skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's 'high functioning' in the sense that he can produce elaborate computer software that runs fast, in other words he has impressive engineering skills. Socially he's pretty incapable. I think his offensive racist, homophobic and other offensive remarks are part and parcel of his condition because I've spent quite a lot of time reading his rants, and disagree with your claim that his use of slurs is not random and generic. It's not uncommon for him to claim that 'bill gAtes is an atheist nigger' and talk about hod God likes 'African musical rhythms and does not like white people so much' on the same day.

Yes, he does seem to use the epithet 'nigger' more than all other epithets combined, which is understandably alienating for many people. But I don't think this is ideologically rooted because it is so randomly and inconsistently applied in his writing (where it makes up a small fraction of the overall output, rather than the 99% you suggest).

Being an atheist, his output of random passages from the Bible is neither admirable nor otherwise to me - it's just statistically the most likely religious text for an American with a religious fixation to be fixated on. I've met mentally ill Asian Buddhists whose cognitive patterns are quite similar to Terry's even though the cultural referents are completely different. Extreme religiosity is very strongly correlated with some kinds of mental illness and I don't find it strange that Terry is fixated on Old Testament Bible stories where God puts in a lot of personal appearances. I could just as easily imagine him being obsessed with the Koran or some other religious text that's ubiquitous in some other part of the world.

I can't agree that he's an extremist - his (inoffensive)
'Guidelines for talking to God' [1]are pretty bland and heretodox as he eschews questions of salvation, morality etc., in favor of keeping God company (which makes sense since God is apparently a fixture in Terry's life). According to Terry, God dislikes classical music, Shakespeare, French people, and Terry's drumming while exhibiting an inordinate fondness for elephants, bears, and 1960s pop singers. You could work these elements into some sort of coherent ideological position just as you could characterize his relentless automated Biblical quotation as Christian extremism, but I don't think either position makes sense.

What's remarkable about him is not the endless stream of nonsense, much of which is offensive when it's even coherent; it's the fact that he manages to construct working things as part of his intellectual pursuits and carry on some kind of social life despite his mental circumstances.

1. http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/God/HSNotes.html#l1
I'd spend my life as a person who re-evaluates priorities given new data.

I don't do heroin now because I would (likely) be trading decades of health and happiness for a temporary bliss, followed by crippling addiction and the loss of my family, friends, and job.

(Also, I beg HN not to let this thread turn into an argument about drug policy, responsible drug use, etc., etc. There are probably people out there who can use heroin responsibly; I almost certainly would not be one of them.)
Taken down from google? I kind of doubt it. Remember how long the whole Rick Santorum thing was there? Taken down from HN? maybe, I do not know much about there moderating policies.
Nothing. At least at level 1, I made an incorrect submission multiple times without apparent reprisal.
DocuSign responds to criticism, "Innovation Is Customer-Centric"
A quick look at the rise and fall of popular mobile games (infographic)
The reason you get a DBA is so your bank will cash checks payable to "Cool Internet Company" and put the money in your bank account - without brain damage to you.

Apply for an EIN. Otherwise you will be spraying your personal social security number all over the place.

Your income and expenses go on Schedule C of your tax return. You pay income tax on your profit and you also pay self-employment tax. If you do well, expect your tax bill to hover around 50%.

Disclaimer - IAAL but all of that stuff I just told you is off the top of my head and probably wrong. Call up your local bar association. They probably have a referral program with cheap initial consultations.

Get a good accountant. If you are in San Jose on Dec 11 2014 attend the CalCPA Startup Conference and schmooze. http://calcpa.hs-sites.com/startup14-hacker
Between Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu and Yahoo the Machine Learning field is becoming privatized. I just hope they continue publishing their findings.
Why HTTPS Everywhere isn't on addons.mozilla.org
Semi-related, Google does base conversions too. You can type "8660 in hexadecimal" in Google and get the answer. Seems strangely appropriate since this is a Google game.
It's taken down (I think). The box around the first result is no longer there, but the result still appears.
We aren't trying to reach their 128GB/s number as listed in that paper, only 48GB/s... in addition to our design being much simpler than that. Our design is having each pin is simply a buffer and a latch that is synchronized with all the other pins part of the interface by a PLL... much easier to implement and run than a serializer for even just a single pin.

