skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then this data must be encrypted.

And since it would be an obvious security risk to allow bad guys (ie foreigners) to access this data then none US aircraft couldn't be allowed to fly in the same airspace as non-Us aircraft. So US aircraft couldn't be allowed to fly abroad and foreign aircraft couldn't be allowed in the US.

Operation complete isolation (as the proposal is known) would greatly increase security.
The pictures were of Florida.
Bought the book because of this comment. I'm yet to read it though.
I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday
First of all, there's a difference between "you're being an asshole" and "you're an asshole." "Being an asshole" is a transient state of doing something asshole-like. Even the best people do this at times. I chose the term "being an asshole" carefully.

> Thank you for calling me an asshole for not agreeing with you.

I don't think disagreeing with me makes someone an asshole. I think that some actions, which may or may not stem from differing beliefs, are asshole-like. If you believe that he's still a woman, fine. But if you refuse to respect him enough to call him "he" even though that's what he considers himself and wants to be called (whether or not you agree that he's male), you're being an asshole.

Especially because being transgendered is extremely hard. In most parts of the US, it's now socially acceptable to be gay. Some people will still have hangups, you'll still face some hostility, etc. but it's not where near as bad as it used to be. Transgendered people are still basically where gay people were 40 years ago. Calling them by one pronoun when they prefer the other just adds to their feeling that society doesn't accept them.

So you're not only disrespecting their preferences, you're disrespecting a preference that's related to an issue where they've faced a lot of strife.

> Thank you for calling me an asshole for thinking that drugs and cosmetic surgery do not make the person, the person just is.

Drugs and cosmetic surgery don't make the person. But neither does the body. If someone who physically is a woman in every way and hasn't even started taking testosterone yet tells you that he is transgendered and considers himself a man, use male pronouns to refer to him as well.
How a Silicon Valley Investor Views a Post-Facebook World
I am definitely no GUI Guru, but it seems like it could use color or lines or something to differentiate between different sections especially on the portfolio page.
I don't think so, for a few reasons:

- Loyalty. I'm still using Groupon. I haven't joined with anything else and have bought from them a time or two.

- Lazyness. I would not go to another site to sell my Groupon deal. It just isn't worth my time. I'll take the loss.

- Expensive. $0.99 + 8% of sale? No.

- Poor business model. They are betting that there are a load of people needing to offload Groupon, etc. deals? Odds are those people will just give them to someone else or sell them themselves to someone they know. While there is a need for this, I am sure that it just wouldn't be enough to sustain the effort/time required to handle support, site maintenance, etc.
Absolutely they can, that is the beauty of America.
If you're really good you're probably worth twice that. Considering how lousy so many developers are who are routinely paid $80K, there is every reason why paying someone with solid experience and high productivity $200K+ would be a very smart thing to do.
US is rare in that it declares the right to tax its citizens' income wherever they live. Most countries don't do that.
http://apcasts.com/javaIO-Println/index.html
Verizon to refund up to $90 M in bogus data charges
Ruby's Sherlock Holmes
The Gates Foundation: Giving Away A Fortune
My musical background before 5 months ago consisted of one lesson each of piano and guitar over 10 years ago and that's it, so basically nothing.

But I don't think people give enough credit to listening music a lot to develop your ears.

But in terms of your typical musical background, about 5 months ago I threw myself into reading music theory and sound engineering books like crazy whenever I could and have been hooked ever since.
That scene with Parker was one of my favorite in the movie. I liked how after telling Roy's story to Mark and then talking about how Facebook was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and seemingly after he was done talking about Roy, he tossed out the line, "The water under the Golden Gate bridge is cold." Awesome line. Then not a minute later he told Mark that he wanted him to be able to say, "I'm CEO, bitch."

Regardless of whatever imperfections the man may have had, he clearly knew how to motivate people. As portrayed in the movie, he seemed to have a powerful effect on Mark and the rest of the Facebook crew.
Wow!

Way to undermine the contributions of the AI community.

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing have already made great sides.

Search, recommendation engines and automated translations are all AI.

Disease prediction/diagnosis has been pretty hot for a while now. Market for predictions in Analytics is picking up rapidly and there's a lot of focus there.

Reinforcement Learning is playing huge role in modern Robotics.

Sentiment analysis i.e. judging sentiments of authors from text is pretty hot.

DB community has long been working with AI community in developing semantic storage systems. Work on adaptive systems is also seeing a comeback.

I really doubt any piece of major equipment today is built without AI.

