skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet I think that while we europeans can learn a great deal of lessons from US entrepreneurs, the "failing is ok" is one of the wrong ones, together with the extreme optimism. In Europe there is a tradition of small businesses that succeeded because of wise moves and organic slow growing. Also if failing becomes less of a problem I've the feeling that many startups may start with ideas that are ways too risky. For sure less optimism and being failure-adverse will make us having less unicorns than the United States. However if you think it in different terms, this will also lead to having less ruined companies and bad moments for the people working there, because for every unicorn there are a huge number of companies failing, and it is not fun when it happens. After all the need for unicorns is because of investors, while people can be ok with small or medium sized companies that make them a good few million dollars to have happy lives.
In Fargo season three [mild spoilers] they portray this kind of hostile takeover, albeit rather more dramatically. It's a big twist at the end of the story (for those not already aware) when it turns out what the villains were doing in this regard was not actually illegal, if done properly.
Not sure... maybe I’m old, but the current system is alive, but not in a beautiful way. Instead, it’s like metastasis of cancer, runtime after runtime of duplicated and slightly different versions of Nodejs, .Net and who knows what, and not in perfect harmony. It’s chaotic.
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Are you referring to the Chinese Room? I've always had an issue with that argument. Instructions are immutable, but neural networks certainly are not.
Hearing about stuff like this, it's easy to imagine a future in which the 'bootstrapped' internet startup is simply no longer possible due to the costs of complying with various governments' regulations.
Is formal really all that hard?
Nearshoring – The Fast Path and Short Cut to AI Deployment
Stop cherry-picking,start merging(3): Avoiding probs. by creating new merge base
Spring Boot Application Deployment as JAR and WAR on CPanel Server
It's not different. As in: both are fine. It's not a crime to link to a site that links to content; TPB itself hosts no content. Linking is not a crime.

https://thepiratebay.org
Well I'm not that old so maybe it's different but as an American raised on imperial units I find metric absurdly easy to learn because it is just shuffling a decimal point around.

Going from metric to imperial must be challenging.
Does it also support Github pull requests and Gerrit reviews? From what I've seen, people rarely use "just" git.
Steve, you usually give better answers. Invoking the distinction between Rust-as-defined and Rust-as-commonly-used feels like language-lawyery dodging of a real issue.

Suggesting to drop all of std just to customize just one feature of the allocator it is not a good solution. You should know harsh OOM handling is a problem for Rust users, and there's work being done to improve it.
> In the Governet you'd still be censored

Only for stuff that would be illegal in offline life as well... anything that you're allowed to do in offline life, under whatever extent of freedom of expression is permitted by your country would still be uncensored.
We build proof-of-concept JAR and WAR Spring Boot application and show how to run it on shared cPanel server using any of our Java hosting packages.
See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14550060
My cynical side thinks that this is the goal of such legislation - an "unintended consequence" that really is intentional.
Perfected by Bach, fugues have enjoyed an impressive afterlife
The "Latte Factor" is a real thing. Not necessarily by itself, but it is indicative of a larger systemic problem.
I went from the Amiga 500 to a 486, yeah Doom and Wolf3D were very impressive in terms of graphical detail but some little known gems on the Amiga really pushed boundaries in scale that wouldn't really be repeated till the likes of GTA 3 or Daggerfall

"Hunter"[1] which was flat shaded 3D, had a very large play area of multiple islands and had multiple drivable vehicles, you could ride bikes, row boats, gunboats, jeeps, tanks, helicopters, surf boards, hovercrafts. All on an Amiga 500, all on 1 floppy disk.

"Mercenary 3" [2] also flat shaded, had a fully simulated solar system with day/night cycles. You could go in buildings, go in taxis, get on a space ship fly up to orbit, go to another planet, land in the city go in a building. The scale of this game is insane for the time.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MzByYlnvaN0/hqdefault.jpg

[2] https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/m/mercenary-...
How to make better decisions
> So, if you can't back up the assertion that it's not testable, you have "effectively" lost the argument.

