skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? I am from India and not a full time developer but mostly system admin/solutions designer/architect (Linux, Windows and networking). I can also code, while my code may not be an elegant as 10+ years experienced in the c , erlang or haskell and may not use clojure, mvc or other frameworks because i don't know how to use them and for smaller projects most of boiler plate code is reusable. (Pls note I don't disagree framework usage for large projects but if the software you develop is not going to have more than 100 concurrent connections then I don't see the need for breakthrough coding and rather straight for python, c# or vb.net will do). At the same time for desktop , server sizing , engineering and setting up an IT shop the right way , I can tell you that i am as competent or better than any westerner. yep i may have my own reasons to believe MS stack or Linux stack is good enough certain workloads depending on situation but i can tell you that i can manage complex enough systems with very little time including the understanding process and will come up with improvements with if few weeks. so please do not generalize. Half of corporate america software is maintained by Indians and i can tell you that before Indians came to outsourcing the code or maintenance for the same was not that great. The IT mess(with outsourcing) is not because of Indians or westerners but mostly due to way you see and use Indians, give them chance to prove and I am sure you will be surprised what a well coordinated equal opportunity team can do. Please note that we don't work the same way as you do and for us to speak up it requires lot of training and comfort with the party we deal, also please note that the competition for us is not just westerners but also with in. Happy help in case if you have specific issue dealing with Indians.
I find it a bit odd they crashed one because the pilot didn't realize it was upside down, I would expect there would be some intelligence to the avionics, like - NO DAVE I WILL NOT DO THAT.

Let alone automating landings, I guess corners have to be cut in places.

Now as for civilian drones, liability laws will quickly sort this out. The desire to have them will come up against the costs to insure them leading to better designs and rapid improvements. The military can afford to lose its toys, private individuals don't usually have that luxury
That's not what that site is saying.

For my PyCon Russia talk, I pulled down the data for all 44,402 packages (as of May 31). 13.5% of all packages on PyPI support some version of Python 3. 75.5% of the top 200 packages by download count claim to support some Python 3 version (according to their setup.py classifiers). Additionally, 64% of the top 500 support some Python 3 version.

Another interesting thing I saw was that of those 44K packages, 44% of them have seen a release within the last 12 months (representing 82% of the last month's download share), and 22% of those packages released in the last year support some version of Python 3.
Money isn't the reason you're looking to leave, so don't make money the reason you stay.
Assuming you know the frequency a drone is flying on, it is trivial to jam. However a lot of the more advanced flight control systems (even on hobbyist drones) will have a failsafe that causes it to return to home or similar in the case of loss of radio contact. I suppose even in that situation you could use a GPS jammer to stop that from happening. Of course this would all be highly illegal.
Are America's poorest better off because of technology, or better off because of America's dominance over the rest of the world's resources?

My suspicion is that as the developing world becomes more educated, the poor and middle class in the US will look poorer. Some of this might be an actual loss in standard of living as the share of global resources the US can consume drops. This change, induced by technology (mass education) is going to be a bigger issue for the developed world sooner than computers-taking-away-jobs will be.

Presumably more educated people are less likely to give away their resources for cheap (or in corrupt countries for free), less likely to work 16 hours a day in a factory, to accept mass pollution as a by product of manufacturing, etc. That is just an assumption, it could be wrong and education will have no impact on these things.

The psychological aspect -- comparatively, might have more to do with whether an individual thinks their condition is improving as opposed to the distance between individuals.

If you generally believe what Ray Kurzweil predicts, none of this will really matter in 2100 as we could be well in to the post-human era. Humans, in their natural form, could very well be relics in a zoo.
Even after taking several machine learning classes and learning about neural networks several times, I still don't have a good intuition on how these network works in practice. Being able to visualize how learning algorithm evolves is super helpful. Awesome work karpathy!
If the Itar-tass article is right, this makes no sense because the chips are destined for government computers and state-run companies. There are probably easier ways to snoop on those computers.

And why would Russia not be afraid of the NSA, after all they are a prime target.
Still remember the days when I used to religiously read their NNTP feed, until it got shut down. Still subscribe to the RSS, not for much longer I guess.
> Also, without the resources of DuPont she never would have been able to create this material.

Irrelevant. The need for capital doesn't inherently justify capital receiving ~100% of the proceeds. Her work was also a necessary part of creating the product.

> She collected a salary, and I would hope that she indirectly financially benefited from potential promotions or raises.

