skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think s/he has a point. Some people would want to login and manage their upload files.

Though you can pretty much upload files without having to login whatsoever. Pretty much similar to Github Gist, or Imgur.
>I'd argue we haven't made such large, significant technology leaps in such a short span

In 1999 I used a card catalog at my rural library to get an encyclopedia from 1989.

Just today I used my cell phone to call my friend who is quite literally halfway around the world and had a real time video chat with her. This happened in 14 years.
lord knows none of the anti-prop 30 campaigners let that stop them...

feel free to also compare to austerity measures under brownback in kansas
Instead of looking for someone else with an idea I would just build for something you love. For example, lets say your hobby is hiking. Build the hiking app you wish existed. Imagine the future, 10 years from now - what would a hiking app do? Just try to build that now.

If you try to build someone else's idea the passion will be hard to find. Your idea, your passion will be what keeps you up at midnight when you would rather head off to bed.
Surprised I'm the first to mention For All Mankind as another great Apollo documentary. It was nominated for an academy award and is really well polished. Brian Eno did an amazing score of ambient music for it too. Don't go in expecting a factual run down of the Apollo era, in fact there's no narration at all and just great clips and bits of actual film from the training, launches, missions, etc. Criterion Collection has a great release of it that's worth a purchase if you're at all interested in space or the Apollo missions.
Apple once told us that the best way to write applications for the iPhone was using web pages. Caveat emptor.
To avoid backdoors in the chip design.
I really, really hope this flies. There are very few places on the internet with good quality discussions on gamedev. r/gamedev is nice, but not enough.
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Possibly I am just a noob, but at least for me having a simple "how to use" page with some info would be very useful.
Even if I have a 10" display, I don't want my computer effectively transcoding video all day, degrading my wifi connection, and my iPad to have 5 seconds of latency making it impossible to see what I type. If the client and host have hardware to handle the resolution on-chip (upscaling/downscaling or compression/decompression), then that's a fair statement. To be fair, this might be the case. Regardless of the physical size of the display, it sets off reliability alarm bells to say "hey, we'll just compress 2048x1536 video on the computer, stream it over wifi, and decompress it on a tablet."
Okay, compare the muslim/"Mughal" invasion of India to oh, say 100 Hiroshima's. Then tell me which is worse. I think you'll agree that the invasion was much, much worse.

ICBMs are not the world-enders their reputation seems to indicate. The real problem with ICBMs is that nothing can stop them. You know where someone is, an ICBM can kill them, with very, very few exceptions. No other technology will do that. That's why they're so feared. Not because they'll "end" a country, but because politicians fear for their own skin. Russia can destroy the white house, and there isn't a damn thing the US can do to stop them using ICBMs (one would not reliably do it).

By far the most scary weapon in the world is extremely humble : knives. Not even "scary" knives. Think blunt, 10cm long or less, knives. They are by a ridiculous margin, the weapon most people were killed with. The second place are short, curved swords.
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It doesn't assume that we can simply add their annoyance together. It assumes that, whatever function computes the badness of some badness applied to multiple people, it diverges and does so fast enough (where "fast enough" will probably include "exceptionally slowly", but in principle there are sufficiently slow divergent functions).

I don't think this is well enough established, though it seems plausible.
The thing that really shocked me about the Apollo missions was how quickly they jumped from testing the hardware to actual mission to the moon. The _second_ manned launch of Apollo (and _first_ manned launch of the incredible Saturn V rocket) went straight out to the moon and orbited before returning back to Earth! The next missions did a few tests of the lunar lander in space, and the fifth manned mission was Apollo 11 which finally landed. Crazy to think of all the systems, hardware, etc. that just had a couple shakedown flights before the real deal. Incredibly impressive engineering to pull off such a feat without more problems.
Sounds like a win for your brother in my opinion. That company was probably an awful place to work.
Thanks. I think that's exactly what my short-term vision looks like, and I can't imagine going back to school anyway. But the main challenge for finding a PM role in a startup: "Requires minimum 3+ years managing a product"
Sadly, this has the ear-marks of "we've abandoned the project we previously claimed was worth thousands-per-license and so we thought we'd open-source it".

It would have been much nicer is Numenta had done open source when they had money and people working for them.

It's a shame also in the sense that while Jeff Hawkin's overall paradigm is certainly too simplistic and too ready to dismiss other research, I think his call to have broad paradigms[1] that are made explicit is good even if modern neuroscientists are more aware of the problems he mentions.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_w...
Sounds like Steve Blank's advice. Thanks for the heads up.
First programming BASIC in High School 80-83 - 6502 Assembly, databases, computer history, etc.etc. self taught afterwards.