I have backed up the assertion. I have pointed to the existing literature, and the many people who have tried and failed to write a test. I have a very basic hypothesis, one that could be broken by a very simple piece of evidence: a test.

But here is the real problem. You are treating this as an argument. And I am not. This isn't about winning or loosing to me, I am just trying to understand the universe better (as are the people above saying this isn't falsifiable), and you want to win. Besides if this were a proper argument, you'd have a clearly stated position I could argue against, and you don't seem to have one (outside of 'dualism can be proven', which is a ridiculous assertion, easily refuted).

> Go back 90 years. How do you know there isn't a 4th fundamental force of nature?

How do you know there isn't a fifth now? We have no clue how we would test for it, but there are unexplained phenomena which might involve a fifth force (dark matter and the perplexing way that gravity works for example). Saying something is non-falsifiable doesn't mean it's "proven" to be wrong. Just that science can't say anything about it yet. With more knowledge and more time we learn that our previous understanding was wrong, and that we can test for new things we couldn't even imagine before (and some that we could).

> Science isn't about making assertions and not being able to back it up.

You're right, it's not. Which is why I have been able to back it up, by pointing out that many very smart people (scientists among them) have tried to think of a way to test this and failed. My assertion stands with the caveat all science has: given what we know now. Science is wrong all the time - I don't mind being wrong about this - but for the time being it appears true. And that is what is useful.
> How is this any different than posting a piratebay URL for a pirated movie on HN?

It's a link to a site that links to the front page of SciHub, not a particular paper accessed through it.
A.k.a. One legged “Milking stool”.

https://www.google.com/search?q=milking+stool&rlz=1C9BKJA_en...:
The past is a faulty memory and the future is an illusion of ego.
Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup – Mar. 15, 2018
Took a look at flocakademic — looks like a great idea and platform, but I'm curious as to where you see it fitting in with the rest of the research lifecycle, with institutional repositories and OSF starting to pick up the slack?
Can do that with MEPs, too.
Impressive, but there's an easy formula for getting these systems to make mistakes. Just input a sentence with some kind of long distance dependency. For example, DeepL gets agreement right in English to Spanish translations when the two things that agree are close together:

I like soup -> COMO sopa
They eat soup -> COMEN sopa

Impressively, it can even get agreement correct across clause boundaries in many cases. But if you do wh-movement through two or more clauses, you're usually out of luck:

Which boys does he say he believes eat soup?
->
¿Qué chicos dice que cree que COME sopa? [should be COMEN]

It doesn't really matter very much in practice if an MT system makes mistakes like this, but they are mistakes that you can rely on humans not to make systematically.
Racket ships with an IDE, DrRacket. Racket is really easy to get started with because it is "batteries included" by design. There are not other tools to set up. There is no configuration. Windows, Mac, or a Debian based Linux like Ubuntu, it takes just one binary download to be up and running. It can also be compiled from source on other Linux/Unix systems like a SOC based computer.

For Common Lisp, Clojure, and Schemes like Guile, Chicken, or MIT, the most common editor is Emacs (it is also the most common editor for Emacs Lisp). But people use all sorts of tools successfully. Part of that is because the REPL plays such a large role in Lisp development. Common Lisp implementations usually even allow modifying live running code (as does Clojure). They are not like working in C.
Because like a human is less influential than a country, so is a country less influential than 28 countries.
I remember the names of the chips (I think...) Paula, Gary, Agnes (I believe I had to get an FAT Agnes to use my cassette loaded CD-ROM add on). Lordy that loaded Wokbench FAST. And FMV!
You need a certain amount of heft to have your way in standards bodies. 500m people in the EU vs 65m in the UK ...

Plus global standards are now being derived from EU standards.
Well maybe it's because these existing things do completely different things and are completely inadequate?

