gender change is one of the few things Manning is known for.
Lubuntu runs in 112MB of RAM for me and I can use Dillo to browse Wikipedia and other well-made sites just dandy ^.^
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I mean, all they had to do was say that first one, and a lot of people would probably perk their ears up.
And what is the alternative? Hiring a Licensed Software Security professional? Oh wait, those don't exist. It's software, so literally anything you do can never be considered negligent. So it goes.