skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not every talented person thinks the exact same way that you do. Its a fact that the way the military operates automatically excludes a large part of the talent pool that simply doesn't want to deal with all the bullshit, but everyone has their own set of priorities.
Ask HN: Crowdsourced creative incubator/retreat
What do you think of a incubator / creative retreat, that works like this:

First, it's opened to creatives of all kinds. The idea is to mix up different folks, who wouldn't be part of the same crowd normally, and who bring truly different perspectives.

Everyone who is applying writes a statement about they are working on, what they are interested in, what their ideas are, what they want to make and what they have already done. You could even make applications anonymous, so that people are evaluated solely on the strength of their statement, not external signals of prestige, looks, whatever.

Everyone who applied votes on top 5 people they would like to work with. People who get most votes are admitted, depending on number of applicants and the number of slots. Number of slots should be small enough for the group to be effective (<150, < than 2 big pizzas feed etc).

What are we achieving here:

You get wider variety of individuals than you would if individuals were accepted / rejected by a committee. Exposing individuals to completely different experiences / way of thinking, which hopefully facilitates diffuse thinking.

Wisdom of the crowds: wide variety of individuals vote independently. It would be interesting to see how it would compare with decision making by a committee.

What are attendees supposed to get out of this:

It's hard to say until you've actually done it, but it could be:
- finding partners / co-creators for the project
- advice / feedback on your work
- new ideas, new ways of doing things
- general expanding mind and creative potential

The result of the retreat shouldn't be having a business incorporated and MVP, but figuring things out, and finding a way forward and finding collaborators.

I was just thinking last night about the retreat I would like to attend. I was wondering what other people would make of an idea like this.
That's it for the definition, but it's far from it for the meaning. Python/Ruby make a great example when they're interpreted as vacuously type safe—clearly this definition needs other components in order to be meaningful.

And that's really the rub. You want a language which is type safe and possessing expressive types. Getting both is challenging.
> I think that if the author hasn't managed to enclose a proper story in 500-1000 pages, there is probably something that is off.

I really don't agree with that:

1. a series can be way more than a single story, The Dresden Files is 15 volumes of 300~500 pages each (let's call it 6000 pages), each story is mostly free-standing but they follow chronologically, it's a very episodic format if you will. Discworld has similar thematic subsets.

2. some stories just don't fit in in 1000 pages. Malazan Book of the Fallen suffered from a lack of editing at times and could probably have been a fair bit shorter, but not 10000 pages shorter, not by a long shot, the depth and breadth of the subject just wouldn't allow it.
Met him at ElixirConf...very cool bro. :)
I think you are asking the wrong crowd and possibly the wrong quesion.

The prime consumers of any eCommerce platform are business users, those who work with inventory, sales, returns etc. If they prefer one package to another, they aren't even going to consider what language it was written in. They plain don't care and they will tell the coder guy which one they want.
I really respect Obama but every time I hear him speak I'm amazed at how stilted his turn of phrase is.

I understand that this is probably due to him really focusing on ensuring that everything that leaves his mouth is what he means to say.
Author here! Dang, I browse HN daily and didn't notice when my own article gets posted until it's too late. Anyways, glad you guys liked it. One thing that I want to clarify is that the examples and analogies I give are just to help illustrate points. A lot of people have read too much into them, and that's not my intention.

Also, I don't mean to disparage any particular game, or style of games. My goal is to show that video games are a very unique medium for presenting narrative, and so far we have mainly just tried to emulate cinema. There's a lot of experimentation out there, and still more that needs to be done, before we can say we've really understood the medium.
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But this type theoretical definition is not really well-suited for the real world; either you have to include exceptions in the set of values, which could include even things like Segmentation Fault, making ASM well-typed, or you don't allow exceptions as values, which means that not even OCaml and Haskell are well-typed with their DivisionByZero and ArrayOutOfBounds exceptions.
I'm guessing that he uses random.org to randomize the initial values of the dice, how they're "being held". All the physics simulation does is roll them across the table.

So it should be impossible to precisely throw a value, since you can't control how you're holding the dice in your hand.
I'll throw in a few more recommendations -

Kindle Unlimited books:

The Origin Mystery by A.G Riddle (alternate history, aliens, seeded origins, etc)

Brilliance Saga by Marcus Sakey - Kind of a superhero thing, 1% of humans since the 80s have been born with superhuman abilities. Not bad, probably a 3/5, but entertaining.

