skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wasn't the current Saudi regime put in place by the US?

The British, but the US props them up. Hence the support for the Saudi campaign in Yemen, as well as Saudi 'causes' like Kosovo, the Rohingya, Uyghurs, etc...

> Of course this isn't always the case, especially if there are other populations on the land who won't have rights to self-government under the separate government, but it is a good default.

The Rohingya are still a minority in Rakhine, yet they started an insurrection and attempted to have it annexed by East Pakistan...
New AlphaGo AI learns without help from humans
...if you have geotagging turned on.
This line of argument to favor Go over Python or Java is just as valid as the line of argument to favor C over Go. Benchmark OpenBSD http + FastCGI C vs. this.
Always wondered what happened to you. Followed your story a few years ago when you participated in Baremetrics/Open. Glad that you held on for a good sum and exit!
I thought it was clear that I was referring to their nominal mission as an intelligence organization, rather than the political ends to which they are put. I'm not suggesting they're my friends or that they are desirable, and my repeated reminders that I don't endorse this should have made that clear. Without going into details, I have first hand experience of being on the wrong end of state scrutiny, I hope more than you ever will.

I'm trying to analyse this problem by looking at it in purely rationalist terms and assuming that people I disagree with are going to pursue their collective interest whether or not I approve. I rely heavily on the selectorate theory model outlined in The Dictator's Handbook and in more depth in The Logic of Political Survival. I try to discuss this in analytical rather than agitating language on HN because the mods complain when I get too political. I hope that makes my commentary easier to understand.

Please stop trying to tell me about stuff I already know and tell me how you would work on the problem of the general public easily being stampeded into backing repressive policies. That's what I need actual help with, and I need something a lot more actionable than 'let's educate everyone and teach them to think critically' because that's a generational problem and one that is not going to just work automatically. You can contact me via gmail if you'd prefer, or other channels including personally.
I would be careful about calling the crimes committed by Communists and their fellow travelers "minor".
Right. And Ruby also has a GIL.

Node.JS, Python, and Ruby are in C/C++ so you can do multithreading in all three, if you are willing to write native modules.
Does not help fix anything by keeping the person anonymous
> "... New York University nutrition researcher Marion Nestle (no relation to the chocolate maker)"

I know this is off topic, but what do you make of the fact that the researcher's name is Nestle? Is it a total coincidence?

Turns out the commonly repeated idea that "Denis's are more likely to become Dentists" (i.e nominative determinism) was proven false [1].
Yet, it seems there are only about 500 people named Nestle in the whole US... [2]

It's of course just one data point, but it's still curious.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2014/01/09/...
[2] http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Map/Nestle
Herbal remedies embraced by naturopaths, alt med widely linked to liver cancers
JMESPath [0], started by Amazon and used by Microsoft in Azure, is something that tries to accomplish some of the XQuery goals in a simpler way.

[0]: http://jmespath.org/
Who knows? Plenty of manufacturers stand to benefit from selling low-cholesterol alternatives to dairy and eggs too, no?
That is really interesting. Given a neural network that solely exist to play Go, one that is influenced by the human mind is limited compared to the exact same set of neurons that doesn't have that influence.

EDIT: changed a set of neurons to neural network per andbbergers comments
We don't need to speculate, let's see what Chomsky himself has to say on the subject of communist regimes.

> "Would you describe the authoritarian result of the Bolshevik's actions as an honest mistake, a "historical accident" maybe-or was it just the natural outgrowth of the Leninist Worldview: the idea that only a few people are smart and knowledgeable enough to be the leaders, and they should run the show?"

> Chomsky: Yeah, in my opinion the heart of the problem is Marxism-Leninism itself-the very idea that a "vanguard party" can, or has any right to, or has any capacity to lead the stupid masses towards some future they're too dumb to understand for themselves. I think what it's going to lead them towards is "I rule you with a whip." Institutions of domination have a nice way of reproducing themselves-I think that's kind of like an obvious sociological truism. [1]

Yep, we definitely found the holodomor apologist, there.

Edit: It's entirely possible that he spent plenty of time and words on whitewashing crimes against humanity. His views have changed since then.

[1] Undestanding power, p226.
I felt the same way about Trakt and also tried another site that has 200k active users called sharetv and used it for a while out of necessity. The lean feature-clean approach is better I agree.
Good questions. The main difficulty IMHO is that it's hard to know people's intentions. We can't just parse the target program and generate tests, because then the tests will always pass. I picked API testing because people have a Swagger spec already, and it documents how the API should behave.
THe better argument would be sane concurrency, which Go does better than nearly every other language.
This is a ban on employers -- afaik, recruiters can still ask (and many probably will ask). But, IANAL. (Correction: It looks like recruiters fall under this prohibition too, if they are acting as agents of the employer.)

