skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so very important.

In particular, there's a long-accumulating need for a revision of the current dogma on the philosophy of science and its operationalization -- Popper falsificationism, peer review, publication-oriented research, freaking null hypothesis...

Most of our current science has happened before Popper and falsificationism, so there is nothing "essentially true" about the current M.O. of science. And heck, was it falsificationism that brought us vaccines, nuclear energy and computers? Because there's a replication crisis going on in many scientific fields, and particle physics doesn't fit the mold of falsificationism at all.

I'm not coming forward with a solution in an HN comment, but I think we need to stop equating science, the civilizational project, with this specific philosophy of science and social system for organizing science.
I think what really should be said is that we need governments to continue funding pure science - research that doesn't necessarily have immediate benefits, but rather expands our understanding and may provide building blocks for those breakthrough discoveries that clearly move us forward.

That's not to say that there isn't also a place for funding specific research that shows promise for solving specific problems or that would provide specific benefits - the Manhattan Project is certainly an example of this.
Sure, spinoffs are nice, but they happen with all types of public access research. Why not create a project of a unprecedented magnitude and complexity that also creates very important results directly? It's like saying "spend vast amounts of resources on pursuing random goals, and eventually some of the resources, by accident, will create a ROI". Yes they will, but is it really the best way to do this? It's not like some version of hypertext wouldn't happen without CERN.

I'm not saying CERN wasn't useful. It was. And the budget wasn't that big. But this kind of logic is not very sound. If we have a lot of money and a series of concrete problems, we should spend the money to solve them.

Most of the money are to be spend directly on the problem, less to develop and build new tools to tackle the problem, and finally even less to discover new possible mechanisms that might or might not allow us to improve our tools in the future.

There's a lot of uncertainty in the future, and it's best not to bet a lot of money on it.
Uhh Satoshi is Nick Szabo...
There is no mention of starvation in the title of the article nor in the text. I'm not sure why it's in the title of the submission. There is a link to a related article "2009: Ala. Sheriff Jailed For Starving Inmates". I assume it's the same article referenced in this article:

"In 2009, then-Sheriff Greg Bartlett of Morgan County was briefly tossed in jail after acknowledging that he had personally profited, to the tune of $212,000, from a surplus in the jail-food account. Prisoners testified about receiving meager meals."

Still, I don't see the justification for the use of the word "starvation" in that context, either.
https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_dean... for source code stylometry
Anyone know why they have this weird onion url „protonirockerxow.onion“? Kinda hard to remember.
I don't think that is correct. They are issuing 1099-K's for people who are accepting Bitcoin payments through Coinbase. They haven't issued any 1099's for people who only have a capital gain from buying and selling.
Can you explain the difference between a "regular spiral staircase" and a "geometric staircase"?
What you're saying is basic common sense (although apparently people are actually handed money to research this as well, which strikes me as scientific welfare).

Here is a recipe to have more "luck" in your life and to eventually be able to "capitalize on luck":

Smoke less weed

Drink less

Don't have kids without stable finances

Get a second job or work more hours or find a better job

Save money

Go home and read books, study, learn a skill, or prepare to go book to school

Start a business that can deliver value to consumers and/or society or work on side projects

Network with people and build relationships or mentors

Here is how to lose your ability to "capitalize on luck":

Whine about your life circumstances online

Complain that life is unfair online

Smoke weed and drink multiple times a week

Sit indoors all day watching tv and playing video games

Settle down and have kids before you have a stable life and have achieved the life goals you want to

I'm not sure what you are specifically complaining about more unless it is just a vacuous whinefest about life not being fair. That seems to be the case.

I do not think it is fair that the children of billionaires and movie stars are connected to half the planet via their parents and can get into nearly any door they want to, if that is the specific scenario you are referring to. We have been gradually shifting away from this for centuries - quite nearly only the children of nobles had access to education ~400 years ago.
I fixed it before you posted that comment but didn't put an "edit" note because I thought I edited it quick enough for people not to notice. I was writing quickly and moved some words around that changed the meaning in a bad way :(

Yes, of course. The "not" shouldn't have been in that sentence. Polluters should have consequences.
US Navy Accused of Massive Amounts of Piracy by German Software Company
But but but. Bitcoin is anonymous! /s
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California has less bugs... In the midwest in most cities/suburbs you have to maintain your lawn for the purpose of keeping the bugs and noxious weeds down. If you don't, it's a code violation. I think the real reason is that mosquitos like to hide in them... Find a way to keep the mosquitos at bay and maybe we can have more natural lawns.
That's pretty bad. A few years ago I ordered a big TV from Newegg around black Friday as a Christmas present. I got it a few weeks before Christmas. When Mom opened it Christmas day the screen was cracked out of the box. I hopped on with Newegg support and they asked why there was a long delay between order and damage. I explained it was a gift we just opened and they apologized then replaced it.

