skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll be okay.

If you want to get a look at how AI and ML are going to end up being applied to a huge number of business problems, try out the Azure Cognitive Services APIs[1]. I'm not associated with them in any way, I've just played around with the APIs and enjoyed them.

A huge number of developers today wouldn't be able to re-implement the frameworks they build applications on top of. And that doesn't stop them from being productive and well-paid. They add value be being able to to recognize real-world problems, and understand how various libraries and frameworks can be combined to solve those problems.

I think that AI/ML over the next 10 years will be like SaaS was over the previous 10 years. When frameworks like Rails became popular and gained wide acceptance, it became easy to very quickly come up with web-based solutions to a huge number of problems. And people didn't do this by being experts on how the whole tech stack worked. They did it by knowing how to solve problems with specific technologies, and then recognizing problems that the technology could solve. Lots of startups have made piles of money this way.

I'm a huge proponent of understanding as much as possible of the theory and math behind the technology to use. But being able to solve problems with the technology requires you to be out the world, recognizing problems that can be solved. For example: take a look at the kinds of output the Azure Computer Vision API can provide when provided with a given image[2]. Now think of all the businesses you've encountered during your career. Most of those businesses have problems you could solve using that API. And if you don't like MS or Azure, they're far from being the only provider of such APIs.

There is, and will continue to be, lots of opportunity (and money) available for people who can understand how to use new technology and recognize how to apply it to problems in a way that will save companies money, or help them make more money. Be one of those people.

[1]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/cognitive-service...
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/cognitive-service...
I think an important question here is this: who owns this robot? Because we're in the middle of a war on general purpose computation, where device and software manufacturers refuse to relinquish control over their products, instead retaining ownership from afar with DRM, patents and so on.

Is the child or their family free to modify this robot as they see fit? Are they able to inspect it to make sure it's not spying on them? It strikes me as very dangerous to form an "emotional bond" with a machine that serves someone else's interests over yours.
Tell HN: Some thoughts on ten years on Hacker News
Ten years ago today I created an account on Hacker News. I just wanted to share some thought about what I’ve seen here.

1. The quality of the content, both stories and comments, has remained remarkably high. There have been times where I thought things were slipping but a few minutes on YouTube comments puts everything back in perspective.

2. There is just too much to learn and not enough time! On any given day there are more interesting stories to follow than I can possibly follow. Thankfully the comments are consistently good enough that I can read the comments before the actual story to check on credibility and accuracy.

3. I have learned to be more precise in what I say and give a little more latitude to others. Comments can get a bit pedantic. Not every comment needs to be a mathematical proof (although there have been many). I thought about creating a user named “PedanticMan” and going around harassing people about their grammar but I decided instead to try not to let the little things bother me.

4. There are a lot of smart, enthusiastic, knowledgeable people here. There have been so many comments with deeper explanations and links to extended content. Thank you to everyone who takes the time share.

5. Most topics deal with conflicting values and goals. Watching competent people argue different issues has been very instructive. For example, it’s possible to think “C++ is a horrible mess of a language” and “C++ is a powerful tool” at the same time.

6. Karma is strange to me. I’m a grown man with a rich life experience and I don’t care what random people on the internet think about me, there are no prizes for karma, and you can’t sell your points. Still, I notice. I get a stronger emotional reaction to it than seems rational. If any of you ever want to hack the system to get more karma try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I think the best thing is to not care too much but pay attention.
It's possible to draw a distinction between corporations and people, Hobby-Lobby notwithstanding. You could argue, self-consistently, that people have a right to the information about them, while corporations (as a legal fiction) have no such right. In your example, Equifax's CEO would have no recourse to negative press about Equifax, but he would have recourse to negative information about himself, which he kinda does under existing libel & slander laws, though truth is an absolute defense for those.

The EU operates under similar provisions, which as an ex-Googler and tech entrepreneur I find pretty annoying, but as a person find pretty encouraging.

(There are issues even under this distinction that are problematic: if you commit a crime, does the public have a right to know? What if your crime puts them at risk? If you have a reputation for screwing your business partners over, should future business partners have a right to seek this out? But at the same time, there are huge negative externalities to not being able to control this information. If a company has false information on you - as happens pretty frequently - do they have a right to sell it to so many parties that correcting it becomes impossible?)
> sounds weird, I know

No, it doesn't.
What caught my eye was the $50k in credit card debt, and not explanation as to why. I have to assume those minimal payments are significant and keep growing. Remove that and she could be in much better shape. Obviously not livin' large but at least there's not the stress of $50k hanging over her head.

My other thought was, if possible, why not have a veg garden? As the legend Ron Finley says "it's like printing money."

