skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting.

The one thing tech has kind of changed is that you can participate in social circles without necessarily having the spending power to physically participate in (the activities of) those same circles.

Having lived in developing nations and in countries with struggling economies, I find the amount of free or cheap things to do increases greatly making it really hard to be left out (due to lack of money).

So basically the 'no network effect' may be financially-based or just based on preference.
It's not just arbitrary examples, there is reasoning behind it. You can look at humans building spaceships and using tools and demonstrating understanding of abstract concepts. There are a number of tests you could do that would confirm something is intelligent like looking for any of those things.

Some rough and imperfect, but still useful, definitions of intelligence could be the ability to make good predictions based on past data, the ability to solve optimization problems well, and learning ability.
It's always been enabled, just not relayed (but if you get it in a block, it's valid). But for the last year it's been relay-enabled as well.
It should be:

"The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog."

Foxes are red.

Dogs are brown.

The addition of the word "red" doesn't harm the complete use of the alphabet.
For our highly unstructured, untyped, non relational artefacts? It'd be fairly impossible to use it as a datastore in this particular case, and regardless, it would provide little to no speed increase over our current application, as the limiting factor is the CPU cost of the map function.
Bitcoin not being associated with a corporation is a feature
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The scenario you describe is precisely why I like G+'s circles; every post and every photo shared is shared with a specific subset of my contacts. The vast majority of my posts on G+ are targeted at only a fraction of my friends.
ls -al | gzip -c | tee out.gz | gzip -dc
Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool.
This. If, somehow, an alternative currency were to suddenly, be accessible anywhere with Square (just as an example of some single vendor that could make altcoins usable at thousands of vendors), it'd be a major reason for people to choose that currency over Bitcoin. It would mean you could buy lunch at a couple dozen places in your home town, pay for services, go see a show, etc. all with your altcoin. Square isn't used in a high percentage of places, but it's in use at a lot more places than Bitcoin. If they transparently added some sort of alternative currency support, it would change the landscape.
Yes, but Bitstamp is very dynamic. I guess they just maintain balances with Bitstamp now and their USD balance went down close to $0, but maybe later they or their customers sold coins, which restored the USD balance. With this volatility, I've seen jumps of 5% up and down in seconds.
That proves only that a sucker is willing to pay $3 for it.
Before I ditched facebook I got really good at using 'Adblock Plus Select an element to hide'.

After my class reunion I thought to myself, 'Do I really care about Mary's crafts, Farmville, and do I need people I hate prying into my private life?'.

So I am currently facebookless, lindedinless, & twitterless and don't miss the noise for a second.
You do but privacy policies and what who can see on whose time line keeps changing. Timelines haven't always been a thing either. So if you've used facebook for a while, the incoherent and mercurial scope of information prevents you from wanting to share anything that could be misinterpreted by anyone. And you have to assume that everything will be scraped somewhere for all of eternity.
> Meanwhile, left-wing students steeped in Political Correctness regularly attempt to shut down and silence speakers that offend them. Recently students at Brown University shouted down a former NYC police commissioner[2] that came to speak at the campus, calling him a "racist" in response to NYC's very successful stop-and-frisk policy designed to get illegal guns off the street.

Its really clear you have very little background on stop and frisk and crime in NYC in general. For the last few decades, violent crime has been a decline in NYC, predating stop and frisk. Stop and frisk has not been demonstrated to be a key factor in that decline. Stop and frisk has been shown to be 2 things: ineffective and racist. Non white people get stopped at extremely high rates and actual stop and frisk stops that uncover an illegal weapon is very low. Ray Kelly was a key proponent of stop and frisk and in suppressing and attempting to hide the statistical data about stop and frisk that clearly shows it is a racist policy that seeks to harass black and hispanic people in NYC.

> It used to be said that the antidote to bad speech was more speech. Now, the PC lynch mob is feeling its power, since its members know that university administrators will not discipline progressives.

People are under no obligation to let Ray Kelly speak when the police force he oversaw actively attacked and dismantled your community, and sent to prison or killed your neighbors and family.
Conveying respect is not a fashion. The fashions are in who you're supposed to respect and how you're supposed to show it.

You can read more about this here:

http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Ok, last try to explain. Here is an examle:

Do people who say that Bradley Manning is a woman call for some magic event that turned him into one or for clouded perception? Do you know?