I think the big online retailers have realized that a good return/RMA policy is key to their continued success. If Walmart wants in on this world they will have to figure it out too.
https://github.com/pygy/compose-regexp.js is another option (800 bytes mingzipped):

const {sequence, suffix} = composeRegexp;
const maybe = suffix("?");
const oneOrMore = suffix("+");

const urlMatcher = sequence(
/^/,
"http"
maybe("s"),
"://",
maybe("www."),
oneOrMore(/[^ ]/),
/$/
);
Leaked EU draft on transparency for search engine rankings, account suspensions [pdf]
JFK video: hear Kennedy’s ‘lost’ Dallas speech in his own voice
In experimental physics it does.

Two recent planned breakthroughs: Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves, and LIGO detected them in 2016. Bell predicted that entangled quantum particles would exhibit fundamentally nonlocal properties, and in 2015 the first "loophole-free" test demonstrating violation of local realism occurred.

These experiments were done with expectations of a result. That is not to say that they had foregone conclusions, just that there was some phenomenon that the scientists hoped to see, and confirmation one way or the other would be of interest to the community. Most experiments are like this -- of course scientists should keep their eyes open for unexpected discoveries, but in general pursuing expected results is more fruitful.
You're right, the article makes a simplistic and greedy-sounding point. A better way to put it would be: electric vehicles are a good way to shift the roughly 30% of our energy consumption that is transportation from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We can do this by taking advantage of the electric grid infrastructure that's already there, which saves us some money (vs. for example building out a giant hydrogen supply network).
Duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048065
> For example you lie about how your marketing efforts are reaching customers who are signing up in droves while you use mechanical turk and other techniques to make the observable metrics go up

> By doing this you avoid the inefficiency of the whole "we aren't sure you can do this" discussion which helps no one.

Pretty sure that it would help investors differentiate between those who can actually make it, and those merely good at faking it and making observable metrics go up ... especially if the ones actually capable of making the <big thing> don't make the metrics go up quite as high as the ones putting their effort into faking it.

And like another commenter said, that difference might well be worth billions.
“Banning” pollution is not realistic. Any economy of this scale is going to produce pollution. And while some technologies like fossil fuels are worse then others, there is no pollution solution. So the best the EPA can do it manange the pollution we do create to mitigate the harms.
> Trying to understand the brain from neurons is like trying to understand Microsoft Word by looking at its machine code.

There's a series of articles by a guy who fixes bugs in an old game without source code, in plain assembly. (Unfortunately, it's in russian only.) https://habrahabr.ru/post/349296/
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I suspect they'll be investigating the large players mostly. They don't like tax evaders, but they REALLY don't like big tax evaders.
Oracle are ostensibly a large services company. They don't just sell the DB
They have the mechanisms to force (EU) law compliance, so far big enterprises (e.g., Amazon, Facebook, Google, ...) has been fined with billions of EUR, even though these companies are from the States.
I believe that micro/small business, if not inside the EU, can go under the radar.

However, GDPR is so big, and it's here to stay, and my opinion is that will, in the years to come, the way how companies handled personal data, not only for EU citizens.

One interesting aspect of the GDPR is that you, for example, as a processor, must be compliant so that I, as a controller, will work with you. If you think about that, it will soon be evident that GDPR compliance can be strictly a business decision, like ISO certification.
You can't just choose your onion url, since it's directly derived from your key, and that's probably the best they found (if you want to have any choice at all, you have to bruteforce try keys until you find one matching the pattern, so everything more than choosing a few letters gets difficult/expensive)
Ask HN: Startups Using Microsoft Stack (C#/ASP.NET)
Stack Exchange is the most famous example, but who else is using the MS stack to build their service?
I've always loved your LOAD81 project and would encourage you to return to it and add some new features - so maybe how you made it, what it can be used for, how you can extend it by adding functionality .. ? EDIT: I know its not as sexy as your Redis work, but I think there are a lot of wise nuggets in this project that other developers could learn from.

http://github.com/antirez/load81.git
> Right but the money saved will now be spent someplace else instead thus creating new jobs. It will never be the case that a company will say "let's just sit on this money we used to spend on the old process".

We are living in a post scarcity world (take it with a grain of salt) in the sense that a lot (really a lot) of capital is unallocated or (the same) only allocated in portfolios but bot producing anything in a direct way.