Sure it take time and effort but if you consider it to be a permanent PT job (that she rarely has) then it could be a big help.
My post was more substantial than you may have thought. The other poster effectively asked, whether some in the tech industry should sacrifice their left and liberal ideals because of some (perceived) financial threat. To that I say no.
Observables are pretty great when you have to coordinate a lot of async actions. The main downside is that they have their own learning curve - an article describing a Model for Reasoning about Observables would likely be much longer than the OP - so if you only have one or two async actions to deal with at a time, Promises will probably be simpler to implement and maintain
I could easily be wrong, but suspect the solve for AGI will not involve much in the way of complex math (I have been of the opinion for a long time that NNs are not the solution, see my recent Twitter thread here for elaboration: https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/929085831104512001).

Analogously, my advanced calculus is pretty weak these days, but I have found a strong understanding of basic algebra and vector math is all you need to be a good graphics programmer. There are many fields like this where you do not need to read or understand a single whitepaper in order to be functional within it.
I remember that thunk.
ISOs aren't really a tax dodge. They're designed to encourage employees and management to put extra work and thought in to the company they're building. I can tell you if I received the value of my ISOs in cash I would not come in to work early and leave late in the hope of a payoff sometime in the future. Unless you're working at a company doing something truly interesting, I think most employees would fall in to my camp.
Grasshopper Capital's September 2017 Memo
Don't know why you got downvoted, have an upvote
I'm not surprised to learn such a pathway exists, but I was surprised it was around in the 70s. And then I realised what you were probably talking about.

For what it's worth, I think I know how to make a directed energy weapon that could cause 50% probabilty of lethal effects that are only noticable hours afterwards (you could probably get a lethal shot even if you power it with a potato battery, too); and I realised a few years ago that when I was 9 years old I already knew enough basic chemistry to make a chemical weapon that could kill everyone on a London underground station. I'm neither a chemist nor a physicist, these are both things other people invented and I just saw a way they could be abused.

Despite that, I don't fear terrorists. They're demonstrably idiots, because it took them how long to realise that guns are highly effective tools for killing lots of people quickly? And then they decided to switch from guns to mimicing Carmageddon?

Edit:

Just to add, yes, I agree, ban it. All it takes is one, so the risk outweighs any benefit from encouraging more biologists.
They're downvoted because they don't offer anything interesting to the discussion, not because people think they're anti-Apple. They're thinly-disguised attacks on the article's author.
the difference is that nanotechnology never worked
I can't imagine it'd be all that different from existing laws on using the "likeness" of a person in movies, TV, or advertising. All you'd have to do is extend that list to third-party financial institutions and on the non-public-facing side of advertising.
YouTube to crack down on inappropriate content masked as kids’ cartoons
I really don't understand why anyone uses Facebook.

You have a phone, which can communicate with your friends. It's only remotely useful for its near-monopoly on event planning, and imo that's a job for the trustbusters.
Drinking fermented beverages is a sure way to avoid water borne disease, and keeping your forces healthy was the determining factor in these historical contexts.
The Ego Cycle
if you read your link, even the wikipedia article authors do not restrict the notion to hard realtime computing.

it's not really how "everyone" uses it. it's a narrowing that a subset of vocal people have been trying to push, i can only presume for ideological purposes.
It's not just and it won't happen. I requested my bitcoins back in the paperwork. If I understand correctly, they're holding 80% of those bitcoins. Give them back.
Your best bet will be with NXP then. They still haven't released the i.MX8 cpus, but i.MX7 boards are available (up to dual core 1.2GHz), and, as far as I know, they are the only (decent, omap3 & 4 don't have enough power these days) with full opensource support for the entire SoC, even the GPU
not only has there not been a documented falsehood that WL propagated, but there has not been an example of something leaked to them that was subsequently withheld due to an agenda.

Unless you have evidence of either of these two things happening, you will not change my opinion that they are a force for openness in a very opaque political scene.

The fact that they release more that is anti-whatever says more about who is leaking than it does about WL.
There is going to be a massive infrastructure built out in the way of AI services. You're going to be able to interact with those services using numerous existing languages, including Java, C#, Python and on down the line to include PHP. There will be several tiers of complexity, what we're seeing built now is the most difficult first tier. In the coming years, more and more layers of simplicity will be built, abstracting away the complexity. AI broadly is another tool, that's all it is, we'll build a lot of ways to use that tool.
If your toolkit is centered around 'web' programming then I think you should consider widening your reach. If there is a phyla of developers it could arguably defined as;

* embedded
* web
* control systems
* data analysis
* finance
* networking
* systems

The more bases you cover the more likely you will find a job developing code during a transition. Note that for senior engineers it isn't about the programming language it is about the domain knowledge around the programs.
no, if you can just write scripts to clean up the data used in the ML/AI models, you'll likely spin gold for the next decade or so.
Depends on how you define 'popular'. Delphi still has quite a following. JCL isn't going anywhere either.
People REALLY like high quality pictures of attractive, naked people. What should we use as a reference image to judge how well compression algorithms reproduce an image?