I personally never answer questions about my previous salary or my expected salary. When HR has given me forms to fill out that have questions about either I just leave them blank, and they've never made an issue out of it.

Some recruiters tend to be a lot more pushy about it, but I just stick to my guns, and refuse to budge on the issue, telling them that I cosider that information confidential. A couple recruiters have refused to work with me because of this, but most are much more understanding. There's certainly no shortage of recruiters out there, so I really don't feel deprived of many opportunities just because a couple have walked away.

I've had one recruiter insist on it because they said they were paid by employers to get that number. They're basically insisting that I participate in a free salary survey for them, for which they'll get paid. Maybe if they shared their cut of what they were getting for that information, I'd consider giving it to them, but otherwise naming a number first will put me in a weaker bargaining position, so I don't.

There's a flip side to this, however -- whether to share salary information together with other employees. In the US it's frowned upon, but I hear it's quite common in Europe. I've also heard it argued that employees knowing each other's salaries makes it harder for employees to get taken advantage of by their employers -- which is probably why some employers have tried to forbid their employees from talking about their salaries with other employees, and why I've considered doing so myself, though I haven't yet. It's just such a taboo subject at work. Nobody talks about what they make.
A moving window average is a poor digital filter in the frequency domain [0]. You can get better results with more control on which frequencies are removed by implementing a FIR or IIR (especially Butterworth) digital filter.

[0] https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/eecs20/week12/freqResponse...
Surely it is primarily the organization which deserves censure, rather than individuals operating within the system. Unless you basically want to lock up entire fields' worth of scientists I don't see how individual responsibility is a solution.
I'm in total agreement. I'd add that for me the worst kind of distraction is having a co-worker talking about something interesting on the phone. As focused as I try to be, I find my brain defies me and tries to fill in the half of the conversation that I can't hear.

Also, I'm a native English speaker. I speak very little Spanish, but when my co-workers converse in Spanish my brain gets completely sidetracked trying to understand what they're saying. It's even worse with they're speaking Spanish on the phone.

It's as if when I can only hear or understand part of the conversation my undisciplined brain sucks up loads of CPU cycles trying to fill in the gaps. So I picked up a pair of sound cancelling headphones and block everything out with white-noise or music. But now my ears sweat...
Even if you don't grant location permission an app can still get location using geoIP at about a city-level.
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
Someone has to do the research and "Big" whatever seems to be the ones with the money to do so. So, what should we expect from them? They are going to look for research that is compelling to their business model, but as long as it's not wholly misleading, why is it bad? All research should be taken with a grain of salt.

I also have another question: Everyone in media is always looking for that story to break about "Big Business" doing something. Big Pharma, Big Chocolate, Big Auto... but what's the alternative? I doubt that mom and pop have the cash to do research. And I sure as hell won't trust any mom and pop research about pharmacology.
75% is pretty standard in Europe. I've tried a couple of 99% cocoa chocolates too, but these are really for the hardcore lovers (gets glued to the teeth and other taste issues).
Why offer user-based voting if you're not going to honor it?
This seems like a more serious answer to me.
They have a Trello board where you can suggest and vote on additions.
https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation
It's definitely ok! I just had a ThinkPad X1 Carbon to test from work and I kind of liked the WQHD resolution with the crisp colors. At least for 15" screen and keeping one Emacs and one terminal side by side was a nice way to work and I could easily read the text.

Not complaining though, everything else in this T25 is so much better.
I noticed a while ago how every three months or so a new big study would be at the top of google news about how great coffee is for you. I decided one time to dig into the sources and of course the study was funded by a coffee industry consortium.
Would you please edit-out name calling and flamebait before posting to Hacker News, like the guidelines ask? Sometimes that means not posting at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What makes it a vanity domain?

Just imagine how much printed material has circulated since the 90s with the mdn.com address. Why do you want to break the web?
Most developer tools (which is the context that comes to mind for me) have some sort of quick lookup for unfamiliar functions (eg. Sublime Text's command palette, IntelliJ 'find action by name' etc etc). These facilities don't require you to look away from the screen, and give access to far more commands than the touch bar. Anything used often enough to be worth mapping you can remember within a day or so of use, so it seems like a tiny gain for losing one whole row of touch-typeable keys.
I'd be interested in reading your "novel" if you care to make a post. I try to learn what I can from others in these cases, and grow to recognize similar patterns... companies can be hard to read from the outside.

