skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you want?

Until I can just talk to a computer and it always understands what I'm asking, there's no AI is there? It's a fuzzy concept to exactly define, but it's pretty obvious what we all mean when we talk about it.

Brute forcing billions of moves of chess isn't going to achieve that, so it's nothing more than a cute trick that lay people don't understand is a trick so we have to tell them it is.

David Copperfield can "fly" but he can't just fly on demand, he can only fly in very special circumstances in a tightly controlled environment.

He's no more a flying man than deep blue is a thinking computer.
Does Fastmail provide a matrix of all offers? I have for example never understood why business accounts have a USD 15/year management fee while family accounts have not …
I once saw some meta-advice, that for almost all advice, there's people who need to hear it, and people who need to hear the exact opposite. I suspect that applies here; some teams communicate too much, others communicate too little.

(The original example I heard of for this is that people are usually advised to be less selfish, but some people have heard that messages so much that they think it's never ok to do things for themselves. If you're more selfish than you want to be, advising people to be more selfish sounds evil. If you're so unselfish that it's hurting you, advice to be less selfish might seem kind of unnecessary. So when advice to do more or less of something seems like bad advice, sometimes it's just because you're not the target audience.)
Maybe so, but also not relevant for my original point.

I discussed the present situation. History is interesting, I agree, but to only start laying blame for events happening generations ago isn't a counterargument, it is lack of arguments.

(And I did answer meric's "argument" that everything happening is USA's fault by pointing out why the situation is different now. No one seems to have a counter argument?)

And for changing things in Iran et al, check the resource curse on Wikipedia. Countries that weren't democracies when they found oil didn't become democracies. (Norway already was democratic before the oil.) It is just too lucrative for the leaders to oppress the population and steal the money.
Correct … but do not forget that there is Google Apps for Business too where you are not shown any ads.
Oblivious software person here: what does this new architecture mean for folks writing software on top of it? Is this a way to gain extra performance in single-threaded applications? What happens to concurrency? What's the long-term vision?
The article suggests that the final versions are only available in hardback printed form.
With apologies, if a proponent of an algorithm cannot tell me under what circumstances the proposed algorithm would do better, the proponent is selling me snake oil. There has to be some quantitative statements about their properties, not necessarily proof of convergence to the global optimum. Otherwise it is not science, (yet). Its not an understanding of the space of an arbitrary problem that I desire, it is a measurable or mathematical characterization of the space where these algorithms work well, ideally the process of measurement should be cheaper than applying the algorithm.

EDIT: replaced 'you' with 'proponent' lest it gives the impression that I meant it personally.
Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please don't buy Fiat 500e electric car
This strongly reminds me of the first chapter of Greg Egan's Diaspora [1] (which I can't recommend enough) in which newly-formed AIs bootstrap their way to consciousness in part by connecting randomly to an online library and using the various data streams to build up an associative model of the world.

[1] http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/01/Orphano...
I made a Halo 5 Web UI
That analogue world we live in is the macroscopic manifestation of a lot of quantized stuff underneath. It's just that the steps are (a lot) smaller!
Google will still scan your mails but you will not be shown any ads.

I agree that Gmail (especially via Google Apps for Business) is a great mail provider. My main beef with Gmail is the sub-par IMAP support.
I think one of source of intelligence in humans is "imagination".

IMO "Imagination" itself isn't intelligence but an input to the last "intelligent" activity.

Computers can be taught to exhibit different "intelligent" activities and that is AI & Machine learning is all about.

Human imagination works without any knowledge skill or learning (it is just my understanding, and i might be wrong).

Producing rough and wild-west imagination isn't problem of AI.
I'm trying to develop my skills in UI and web development, would be nice to hear your thoughts.
Now I need to go buy another keyboard. Thanks :)

To the GP: Swizec has it, please don't stop.
Yahoo don't care about the user experience. I hate the fact that flickr was bought by them and not Google. The requirement to have a Yahoo account to sign in to it is a bit of a joke, considering how their mail service might as well not exist any more.
Seconded. Diaspora is one of the best sci if books I've read. Highly recommend it (and all of Egan's work) to the HN community.
Bitcoin wizards
No, Fastmail does not support actual 2FA. You can add alternative login methods, for example Google Authenticator, but you can always login with your password only, i.e., it is not like Gmail where you have to use 2FA for untrusted devices or logins from strange locations plus specific passwords for IMAP etc. And the configuration screen is a mess:

http://i.imgur.com/NzW8o5h.png
http://i.imgur.com/dmoBbpy.png
The kind of brain necessary for programming is the one that sees something it doesn't understand and then does everything it can to learn what it didn't understand.