I don't think you understand how bad chemists have it. The guy who invented lipitor ($120 billion in revenue) was unceremoniously laid off from Pfizer for his trouble. He didn't get a penny on top of his salary -- a salary that half of the readers of this post probably wouldn't accept for a software development position.

> just because she didn't become fabulously wealthy doesn't mean she was treated poorly

No, but the labor force of industrial chemists is generally a heavily deleveraged group. There's an oversupply of them and they absolutely require intensive capital resources for success. That means they get systematically shafted at the bargaining table. They are treated poorly regardless of whether or not this individual incident is sufficient to prove it.

Due to the fact that software development has tiny capital requirements and that there are many industrial positions available for software engineers, we are able to negotiate much more reasonable terms of employment (i.e. capture a comparatively respectable fraction of the value we create). We have it good. Unusually good. It's important to remember that this is not because markets operate that way in general. It's a happy accident that has turned out well for us so far. Nothing more, nothing less. The very least we can do is refrain from victim-blaming in industries where labor is not blessed with the same happy accident.
Taxi medallions have also been a great barrier to entry in the taxi business. John Stossel investigated this a while ago:

http://youtu.be/anKCO99_O8s?t=1m53s
This Tolkien quote builds a similar circular definition of "worth", which might be amenable to the same kind of analysis. https://twitter.com/JRRTolkien/status/480127254857400320
There is a good solution: don't bring your data. It is a problem if the place you are going doesn't have broadband, but then again there may be little work that can be done in such a place.
Probably will mirror the experience Britain had once the pound lost its reserve status.
What is the optimal spare magazine to federal funds rate ratio?
Ask HN: Why do you use SlideShare?
Please, help me understand.
That stuff plus the terrible state of datetimess and the lack of obvious operator overrides like being able to test string equality with ==.
At a "high enough altitude" it probably wouldn't have crashed ;-)
Accuracy of three major weather forecasting services
Is a directed EMP beam possible to fry some its electronics. Also presumably if it uses GPS and not inertial systems a GPS jammer might be useful.

[This is just theoretical, don't try any of this it is probably highly illegal]
It's very long but written in a light, readable style.

What I took away from it was the point late-on about, if we had a PageRank-type system for establishing trust in issues that drive policy (such as climate change), then it would show where a group had left the consensus and formed a separate talking-shop that was trying to shout down the greater consensus.

I think this actually applies back to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma games. The 'morality' calculation might not be able to perfectly establish what is moral and immoral behaviour, for the reasons given in the article, but it ought to be able to establish where groups are not working to the moral codes of the majority, perhaps because they are discriminating or discriminated against, but also possibly because they are co-conspiring.
If it isn't willful, then you need to demonstrate that that you're not totally ignorant of the concerns people have. Educating yourself isn't our job; it's yours.
Right now you only have the choice of a transaction with chargeback guarentees and other credit card niceities.

With something like bitcoin as an option, you have the option to drop that fraud overage charge, when you aren't worried about the other party (like in a repeated business scenario, such as amazon, or for a tiny purchase, or other things of that nature).
Here's one way to figure out the valuation of your bootstrapped company.

If you continue running the business and pursue your current operating plan, how much cash will you have in the bank in year 5 and year 10? (Broad estimates are fine)

Generally speaking, your year 5 and year 10 estimate is going to represent a reasonable approximation of your company's valuation range.

For example, let's say you believe you will have $5.5m in the bank in year 5 and $12m in the bank in year 10. Your valuation will approximately be $5.5m to $12m.

Financial buyers will generally offer $5.5m. Strategic buyers will generally be willing to pay $12m or more depending on the prospective synergies/option value of the assets.

That said, you'll need to ask yourself how much money are you willing to accept today to walk away from $12m over 10 years. Are you willing to accept $5.5m in exchange for more freedom/time to devote to other things that may add more personal/financial value over those 10 years.

(Many startups are optimizing for high option value and this approach might not be appropriate for those companies)
“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
More than anything I am ecstatic to hear that First Nations are playing a key role in the archaeological work. It's a great way to integrate cutting-edge technology while simultaneously encouraging teenagers to become interested in their heritage.
> C is not that fast. One of the major problems is that it's close to hardware.

These days the most important factor to performance, in almost all programs, is memory accesses.

Writing cache-friendly code is made relatively easy by C. You control the placement of your data into aligned cache lines. You control the order in which the cache lines are accessed.

The cost of the computational instructions is usually swallowed by the memory misses.