The part which I did like about your response is that reading journals is a great way to learn more about AI stuff.
So what would this person be 100 years ago? Without these options of drugs and cosmetics, that person would have to deal with they way that they were born. They would have to live life as the person that they were born. They are not fixing anything by taking drugs or cosmetics, they are hiding from the underlying problems of self-identity. You going along with the charade only complicates the problem of the person not actualizing the situation that they are in and dealing with it.

I offered no bigotry, but I sure received it.
I have been doing the same thing since 2001. In the UK, USA, Italy, Australia, switzerland.
I am now in southern california
I am a us citizen
but if you are a foreigner you can easily and within 2 months buy yourself a place in the USA by getting a E2 Visa - Invest $120K in your own viable business (investments include your salary) and you are in!
The field is most certainly not dead. Mass media (movies, books, etc) over the last 60 years or so has presented a vary narrow vision of "A.I"; a vision of what are more or less people that happen to be in synthetic versions of the old flesh and bone varieties, that are normally repressed and enslaved or trying to kill the carbon-bags for some faulty reason or another.

That vision has basically made the term Artificial Intelligence become yet another meaningless marketing term.

The concept of A.I. is like the concept of organic chemistry. There are vast sub-disciplines that are loosely collected under the term "organic chemistry" because they more or less all involve carbon atoms at some point. A.I is like this as well, because there are many, many sub-disciplines and they all involve the concept of systems that are capable of "learning".

So, my first recommendation is to just forget any preconceptions of "Artificial Intelligence" because its not something that really exists, just like Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator does not have what cows crave.

What does exist is this vast field of scientific, practical, and commercial activity involving learning systems. These systems are typically closely tied to computation, aka hardware or software, but not all. Some work is done in biology and some in organic chemistry (interesting cross connection there).

Another preconception to forget is that "A.I" died in the 80's and is irrelevant today. What nearly all people who are even loosely familiar with the term, beyond killer robots from the Future or lonely little robot boys with mommy issues, is that A.I. has no part in their lives. The truth is that it has been all around us for many years.

The timely delivery of your new shoes from Zappos or buying oranges in the winter: shipping. Tens of thousands of planes in the air at any moment: transportation. The computer chips that are in your computer or handheld that you are reading this on: computing (simulated annealing, fascinating!). Millisecond stock trades: the economy. Automated stellar classification: astronomy. The list goes on.

So once you put aside your preconceptions for a bit, start asking what kinds of fields you're really interested and then looking at how learning systems are influencing them. Sometimes you will be surprised to learn that what might be classically called "A.I" has utterly invaded your favorite field and that the people who work in it are entirely unaware that the learning systems they're using might even be considered "A.I".
"in practice that usually reduces to doing what you prefer"

Unless a set of investors with board control want to sell and the Founder/CEO does not. They can then sack the CEO and replace them with a Yes person. Right?
Basically, as was learned in the early 2000's, don't take a job for the options.

This is not good advice. Options can be -- and often are -- a great investment, amazing compensation for taking a risk with a job at a startup. Of course it's wrong to think that an option as money in the bank. It's equally wrong to think that they're worth nothing, to not carefully consider them as part of joining a new startup, etc.
Move over Silicon Valley, here comes.....Buffalo.
I have my chartered finanial analyst (CFA) designation and the ti-ba II+ is the only calculator allowed for the 3 years of exams required to get the designation. It is a very simple device and this lock-in is the only way I would have paid $65 for each of the three I own.
> Way to undermine the contributions of the AI community.

Apparently.

I think I know a fair amount about research in general, but not, it appears, much about the current state of A.I. research.
I'm turning 30 tomorrow so I figured I'd make something birthday related. A friend of mine came up with the idea and I coded it all up. The frosting is generated dynamically using the PHP GD library and a lot of image convolution matrices. And if you're wondering, yes the web 2.0 logo and cheesy graphics are intentional. I thought it would be more fun this way.
A lot of libertarians, interestingly, disagree on this point, though there's a split between the more pro-federalist and less federalist libertarians. Many of the less federalist ones, though, want to revive a stronger federal constitution that preempts state power, especially via reviving the substantive due process doctrine that Lochner used to find a federal "freedom of contract" that would override state labor laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_v._New_York).
Do you think the Federal Government has the power to regulate the content of any kind of contract between individuals?

Do you think the Federal Government should have the power to regulate the content of any kind of contract between individuals?
If you agree that it doesn't say the government can, then it can't by default.

The Constitution specifically enumerates the classes of laws that Congress can pass. All other powers are reserved for the states.

