skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>observing on thousands of consecutive occasions that on calendars the first two digits of the year were ‘19’. I never observed a single exception until, one day, they started being ‘20’...

...it is simply not true that knowledge comes from extrapolating repeated observations. Nor is it true that ‘the future is like the past’, in any sense that one could detect in advance without already knowing the explanation.

This is obviously untrue. You could train a machine learning algorithm to count easily just by showing it examples of numbers. This is how we teach human children to count, by showing them examples. Not giving them some magical "explanation".

And he goes on to base the rest of his argument on this point.

>Some people are wondering whether we should welcome our new robot overlords. Some hope to learn how we can rig their programming to make them constitutionally unable to harm humans (as in Isaac Asimov’s ‘laws of robotics’), or to prevent them from acquiring the theory that the universe should be converted into paper clips (as imagined by Nick Bostrom). None of these are the real problem. It has always been the case that a single exceptionally creative person can be thousands of times as productive — economically, intellectually or whatever — as most people; and that such a person could do enormous harm were he to turn his powers to evil instead of good.

Einstein's brain was only slightly different than any other human's, even the dumbest village idiot. Humans themselves are only slightly different than chimpanzees.

So yes, an AI with a brain of entirely different architecture, running on computers millions of times faster and several times larger than a human brain, would indeed be pretty concerning.
Would be really handy to have a list of vetted, good quality bsd licenced code bases.

It can be tricky finding reliable reference material. E.g. there's quite a few extremely popular python projects who's code is a bit of a lemon.
After reading lots of discussion about this yesterday, I think the change being negative hinged on one big thing. Nobody truly believed that the old(current) block on Twitter was actually blocking anyone from reading your posts if they were public, but not being able to follow someone had the (imo) underrated benefit of not letting someone directly interact with your tweets.

That added layer of friction meant it was just a little more difficult for group harassment (e.g. retweet someone you don't like, laugh at them, have a group of your followers send harassing tweets even though they're not individually blocked). The only way to do so would be to open Incognito mode or log into another account and then manually RT or find another way to harass someone (like a forum or chat). The suggested new functionality meant that there was more security through obscurity (well not quite, apparently you couldn't add people that blocked you to lists) but reduced that friction in the harasser's favor.

Personally I'm hoping Twitter keeps the old block forever, but then adds something like the attempted new block functionality under the less-of-a-misnomer-name "mute" - both have their strengths and weaknesses and I don't think one can really replace the other.
Perhaps you're being facetious, but on the off change that you're just not familiar with 16F (-9C), understand that that's cold. I'm a runner, but I don't go out if it's below 20F--I can't take it no matter what I wear. And a given temperature feels much colder on a bike.

Of course, if it's 16F, there's likely some ice and snow about, and riding a bicycle is treacherous in that. And St. Louis is on the eastern edge of the central time zone, so it'll be pitch dark out when he gets off work, also treacherous given traffic.
I once worked at a place where the board members were having a discussion about the CEO, and then of the board members decided to just cc: said CEO into the conversation at random, because "well we are talking about him and he deserves to know."

That board was not well-functioning.
Microsoft: Skype is the first Android app with picture-in-picture video calls
Monsanto is working on that with their GM program.

https://www.google.com/search?q=monsanto+sterilization

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_kissinger_food.ht...
Primarily because we do the fulfillment ourselves and because we don't want Amazon to take the customer service away from us.
I'm not sure about the YCVC notes in particular, but if I had to guess, they are probably uncapped with a so-called "Most Favored Nation" clause that gives the YCVC safe-holders the benefit of the founders' most favorable (to the investor) terms.

The example of the safe we posted is specifically one with a valuation cap and no discount. But there are different options available, all available on YC's site: http://ycombinator.com/safe/
Stupid americanos ..
I think you want Clojure and leiningen.
"Would you ask that of him?" fits the normal usage of ask as a verb, though. In "the client had an ask which we fulfilled" (where ask means "request", I presume) "ask" was nounified.
I've sold on ebay, you have a choice whether to offer refunds,

also how long after the sale to offer a refund, and whether you want the buyer or the seller to pay return shipping.
Personally I much prefer the Rap Genius model of highlighting the actual text being commented on and opening it up by clicking on said highlighted text.

I used to build paperless case management systems for attorneys (I sold that company several years ago now)and I think my clients would have loved to have anything close to this, but I still believe the Rap Genius model is highly superior for ease of use/quality of understanding exactly which parts of a document are being talked about.

