skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me: I was a little off target. I don't have a background in AI but find it fascinating. (I'm preparing to undertake a formal study of it within the next 2 years. If you can recommend introductory books, I welcome it.)
Following the already abandoned blog http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/, I automated grouping Marc Andreessen's tweets by topic for better readability.
Koan
Having a sense of purpose may add years to your life
For anyone who is wondering, the article referenced in the post above is well worth a read.
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I would love to work on an alternative too. It will be hard to attract people, but with strong features, would be possible. (But Craiglist is still #1 in the US, even if it's uglier than leboncoin...)
There is a large difference between "implemented in C" (presumably talking about the runtime being implemented in C) and "Python that calls C code". If the implementation of Python is implemented in C as an interpreter#, then the interpreter is almost sure to be slower than whatever language/technology the interpreter was implemented with/on top of. This is pretty orthogonal to "Python that is implemented in <whatever>, and is doing most of the calculations via calling a C library". If you have a Python program that computes over megabytes of data, but it is calling a C library to do the heavy lifting, then the performance of Python itself is probably going to be negligible if 99.9% of the time is spent on the computation in the C code.

# Though could be a VM or something.
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I think that public figures should not be evaluated by "some things in the internet" it is easy for opponents to craft "bad" listings. On the other hand I think public figures have more power to remove such things if they have connections, lawyers and simply more money than average Joe.
IBM's Watson Gets a Taste for Personal Shopping
This is translation from Russian. Original article is here: http://habrahabr.ru/company/ifree/blog/195948/
I think the problem is that the democracy is largely symbolic. For example, elected representatives are unable to propose legislation, they are only allowed to approve it. Only the European Commission is able to propose legislation, and that is an undemocratic body -- there are only 24 commissioners who couldn't possibly represent the views of the "electorate" in a fair way. They also have a mandate to act in European interests, which makes it difficult to legislate against further EU expansion and authority. It doesn't really matter that the EU president is a democratic position in these elections, because he or she really has no authority as far as the appointment of the 24 commissioners is concerned.
Yes, correct. It's a big concern. Trivially we all remember the student arrested (though later released) for jovially referring to a policeman's horse as 'gay'. As if calling someone or something 'gay' is an insult! How do they work that out? But away from the EU we can find ways of getting this nonsense out of our system and maybe slowly return to sanity.
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While I agree you should be able to delete something off the internet ( to a certain degree ). How is putting up something for auction, which is an act of public disclosure, be a privacy issue?

I am not sure about Spain, but there are plenty of countries in today's world which have the flat / house selling price listed for the past 10 - 20 years.
well make the difference between a user's profile data and a blog post/article.

Although I admit I don't know what sort of policy archive.org uses.
The computers are fast point really strikes a cord with me. Because so much of what programmers do seems to be about using abstractions and infrastructure to achieve things that are too slow when written naively in actual code. Just try plotting some 3D data using python. Should I use matplotlib, or a game engine, or maybe OpenGL? Each option could be too slow, even though the machine can easily process the raw data almost instantly.
The reason why most applications don't have an undo operation is because it is something that needs to designed from the ground up. Its really too late for the Internet to have an undo.
I don't think compilers are able to know when to use SIMD

Isn't vectorization different than SIMD ?
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Perhaps its because some people are more productive with dynamic languages and they value productivity over speed.
A Tale Of Two Bugs, by Richard Kenner, AdaCore
Ah, I see that you are ignoring and misrepresenting the point that I made. Good for you.

Anyway, to respond to your point:

I do not welcome advertising as an extension of social interaction, no more than I welcome someone shouting at me in the street as an extension of social interaction.
Why do you only have one option?
"Engineers should teach engineers GIT, designers should teach designers GIT."

is git part of modern design workflow ? how are designers using git ?
Other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737061
In this case it's pretty specific to someone wanting libelous information removed. If the analogue is a print publication having to retract something it is (almost?) always after a judge has looked at it. If Britney Spears suddenly considered everything ever said about her libelous she would have a tough time convincing a judge of that i would say. Just like celebrities usually have a tougher time getting things retracted now since they are in the public eye more than Joe Average by default.
PDF (Trailing question mark apparently keeps HN from Scribd-ifying the post.)
Most will collect. Some will let you drop your collection off. Some[1] will ask you to load your CDs into their spindles. I think all of them want your CDs out of their jewel cases. Note that I've only looked at services in or around London.

[1] http://www.russandrews.com/product-CD-Ripping-Service-4300.h...
https://www.google.com/search?q=nya+tider+rasistisk&oq=nya+t...
Portsmouth has a major "thing" for him too.
Durability & high availability?
Of course not, but somebody not me would have no way of telling if the guy legally innocent really is or not. What it would come down to is his perception.