C's common ABI (for x86/64) now passes up to 6 parameters via registers, and doesn't unnecessarily spill to the stack. Additionally, link-time optimizations now allow cross-compilation-unit inlining which can optimize away the ABI costs.
First off 1988 is 26 years ago.

Second, 450 square meters is about 1/9th of an acre or a little under 5,000 square feet which is not actually that big. Also, you don't really get uniformity with floating debris it's a mix of high and low concentrations the real issue is what the average concentration because you could double the amount of debris and still have large gaps. More to the point they are sampling that area not fully straining 450 square meters.

PS: Not that I think this is an important issue, just trying to be clear.
But it could have stalled or got into a spin didn't have enough time to recover.
I recall my then-wife looking over my shoulder as my web browser auto-completed "freshmeat.net". Unsurprisingly, she immediately grew suspicious and expected to see a porn site pop up.

An institution for a very long time, definitely something from a different era. Farewell old friend.
I don't think there's anything chimps could do that would cause humans to provide for more than a tiny fraction of them; farmland that produced bananas for chimps last year might be converted to biofuel or parkland or just lie fallow this year.

Ultimately the problem will be that for the vast, vast majority of tasks, it would be orders of magnitude cheaper to spawn a new process to take care of it than to ask a human to do it.
Ugh, Stossel. Taxi deregulation has been done many times before. Try this: http://toomanytaxis.com/2009/01/taxi-deregulation-brings-onl...
IMO, there is no user need for this. As a freelancer, putting my client's work in someone else's hands would be more stressful than me doing the work on holiday myself.

If you're problem is that you're weak at finding work, would it not be easier to hire someone that would specialise in that & put them on a commission basis?
Xpire: The App Developed by a College Student, Funded by Mark Cuban
I'm surprised you haven't bought the PipBoy4000 with the SurvivorMate addon. Just a press of a button inflates a life size doll decoy, buying just enough time ...
How much can someone who already has their own car make doing Lyft, UberX or Sidecar? It might be a good option for empty-nesters who need extra cash but don't want to sell assets or dip into pension pots.
I'd say its good in the first context. But when I hear the term, I usually think of the second one.
"The threat to medallion owners isn’t that they’ll lose passengers to these services. It’s that they’ll lose drivers — who have been aggressively courted by Uber.
“Without the drivers, we’re dead,”
"

Oh really? Please tell me again how people were thinking a gimmick that's valuable only because of a government imposed monopoly is a sound investment.

The bubble is popping. And it would be interesting to ask why did the price started going up around the 2000s...
Missing E-Mail Is the Least of the IRS's Problems
Unfortunately, development stopped over 2 years ago.
At least for me, it didn't work flawlessly as wifi connections were randomly dropped every couple of minutes or hours - switching to NM solved that.
Big Publishing is the Problem
Is this a big needed feature? It's actually really easy to pull of, cairo's backend can be switched from using images to svg, to pdf's. It's just switching the backend and once the renderer is done just spit out the results.

Add it as a feature request on github and i'll add it to the api.
Hardware for autonomous flight will have to include both GPS and inertial sensors. I suppose an EMP beam could theoretically be used to damage the electronics, but it probably isn't very practical and the electronics could easily be designed to shield against this if it became a legitimate threat.
The fact that scientists are human beings is so obvious and banal that it adds nothing to the discussion of this particular experiment.
Just another business model that refuses to evolve. Driverless cars will be here soon enough and the model will have to change again. That's life.

If history has proven anything, it is that evolution always wins.
I don't know if I'd say that's a good solution. If travelling for pleasure, that would mean wiping my personal data from my device - contacts, messages, emails. It would also mean logging out of all network services. Or just leaving that data at home. Being able to stay in touch while away, and retain access to my online accounts is really useful.

If travelling for business (even to a country with poor broadband access) I may still need access to vital business data. I can't always leave this at home.

Sure, I could VPN home but if I am to travel with no private data at all then that would preclude the possibility of using certificate based encryption and relying on less secure (and memorisable) passwords.

Travelling without data is very difficult today, unless you plan on being completely disconnected.
this great comic strip

Talking points from this great book: "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman, from 1985: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_ourselves_to_death
Quantum Computing Research May Back Controversial Company
Yup, very true. I just wrote this in a comment down another branch:

> The key point for smaller states, in my opinion, is that their constituents care. I feel like people are more apathetic in larger states, because they have less power individually, and their responsibility to keep their government accountable is further absolved. When you get people to care, and give them power collectively, everything else follows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925738
I like how you totally ignore my point, then rephrase it as your own. I explicitly said that there was no "cave diet" or any other diet.

