skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I just responded to your other post, where you were economically confused :)

Velocity of money? Concomitant effects, huh? .. I suspect you might be some sort of government shill though. Very few actual Libertarians don't see Austrian economics for the rational truth it is.
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Well, AFB would like to have a conversation with you.

http://www.afb.org/info/living-with-vision-loss/for-job-seek...

I'm all for empowering people but I doubt that given the current state of things, especially blind and visually impaired employment rate, this would be successful if it were for-profit.

If successful as a non-profit this projects can

- raise awareness

- break isolation

- practically improve lives

- push society forward (helping solve employment?)

- make everybody's life much better

I really mean it regarding "empowerment". I've worked with NGOs on remote locations and I'm all too aware of their derives but in this case I think your point makes no sense.
I think paywalls are reasonable good way (from consumer point of view) to bring in money, although I realize that it probably would mean scaling down for many major publications. The LWN model might be the ideal balance point; recent items are subscriber-only, older stuff is free. That should work even better for WSJ style publication where I'd assume most people are more interested in breaking news rather than week old stuff.

I can understand where the anti-paywall sentiment stems from. We have been conditioned for over an decade to get free news from web. Meanwhile piratism has become mainstream and anti-copyright movement has grown, both which have changed peoples ways of thinking about value of information etc. Some might also think paywalls to be exploitative bait-and-switch tactic, which admittedly might be true in some cases.

Of course there is stark difference between supporting paywalls as a concept, and supporting posting links to paywalled content to places like HN (or reddit or /. etc), because you are kinda doing some "viral" marketing for the publication and dividing the community to those who subscribe and those who do not. That will inherently limit the communitys ability to discuss the content.
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Because what you're talking about is a much, much smaller business.
Yes, who still bothers with GCJ? I really don't understand why GCC still ships it.

However there are also open source implementations like RoboVM and JikesRVM, among a few others.
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Math question 7, what are the sub-units of pounds? Is it something like pence?
Looks like I'm community college material after all.

Honestly though, we never touched Latin during my high school days, such a shame.
CryptoNote is a name of the technology (https://cryptonote.org/). Like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
I think if you stab somebody over a text message, there's more going on than just a missing dot. As if it'd be acceptable to kill somebody even if they did call your daughter a prostitute.

The article itself could benefit from corrections: "with a knife on his chest" That doesn't sound so bad.
If you pardon the pun, I'm torn on the pagination issue. The way reader
software and formats actually work has a good deal of historic baggage.
For example, long ago when system resources were limited, it made a lot
of sense to only do the calculations to render one "page" of data at a
time. Even though those limitations no longer exist, reader software
(and file formats) was still originally designed to leverage single
page/screen loading. You can see the artifacts of this history in most
PDF readers as the "Continuous View" or similar viewing options.

Similarly, a good deal of reader software and formats are designed for
the sake of printing out paper hard copies, so you'll still have some
degree of pagination displayed on-screen even when there is no intention
of printing to paper.

Another part of the pagination problem is simply skeuomorphism in the
design of reader software and related file formats. The "page" and
"book" metaphor was just too useful to ignore when creating electronic
documents for the general public which (originally) had no idea how
computers really worked.

BTW, you might also enjoy this study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850340
Everybody, top-to-bottom is issued a laptop. We get a choice from about a half dozen models of Dells and a couple Macs. About 1/3 of the company is transitioning to using Macs. The sales/BD guys tend to get the lighter machines, the MB Airs, that sort of thing, while the designers/writers tend to go for bigger screens. Engineers tend to go for RAM and SSDs or max out on disk space depending. I think there are a few folks who've asked for desktops simply because they don't want to carry something around and they know they'll never move, it's mostly secretaries.

We're all also given very nice laptop bags to carry our stuff around in.

My office, the team room and the guest cube all have monitors we can plug into. All my monitors at home are occupied at the moment.

They standardized on Dells until last year when they started offering Macs. This means that every possible workplace is full of standardized Dell Docs. So if you have a Dell, you just plop it in and you're wired up to network, monitor, power, keyboard, mouse etc. It's a bit more fuss with the Macs and all the display port dongles and power bricks, but on the flip side, the machines themselves are physically lighter, thinner and generally nicer to use on their own than the Dells. For example, if I forget my mouse (I use a rMBP) it's not a big deal since the trackpad is very good, but my Dell using colleagues are kind of SOL since the trackpad works so poorly.

Also the equivalent Dell to my rMBP (15") weighs something like 11 pounds and is about 3 times as thick.