It would be very easy for me as a white straight middle class guy to be OK with "eternal memory" since it is unlikely to do me much harm. However it doesn't exactly require a huge leap of imagination to think of all sorts of scenarios or groups of people who can't afford the same attitude.

Hence I am not jumping to condemnation before I learn more.
The blink I find annoying, but a fade in/out is kind of interesting:

-webkit-animation: blink 4s steps(20,end) infinite;
I mostly agree with you. It isn't impossible but I still don't think that they will as they know the profit on the table isn't all that large.

TVs aren't as bad as phones were when the iPhone launched. Browsers were rubbish, data cost pounds per Megabyte and screens were small. The iPhone was disruptive. An Apple TV which did not come with enough content available to ignore broadcast/STBs would be competitive at the high end but not disruptive. And the vast bulk of the market is low end (well under $1000). I could be wrong but I don't see the room for Apple blockbuster in that market.
Thanks!

That's, fairly crazy.
If you want document linking, doesn't JSON-LD [1] work ?

1 - http://json-ld.org/
No Britney Spears is a person of public interest, likewise for example politicians.
The privacy law has a exception for person of public interest.
Well you don't need it to find an apartment, there are alternatives.

I see Leboncoin as Craiglist, they are ugly etc but they just work.
It's headless by default (but it starts a web browser going to localhost:8080 by default too).

If you don't have a web browser, it won't open it. If you don't want it to open a web browser, you can configure that.
Siege Your Servers
I'm as much a "real / big problems" guy as anyone. But I don't begrudge this.

If you feel there's something missing from HN, how about posting some submissions. I see you've got ... none.

Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
I totally agree. The transparency of 2.x & Go wins. Python 3.x is a disaster for me, a Unix user in Japan.
Check out Three Body Problem, not really AI but... awesome
You do not need to delete the whole data. Just make it no personal data. Just erase the name, birthday and maybe the street.
Perhaps you can explain why you think I support the Australian argument? My question about OP's concept of irony is not an endorsement of Australia's policy. Or perhaps you can explain why you think Somalia and Australia have a lot in common?
In brief , Craiglist french website version known as "leboncoin.fr" sent a letter to the author of "lebonmail.fr" a website that uses leboncoin.fr API to send its users a daily email alerts of items to be sold on "leboncoin.fr".
The letter ask the author to stop using the service provided by leboncoin.fr immediately .
I think k-mcgrady is talking about free speech as a concept independent of the legislation. Allowing the law to redefine free speech is a dangerous idea.
Aside from the law of nature, I remarked the use of precedents as a co-basis for juridical mediation. Although this is something used all over the world outside Somalia (on a secondary role and usually only in an informal manner), its interesting to know it to work somewhere in real-life as a primary law principle.
https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350
Ah, the meaning of life. A nice easy one for a Tuesday morning:

* Find something that you really want to do
* Arrange your world so that you can do that thing

Now naturally, that first bit is a tough one if you honestly can't think of a single thing that you like doing. Assuming you can though, the rest follows.

Chances are that "something" won't be working for somebody else in a felt cube, so a handy thing to do is to increase your value so that you can bill more per hour spent in that cube and hopefully reduce the number of hours you need to spend there to keep the bills paid (and thus more hours left to spend on "your thing").

As developers, we get an extra trick in that we can so easily work remotely. Once you realize that "remote" doesn't only mean "from my bedroom in the same city as the company", nor "the same hemisphere as the company" nor even "someplace other than the beach", things get nice in a hurry. If your "something I want to be doing" only happens in the mountains, at a particular surf break, or within frisbee-toss of the Eiffel Tower, there's nothing to stop you upping sticks and planting yourself there.

In short, it's your life. You get to arrange it any way you like. The fact that most people arrange their lives in exactly the same way doesn't change that. If your life is currently arranged such that you don't even feel like getting out of bed in the morning, that's something that you can fix.
You don't have to delete it if you can demonstrate that it's necessary to run your business. That's my understanding, anyway.
Apple Patents Wraparound Edge-Mounted iPhone Displays With Virtual Buttons
Darkseed was a chok when i was young. I still remember the game. RIP
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A different version of this riddle in Prolog/JavaScript: https://curiosity-driven.org/prolog-interpreter#puzzle
so that SIMD loads complete while SIMD adds are done

That's almost certainly already being done by the hardware. Loop unrolling has been counterproductive ever since ~Sandy Bridge or so, and probably hasn't been that great of an idea since the post-P4 days:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=142#142

It is so important to economize the use of the micro-op cache that I would give the advice never to unroll loops.
If you're ever in Switzerland and a fan of H.R. Giger, you should check out his great museum in Gruyère. [1]
Additionally, the idyllic mountain village is well worth a visit on its own.