That said, I hope your luck turns and something better works out.
I'd only worry if it can outperform humans when there are not rules per se. That is, if I put a queen down in the GO board, and start knocking off stones, moving three times a turn, then take a lighter and burn the go board, the AI responds by decapitating my head.
I am the only person with a standing desk in an open style office layout of a few dozen people, and i can tell you that this anxiety is increased by several orders of magnitude when everyone else in the room sitting down can see what you are working on at a glance.
The latest research seems to claim that fat has been unfairly maligned and you should actually be eating more of it.
See NVT (network value to txn ratio?) Not a perfect analog but worth following. By this metric BTC is still cheap although a lot of churn from exchanges clouds this number.
I really read "Trello" and the name seems like a rather serious collision to me.
I can't speak to how the company is doing, but I think the move to focus less on their own cloud offering to AWS support/management is quite telling.
It will be interesting to find what the visitor percentages are for iPhone x.

Even though its Apple, at some point its not worth spending the time and money.
What AI Can Really Do Right Now
Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to Upgrade Code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit
Qubes OS pretty much solves this problem!

https://www.qubes-os.org/
The process was pretty typical, met with ops manager and another engineer. Some red flags were they were floundering a bit on process when I asked them some specifics. Another red flag was in my first week my boss asked me to basically tell me everything I thought that was wrong with the company and employees there, which I thought was interesting. My direct superior is actually a really awesome guy and I like him a lot, it is the other managers that have this power struggle thing with him going on right now that is really awkward.

Plus, there is no clear direction on what my job role exactly is. I was told project engineer, then I was told Level III Engineer, then I was told I am Level III inside a 3-tiered system, being the level 3 of level 2? All within the span of the last week and a half. It is very off-putting and awkward.

The one perk is that I am salaried non-exempt, so I get paid for overtime. But it is just so disorganized and there seems to be a lot of weird politics going on.

I really don't like most of the team here except for my director. There is only one or two guys who are mature, everyone else acts like they're 15 (the nerf gun shooting, yelling).

I also have basically no control over anything network related or back-end stuff, which is super frustrating because there is so much inefficiency going on it's insane. They haven't automated anything here.

There is so much wrong, it's hard to synthesize it all in one post. But a quick example is that we have literally no automation in place, so level 1 and 2 techs are setting up workstations manually... It's 2017... I mean really?

I am getting micromanaged over stupid little things too by a manager who is not even my direct manager. It is just frustrating.

Oh one more thing, we have a 9:30 "huddle" every morning with the ops team (like 10 guys + manager [not my direct manager]) and we have to say what we're working on, if we're stuck on anything, and what our plan is for the day. Then they read this little quote that is submitted by at least one engineer into a box and we have to guess who it is. It is ultra, ultra cringe inducing and super weird. I've never been in a company that does this. It makes me feel like I work in a daycare.
I've been locked out of Facebook for two years since my account was hacked and "I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob!"

For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXsIfpnThFA
I confess that, looking at the headline, I have no idea whether this article is about economics or cosmology. I'm trying to decide which I'm hoping for.
The only alternative is public funding.
Ripple tank simulation that demonstrates wave motion
Works fine in Spanish, but I can imagine other languages having trouble.

I'm actually pretty impressed by Alexa's voice recognition so far.
When moderators do this we compensate by giving the thread specific attention to attempt to prevent such flamewars as best we can.
>As long as this super intelligence leads to super ethics and super consciousness

It doesn't. Humans happen to have "morality" because we evolved in groups. Groups of humans that cooperated and cared for each other better reproduced more. And so we evolved empathy.

But this is an entirely arbitrary feature. There's no law of the universe that says you must be moral. There's no reason an AI would have anything like our sense of empathy or caring for other beings.

AI works by predicting what actions are the most likely to lead to a goal. Better AIs are better at finding paths to a goal. But the goal itself is always arbitrary. If you made an AI to run a paperclip factory, it would eventually convert the entire mass of the Earth into paperclips.

As far as "consciousness", it's likely something similar is true of that. The experience of consciousness is an artifact of how our specific brain structures work. Is it really the most efficient algorithm for intelligence? I doubt it. It's quite possible we could get replaced by an AI that builds and accomplishes great things - and there will be no conscious being left in the universe to appreciate it. A Disneyland with no childern, as Bostrom calls it.
I know the owner of the theater. I'm up past Rangeley, in unincorporated township territory.

You're the only other Mainer I've seen on HN and I'm 'from away.' Yes, I live here by choice. I retired here.