The real reward in programming is clearly seeing how much your understanding has grown. But at the same time you're humbled by how much you have yet to learn.
Although the basic assumption by the author seems to be correct, the author himself is not very far in his journey to become a programming master. I now study and work in programming for about 7 years. About 3 years into programming I thought the same way as the author: Tutorials and copy&paste.

If you reach a certain level tutorials become a waste of time, because you don't need structural help any more. You also understand that you shouldn't google how to implement a specific solution in the language of choice but which solution in that language solves the given problem. You also don't copy&paste because just solving a single problem is not the question any more. You can already solve most problems. It's more that the desire to improve leads to learning new principles, which means hand-copying small code examples (sometimes from actual programs not from SO questions) and playing with them until you get a feel for it and then start to use it in your daily programming tasks.
In an interview just couple of days ago Knuth said something like 2% of human population finds this new "computational thinking" as native. Now we have 10% plus graduates coming out of Princeton and MITs in CS!

But what caught me is this line:
Students	are	ﬁguring	out	that	all	of	the	STEM	jobs	are	in
computer	science

That pie chart is probably the most striking manifestation of "software is eating the world".
Code in Motion – An Interstellar Inspired Visualization for the JVM
Humans can already fall in love with computers and virtual personalities, so we're halfway there
Poor guy. He played the "secret chord" of maker crowdfunding: Linux, Network, GPIO, <=$20.

Looks like he was planning on making about 300 units by hand. Now he has to make nearly 700 and it hasn't even been a week. 8 weeks left to go.

Good luck. May the maker gods smile upon you.
Automating is not just about speeding up the process; it's also a way of lowering the bus factor[1] of the process. What happens when you go on vacations, or you get sick? Do the websites stop being backed up?

Besides, you should always document your process, and writing a backup script doesn't really take much more time than a detailed description in English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
If the final word doesn't come out until 5 years after the decision is announced, what are they supposed to do in the interim? Especially considering that these opinions are used in colleges teaching law and are referenced in textbooks. They can't just pretend the opinion didn't happen for 5 years.
To reuse an old post:

> [I]t has to do with relative growth/shrinkage and the base of the positional-numbering system you're using. If you have a random starting value (X) multiplied by a second random factor (Y), most of the time the result will start with a one.

> You're basically throwing darts at logarithmic graph paper! The area covered by squares which "start with 1" is larger than the area covered by square which "start with 9".
I'm surprised to see so many left-wing views on HN. I thought most hackers were libertarians.
I appreciate the transparency of the author including links to negative reviews on the page. Kudos for that.
Bionic particles self-assemble to capture light
Remind HN: Towel Day
The folly of premined cryptocurrencies is a well explored and established fact in the realm of altcoins. Somehow ripple thought they where immune.
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims
The God Particle – Monumental Higgs Field Breakthrough – The Higgs Boson
Don't be ridiculous. That does not make "You are doing god's work, son. Thank you." any less ad hominem, nor do you actually demonstrate any reasons. Your argument amounts to "copy+paste coding is bad, therefore your codebase is bad", yet at no point explains why. But keep downvoting anyone who points that out :)
I didn't miss this part - you didn't put any reasoning behind it.
The bias is not magical at all if it is against complexity - it's what underpins occam's razor.
I agree with the sentiment but running nginx+Python on an embedded MIPS device? That's getting pretty ridiculous! Better to go the other way (lower-level), I think.
I have been programming professionally for 10 years, 5 years more as a hobby. I have been paid 100s of thousands of dollars, my code is used daily by 10s of thousands of people, I have built large, complex systems from scratch, worked in teams and by myself. The things I make do what they're supposed to, they don't break often[1], tend to be fast and usually my client is a happy bunny.

I can fix anyone's code, even when I've never used the language before [2] and it was written by an outsourced programmer who quite obviously only read "how to write SatanScript in 28 days" and then was locked in a room for 2 years until his program kinda worked if you held it upside down while reciting the words to Annie.

I am confident I am a good coder at this point in my career, and much better than many of the programmers I have met. There are a handful I have met that I know are better than me.

I would only have a vague idea of how to do a integer => string conversion with base N without googling it. So am I shit? Am I suddenly a useless programmer because lazyjones only likes people who studied CS? Even though I can understand that code in a glance and rewrite it, often better or clearer than the SO example?

You have picked an arbitrary, and extremely rare in the programming world, standard. No-one needs to write their own string handling routines any more.

Programming is hard and there are many different flavours.

And yours is an old fashioned favour from the early 00s. Stop judging people by it.

[1] Apart from my very bad habit of making a minor last minute tweak or bug fix, not testing it, and introducing an easily fixed bug

[2] They're all pretty much the same after you've used 3 or 4.
This number is very deceiving so be careful comparing your salary with it. Problem is that vast majority of population does not live in the SF, NYC, Seattle area so the median of entire US population is not comparable for people who live in these areas. The median metric is especially notorious in eliminating outliers like these areas.

