skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively: Military decisions (in the US) are already overseen and approved by political leaders and they can make judgements on a case-by-case basis, rather than blanket war=good/bad.

The US has not had a great track record here, even in my lifetime, but in a world where our adversaries are not going to have these same qualms, I think it is necessary for the US to build this technology, and if you accept that it is necessary for someone to build it, I think holding your nose and saying you want to be as far away from it as possible seems hypocritical.
With a search as you type feature (Google instant?) that limit could be hit in a few searches...
Completely agree. There's thousands of years of stories in the universe - why keep focusing on the same 100? Anything from the old republic or some ancient Sith history would be fresh and new (for the cinema), and very welcome. But I guess we're just fans of good storylines and not the targets of the Disney marketing machine.
It is targeted at places where Numerical Scientific computing is required. It's not just Matlab, Julia also targets Python and R where as these languages are used primarily as prototyping languages, Julia's pitch is that are good enough to become a production level code. For that matter even Google in its Tensorflow for Swift article referred Julia's this link. Also another advantage of Julia is its not trying to replace Python or R but to work alongside with them and interoperability.

From Swift for Tensorflow doc:

Julia is another great language with an open and active community. They are currently investing in machine learning techniques, and even have good interoperability with Python APIs. The Julia community shares many common values as with our project, which they published in a very like-minded blog post after our project was well underway. We are not experts in Julia, but since its compilation approach is based on type specialization, it may have enough of a representation and infrastructure to host the Graph Program Extraction techniques we rely on.
> The history of global regulations on the military application of useful military technologies is not too impressive.

So far we've been able to prevent a lot of use of bio weapons. Many have said they want to do the same with AI and have already started doing that.
I’ve found this tool indispensable on my Linux devices. The configuration is a simple but obvious language which makes it easy to get something working. I usually boot this with my .xinitrc.
Below is a repost, but fits very appropriately here, the results are very similar! The pdf pre-dates my small work on this, but you may find the simulation interesting,

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~arnold/research/80-20/

Basically you need two things:

1) Some slight advantage

2) The network effect, that is, for example, the probability of competing depends on the current winnings.

(compare with the linked pdf, pg: 548
'Why do we call this a “rich-get-richer” rule? Because the probability that page L experiences an increase in popularity is directly proportional to
L’s current popularity.')

If you have these two things, you get 80-20 like distributions, you get the explanation for why winners keep winning. If you are interested, you can find my simulation and analysis at

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~arnold/research/80-20/

Kind of shocking how well this works. The intuition is, why has Coke won, well they had some initial advantage, and so they won a bit. Now that they have won a bit, they can finance themselves into more competition. For example, they can place themselves into more stores, into more restaurants etc. Now they get a chance to compete more. When I run with rules:

r1) Actors have normally distributed abilities,

r2) Actors are chosen randomly based on current winnings, the more you have won, the more you compete,

r3) Winner of competition wins one point from the loser,

You get interesting results, for example, in the two columns below, the left is Household income in 1970 broken into quintiles. The right column is simulation results.

4.1% 6.7%

10.8% 11.5%

17.4% 16.0%

24.5% 23.3%

43.3% 45.6%

Interesting how well the top 3 or 4 quintiles match between the simulation and the real world data.

More such comparisons can be found at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~arnold/research/80-20/

If you run the simulation with different rules, the real world quintiles do not match the simulation quintiles nearly as well. You can tweak the simulation to see this as well.

The simulation can be tweaked to handle cases such as inheritance, so an actor with different ability inherits the wealth of a past actor. When I run this simulation, around 80-90% of top 20% actors lose all wealth in 3 generations.
As long it is opt in I don't see this as a decision issue.
I agree. While initial struggling days were interesting but later I had to push myself to finish the book.
I'm not saying the bridge has been repaired, but clicking that link doesn't seem to redirect to... THAT... image any more.
Last week's discussion on matrix multiply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164737

I guess the claim is that you could write all that in Julia, and hope to be competitive, while you could never do this in (pure) Python. It would still be a lot of work, and would require you to think about the cache, there's no way around that.

The selling point here (it seems to me) is that you can easily doodle up the most naive version of whatever algorithm you're thinking about, and then start optimising to the degree needed, where needed, without having to start over in C or something.
All high performance code is IO bound.

Even highly tuned c++ code spends most of it's time on the CPU waiting on cache misses. Its a pretty exceptional usecase where your code is not IO bound
I agree, it is a great book!
Your last sentence is needlessly condescending :/
I've seen that post as well, and often wondered if it was fair characterization of overall Julia community (maybe it is), or is the result of a single bad apple at the top that overshadowed an otherwise pleasant community.