In general the philosophy seems to be to offer workplace flexibility while making each choice as good as possible.
They're not competitors so much as allied organizations using different methods, as far as I can tell.
A blind guy I met at a conference showed me something very cool with voiceover, try voiceover in the camera app then point the camera at some people.
Blame his professors.
I doubt he can really believe that dropping 10M on a project will somehow prevent Skynet from happening. AI will just get nasty, or it won't. No one knows.
pretty good domain name
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You just don't walk off without your gun.
Can you give some examples of places where it might be currently being unethically used?
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I agree with all your points. The framework has become bloated and is filled with bolted-on hacks. That's what 2.0 is supposed to address.

But I've also found that I'm very productive using it. Sure it's not perfect, but Angular is popular for a reason. I'll probably be giving React a try sometime soon, but there's problems in every framework. I don't think any of these points are serious enough to warrant a complete boycott
It's about time - the RadioShack I grew up with died years ago.
Not to mention the vastly better field of view and detail. Neither of which translate very well through a phone camera.
Hi! I'm a radiologist. Don't know if there are any others commenting in this thread. My 2 cents:

The worries you outline in your first paragraph are 100% accurate in this case. The article is crap.
I've also had success searching for the exact URL in Google. It usually appears as the first link and you can bypass the paywall.
The gun could also have been laying down at one point then raised slowly as the tree grew.
write an article about it.
and please don't call online news vendors the papers
>In fact, it’s zero, on average, for lower-income families, after taking financial aid into account. Vox’s Libby Nelson wrote, “Community college tuition for poorer students is often entirely covered by the need-based Pell Grant.”

It may be true that tuition is free for some, but to say it is often or on average probably depends upon a strange definition of the word. Anyway, the students' expense is not zero, there are never enough Pell grants to go around. Tuition is not the only cost. etc.

>So making it free takes care of people who couldn't handle the paperwork of filing for a Pell Grant.

My own experience in the '90s was that the time I spent filling out forms and travelling to offices and standing in lines would have been better spent at a minimum wage job.
I think it's much different from a legal standpoint. First and foremost, the driver is assumed to be fully valid and thus in no need of a blind trust (no pun intended).
I really don't understand why it's so critically important we teach our children how to write the next generation of photosharing apps for cats, to the point that we're urging them to do it in all forms of mass media and culture. I can understand trying to get children interested in STEM fields in general, but why does our society direly need mass quantities of programmers in particular? Executives like to talk of "shortages" when they have to pay their workers more than they like, but in reality this meme, and it is a meme, makes no sense whatsoever.
we already have The Three Laws of Robotics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
I used to think like you guys, how the fuck would I get any work done if I'm in the middle with so many people doing so many different things in the same time. Someone is narrating his/her life story, other one talking about his views on x and so on. However, after working on similar environment for a year and now working on a really private cubes. I prefer the open spaces, it's more fun. YOU CANNOT SLACK IN OPEN SPACES. I used only code code code whole day and now in a private cube I spent hours on HN, reddit and 2/3 hrs for work. Yes, the company is fine but I don't feel I'm producing as much as I can. Why? Because I can slack in private cubes unlike in open spaces where I want to prove among these peoples.

edit: Sorry for bad English. I cannot slack in open spaces, that's why I like them.
It's not like we'd have to print more gold.
Developers are lowest level? You're not seeing what's really going on. What about janitors and security guards and kitchen staff?
> Or you're in ops because you can't code.

Yes, this is the only reason why people become system administrators.
> how do you think newspapers should monetize?

Idea I had is to flip the model. Newspapers pay readers, who for payment agree to see ads tailored to their interests. Users are given short quizzes after article to prove they actually read. Fail, and they don't get paid.
Fine, it will reduce the likelihood of it "getting nasty".
In 2007--8, I was trying to leave my academic position and join the NSA as a mathematician. It didn't end up working out. That was an enormous blow at the time: with the cycle of academic contracts, I had to choose whether to not sign or to defer the NSA job until the end of the next academic year. I chose the former, and the provisional job offer fell through.

In the end, though, it was probably for the best. When Snowden first hit the news, all I could think of was "there but for the grace of the gods go I."
That would not have been a cheap domain name to acquire, especially after Facebook rebranding 'the wall' as 'the timeline'.
I watched Charlie Brooker's new Black Mirror episode 'White Christmas' recently, and it deals with technology not entirely dissimilar to this. Well worth a watch.
How to create habit forming products?
Multi-threaded setxid on Linux
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> Out of curiosity, since several comments here complained about the paywall ("paywalls are nsfl"), and an equal number or more on HN run adblockers and/or openly dislike ads in general (the whole "you are the product" meme), how do you think newspapers should monetize?