Almost anything by Douglas E. Richards - his Mind's Eye book was a great action/mystery, Same with his Wired and Amped books (series). I'm looking into his Prometheus Project series, and might read it next.

Awakened Series by Jason Tesar - Multiple worlds type of deal. Prophecy, fighting evil beings, high powered hero and enemies, and more. Probably not the "greatest" writing or editing going on (I spotted a few spelling errors), but it's a great plot and his character development is pretty good.

Not Kindle Unlimited:

The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - Multiple worlds, epic storyline, and getting better with each new book. Can't wait for the next one (The Long Mars).

The Taken Trilogy by Allen Dean Foster - Human abducted by aliens, escapes, has great adventures with his talking dog. Humorous and engaging. Highly recommend.

The Tide Lords by Jeniffer Fallon - Powerful, immortal, nearly gods when the "tide" is up, merely un-killable when it's not. Great read (Fantasy).
GRRM is not my bitch. Point taken, for sure.

However, I hope GRRM realizes that the opposite is also true. His readers aren't his bitch either. Without new quality material, interest in his books will fade. Also, HBO isn't his bitch either. If he doesn't produce new material, the TV show plot will pass the book's and he will lose some control over what people consider the real tale.
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The benefit with Chef is that it is always Ruby. There is no dropping in/out of anything other than Ruby. As a Ruby programmer I quite like that. It doesn't fight the language it is embedded in and uses all the language idioms to great effect.
"Type safe" is both a marketing line and a technical definition. As a technical definition, many languages are type safe (including, say, Ruby) but they achieve this by having very low meaning to their (static) types.

Typically, the marketing definition means "type safe and expressively typed" which outlaws trivial type systems and their trivial type safety.
> "people I knew accepted the connection request because...attractive person"

Or they just accept everyone. I did that for years.
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I can't think of anything more obtuse than releasing a database as a hundred plus page PDF. It seems like the bureaucrats responding to these requests are specifically trained to not release information.
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This research obviously demonstrates the importance of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number This is why the SHA-1 round constants were chosen from a simple operation (square root) on a series of nondescript numbers:

√2 = 0x5A827999
√3 = 0x6ED9EBA1
√5 = 0x8F1BBCDC
√10 = 0xCA62C1D6

$ python -c 'for i in (2,3,5,10): print hex(int(i**.5*2**30))'
0x5a827999
0x6ed9eba1
0x8f1bbcdc
0xca62c1d6

However, it is a little bit strange that the designers chose √10 instead of √7 which would be the next logical number. Think about how many sets of constants can be generated in a nondescript way: for example they could have replaced √/2,3,5,10 with cos()/1,2,3,4, or sin()/2,4,8,16, etc. If there are, say, a million ways to generate sets of constants "above suspicion", but if 1 in a million exhibits a flaw, then in theory they could have carefully selected the one that introduces a flaw in SHA-1. (Personally I do not think it was malicious selected, but it is a fun thought experiment...)
If he continues his case, all he can get is lawyers fees and a judgement that he does not violate the patent. It doesn't say anything about the actual patent itself.

The EFF approach solves the problem for everyone by having the patent office void the patent due to prior art claims.

Adam's approach inflicts financial pain on the patent holder.
You can either use numpy ints in pypy (I think they're nicely optimized) or there is __pypy__.intop module that does something. Come to #pypy on freenode we'll sort you out ;-)
His point, and something I agree with, is that the easier gamification becomes, the less useful a search engine becomes.

I don't know if this is true for everyone. It probably isn't. (at least it isn't immediately obvious.)

But for the author it is, and I agree wholeheartedly.
NASA releases 3D-printable models to the public
The social network cited by the article, Anobii (http://www.anobii.com), is like GoodReads but perhaps older (2006).
I think alot of people (including myself and my team) just tend to get on with their lives and use clojure/java.jdbc. Sure it's not that sexy, but it gets the job done.

And for the 80-90% queries you can create a small function or namespace with a nice API and converts to the types you like.
Samaritan's Purse was mentioned in the article. I did some volunteer construction work with them in Mississippi a year after Hurricane Katrina. We did mention we were a religious group when people asked but we didn't spend time proselytizing. We were there to help people regardless of their religious beliefs. Nothing was asked in return for our service.
Totally agree with your impressions of the Belgariad. I had a friend that just loved it and it was kinda... meh. I'm also with you on Endymion, the second part of the series was seriously lacking the same quality of the first two books.