[1] http://www.hrgigermuseum.com/
Great article; but I've never been convinced by the authenticity of the King Solomon story.

> "Fetch me a sword," Solomon said. "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other." One woman embraced his solution. But the other begged Solomon not to hurt the baby and give it to her rival instead. Solomon promptly ruled in her favor, figuring that the real mother would rather give up her child than see it die.

The objective of the (dishonest) woman is to get the (living) baby. It seems inhuman for a person, especially someone who wants a baby sufficiently to be dishonest, to "embrace" the baby being killed.
Drawing Boundaries in Python
Had to put "JavaScript" into the title - typical HN... It was about algorithm rather than a language.
How is it different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_self-government_in_India#... ??

which has been practised from way before 7th century ?

[ The Tone of the question is curiosity and not a flame-bait please]
> I'm raging just thinking I'm gonna have to use it to look for an apartment

Holy first world problems batman!
larger (proven) market share is my guess. I have no stats on that by the way, it's a pure guess. The closest thing I ahve is I looked at the humble bundle stats, and scrolled down to the first games bundle which is :
http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/attachments/...

Looking at the graph, I can't differenciate between mac and linux on it, but the next one (humble indie bundle 9):
http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/attachments/...

the mac purchases are more substantial than the linux ones. This could be due to any number of factors, but like I said, it's only a guess.
Surveillance Provocateurs: Conversnitch
GCC vectorizes the sum fine if the input is unsigned bytes, cf [1]. My guess is some odd interaction between integer promotions and the backend.

[1] http://goo.gl/B7KX1V
Starting off a low base means that African countries could protentially leapfrog developed countries technologically, at least. I remember similar points being made in the 1990s when we adopted "cutting-edge" (at the time) GSM in South Africa, because there were no entrenched network interests.

As an aside, in South Africa, there's a palpable sense of anxiety in the business press that we could be, in a few decades, overtaken by our neighbours to the north. We have entrenched interests, and inflexible and poorly educated labour force and a business world that has historically been dominated by monopolists.
Use proxies.
If you are writing for a design audience, you are going to get a lot of frowns for the 700KB paper background image you have on your blog (and the paper barely even shows).
There is no official API for Leboncoin, neither alert option, explaining the creation of the op website.
Dogevault is offline, large amounts of Dogecoin appear to have been stolen
Should I use Vagrant or Docker.io for creating an isolated environment?
The biggest issue is that we don't own our data. It's stored in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.. servers. It should work the other way around, every individual should keep his own data and provide permissions to external services and other people to access it. Is there any project looking into this direction ? How do we reverse this situation ?
> I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines [...] yet war torn anarchic Somalia is pushing in the other direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
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Here's a book that goes into more depth on the important stages of evolution

And the Kindle edition is more expensive than the paper one ... makes me wonder how their pricing process works?
Glyphosate (aka Roundup weed killer) and our food
Huh, I didn't know that the face was based on Giger's work.
It's a fine video but what is the connection?
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I'd be willing to wager that 99%+ of all free-text searches go through one of Bing (which also powers Yahoo) or Google.
For those who don't read French and don't wish to investigate too much, "leboncoin" (le bon coin) roughly means "the good neighborhood/hangout" (and literally means "the good corner") in French.
I have had a look through that book, and it is very good one one level, but trying to get anything practical done these days seems to require JQuery, and a lot of context knowledge about the DOM.

Maybe Its just because I know the backend well enough, a switch from Perl to Python was quite effortless, but making the same jump to javascript, I find a lot more difficult.
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Google Challenged by 'Right to Be Forgotten' Ruling in Europe
http://www.aphextwin.nu/visuals/98319764035682.shtml
The difference is that once it's removed from Google/Bing - it's effectively removed from the Internet. That is, the material may still be present, but if you can't find it with a random search, then it's not going to do too much damage.

Also - it's much, much, much easier to send a request to "De-Index" to two, large, organized, law-abiding organizations (Google/Microsoft) - than it would be to try and remove content from umpteen million various websites - that would be whack-a-mole.
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> At some point, network communication could start to be
> an issue with a compile-the-list-at-read design, but I
> could be wrong.

You're absolutely right. Optimizing for that bottleneck occupied most of the development time.
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Funny Video , Funny Prank
Mall Tube videos to view different videos from the site of the famous YouTube
Mall Tube videos to view different videos from the site of the famous YouTube
Except all the HTML is now different to the standard admin and lots of 3rd party apps break.