Mostly through books and magazines
Thanks. What is the difference between a Product and Project Manager, from what you know?
I am usually comfortable engaging with and learning from people who hold completely different world views (that is usually the point of learning after all).

This one is a bit hard to take anything from: (ad hominem)
"I'm a Certified Holistic Life Coach, Public Speaker, Facilitator, Reiki Master and Animal Communicator. I help people and animals redefine themselves so they can map and move into their true potential,..."
Wouldn't testing a Tesla Roadster make more sense here?
Eh, ancient wisdom doesn't seem to have done a great job in terms of moral codes. Slavery, institutionalised racism and sexism, foot-binding, debtor's prisons, despotism, pedophilia; all examples of practices deriving from ancient wisdom that today are considered unacceptable.
These are my go-tos for quick testing with real data. I've published a paper or two using these datasets (obtained from SNAP).

There are also some decent large graphs of different types from various DIMACS challenges that people may find useful (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dimacs10/downloads.shtml).
This project is not abandoned, it is thriving. See http://www.ohloh.net/p/nupic, as well as the original announcement at http://numenta.org/blog/2013/06/03/introducing-nupic.html. The old closed-source version was abandoned a long time ago, and this is the newest stuff. Check out the wiki for videos, examples, tutorials, etc. https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki
Agreed! I was just addressing the type of startups you mentioned!
Did Neil Armstrong really say “that's one small step for a man”?
I second the recommendation of Murphy. It's very comprehensive and well written.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/
Yes indeed. It's the exercises and feedback that help a lot.

I believe that the optimized future is MOOC Problems to start, Texts and Recorded lectures to help where you struggle, humans to help when the texts and recording miss your mistakes.
I have no idea about people complaining about high latency, but for me it has around the same ping of google dns (from Portugal) - google 40ms, this 43ms. Lately I've been using google ones because the previous I was using got more latency.

For reference I was using for a while dns from here http://wiki.opennicproject.org/Tier2 after testing which ones had less ping.
I personally feel that this post has missed a huge opportunity to show how to do much more complex things from smaller pieces with trivial proofs providing high assurance. I wish the example application had been something far more interesting and useful; at the moment it's a poor implementation of tee. Too much theory without any discussion of how it's actually useful (which it definitely is! it's just not articulated).
"The act of pursuing happiness necessarily implies the current absence of happiness. Make the pursuit of happiness into a habit, and you habitualise the absence of happiness."
Good luck Mr Gorsky
There's a nice parallel there to the construction and launch of individual rockets, as described in another story on the homepage[1]. Many rockets are essentially designed to be single-use, so they can't be put through too much stress during testing. Therefore missions are essentially flown with completely new, largely untested rocket hardware.

The work-around is to build two identical copies of the rocket. The first is a test unit which is tested to failure; the second is put through a very brief test to confirm that it appears to behave sufficiently similarly to the first, and then it's put into service.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060031
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I think you missed the point, ie: refuting the dire predictions of the anti-tax crowd, none of which came to pass. This will no doubt fail to stop the usual hue and cry in the future, as that particular demographic seems to be evidence proof.
What you say is absolutely true. I just want to give my perspective whose intent is not to counter your point or argue with it.

As a tech worker, I'm migrating out of Texas soon. The influx of West Coast companies (and their jobs) to Austin is spiking up prices of, well, everything. There's no chance to ever stop renting as all of the Austin property is owned by investors, meanwhile we're being payed Texas wages for California jobs at a skyrocketing cost of living in a city with no infrastructure, what-so-ever, to deal with its own population density. I'm sure companies will continue to move here, but the higher standards of living and worker-friendly political climates of the coasts seem far more attractive.

It's all just a cycle. Austin will get over-crowded and over-developed and some other neat hip cheap place to do business will spring up and companies will move again. Who knows, your hometown might be next.
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Even more shocking is the fact that today's cell phones have more computing power than the Apollo computers had - talk about optimizing your code! Just think of the code reviews those developers went through.

And, all the work that the Apollo program brought forth with physics, electronics, etc has powered decades of innovation.
Amazing how the kind of "predictions" mentioned in the article are still deeply held
Doesn't have anything to do with being in the midst of a temporary, extreme asset bubble for both stocks and real estate courtesy of trillions in Fed stimulus, does it?

Let's look at how California did in the late 1990s and the lead up to 2008, and how it performed when those fake asset bubbles exploded. Then let's add in some computation for the downside risk to the current situation.

The job numbers are the best case scenario, and only exist due to the largest stimulus program in world history. Someone should be asking: what happens when that doesn't exist?
I hope Danielle's parents take legal action against the moms for spreading horrible slander and with that discourage other witch hunters of similar things.
I think he means what you mean, that you could be doing far better things in the 3 hours you waste in the car.
Forget cell phones, your keyboard has vastly more power than the Apollo computers.
Is there a github repo of that original code?