From what I know they say he is a woman because he wants to be one. No magic. No perception distortion.
So does that mean Google should not even experiment with the idea, just because nobody else has published data about it yet? Why does there need to be "proof"? It is Google's choice, just like it is your choice to use Google products.
I bet you could...
I've been trying out a few different options in this space. I'm doing work with Docker, and in certain scenarios I'd like my containers to 'learn' their configuration at startup. I initially spent some time trying out Etcd which came close to fitting the bill, then Redis, then I just packed it all in and rolled a rest-service for them to talk to (the config data was pretty small).

My particular need has come close to disappearing since the advent of Docker linking, but linking doesn't help when containers have an unscheduled restart. If one of your app's dependencies (ie database container) IP has changed post-startup, you need a way for your app to learning about it. That's where I see the value of things like Etcd and HostDB.
Good point. There's the genius of the original Google Search experience versus the new horrendous "three to five floating javascript toolbars taking up 50% of the screen" Google+ pages with unreadable URLs.

"Which post? Oh, post 43278947329849783223? Yeah, I liked that one too."
Bitcoin corrects about 20% over last 24 hours
http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD

Dropped down almost 30%, bounced back up a bit, still down about 15-20%
Experiences like this led me to leave Facebook, then LinkedIn, a while ago. I haven't deleted my Google+ account only because laziness and fear of an experience like the article's author prevent me from going to the site. People describe leaving as trendy, as if leaving had something to do with other people as opposed to the sites' own repellent behavior. For me leaving was easy and fun -- http://joshuaspodek.com/leaving-facebook-easy-and-fun. Experience has unequivocally shown me my life is better without them.

I have a feeling the market forces forcing Google, Facebook, et al into an arms race after your privacy and personal life will motivate people to leave more and more in favor of small players that do one thing well.

I expect people here will see the writing on the wall first that the sooner you get out the better. Yes, social networks have benefits, but they have costs too.

Deleting Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc accounts improves your life. Deleting them earlier improves your life earlier.
Don't be silly, even "genuine altruism" is still at best self-serving in the end.

"I do this good thing for you because it makes me feel better about my contribution to the world".

Likewise when the U.S. engaged in the Marshall Plan way back when, there were very obvious ulterior motives for the U.S. (a bulwark against Communist spread, expansion of the U.S. economy to supply our Western European allies, etc.), but that didn't invalidate the actual physical assistance rendered either.
It is something I've thought a lot about and wondered. You consistently see "hip" short names come out of YC for example. Sometimes it's just a word with "ly" attached to it, sometimes it's the concatenation of two short words. Rarely do I see multiword names or traditional, older style names with "the" or "co"/"company".

So I think the answer is probably more nuanced than "as long as it's not a name that is blatantly awful" like the one you suggested.
I've seen sparks go against the wind, at least on a small scale. Sparks can be launched pretty far when the burning wood falls and breaks apart.
Ruby is strongly typed. I am not sure that's static or dynamic, but regardless of how it is implemented, Ruby lacks ability to offer type information to code-writing level toolsets because it doesn't force retaining of type information on field and function parameters.

So regardless of whatever actually happens, to the tools, each Ruby function is just all dealing with unknown type parameter objects.

As a conclusion, Ruby has type, but has no way to utilize it. I think any other popular scripting language - such as Python, JS, Lua… are in same situation. V8 does speculative strong dynamic typing, but the those generated informations are completely useless to code-writing level tools.
It pays my neighbour who is a nurse to go and work in Syria. It doesn't get much more direct than that.
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Wow. This is among the worst political articles I've ever seen posted here; its lede is literally about a cable soap opera about the CIA, and its premise is that the US shares a memetic heritage with other "paranoid" democracies like Israel and South Africa. Absent is any real comparison to the democracies of Europe, or for that matter any analysis of US democracy that wouldn't be available to a US high school sophomore sitting on his couch. That's because it's not actually analysis, but rather a rageview-generating provocation gussied up as one.

How did this get voted up onto the front page? Are people forgetting the flag button?
I believe that you could build a successful business like that, if you took on the name appropriately. Self-deprecating names do have some history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-a-Wreck
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I'm honestly not sure how your email address would be leaked, vanity URLs are name-based and at least one of the reasons Plus uses ID strings was in order to prevent leaking any account details through the URL. I'm sorry that other people are figuring it out, that sucks. If you remember what happened and think that G+ has had a hand in the leakage, please feel free to ping me (my URL is in my profile) and I'll try to follow it up.