I myself have not taped out something on a modern process, but have advisors who have. My co founder and I do have nanofab experience, so we do understand the physical complexities of fabrication first hand.
It all depends on you and your family.

Find out where your relatives are from (which countries), then start investigating the citizenship requirements for those countries. Your embassy for that country will likely even have a "citizenship application" section on their website that lays out exactly what you need and how to go about applying.

In my case, Poland is a country that says you have the right to be a citizen if one of your parents is a citizen. Irrelevant that I've never been there, don't speak the language, etc. etc.

My grandfather was born there and was a citizen before he passed away, so I pressured my Dad endlessly until he got his Polish citizenship (I did half the paperwork for him because he was being lazy....).. then once he had his citizenship I could go ahead and apply for mine.

Obviously every country is going to be different, so it depends on where your relatives are from, and what the citizenship requirements for that country actually are.

Also note if you're in the US, I think the US doesn't allow you to have citizenship from another country (don't quote me on that, I'm not a US citizen - well actually, it looks really strange[1]. I have no idea.)

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-conside...
PyTor change automatically IP address when a string marker is detected in response to a request.
hg and git have feature parity at this point

hg just starts out more user friendly, and puts the rest in extensions. I like it more!

ok, hg is a bit slower
Modern, many core stack computers from Chuck Moore and Green Arrays:

www.greenarraychips.com

Plus his site showing off his ColorFORTH OS that he uses to design his chips by hand:

http://www.colorforth.com/
Pure linkbait. There is nothing in the article that causes any issue with open source.

While the review may have been delayed, all points described by the review are reasonable and have no relation to open-source. The root problem is the slow turn-around time, but writing an article that attacks the volunteers who are doing the reviews is pretty mean spirited. It would have been a lot easier to join #amo-editors, #amo, or #addons on irc.mozilla.org and ask for help there.

To point out a couple flaws with the post:
1. "Worst of all, many Ember.js developers who prefer Firefox have accused us of treating it like a second-class citizen, since they assume the month+ delays are our doing."
--- If it's not treated as a second-class citizen, why was an Ember.js Chrome extension written by the team but the Firefox one was deferred to someone outside of the core team?

2. The SDK being out of date is flagged during upload. Add-on authors can still request hand-review, but it's obvious immediately that it won't pass review.
Tendermint has the strongest guarantees against double-spend attacks.

http://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint.pdf
Within major metro areas there are many options for getting home, from car sharing to regular taxis to busses and trains. The same does not apply to a trip to Tahoe.
24 hours, 24 genres, 24 tracks: Discover YouTube music trends via Twitter
Yeah, a video of it in action would be incredible though. The single picture of it isn't quite convincing yet. Reading through articles on it it appears they're on the first iteration of the design though, which appearently suffers from problems with uniform lighting they're hoping to resolve in the comming months, so that might be the reason they're not showing any more proof of their claims.
6 lines of pythoncode for 1. puzzle. anyone less?
I too, for one think that the headline really tries to make the problem look bad by linking it to Open Source.
Google does not review addons. There have been occasions where extensions hosted on the chrome store were sending the URLs of all visited websites to their servers or 3rd party servers. I, as a user, much prefer the Mozilla model. Obviously it would be great if review times could be improved.
Twitter Has Held Talks About Buying Justin Bieber-Backed Selfie App
Only in airports. Oh and last time I was in Boston, the subway had that message playing at intervals. Up here in New Hampshire we mind our own business - or at least pretend to ;)
I think this is a really interesting search case.

What would people except Google to return?