Also, for whatever it's worth, I've never read ASOIAF, though I've tried a couple times. Never could get into it. I kept getting the whole WOT vibe from it too (too many characters, too many subplots).
But the targeted recommendations given to followers were far more effective than those given to non-followers. “In other words, lajello has a greater persuasive power over those who are more aware of its presence and activity,” say Aiello and co.

This seems to be the main measure of the bot's "power", but I'm not sure it's that surprising. What they found is that people already predisposed to linking with random yahoos they don't know (e.g., the bot) are also inclined to link with more random yahoos they don't know. I'm not convinced that demonstrates the persuasive power of the bot so much as that some people will merrily click yes in response to any prompt.
Wow! Epic post. I wished I would have found some of these earlier. I've subscribed to your blog, and looking forward to the next post.
It is surprising to me that there's even a debate about whether having privacy is needed in a society that is based on taboos and lies.
Images are good, but not needed to get his point across.
> He's not proscribing a solution.

The word you want is "prescribe." To "proscribe" means to make forbidden or illegal. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
>Doctors and pilots get paid reasonably well by the military.

Doctors are officers. This means that they get paid much more than Soldiers, but its still a laughably low amount when you compare it to a civilian doctor's salary.

Pilots are also officers. Their salaries are closer to the civilian world, but they are still probably a little low.

I don't think the Army is about to convert tens of thousands of IT specialists and Intel analysts from enlisted Soldiers to commissioned officers. Even if they did, the majority of them would still be making well below market rate.

Even the officer ranks that pay competitively require 10-20 years of service. At that point you are going to have a salary that's comparable to a civilian security analyst with a couple years' experience.
I do my best to stick to Paypal, since it has the majority of my international financial history it saves me the trouble of reconciling several accounts. If (when) they support Bitcoin/Ether it will be perfect.
Here's a web-serial that is complete; parts of it could definitely use some editing, but it's enjoyable, and at 3.7M words will take a while to get through:

http://parahumans.wordpress.com/
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"It's still funny, right guys?"
Seriously, Not really.
I have a bunch of admiration for this guy, especially because of his attitude towards software and services as being tools that do a certain job - and not enforcers of political constraints.

For example, PDFy does not require an account or registration; there is a refreshingly honest ToS page if you care to read (I suggest you do) - https://pdf.yt/tos

I may not agree with all of his political ideas, but it is clear that the hacker spirit - writing code that is unencumbered by copyright and patents and other essentially restrictive BS, that simply accomplishes a certain task effectively, is something worth applauding and supporting.

There are few people in our 'industry' who are so ideologically motivated to write genuinely free software (many of his projects are under the WTFPL). Consider supporting him.
Org-mode with a WebDAV server. Sync using git.
This is great. More companies should do this and build it in as a recommended security feature. If you use rails, you can use the two factor auth gem we built: https://github.com/tinfoil/devise-two-factor

For more info check it out here: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/two-factor-authenticati...

Also, for a list of services that provide 2FA, check out http://twofactorauth.org. It's a pretty extensive list, and hopefully more companies start adding 2FA.
I'm sort of a caveman about this, but I prefer physical 2fa tokens for a lot of things. It would be nice if you could accept user input of a seed (in case I've bought a gemalto or something online) and want to register it.
At least Boulder's rent is about 50% of the bay's
Do we need IRBs for human subjects research conducted by big web companies?
Thanks for the extra resources. Any more are very welcome. Neural nets sometimes feel like quite the black box, despite their ease of implementation and apparent power.
I'm happy to share. I'll do a blog post on this down the line, but here's the outline....

Node.JS at the core. Redis and AWS SimpleDB for the Database. Major caching at all levels (frontend/backend). Response times of less than 50ms for most calls. Web Sockets(SocketIO) for real time communications.

The frontend is built entirely in AngularJS with a few jQuery integrations. We write all our CSS in LESS and compile it using Grunt.

We used PHP (LAMP) for our last major Project and I can say that for what we are trying to achieve, NodeJS is much much much faster(10x) and leaner(we manage the same traffic with 20% of the server resources used on our last project with PHP)
He is required to make a move that takes him out of check. If he tries to make some other move, you inform him that it's illegal and roll it back.

Also you never actually take the king, you just get the point where you could and it has no escape.
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Practices like this were a significant part of why I left a previous employer (they had me make a cancellation progress progressively more complex while monitoring the effect of each progressive increase in complexity on the number of cancelations and chargebacks). That plus a couple other issues made me feel like a scumbag and within a few months I was working elsewhere.