Just my $.02
I recently started reading http://www.learnprolognow.org/ and the first few chapters have been excellent. There are exercises and practical sections at the end of each chapter too (unfortunately I haven't had time to look at them in detail yet).
Visualization: pathfinding algorithms
Not even close. No matter how porous the foam is, you can't match a spring. But bear in mind this factor can or cannot be relevant depending on where you live. If you live on a dry place, it does not matter; also if you take good care of your mattress (e.g. change sides regularly, open windows to air the room regularly, open the cover if it comes with one, use a mattress protector to avoid liquids to pour in, etc.) it will not matter that much either; but if you live on a humid place well... then myself I wouldn't go for a foam-only mattress.

On the firmess you're right, it is very variable. I've been myself sleeping on a foam-only sofa-bed mattress for almost a year and it is firm enough. The issue with latex or foam is that they distort with time. It is unavoidable. Depending on the quality of what you have bought that might be years but I've seen many poorly made mattresses that are returned within months.

It also depends on the weight of the people that is going to sleep as well. My wife would be worried if you were a customer insisting on buying a foam mattress and your weight as a couple were bigger than 180kg for example. Specially if it is a wide mattress as the weight would not be distributed evenly.
Unfortunately, he's right. I applaud Valve's focus to Linux, but DOTA Linux has had major bugs for months now (the most severe of which is the game taking 1-2 minutes to load and timing out, whereas Windows on the same machine loads in a few seconds). They don't seem to really want to fix the errors, as all my friends are having the same problem, so it's not exactly hard to reproduce.
I've often been tripped up by the semantics of the word "meet" in email introductions, as in "Nice to meet you". Everyone seems to want to reserve the word "meet" for actual in-person meeting, and I've seen such constructs as:
"Pleased to 'meet' you"
"Pleased to e-meet you"
"Pleased to virtually meet you", etc

I'd love to hear how the language-sensitive hacker news crowd deals with this issue, and also what tortured constructions you've seen recently. Currently I'm using "pleased to make your acquaintance" or "thanks Jim for the intro", but neither of those is completely satisfactory.
Facebook, as usual, simply gives no regard to personal privacy. They will do whatever it takes to exploit your personal info, including your deepest and darkest thoughts, in order to make money. Mark Zuckerberg is a shameless person. Just look at how he copies every single competitor shamelessly. What can we except from a company with a leader like that? Shameless exploitation of course.
Awesome, congrats Garry!
The most complex code I've ever personally worked with involved a proliferation of abstract visitors in Java. I really don't think most people working on the code could understand how it all tied together (myself included).
I don't have a ton of love for LinkedIn, but this is a problem they've taken on and solved to some degree. If I have a second-degree LinkedIn connection, I can request an intro through an intermediary, who has the chance to reject it, pass it along, and so on.

I'm not sure how much the investment community uses LinkedIn, but it seems like the closest thing to a solution right now.
There's some sort of interaction between your body and your bathtub, too.
I've looked at and read a bunch of different Prolog books. In my opinion the best one is `Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard' by Clocksin & Mellish. It's actually one of my favorite programming books. Do all the exercises!

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Prolog-Using-ISO-Standard/...

http://www.swi-prolog.org/
It's nasty language change which has spread, kind of like "I spoke to she about that problem" is spreading. Not specific to SV, but extremely common here.
We've heard that feedback from a few other people as well, and are working towards implementing it. You're right that this would require us to put spaces between each of the paragraphs, so this likely shouldn't be the default view, but it is something that we can have as an option for readers.

Perhaps we'll add the Class F next :) Thanks for the suggestion.
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Wow, this is anal.

You can learn a lot about people by observing their etiquette.

(I am pretty sure what the first comment to this comment will be)
We make them and fulfill them and we source our supplies such as fabrics and foams from other factories in the US.
"All "JPM" packages expected to be under 100 lines, a la NPM. Frameworks are discouraged. Take what you need a la carte."

LOL, I'm trying to imagine anything else in life being run like this. For instance, you go to the "car package manager" and are told that all parts must be less than 2kg and that you need to choose which ones you need...
Double-click-to-zoom is useful, but not on mobile-optimised sites, which is why we only disabled it there. Although, if you know of a mobile-optimised site it's useful on, let us know, it'll affect how the feature lands in stable.
They shouldn't be, Mojang has given permission for people to make videos using Minecraft content. Although they still might, because videos are being taken down that publishers have given permission for, which is one of the major problems here.
I tend to agree with you here. In the scenario proposed by the article, the busy person is still essentially doing the same amount of work. Having to consider the intro, reading up on the subject and the requester, etc, etc. If the answer is a flat no, then so be it, but let them hear it directly from the person. I find it hard to believe that somebody could be so busy that taking a few minutes to respond to such a request would actually be a problem. If it is so onerous, perhaps setting aside a few hours out of one day per week to handle these requests would be prudent? That way, you can minimize the impact it would have on your day-to-day life.
it might matter when you need it to provide 1000s of great night's sleep
From the paper:

Furthermore, all instrumentation is done client-side. In other words, the content of self-censored posts was not sent back to Facebook's servers

https://autoblog.postblue.info/autoblogs/wwwinternetactunet_...