>What about the JVM?
too high level

>What about llvm IR and bitcode?
no backwards compatibility

>What about .net/CLR?
too high level

What the majority of people here do not comprehend is that if you look at each individual feature (low level, stable) each of them is nothing new. It's the combination of these existing features (low level and stable) that existing technologies are simply not capable of.

LLVM had almost two decades to stabilise their IR and yet they didn't so someone else has to step up and fix what they failed to do.
Banned books
If a DMCA takedown notice is sent to which HN is not complying, then yes.
Direct democracy is no picnic either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

Nothing is perfect but I rather like the tempering effect of an electoral based system. I think we'd have better outcomes if the elections of the electorals themselves (with a given State) were improved.
I prefer the term "embrace"... turning it into "celebration" risks making failure the goal. It is absolutely critical that people be allowed to fail. If people can't fail they won't take risk, and risk is where real innovation happens. But we should be careful not to turn failure into the new success.

Respect people who took a chance and failed. Learn from them. Embrace them. But I'd stop short at celebrating them. Save the celebration for next time (or 5th time) when you finally succeed and accomplish something amazing.
well you have pure data, max/msp, reaktor, etc for that.
These experiments with ML can approximate the soundwaves generated by particular instruments where the soundwaves produced are very complex, but other than that there are tons of software that can help you design any sounds you like.
Machine learning is like the micro thing in the 70's-80's companies are trying to put it everywhere they can despite there are no benefits to the existing convenient products/solutions or not incorporating ml at all but still labeling the product. i.e. quoted from wiki:
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from one meter to one millimeter. I see nowhere the 10^-6 meter waves being used in our commonly used kitchen appliance
Then why is thepiratebay blocked at the ISP DNS level by a court order in the UK?
Technology Choices When Building Your Own Blockchain
It seems like you use your watch quite extensively. What, in your opinion, are the negatives points of the watch?
Why would you want that exactly rather than CUDA or OpenCL?

Although I haven't written a compute shader yet, compute in Vulkan looks trivial to use once you have waged your initial battles against the rendering pipeline setup. Most of the complexity with Vulkan lies in understanding descriptor sets, pipeline layouts and pipeline objects. I find that the Vulkan interface is remarkably consistent once you get over the initial - and substantial - hurdles.
I wonder if they read the article. It most certainly won't apply to GitHub, and it only mentions content filtering as an example. Until proven otherwise this is simply FUD spreading. Dissapointing.
Canopy: An End-to-End Performance Tracing And Analysis System [pdf]
#VPN leaks affect 3 Major VPN vendors, only Hotspot Shield promptly fixed it
Building a Modern Computer from First Principles http://nand2tetris.org/
What have you been doing?

you probably not going to get past HR without a good story.

just my 2 cents not an HR person.
I am going the solipsistic route, because it's the relevant one in getting to the bottom of what these fundamental things actually mean. The point is, love is something that can only exist inside our individual minds (what is a mind, even?). Scientifically, we bare know what it is (something to do with dopamine), much less are we able to measure it. When you love your spouse, you take on faith that the feelings you have inside are what love really feels like. You tell the little voice in the back of your head that asks "Is this really it? Ohh, the model is that ad is really good looking, perhaps if..." to shut up. But you don't go to the love doctor and have your heartbeat or whatever measured to empirically confirm that your feelings are truly love, and not merely affection, an infatuation, or lust.

And that's without getting into what "actually knowing" someone really means, and how you evaluate your spouse's claim that she loves you. At least you can feel your own feelings.

