skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who presented this offer? Who are you demoing this to? I'm not asking for names here, just the nature of the entity: is it a sole practitioner legal representative, or is it a larger firm of some sort? Are they reputable? Is your technology or product sexy enough that it'd even warrant anonymous money in the first place?

IANAL (or even remotely an expert on this subject for that matter), but one would think reputable anonymous money would just use reputable firms as a conduit to avoid exactly this scenario.

Also if it's organized crime you're worried about, favorable terms right now absolutely do not matter. They have a long history of investing in businesses, only to later use that investment as leverage to systematically milk the business for all its assets. Your terms now are only worth as much as your ability to resist agreeing to unfavorable terms at a later time under potentially extreme duress.

I don't know if that's what's happening here (it probably isn't), but keep in mind that anonymous could also mean competing interests trying to tamper with your business in a legal manner, or any number of other bad-news scenarios. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Anonymous or not, personally I'd only touch money that you're able to verify as being highly reputable. Anything less isn't worth the potential hell that could ensue.
I wouldn’t talk someone out of working on solving the waste stream problem.
Paris is famous for its height restrictions inside La Defense, though it is all multi-unit housing, they are only 5 stories or so. Of course, this maintains lots of charm.
Yeah, though opnsense is trying to fix that.
There is an unofficial unix: URI scheme. Browsers don't support it but system clients sometimes do, for example nginx when configuring upstream groups as a reverse proxy[1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html
While a huge pain the ass, it could be possible for your local app server to create a [bridged] virtual host network that routes locally for your server. It utterly ridiculous to resort to this method though. Does anyone else have an idea of a workaround?
That comes with the implication that everything in classical physics is a solved problem though. Just because you can distill anything to meta-questions doesn't mean you should, or that it's (necessarily) a productive exercise for your application. You can build an engine without pondering the nature of iron atoms
1. Start networking to find a co-founder.

2. Think about problems in your life that you'd like to solve. Talk to potential customers to validate.

3.Transition slowly from one thing to the next. Use the golden handcuff money to fund the initial steps of your venture.
Besides personal experience of phenomena what other way do you express your philosphical inquiry in? The dictionary isnt the point here, postmodernism isnt concerned about that. Its actually a critique of exactly that.
It is also possible that, as I am heads down in a very tedious code review and coming up for air only to write random HN comments until my brain cools off, that I am just 100% wrong about this.

I am prepared to be comically wrong!
Some inside jobs but mostly they are the only ones worth hacking compared to some boring old architecture firm or something
Thanks. I'm the sysadmin at work, there are twelve employees, and none of them know much more than how to turn on a PC and use Office and Quickbooks. I'll definitely put it through its paces at home before bringing it to the office though.
It's not about agreeing on some dictionary definition.

The exercise is semantic in the sense that it seeks to describe and then connect sets of concepts to sets of beliefs in certain contexts.

So in that sense, it's analytically deep. However what tends to happen is that most casual students get to a certain depth in PM, say undergraduate level, give up on the complexity and then throw their hands up and say "nothing is real so I can create my won world that you need to conform to." That's the problem.
They provided a pretty clear example: actually talking to children is important to develop socialization and maturity (read: executive function). This is one area where machines absolutely cannot do the job anywhere near equally well - i.e., something that should involve human interaction.
Hah I've seen that in the man a few times but always feel too lazy to call it up. Next time I'll give it another go!
People who are downvoted get throttled and eventually cant post more than once every hour — thereby insuring the echo chamber becomes even louder.
There aren't things that "can result in" UB, though. The C code itself, before any compilation, is already undefined by the C spec.

For instance, the following code is not valid C code:

int a[2], b;
a[2] = 5;

The compiler is free to do anything it wants, because the standard has not defined what it does. It could stop. Most likely it will just overwrite whatever memory is after a[1] with 5, because that's easiest.

If you want the compiler to do something specific, you need to define it. In some cases the standard has language for otherwise-defined behavior that is carved out as undefined (e.g., strict aliasing), and it's easy to go "Never mind"; in some cases it does not (e.g., writing to a string literal). For these ones, the behavior needs to be defined.

