skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not have sufficient profanity in my verbal arsenal for websites that override basic, fundamental browser behaviour because they think they know better than I do what I actually meant to do. I have noticed Medium being a regular perpetrator of this sort of broken behaviour before.

That one of the developers at Medium could run into such a glowing example of one of the many reasons it's nasty to override browser behaviour, and take the lesson from it that oh hey, we just need to make our override logic more complicated... the blindness and idiocy and sheer bloodymindedness of this response I just can't even.

Medium: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
not necessarily. a lot of Uber's drivers use cars that are financed through Uber and are effectively locked into Uber for 5 years (unless they step out of ridesharing). This is how Uber has been able to maintain a huge supply with great cars (vs. you don't know what you'll get with Lyft).
I'm an enthusiast at best, but I don't think that's quite right. The dominant interpretation that treats the wavefunction as made of "probability stuff" is surely the statistical/ensemble interpretations, or even "shut up and calculate." Billiard ball theories like de-Broglie Bohm are definitely a minority viewpoint, and not representative of those that deny ontological status to the wavefunction.

We might separate interpretations according to their ontology:

1. de-Broglie Bohm: The particle has a real (though hidden) configuration.

2. Many Worlds: The wavefunction is real and fundamental.

3. Ensemble/Consistent histories/Copenhagen/"Shut up and calculate": Nature is fundamentally probabilistic. Measurements have ontological status, and talking about what happens between measurements is suspect (in various ways, depending on the theory).

From what I can tell most physicists fall into category #3.
Operating system education isnt the only objective, Windows is a robust platform to learn programming and any number of other uses.
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for their private jets

"Signature's project includes seven hangars for corporate jets, with five of those hangars to be used by Blue City Holdings, its primary tenant. That company will manage aircraft for Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose private jets are now parked at Moffett Field, where their lease is up next year."
"The truly smart will skip programming all together and go in to medicine, law and finance where they have professions that protect themselves and/or have a respect for experience."

Those are the exact professions that tech will kill.

My advice: Do not worry. You're in perhaps the most future proof field.
Ask HN:Have you created any tool to bring more traffic to your app/website?
Now a days, I see a trend going on. People create small tools which might be slightly related or even unrelated to their actual product. The goal behind such tools is to bring more traffic or help in seo.

e.g.
http://ad-spend-calculator.qwilr.com/

Please share any tools you have created for similar purposes.
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Location: San Francisco Bay Area / Los Angeles Area

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PhD candidate in Medical Physics; object detection and tracking on medical images.
Ng's point is that babies don't need to be explicitly taught the concept of phonemes. They learn them from the intrinsic structure of the language (same with syntax). Training with text is roughly analogous with pointing at things and saying what they are called.

While the concept of phonemes is certainly valid, the specific mappings created by linguists could be considered ad hoc. E.g. English has a huge number of pure vowels. Maybe there is some order order to English vowels them that is hard to capture in the representations linguists use, but easy in these models.
An Introduction to the JSON Object, Part 1: XML or JSON.parse()?
By far the people I've interacted with have not been clueless. They haven't been disillusioned to think that everything is perfect. Also if you think that they consider us as suckers for working for less, you might want to consider that is the case for a lot of federal employees [not the suckers bit, but the less money part]. Its not the money that attracts a lot of devs, its the opportunities they present to work with interesting data, people, traveling to different places, etc. If you're going to judge us, don't cast us on the extremes.
I would even go so far as to suggest that there are applications where we want the other ordering of these two.
Wait, these are separate companies?
Even without web stuff there are many apps, and there is one keyboard and there are going to be key binding conflicts.

Webapps may need low(er) level access to keyboard for legit reasons too. Years ago I was working on webapp that teaches 10-finger typing. It needed to know 'pressed' states of keys like Shift and Alt. There were various browser differences to work around. Luckily the app didn't need to support Polish layout.
Could be, or could it be something that seethe user-agent and the influx of deletes from a tool as a denial of service and intentionally throttles responses?

Plausible deniability, right?
Interesting - I didn't know that. I don't see how it would affect Google, though. Presumably Google would offer the service with self-driving cars, and get rid of the drivers entirely. They'd have to step out of ridesharing, because there would be no more market for ridesharing drivers.
When I think of a minimum viable autonomous corporation I think of a bot that crawls twitter for trending slogans; puts the trending slogans on shirts; sell the shirts on Amazon; place manufacturer orders for shirts only after they sell on Amazon. It can branch out in to other merchandise from there.
Thanks for your perspective, makes me rethink my position a bit. I'll keep my eye on the program. I do think it's good that our government is asking for help to essentially improve citizen engagement.

Everyone is glued to their phones so much they don't have the mental bandwidth to even think about where the country is going. This would make the problem a lot more approachable if successful.
That's like saying that you'll start working with human beings once human beings stop being criminals.

