skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both software and algorithms are an emergent property of the rules of the systems we create. They are essentially akin to prime numbers, in a direct and provable sense.

(1) All computable programs can be expressed as a Universal Turing machine.

(2) There are countably many Universal Turing machines

(3) In an abstract sense, we can thus assign a unique identifier to each possible computer program. I can tell you "run program 383439343" and that will tell you everything you need to run that function.

Most of these programs are of course not correct in the sense that they produce a useful output, or even necessarily terminate. But then, most numbers aren't useful either, it's only because of the emergent properties of our mathematical rules that something like a "prime number" even has a conceptual meaning, and it's only because of our contextual needs that, say, sorting an array would be a useful output.

Distinguishing between algorithms and software is a distinction without a difference. If the two implementations produce a different output, then by definition they must be following a different algorithm. And if they are the same algorithm, then they can be reduced to the same Universal Turing machine.
I was just looking into it a few hours ago, do you have a good experience with them? Just as many people on here I've been through different forms of office hours, one of them with a locally run entrepreneurship center, I saw an attorney (that was years ago before I could properly afford one). I know the guy volunteered his time, but basically what he said was "hey, give me a portion of your company, and I'll provide you with services", I came away with absolutely zero advice. That's why when I was looking into it today, I was a bit skeptical.
Your Body Language Is Communicating for You
I watched The Room for the first time this year. sigh

I’m older now, but no wiser.
You certainly may be right about the ratio, but I think that this factor and the degree of importance are not mutually exclusive. At my last employer, this ratio was certainly present, and resulted in a sinful front-end implementation. The front-end was very important for customer experience (resulting in sales) but by the time management realized this, it was a massively arduous process to iterate on. Since server-side development was highly prioritized for a very long time, the two couldn't grow together, resulting in off the shelf solutions cobbled together with java server rendered static pages.
> Why do we entertain such nonsense at taxpayer expense?

What is being allowed is signature gathering for a proposed ballot initiative.

The reason this is permitted is that the powers of initiative, referendum, and recall, all initiated by similar petitions, are fundamental rights under the California Constitution that represent basic limits in the delegation of the power of government from the people at large (who are, ultimately, the highest authority in the government of the state) to the elected and appointed bodies who they employ to handle the day-to-day work of governing.

All the overblown “greenlights” means is that they have been found to have filled out the paperwork for the initiative correctly, basically; it's not a judgement on substance, and it just means they can move forward to try to get it on the ballot.
an email service would be the only instance where I would consider disabling my ad blocker if ads are not targeted... could FastMail consider?
If I dismissed every movie or show with left-progressive propaganda I would have nothing to watch.
It's a conflated term. There is the one you're working with, which is specifically about the technological method of distribution, and then there is the other meaning, which is used for content creation and licensing (and awards).

It is the second meaning which the author seems to imply and that I'm using here.

For example, the Emmy's (and the Hollywood Reporter, for example) consider NBC, ABC, HBO, Netflix, and Amazon to all be networks on equal footing.
> here are no large transmission losses, because you don't need to transmit the power.

You've misunderstood the argument: "being close to" implies that the electricity would otherwise go to waste.

But because transmission losses are low, distances to markets aren't as large as one might believe, and the Chinese weren't stupid enough to build hydroelectric dams in places where the energy would uselessly go to waste, that argument is wrong.
This is one reason I also prefer to call TC a notation personally. We can't allocate and declare inside TC, that may change in the future but for now we went for the easiest entry point to Halide and polyhedral IR we could think of. You can lower simple C loops or other real languages in those IRs too but the programs are so much terser in TC that we have come to expect terseness.
It's not. Advertising is the result of imperfect, asymmetric markets. The person you replied to conflating dark patterns from bad actors to equal all of advertising.

If buyers had perfect knowledge of products/services, then they would instantly know what they were going to purchase. Seeing as they don't, there is demand for distributing market information for products/services to buyers. When there are substitute products/services, the demand is increased further.
What do you mean? I have had in the past an internet only HBO subscription via Sling TV.
It's not legal? What part is illegal?
You’d still have COPS and Blue Bloods...
No. Not at all. We teach kids about a lot of dangers already. Some are real, some are highly exaggerated. For-profit social media is a thing we’re starting to realize may be a complicated, subtle danger. Maybe all social media. Maybe just corporate-owned social media.
The smartphone market isn't fiercely contested anymore IMO.

The features that Android and iOS offer are very similar. I am still very annoyed that I can't make my iPhone X automatically increase ringer volume when it gets out of range of my home WiFi (read: when I get out) while I can do that on my Android (with automation apps) but truthfully, such complaints are 3-4 at the most and I barely even notice the annoyance (at least not often).