Simply saying "Don't optimize this" is just saying "I'm not going to define the behavior, but don't implement it this way," which isn't a particularly useful way to define a standard (e.g., for the null checks example, is the compiler permitted to leave the null check in, but insert a segfault right before it?).
er saying lawmakers shouldn't interfere in corporate matters is like saying lawmakers shouldn't interfere in laws
Added to my to-read list; thanks! Do you have any other recommendations?
The best StarCraft Protoss pylon USB charger
What lesson would Alphabet be imparting to US Lawmakers by moving head quarters?
Buy Amazing Cars Only from Car Pace
Interview with Andy Hertzfeld, original Mac designer [video]
This seems interesting but the docs are thin and it's not clear what kind of framework and tooling it's intended to replace. Docs are especially thin re: workers. Also for all the talk of server speed I'd expect a benchmark against Falcon.
You can but philosophically you cant without creating some sort of frame of reference. Scientific discoveries are not philosphical truths they are something else.
It's not for everyone, but the Unix/BSD/Linux shell is still my favorite command invocation environment. Despite their simplicity, pipelines are a really handy way to pass data between programs when solving certain kinds problems. It also provides a cheap way of providing some parallel processing.
Theo de Raadt on why OpenBSD disabled hyperthreading support
But that's a dead end. In Francis Schaeffer's phrase, in postmodernism "language leads to language and nothing more" (emphasis added).
Tesla is also one of the best-positioned players to get into the market for grid energy storage, and unlike cars, there are no large incumbents who could show up and crush them. That's got to be worth something -- and while Panasonic did supply most of the technology, that is only relevant if we're discussing Elon's contribution to society, not Tesla's revenue prospects. Panasonic wouldn't have partnered with Tesla on the Gigafactory if they thought it was a stupid idea.
Regulating speech in Canadian Universities
Find an experienced cofounder who can hustle. Your technical depth and managerial experience will lend credibility to his or her efforts to secure funding.

Finding legitimate problems is not hard. Finding novel solution approaches is hard. Universities are often brimming with innovative solutions and innovators who could not sell beer to an alcoholic. Maybe find a great idea at a university and then you provide the engineering while the hustler does the fundraising and selling.
Previouslies: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unix%20as%20ide&sort=byPopular...
Our shop are heavy users of YAML, and we've sort of backed our way into a restricted subset of YAML. Some of them are config files, but others function closer to DSLs.

I have not yet taken a look at strictyaml, but after years of use the spec definitely needs YAML, The Good Parts Treatment.

One thing the author did not mention was how slow the out of box the Python YAML parser can be. This can be sped up with a call to libyaml, but then you lose the safe_load method.
Tautology yes - pointless - perhaps not.

It points out that there are many things which are automatable, but that the capability to automate things cannot be the decision driver of whether things should be automated.

At one end of the scale, ATMs replacing some bank tellers seems to have been widely accepted as OK. In the middle, self serve supermarket checkouts (here in .au at least) are saving staff costs for the supermarkets with the side effect of pushing shoplifting prevention and enforcement costs off to the local police instead of supermarket staff, which is not such a great automation outcome (unless you're the manager who got the bonus for reducing headcount costs at the supermarket). At the end alluded to in the discussion of this article, I think it's pretty clear that attempts to automate discipline of children is an abhorrent idea.
Don't forget a major reason for message accumulation: laziness. People often just don't bother to delete private messages. Especially true after long conversations because there might be stuff to keep in there somewhere.
I think of DNA encoding as analogous to video encoding supporting multiple reference frames with no keyframes (or 1 keyframe?)
> but if you come up with the right checklist and get the right buy-in, you do see fewer complications.

Bingo.

What the state of the research shows is that you have an active QI-focused culture and buy-in, checklists work over the medium long term, but not better than anything else. If you don’t have those things, the checklists do nothing after 3-6 months (a lot of studies hide this by rolling up the study period, but everyone in the field knows how rapidly the effect decays). I haven’t seen any meaningful data on them >2 years out, but let’s let that slide, out of pragmatism.

What that suggests is that checklists are irrelevant to this discussion. It’s just a lot harder to sell something as vague and nebulous as “creating a safety-focused and quality-driven culture” than it is to sell “checklists!”.
I think there is an understanding that the whole situation is less than ideal. I'm proposing a low risk method to transition from the current situation to a healthy one over the long term.

Having binary compatibility with the old version would be a great safety net while transitioning to another language. The main weakness of the author's plan, as the article explains it, is that they will be dealing with a lot of newly generated code at once (as well as an unknown number of unknowns). The plan would be fine if it was only ~10kloc, but ~500kloc is a very different beast!

Come to think about it... It would be wise to have a "Plan B" still written in D, but linked to the binary rather than transpiled. That way if anything goes wrong after deployment, users can temporarily use that rather than revert to Extended Pascal.

There probably isn't an easy solution for this problem. But maybe the author has found a silver bullet.

I brought up Python because it sounds like SARC is adjacent to scientific computing, and it is likely they'd be able to pick up physics/math/engineering majors that are already familiar with Python. Plus, I bet they'd be able to use some really good Python libraries (possibly replacing some of that 500kloc custom code with open source libraries).

The article makes it clear that naval architects (who are not expected to learn C++) are programming, so I doubt high performance computing is required in 100% of the code (at least I hope not). If there are genuine performance issues, tools alone won't save you, you need to hire programmers that know how to optimize (and they'll be fine writing C/C++ libraries with interfaces to Python).