I always share this example which happen alnost everyday in my software development company: if my customer is technical (another software company) they care (even not explicitly) about HOW I am charging them "per resource per hour" and less thinking in terms of pure ROI. When the deal involve financial people trying to leverage their capital they care more about the ROI and see the service as an investment when they don't need to go into so many details. In this case the same service can be charged with a much higher multiplier that makes you think the value they put to money is less significant. Indeed there is a third case when finance people think they have more power because they just have money, I pass those.
I am working on a medical device with a (simple) robotic arm, most people we have recruited have done low level/middleware development in automotive or aerospace. All these domains are using very similar technologies with very similar hw or timing constraints (not mentioning regulatory). So you could probably also work in these areas too (if you have some inclination to writing specifications for days).
[Not all the world is C++ -- I'm glad to say!]

Note that OpenBLAS doesn't have avx512 kernels, and the fallback to avx2 (unreleased) is a factor of three slower than MKL dgemm on Knights Landing. It looks as if the next release of BLIS will remedy the lack of free BLAS avx512 support with micro-architecture dynamic dispatch which includes fairly competitive avx512 (>80% of MKL dgemm on KNL).

I don't know about the competition on non-x86 architectures, but BLIS currently has more limited support than OpenBLAS.
Hey all, we need to go meta for a sec and talk about why this article doesn't belong here, and how culturally this is a step in the wrong direction for HN.

First off, this is blogspam, the original Popular Science article is a bit better. There's a reason blogspam is discouraged by the guidelines.

More importantly, this is a particularly pernicious blogspam because the selected photos (atlas, burning boat, water glass) mostly illustrate problems that have comparables right now. It excludes the smog and coal burning illustrated in Popular Science that do a better job at illustrating both pollution and the EPA's achievements.

These problems make this article a poor fit for Hacker News. I think we should be all sad to see such an intellectually empty article ranked this highly.
“The counterbalance to giving you this huge trusting environment is if anyone steps out of line, they’ll squash you like a bug.”

And water is wet :]
> Libertarianism and anti-statism are usually quite more nuanced than their typical strawmen

Nah, not even someone hip to the kool-aid they drowned in wouldn't have been able to predict something like

> every parcel of land would have some advocate who cared very deeply about the environmental quality of their land
But if we're going to be spending billions of euros on moonshots, the core activity doesn't need to be fruitless! There's plenty of unfunded marginal ideas that could change the world if successful. How about funding something like MIT's ARC fusion reactor?[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
For many, I'm sure they feel their time and/or convenience is worth more than the price difference. It doesn't take a ton of time, but it's enough of a time/effort that I don't think it's wrong to assume that many just want to sign up for a service and have it work instead of building their own.

This suggestion assumes time has a cost of zero. Not to mention, some solid VPN services (Mullvad) can be had much less than $100/year.

That said, it could be a fun project regardless.
The tragic story behind the man who helped create Tetris
Actually Tex is built with a p2c translation
Craigslist blocks PIA. I find the utility steadily decreasing as more and more sites block their addresses.
Good of you to stick up for the Sheriffs.
Implementing in-app language change
Geoengineering is just a money sink if the root cause isn't tackled. This proposal might slow down SLR, but the oceans will continue to sour, temperatures to rise and weather becomes more economically threatening.
> There are fundamental questions left unanswered: What information do neurons represent? How do neurons connect to achieve that? How are these representations learned? Neuroscience offers partial answers and algorithmic ideas, but we are far from a complete theory conclusively backed by observations.

Calling the answers "partial" is fair, but I feel like the author understates the number of observations backing typical neural models? The lab I belong to created Spaun, which admittedly uses a pretty simple neuron model, but still matched a ton of neural and behavioural data! There's also Leabra, which I have some qualms with, but still has a pretty large collection of results.
The US is not very culturally homogeneous, at least not as far as I understand it.
All of these companies are already preparing for the GDPR, they've been fined in the past by the EU and are taking GDPR compliance very seriously.
> - We use worker threads for data encoding and network I/O

Is this open sourced? I would like to understand how this works? (how do you capture network i/o?)
Robots Are Now 'Creating New Robots,' Tech Reporter Says
The big success story is MobilEye, which was bought out by Intel recently.
Protonmail routinely hands over information to the authorities. They also determine themselves what cases should be allowed to bypass the requirements for a search warrant.

https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
OK, they stopped the directive to make patenting them generally easier in europe. There are still ways to patent software, usually by saying it's part of a hardware device.
Yes, but not for long.
To be clear, this article is about neural computation, while Joscha has chosen to ignore the constraints imposed by this computational paradigm.
For one thing, we don't operate at similar scales of human engineering. The Romans, for example, had huge armies. But the entire army was also experienced at engineering and building, to the point where whenever they weren't fighting, they were building fortifications and bridges, which gave them terrifying speed and technological superiority.