So the fierce competition is a moot point nowadays. I applaud Apple for recognizing they need to focus on quality and I hope the results will come soon.
“My experience of linux, on a ~monthly basis”
To quote someone else on HN in the past

You should be worried about the government who has the power to imprison you.

The US absolutely does make lists of "suspicious" citizens. Just look at what the FBI did to protestors of the keystone pipeline.
The argument is not bogus, but it may not be realistic. But this is: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processe...
Thanks God, eBPF is a security nightmare as we saw with Spectre, they even got arrays now. and there is no infrastructure as with dtrace. Will compile it into my kernel for sure for proper dev work.
It's my understanding that any short code must respect the STOP wording as an opt-out.
I'm moving email providers in the near future and was looking at Google. AMP for Gmail ensured that I won't touch it.
I did not read the article but even the damn title reeks of pretentiousness. “Netflix is doing great but when will it finally be a trillion dollar business?”
Sure but I want to watch things I haven’t seen before
The FB mobile site works really well on my iPhone.
Netflix has to come up with hit shows that set them apart from the other VOD services. Especially now since they can't easily buy streaming rights to already existing shows.
So? How is that different from leaking any other kind of resource? There's nothing special about processes.
First Gemini Lake Chromebook in the Works
Noting I couldn't quite figure out the tone of your comment to know if you were agreeing or disagreeing.
While I agree I want to point out that I find reliability and punctuality far more important than price when it comes to get people into public transport.
Germany probably excels at both, but it not the same for other countries / cities.
Realize that for instance the GPL is based in ... tadaa ... copyright. And there are a lot more examples like that.

If you start throwing rocks that large you have to be very careful about unintended consequences and I'm not sure that I oversee the complexity of it all to the point that I think that a 'let's get rid of it all' solution won't create it's own particular kinds of problems and until we have feel for the kind and magnitude of those problems being careful sounds like a good idea to me.

For copyright I would propose slowly rolling back the length bit by bit until we hit some kind of lower limit of practicality, for patents I would start with abolishing software patents and replacing them with copyright, then reduce the time limit on the remainder.

And there would have to be something a bit more drastic with respect to patent trolls. It would be a reasonable start and it leaves the door open to eventual total abolishment if that turns out to be feasible and desirable.
too much text.

tl;dr: fiddle with knobs to modulate linear sound.

This is great in principle! Computer music fueled my understanding of signals; Just as drawing is instrumental to understanding linear algebra. Even, the two are isomorphic upto dimension, Einsteinian relativity, etc..
Origami was a subject of 2016 installment of <a href="http://icfpconference.org/contest.html">ICFPC</a>. Many dozens of arbitrary-precision origami engines were written in those 72 hours.
People say this - but they rarely put their money where their mouth is.

History has shown time and time again that people are cheapskate. I know I'm guilty of this as well.

We like to signal that oh yes, we have money, and we'll pay. But then they seize up when they see the bill.

I subscribe to things like 1Password, Netflix, Hulu, Pocketsmith etc. If I sat down and added it all up, I assume it'd be several hundred a year. Even working in tech, I still sometimes think twice about paying for all these things.

How much would you pay for Facebook? $20 a month? $30 a month? $100?

I suspect you and I both have very little insight into how much it actually costs to run Facebook - but working for another internet giant, I can say it probably costs a lot more than the average layperson assumes.
It took a few searches, but I found these useful and relevant:

"Bulletproof with Hemp" https://culturemagazine.com/bulletproof-with-hemp/

> Naturally Advanced Technologies is a company that takes hemp fibers and treats them with a patented enzymatic solution that further enhances their already protective qualities by making the final material softer and thinner than silk, but stronger and lighter. This material, called Crailar, can also be converted into plastic materials similar to the kind Henry Ford’s famous Model T Ford was made of.

CRAiLAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAiLAR_Technologies
> At least with the NSA there is some hope of reigning them in when they overstep.

Honestly? The response to the Snowden leaks would seem to indicate the opposite.
There is this thing called inflation.. Things will get more expensive no matter what we do.
It's also listed as a text book case of what is wrong with procurement.
DI is Dependency Injection, which is a $1,000 term for a $5 concept.

A Python class without DI:

class SomeClass(object):
def __init__(self):
self.someDependency = GetDependency()

A Python class WITH DI:

class SomeClass(object):
def __init__(self, dependency):
self.someDependency = dependency

...