I strongly suspect the justification that interpreted languages don't meet performance requirements is more ideological than empirical.

Besides, it's likely the existing binary will run faster than its transpiled descendant!
+1000

I couldn't agree more. I have a lot of hope for BEAMJIT (or anything that will make Erlang faster per clock cycle).

http://blog.erlang.org/My-OTP-21-Highlights/

After reading the link above, I get the sad feeling that a faster Erlang isn't anytime soon :(

With that being sad, Elixir has brought a whole new wave of people to the OTP community. Which excites me tremendously. I just hope a faster Erlang will arrive soon enough so that people needing to leave Ruby due to slowness have a good alternative with Erlang.
It would be a whole lot of effort for me to write a 3.000 word advertisement.
So it’s like bedrock in minecraft.
[note: this is my first post on the thread]

> "should be human interactions" is a meaningless standard

What irony! The entire concept is that there is a place for real human judgments and not just rigid programs/rules!

What "should be human interactions" is not meaningless. It means: there should be humans judging what should be left to human judgment. It's an assertion that there ARE things that shouldn't be just standards we blindly follow.

It wasn't saying any human interaction automatically matters. Tasks where a human would just follow rigid protocol are ones that should be automated…
Now I wish dart had nullability support.
I love YAML, thanks for creating it, it's saved me a lot of time over the years.
Storing this data enables a wide range of easily-foreseeable negative consequences, and it sends a clear message that school administrations do not trust their students. In that light, we could very easily see the simple act of storing it in the first place as problematic; we could even see the act of thinking seriously about storing it as problematic.

Taking your example, what message does that send to a kid if they need to be fingerprinted just to eat lunch? Sending that message is, IMHO, extremely problematic.
How would you run a local HTTPS server without the private key?
What would happen if you had a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
Okay, but once they work near-flawlessly they're okay??
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350278
I agree that lack of ops / execution experience is a potential concern, but for me the characteristics that make me most positive are 1) ability to connect with a wide audience of physicians and 2) courage: a willingness to fight the "powers that be" and try things that probably won't work, as long as you get enough shots on goal to do something that does (not sure how courageous he is but his willingness to put himself out there in ways that most docs dont do is encouraging). Rushika Fernandopoulle at Iora has these qualities and they seem to make up for his lack of healthcare ops experience (though I dont know that his model is sustainable / scalable enough)

I think these are important because my hypothesis is that the way to tackle the monopoly issue is by reversing the trend of hospital consolidation and purchasing of independent providers, and putting more power in the hands of physicians rather than health systems or payers. But to do that you need to make being an independent physician feasible again, and to learn how to do that you need to connect with a lot of physicians and then be in a position to create services and products to help them become independent (probably by getting payers to pay independent docs more / reducing auth and other burdens; maybe this company has the heft to do so). I don't know that Atul Gawande's the perfect person for that, but I know that anyone who has run a hospital or payer is probably not right
You sure are difficult. There is a non-trivial set of text that is both valid JSON and a valid python dict. Many people would consider the two very similar.
Couldn't the web app also verify that the localhost.example.com domain resolves to 127.0.0.1 before attempting a connection?
The mobile app (or web browser) are on the same network (subnet) as the hardware device. There is no need for NAT or anything else. Zeroconf is used for discovery.

There is little threat in most home networks, but I still prefer using SSL. If we only had to support the mobile app then we could implement a solution (eg ssh style trust on first use with self signed certificates). However we also have to support regular browsers which constrains us to standard protocols and security.
> This is one area where machines absolutely cannot do the job anywhere near equally well

Citation needed. You're neglecting the fact that there are millions of under-interacted kids in the world. Providing a cheap source of interaction for them could be extremely valuable. Just saying "their parents/teachers/whoever should do it" does absolutely nothing to solve the problem. Building them a robot does.
It's a small VC, but with a public and seemingly legit appearance incl. portfolio references. Nothing crazy, can't say/see much about reputation, but seems legit. Especially if keeping their network confidential is a priority, seems consistent.

And I definitely don't worry about this as criminal energy towards me, but rather financially. I can't see anything that would be wrong, and also the legal tampering doesn't worry me too much as our team would still remain in control, but as you said...If it's too good to be true, it probably is. I just can't find the poop, and am looking for other experiences to help me.
>What is with the obsession with "shorts"? I've never seen so much over-reaction to short selling in my life.

I have a question for you.

But first there is so much attention lately on Tesla shorters because they bet 10 billion on Tesla stock going down, and instead it went up, and they are about to all get wiped out.

And because inspite of the fact that Tesla is overcoming its production problems, and SpaceX is going great, the media has been flooded with stories lately about how Musk is a fraud, he is losing his mind, and Tesla is about to go bankrupt, and so many people reasonably believe the shorters are trying to save themselves from disaster by attacking Musk.