Unfortunately, it doesn't take much negative energy to spoil a community, even if it comes from just one person. That it was a language co-creator is troubling but not necessarily a reason to avoid the language if the rest of the community is nice (which maybe it is, maybe it isn't).

However one thing I have noticed is that most language communities do tend to follow an attitude set by the language creator(s). This seems to have played out quite a bit for Clojure, Python, Elm, Elixir, and other languages where, at least to me, the overall shared perspective of the community is closely aligned to the personal attitudes and opinions of the language author(s).
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I was in high school when people started using Facebook and I don't really remember it being substantially different than now. I mean, yes, I exercise more restraint in what I post now than I did then, but is that actually a change in the platform or simply the wisdom of age? I remember my friends getting themselves into trouble by posting photos of themselves drunk.
Out of interest, and having been shown the now all-too-common "Consent to use cookies or you can't view our site" I had a look at just a few of the cookies.

Under "Required Cookies" for which they say "These cookies are required to enable core site functionality" is included (among many, many others) this:

Company	Domain

Google Inc.
ad.doubleclick.net,
ad-emea.doubleclick.net,
doubleclick.net,
googleads.g.doubleclick.net,
google-analytics.com,
www.google-analytics.com

So they are claiming that these cookies are literally essential for the operation of the site. This seems a serious abuse of language.

While it's been frustrating, it's been very enlightening to me to see how these large commercial sites are so deeply intertwungle with just so many other organisations.

I'm an old fart, the internet has moved on, but I do genuinely long for simpler days. Alas, the world has moved on.
Mostly curious but do you feel the same way about body armor? Body armor reduces casualties as well and makes war seem less risky?
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Which you have to be rich (or at least well off by most American standards) to do. To move to Sweden, for example, either you need a salaried job with full benefits (including the health insurance and employer lock-in that the parent is looking to escape from) that's willing to relocate you to Sweden, or you need to have ~$25k in savings (~$35k if you're married, more if you have kids), plus proof of positive cash flow for whatever business you're undertaking in Sweden.

And even then, that just lets you live there. You don't become a citizen will full benefits for five years.

But once you meet those requirements... you're probably well-off enough that it doesn't matter anymore.
Friendly neighbourhood aerospace systems engineer here.

Yes, the certifications on the aviation side are DO-178C for Software and DO-254 for Airborne Electronic Hardware. Rather than SIL or ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level), the aviation equivalent is DAL (Development Assurance Level). Of course, while they each use letters for levels of Integrity / Assurance, in aviation DAL A is the most stringent and in automotive ASIL-D is the most stringent.

https://www.rapitasystems.com/blog/what%E2%80%99s-difference...
They cannot be independent if actual privacy is concerned. At least sharing a threat model that touches both layers.
While not providing any specific investment advice, this is a wonderful, free resource for understanding the risks and benefits of long-term investing:

http://www.crsp.com/resources/investments-illustrated-charts

Check out the "Big Picture 2018" pdf, especially.

Edit - there is one specific piece of advice that you can see very clearly in the chart - reinvest your dividends!!!
People seem to be forgetting this one: to better the world by building or investing in new companies that do good things for their customers, employees and society, or by contributing to important non-profit causes.
> Ignoring reality, or worse rationalizing it, is immoral.

What does it mean to be ignorant of reality?
Not saying you aren't talented or hardworking but this is strictly survivorship bias. I would bet that there are other people who worked even harder than you but didn't get rich due to something outside their control. It also seems like you are smart enough to not endlessly chase even more and be happy with the largesse you already have so kudos to you for that.
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Ask HN: What was your strategy to acquire first 500 users?
Dear young, super smart Googlers: If your knowledge of the Middle East and terrorism goes back to ISIS/Al Qaeda - stop coding (or selling ads) and visit your local library. The history section is chalk full of wonderfully informative books that will inform your opinions.

You might find that Internet tropes about terrorism to be less than accurate.

For example, I just finished "Rise and Kill First" [1] a rather enlightening book about Israel's use of targeted assassinations going back almost 100 years. When I started reading Israel wasn't in the news, but then the whole Iran/US nuclear deal fiasco hit, and it made Netanyahu's actions all the more clear. Note, I'm not saying justified but rather that I now understand why Israel thinks and acts the way it does, and how sometimes this clashes with their normally close allies like the US.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Kill-First-Targeted-Assassinatio...

