skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article I found especially after this was posted recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16324159
MIAB is a great piece of software. I've been using it for a little longer than two years and it's a pleasure to use. Updating is easy and I've had no problems with it since the first install. It is rock-solid and reliable.
When I studied jazz piano at university, I was actually taught a very similar technique to the one described in the aritcle. You're right in that we would learn to memorize transcriptions of great players, but there was also a step where we might deconstruct there techniques and apply our own approach to them.

For example, I might see that John Coltrane used a certain scale or lick at a certain point in a song. I then might make a note in my music 'Use X scale here' as an exercise while improvising.

The effect is similar to what the author is describing - chunking broad ideas and implementing them ourselves as practice.
I am female, and have run my own B2B SaaS as well as currently managing chat (as part of marketing) for another B2B SaaS.

I have seen all sorts of comments like the ones mentioned in the article, and I hate to say it, but many of them came after we got profiled in places like Hacker News (and other tech websites, too, to be fair.)

One that had a referrer as a thread on Hacker News kept insisting I couldn't be a real person, and wanting me to do basic math like 2+3 "before he would talk to me." It was gross.

I put my own face as an avatar on my current client's chat without thinking twice. Less than 24 hours later, my first interaction on the chat was harassment. Their product is an enterprise B2B SaaS.
> but between BAM and B&N, I will always go to a local bookstore instead

What's BAM?
I wouldn't entrust my email to an operating system that lacks mandatory access control.

OpenBSD is a fascinating project, but it is _decades_ behind the state of the art in security.
The Perl Toolchain Summit
Ditto. Data can be manipulated, so can results. Small changes demanded by a PM can have a huge impact on results. The input data and the way it's handled are going to have a huge impact on any ML result.
So if I buy a watch from someone on Craigslist, he's no longer a "stranger" and the onus is now on me to explicitly inform him to not follow me around? Doing business with someone or some business should not imply consent to their monitoring you.
One option is to go to advanced search, where you can change the search to restrict only to Free or other less restrictive licenses than commercial.

https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?biw=1404&bih=67... as a sample, and more detail at https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/29508?p=ws_image...
Notation and syntax are areas that I have struggled with in higher level mathematics. Can anyone recommend a guide or resources useful to understanding things like converting set theory, sequence and series style problems into equations and solving them?
> This seems unavoidable unless you mandate publishers host their own copy of the code behind these buttons and use a public API only to record the likes.

If Facebook means no harm, they could make this the encouraged way to include the like button.
Sometimes. No. Yes. No.

https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidan...

Sometimes the medical device is software. In fact, there are many software products on the markets whose makers don't even realize are unapproved medical devices. However, the FDA just doesn't have the manpower to investigate that on a wide scale.
Andy Gross had amazing accomplishments, traveled the world, but suffered from depression as do most with crazy high IQ's. He passed away from an accidental overdose.
The hardware is more fundamental. (Unless you want to invoke mathematics e.g. term rewriting)

The compiler/seq of bytes example requires von neumann, because in that case it is the behavior of the whole system that is self-modifying.

You could not have the beautiful executable and interchangable files of bytes without von neumann.
Think Before you Jump
It depends on the kind of neighborhood you live in too. You definitely see the hang out type coffee shops more in hipster neighborhoods vs like business districts or suburbs.
Eventually, when the current people are long gone, maybe it will be standard practice to rely on UBI and it will have a decent value. But in the meantime, there will be huge resource allocation problems.

We need people to defend themselves from big corporations that suck the money out of communities, such as Walmart, Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, large banks, Samsung, Apple, Monsanto, etc as they start automating jobs and paying less in wages.
Setting goals for one person based on what another person chooses to do seems like a phenomenally stupid idea.
I'm still waiting for a rock-solid scalable open source graph database in the mold of the Freebase database engine or the amazing graph database that Facebook have built for themselves. I'm very excited about dgraph as an option here but I think it's still an area that is very open for new entrants.
Getting started with Hyperledger Composer and private blockchains
You got a link what company offers selective in vitro fertilization (for cosmetic traits, not something like down syndrome)
They are removing expensive full time employees for whom they pay benefits for. The article said they had planned on doing this anyways, they just did it after a bad season.