Hmm... how about a SFW version of what the compression algorithm in question is going to be applied to. Over, and over, and over, and over again?

Sounds like the proper choice to me.
Taxes on fiat currency are away to distribute expenses, not a way to raise funds. A fiat currency government can print money whenever it wants, which is taxation via inflation. (For more, see: Modern Monetsr Theory.)
Problem is it's significantly easier and faster to create noise than it is to clean up the noise. Dropping the up front review in favor of an appeals only system sounds impossible to handle at Facebook scale, IMO. Every time you shut someone's account down for losing too much trust, 10 others would have already replaced it.
That sentences doesn't say the small 5 and 16 bit computers don't exist.

Edit: if you read the whole link, the key description is:

"IBM’s quantum processor is made up of superconducting transmon qubits, located in a dilution refrigerator at the IBM Research headquarters at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Users interact with the quantum processor through the quantum circuit model of computation, applying quantum gates on the qubits using a GUI called the quantum composer, writing quantum assembly language code[1] or through a Python API.[2]"

Which is to say you have both a quantum computer and a simulator in IBM schema (which in the cloud 'cause you can't have supercooled chips in your basement), which is as one would expect running "real" quantum computing is going to be more expensive and uncertain now despite the hope it will give vast speed later.
Drones vs. Lightning
Allowing early exercise is a legal and accounting headache. Many small startups have a hard time even getting stock option agreements to employees. When you're new, small, and possibly don't even have an HR person you can't really spend time on frivolous things like early exercise.
#8 on the tiobe index is VB .NET which is, I think, still closed source?

#11 is Delphi/Object Pascal.

MATLAB.

Not much else.
On top of all their other advantages, ISO dates are sortable without requiring conversions - just sort them alphabetically. I try to evangelize them whenever I can.
The point was that more money gives diminishing returns to happiness.

Would you really be twice as happy to win a $2 billion lottery jackpot as you would a $1 billion jackpot? Certainly, you'd be bouncing off the walls from the thrill either way, but I doubt you'd be twice as happy.

When it comes to money, there are diminishing returns on the happiness you get from what the money lets you do. At the low income levels, getting a little more money lets you not live paycheck-to-paycheck, losing sleep every night because you're not sure if you're going to be able to pay rent. At the extreme levels, it merely determines if you buy a 200 ft yacht or a 30 foot yacht.

I think part of the problem is that it's really hard to create a metric that defines happiness.
The boundary for what gets demonitized are arbitrary and ridiculous. It's not just people dropping racial slurs or showing graphic violence. It's comedy channels, science channels, etc...

It's probably the only thing they can do, but it really is an awful way to treat people who should be your partners.
> So he most certainly wasn't "proud" of his actions, he was horrified by them.

In the end, yes. But the novel starts with him being so proud of the golem that he takes it home with disastrous results. Hmmm, maybe the comparison to ME isn't that far-fetched.

> I don't buy that they designed it

Yep, this is what I'm saying - it's unlikely that they ever told Intel "put this in there".

> it's very likely they sabotaged it in some manner. Or at the very least they have security vulnerabilities they are not disclosing

Absolutely, yes. They would be vastly incompetent not to have them, in fact. What I don't agree about with HN crowd is the threat profile of such an exploit.

I have trouble believing that they use them on a mass-scale. There are so many people looking at the ME, that using any exploit on a massive scale would disclose it almost immediately, and allow the 'enemy' to develop protections. Given the extraordinary capabilities of such an exploit giving it a very valuable status, they probably need to protect it, and will use it only when absolutely necessary; such as the vast, vast majority of the HN users would not ever be subjected to such an exploit.

On the other hand, if your person is interesting enough to NSA to deploy such an exploit against your devices, probably you have vastly more significant problems, like trying to stay outside the visual range of a Predator drone. If any Three Letter Agency will deploy such an exploit against your PC, you can be absolutely sure that they have already bugged your phones, and not with a Stinger device, but tapping directly into the data feed at the phone exchange. Probably you have to incinerate your trash because the garbage men are spooks - this is the kind of threat that I assume you're facing if a TLA is trying to bug your ME.
Yes: because the point of encryption is to protect you from a compromise in your server (that's what happened at Equifax), but for the server to be able to use the data, it has to have have some means of getting plaintext access to it. Once you've lost your server to an attacker, you've lost control of that mechanism as well.