On a basic level, viewing Google as nothing more than a pure search engine it seems appropriate to return results referring to the phrase "King of the United States" or close synonyms ("Emperor of the United States").

On another level, "king" could be viewed as a broad synonym for "leader". In some circumstances this works well, but in others it is extremely dangerous. I've built a toy question-answering system which uses synonyms in the broad sense. In my case "King" maps to "Leader", which maps to the DBPedia property "leader". DBPedia maps "leader"
to people with constitutional authority, which seems reasonable, but in the case of the US will return John Roberts (the chief justice).

On a truly deep level, a system could understand that the US does not have a king, and that this is a politically loaded question.

Incidentally, I think Google does a really good job with https://www.google.com/search?q=who+is+the+king+of+united+st...
I guess this is exactly what that little "Feedback" link is for underneath.
The Google Knowledge graph is stealing content from search results. I'm not sure if it's legal or at least ethical.

For example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=who%20is%20the%20king%20of%2...

https://www.google.com/search?q=who%20is%20the%20king%20of%2...

https://www.google.com/search?q=who%20is%20the%20king%20of%2...
Yeah, I'm not a google bot, I get that falcor wanted to call breitbart garbage.
Hollywood Comes Back to Silicon Valley with a New SyFy Reality TV Show
I believe we get puzzles randomly selected from a pool. Mine was about date parsing. Yours?
Funny how much is Search localized these days:
http://i.imgur.com/A1hTLPx.png

I don't have any Obama-ralated link within the first 10 results.
I suggest adding -sample 2x2 to ensure chroma subsampling is enabled.
Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
Is there anything stopping them from distributing the extensions outside AMO? I agree that the delays are frustrating, but you're not targeting end users - surely developers can download the add-on from your own website...
Alan Perlis Epigram #5: If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

You're not going to very much that it is interesting with abstractions designed to pump around a huge volume of data through a distributed system.

Maybe that's why the papers are vaguely written, avoiding the topic of describing concrete use cases.

The paper hints at the cloud, but not everything in the cloud handles a large, monolithic chunk of data.

Nothing in the paper convinces me that you need a special operating system with new abstractions right in the kernel, rather than just middleware.
I see that the original Apple I (not II) provided something similar, except with a full keyboard and video instead of keypad and LEDs. See the screenshot on this page:

http://apple2history.org/history/ah02/
That's all you have to say. "No, thank you. Please leave me alone." And then you're left alone.

Perhaps it's sincere, but this sentiment reminded me of the recently-infamous catcalling video. If one random dude a week compliments a woman on her appearance, she can probably deal with it. At some higher frequency, however, the "compliments" become harassment. That may be how 'kstenerud feels about this.
xkcd number http://www.xkcd.com/207/

The Clarkkkson http://web.archive.org/web/20120126175037/http://lab6.com/ol...

Proof that the Clarkkkson is bigger than the xkcd number http://qntm.org/clarkkkkson
The End of HDD? Samsung Debuts a 3.2TB PCIe SSD Card
I was using the simplification "EU laws" as a set of laws of the member states (as a citizen of one of those states I know there are no EU laws per se) and what I was asking was how could anyone who has nothing to do with any of the EU states be forced to comply with any of their laws? Why would anyone outside care about them any more than they care about sharia laws enforced in some countries?
Kinda surprised to be challenged like that suddenly, but managed to pull through with my (t)rusty regex-foo.

Foobar is fun and well made! Passed the first challenge in a few minutes and will continue tomorrow.
Try to start challenges on foobar only when you want the timer to start (e.g., not when you need to go to bed like me..). Thou shan't worry much on the first challenge though, it allows for 48 hours.
It's the GIL.
Portability woes: Endianness and Alignment, Part 2
I believe Google's "One Box" question answering has a semi-manual processing of "trusted" sources.