I adblock aggressively, and I don't think it's my capitalist duty to watch ads for products in order to create wants for products I don't need.[1] I'm very bothered by the idea of being "nice" to a site by watching ads. I don't want to help a site by watching ads; that's supposed to help a third party by creating a need in me to buy something, not the website I actually care about. I much prefer cut-and-dry paywalls or donation buttons.

Thus, I'm fine with newspapers having paywalls. If that's what sells, let them paywall everything. It's their prerogative. However, there are also plenty of unpaywalled sources. At the moment, most news can be obtained from the web without paying, and I doubt that this will change. I don't have a solution for the news industry, but guilting me into watching ads will never work.

Paywalls for academic journals are an entirely different problem, since in many cases the journal "editors" are in fact rather parisitic and contribute nothing but prestige, while the actual work is done by others and is unpaid. Those paywalls are terrible. But you made something and you don't want me to see it until I pay? That's fine.

[1] And I almost never "need" anything. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." If I need something, I'll know it. I don't need ads to tell me what to need. I therefore find the entire premise behind advertising pernicious. Only when I want to buy something, I'll look at ads, so until I actually have a need or want to buy something, don't shove ads down my throat or guilt me into watching them.
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All those regular sellers are most likely the miners, who have to quickly move their bitcoin to cover mining costs. In an unfortunate feedback loop, the cheaper the coins cost, the more of their production they have to sell to cover expenses.

The price is dropping to the point where it's barely profitable even with the newest hardware, unless you're using it as a roundabout method of money laundering (sell coins for USD, pay your electric bill in RUB).
Not only intentional abuse, but what about lag? Especially when say, crossing the road!
How does that deal with the case where it should translate to "I didn't scan any directories"? According to the documentation, "In the translated version the variables must still appear." http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.2/linguist-translators.html
What They See
I think we use http://github.com/bemyeyes/bemyeyes-server :)
Use gawk for processing large data files
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I normally work remote, but when I come into the office-- I come in 2-3 hrs early and stay 2 hours late to get my work done...
There's no magic bullet. As soon as your template references user specific (private) data, the caching advantage almost disappears, because each user requires their own cached rendering. You might as well cache it on the client and save the round-trip, and any additional network/server performance issues.

Rendering public, read-only content such as a tweet, however, makes total sense to cache on the server.
A lot of people think RadioShack should have made the transition to internet sales, but I think that they actually started failing earlier, when they expanded into a non-technical market.

In the 80s and 90s I could go into a Radio Shack and buy resistors, fuses, soldering equipment, breadboards, various controllers and sensors, hard drives, processors: everything I needed to assemble an electronics project, fix a computer, make something.

But in the mid-late 90s they started switching over to a more general consumer model. Bins of parts were replaced by shiny cell-phone display cases. Knowledgeable fat bearded nerds were replaced by skinny college students working a retail job until they got their degree. The last time I went into a RadioShack I just wanted a potentiometer and they literally didn't have any electronics parts.

The tragedy here is that this transition completed at about the same time the maker movement started to emerge a little after the turn of the millennium.
Alchemist v0.13.0 with jump to definition functionality
That one's Athens and this ... is ... oh wrong forum
A couple years ago I needed a capacitor right now and bopped down to the local RS. The components were located in a the back of the store, in a bin they obviously were not proud of having. I found my part and went to the register.

The clerk just waved me off and told me to take the capacitor and leave. He wasn't interested in ringing it up.

Radio Shack is full of rot, from the top to the bottom, and I am surprised they have lasted this long. They will only be missed when you need that twenty cent part now, for two bucks.
My first thought was the point that saalaa is making in a sibling comment, but I'm also thinking there should be a way for users to either go for a volunteer, or have mechanical turk options when you REALLY need to see something and you would pay for it.
We can't? I mean, I have to obtain USD to pay my taxes, but otherwise I can use currencies at will. I have a hard time finding anyone local who will accept or pay me in anything besides USD, but that's their own choice to do so.
I think at that point you wouldn't be "crowdsourcing" your labor anymore. It'd be like a telecommunications relay service[1], where the operators are properly trained employees.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_relay_servic...
Janitors and security guards aren't usually employed by the company, are they?
Wow. Excellent execution of an awesome idea. Seriously, I've always lamented the fact that news is never presented with enough background, and the fact that these articles allow the user to either get an overview or an in-depth history is really exciting. I currently use Yahoo News Digest for quick updates about the day's events, but this complements that form of news consumption very nicely and I could see myself using it often.

