skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure there is at least some
degree of automated video classification
at Youtube.

there's definitely collaborative filtering.
One thing, super fast - bingo. Just wanted to say that, in terms of "end game," it fails to excite me after having worked in accessibility roles at companies large - and small. Eg, when you find out your employer got sued and lost for accessibility it feels like you failed the evolutionary test of compassion; sure, they passed the corporate, "Cost / Benefit," litmus test, but, was the work they did, "Good?"

Thank you for the compliment - I passed your link to my engineering partner, because, I'm the clueless business monkey. ;)
> I'm grateful that HN's more active moderation is taking out some of the trash.

I don't see it that way. I read those comments and there's very little vitriol in there. There's a lot of legitimate counter arguments being made that are being flag killed. You're essentially being grateful that HN's moderation is stifling any attempt at disagreement with their own political views.
You can see this particular keynote presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ-P-ZI6W4
Oh brilliant! Appreciate the information.
Your comment assuming that a woman is cleaner than a man, just because she is a woman, is the most sexist I will probably read today.

Some people don't really understand what's the meaning of feminism.

But reading your comment again, I think you were just trolling.
what do you mean with gridcoin stocks?

It's not cryptocurrency stocks but real world stocks, so yes you might argue about the benefit of these but there's certainly already a lot of money being made in this area.

But yes as of now all supported projects are science projects.
Oh yeah, sorry, I meant Hackers. The Masters of Doom audiobook was really good!
Wouldn't be cleaner to implement is_valid like this:

int is_valid(char* password) {
return strcmp(password, "poop") == 0;
}
11 billion parameters is a number of connections, not neurons. Connection weights, not neuron weights.
Videos of talks from the First RISC-V workshop and bootcamp
If you know which nodes they control you can easily avoid using them in the same circuit. But how are you supposed to know that? There is a configuration option to list other nodes you operate for exactly this purpose, but someone staging an attack is obviously not going to use it.
This is a like a case study in how to [not] handle messaging towards technical users. There's no issue here, but it just appears like Firefox is now shipping apps or something, rather than essentially a bookmark.
Increasingly I'm finding that any description of causation/correlation which (a) isn't written by a more or less formally trained statistician of some variety or (b) invoking Pearl-like causal diagrams directly has a coin-flip's chance of being actively dangerous to read.

Causation is super tricky business. You probably have an okay model of it intuitively once you've done a little stats work, but to explain it to someone else or tackle it in more exotic or hypothetical domains is an exercise is insanity if you're not armed with the very best tools.
I tried AWS Zocalo (document store and collaboration) and it was close to feature-free. I have no idea why they released it in that state. I generally like AWS stuff, but Zocalo is a real turkey.
Gridcoin's proof-of-research is not decentralized: it relies on the BOINC project servers. So it shares all the same centralization flaws as FoldingCoin which relies on the Folding@Home servers.

Gridcoin is a little different because if you remove the BOINC project servers, it is not centralized anymore, and only relies on proof-of-stake. But this would make it no different that the many proof-of-stake altcoins that already exist.
"... I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. ..."

Is this an increasing trend?
Using your analogy I would guess Geoff Hinton's goal is to understand aerodynamics and which parts of bird flight are actually necessary for flight and which are simply accidents of evolution.
Is this the Great Filter?
> Perhaps I don't understand exactly how the Assessor's office works, but it seems pretty wrong that public data from an organization funded by taxpayers isn't freely available for download.

I think those costs are there because the provision of that data is considered above and beyond the mandate of the Assessor's Office.
> My position is simply that your rights end where mine begin

What about where your rights might begin? I'm thinking of the dangers of alcohol, drugs, etc. where my use doesn't guarantee causing you trouble, but it definitely increases the likelyhood - much like not gettig vaccinated.
Why Statistical Analysis Makes Sports Fans Unhappy
In general, yeah, but that current government of theirs is a piece of work...

http://sciencewriters.ca/initiatives/muzzling_canadian_feder...
I'm not an expert but quoting Reza Aslan who's really quite a moderate scholarly type:

“There’s no question that there has been a virus that has spread throughout the Muslim world, a virus of ultra-orthodox puritanism.”

“But there’s also no question what the source of this virus is — whether we’re talking about Boko Haram, or ISIS, or al-Qaida, or the Taliban. All of them have as their source Wahhabism, or the state religion of Saudi Arabia.”

“And as we all know, Saudi Arabia has spent over $100 billion in the past 20 or 30 years spreading this ideology throughout the world.”

Not saying we should bomb the Saudis but we might encourage them to stop spending billions on promoting extremist Islam.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1746607/reza-aslan-links-saudi-arab...
A pretty common idea in Haskell-land is that "the next Haskell would be strict". Laziness was once a dreamy ideal execution strategy, but thanks to Haskell the practical tradeoff is better understood.