Even within these areas, you want to compare your income with median in your closest neighbourhood of about 10,000 people. In most of these neighbourhoods with tech population, $90 would probably place you in bottom 30% bucket. In essence, you will be relatively "poor" and get pushed you out to fat outer areas of community where there are either no good schools, facilities and/or commute is ridiculous.

Always look at median of your target neighbour to compare your income, not the national median.
If anyone speaks dutch here, you should view the Video reports that Tweakers did some time ago about Dutch people in US. For ex. About Java founder Arthur van Hoff http://goo.gl/qlEPYX

And many others (you can find the other ones in the right sidebar with : "Gerelateerde inhoud")

It's actually a very interesting video-series about designers at Apple or UX experts at Adobe for example. And more importantly, how they got there.
I wonder. If they have an exhaustive vocabulary would it be possible to generate a picture of what the system believes an object to look like? I know that there is something called generative models in machine learning and my guess is that it could be applied here.
Are you saying that DoJ lied with this graph?

If so, can you post a single proof of that.

You're asking for "usable" sources and in fact you don't have provided a single one.

It is clear that you won't believe any source so, have a good day
Google updates logo, moves 'g' and 'l' by one pixel each
If Euclid Played Video Games, This Is The App He'd Build To Teach Geometry
The 3rd article touches on this saying that there is more to localisation than just translation, but one of the hardest parts of localisation is how you actually charge people for your content. The issue is more than just a few places like China, outside of the main Western countries a lot of people don't have credit cards or don't want to associate them with their app store account.

"As an example Fortumo elaborates there are four times more mobile phones in the world than credit cards and in countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China, credit card ownership is as low as 15%." [1]

One of the best ways (at least for the user) is operator billing, using this the charge is deducted from the user's prepay balance (or added to their postpay bill, but again contracts are uncommon outside Western countries). If they need to buy more Farmville stars they can just go to a shop and top up their phone. Google supports this on a limited number of operators, but even in places like the UK where operator billing is quite mature, they only support it on one. Companies like Fortumo are doing better, but there are still a lot of local payment options missed by this.

As much as companies such as PayPal like to say they are the solution for global payments, the problem isn't solved yet.

[1] http://www.arcticstartup.com/2014/03/25/fortumo-opens-fund-o...
I agree with them.
Mankind spends an insane amount of money for useless endeavours, the search for extraterrestial life could turn out to be one of the most important projects for mankind and deserves more attention and funds.
1. That is not true because even if every bit of information is made inherently public it does not mean that the information is not prone to manipulation.

2. Well, there should be laws that enforce that the privacy stuff is included in every product. Windows and walls will work with noise cancelling and act as a Faraday cage. Windows will also need to have mirrors on the outside.

3. That's why I wrote 'wider' in parens. Of course one would be able to widen the privacy sphere, i.e. you'll still be able to join gatherings in a completely natural way.

4. Again, I didn't say that you shouldn't be able to reveal yourself. If you want to share all your relevant thoughts and actions with your coworkers you are free to do so. I think with a slick user interface (e.g. a brain implant) and various automatic/self-adapting filters that could work quite unobtrusively, so I don't think your usability objections are particulary strong arguments.
I would imagine it depends on how intelligent.

On the other hand, I suppose life forms could exist that aren't bothered by massive amounts of radiation.
GitLab B.V. CEO here. You are correct that we have a community and enterprise version of the software. The vast majority of features is available in the community version https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ and many organizations run it with thousands of users.
All those compilers you use are correct, for a very precise definition of correct

Are they? How do we know? And if they are, why is GCC's list of major and critical bugs[1], for example, longer than a laundry list?

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=critic...
Citizens of the EU, remember to vote today
Libraries yes, copypasta no. They're maintained, have tests, and a download/follower count.
How many users at one time can my site handle? (Test)
Vila Nova de Famalicão Recebe Curso de Reabilitação de Edifícios
The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship (2013)
I appreciate your opinion, because its food for thought, which is always great. Actually, it's really hard to refute your point after giving it some thought. But then again, I am pretty sure that there is a difference. I think it lies in the "universality" of our knowledge creation capabilities. In the end, we (humans) are the ones who fathered (mothered?) the algorithms driving the chess computer. I.e. we discovered an alternative way to reason about problems arising in a play of chess. It turns out, that the alternative solution we discovered, is actually better suited to make a successful move than the one humans use when reasoning about chess problems. This is because there is no "fundamental principle" of a successful chess move. It's all just predictions down different branches of possibilities. This is something a computer is naturally much better at than a human brain. Compare this to problems in different domains, those that cannot be modeled with our mathematical tool set: creativity, morality, consciousness, etc. Those a random concepts that may exist on different levels of emergence, but they are nonetheless real, or at least i'd say there is a consensus among most people that these phenomena have a bearing in reality.