You can work on projects that have absolutely nothing to do with the human rights violations via technology. The US federal government is _huge_ and, in some of its functions, does real, measurable good.
"These drivers will move onto intelligent work where they can get trained in less menial work"

Can you point to any time in history where that actually occurred on a large scale? Genuinely interested.
Are there? You're not talking about ASICs for cryptocurrency mining (which is a different problem being solved)?
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You'd be surprised how much of a difference a single person, engineer or not, can make on the inside, with enough persistence and vision.

If you care about policy, you put in the time, and you know what you're talking about -- you'll make your mark.
To be clear, my statement about the wave-function being probabilistic is intended to be a Copenhagen reference. My impression is that this paper intends to refute 1). Personally I think 2 and 3 are pretty much equivalent, as we don't have any reason to think we could run an experiment that would distinguish between universe splitting and wavefunction collapse.

I'm unclear on which point you disagree.
If you didn't mind you wouldn't have posted all the other copies ;)
It's alright to mind, and it's alright to complain sometimes
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Buying a TV for your PC
>Statistical optimization and sentience are parallel lines. No matter how far you travel down one, you don't get any closer to the other.

Source? How can you possibly know how AI will be developed? Machine learning is likely to be a huge component in any AI. Deep learning has been shown to beat all sorts of tasks thought to require strong AI. it can learn complicated patterns and heuristics from raw data, which is the hardest part of AI.

It's quite possible we are 99% of the way there, and we just need someone to figure out how to use it for general intelligence.

Regardless, this is all irrelevant. The people concerned about AI are mostly worried for the long term. No one is claiming we will have AI in ten years for certain. I'm not sure why people keep equating these two totally different predictions.

That's why ML researchers saying the stuff they work on isn't dangerous, isn't very reassuring. No one is claiming that it is.
If I have the chance to work with talented industry veterans, I'd absolutely love to do a tour of duty after I graduate.
Shuld Facebook be afraid of Google Plus, and Amazon of Google App Engine?

Google wants to be everywhere, but it looks like it doesn't have enough good developers.

I think Uber has chance to overcome Google, even if Google really decided to compete in this area.
The Federal Register site was developed by the same people that developed Gov Pulse: http://govpulse.us/about#who

Here is an article from the launch of the site: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2010/07/26/meet-the-new-f...
I wish named arrow functions could make it into the spec, but until then, I'll personally stick with the full, named function declaration for all of my functions because it makes stack traces much more readable, which far outvalues the saved keystrokes that arrow functions provide when building non-trivial applications.
... and this is what you get when you have an illegal black market in drugs: bereft of access to the court system, operators rely on hit men to threaten, assault and kill.

I say legalise the sale of all drugs to adults, and allow legitimate sellers to pursue debts and crimes through the courts like any other business would.
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Do you think OpenStreetMaps can be a reasonable substitute? IMHO their maps are quite accurate.
In Yemen or rural Afghanistan or Pakistan the inhabitants already have to deal with killer flying robots that are currently people operated but facing a manpower shortage. They will probably eventually be 100% automated. Just like any military action, whether the robots/algorithms or people who carry out these actions are perceived as evil or not depends on which country one lives in and what one's political beliefs are and whether one knows and how one feels about the people killed by said actions. In the future I expect it will be exactly the same. The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
'Innocent people' on police photos database
Two things I wonder about:

1) Is an outfit like the U.S. Digital Service considering people who don't have undergraduate degrees, but have a consistent track record or are a part of established teams?

2) Is the salary roughly comparable with what's available in the private sector? I understand that the government might pay less in return for some of the perks of government work, but how close are they coming these days?
This is true of the whole civil service
I'm pretty sure they aren't partnering with CMU, but rather offering many senior scientists and faculty members lucrative salaries to leave academia and work for them. So the Cadillac IP still belongs to the university. In fact, that actually spun out into a separate company called Ottomatika (which has a licensing deal from CMU).
someone should let a few of the thousands of developers who cooperated in building the surveillance state know about that i suppose
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I tell this story all the time to people. It's so magically great, and the developers are a national treasure.

I think of 18F and USDS in part as pieces of an effort to make this kind of result less of an anomaly, and the kind of thing you generally expect your government to do. Cause after all, why shouldn't you?

(Disclosure: I work for 18F.)
It's a symptom of this latest "push all functionality to javascript" fad, and I can't wait until people wake up to the fact that it's just this generation's Flash.

In-browser WYSIWYG or markdown editing is not good UX design. Period. Full stop. It's never been better than an offline text editor, and when you try to present a cross-browser experience, this is what inevitably happens.
The oppressive part of government is plenty funded. Hurting the non-oppressive part is just spiting yourself.
This is terrible, I've been following Monty since before Haloid. I thought it was awesome when he joined roosterteeth to work on RvB.