Before that, I read "Ghost Wars" [2] another beast of a book that covers US involvement in the Middle East going back to the late 1970's up to 9/11. Fascinating book about the struggle to dominate Afghanistan by regional and world powers.

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-Septe...

Before that, it was "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" [3] about the history of the CIA and the US's foreign policy in the last 100+ years.

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret/d...

Key point - These books look past recent events to provide an mostly complete understanding of these conflicts that you can't get with 20 minute Google searches and Wikipedia snippets.
To start, basically regardless of a person, money is time (at a certain standard of living). Too many people internalized working for money as something expected and/or inevitable... I'm not saying it's not normal, or unfair or bad; it's simply something you put up with, like driving - if your car drove itself, you'd never drive except perhaps for fun occasionally.

Even if you love your job and would do it if you were wealthy, it's still the same analogy... it's much better to go drive from A to B for fun every day you want, than to have to drive from A to B for work every day.
In fact, thinking of my own situation, I like my job and I like to code in my free time... but both being burned out occasionally and just having less free time means I do much less of the latter than I want to. So instead of writing some code I find interesting I have to fix somebody's legacy systems at work... or even create something nice at work, but less interesting to me (although more commercially viable, obviously) than what I would do otherwise.
Coding Train, Sentdex and prouduct school if you interest in PM
I think that partly this is simply an effect of accumulating experience as you get older.

For example, these days it feels like I don't find as much good novel music as I did before. But of course if I haven't heard any music at all, everything will be novel, and so looking where I have already looked plenty before will not turn up as much novelty.

I mean, I can still find plenty of novel thing if I look outside of the top lists of the UK and the US, or look longer back in time, so its not simply that my tastes have narrowed but rather I just have a better overall knowledge, and what I would have found novel before I now recognise as inspired from something else.
Make thousands of dollars automatically,selling books of Amazon’s Kindle store?
I feel like most of the problems you list come from trying to version control notebooks, which may just be a futile endeavor.

I primarily use notebooks as a worklog for explorative analysis. I can use them to track down the history of experiments and thought processes that led me to those experiments, to help me avoid treading over similar waters and to keep a single cognitive thread throughout the whole process. And if any idea is worth building actual software for, it then becomes a good reference for those projects.

The crucial idea here is to NOT change the notebook over time, just add to it. Then there are no versioning issues. And when it gets too large to navigate efficiently, just break it apart and continue the thread in the next notebook.

Of course in a collaborative environment this kind of thing is less useful, but for keeping track of individual work it can still be effective.
I for one, will never trust the rich (Especially when it is clear when they pay people to promote their deeds and paint them an angel).

I think what ever they do, they do it to gather more wealth (Even if it is not apparent for the common man).

For an example, see how gates foundation tried to operate in India [1].

[1] http://jacob.puliyel.com/paper.php?id=370
> Now you hide your friend list, avoid saying anything that you wouldn't say in front of your mother and secretly worry that anything you post will be purchased by a potential future employer enabling them to filter out your resume in record time.

Truer words were never spoken. Granted, I still love to use Facebook because I have friends from years ago, all over the country. It's the only way I keep in touch with them. But as another commenter brilliantly put it, they're becoming the yellow pages.
People with big brains have a different brain structure too
I don't know about that; when I initially asked people about it they were telling me "oh, it's just like Myspace, but better," and it was a few years before I remember seeing teachers or older relatives signing on.
Your OS does not support it.
Just a note that Pirates of the Silicon Valley is a docudrama, so maybe not 100% accurate, but still a great watch.
While those are valid points, I don't think the idea is "plan to live off the welfare system" but rather "take the risks and try something new", because if you fail you have a safety net to catch you and help you get back up again.
I messed around with some slightly above toy work, implementing expectation-maximization for gaussian mixture models and some other supporting tools for 3D point clouds, and found it really intuitive for someone with a decent amount of FP experience but little GPU experience.

Biggest challenge for me was a lack of profiling tools when running OpenCL on an NVIDIA GPU, I got OK performance but had no way to identify hotspots or opportunities for improvement.
I can recommend "I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier" by Fred Moody. It is pretty old, and I think it's been out of print for a while, but if you can get your hands on a copy, it is well worth the effort.