I'm not saying that these feelings aren't true, I'm sure they are. I'm contesting your assertion that you take nothing on faith.
Doctors stunned to find huge air pocket where part of man's brain should be
Remember, the UK government didn't want to leave the EU - they were caught out by their own ill-advised referendum stunt. So it's not so much ironic that the UK wants to leave as it is a consequence of the EU's problems, including policy laundering which benefits politicians at the expense of democratic accountability.
I don't really think there is any demand for that. The generated WASM code is already optimized. The JIT is basically a very fast AOT compiler. The only advantage you're gaining is faster startup time and that could perhaps be achieved by caching the generated machine code on disk.
I'm out of the loop on this one, the only Pirate Party I'm familiar with is that Icelandic one that (last I checked) did pretty well. What happened?
Kind of nitpick, but actually the first look at https://ada2012.org is a CERT_INVALID error from the browser.
I don’t understand you’re hostility to what you call vulture capitals.

If the assets of a company are worth more than the business as a going concern, shouldn’t the assets be liquidated or repurposed for more effective purposes?
Nicely done just by looking at the site. I'll have to check it out later.
I'm really hoping we can take advantage of the start of driverless cars to implement a per kilometer and also demand driven tax/toll system.

The current method of funding roads with fuel tax won't work any more, and it doesn't make sense for the taxpayer to pay for roads if they barely use a car and take public transport. I am optimistic this method of taxing cars will make public transport much more attractive, especially in peak, and encourage off peak driving. This will be especially important for empty cars - they don't care about congestion so without a tax would fill up the road for extremely unimportant tasks.

This also gives the option of different rates if the vehicle is empty or not - I have no idea if an empty vehicle should be charged more or less, but it's good we have time to think through these things!

I am interested how the politics of this will work out - in Sydney the government often builds toll roads when rail would be more appropriate as they can privatise roads and get additional income. This leads to the government building more freeways to the airport when we already have a fast train there (which has a huge station access fee as a result of a previously botched public/private partnership).
I do not think I understand your point at all.

Realtime rendering is independent from game engine implementations and especially from content creation pipelines. If you are looking at resources that explain how to use game engines then you're looking in the wrong place. What you want is resources that teach how to write rendering code.
Billionaires are smarter, more hardworking, and ambitious on average, and there is likely some genetic competent to each of these qualities. Certainly there is for IQ.

Is your guess for the average IQ of Bill Gates' children 100? I'd guess say 130.
Alternatively the problem could be fixed directly in the hardware.
Arm_now: Multi arch vm working out of the box for everyone
iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy
An excerpt from the original post I replied to:

“Ha, I remember the Atari ST palette at $ff8240.”

To which you replied:

“Atari is another computer altogether.”

I know, I own an ATARI Falcon 030 in addition to two Amigas!

A HackerNews in 2018 is explaining to me that an ATARI ST is a different computer... only on “Hacker News”! I was there and then, I worked on both an Amiga and an ATARI ST!
The Perfect Selfishness of Mapping Apps
You asked¹ about knowing about RBLs the other day but I saw it too late to comment on it.
I didn't have to know about it. By using sovereign you get a script² that checks RBLs daily for you.

--

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16393017

² https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign/blob/a518f9c0353384cf...
Though, I'll point out that my problem is not necessarily with OOP, but OOD. OOP can be quite useful in some situations, such as modeling and simulation :)

Of course the design of the Java language is predicated around the idea that OOD is the one true way to design large software systems and thus must be forced by the language itself, and that is the primary reason I hate it.
In Zero Days [0], people exert concern that US cyber attacks in Iran causes counter attacks, while the US infrastructure is not yet ready to defend these attacks. Furthermore, it is concluded that the Iranian cyber army is greatly expanded and funded since Stuxnet; the government wanted the ability to defend against similar attack in the future.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/
> Most people already spend to much time staring at their phones

Compared to what? This sounds like something a closed minded person would say. My grandmother says "I cant believe you stare at screens all day". Today, people my age don't even question it.

The phones years ago were too old, and the software was pretty unusable, but now the hardware is significantly better, you can push a 100,000 poly model in realtime over 30 fps video and it's smooth. Have you used the BBC app that allows you to walk around the mummy tomb? It's smooth and gorgeous and really fun.