The post-hoc analysis of that could burn down the internet for weeks.
You might also consider reading the book "Failure is not an option."

It gives an account, from the flight director's perspective, of the space program from Mercury to Apollo 13.
I don't see any reason to get a lawyer involved. They've paid him everything they owed him for the work he's done so far. They've made him a bad offer for the future (crap salary plus crap working conditions) that he would be very unwise to take, but there's nothing illegal about making a bad offer, any more than it would be illegal for him to offer to work for a million dollars an hour. He just needs to make it clear that he's not willing to work for them unless he gets either good pay or good working conditions.
NASA is currently "live" streaming the mission:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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Hey, you win some, you lose some. They still got a few things right.
Clicked into the first one and got a thing about the insulation between the tanks - the 3rd video in the playlist was about them hiring surfboard makers to do the honeycomb insulation between the fuel tanks, since they had more experience working with the materials in the heat conditions.

Just another kind of "the space program was amazing" thing - the sheer diversity of people who got hired on to contribute is continually surprising. An amazing tribute to the pragmatism of NASA under the conditions.
If not now then never. You can't wait until Xcode becomes perfect before you release a new language.
Listing of the Apollo Guidance Computer(AGC) program that landed man on the moon [pdf]
If you can point me towards some of the USB devices that have ath9k inside I'd be grateful - I seem to get ralink or realtek every time I buy one.
>Obviously it's coming, I won't dispute that, but scare tactics don't make for a reasonable discussion, even when the person using them is absolutely sure they're doing the right thing.

Seems that if you can see all of that, then you might be able to ignore the bits you don't like and discuss the topic on its merits.

It would be much more interesting to read your thoughts on, say, the technology, morality, etc. This, rather than a critique of the author's writing style.
> It's a shame also in the sense that while Jeff Hawkin's overall paradigm is certainly too simplistic.

In what ways is the paradigm too simplistic? Frankly, the fact that there is simplicity in his theories of intelligence makes more of case for him than against him. Most modern neuroscientists trying to understand intelligence have taken such an extreme reductionist point of view that they seem to be increasingly befuddled.

By the way the Ted Talk is from 2003 which is around the time that his theory of intelligence more or less reflected what he proposed in his book, On Intelligence, about Hierarchical Temporal Memory.

Since 2007 I think they've made significant progress. Have you read Numenta's white paper on the Cortical Learning Algorithm. He's also given a much more recent Google Talk on Sparse Distributed Representations.
I understand there's a tiny fringe of vocal people who are constantly predicting doom, for various reasons, but I don't understand how you can characterize these people being wrong as victory for your opinion, nor why this is, to quote the HN guidelines, "of interest to hackers".

I think even the median Tea Partier, if you put the irons to his feet, would admit that tax increases cannot by themselves blast away several percent worth of economic growth. There is certainly some small minority of people who think otherwise, out of whom the author of this article would happily build a large straw man.
What is the ecosystem for Julia like? Could it be considered for systems programming tasks?
if swift exited then this would have been great. By this time swift would have replaced javascript. Think of the way apple killed flash video. They could have killed javascript.
You are a business just as much as your employer is. That means you promote your service to potential buyers; understand the value of your service; and charge what the market bear for your service

This is the piece of advice I wish I knew early in my career. Tape it to the bathroom mirror and ask "What did I do yesterday which increased the enterprise value of Me, Inc. and what is my plan for doing more today?"
"254 companies left California in 2011":

This obviously has nothing to do with the tax increase in the article (voted on in 2012).
Define systems programming. If you mean could you write servers in it, then yes (there's a web stack for it already). If you want to write an OS kernel in Julia, then you probably could, but I'm not sure you'd want to.
I guess I didn't read it close enough? I think the inclusion
of art and curly hair was to make the article more readable? As an idiot--I am today, I started to think about curly hair. I have curly hair , I don't know why I have curly hair. I was told curly hair
arises fron asymmetrical follicles? My hair was straight as a child. I hit puberty, and it went to a perm! Now, as I
age it's just wavy? I guess it's genes, and hormones? Or,
I remember hearing someone state homosapians have two types of hair--thick, and thin; thick hair being curlier. Or, maybe my curly hair has something to do with Fibonacci equation? Or, maybe I should exercise tonight? Yea, it's been a bad weekend for me--I hope Tomorrow is better?
> all examples of practices deriving from ancient wisdom that today are considered unacceptable.