It details the work of a team working on a children's encyclopedia, but it also gives some very interesting insights into Microsoft's corporate culture (of the early 1990s at least) and social dynamics.
I thought Python offers an entry into the performance space via Cython, which seems to nearly map directly to C. Is Cython not a viable alternative to Julia?
I find it weird that they only present an old person's view. I understand the demographic of the newyorker, but this review may only make sense if you saw the movies in the order they came out in. But there's a huge number of both kids and adults for whom this is their first (or close to) star wars experience. I can't unsee the previous movies to get it that way, but many people haven't seen Chewie and Han yet, they don't know about the card game, they don't know why Han shooting first is significant in any way, and who will think it's obvious why Han is bragging about the distance not speed. Let's not forget to try to understand what will they see, while we complain about some issue with prequels.
Kinda similar. I stopped using FB since a year. I don't post anymore and check notifications like once a month. I realized you can't quit social cold turkey unless you have something to do in that time. Luckily for me, I started liking Twitter, Reddit and some PUBG.
I oppose this sort of thing and rather encourage forming a strong QA team to separate the fluff from the real deal.
This. Economists and decision theorists like Herb Simon have been actively modeling "bounded rationality" since the 70s, but well before that, literal interpretations of efficient market theory were limited to those with something to sell (mainly to regulators). There are limits to human (and corpory) rationality that kick in way before P?=NP.
Trying it out for the first time. Love this line in the docs:

"The only downside to this more advanced yet simpler undo system is that it was inspired by Vim."
A lot of the big franchise blockbusters these days suffer from the creative/producing team trying to fit 2 pounds of poop into a 1 pound bag.

I appreciated both Rogue 1 and Solo because they were straightforward, procedural action/adventure serials that let me feel like an 11 year old for a couple hours. They weren't trying to be high art, just well crafted.
If they could make sure they are killing only the guy they wanted, and act on that using pinpoint precision?

Uh, actually, now that you mentioned it, that would be even more scary.

That would be totally consequence free assassination device. At least the civilian casualties put some lid on the tendency to wantonly fly around in glorified RC planes murdering people.

The way I see it, if you are intending to assassinate a person (i.e. kill them not part of a military engagement) you could at least have the decency to have operators on the ground, with visual range to the target to pull the trigger. That's skin in the game. That's proper balancing of the calculus.

When you remove the chance of your own guys getting hurt, you are lowering the threshold to apply deadly force.

The whole point of due process and so on is to guarantee human rights for all and more importantly, put checks and balances on the actions of the political leaders.

When it suddenly becomes "ok" to kill people in automated fashion around the globe, that's a serious threat to all civil liberties regardless if one is a US citizen or not.

I think a free and open society is the only reason US has any credibility in claiming a moral high ground and things like eliminating targets on the disposition matrix [0] without due process erodes that high ground quite effectively.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Isn't the marriage strategy primarily possible for the opposite gender..the prettier one that is.
The Innovaters by Walter Issacson. It's literally about 20 biographies in one book, documenting the internet creation, and the computer, which meet in the middle in the 80s and 90s.

I can't recommended it enough of you are looking for stories of people and companies to how we got to where we are today.
Without taking a side here (and declaring for the sake of openness that I use Julia regularly and it is very helpful for the scientific work I do), I think it is worth noting that this was from 2014 (the language has moved forward greatly since then) and the inappropriately negative response described seems to be from 1 developer and not representative of the team.

Edit: To add, Julia is now my go-to language for any scientific/numeric programming and would be my number 1 suggestion to anyone else doing similar work.
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Are the movies underwhelming or was Star Wars in the past more amazing because you were younger?

For me there are two big positives to the earlier movies; the original trilogy was amazing because it was something new and it was my introduction into Star Wars.

The prequal trilogy was the movies I grew up with; less amazing than the original trilogy but what I absolutely loved about it was how it managed to give you an idea of the scale of things.

Like when in EP7 the new republic government solar system is instantly destroyed by starkiller base... who cares? Billions of people died in that moment, but none of them were introduced, the movie didnt allow us to develop a bond with them. The prequal trilogy did a better job in building a world around the main characters; they were part of something much bigger.

The new movies lack both; they don't do anything new and they don't build a world around the characters. It feels empty, and I couldn't care less for most of the cast if they make it or not.

Maybe its also the timeframe we live in; every movie needs to be full of action and movies rarely take the time to build up to something grand. I miss the much much much slower approach to movies like The Godfather had.
“RiP!: A Remix Manifesto“ by Brett Gaylor

About relationship between intellectual property and hackers
Core internet protocols like DNS over HTTP?

Yet another step closer to HTTP/IP, I guess. Can’t say I condone it.
Meetup.com. Seriously. A public meetup is probably used to getting the occasional random awkward person, and may have introductions built into its format. I've had good luck with smallish ones, anyway.
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