As for not adequately staffing it, you simply can't. You cannot get a decent workforce via part time seasonal work. the way it worked before was part timers just took extra hours in peak periods, but Obamacare killed this by forcing any part timer over so many hours to be eligible for benefits, making it impossible to do.
Can Uber Ever Deliver? Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5B in 2017
Study Finds No Correlation Between Unpaid Internships and Job Prospects
PGD has been in use to a very limited extent, testing on just 1 or a bare handful of specific genetic diseases, along with basic checks for gross abnormalities like microscope examination. Use of full SNP arrays is still very new and no one has ever used them to select based on complex traits like height.
Seriously. Who are these people who don't seem to know what DNSRBLs are, who don't know about IP blackholing, who don't know about spammers stealing private addresses and getting your domain blacklisted, or sending out too many mails at once and getting tagged as a spammer, or sharing your IP space, or not getting accepted from various domains for not having a high enough "reputation", etc?

I mean, I must not know what I'm talking about, having run personal and corporate mail systems for 15 years. Must be pretty easy to get the DNS extensions which aren't used uniformly across major mail carriers right. And hey, if your ISP gets blackholed it should be pretty easy to fix, right? And you just have to set up a separate system with automated tests to alert you when your service is down so you can get it back up in a few days before the bounces start going out. And certainly maintaining your own spam filters has never been difficult, to say nothing of software upgrades, maintenance outages, security patches, offsite backups, certificate renewals, and moving hosting providers.

But, yeah. Easy.
The other problem is that academics simply may not have the computing resources to replicate anything that Google does anyway even if everything was open.
The HN rage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
You could try : What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195105192
Apparently that's :

https://inductive.no/jai/
http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
Imagine if stores had a way for you to pay for your physical stuff on your phone without waiting in a physical line.

1. Use their app to scan the bar code

2. Pay with a card

3. A self-service printer prints a receipt/confirmation of purchase.

4. Show it to an employee on your way out the door.

Might be an inventory nightmare, but it could be done.
AND YET, every time the subject of messaging comes up everyone cries how what we really need is federation and not walled gardens.

And this is precisely why walled gardens are attractive. Because when you realize the work that you have to put in to make federation work you give up and go running back into your walled garden.
Static website generators.
It's not. It's Popper's Paradox of Tolerance put into action. Society does not have an unlimited responsibility to tolerate the intolerant, because "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> Nowadays it seems like there's nothing missing.

There's lots of things missing. There's just nothing missing in established categories. Why would there be?

Start your own category, create software for it, then convince everyone that the category is important.
Scientists Create a New Form of Light by Linking Photons
As a data company specialized in real time statistics for combat sports, we've built an API with Node.js + Hapi and MySQL. The front-end was developed with Vue.js.
You know, you could have even stopped at the car analogy, because modern cars are actually doing this and it's fucking terrifying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16374464
> Ultimately, none of this is Rust's checks as a language, this is burning away all of the abstractions into lean, mean code.

Right - my understanding is that Rust generates very large MIR and also LLVM IR because the "zero-cost abstractions" aren't yet zero-cost, and compiling them into zero-cost machine code is inherently expensive.

So it's not the safety checks per se, but it's things like "there are three wrapper objects here with various generic parameters where C/C++ would have started with just a pointer from the beginning". Those three wrapper objects couldn't have existed without the safety checks, and rustc very quickly identified that everything is in order, but then it monomorphized the generics into lots of tiny functions and LLVM has to optimize all of that into machine code that resembles what the (unsafe) pointer approach would have generated. (Which explains why it's not time taken in rustc proper, but also why we don't see LLVM being equally slow when compiling C/C++.)

Is that interpretation correct?
So, reasonably honest question (i.e., save the generic blockchain sarcasm for the many other posts that will presumably be made here), does anyone know what the game plan is for these companies? They have tokens, OK, great, but then what? Are we supposed to buy them? Are we supposed to accumulate them in some manner and trade them for something else? Are we supposed to accumulate them in some manner and sell them? So Kodak is starting a blockchain to "pay photographers", but does anyone have any details beyond that? If someone's buying them, who, and why? How do I get a blockchain entry for a photograph? How does that do anything?

I'm not asking for the really obvious sarcasm, so please only post "they have no idea" if you've got decent evidence that they really do have no idea. I presume they have some sort of vision as to how these are going to do something. If they merely have a bad or stupid plan, I'm asking for the bad or stupid plan, not sarcasm. (I'm honestly just sort of assuming that none of these plans will do anything that wouldn't work better with a centralized non-blockchain-based infrastructure, but I'm at a loss as to what they even plan to do with their probably-unnecessary blockchain.)

I've done at least a bit of poking at a couple of these things but I can never find a concrete plan. (Including probably at least 15 minutes with Google trying to figure out what Kodak was talking about when they first announced it. Perhaps tech details have emerged since then?)
"Virtual machine are secured by the shared host. "

Virtual machines are not secure in mainstream implementations. The tech they use has had a lot of vulnerabilities in the past. Google and Amazon even have their own custom versions for improving security. There's also no covert/side channel analysis done on those to even know what information leaks will be found in the future. Finally, hardware-level attacks are possible if you have malicious code running that bypass VM protection. Most popular recently is Meltdown/Spectre.