I'm not a strict constructionist by any means (and I'm personally glad that we've set some shady precedents of the Commerce Clause and Necessary & Proper Clause allowing practically anything), but the Constitution makes it clear that unless a power is specifically given to the Federal Government, the Federal Government can't do it.
Awesome! I made my first cake:
http://cakesy.com/886ed73c0

The chocolate side-on shot of the cake makes for more realistic cakes from my trial. The head-on cakes' writing doesn't look real at all.
Irrelevant. The Constitution is a living document, and we have the ability via representatives to rewrite the rules of our social contract, including Constitutional Amendments.
Oh boy. I was wondering how long before the jokes started.
Bigotry? What is your definition of bigotry that you think any response you've received is bigoted?

As to what they would've done 100 years ago, how is that in any way relevant? This isn't "hiding" any issues--transsexuality is a medically diagnosable condition, not just a "self-identity" problem that they are "hiding from," and to imply otherwise is a huge insult to transsexuals.
The cache coherency protocols do not scale as nicely as explicit message passing protocols, in terms of area/power.
Is this idea of a "Kata" commonplace? I rather like it...
I'd say that someone with the experience and interest that the author had would be exactly the type of person I'd like to interview for the Hadoop opening at Mozilla.
Finding someone who is always looking for new things to learn and ways to do so is unfortunately rare.
Monte Carlo AIXI: http://www.vetta.org/2009/09/monte-carlo-aixi/. It's an approximation of the optimal-but-uncomputable AIXI agent. Apparently it learned to play a Pacman variant without being told the rules in advance.
That's pretty much what the author describes, actually.
This person would have been a man just as much, regardless of whether he would have had to live his life in a woman's body. Your argument is that drugs and cosmetic surgery change nothing about a person's true identity, and that's true. The thing is, he can fix some of his self-identity problems by undergoing a sex change. Like jackowayed says, the reality is that there are transgendered people who are not happy with their sex at birth, just as there are gays who love men instead of women and bisexuals who are attracted to people of both sexes. Your perception of what's normal and acceptable doesn't change who people really are.
No. You can expect to double that if you're at the top of your game. It all depends on the company: those hiring top talent will start at ~$100k.
Yup, there's a reason it used to be "The Facebook" and is now just "Facebook."
Also, a lot of today's robotics (like anything from anybots, or from Andrew Ng's group at stanford) would be scary AI a few years ago.

In this sense AI can be seen to be similar to philosophy.
Customers=Currency So by proxy, anything that attracts the customer is currency. What attracts the customer is what us relevant to the user.
How do you guys deal with re-imaging a laptop in case the old one was lost? Do you keep an image online somewhere?
I live here in A2 as well (have for a few years now). My office is just across the hall (in the same building) as the Techbrewery, and we very much participate in Beer:30 every Friday.

I've actually met up with a few people here on HN, and I know many many more who are HN readers, but not really commenters. If anyone is interested in having a cozy HN meetup in A2, contact me via email and I'd be happy to set it up.
I have been using www.onlinejobs.ph to find VAs. My criteria are; able to speak basic English and not more than USD$5/hr. I does take up quite a while to find the right person, at the end of the day it's worth it.
You could try working in finance. Ideal job is to work as a developer on a trading desk. You probably won't get much more as a base salary, but you can get a bonus ~ 70% of your base. But it is stressful.

you need to work on the trading desk though, the closer to the money you are, the more $$ you make.
Hi Yoseph,

I really like what you are doing. The site design is very clean. Can I ask where you are getting your data?
In re word wrap, see: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2010002_lobjects.pdf
When I first heard about it, I thought that USCYBERCOM would end up becoming another branch of the U.S. military vs. the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force each getting their own. I could see them thinking that "the net" is just another type of terrain/environment for warfare. I don't think it is a bad idea to have the knowledge and resources in more places (after all, each branch has aviation, etc.), but I'm still surprised.

USCYBERCOM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command ) is composed of:

- Army Forces Cyber Command (Army)

http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/10/01/46012-army-establishes-...

- Fleet Cyber Command / United States Tenth Fleet (Navy)

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=50954

- 24th Air Force (Air Force)

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123163831

- United States Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (Marine Corps)

http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/pages/news/stories/2010/jan/cybe...
This is maybe a little extreme, but I take classes in stone-age wilderness survival. There's something deeply primal about knowing skills that go back roughly a million years: what plants to eat, how to bang the rocks together and make fire without matches. It's a nice counterpoint to the high-tech stuff I do for a living, and it helps kick my right brain back into gear when I've been immersed in logic too long.
The amount of equity the new cofounder receives should be such that the value of Joe's equity is substantially greater after the split than before.