That's it. DI is just explicitly passing ("injecting") a dependent object into an object, rather than requiring the object to call a function to get a reference/pointer to the dependency or make one.
Haha let me get back to you once I finish replicating the paper (not using QQ but a sandbox) which we have to / get to do for hw :)
Walmart chooses to be a low-margin business, it's not like they're doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

There are countless stories of them driving the profits out of their supply chain through their scale. They've driven small businesses out of the rural areas they favor as their bread-and-butter. I would conclude in my assessment that their low prices do not really serve anyone other than the Waltons who reap the billions in profits each year.

I don't look at Walmart as a net positive for society.
Which are not at all like Bright.
It's a casual thought. I don't appreciate littering.
IANAL but I don't believe ipfs in of itself runs afoul of "right to be forgotten". Skimming Wikipedia, "the right to be forgotten" only requires search engines to not index things which are "deleted", or more realistically, things which have been unlisted.

Because even in the infrastructure we have today, objects aren't truly "deleted" for quite some time, at least not where CDNs and Google and Facebook and others are involved.
The amount of people that complain about a service, product, or company, yet continue to be customers, astounds me. And then they wonder how they get away with their practices.
I saw a presentation from one of the people from the local office. Her advice seemed reasonable: Go to the procurement conferences, get a one-pager of the capabilities of your firm, and talk to the purchasing agents. See government contracting as a supplement to your business revenue, not the core.
> Objects cannot be evaluated and do not have return values.

Python would disagree.
Yields of functioning chips quickly drop off when you increase the size, because each single transistor has an independent risk of error. Individual error rates are extremely small, but so the number of possibly failing components is large.
Facebook’s two-factor authentication system auto-posts replies on your profile
I don't believe Blockbuster manufactured anything.
For the first year, maxing out at 20 is incorrect if only for my own case at the A. Mine is closer to +40. At F it can be anywhere from +113 per year or more for converting interns and even better if you can negotiate at G, I’ve heard numbers going up to 200tc. This is just including signing, not year end which can be even more but I’m not as familiar with that at other companies.

At least from my recollection, JS/2S base approach that but have very significant performance bonuses that easily match big tech.
There seems to be several people with a tech hardware background that doubt that Magic Leap can deliver on their promises. But somehow they have no problem raising money or getting publicity. Either they have something that is real and extremely convincing to investors that they have been able to keep very secret, or they have a really slick slide deck made of lies.

We’ll know for sure if/when the first production devices go on sale, but if Shaq was wearing a real pair then I don’t want them.
> Whoever the designers are who came up with this stuff, fuck them.

Are you sure you're laying the blame at the feet of the right people? I'm a design lead on a mobile game and I find myself in a constant battle against these kind of shenanigans with the PM team.
For good reason - a made a factual error. Too late to delete. I will email a mod to do so when I get home
Trade a Lexus for a prestigious phone number? In Iraq, the best #’s cost a mint
I'd go one step further and say that intelligence agencies rarely say what they mean. It would be naive to take any of their statements at face value.
That's one of the reasons Google Cloud has fairly small quotas on everything now, and you have to request permission for more. They'd almost certainly stop approving you way before you got to $23m of GPUs, assuming they even have that many free in your zone.
That Kickstarter video's first 20 seconds are amazing - funny, informative, and arresting.

Did you guys write and direct that in house?

EDIT - After watching the entire video - including you hanging from them like a swing - I hope you are considering direct response TV as a marketing channel for these. You nailed the informative / circus show balance and I bet you could edit this into a 30 / 60 / 90.
If you don't have some measure of direct democracy, and one which trumps the decisions of representatives, you don't have any mechanism within the system by which citizens can withdraw consent from the system imposed on them by the dead hands of their ancestors.

If you consider free, uncoerced consent of the governed important, direct democracy has no substitute.

One can, of course, debate implementation details, but for the same reason erring on the side of too easy to get a proposal on the ballot is better than too hard. If it's too hard, essential choices are denied. If it's too easy, then there is a challenging in focusing on the choices of importance, but nothing is denied.
>And to a large degree, because it's a log.

I agree. Although, it's more than just a log. For instance, it would be great to have the ability to see a collection of all files sent by a particular sender, with file versions (with dates and links to according emails) stacked under one file name.

Another suggestion -- view a collection of files in all emails with particular label.

Finally, in some cases it can be helpful to have a local read-only copy of files in a particular collection. It's like one-way read-only Dropbox. This would make automated processing of email attachments so much simpler. (BTW, a product idea, anyone?!).
Python bindings are in there :) This needs a tensor library callable from python that works on GPUs. One direction we are going towards is PyTorch via ATen / Torch tensors; we already use the C++ parts of ATen. Of course any other CUDA tensor library with minimal alloc/copy/synchronize would work too. Send a PR? ;)
Hmm, I know anecdotes aren't necessarily warranted here, but I have caught plenty of them to relocate out of my yards in the past. They can be extremely aggressive if they're shedding or breeding. Otherwise like any animal they do tend to try and get out of your way.