I don't want to derail the thread or meander off topic.if you want, uninvolved@outlook.com will get seen and replied to.
*without a library

comparing any go concurrency with any java/whatever language concurrency still might lack behind.

just java has so many concurrency libraries that are better than the built-in go concurrency mechanism.

even java8 made things way better.
Inflation solves more than the flatness issue, namely, the uniformity of Cosmic Microwave Background.
Impossible I-1 Analog Instant Camera
>To be fair, the authors are open about the shortcomings:

>> further research is needed to replicate these findings, determine their significance, and define the underlying mechanism.

To be fair, this is more or less "boiler-plate text" added at the end of every research paper, sometimes I would like to see a research paper that ends with "... and that's all about it".
Edit: my original comment (retained below) is wrong about this being malformed, and it's completely valid. Some more info here: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-...

---

Original comment:

The fact that browsers are able to handle malformed HTML doesn't mean that you should do it that way. There's no meaningful benefit that I can think of, and the potential to break a ton of things that aren't as lenient.
I think what csminor is saying that they amplified even the minor ones, not that they were all minor.
They're also working on using a custom-built system written in Golang to test TiDB (though this is in the early stages): https://medium.com/@siddontang/use-chaos-to-test-the-distrib...
Suppose that cocoa does not have direct effects on health. Recruit 60 people, give 30 of them cocoa and 30 of them placebo.

Due to random chance, you'll sometimes get positive results, and sometimes get negative results. If all of those studies are published, then there isn't a huge problem -- a metastudy would show that on average cocoa doesn't affect health.

But instead, support that only the positive studies are published. A third party reviewing the relevant literature will assume that all studies conducted showed a positive result, when in fact they were only the studies that were published.

This is the problem with having sponsored research: the research itself can be done properly, but a bias in publishing can give an inaccurate view of the true science at hand.
What's interesting is the shift from pushing their own cloud solution.
I disagree with your numbers. I don't think impoverished Americans fall in the top 1% globally in terms of wealth.
Just like how "big business" has a motivation to fund certain types of research, people in media have ideological and business motivations for only investigating certain types of organizations and people.
I use Dropbox, but I might switch to Mega in the near future. The better storage capacity and leaner UI speaks to me. I haven't had any issues with the sync client so far either, though I've only tried it on Windows.
We are under no logical obligation to accept that the ethics of entities that can outsmart us are superior, even if your premise is correct - and as that premise itself is merely speculative at this point, it would be wise to be prudent.
Here's an interesting extension to the language to allow for session-typed concurrency.

[0]: http://mwillsey.com/papers/cc0-thesis.pdf
Looks nice, there's a slight bug on the calendar view, see https://imgur.com/d3JJsNd (take a look how "Majority Rule" behaves when switching weeks)

I'd like to see a page with a countdown to next episode air time for all shows, like a reverse timeline.
Task manager in Windows 10 now shows GPU usage
Since updating yesterday, I noticed task manager shows GPU usage now.

This might be handy to see if a website is using a cryptominer or etc. Thought i'd point it out since I don't see much talk about it.
If only there were some sort of organization that was not driven by profit and had the ability to allocate the entire society's resources toward the common good.

And incidentally I'd say a big part of the problem is that the research is totally misleading.
Do you have any insight into why, when they were looking at men vs. two types of women, 88% of the blood donors were men? Seems like you would want at least 50% women.
Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process
Both ourselves and our fellow bootstrap friends have eerily similar tales of CC debt as our first investors. $30k for a nearly profitable bootstrap founder is rocket fuel.
TL;DR: cosmology.
What is fentanyl? Key facts about the opioid fueling an overdose crisis
Kind of off topic but should one always hide their current salary, even if it's above market rate (given their experience on paper)? It seems as though if an employer were only looking to spend so much on a hire, then if you're already likely above that number, wouldn't it save both you and the employer's time?

I can see the obvious downside of sharing a relatively low salary, but it seems like there could be benefit to sharing a high salary (again, relative to your on-paper experience and value).
Equifax has salary data? I hadn't heard that.

//edit: Well shit, TIL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-y...
You can watch the RL course given by one of the inventors of AlphaGo, David Silver.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzuuYNsE1EZAXYR4FJ75j...
Economies of scale.
> I put the stress differently, but otherwise I would pronounce Alexa as Alexander cut short.

In “Alexander”, the normal pronunciation of the letter “x” is the voiced consonant cluster /gz/, in “Alexa”, it's usually the unvoiced cluster /ks/. (Also, the second “a” is usually different between the two, being /æ/, like the “a” in “pad”, in “Alexander” and /ɑ:/, like the “a” in “father”, in “Alexa”.)

The difference in the “x” is the normal way that the pronunciation of “x” differs when following a stressed vs. unstressed vowel in English.