I don't think etiquette/precedent is the important issue.
Headlines are everything. "The Big Picture: Human Landscapes in SW Florida" is a lot more cryptic and boring than "Aerial Footage: Portrait of a Housing Bust".

Also, I suspect that on weekdays, submissions and voting traffic are higher. That means more votes are required to reach the front page, and less time is spent on page one of 'new' to earn those votes.
Absolutely. I found that speech very inspirational. I'm aware that founding a startup isn't really like that (not usually, at least), but it still threw some coals on the fire.
A couple hundred years ago, you probably would've had to live with the childhood infection that would lead to your untimely demise. Why did you insist on taking drugs to avoid your destiny?

You seem to think that it's in this person's best interests to refer to him using whatever gender correlates most closely with his chromosomes, but I'm not sure what makes you think you know what the best way to handle such self-identity issues is. Are you a psychologist?
Well I have a CS degree, and I value it quite a bit, but honestly it's a second order concern in industry. The first thing is, can you write and debug code in a production environment? This is something that university just doesn't teach you; as long as you have the intelligence to understand the theory, the professors will prod you in the right direction on the assignments.

Now, once you can code your way out of a paper bag, then the question is do you have the CSCI fundamentals to apply the best known solutions to difficult problems. Facebook has their pick of the litter, so it makes sense that they might spend more time validating CSCI knowledge, but for most companies that are hiring this would be a very poor metric to go by.
I build Magic: The Gathering decks. It's basically like writing a program where the order of execution of the instructions is randomized.
8-Button StarCraft lets the AI take care of the complexity
While we're at it, I'm pretty sure this one is obligatory: http://cakesy.com/886e854a5

The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better? Still, very neat toy.
I believe it is not so much that some libertarians are pro-federalist while others are less federalist. It is that most libertarians recognize that if the federal government was operating within the bounds of the constitution (that is, legally) then states would have much more power relatively, and that this is a good thing. All libertarians also, though, recognize that individual rights do exist, as this is the basis of libertarianism.

The constitution doesn't create any rights, it only contains prohibitions on the trampling of various rights. The Preamble of the Bill of Rights makes this clear. According to the constitution, individual rights pre-exist the creation of the constitution, and the BoR is merely there to make doubly sure that the government knows it is not given license to violate them.

Libertarians (generally) hold the view that the states do not have such a license either, as being rights, there is no situation (other than consensual explicit agreement) whereby they can be legitimately violated.

So, Libertarians may disagree on whether the constitution is a good document or not, but generally agree that it would be a better government than we have now.

To quote Lysander Spooner: Either the constitution has authorized the government we have now, or it has failed to prevent it.

Like Lysander, I believe libertarians see the constitution as a failed document. I don't think there are Federalist libertarians-- in fact, calling someone a "hamiltonian" is an insult in some libertarian circles.

(None of this is to say that you're wrong, but that you presented me an opportunity to expound on this since many people seem to be confused by libertarian positions. At worst I think you and I may disagree on semantics.)
What is load exactly? What does it mean? Discussions on threads and processes. How can two processes communicate with one another?
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I was not prepared for some of these questions, since some of these questions were Computer Science fundamental.

I enjoyed this article, and I rooted for the author to get the job, but I was somewhat confused by this part of the article. Perhaps the questions he mentioned weren't what he considered to be "Computer Science fundamental", but were there just for flavor. The questions mentioned seem more like Unix fundamental -- the load one in particular I ask almost every time I interview a sysadmin.
Yes, we have a lot of casual HN readers who live in A2. We have a lot of good events here, mainly aimed at startups, but many focus on hacking as well.

We have the monthly A2NewTech, which jerf mentioned below. This one is really good. We also have events such as Coffeehouse Coders every wednesday downtown, Mobile Mondays once a month, LA2M (Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing) weekly, and lots of events held by SPARK and NEF (see http://www.annarborusa.org/ for info about most of the events).
Companies - even ones that use the "false negative is better than false positive" heuristic - would also rather that you ask enough questions and adapt them to the candidates background so that you can rule out "false" anything.

This can work if you really are an expert at something but just got a bad interviewer or bad interview question. The tricky part is that you have to be an expert at something. I wasn't really seeing this from the author's blog post - experts typically wouldn't go for a bunch of blog articles and YouTube videos to learn more than a cursory overview, they'd look for the source of existing open-source libraries and implement a couple projects on their own.