Now here is the question. Do you believe the Tesla shorters were smart when they made a prediction Tesla stock was going to go down?
If you think of it in terms of archives and whether you want to "extract" into the current directory, or a new directory within the current one; that might help.

rsync source destination will plonk the entire source directory and put it inside destination as a neat bundle.

rsync source/ destination will take the contents of source (but not the directory source itself) and plonk it in destination

I found the info page a little dry but it does describe it succintly:

rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo

For some reason though, my head freaks out when it sees "foo" and "bar", but all they're saying is that it does the same thing.

If in doubt though, just chuck everything into the destination ~/temp/ or ~/asdf/ and sort it out later.

To be honest though, most of the time I just use fish shell's autosuggestions to guide me along.
Build custom integrations to train AI
Get a hearing test, you might have early onset tinnitus.
I would assume tehGoog.
Just to make it hard to find low impact sites that aren't AMP.
I call a potato a potato. (In my opinion,) it's a remake. :-)
Since nobody has mentioned it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Sandia to Install First Petascale Supercomputer Powered by ARM Processors
Beats the hell out of me. I didn't make the decision, and objected as strongly as I could.
A similar debate goes on in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or neuropsychology/neurophysiology: can cognitive phenomena--like emotion, learning, memory, affect, etc--be localized in the brain? can fMRI solve this localization-distribution issue?

Whatever we have known so far, early phases of the input system (sensory) and later phases of the output system (motor) can be localized. Even there is an overlap between the input and the output system.
For some reason, this comment, by another user, was killed: "I suspect they're not running campaigns to stop public funding of roadways though, as it's a subsidy to their business.
As someone who lives in a commuter town and is more libertarian than most libertarians, I'd happily pay an extra couple percent in sales taxes just for decent pedestrian access to the city.

If taxes are going to be spent on transit projects then I'd like enough sidewalks that I'm able to eschew public or private motorized transit all together."
Penguin Computing Sold to Holding Company
No. There's a sizeable contingent of people who will call out specific ideas as being "obviously BS", but who lack the insight to realize the dissonance with their mentality of "fake it till you make it". People who actually have a general answer for "when not to fake it, and give up instead" are the extreme exception.
Great question. More details coming out soon on our mailing list and Twitter---and there's so many factors to consider---but in short, Relica:

- is designed for consumers who are not technically skilled

- works on Linux and BSD (I don't think Arq does)

- offers redundant cloud storage with up to 5 providers, and requires only a single upload of the data as compared to uploading it 5 times

- allows you to backup to local disk, friends' computers (or your own) running Relica (with authorization of course), or the cloud, which is totally managed by us so non-technical users can use it

Relica also does client-side encryption and deduplication, of course. Backups can also be restored directly with restic (open source), without requiring a reliance on Relica.

Basically, Relica is a good balance of "user-friendly" combined with features for power users.
I'm honestly failing to see that. Maybe at some point, but sampling the front page ...

All the articles on the front page have 20 or less comments. Of those, at least two thirds of those comments are single sentences. "High quality discourse"?

I see things like this:

https://www.metafilter.com/174818/We-have-to-articulate-ours...

"Hahaha. YES. Time to revolutionize my voicemail."

"But why?"

"We truly live in the future.

Edit: I hate you all."

"Don't we all want a big red drama knob, really?"

https://www.metafilter.com/174819/Dont-accessorize-with-horn...

"Ah, yes that definitely makes sense, thank you!"

"This will really change the aesthetic of heavy metal album art."

"Decorating, that's where I'm a Viking!"

"Disappointing lack of drinking mugs made out of your enemy's skull."
That's not what the article is saying. It's not that they leave the shallow water for safety, it's that we remove the ones in the shallow water with hooks.
"Yeah, and nobody writes letters anymore!" - Grandpa

"Are you kidding? Too many people write things down, it causes forgetfulness." - Socrates

I don't see what value a 2 minute conversation with a human who is essentially following a script and pressing the same buttons on their end that you could have pushed on yours has. Despite the audio portion of the human's voice, this is still an extremely shallow form of human interaction. You are better off saving the time and having a more meaningful connection with someone else later.
Which is IMHO why the simplistic upvote / downvote / likes / retweet system is one of the major faults of most social networks. It encourages groupthink and tribalism and discourages engagement with other opinions and perspectives. (EG: Don't like an opinion or statement? Just downvote. Don't even try to engage or understand where the other person is coming from.)
The only search engine in town. You already know its name.
I've always found the term "postmodern" amusing, it's kind of like the way we refer to spandex, tinfoil spacesuits, blinkenlights computers and cardboard-box robots as "futuristic".
Sponsoring McAfee is prolly cheaper than a trip to Everest to kill a sherpa. Like.