skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not familiar with Thorium reactors at all, so forgive me for asking: how much long-lived nuclear waste do they produce?

Almost none of the 250,000 year stuff. Almost entirely the 300 year stuff. Also, about 1/4 the total mass of all waste product.

Additionally, according to their documentation, the 250,000 year stuff is ultimately cycled back into the reactor to be destroyed. Most long-lived nuclear waste is fissionable, so you can just use it as more fuel, given that you can remove the fission products from the fuel easily.
Could it be because golang supports unicode identifiers? For non-native English speakers, it must be more difficult to program in ASCII-based languages, right?
"Weaponized" is a bit loaded.

It's simple game theory.

Cartel members cheat, and those outside the cartel are increasing production. Saudi Arabia would love to constrict total global production, but it can't, it can only shift production to others. It doesn't make any sense to try holding a price high unilaterally in a competitive marketplace.

People keep looking at the effects (Russia hurting, USA shale producers hurting) and trying to make those into causes. The explanation is simpler and far less interesting. High production and low production both suck for the Saudis, but high production currently sucks slightly less.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/bartiromo/2015...

(I know, I know, it's USA Today. It's a shockingly good interview somehow.)
You don't know your life will be long. You can die at any time for any stupid reason, no matter what your life expectancy is.
There is money to be made in i2p, people. Time to start creating eepsites.
Interesting straight duh idea (as in duh why didn't I think of that). Would use it. Wonder how it handles looping.

Note 3/4 of the links on the main page are to not yet created wiki pages. Looking forward to it, or just writing it for myself in go :)
What's the reason, and why didn't they just use URNs?
You can ignore the impact of inflation since his argument is that the earlier investing results in a greater net worth at a later time.
The AI winter has been over for a couple years, we're in the middle of a torrid summer right now (triggered by the deep learning craze). There is a rush in the VC world to throw millions at any new AI startup, especially if it has "deep learning" in its pitch deck.

So far it has paid out, because large tech companies (Google, Facebook, Baidu, etc.) have been on a deep learning startup acqui-hiring spree. It might not last, though. Any company that bases its marketing on "AI" and subsequently fails to deliver is bringing us closer to the next AI winter.
Doodle is interesting, thanks for mentioning them. But I was exploring their product and come to find they list SSL as a paid feature on their "Private" plan. SSL is really, truly not a paid feature. I found that off-putting and a bit shameful.
Wikipedia lists quite a few potential problems with ring circuits. I don't know how valid these complaints are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit#Criticism
Elon Musk uses this ancient critical-thinking strategy to outsmart
I have a theory that it might be because of the Chinese game "go" that it started to become popular in China.
Nothing of the sort. Mostly children playing kickball all day where I am.
Previous discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23c7y0/why_is_golang...
How does Chromaprint work?
And infinite time to write them?
On one hand, it is true they deploy people to implement the software.

On the other hand, the customer has results after 6-8 weeks. How much software can really be built in that sort of time frame? Not much...

In my opinion Palantir is a product company, but the product is deeply integrated in to an enterprise. And doing that takes time and people.
"Go" is actually the Japanese name for the game. In Chinese, it's called "weiqi".
A MSR breeder can potentially burn 98% of the available energy; ThorCon is a converter, but not a breeder. From what I can glean from their website and documentation, it looks like they get about 20% burnup.
people in china cannot visit google related site, include golang.org.LOL
Introduction to Recursive Neural Nets
Well, they do actually have a product but it's my understanding that almost every purchase requires a set of engineers to integrate it. So I dunno if you could call it a consulting company but there is truth to this.
Thanks for your feedback.
I have changed initial search query with "has:attachment larger:20M".

Also one can reach the google script app with direct url:

https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyBlGOLsoNB_aoZkVGkO...

Or shortUrl:

http://bit.ly/sortEmails
Oh right... Well you just killed my theory.
Working across silos? Palantir does that by creating yet another silo.
>it encourages us to celebrate that they ever existed in the first place.

Their existence was already being celebrated while they were alive. You've probably celebrated your own existence several times already.

>The uniqueness of a human's achievement is not invalidated or "wasted" by their passing.

The stuff that is wasted no longer exists for you to measure. You don't know what you've lost because you've never seen it.
We did this in the Stanford salon: the procedure was for interpersonal intimacy, so some parts you can pluck out and try for friendships: we matched people pretty randomly-ish, and it was a fairly good result. This is the experimental protocol (https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rascl/tools/secondFastFriendsQ...)