Personally I do feel that G+ has done a good job at communicating to users the privacy they do and don't have, as the ACLs were baked in at the beginning. I think users have had the possibility to be confused when data is being used outside the http://plus.google.com domain, like Shared Endorsements and the YouTube comments, as this opens up the worry ACLs are being violated. I think there's more work that can be done to communicate that this hasn't happened, such as putting the "Shared (publicly|privately)" on YouTube comments so you can see why those are there.
Point taken. I'm out
Can't. .com domain name is taken ;)
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Image restoration, OCR, face detection, full text indexing. Mostly just a parallel job scheduler.
As many other people have said it depends on what you want to do. You should choose a language for a project based on the project.

With that being said there are a lot of jobs available for programmers who know java, c++, and .net. If you want to do desktop developement work i would suggest being compitent in those languages but if you want to do web dev work you should probably skip those languages for the time being and focus on languages that are better suited for that domain.
Sure it matters.

I believe if you are developing something that the market is dying for the name and the marketing matters less; else make sure you don't screw that up.
20 typhoons a year is a lot of typhoons! How did this land (through the course of history) ever become habitable? Or have the typhoons been increasing in frequency in the recent past?
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For other readers, here's a comparison of these plans.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-insurance/articl...
Google is starting to collapse under its own weight, as all behemoths eventually do.
Brazil has the world’s weirdest carbon footprint
Intelligence is not magic, and in some way almost definitely scales with computing power.

For instance, if you have infinite computing power, you just have to dovetail over every possible Turing Machine until one of them "wakes up" and does AI-y things. Yes, there are in fact real approaches based on a more sophisticated version of such a Universal Search.

In fact, we routinely make use of machine-learning algorithms that are "smarter than a human" in particular narrow domains. Are they smarter than a human at general intelligence, of the kind necessary to start looking more like a scifi "AI" than a cheap trick? No, but they are an indication that such a thing could be possible.

Overall, I would say that with Machine Learning maturing and Universal AI being a formal science at all, we are only just now beginning to find out where the actual tradeoffs lie in the design and construction of intelligent agents.
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It's old news - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2784086
It's worth noting that CouchDB is using map-reduce to define materialized views. Whereas normally MR parallelization is used to scale out, in this case it's used instead to allow incremental updates for the materialized views, which is to say incremental updates for arbitrarily defined indexes! By contrast SQL databases allow incremental updates only for indexes whose definition is well understood by the database engine. I found this to be pretty clever.
Something like this?

ls -al | tee >(cat) | gzip -c
What's wrong with:

cmd | tee >( gzip - > cmd.out.gz )
Deleted mine two months ago. I'd say it's absolutely optional. I still talk all the time with my friends on Twitter, Text Message, Phone, etc. And I rarely find sites that only have Facebook login.
Facebook's inability to keep my newsfeed in a consistent order is a massive irritation.
Has anyone bothered to develop a full mathematical definition of "optimization power"? Because I've been thinking about how to do it.
" I think it’s these very small things that reinforce
cultural and racial stereotypes.. "

I tend to agree with the quote. To use a analogy to programming languages, in Python one is always tempted to use lists, whether they are the appropriate data structure or not. And experience then comes in the form of many solutions using lists.

As for too much PC, I think the problems are rather created by lazy thinking instead of PC. So in a way there is a industry which exploits PC, but the solution is not less PC, the solution is more critical thinking. ( And bad articles really do not help with that.)
If 10000 people died in a single highway pileup, everyone would assume there was a problem.
It makes perfect sense.

There is a finite amount of time. Facebook acquired most of the non-business social network space over the course of a particularly fast growing five or six years.

For apps like Snapchat to exist, with their huge user base and usage numbers, it must take time away from Facebook. The US market, as an example, is mostly tapped out on saturation when it comes to social media reach.

The posts that would have gone to Facebook in 2005 by college students, are no longer going to Facebook.

Who are Snapchat's users? The same users that typically adopt everything like this, the youngest consumers: teens and early 20 somethings.

It follows that Facebook has to be losing time share among young consumers to this phenomenon.
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In a weekend? lots of hacks, no tests...
The name, logo, and branding of your identity means a lot. Although the service you provide will likely matter more than these things, you need to be aware that a customers first impression of your company is huge.

I find it so odd that all of these companies have names that tell you nothing about the business. Welcome to swaply, we sell insurance. I always have thought that your business name should give some information relating to what your business does. 'Swaply Insurance', slogan here. You instantly know what they are about.
I assume the author of the poll isn't asking whether the difference between "Zap" and "Quacyxloctl" matters, but rather how important marginal differences between names are.

I think they're much less important than people think they are, and usually cite both Airbnb (a name that actually has negative connotations to the positioning Airbnb aspires to now) and Ebay (an utterly meaningless name) as examples.

Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684845 --- shorter: equity goes into a name; it isn't extracted from it.
Pinning this on The Guardian is a little strong. It's in CommentIsFree, where they'll allow even the most right wing a platform, if they think it's interesting.
The name matters with any consumer product.
...or you could run something like

cat /proc/`pidof program`/fd/2

That, of course, won't eliminate the need for a second terminal.

(change to your needs, stdin==1, stdout==2, stderr=3)
On the one hand, yeah, Occulus Rift.

On the other hand, I have a hard time thinking that anyone's going to treat virtual reality as all that cool after having seen The Matrix. Our culture now perceives "virtual" as something you're trapped inside, hiding you from the "real", rather than as a pleasant place to spend an afternoon shooting zombies.
Right, I wouldn't go through AirBnB here. Just do a search for hotels in the city you are looking at and that should give you an idea for prices for the short term. The best way to locate houses and apartments is to drive around the city collecting phone numbers and to talk to other foreigners. Stay in the hotel while you are getting familiar with the city and see what kind of deal you can negotiate for long term stay. You don't have to stick with that deal, just keep it open as a fallback option. There are some sites where you can get prices for rentals and purchases, but those are sky high. Your only option is boots on the ground.
Yes, you need to avoid being sued out of existence.
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I am mostly for the ostensible cleaning up of YouTube comments, but what got me was that any time you share a YouTube video on Google+ proper or comment in a thread where someone shared a YouTube video, it automatically cross-posts what you said back to the comments underneath the video on YouTube. And that's not just for shares/comments going forward: it's everything you've ever shared publicly, ever. I'm now getting inane YouTube-level comments on stuff I shared months ago because I happened to share a popular YouTube video on Google+.

As part of the rare breed of people actually using Google+ proper, it's really turned me off from the whole thing. Even though I shared YouTube videos publicly and commented on publicly-viewable Google+ posts with YouTube videos, I intended to only post my comments and shares on Google+, not syndicated everywhere at a later date without additional consent[1] and especially not the cesspool that is the YouTube comment section. I don't really understand why anyone thought that'd be okay. And anecdote isn't data, but talking to other Google+ users I know, nobody seemed to be aware that this was going to happen: they all just thought the identities would be merged, but if you post on Google+, it'd stay on Google+.

[1]: I'm aware that there's probably some clause in their privacy policy that gave them the legal ability to do this, but Google is usually pretty decent when it comes to informing of changes to privacy/visibility options.
The best metaphor for this might be aerodynamic drag. A bad name can slow you down. You'll prevail eventually if you're good enough, but slower than you would have done with a good name. Whereas a good name won't get you anywhere without a good product, just as a plane with a low drag coefficient won't go anywhere without powerful engines.
How has this solved the problem? My youtube account is still attached to a throwaway Gmail account. So what if it's now also attached to a throwaway G+ account that I never use?
I think that it's legal to copy a book it if the author says it's ok to copy it... but don't quote me on that.
Does a first impression matter to you?
"Such could only ever be ... "

You missed predictive in your list. A model resulting in falsifiable observationally verifiable prediction about the future, resulting in the model either living to fight another day, or being disproven. I'm optimistic about my predictions and model passing the test, how bout you?

Not liking the future results of the theory, doesn't disprove the observation or theory behind it.

Also the "its just a piece of paper" is a quote from a recent former president, not me.
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demonstrating understanding of abstract concepts.

What sort of test can show that a subject demonstrates an understanding of abstract concepts?

So far, from what I've seen, if a test can be written then software can be written to solve the test.
At least, what I mean was an ability to offer those type informations to automated tools - auto-completion system.

How actually Python type doesn't matter. Python lacks the ability by not forcing type (an)notation. This is fundamentally different with type-inferencing/deducing system such as Haskell, Go, C++11.
I came here to say the same thing. We use to rip through anywhere from ~100M-3B rows of data every day.. updates to this dataset are time sensitive so we use it to finish the job as quickly as possible.
But he figured out how to make it cheaply enough to sell as a toy. I'd guess there was some actual innovation there.
This comparison is outrageous. Speaking of things out of context, fewer than three thousand people died in 9/11[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11...
Why to avoid PHP ?
I am earning working on freelance project all due to PHP.
I'm not saying they shouldn't "experiment" - experiment all they want.

It's when they parade out the idea that "real names = better quality" as the reason for a change - without citing it. Especially since it's such a cross-product change that effects literally every single one of their products.
Actually the scope of C++ in the Windows kernel is extremely limited (or it was ~4 years ago, when I worked on that particular kernel).
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'Adds net positive emotional entertainment value' ???

Seriously, WFT?