Treating people badly doesn't just hurt company image, it hurts company culture and ability to retain good employees.
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Material design in the 2014 Google I/O app
Magento has it's problems but resource usage under scale probably isn't on most peoples mind. Usually your ecommerce traffic is worth many magnitudes more than the computation cost. Reasonable response times for a single request would be nice though
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This is actually a great idea. Do you know of anyone that actually does this?
"...Journey before destination"

There is far too much pessimism her about the experience of reading novel series. I've massively enjoyed the experience of reading ASOFIA, the world building, character development, politics and intrigue.

The worlds in series like this are massive and the end of a series is the last chapter the author deigns to write. Sure they might be building towards something, but you can enjoy the series all the same without the "end".

I read 1-5 ASOFAI in 6 months, having started just before the series aired. Do I look forward to the next in the series, of course, but in the mean time I have read > 60 other books some of them 2 or 3 times.

Don't get stuck on one series, one author, or one genre, there is so much good fiction out every year that you will never be able to read it all.
>My surprise had more to do with learning that cyberwarefare reservists exist..

I can see how you would be surprised. It seems counter-intuitive, but its actually normal for reservists in technical fields to be better at their jobs than the military. The best example I can think of is the field of aviation. Many reserve pilots are commercial pilots that get to fly 1000s of hours each year. Their full-time military counterparts don't get to fly their fancy fighter jets very often, because its really expensive.
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>Google is giving users what they want

In what way? How did the size of SEO and marketing budgets somehow become the result of consumer desire rather than a manipulation of it?
That's an impressive result! My worry was that it would become more obvious if I were to skimp on the poly count of the shape. Doesn't seem to have been an issue for you.

Thanks for the links, I'll definitely check them out.
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Could be, but I think at the very least they should open it up for G+ Pages.
Sorry I didn't identify these; it's rather difficult to know who's on the Dart Team, especially if the profiles aren't linked to profiles. It's rather hard to tell when someone is being a "helpful user" vs someone that actually works on the language.

However, it doesn't change that the complexity being used as an excuse is not being requested. There are many things people would want to do with their deserialisation, and nobody is asking the Dart Team to provide them all. What is really basic, however, is deserialising data into a flat PODO so that we can take advantage of code-completion and static analysis on our code; isolating the mapping problem to a single point.
I agree it does not seem fair, although if they now use this drug more broadly for everyone who's infected, it would be worth the unfairness. I also think Sheik Umar Khan, who was Sierra Leone's head doctor on this, deserved a chance -- surprised he did not try a blood transfusion from a survivor.
Indeed. In dynamically typed, every expression is well typed and there is always an evaluation rule that works, so this trivially holds but means nothing.
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It's only that cheap if you live like a student. I suppose it must be possible to live that cheap in almost any western country, how else would students survive on <1000$ per month income?

Anyway, I think Joepie is forgetting that he will have to pay 30% income tax over that $17.000, and possibly 21% VAT also (depends on whether this would be seen as payment for service I think, he should contact an accountant).
Cool app. Just a bit of feedback:

1. Since you're targeting blind users, you may want to use a bit more ARIA on your page, particularly around the popup menu.

2. It would be nice if the main page explicitly stated that this was for IOS. I'm an Android user and had to explicitly click through to figure out it wasn't for me. IOS certainly has a larger share of blind users, but Android is popular as well.

Good luck! Any plans for an Android version? If so, and you'd like a tester who is also a developer familiar with its accessibility framework, please do let me know.
There's an easy (if cruel) response to the "I have nothing to hide" argument.

Dig and expose that person's personal details on the internet, including the details of his computer, his search history, photos of him inside his house making love or masturbating etc. Leak his private conversations with friends to everybody in his circle.

That will teach a nice lesson about having "nothing to hide" and the value of privacy.
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>What is your exit strategy? Do you have export functionality already built? Where are the terms of service? Privacy policy? How is the project funded?

I feel bad about this having gone through it myself. You'll get screamed at for not pushing an MVP fast enough. On the other hand, you get screamed at for not having a VP that is polished. Frankly, I think things have tilted in the last four years so now a more polished VP is needed than the MVPs you could get away with four years ago, but it is still hard when these other folks are constantly yelling at you about MVPs.
New EFF Documentary: Flying An Airship over NSA's Utah Data Center
Yes you can! The Stacker Inbox does just that :)
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The problem is that it isn't competition on services or products, it's competition in gaming and/or just paying massive incumbent middlemen.