Of course, that doesn't mean they _couldn't_ do this, just that they say they don't currently.
It's a journalistic hook. It doesn't come from within our industry.
Does this mean I can play games while not on my gaming PC?

EDIT: NM, looks like it's just something like VNC.
Assessing Cloud Application Agility - What it takes to be truly Agile.
I'd say it's exactly about "maturity" not in the emotional sense, but the "breadth and depth of professional experience" sense.

A lot of the 'glamour' in the Bay Area is around web apps that 20-somethings use. As a consequence a lot of the headlines and centers of discussion are going to be around languages, platforms and paradigms that reflect that. And, these days, that would be dynamically typed languages, frameworks or framework-like 'libraries' and fad-following (which is where the "rock-star-ninja" meme comes from). I just try to filter the noise as best I can to glean the useful and interesting bits of articles and comments I read.
So far I tried compiling some of my numeric Scala code to JS with Scala.JS and unfortunately running that code in Chrome is much, much slower (~10-20 times) than running the original version on Java 7. :( Not sure if it is because Scala.JS creates poor code, or just JS is still not as fast as they claim.
You have no idea how comforting it is to see a Google search link that doesn't have a bunch bullshit parameters at the end of it.
Global gender disparities in science
It's very porous. If you took a piece of latex foam and blew air into it, you can feel the air come out of the other side.
I remember a surprisingly interesting website on nails (and I think screws too) and the defects in them from manufacturing problems. The guy was an expert on the manufacturing process. Your giving me ideas now. The ends of bricks on our house (which is as basic as a 1940s house gets, no fancy brickwork here unfortunately) have finger prints in them. I stumbled across some at a demolition yard with the owner cleaning up a load that were apparently made by prisoners a long time ago - a special triangular symbol was stamped into them. That's when the obsession started. Just picked up a few nice ones with a giant W stamped into them which would never normally be seen as its on the top where the mortar goes. The building was demolished in the Christchurch earthquake, so its got that bit of history as well.
Open Source, Next Generation Data Encoding (SBE)
> Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible. And that is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of computation.

This actually doesn't follow. It is logically possible that general intelligence is the result of a non-physical process (or at least a process outside any conception of known physics). It could be, as philosophers have put it, a homunculus that interfaces with but is not a part of the physical brain.

Or take the brain-in-the-vat hypothesis. It could be that intelligence/consciousness is the result of some process that can't be modeled within the physics of the simulation, and can only be injected from "outside" the system. This already happens, actually; there are demonstrably intelligent entities in World of Warcraft (the human players) but that doesn't imply that the computer physics of the WOW game engine are sufficient to model intelligence.
How could I forget? I personally use runtime instrumentation all the time: https://github.com/puniverse/quasar
This is why before I post to Facebook I write my post in vi, edit it repeatedly, consider what my life has become, and then :q!.
I actually agree with mchannon - think of it as a "stake-in-the-ground" exercise. If you don't really care/can do anything, then you won't care if you pick something specific and push hard on it. Showing passion for the choice, whatever it is, will carry you much further than showing openness to all roles. In your shoes I'd push for a product management role, by the way.
This is more about PayPal's dirty laundry than an comparative evaluation of technologies. If a collective set of tools are used improperly, comparisons beyond the context of those walls means very little.
(1) Docker, Inc., who plan to sell paid support, training, and services (think Canonical/Ubuntu).
I agree, at the very least Twitch should recognize this as an opportunity to expand their market. If they become the place for all game videos and live streams they really have something big going on.

They already host previous live recordings so I would think they could at least leverage that to offer pre-recorded videos.
TL;DR:

* Micro-benchmarks don't provide a good picture of real system performance and can be skewed to make almost anything look better/worse than anything else.

* Much of Java's "slowness," clunkiness, large amounts of boilerplate code, etc. is the fault of the Java ecosystem and libraries rather than the language itself or the JVM.