I'd have to say that their promo video was pretty uninspiring, I'd like to have seen a spatially aware map-type demo, or some higher poly models, or a simple RPG game. The floating 2D emoji sprites don't do the potential justice, but hey, they're just starting out!
As a kid, seeing toys everywhere, floor to ceiling, on every aisle... It's awesome. I still remember that feeling of wonder from walking into a TRU store and seeing toys everywhere, and I'm 40 years old now.

It's different then walking into a Walmart or Target and seeing a toy section, because it's surrounded by other things and there's not nearly as many toys to look at.
The EU needs all of the above. I value its capacity for producing sane sustainable companies. But it also needs a healthy dose of the SV ethos. Yeah, that ethos is nuts, high risk and high reward, can chew people up. But it also produces rapid innovative change, rewrites the rules, and produces incredible cultural/intellectual/financial wealth. Europe needs its own version of this, or it will be perpetually playing by American/SV rules. And in a few years, Chinese rules.
There's a difference between the page for a pirated movie and the front page of TPB.

Where things really get interesting is info hashes. I could right now post a 160 bit SHA1 hash of any content on the bittorrent DHT and you could obtain it simply by tacking "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" on the front. So perhaps simply sharing the hash of pirated content with some sort of encouragement could be enough to land you in hot water.
I worked through most of this tutorial on building a simple text editor in C and greatly enjoyed it. Highly recommend it!

https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Unless you're porting old applications you should always use the native UI toolkit of the platform you're developing for. In this case the UI toolkit is the DOM.
Elon Musk Launches Media Company Thud, Hires Former Onion Execs
Portacle is a god send, it basically allows you to directly start development in Common Lisp without having to install separately (and configure):

- SBCL (very fast lisp implementation)

- Quicklisp (lisp package manager)

- ASDF (builder)

- Emacs

- SLIME (Common Lisp mode for Emacs)

- Paredit (allows easier editing of s-expressions)

- and other tools that make CL development a pleasure.

The combination of the tools above are effectively a very powerful Common Lisp IDE.
https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/974265708325539841

Theory: If #gravity were modeled as a constant egress flow of spaceelevator harpoons coming out of each atomic planet, the scale invariance of the rotational frequency of #galaxies would not be surprising. No need for #DarkMatter, gravity isn't a field, but it can come in waves.
As a kid, it was. As a secondary level student, I found it useful sometimes to write things out in detail when I was stuck and all the mental models I had didn't work. Good maths teachers can tell the difference and in my case, often did.
Only bad programmers multiply by 16.

The good ones use a bit shift.
Why use this, if you can just memorize/bookmark the IP address?
So, you used Apple Maps and you were actually able to get home..?
Sri Lanka accuses Facebook over hate speech after deadly riots
I'm wondering if it would make sense to have a virtual DOM inspired by react. This would be faster than direct DOM access via a bridge.
Oh no. As long as the coffe is warm, there's still hope.
Decoding thought words straight from brain images
I'd go further along than thriftwy and say that I can't imagine a direct democracy keeping high international commerce tariffs.

There's mostly nothing on them for the people, and the only case politicians know how to make trades some certain short term loses for some dubious long term gains that go primary to rich people.
We still have no idea what really happens on Facebook
>Today, surprisingly, the people carrying the most Neanderthal DNA are not in Europe but in East Asia

Interesting, I would love to see more information on this -- I had not heard this previously.
Failing is certainly okay.

You can't achieve anything in life without trying. Or I guess you walked straight away after being born. Never tried anything that wasn't already proven.

What a sad way to look at life. No risk, no reward. Unless I guess your "reward" is a life of boredom and monotony.

The fun is in the doing and learning new things. That's why this type of meeting is necessary and helpful for most people that want to start their own business. Helping avoid common (and uncommon) mistakes.
How Much Does an Augmented Reality App Cost in 2018?