Build an army of construction workers, engineers and craftsmen today and you can build some pyramids. Hell, skyscrapers go up in China in like a month now.
He, uh, retained it in the form of a house?
CI&CD – Setting up GitHub and Forestry for your static site
So we have the issue where the majority of conservative voters think the country must do whatever it takes to protect the environment [1], but elected conservative officials think otherwise. How do you think this should be handled?

Option 1: Demonize all conservatives, turning the environment into a partisan agenda

Option 2: Demonize elected officials that choose to side with lobbyists over their constituents

Personally, I would chose option 2, but I guess option 1 is good too if your goal is to cause divisiveness or even to push conservatives away from agreeing with you [2]

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/20/for-earth-da...

[2] https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-05/conservatives-dont-ha...
Wikitionary has interesting entries for the Proto-Indo-European roots for bear[0] and wolf[1]:

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
> Maybe it's a huge team, so there are multiple individual signatures and it's tough to track down heterogenous signatures.

In this case I would expect that we see a multitude of code styles in the source code of the very first publicly released version of the Bitcoin client. But I think nobody has yet pointed this out. This to me at least implies that if there were multiple programmers involved, there was at least someone who "ironed over" the complete source code to make the code style much more homogenous. But under this hypothesis we would expect that the code was audited at least somewhat thoroughly. But in fact the first versions of the Bitcoin client were rather "put together hastily" and contained lots of bugs that were fixed afterwards. Look for example at the following comment:

> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/595a7bab23bc21049526...

So first versions of the Bitcoin client rather look to me like some solo person who can program, but at least whose job is not to program in C++ every day, put together an experiment (the Bitcoin client) hastily.

Now let us assume that there was a huge team behind, but only 1-2 (at most 3) programmers with very similar code signatures. But of course the other team members also had things to do (to be worth their salary), like working out the math etc. But if it were a huge team that contains people of such special skills, why the hell did they hire such a bad programmer to implement it?

In this sense I believe there is strong evidence to drop the "huge team hypothesis".
Ah, that makes sense. I did mean emigrants. Emmigration and immigration have no correlation with IQ regardless. The lever of education sometimes does dictate who migrates (due to legal requirements or financial motivation for example), but the paper requires only basic arithmetic so it wouldn't have much of an effect anyway.

At this point I'm used to getting downvoted for no obvious reason so I don't even bother to ask why.
I live in Van Nuys, CA, where the aerospace industry used to have manufacturing. Three blocks from me is the "great little bike path" that stretches the length of the valley. Guess what? That bike path is a paved over Superfund site. All of Van Nuys has toxic earth 6" to 10" down. I refuse to eat any fruit or vegetables grown in the area, while everyone around me thinks I'm being paranoid.
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“Retain” is probably best interpreted as “not give back”. The law is shoddily drafted, considering “keep” and “retain” are usually synonymous.
I don't know which operations are implemented for those types, but the "dnn" support in the libxsmm ("small matrix multiplication") library has I32, I16, and I8 <https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm>.
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You might enjoy http://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/, which talks through how some games use the Amiga's graphics hardware to achieve interesting effects - I found it really interesting!
Further, your example was an analogy.
Yeah, some of these comments here seem very naive.
The word has been hijacked. Libertarians want to maximize liberty, which since the Age of Reason has been interpreted in government to mean to restrict as few freedoms as necessary to protect the remainder. One example: don't let people commit murder.

It is perfectly reasonable this kind of reasoning apply to other types of killing or unjust aggression, such as poisoning the environment. So we have the NAP.

But the whole movement is being hijacked by people who either don't care about much else than not wanting to pay taxes, or people who are anarchists (which is decidedly not libertarian).

Perhaps we need to run away and invent a new word. I think you'll find a lot of libertarians agree more often with Greenwald than the Koch bros.
I read somewhere that slaves were expensive and a valuable item. As well, every accident has an inherent risk of damaging either the item or equipment used for transportation which certainly were valuable.
Well, no. The plan with capturing and concentrating the waste is to then treat said waste and dispose of it properly so that it doesn't enter the ecosystem at all. Dispersing it slowly over time is like slow death: it all accumulates eventually, since arsenic, lead, and other toxins don't just evaporate into nothingness.
>I am not loyal to any brand, I own examples of most brands and will praise or criticise as needed, as anyone should.

Ah, the brave one, speaking truth when others are clouded by bias!

>this interaction is at an end

Thank God.
Any regulation will necessary create winners and losers. After all, it's purpose is to put limits on spheres of human activity that were presumably occurring. Otherwise, one wouldn't need to regulate them. Coal plants will and should be losers under any reasonable regime.