For a long time only a selected set of highly-trusted sources were used, but my understanding is that they are now a lot more aggressive with using sources - which I suspect means automatically using sources above a certain trust level, and then gray-listing problem sites.
On the other hand, Google's add-on policy has effectively banned YouTube Center from Chrome users. They only allow Windows users using non-development versions to install add-ons from the Chrome add-ons site and they won't allow YouTube Center on there.

Probably because one of:

* It modifies a Google property specifically

* It can remove ads (but so can Adblock)

* It directly increases their bandwidth costs if used to disable DASH (which is a requirement for me to watch 720p video).

If Mozilla decided they didn't like an addon however (or were just too busy to review it). I could still download it from Github/the dev's website and use it after confirming a security warning.
Twitter Argument on Net Neutrality Between Mark Cuban and The Verge's Ben Popper
I see what you're saying, no, that's just the personal policy.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8659549

Also I think too many are focusing too much on the current state of Bitcoin instead of thinking about the potential.

The crypto-protocol is a product of 20years of research just the last 2 years alone we have seen a host of really intersting ways to improve it and make it less power-consuming.

Sidechains, Stellar and so on we have only just begun to scratch the surface and so I see no reason to be so negative around people trying to think about it conceptually.

But each to their own.
Not all conditions are equal. Paranoid schizophrenia can be quite debilitating because it affects one of the most critical aspects of human living: the ability to determine what is real and what isn't.

I agree with the points you're making, but most people suffering from psychotic conditions tend to prefer being in a lucid, non-psychotic state. It can be like waking someone up from a dream, or more often, a nightmare. Unfortunately, this can often only be done with the use of anti-psychotics, which can sometimes cause horrible side effects; in some cases so horrible they affect someone's life more than the psychosis itself.

Regardless, I don't think concern about this man's condition is condescending.
> why would you ever publish it?

Suppose you have a miraculous trading algorithm that you believe makes somewhat above-market returns with somewhat below-market risks, but you have only a small amount of capital you're happy to gamble with.

Then what you can do by keeping your algorithm to yourself is: have investments that perform slightly better than most other people's. That's nice, for sure, but getting rich that way takes a long time unless you start out quite rich (or gamble a lot and get lucky, but that's also a way to get poor).

On the other hand, what you get by publishing it might be a lucrative job offer at a hedge fund or investment bank, who hope you can use the skills you've just demonstrated to get them an extra 0.1% of return on their $10B pot. Now you have the opportunity to apply the same techniques to thousands of times more money than before, along with much more data and a server room full of hardware for backtesting and other smart people who will look at your clever ideas and maybe notice if there's a big mistake or omission. Of course most of the gains from your miraculous algorithm now go to the investors, and most of the rest probably go to other people with more seniority, but you are still likely to get rich faster and more reliably that way.

I make no claim about the particular algorithm here or the person who published it. But the above seems to me like a pretty plausible reason why someone might prefer to publish, even if they have good reason to think their algorithm works.
Actually there is currently a strong push in many places for involuntary hospitalization. We're slipping back to a grim time of incarceration for the mentally ill by family members who disapprove of their lifestyle. While modern facilities are not the horror they once were, make no mistake that they are not places of adequate treatment. This is going to keep people from seeking treatment in the first place knowing that once you get that label, you can be taken by force for no reason, predicated on the idea that the mentally ill have a slightly higher chance of commiting a mass shooting. Pre-crime. It is so stupid and backwards and scary. Not so easy as "Please leave me alone."

http://online.wsj.com/articles/los-angeles-county-approves-i...
Could also be confused with Square's Flow library.

https://github.com/square/flow/
I don't think they even need to promote it- political echo chambers sustain themselves very well on the Internet. I monitor a few left- and right-wing political forums and the personalities and communication patterns are very similar despite the underlying political assumptions being almost diametrically opposed.
Even with some recent Big Data companies coming into their own, I still think it's early days for where Big Data can go. The healthcare sector seems an especially ripe area that hasn't been fully exploited. With drug development still so expensive, it seems likely that a Big Data breakthrough could push the total cost down by an order of magnitude.