This is a problem even with HSM designs; in real-world systems, HSMs usually just present an oracle interface to data. The hope is that with sufficient monitoring, you can use the oracle to buy time for defenders to detect a compromise before all your data is exfiltrated.

I think most penetration testers have the experience of owning up a server and going on the brief treasure hunt for the static key stored somewhere on the filesystem.
In general it's best to push your comfort boundaries. It's called learning. I'm not saying React is better than Vue (I honestly think they are very similar). Just that picking a technology based on whether it challenges you or not is probably not the best strategy.
(Fun fact: horror games are more intense in VR, by some margin. So terrifying, in fact, that I added a "Low Terror Mode" recently, after reading a significant number of people saying "I'd love to play your game, but I absolutely won't, because it sounds way too scary.")

While I would love to play the full terror mode, the low terror mode made me think of a game that replaced the undead horrors you summon with giant puppies that lick your foes until they lose all feelings of anger. A silly idea, to be sure, but it would be fun to play if the theme was expanded on just to see the insanity, and that's the stuff cult (in the media sense...) followings talk about decades later.
Guns don't self-replicate. It only takes one.
1. Foundations probably need multiple directors, this depends on the jurisdictions.

2. The people behind the project wanted to sell a US company to the foundation for $20 or $30mm, and I think this Gevers guy basically said that was excessive.
The submission title ("Robots are brains are primitive") doesn't make sense. Please use the original one.
I am not arguing against the molecule, just liquor.
Or the modern instances of battlefield drinking - there's many tricks for circumventing the prohibition on alcohol in current warzones.
This is what I think, too. My professional knowledge doesn't encompass anything like ME, but occasionally areas I am expert in do come up. Unfortunately I can't honestly do much more than just watch -- I'm afraid that I might give away things I shouldn't without realizing it.

I'm sure that I'm far from the only one.
If you didn't buy bitcoin in back in 1978, then yes, you're doomed.
Why would that be a "very rare" case? Facebook and Twitter have (or have had) hundreds of thousands of bots and constant abuses, why would this feature be rarely abused?
Exceptions are bad outside the "your computer just started burning" cases, but Go has replaced them with something even worse, "multiple return values".

So instead of some imagined return of "int or throw Exception" you now have "(int, error)", which basically means that the result of a function call can be any of these four options:

- ( value, no error)
- (no value, error)
- ( value, error)
- (no value, no error)

And due to the lack of Generics you can't abstract over your error handling.

And due to the lack of proper ADTs you can't even properly model "value OR error" manually.
I first thought it's about this Virgil: https://virgil3d.github.io
This seems to be a non-paywalled copy of the article:

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017111...
Sibling comment shows one way to do it, but in most cases, at least for me, which is when both the struct and interface are in the same package it gets solved by the NewMyInterface method.

As it's return type is MyInterface, but it actually returns myStructure which causes the compiler to check the interface satisfying.
Not according to the pricing page?

https://hund.io/pricing#calculator
Although having AI/ML expertise is obviously overkill for most engineers, understanding the concepts and limitations of AI/ML is a helpful skill for any engineering field. (specifically it is not a magic spell that can solve any problem no matter what)

But don’t say “I took Andrew Ng’s Coursera class and now I’m an expert on AI/ML!” like many engineers tend to do nowadays.
Non-Paywall version http://archive.is/ikG4d

Source: u/neurotech1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672691
I love Garak's interpretation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. "Never tell the same lie twice"
There is an expectation of predictability in our legislation. Grandfather clauses preserve predictability for those who made decisions based on the old tax code. Sometimes binary grandfather status is not financially or politically possible and it's phased out instead. I think this kind of approach to legislation and regulation is fair and isn't commentary on the quality of the change.
We've already seen one of Friedman's greatest (in terms of influence) disciples -- Greenspan -- openly question whether his faith in "proven" economics was well-founded. One wonders what Friedman would've thought if he'd lived longer.

(my money is on "he'd have found some way to blame someone else and claim he was still right", but one can hope)
I also thought that early exercise at a certain point could force a company to go public, but it's possible I'm mixing up laws.

I think it had to do with how many share holders you could have, but I think that law also changed to not include employees as share holders.
>> People or characters from TV shows aimed at children below 12 are not allowed to do any product endorsements, in any context.

I wonder how this is handled when the ad context is implicit. Isn't Spiderman's image, for example, always an implied advertisement for Marvel, his movies, action figures, and whatever cereal box he is appearing on this month.