There seems to be a positive feedback sort of thing in this, because the pair who got the most out of it was two people who had been friends for a long time, who learned a lot about each other.
Who's supposed to be teaching them, though? If they don't know this stuff exists, how are they going to know to look for it? I learned it because I was always a complete RFC nerd, but I know that many developers are not like that.
Hey, if it was the 80s/90s I'd call them Oracle.

One other thing to note is that while they build these custom solutions, the second you touch their stuff that support policy goes out the window, not unlike what Oracle does.
golang.org is blocked by GFW in china, people must visit it through proxy server outside china, so I think the visit statistic is not accurate.
> My point is that the distinction between "thing I am doing to my body alone" and "thing I am doing to my body with the involvement of a licensed professional" is somewhat arbitrary.

Then you should have made that point explicitly. Instead, it looks like you are arguing against something I did not write.

And yes, the line is very arbitrary. However, that doesn’t mean that it does not exist, or that you are free to set it anywhere you feel like without worry or care. Unless you have the enormous resources to research on your own (but you don’t, nobody does), you should pick some other party which has done so (scientifically) and has subsequently set the line somewhere. And unless you have reason to doubt their veracity, you should adhere to that line. No, “I feel like it, it could be fun” or “I could make more money by using these performance-enhancing drugs” are not good enough reasons.
I think most people have issue with GPL to be honest. So they aren't alone there.
Scala had it before Swift: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolati...

(implemented with as a macro AFAIK)
An amazing compliment, IMO.
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Security holes shouldn't be the solution, but pressure on OEMs to allow control over your own devices.
Protip: Don't manually click more just run a little javascript in the console.

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Why the VS source code? It would be almost entirely useless to anybody as there is 2 decades of legacy in that code base and MS has massive teams just trying to keep it all together. Only open source things that are WORTH open sourcing i.e. where you want active contributors.
1000 thousand pages
That's true, but here's a construction:

OOZZ
OOSZZ
LLSS
ILTS
ILTT
IJT
IJJJ

That's built out of one full set of OZSLJTI. If you take two of those, one rotated by 180˚, you get a rectangle.
Yes, except for the TCP-over-TCP issue.
What Happened to Old School NLP?
Here are some people who are not going to like it: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?firstName=AMY&lastName=IN...

[105 of them as I write this...plus their coworkers.]
Building a conversation model which can negotiate with multiple guests on behalf of the host in plain english is not easy (for us). This includes simple social concepts such as "compromise" - say, when to push for one location over another. The information extraction problem alone is a major challenge.

No buzzwords needed, we are just trying to do some good work, and if we succeed, we think many people would like it: https://twitter.com/search?q=xdotai
True, you need to pay them a shocking 2.5 euros/month in order to access all the important features (calendar integration, SSL, etc). Why don't the devs there just work for free?

Incidentally I don't mean to suggest doodle as necessarily the best service of this sort. The only reason I remember doodle specifically is because someone used it on me last week.
Like others have said, use your time to learn new things at work.

And I agree your company likely has no grounds to your IP but what might give them some ground is if you're either caught working on your project at work or if your performance slips to the point they think you have somehow used your time for other means.
Debugging SSL/TLS with openssl(1)
Can I register my startup in UK without even going there with just £15. This sounds interesting but are there any complications or hidden stuffs that I should be aware of?
Two! (see my same-level comment)
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I find that not entirely contradictory, both are tools of societal control. From a perspective of power, whether you legalize marijuana or not is not a question of personal liberty but what is of greater utility to your immediate political goals. I think it is an open secret that the 1960-70s criminalisation of drugs was not really because of concern for the health of the users, but because it was an effective way to suppress and ultimately eliminate the threat of the emerging counter culture.

Maybe in light of growing inequality and youth unemployment marijuana is seen as one of the diversion tools to prevent the poor from taking political action. Especially because it has roughly the intended effects, when used regularly. Note that it is not entirely out of the question that people in power think that way, for example the 60-70's were perceived as a "Crisis of Democracy" in parts of the establishment.
Almost every non-trivial programming language released after 2000 supports unicode identifiers[0]. Rust, Python, Ruby, C#, Scala, Clojure, just to name a few, all support unicode identifiers.

[0] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names
文章还是没有解释为什么，只说了是什么。
Actually,erlang is being used in taobao.
I'm the author of the post linked here, but not the author of the spec. My goal was to introduce the new features -- obviously there was a bit of a "deep end" problem talking about :has and I need to do a bit more work on that part of the post.

The distinction between "fast" and "complete" selectors is explained in the spec doc: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors-4/

Obviously I can't read the minds of the spec writers, but I imagine they don't know what the performance implications of :has() is right now and they don't want to commit to something that kills browser performance once it's out there in the wild.
Kickstarter and crowdfunding are a great next step. When it's not just rich old guys picking which projects get funded you get Oculus and an entire new VR industry, created by a unpedigreed outsider that no investor would have given the time of day to.