There's only been a few VMM's designed for security (two examples below). Most of them probably cost five to six digits to license. The FOSS ones are alpha or beta quality without the tools a big host would want for management. The VMM's focused on rapid development of features in unsafe languages don't look anything like the ones that passed pentesting. They also have highest marketshare due to those features. So, your host serving cheap VPS's is almost certainly not using a secure VMM: they're saving money using an insecure one on insecure hardware that they're patching as vulnerabilities are publicized. Like almost everyone does with their OS's for their beneficial features. ;)

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/papers/ieee-sp-vaxvmm.pdf

https://ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178b.h...
And the DMCA prevents you from repairing the problem. Ostensibly to protect copyright, but instead used to deny you ownership.
His gut flora
There might be something exciting to build to help implement ludicrously fast Google-style autocomplete / typeahead Search. I've tried using MySQL, elasticsearch, PostgreSQL with trigram indices... they can be made to work, but I've never felt that I'm anywhere near the quality of whatever it is Google are doing here.
Good post/paper in general. Predicting traits in humans has been more challenging than most geneticist want to admit. The good news is that most high heritable traits will become "solved" as we enter a new order of magnitude of data availability (i.e 5 million people instead of 500k).

Much work left to do though, and there are interesting methods being developed in this space
Increases in complexity up the barrier of entry to any advanced system, but lately it seems like things are made with the intent to make that barrier impossible to overcome within the lifetime of the hardware. The right to repair and open hardware standards are something we need to organize and push for if we want to see improvements. After all it's been demonstrated time and time again that we can't trust black box hardware.
The downside of somewhere like a library is that you really can't take a phone call from there. I'd pay some money for an environment that's as pleasant as my library, but that also has phone booths.
Education Next-Gen Computer Scientists: Same CS 101 classes from 40 years ago?
I can't help but feel that the "bus-bi" example is disingenuous. Surely you don't think I'm that stupid?

Memorizing which words take Latin plurals and which ones don't is work that not everyone has done. So we guess that "virus" is a second-declension Latin noun, which is correct, but now we have to also remember that it's a mass noun and therefore doesn't take a plural in Latin, but since it's not a mass noun in English it has to take a plural anyway, and therefore we get "viruses".

And when people get this wrong you can judge them poorly and accuse them of trying to sound smart.
First job I ever had was as one of those well-intentioned facilities personnel, at the Denny's corporate HQ. First couple of months on the job was pushing a cart around a 40 story office tower replacing lightbulbs and ballasts before adding other tasks-it was meant to, and served a good purpose of helping me orient to getting around the building.

Anyway, there were a few corner offices I eventually set up a little system with: if that office owner didn't want their bulbs replaced, to put a sticky note covering the light switch. I'd come through, check for a sticky "okay, no new bulbs for this manager" and move along. Was a pretty good system until our facilities manager politely asked me to stop and change the bulbs anyway.
"His science fiction in general wasn't particularly that good"

I think you have to consider it in context, and compare it to other SF at the time.

There's a reason why he was one of the "Big Three" of that time, and why Foundation series and his Nightfall novelette were acclaimed so highly.

I can't stand reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, but I can tell that SF fans in the early to mid-20th century thought he was great. I think Dune is simplistic in how it portrays ecosystems and economies, but I recognize that it was the book which really got people to start taking those ideas serious when writing SF.

You'll note that both have been turned into movies, as have several of Asimov's works, so it's not like he's mediocre.

But yes, Asimov wrote with a mid-20th century viewpoint, which dates the material. (Just like early Niven has such a 1970s/Los Angeles viewpoint.[0]) And here we are, post-New Wave, post-cyperpunk, even post-space-opera-revival. Our views have changed, and we now have different expectations and higher standards.

In his non-fiction works, I quite enjoyed the broad coverage in "Asimov's Guide to Science".

[0] Consider that "Puppeteers" comes because on the human ship which met them there was "a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent." Compare to Cordwainer Smith, whose works, I think, are not so easily dated.
Pretty cool. For those wondering the source of the data, it is likely ASDE-X/ASSC streaming in from the FAA's STDDS SWIM feed[0]. The terminal and ground data is especially cool and not as common as the usual flight tracking you see of en-route aircraft.

I'm using the STDDS feed to build a rough "go-around detector" in AWS for approaching aircraft by monitoring each approaching aircraft glide slope and dispatching a SNS notification "if currAlt > prevAlt".