At the same time (as the slides note) the strict/lazy divide is hardly decided! As many people who would rather Haskell be strict are willing to defend laziness to the death for being the key reason Haskell is so composable. [0]

So Lennart Augustsson—the author of the first standard's compliant Haskell compiler, I believe—wrote up Mu and made it strict. There is probably a justification in SC's case for why it was an experiment worth trying.

[0] At the very least it's indisputable that laziness forced Haskell's hand with purity and that ended up being an enormous win in everyone's opinion.
There is also Proof of Stake to secure the network, which does not waste electricity as much and on top of that the amount of stake you get for each vote to secure the network could also be made dependent on the amount of work you do for a science project as measured by BOINC.

The identification of which user gets what amount of "Proof of research" bonus is done via hashed BOINC email, as the email in BOINC is private and cannot be accessed by others.

See my other post about gridcoin.
I completely agree that there is very little chance AI research will succeed any time soon, but not because AI researchers haven't listened enough to Jeff Hawkins. The way to understand human intelligence is to build computational models that reproduce some of its properties.
And to be extra fair "you can write Java in any language" is much more a dig at some of the bad patterns which Java has become known for culturally than anything about the language itself!
And immediately preceding that equation is this sentence:

"If it sounds simple, it is not, but if you’re interested it’s a great reason to learn spherical harmonics."

The entire point of showing off that equation is to say "This stuff is actually really deep and complicated and it's a rich subject to dive into on its own if you want to go for that, but I'm not going that route."
>get used to being treated the same way.

Can you elaborate on this? IMHO women should be treated equally when it makes moral sense. I.e. women's bathrooms need to be larger because of the various things they need to do in there, not just societal norm things but things like changing tampons, pads.

The menstrual cycle also affects productivity and is essentially a reoccurring medical issue that needs regular treatment.

As for the greater issue being discussed about the male centric nature of hackerspaces and hacker houses, alot of this has to do with proven social psychology facts about how the average man reacts to women that don't fit societal stereotypes. Lots of papers on that.
Well it is possible that human-like intelligence is a lot harder to build, and that you are unnecessarily complicating your journey by asking for human-like intelligence straight off the bat as a requirement of definition.

Like, I would think an AI that can perform capricious causal modelling from sensory or experimental data is already really sexy, even if it couldn't match up to human intelligence, or if it wasn't built in the same way as a brain.

Or, an AI that can perform capricious maps or analogies between situations.
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JavaScript ES7 Async and Await Functions
Well, the fact that Visa are able to do four orders of magnitude more transactions that Bitcoin, at a minimum, indicates they're at least a great deal more efficient.
If you ignore their enforcement letters, then yes, they can come and just confiscate your equipment; not an uncommon end for a "pirate" FM station operator.
I've got the personality of John Carmack (or lack thereof), could I still get in?
Unless the book is junk, in which case you lost potential money by reading it, perhaps well in excess of the 3 bucks :-)
If you just refuse the towel twice, your character will automatically say "Ford, what about my home?".
where are the scrollbars??
Ask HN: Who wants to learn design?
Those that are interested in learning web design:

1) What do you want to learn?

2) Why do you want to learn?

3) How do you want to learn? (written, video, 1-on-1, etc)

4) How much would you pay and in what interval (monthly, onetime, etc)
I assume this is BGP routing as a service (which sounds cool).

But, would this not break the internet if everyone used it? routing individual IPs (rather than large blocks) sounds like it would end in chaos?
It's probably worth skipping to page 6 before reading the transcript for some context.
Ugh. Such an arrogant writer.
yes that is correct, the currency itself is decentraliced but the amount how much you mine additionally ("Proof of Research") depends on the BOINC project servers.
Launch it, get some traction first, then incorporate. There is no law against releasing an app personally and this will save you money if the company doesn't work.
Certainly seems like one of them, if this claim is true: "The Milky Way would therefore be among only 10% of all galaxies in the universe – the larger ones – that can sustain complex life in the long-term."
It may be that their applications have high memory usage, which lazy evaluation would make slightly worse. Alternatively, they may have found that the applications that they tend to run benefit from a slightly stricter evaluation strategy, and have thus changed the compiler to better reflect that...
I was surprised when I visited Iran years back how different it was on the street to what you might imagine from TV news. I'd just come from Pakistan where all the women are covered up or mostly kept at home and in comparison Iran felt a bit like France, modern and with women wandering about fairly normally, maybe with some head scarfs. The Iranian people I think are pretty normal and modern. It it the dictatorial government that is all 'death to apostates' and hardline Islamic and quite different in outlook to the populace.
I like the idea of moving some of the risk from the job-seeker to the job-offerer. If the developer gets a hotel room for a week in SF and the trip ends up not resulting in a job, he or she is out hundreds of dollars, and that risk might discourage people from visiting from outside of the bay area. There might be a huge number of developers right on the edge where it doesn't quite make sense for them to take a trip to SF, but free room and board would bring them in. Employers are already throwing tens of thousands per employee at recruiting, so this little investment might make a huge difference compared to other recruiting tactics.
Seems harder to solve algorithmically, rather than as a single private company with clients who rent hardware / CPU / GPU time for hire.
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> "Thank goodness" is popular with the people who think "Thank God" is blasphemous.