The assumption that our brains are nothing but glorified (bio-) computers naturally leads to the conclusion that there is not a single thing humans can do, that cannot be done by any other equally capable computing platform, be it implemented in silicon-based or dna-based hardware. While I agree with this assumption, you shouldn't be so quick as to assume that we are already at the point where we can effectively re-implement the software which defines a human on any platform. There are a still "hard" problems of which we have no clue at all how to model them, even conceptually. The fact that we can do statistical analysis on an ordinary computer superior to a human doesn't mean much.
Exactly, but my partner wasn't the most patient person and in all fairness it was typical to 3,000 or more connections active to the database. With that many queries outstanding and the dead locks it was always a bit hairy trying to find them.. Meanwhile every teenager on the planet was hitting their refresh button trying to figure out why the site was down.. :-)
I'm surprised you see them as "left-wing".

Are these "left-wing" too?
* http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/inequali...
* http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/is-piketty-all-w...
Or perhaps a more likely scenario - most of in Western Europe wouldn't be eating anything for dinner as we would never have existed. "Reasoning":

- Without an Allied landing, the Soviets would probably have "liberated" all territories occupied by the Nazis

- The UK would probably still be free - but an even more important base for operations against the Soviets than it was in reality

- The US would have felt even more threatened by the Soviets than they did

- A nuclear "Sunday Punch" first strike against the Soviets and all of their occupied territories would have become even more likely (and SAC showed no discrimation in who they would bomb until well into the 60s - the original versions of the SIOP involved bombing everyone who was 'socialist' even if they weren't allies of the Soviets and there was only one plan).

- The UK would have been utterly destroyed by Soviet weapons - but that seems to have been a part of pretty much all Cold War scenarios... :-|

[NB The Soviets on the English Channel is part of the scenario for Charlie Stross's novella "Missile Gap"]
I made a gif for easy comparison: http://i.imgur.com/ltqwgvL.gif
Clearly someone at Google does:)

In fact, I almost guarantee this change had multiple people involved, and probably at least several internal discussions.

Source: Used to work on the team responsible for the webserver that serves the Google homepage.
You couldn't argue against my comment directly in place, because you were scared of getting an answer?

My point was that all undemocratic juntas need to have/create external enemies. That is hardly controversial. Today the democratic West seems to be preferred for the enemy role, so democratic opposition is treason.

>> Any form of government that "we" don't like is lying about everything

Well, you (and the juntas that can't lose elections) must be right, it is just a western conspiracy! Including those lying measurements of human/press/election/etc freedoms from Amnesty, HRW, etc!

It doesn't bother you to have the same opinions as disgusting dictators? But, of course, it is all USAs fault anyway?

I voted you up, for the humor. And for recommending to keep politics off HN.

Edit: Seriously, thanks. Your personal insults and parody of my position (hidden in another place!) was the closest I got to a relevant reply. (If you had a real answer you would have written that, so the insults say more about you than me.)

Edit 2: You even inverted my position, I never claimed "The US (and Europe) has set out to antagonize not only Iran, but Russia, and China."
Who noticed, how and why?
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
Where is the code? is that opensource?
and which programming language it uses?
I imagine the updated url was noticed. Decrement the last number in the url to see older images, e.g. https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo1w.png
Challenge accepted https://gist.github.com/petkaantonov/067c5f21395e7fe1f81d
Maybe put the date in the title (2008)
Just flag the post and move on.
Using a pen instead of a word processor may adapt our mind to "getting it right the first time". We might need word processors that limits editing?
fairly oblivious also, but here are some semi-informed guesses:

> what does this new architecture mean for folks writing software on top of it?

i think the plan is to use a custom compiler (made out of LLVM components) to build usual C to run within usual linux, except linux is on top of L4.

> What's the long-term vision?

rather than maximizing "compute per chip", maximize "compute per electricity." (and, presumably, cloud all the things.)
I was referring to the comments you often find in political threads on HN.
Earthquakes | Caltech
Someone got paid far above minimum wage to do this. I am not saying it is not deserved just that some people move graphics a pixel a month and tank $300K starting. Others work their asses off physically and maybe make 1/10th of that at their peek.
Seems too good to be true - but I'm not a hardware guy. Something like this looks like a Godsend for wearable computing, drones/copters, smart toys, household automation, etc. Can anyone with more clue comment?
There are still millions of people who don't have smartphones [1], for one. I'd imagine that there's a nontrivial overlap between that group and people who fly.

1. https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2014/2/comS...
I like the old logo better.
Is train/test split part of a normal statistics?