The real shift will come when crowdfunding for equity is possible. When not just rich investors will be able to benefit from the massive wealth creation of technology companies. It may be that regular people are willing and able to fund as many viable projects as exist.
Ask HN: What can you tell me about starting a video oriented website?
The core idea is to create a video website in which people upload videos into various categories.

Business model is revenue sharing with the content uploaders.

Requirements:
we need to control the videos. the videos must not be owned by the video hosting company.
it must be possible for us to move all the videos to a different video hosting service.

Is there a video hosting service that provides a sort of pre-built content management system for videos that allows our user base to upload their content, to tag it/categorise it and share revenue?

In effect this is sort of creating a TV channel where we bring the brand and the audience and the content uploaders, the hosting service provides the technology. YouTube might almost fit the bill but I can't imagine they would allow us to move all the videos that our user base uploaded, should we choose to.

Anyone have experience creating this sort of thing, willing to share their wisdom?
AI is the new hip cool thing to get VCs excited about the same old same old.

Algorithm != AI
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I mean that it is basically a DSL with special syntax, and that it would be nice to be able to write such things in libraries (without needing it to be part of the C# spec.)

There is obviously a relationship between code like

.Select(blah).From(blah).Where(blah)

and

SELECT blah FROM blah WHERE blah,

and I think it would be worthwhile to look into a language feature that allowed a reliable translation between these kinds of things. Maybe I want to write

LET a = blah IN blah

from

.Let(a, blah).In(blah)

or some such thing. It it just syntactical sugar? Is it a pattern that can be abstracted well?
I am one-quarter into "Disciplined Minds", a book by John Pilger. It looks like the author may be addressing similar issues. Have you perhaps read this book?
DNSmap
I'm kind of surprised that TechCrunch acts like Palantir's role was never out in the open - if anyone ever browsed a job opening there for engineering, they have you check out a tool that steps through using the product to uncover the 9/11 attackers in a mock but plausible scenario. It is very obvious what their role is for intelligence analysis.
You work fast my man. I saw the post and read the article when it popped up on HN. Well done.
Returning a 404 status code and displaying an attractive and descriptive status page are not mutually exclusive. If you go to http://www.google.com/unknown, you will get a 404, but you will also see a custom page.
>Go 1.4 is released [0]

>10 December 2014

>Today we announce Go 1.4, the fifth major stable release of Go...

>The most notable new feature in this release is official support for Android. Using the support in the core and the libraries in the golang.org/x/mobile repository, it is now possible to write simple Android apps using only Go code. At this stage, the support libraries are _still nascent_ and _under heavy development_. Early adopters should expect a bumpy ride, but we welcome the community to get involved.

Emphasis mine.

I really don't think a beta feature that was released a month ago could have affected the statistics.

[0] https://blog.golang.org/go1.4
I consider them closer to SAP than the usual DC area style contracting company. What does distinguish them from most of the companies in the area though is that their product tends to work and scale somewhat which I can't say for the vast majority of government contractor produced software for the government at their (very, very schizophrenic and oftentimes misleading) direction. Actually hiring engineers that can codifies instead of asking for a clearance first makes a monumental difference in how you structure your company and lines of business. It lets you at least create a working project first because you can actually reject most of your candidates instead of being pressured to due to being jerked around by the terms of the contract requiring certain levels of clearance first. The government isn't run by completely retarded people and they're seeing now how it's probably easier to have actual software companies produce software and then go through the integration and compliance paperwork later - it's how GovCloud fundamentally became an option in Intelligence Community projects. You thought the Terremark cloud was one nobody used that's terribly overpriced? Wait until you see the "clouds" the big defense contractors came up with at orders of magnitude more dollars (most of it probably going to compensate those poor people filing documents and paperwork meant to protect the government but now entrapping it to work primarily with parasitic companies).

Look online for people with DCGS on their profiles, you'll be able to trace it all back to trying to reproduce Palantir down to the web GUI. Some decent journalist should be able to piece a lot together if they just trolled LinkedIn. A lot of it is unclassified but technically FOUO so not quite cleared for public consumption. The reason I figure it hasn't been researched thoroughly is because it's extremely boring DC area "tech" news that is more about topics that are of little interest to the tech community and is boring even by DC tech standards. Almost every company here is some Big Data bullshit company that's writing something about 8 - 14 years behind private industry timelines from an engineering standpoint and held back by politics, funding, and sheer disorganization endemic to enterprises but especially bad in the bloated Pentagon budget.
Be one of the first to try out codable as soon as it goes online
Probably. Some feel uncomfortable/less-professional repeating profanity.
David Mumford did a great job summarizing his contributions:

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendie...