* The inverse is true for Node: the quality of its ecosystem helps make up for language and runtime shortcomings.
Both Servlet and JAX-RS are pretty central pieces of Java EE. But Java EE is now really a collection of modules that you can pick and choose.
I wouldn't say that Java is extremely popular by any stretch. It's ubiquitous, but people aren't falling over themselves to become Java programmers anymore. I'd say Java is much less popular than it used to be (and I've run a Java Users' Group for 13 years). The JVM is still popular, but Java the language's popularity is arguably at a low point.
When 2 become 1: Bridging Online and Offline
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1205/
> You can upload any application from Mainframe2 in 10 minutes. With Citrix or VMWare, it takes at least four months to do the same thing.[1]

Four months? I am at a loss for words.

--

[1] http://www.mainframe2.com/infographic
You might have missed the current discussion of SteamOS streaming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6901223
Title reads: How to optimize your optimization.

Now what I'd really like to know is, how much optimization of my optimization is the right amount?

Jokes asides, good read!
Not the first time, and I agree with the final remark of the video "Samsung, go fuck yourself" because it demands the victim to sign away _all_ rights to talk about this and future incidents.
Filed a trademark, now what?
I started a subreddit that got big with the intention to start a website around it. I knew it'd be popular, so of course there were/are competitors, which is why I filed a trademark. The mark has been approved, and now I'm wondering what my next step would be. I'd like to contact an internet/trademark lawyer to go after the competitors, but I am not sure what this would cost, or where I'd even start looking. Suggestions?
Sounds like you might be a good fit for a very early stage startup, when it's like 3-4 people in a room hacking a product together from nothing. Unfortunately, those are not really "positions" in the traditional sense--you won't find them on any job board and they might not pay well (if at all). You probably have to know the founders--or be a founder yourself.

If you want a technical position in a bigger company, I agree with the other post here to focus in on your area of greatest strength, and then salt your resume with your other skills. Valve talks about looking for "T-shaped" people, who have a deep expertise in one area, but competence in a whole bunch of others. You want to find your deep area and focus on that.

Another option might be a product or project manager type position. Those often call for wide skill sets (or at least familiarity). The downside is that the actual work is likely to be mostly meetings, emails, and spreadsheets.
Yahoo Mail outage rolls into fourth day
No problem! I'm excited to see how this is all going to play out.
Thank you for the well thought out comment. It does seem like depth over breadth is prized when being hired for a specific position. This seems the most likely approach, and you're absolutely right about the resume not being the job.
OP,

Why not use an escrow service instead of ebay to mitigate potential exposure? What are the pros/cons to ebay instead of a escrow?
In areas where I've trekked in Nepal they used to have solar and wood and it didn't work very well - not much light, deforestation etc. They now mostly have mini hydro - one plant per village - and it works pretty well.
For me, these "Top X under Age X" articles always used to create these needless benchmarks and comparisons in my head, as if I had some expectations to live up to by a specific age. I'd read the "30 under 30" and think to myself, "Crap, I'll be thirty in a few years. I need to get on the ball".

On one hand, reading about all these people doing great things is both inspiring and motivational for the reader to get out there and make something happen. On the other hand, its easy to look at yourself perhaps a bit too critically when you compare yourself to the folks listed in these articles. Focus on your own projects, career, business, etc not about whether you get there by 25,35 or 40.

Back to the article... I've never met Gary, but have enjoyed his writing and he's always struck me as a class act. It's great to see him get some more recognition.
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Won in 117 generations with a "lightweight spaceship"

http://imgur.com/jWziNy1
The Navigator - by Morris West. Not new. Has a good story along with a few implied lessons about handling yourself and others. Set in the context of a sea voyage from Hawaii, to find a remote, uncharted island where ancient Polynesian navigators go to die. Is a bit like "Robinson Crusoe" or "The Swiss Family Robinson", after they find the island, with some masala (to use an Indian term) thrown in :-)

Masala:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_(film_genre)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56966.The_Navigator

http://www.amazon.com/The-Navigator-Morris-L-West/dp/0688030...
Yeah I'm trying to get my head into how this would come about. It would be along the lines of how agile thought leaders shifted the notion of 'man hours' to 'story points', or how we stopped measuring LOC as a feature of productivity.

But there would have to be some cultural and language support for an entire idea around what a codebase is. The idea that it is an object that can possess the property of velocity will take a bit of enculturation. But the software/agile community has done it before, so...
Everything you ever wanted to know about stack traces
Even if land, construction, and labor costs are considerably less, it's still something.

Additionally, he's involved in quite a few hobbies which can be expensive. I'm not saying he has (or needs) tens of millions of dollars but has to have some.
Yes, yes. Because what makes a good show in Hollywood is obviously accurate of reality.
Alright, so 'ask' here is just synonym for 'request', then.

Looked it up... most dictionaries don't have a noun form of 'ask', though macmillan has a separate page just for it. (It's also a Scandinavian myth about the first man made from an ash tree, but that's probably not the intended use from the OP)