Unfortunately - there is a limit to how much you can alter the admin HTML without this problem. My own admin skins have been CSS only precisely to avoid this.
Do not over-complicate it. Most cases are about deleting top-search results from Google. And most sites already have DMCA on place.
I was wondering about similarities to the old "ting" in Scandinavia, which regulated clan feuds, etc.

Afaik, some kind of laws are common in clan societies. E.g. blood price, mentioned in the wikipedia article, was common in historical clan societies. (Famously, in Sweden if you killed someone from "Småland" in "Götaland", it was free. :-) )

How different is Xeer?
Umm, we used to call those "personal websites". They were the norm during much of the 1990s.

They did take some time, effort, skill and money to set up, but they did give far more control over what information was shared, and who had access to it.
Your comment shows remarkable ignorance of religious violence. "Honour killings" and acid attacks are not restricted to muslims.

Burmese Buddhists: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25866350

Christians killed their pwn god - that seems pretty violent to me. Most violent terrorist attacks in the US are by pseudo-Christian groups.
Indeed, a judge will make this decision. There is a tendency for people (especially online) that laws sould be absolute and binary in their arbitrations, this is not the case. It's humans that decide how the law should apply in each case, and a human has considerably less difficulty in distinguishing the difference between Britney Sears applying for censorship and John Doe doing the same thing.
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No one is denying that what Justin proposes is noble and good, it's that he framed his appeal in such an overwhelmingly positive happy-go-lucky manner that it was almost farcical.

I know he means well but I think it would have generated less snark if he had balanced his talk with some discussion of the alternative. Yes, people in tech have a lot of power but would be remiss not to think of the responsibility. Build great things but understand the concerns people have around privacy, morals, and ethics in this brave new world. That would have generated more critical discussion and reception.
"Seems like a pedantic objection to me."

Well it's a different kind of signal to send out, "girls matter" vs "kids matter". The article here goes even farther by saying the number of boys in existence should be reduced by educating girls.

I'm just saying how I feel about it. I wouldn't donate to a "help the girls" cause, but to a "help the kids" cause. But presumably the charities themselves know how to rake in the most bucks. So perhaps girls work better.
i think its fully open source[1] and you can host on your own

[1]https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd
The thing that stood out for me is that over a billion unique people use the service. Does it really underpin that much of the modern Internet?
"uglier than leboncoin"

is that possible ?

...GOD Yes... welcome back 90's !
Motorola announces Moto E which will retail for just $129
Motorola today announced a super cheap phone Moto E. This is going to put a good smartphone in a lot of people's hands and a lot more people are going to buy this phone for the first time. Guess this is a good time to learn Android SDK.
I remember implementing this on a Sam Coupe from the description in (either BYTE or Dr Dobbs, I forget) back in ~1987. Somewhat slower and lower resolution, of course...
Writing documents / code, as opposed to writing whatssap and facebook.

OK, I am sure a small minority do use their phones for "real" work. But the majority of their use is as a media consumption device.
It even doesn't need to be a mistake. It can be very easily a false accusation as well.
Me neither til I finally picked up a book on Giger and there's the Windowlicker staring at me from the first page I flicked to. I always bought into a rumour (possibly just amongst my friends) that it was a munge of Aphex Twin's face and Chris Cunningham's face.

It was this piece that first gave me that odd moment we're seeing a lot of in this thread as I had always assumed Giger was a contemporary of Escher or even earlier. Seeing Windowlicker was dated 1999 really gave me a surprise.
For "the good corner" they don't play very nice do they?
I can't speak about Hetzner, but I gave DigitalOcean my public key before spinning up a vm with them the other day, and they didn't send me a password.
As I see it, the western legal system which relies on written analytical laws appears indeed as an "alternative", but western judges do for example make use of judicial precedents too. This system is based on a set of principles that have just a lesser use in western legal system.
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that's not what I meant. For example when using a mobile app, you can give access to your contact list, your position, your pictures etc...All data is stored on your phone and each application must get permission to access your data. What I would like is to extend this model to the web, so that any service that require some information from me will have to ask permission to get it rather than having me store a copy on their database.
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I think it's just the type of the accumulator[1] that influences this, GCC seems to vectorize it fine for any type other than signed char/signed short.

[1] s in your code, result in the author's

Edit: The reason for the failure appears to be this:

test.c:7:2: note: reduction: not commutative/associative: s_11 = (int8_t) _10;

Edit: GCC vectorizes this fine when compiling with -fwrapv, which gives you the semantics the author probably expected.
I can see the SS Great Britain out of my window as I type this very reply :)

Such an utterly wonderful piece of engineering, the combination of so many advances from it's iron construction to its rotary screw propeller.