However only survivors after tens or hundreds of thousands of years are able to log in and comment on HN about it. Some of the abhorrent ancient "wisdoms" are well, ...abhorrent. Others maybe the reason we are still here (as opposed some other people being here, or, no human species at all).

Also, it is probably reasonable to assume the same "morals" the kept a group of hunter gatherers together are today responsible to racism and hate between groups.

To really even begin to look at cause you'd at least want a situation where two very similar groups differed only in one aspect you are trying to measure and then observe how both groups evolved.
According to http://numenta.org/ - "the learning algorithms faithfully capture how layers of neurons in the neocortex learn". Could someone explain how this is different from deep learning and/or neural nets?
Yeah, you're totally right. I completely missed the "instead of sitting in the car" part. Thanks. Sorry nikanj.
Yip, excellent article... I pointed a friend to this while giving him a pep-talk on how much he knew and how much he was worth. Went up ~15-20K from his old position...
As I was reading through your "for (elem : range)" proposal I became quite anxious to know how adding const would be handled. I was hoping that "for (const elem : range)" would be added to mean "for (const auto& elem : range)" because I very often find myself within a non-const method having a non-const container but wanting to iterate with no chance of modifying it.

I was at first relieved to see this topic addressed at the top of Q&A, then disappointed to see "Just do it the old way if you want const." I feel that we don't use const enough in C++, and making it easier (yet still clear) to use would be of significant benefit.

If you agree, perhaps there is still time to support "for (const elem : range)" - it seems to me natural and no more disruptive than the rest of the proposal.
This is one of my favorites. Not only is it riveting, but for anyone building software with others it's a great course in leadership, team building, and testing.
Definitely goes against the grain of their usual writing.
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And remarkably, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) operated at just 0.043 Mhz (43 KHz) and had just 64 Kilobytes of memory. There is more computing power in modern toasters and by comparison the smartphones we all carry around today are supercomputers!

And the complete listing of the AGC can actually be downloaded as a PDF here :

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/a...

And for the Lunar Lander here:

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/a...

It is fascinating to go through it!
That was our consensus as well.
This is an excellent series. There's an entire episode about the LEM computer which goes into detail about things like the famous alarm codes, hand-wiring core memory, and interviews with the developers.
I don't know of a github repository, but the source code can be found on the Virtual AGC page. Colossus is the command module program, while Luminary is the Lunar module program.

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Colossus.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Luminary.html
You have low latency since Portugal is pretty close to Germany where the servers are, compared to America or Asia.

If they want to promise low latency, they should use anycast with servers around the world. Google for example does this.

I compiled a list of reliable, anycast DNS recursors some time ago: http://wiki.nyr.bz/dns_publicos
There is one problem with your restatement. Breathing, even non-stop hyperventilation, does not interfere much with other activities, so it's hard to imagine how it could stunt social growth. Aside from that, it is of course true: everyone is in some sense "addicted" to breathing, though it might be more accurate to say that air is an essential nutrient.
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Where will you be heading next?

I hear a lot of people talking about Nashville.
Title is a little misleading. Yes the car was forced into reduced power mode to cool down the battery however overall the professional driver at the wheel said he was impressed by the car.

“Now, I have had the pleasure of driving a huge number of cars, both on the Nürburgring and off, but this would be my first time in a Model S or any fully electric car. And I have to admit I was pretty impressed,” Holland writes."

It would be cool if Tesla sponsored a racing team that could work on some of the issues that came up during the test drive.
take a data source like some research or statistical data from an online database and use it to create a program that interprets and displays it. Something like google analytics or census data could make an interesting program interface.
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Thanks for your advice. I do work the PM who uses Agile, but I'll have to learn more about it under the radar. I'm not sure my company would be too enthusiastic about it :)
And the listing for the Lunar Lander is here:

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/a...

The AGC program, called Luminary, was coded in a language called Mac, (MIT Algebraic Compiler), which was then converted by hand into assembler language that the computer could understand. The assembler code was fed into the AGC using punch cards.
Hey, we would be interested in a consultation - http://process.st we are working on a new marketing site so this is great timing.
It doesn't matter how much free time my friends have, or I. It matters how much free time we have available to see each other.

I have a reasonable amount of free time, but spend it on recovering from work (unfortunately, I need time off for that; so probably I'm an introvert), on time with my partner, on household activities, on learning. The actual time I have for friends is not that much. Admittedly, most of my friends seem to have even less time (mostly because they work longer hours), but others seem to have their life divided only between work and hangout time, so they're available pretty much always.

tl;dr if I had more free time, I'd have just enough time to hangout more with friends, as part of my free time is devoted to other things.
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I totally get it. It's a complete mindset change and those are a little hard to get started. Definitely appreciate the advice.