Sure, and with others; but I have never heard "Thank good" before.
Leonard Cohen managed to monetize his poetry through his music.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961518
Adding a common deterministic trend to two random time series does not make them correlated. Intuitively, you still cannot predict the deviation from the trend of one timeseries using the deviation from the trend of the other timeseries.

His statement (after adding the constant trend) is misleading:

"Now let’s repeat the same tests on these new series. We get surprising results: the correlation coefficient is 0.96 — a very strong unmistakable correlation"

What he's calculated is the correlation between a set of points from y_1 and y_2 - and that will be large, of course - their (deterministically increasing) means have correlation 1.

The quantity that qualifies as correlation for predictability purposes is actually the correlation between the deviations from mean.

This is all fairly clear if you use the actual formula (Pearson correlation):

E[(y_1 - mu * t)(y_2 - mu * t)] / (sigma_y1 * sigma_y2)
I've been living in a hacker house in Palo Alto for ~5 months now. There has been at least one female resident the entire time I've been there. None have ever complained about the messiness or behavior of the male inhabitants. On the contrary, we all get along well and if anything the woman have been more tolerant than average of others' messes and disorganization (probably just a coincidence).

In talking with my roommates about other hacker houses they've lived in, nobody has ever mentioned problems with men treating women improperly. I visited one of the houses in SF that was ~30% women and it seemed like everybody got along well and cleaned up after themselves.

The only material gender difference that has come up for us is that men are generally heavier so they make more noise when they walk around barefoot.
My statement isn't so much that we listen to Hawkins but rather that the point put forward by Hawkins (among others) in recent years is the point around which we should focus our efforts. You can't build a computational model if you have nothing that realistically reflects the requirements of the thing that you wish to model as instantiated in reality as we know it.
NASA's Office of Planetary Protection
Why do you say the proof of work needs to be "wasteful". The way I see it there are three major things:

1) It's hard to compute an answer (in bitcoin a low hash)

2) It's easy to verify an answer

3) The starting parameters can not be dictated by previous winners (the hash of the block in bitcoin)

This does not dictate that it can not be useful, in fact prime coin (http://primecoin.io/) could be used as an example of a cryptocurrency that has a moderately useful proof of work.

One proof of work could be based off of protein folding, however the parameters need to be chosen pesudo randomly or an attacker could store up a chain of multiple valid proofs of work then unlease a long chain all at once. So we can not direct the work, but the work can be done in a larger fertile space.
Let's assume this happened tomorrow, and it took another 500 million for life to evolve to what we would consider intelligent. Would anything of our civilisation be left? What would be the best way to leave a record that we existed?
I signed up. I'm currently doing a contract job that will be up in a few months which also aligned with my lease being up and I am interested in moving to SF so this would be perfect for me if I was chosen because I could go out there after my contract, get a job and move hassle free.
This makes a lot of assumptions about extra-terrestrial life. This article assumes that all "life" depends on a protective ozone layer and that it's similar to life on Earth.
How is net income irrelevant? Net income represents the organization's ability to 1) absorb fines 2) purchase communication blocking equipment 3) employ and contract with persons to deploy blocking equipment 4) lobby (and potentially strongarm) law and rule making bodies to accept their will.
Is the answer systemd? Or is that too a hack?
The Truth About Hack Schools
I've always seen the difference as 'craft' ends up with a device whose function is orthogonal to its art. That is, something functional whose function isn't 'to be looked at/experienced'.
Matt Taibbi is fun to read, but also shrill, predictable, and at times pretty clearly underinformed. I really like his political writing, though I don't always agree with his conclusions, but his writing on finance has often been just one or two notches more credible than ZeroHedge.

I generally always feel like Taibbi is deliberately writing to get a rise out of people. I didn't particularly like Sullivan --- my opinions of him hardened during the first term of Bush II --- but I did feel like he was trying to be careful.