Minor point, the UI is a bit glitchy and sometimes the header bar shakes back and forth. Also, navigation from within stories is unclear - I couldn't figure out how to get back to the front page section. I'm not sure if the functionality isn't there or just wasn't working, but a swipe left to go back would be much more user friendly.

Well done, and congrats on launching!
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> using AI the same way we use all tools -- for our benefit

Musk and others are concerned about very different things than "we'll accidentally use AI wrong." And they're not concerned about the AI we already have, and they're certainly not "pessimistic" about whether AI technology will advance.

The concern is that we'll develop a very, very smart general artificial intelligence.

The concern is that it'd be smart enough that it can learn how to manipulate us better than we ourselves can. Smart enough that it can research new technologies better than we can. Smart enough to outclass not only humans, but human civilization as a whole, in every way.

And what would the terminal goals of that AI be? Those are determined by the programmer. Let's say someone created a general AI for the harmless purpose of calculating the decimal expansion of pi.

A general, superintelligent AI with no other utility function than "calculate as many digits of pi as you can" would literally mean the end of humanity, as it harvested the world's resources to add computing power. It's vastly smarter than all of us put together, and it values the digits of pi infinitely more than it values our pleas for mercy, or our existence, or the existence of the planet.

This is quite terrifying to me.

A good intro to the subject is Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies[1]. One of the most unsettling books I've read.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-N...
No one has every believed in the basilisk, save for maybe Yud. Everyone on LessWrong thought it was dumb from day one. LessWrong, now mostly dead, was a fun community full of smart people. That article is trying to make the place out as a cult, but no one bought any of that stuff, not even Roko. He was just playing around with local memes. It's pretty gross how this whole basilisk thing has turned out.
Thanks for your input. As I wrote, I'm mainly worried about the tendency for pro-bono systems to get corrupted when you introduce money into them.

BTW. How big payments you had in mind?
Agreed, carelessness can cause serious issues. I see it sometimes but overall I would say most doctors (I in a tertiary care academic facility so obviously there is a bias) take their job quite seriously and understand the gravity of decisions they make.

It's proabably a waste of resources and time to have a 2-check method as protocol (doctors are already overworked). Often times it is present informally (radiologists/pathologists will often have their colleagus review problematic cases for agreement and neurologists and surgeons will frequently review the films)

What everyone should do is realize you can always get a second opinion and have another expert review the material.
Shillings. there were 20 in a pound, and 12 pence in a shilling, for 240 pence/pound. the d signifies pennies.
I work on software that, among other things, runs a call center and I've been getting requests to do something like this in real time so that we can communicate with our users that don't speak english (We have agents who speak other languages but they wanted a fallback for when they weren't there). I told them real-time was still a little bit out (even with this as an API it would take time to integrate). This is really exciting though and I look forward to the day that we can do this will little to no lag and talk to people who don't share a language in common.
Something to think about: this is similar what people are building (outside of Erlang/Elixir) using Docker and CoreOS. Deploy a bunch of instances of your app both to scale and to handle failures. Need to update the OS on a box? Restart it, there's other app instances to cover it. A container crashed? Restart it -- it's not sharing state with other instances so things will be fine.

Another way to handle error propagation transparently is using monads. Even if you haven't used monads in Haskell, you've probably used them in Javascript: promises are monads. Consider how both errors and exceptions propagate through .then chains in promises. There might not be as much syntactic sugar in JS as there is in Haskell, but the idea is pretty much the same.
Any interesting plans for the future?
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That is the first thought I had. The expectation here is that the blind need help, which may not be the case. The interesting thing to me was that the blind can "see" through echo location. Very cool stuff.
Tandy companies' management has always been insane.
Focusing on one of the input fields and hitting 'escape' worked for me...
Cell phones were huge for them. I worked at a radio shack store in the mid-90s when they started stocking car phones (big, bulky items) and very shortly after that hand-held phones. We used to sell them like hot cakes. As a high school student, I made pretty good money selling pagers, phones and computers. Compared to these items, resistors and batteries were no match.
You're probably joking, and my humour unit is impaired today. But in case you're not...

Those laws are the requirements document - the $10mm is for the implementation.
If you can define "harm" well enough for the first law to be useful then you've solved the problem and laws 2 and 3 are probably superfluous.