On a side note, this was an obituary invited by Nature that was surprisingly rejected for being too technical!
Good luck with your company, I wish you succeed. NLP is certainly no piece of cake.
>As an example, Arthur Eddington describes quantum uncertainty as a consequence of the fact that the language of physics switched from referring directly to physical phenomena, to describing our knowledge of these things; so when we only have partial knowledge, we frame our descriptions in terms of probabilities.

I have never heard this before, but it is _exactly_ what I have said about the subject. This usually causes me to have to explain how I'm not saying we _could_ know that stuff: the information may not even exist. But we can't even say whether or not that is true.

>There's this question in philosophy of mathematics, whether math is discovery or invention.

I have also had many discussions about this. A lot of it stems from the fact that mathematicians tend to say "we are free to choose our axioms," when all my experiences say otherwise. We cannot choose contradictory axioms because useless math isn't math. (I.e., there is more to good math than truth: it must have possible utility.) And furthermore, if I were to drop two pennies on the table and consistently get you to agree there are three cents there, then you would be damned sure some mathematician would want to have a model for what is going on!

So mathematics is fundamentally tied to observation. That's why they spent so much effort trying to define things like 'continuity' and 'smooth curve': we need a model for reality, not just for our 'freely chosen' axioms.

So mathematics is discovery in the sense that we must observe its correctness, but invention in the sense that we must invent its usefulness.

In the end, all of our efforts are about developing language that allows us to describe our reality in a reliable and teachable manner -- Physicists and mathematicians are primarily trying to develop better language.
yes you can, in many dimensions. one of those we call "type checking". other examples are the myriad examples of using model checking and symbolic execution to identify errors in programs automatically. can you identify all errors? no, but that has nothing to do with weak or strong AI. but you can definitely learn general properties about general programs using today's technology.
so does Java...
I agree. But I'm also convinced that in practice there's absolutely no way to pressure OEMs to allow control over our devices in such way that it would lead to persistent computational opennes and freedom.

Walled gardens and eroded digital/computational liberties are here to stay, and even more so in the future. The trend has been that "hacking the device" has become harder and harder, and devices have became more and more closed and controlled. I don't expect this trend to change any time soon. I sure as hell wish it did, but why would it?
> I think organised labour sounds too 19th century to most people in the business.

Just wanted to note that this is an eccentricity specific to the US.
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For those who want more details about Turing Machines and the Halting Problem, including a look at Turing's original paper, my usual advice is to read "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold [ http://theannotatedturing.com/ ].

Here's a review of the book by the Notices of the AMS [ http://www.ams.org/notices/201108/rtx110801120p.pdf ]
Well, each linq "operator" is just an extension method to the ienumerable interface that are chained together. So nothing prevents you from doing your own operators.

Most of the features that came along around the time of LINQ (var variables, extension methods, anonymous classes, lambdas etc) was done specifically to support the LINQ kinda syntax but LINQ in itself is not so much part of the language as it is of the .net libraries.

Btw, I personally think the "dot notation" syntax is superior to the "query expression". It's easy to follow from start of the line to the end and you get great autocompletion along the way.
You obviously don't know too many potheads. Unbridled, foaming-at-the-mouth libertarianism seems to be the endgame of long-term marijuana-induced delirium.
> pressure from the bottom has not worked so far

wait, this is causing friction?
they fired forstall to get total gleichschaltung and now ppl elsewhere are revolting? i hope this'll come to fruits.
this whole cozy-collaboration-and-nobody-saying-no thing has to stop.
By jailbreak you mean execute an unknown binary from a (probably?) untrustworthy website which exploits an unpatched local privilege escalation in the operating system, right?

Doesn't sound like a great start to securing your system.
Honestly, it sounds like traditional enterprise software and should be valued similarly. Software like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Electronic Health Record (EHR) always require very expensive integration/training/support. The contracts take forever to negotiate but are very lucrative with a huge lock in and expensive support contracts.
> If you are offered little equity as compared to the founders, don't join.

There is no "if". Employee equity is always a small fraction of founders'. This won't change until people realize the discrepancy, or demand more equity at early stage startups.
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using static

That will clean up quite a bit of my code.
Sure - but the solution usually involves deciding who the least important attendees are, scheduling it over their busy calendar times whenever it suits the execs, and expecting them to suck it up. I don't see how AI is going to help with that.
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Can you provide an example of how this might work in practice?