If anyone has any questions about this stuff feel free to reach out, my email is in my profile. The easy part (IMHO) is slurping in the data which only requires a couple small EC2's and RDS, ~$125/mo. The hard part is often the presentation and making demos like these fun and shareable.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/swim/stdds/
So, back to land lines with analog phones?

Serious question, do any phones exist that can fully owned by the user? For a period, I was excited about the Ubuntu phone because of the fact that I could have full control over it. Sad to see that project terminated.

I'm also interested in "dumbphones" that can use CDMA or GSM networks.
Well, in general, you'd want to draw a casual link between real physical measurement and network traffic; so yeah, if you own the client (and can accurately determine whether or not it's running in a VM, and/or manipulated by a robot, which is tricky) you can filter out the data flak. If I worked for a data-collection org I'd probably ignore (or blacklist, if I could get away with it) a known source of noise.
I wonder what the throughput is on an Atari 2600 trying to mine Bitcoin. Probably going to need the Supercharger cart.
Certainly, one can architect anything, use NoSQL for critical data storage, or use Kafka for synchronizing two SQL databases with the same schema and living on the same netowrk(an actual proposal from a fan of microservices, btw). But whether it should be done is another question, and I have yet to see a single example of microservices being a good idea. Not "it works" -- obviously, you can get it to work, but being better than alternatives. Come to think of it, Mongo is the same...
Some of the biggest advancements in recent years have come less from technological breakthroughs, and more from improvements in designs and abstractions. Tools like Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and even AWS, while impressive technically, are breakthroughs because they improved developer efficiency. They also weren't "needed" until they were built, and have allowed many developers to work on broader parts of the stack.

Also, today's tech solves today's problems.
The quantum internet has arrived
This. If you want to create something, create something that simplifies things for us. Don't just create another tool to go on the tool belt.
Would we have had the industrial revolution without the agricultural revolution and all that followed from it?
I honestly think rating people in a service like this will make it feel even more artifical and 'disconnected'. Coolness is not a one-dimensional scale, and what is interesting to you might not be interesting to the next person. Such a system would just make some people try to optimize their score, i. e. not really caring about the relation in itself.
Time to short Atari?
Look up Librem 5. Doesn't exist yet, but might soon.
I don't think the answer is to put the onus on users to be tech savvy. We should be structurally preventing the behaviour.
If you can't read the page:

window.document.body.style['max-width'] = '650px'
Before storing data we should have a good do not track / privacy respecting software for the data we store.
In high school, I had a summer and after-school job cleaning a local horse stable. Up to then I'd had no introduction to horses. This job entailed being in the stalls with the individual horses and shoveling around them. Due to my prompting or self-motivated they'd often move around these fairly tight spaces. I was always amazed at how nimble they were in the sense that they always seemed to know where to put their hoofs to not step on my toes.
I have definitely experienced the case multiple times online where I have been denied something without a German Personalausweis or a passport. In my case, as a UK citizen I don't have a national ID card, so Passport must do, but the option is never "generic ID card" vs passport, but instead the German Personalausweis. Schufa is guilty of this, and iirc so is ImmoScout.
Welcome to sales and retail! Watch Glengarry Glen Ross.
"No, the number of harassing interactions is in the millions,"

Please consider more deeply the meaning of the word "ratio". You have no idea what the actual number of either harassing interactions is, nor non-harassing interactions, as it isn't even possible to formulate a definition of "an interaction". But there is no scenario in which these interactions are not a vanishing, vanishing minority of interactions. It literally could not be any other way, because if it was, say, the majority of male/female interactions, that would mean literally more than half the time a man passes a woman in the street, the man harasses the woman. Absurd.

"Did you seriously just claim you're being harassed by this article??"

No, I'm claiming that what you are doing, as are many other people, are harassing people, who are on average the wrong people. And then being very, very surprised when they don't take it very well. Well, yeah. You attacked, so what do you expect? Do you seriously think you helped anyone, even if we assumed for the sake of argument you read my post correctly, which you didn't? No, you didn't help anything. You just made it worse.

"I don't understand this sentence."

Well, try reading my post again with these corrections in mind. You may not agree with what I said, but it may help you understand it. Especially if, again, you consider that I consider your post a prime example of what I am talking about.
Note that there are different sets of patterns. Jazz and classical music are different enough that you can be good at one but bad at the other. There are rhythms an chords in each that would never make sense in the other. Of course plenty of musicians are good at both, but it requires more effort.
Here’s the formula for writing a generic late-night joke
> That update mechanism

is like gradient descent, for human culture.