I dispute the idea that it's hard to find similarly careful journalists today. What's perhaps hard is to find blogospheric gravity wells like Sullivan. This thread compared him to Ta-Nahisi Coates and Matt Yglesias, but neither perfectly fit Sullivan's mold. Coates doesn't cover politics, and Yglesias is an econ reporter. You have to assemble a Sullivan out of parts now, but I think those parts are of higher quality than Sullivan's (say) 2005 competition.
I was specifically trying to avoid the whataboutisms that so frequently come up in these discussions. I find what Putin is doing to be deplorable, and the pro-Russia astroturfing is often blatantly obvious. I had a genuine curiosity, but obviously I did a poor job of expressing it.
I don't have any problem with people making open source projects and then publishing them once they are finished. It's still open source.
Ah, "Theoretical Neuroscience". Something also relatively recent. What wonders the human mind has yet to reveal to itself.
can someone comment on the legitimacy/reliablity of the "Cern Courier". The article seems legit (no tin foil hats), but that font. woof, it makes it look super amateur.
What works for me is to go to bed early(10pm), wake up at 6am and to study/ready/practice programming for an hour not matter what. The key is to set aside that hour even if there are other duties that you have to do.
> It's amazing what war does for you.

War destroys infrastructure and siphons off resources that could be put to more productive use. War is not good for the economy, and it never has been.
>what else they are (sic) to know about you?

I would not be at all surprised if Strong AI was able to read our minds via functional neuroimaging. This is significantly more than the NSA & friends would be able to acquire, even with "advanced" interrogation techniques and global surveillance.
I and most of my friends and family in Spain have at some point spent hours trying to solve problems with our Telefónica phone and internet connections. Popularly it's known as Timofónica (Scam-ofonica).

When I hear the company's president mumbling [1] about how Google owes them money because Telefónica provides the networks, but Google makes the money thanks to their networks, I wonder how has the company grown so large, and how can a director be so incapable of coherent expression.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOAyZxOTy0

Edit: I leave this comment because I like Mozilla and enjoy Firefox, but I was dismayed to discover a few weeks ago that Telefónica was involved with Hello.
The gist accompanying the article of the full source code contains the same bug. I'm not convinced it was a stylistic choice in the blog for a clearer explanation.

I would expect the full code to be correct/complete. This type of bug goes well beyond "I also make some assumptions in string handling that are considered gravely unsafe to use in a modern program, so please do not use this code in the real world." IMO.
Has anyone used both Haskell and OCaml (or F#?)? How do they compare in practice? I've been wanting to put some time into a functional language and I've been debating between Haskell and OCaml. Because of F#, OCaml seems like it might be the more practical language (i.e. direct job opportunities). However, excluding F#, Haskell does seem to much more popular than OCaml.
Ask HN: Terms and Privacy Policy Generator?
I'm looking to launch a new community based site soon and was wondering about writing my Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.. should I ask a lawyer to write it? Write it myself then show a lawyer? Or am I good on my own?

Are sites like TermsFeed.com worth it for the money?

Thanks, just want to be safe about it.
Totally agree. I think it's sometimes surprising and/or unbelievable to people without experience of China that their history/culture/politics is so exclusive and that people would behave this way. Most of the high speed train network was built on foreign technology and expertise, but contractors I knew working on that project regularly had their apartments broken into (with nothing taken but the laptop) and half of their job was trying to stop their chinese counterparts stealing their IP (anecdotally of course). This kind of activity has been a mainstay of the China miracle the last 30-40 years
This also reminds me of the attempt by a researcher to develop an AI to solve bongard problems. He apparently gave up for supposed ethical reasons: http://www.foundalis.com/soc/why_no_more_Bongard.html . I suspect other reasons (i.e., couldn't actually create a program that would do so), but it isn't altogether important what they are. I'd like to see a real AI solve such problems - and it's going to take understanding HI to do that.
Strongly suggest you use Heroku before you try and highlight your differences to their customers!
>but it had to add WebRTC to be a web-browser

Does this mean that we now get to claim that IE and Safari are not web browsers?
The worst developers are a drain on any project. Delivering negative 'productivity' by producing code with a wide range of issues. Bugs, unmanageable code, non-performant code, memory issues... a maintenance nightmare.

10x's is not nearly enough.

The top programmers leverage many things. Existing libraries, past experience on failed/successful projects, OOP, design patterns, multiple programming languages (right tool for the job at hand), code generators if it makes sense. And best practices they have learned from others. And more.

Nathan Myhrvold former CTO at Microsoft had this to say about the differences:

‘The Top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1000x but by 10,000x.’
I still don't get how Slack is different than HipChat. In fact, I think Slack just copied the latter.

Seriously, am I missing something?