I was more commenting on OP, in some advice against trying to pose for a photo with one :P
Ah, sure. I read "protecting us" as "protecting creators" (as opposed to consumers).
You should read the top comment here before you move to fastmail, and fastmail's response.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855081

I'm a founder of a company, and I use fastmail for my personal email and gmail for my professional email. I like fastmail more, but I need the security of gmail + yubikey because that professional email can manage DNS/domains/bank accounts.

You should also be aware that fastmail doesn't really integrate that well on Android phones. Eg in order to access calendars hosted on fastmail, you will have to use a third party caldav program. I currently used caldav-sync, which fastmail recommends. It's a piece of shit that stops working approximately every other week on a stock HTC 10. The symptom is my calendar stops syncing. I have to notice this, go to the accounts option, and manually trigger a long term sync. This is very very very annoying and I'm going to find a new program as soon as I have the time. Note this isn't fastmail's fault, but it does significantly inhibit use of their service.

The email composition box on mobile firefox on fastmail is a little funky too, but that's on me. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm essentially the only person using mobile firefox/android/fastmail's web client. This was pretty much the outcome of my effort to de-google myself.

That said, I'm really happy with fastmail and I think I'm prepaid for another two years.
This may be the best example of seemless pedagogy I've ever seen on this topic.

Now if you pushed it too the limit and went on to digital sampling and compression codecs and ended with the Fourier transform... That would be something legendary indeed.
It is cracked. Here's a simple patch: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/5x7xbo/patch_...
CRISPR was discovered, not invented. At least the core concepts should not be patentable under any system. And then any inventions around it done at publicly funded institutions should probably not be patentable under any system.

Companies don't really invent very much, they usually find things or take existing things and try to monopolize them with patents.
That's reasonable, but also consider that the Apple iCloud "hacking" from a few years back was largely social engineering Apple's tech support into providing them with enough information to get access.
In the US, you can walk in and get the flu shot at any of the big pharmacy chains; no need to visit a hospital or doctor's office.
PG/YC started a revolution: They suggested a way through which programmers came into money.

Now, with Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Programmers are creating money itself.

This article makes a bull-case very articulately, with sprinklings of realism. I am looking forward to this series. Being a blockchain cynic is the norm these days, and I appreciate when someone takes the trouble to lay down a well-reasoned and well-researched argument - great job rrecuero.

Clearly, there is irrational optimism/scams abound, but we can often forget that the mass-irrationality can be decoupled with the 'actual' promise of the idea. And the fundamental promise of the idea (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain etc) is for us to rethink 'how things work the way they work and why' and attempt to improve it. The Bitcoin paper should atleast get us to think about what is money. It matters less whether these "blockchain things" ultimately succeed or fail -- the fact that something NEW is being attempted, has to be applauded (Ofcourse, it would be great to figure out a way to do this without harming people using their credit cards to buy shit coins).

I love reading about blockchain ideas/projects. Like many, I too am jaded by the scams - but I think it is worth maintaining some optimism through this.

This article doesn't even touch upon some very important use-cases like: moving money across borders and money being seizure resistant etc. I think there is was, and has always been a market for a product that allows us to store value in a way that is cross-border, govt resistant and anonymous (whether it is a $500B market or $5B market is less interesting than appreciating that a product was invented to fulfil this use case). There are plenty of interesting use-cases to explore here.

In the section on Tokens, the article says: "contributors can transfer their assets instantly and easily to other people (pending regulation)" while referring to securities. IF this becomes a reality, it would be huge.

I see a lot of upside if even a fraction of the promise of this tech is realized.
This comment would have been better without the ad hominem.

Perhaps something like: "maybe it makes sense for the average person to defer to a doctor's opinion with regard to flu vaccine".
You can connect with them over email, SMS, or even not at all. Or you can use Facebook and experience the downsides that everyone is mentioning. This is a timeless story where a company provides a service, people get used to it, then complain when the company changes the service against their liking. You are and have always been free to communicate as if FB never existed. They owe you and your family nothing. But in many cases people prefer to pay the costs of using the service. They're not the devil just because you fail at communication without them.
They're really just hitting their stride in content production. There's plenty of room for them to grow making stuff for their global distribution platform. They're in 190 countries and can exploit their productions worldwide.

Having said that, 200+ p/e is still insane.
Did he reduce it, or was it simply reduced while he was in office. Because he had a Republican Congress for 75% of his presidency.