Then I expressed what I believe to be the healthiest diet there is.

There are people living off cheetos and ding-dongs with cola their only beverage, but that doesn't mean much with regard to what I'm talking about.

Humans can live off
Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
I now realize I should have copied the text into the comment in the first place.
You don't think Google search or iPhone have had a major impact on society?
That does not make it any better, to be frank.
Sad to see IRC fading away, imho it is far supperior to many modern alternatives.
I was using several VPN connections for quite a while now. At least 2 years (it could work before that, i just didn't have to use more than one vpn before)
As Aaronson points out, PageRank has a few edge-cases when used to do this analysis, basically because it treats its graph as a closed, internally-solipsistic system--it has no definition of morality other than what each of its nodes prefer of one-another. This works if you have a diverse spectrum of preference functions distributed among the nodes (the result tends toward a "live and let live" meta-ethics), but if your analysis is aimed at a preferentially homogeneous group (e.g. Nazi Germany), PageRank won't give you the solution of "move the 'evil' majority toward the tenets of the good minority." It'll instead suggest that the optimal system would have the 'good' minority give up and become 'evil'.

Scott Alexander suggests (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/20/ground-morality-in-part...) you could instead use DW-nominate, the tool that does meta-cluster-analysis to mathematically detect "party lines" in congress (which are basically just clusters in human-utility-function-space anyway), to find what preference-subfunctions (e.g. helping old ladies cross the street, returning a wallet you find laying on the ground) correlate together into a cluster (that might be called 'goodness') -- and then grounding/normalizing the PageRank analysis with that, such that you can tell whether the system as a whole is in a 'good' or 'evil' state.
This is certainly a well researched one. And seeing so many versions throughout the history, does make me think, if some is going to change it again :).

Well Steve Jobs introduced fonts to computer. Something that he stole from the hands of specialized calligraphers and enabled everyone to produce great content.
I really liked looking at the vibrations of the drops. Especially the drop at 15s. I think it is the l=2 mode?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUDapZ7WlQ&t=0m15s
Both men and women are called "Stephanie", although in the US it is mostly a female name.

http://www.babynames.it/boyname/Stephanie-meaning.htm

The mistake was to assume a male. It doesn't matter what the name was.
> Unfortunately, the reference code is more than 12.000 lines of unrolled C code. This code is basically duplicated without a thought in every single project.

Not by me. Overly bulky code is one of my pet peeves[1]. Here is my implementation of HQ2x in 6KB, 188 lines of code (not including the header file, which is 1KB and used for external linking.)

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=DsNupdbc

I devised a few observations to reduce the code. First is that the 256 patterns have four cases for each corner. If you rotate the eight surrounding pixels twice, the case blending rules match another corner (sans two cases which appear to be typos in the original algorithm. I asked the author, he apparently made the entire unrolled table by hand.) Now that the algorithm is cut down by 75%, put the switch statement into a lookup table.

To speed up the algorithm (and which further reduces its size), I use an old 16<>32-bit expand/compact trick, a YUV lookup table, and a really clever mask compare that blargg came up with. At this point, my version is already significant faster than the original algorithm. But I also added in OpenMP parallelization support, which really makes things run fast on multicore systems.

But anyway ... this guy clearly bested me. 560 lines with HQ3x and HQ4x included is even more impressive. Hats off to him!

([1] I also have inflate in 8kb of code, unzip in (inflate+2KB) of code, PNG decompression in (inflate+8kb) of code, SHA256 hashing in 4KB of code, an SMTP client with authentication+MIME attachments+HTML in 8KB of code, an XML parser (sans DTDs) in 6KB of code, etc.)
that would be great!
Speakability iOS App – Open Source on GitHub
I never understood why everyone whines about Go's speed. The language, although stable, has a lot of potential into becoming much faster and performant. In every new version you can find speed-ups into different parts of it. I really don't worry about performance in Go. The Go team are very conscious about it and i am glad the bulk of development has been focused on things under the hood rather than adding features.
CSS seems to define about a 150 named colours. One more shouldn't make a noticeable difference.

(there is a list here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value )
>fear that someone else has control over your destiny

That's true for people here. Most of society want "bread and circuses". Money is not the only motivator, so not inevitable to sustain growth. There is also problem with growth measurements e.g. Github improved my life by a lot, but contributed little to GDP.