The biggest thing that I didn't see mentioned in this VC post was the impact of something like AWS. Sure, data storage costs have dropped. But the real cost savings is being able to harness thousands of processors by the drip. As the cloud processing costs go down, the Big Data market will go up and up.
Add-ons can be distributed outside of AMO. A secondary (more scary) dialog is shown before the add-on can be installed, but users can click past it to get to the add-on.

PDF.js uses this approach actually. See "Development version" at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ as an example.
Nope, but it's almost Christmas so the Doctor will be investigating soon.
sorry, a little late to respond, but no, that doesn't quite fit the bill. A native-monochrome LCD would actually have advantages over color LCDs because you have reduced bits per pixel, need less power per pixel, and actually increase the number of addressable pixels. E-paper displays are great for reading from but not good for interacting with in any active way. Pixel Qi is an interesting medium but I'm not sure it's quite there yet?
Racism is bundled up with a bunch of cognitive biases and low-level instincts, which makes it dangerous. People have a hard time distinguishing between a particular fact, their significantly broadened interpretation of that fact and its consequences, and a whole bunch of related non-facts that fit the racist narrative they're tempted to think. We're, apparently, collectively bad at avoiding thoughts like "Jews own the media" or even coming to conclusions like "so, let's kill all the Jews". To protect ourselves from the fragility and inaccuracy of our thoughts in relation to group identity, we stigmatize racism. Which is great, I hope we continue this "moral fashion", because the alternative is grotesque.
Salt Lake City Council Set to Vote Uber and Lyft Out of Utah
WebGL based 3D browser/visualization of all 1,400,000+ photos taken from the ISS
Does it make sense to test 100 threads on 12 cores? Is this testing the spinlock code or the OS scheduler?
You need to interview your customers
Cost Center or Profit Center?
Show your colors proudly teespring.com/cost-center teespring.com/profit-center
Seems like master_poop deleted his/her account. Pressures of fame, I guess.
You might be interested in the Boogie Board Sync. Kind of ugly looking but might fit your needs for a handy digital whiteboard that syncs up.
Based on what you said, I'm not sure you're seeing what others are. Taken from JTon in this thread: http://i.imgur.com/JyVEY1p.png. The problem isn't the search results shown, but a big box at the top that Google is providing as the "correct" answer to the query.
Yes, this article is terrible.

"Shift the economy toward innovation? That is the mantra of every advanced economy, but China’s rivals have a big advantage: Their societies encourage free thought and idiosyncratic beliefs"

Which can be translated to "this people are different from us, how could they ever be successful?"
That is one of the major changes that are happening.
* Existing user interfaces (screens, mouse, keyboard) have made sense because they were the lowest common denominator and because prices could be kept low this way.
* Now, prices for hardware are dropping (we will soon have the first wifi chip for less than 1 USD.). That means that we can explore completely new user interfaces, ones that are perfectly designed for the person and their needs. You don't need to have a user interface anymore that is designed for billions of people. You can manufacture several kinds of user interfaces quickly and that suit millions of people, just better.
* Manufacturing is also becoming much easier and cheaper. There are more and more robots that can do complex work. They are also becoming cheaper and more capable which also influences this aspect.
* I believe that the future of user interfaces does not lie in centralized, generic devices but distributed, specific interfaces.
The shot of the Audi logo matching the brightness of the LED DTRs made me pause. I'm not holding my breath, but I do hope they can deliver. If it's as good as they claim, it actually could change the way we do lighting.
It's funny, because in the lab I work in, we explicitly explore the subjective experience of mediators and novices, under different mental states, and record with EEG and fMRI. What people may think of as "nebulous and inherently impossible to test, with no theoretical underpinning based on experimental observation", is often closer the opposite in the scheme of things…
That's really amazing. Has anyone tried to replicate it? Anyone up for doing a kick starter to build a force field?