He was incredibly talented young man and certainly died way too early. I hope his family will be able to get through this, it will certainly be very tough to handle this.
Pi 2 apparently has the exact same GPU/VPU as the Pi 1.

The only thing they changed was the arm cores and the memory subsystem.
God, I'm glad I haven't run into these sites. There needs to be a browser extension to prevent this.
This was exactly my concern as well. The "party first, country second" mindset on "both sides of the aisle" is the most absurd and counter-productive thing in US politics, and the most likely thing IMO to derail any productive gains that could be made.
My son enjoys my croutonized chromebook, he gets to play minecraft on it (he has it also on his iPad, and on my PS3). But along with that the older version of Scratch, a very cool open sourced game called froogle.

I also told him that he has to type some magic incantations to get them installed: "sudo apt-get install froogle" and he kind of loves it (and then forgets it right away... or do I know)...

But really for a $179 (that's how I got it) device I don't mind. He actually "blew" it once, by pressing SPACE at the booting screen and reseting the whole device (unlocked chromebooks are like that, there is a way to disable that, but haven't done it yet). I told him that minecraft is now gone because of that, but we can install it again, though his maps are not saved. He's not doing it anymore, and surely he'll be more careful than me in the future (he opened the chromebook without asking me)
But no one explicitly tells the baby what each phoneme is. It's not imposed on them, they have to learn phonemes by themselves.

In speech recognition, people were taking audio segments of different phonemes, manually labeling them, and having the algorithm predict them. Rather than just giving it the raw audio and desired output.
That's hilarious. I don't know why this is redacted but whoever did it did a terrible job, and left "Apple" in a bunch of places, such as: "Apple will provide..." or "... used to assist dealers in selling Apple products." It also has references to googleable phrases of the late 70s/early 80s such as "Apple Software Bank": http://google.com/search?q="apple+software+bank" (Shown as "[Redacted] Software Bank" - wonder what that blank could be?)

But I admire your quest to find who the real company is.
Well, it would have to beat a human's micro first.

Remember, it's not just doing predictable actions every time. A lot of it is dancing back and forth and trying to bait your opponent.

So an AI might say "focus firing a stalker is the most efficient" and the human player blinks it away. Then it chooses the next target and the human player blinks that away as well. And so forth until the human player runs out of healthy stalkers and simply walks away with hurt stalkers having done enough damage.

The "correct" solution might have been actually to run past your opponent's army and to surround it spreading the damage. Even when you blink out you're still close to the enemy army because of blink's range.

There could be a mathematical model that predicts whether to run past or to attack or to stutter-step, but humans do this based on experience. AIs are not close to this level of sophistication.
> Well, like, when people use "like," it's like they're narrating a video scene in their own heads in a way that would cause another person from a video-soaked culture to, like, make it play in their heads too. ;)

The syntactic filler likes, or the "its' like they're..." like? Those are very different. Syntactic filler such as that is universal in human speech and languages, but tends to be different depending on the language and speaker. There's nothing unusual about Americans attaching to the word "like" as syntactic filler.

Or do you mean "like" as a synonym for "such as"? Like/Such as in this example here? I don't see how that has anything to do with video culture. People have spoken in hypotheticals since long before video.
Designing the Gibbon iPhone App
Any chance the talk was recorded? I'd love to hear what happened during those few months...
Does joining the US Digital Service require a clearance, and if so does occasional marijuana consumption automatically disqualify you?
The keyword was consoles.
Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program?
What was your story like? How old were you, and did you ever think you'd end up where you are today when you look back at those times?

It would be really amazing to hear your stories!
Now I'm feeling inadequate. Growing up in an intel dominated world, you couldn't touch a Sparc or MIPS machine if you were a mere mortal. Everything accessible to me was on windows, and the hard to load versions of *BSD or linux. Nowadays, we're beginning to get access to ARM machines like the Raspberry Pi, or 8 bit things like PICs or Atmels.

Funny thing is, high cost compilers are suddenly becoming free such as Windows with their VS stuff. While gcc has been the gold standard, because it's been free, newer technologies such as LLVM are also beginning to thrive in the free and open source world. Amazing times we live in!
Remember that there are many engineers who would love to work for a Republican administration and would hate working on Obama administration objectives that aren't in line with their personal politics
It should come as no surprise that Mr. Park is on board; He built two public healthcare IT companies (ATHN, CSLT). He can definitely recruit good tech talent.

The question is: Can he convince others in government that, as another post on the HN front page says right now, we should replace middle management with APIs?
What do you mean by "lubricated" exactly? The explanation I've had in classes for the "water is essential to plate tectonics" idea is that water causes dehydration melting, and that's thought to be critical to plate tectonics. Adding water to rock decreases the solidus temperature (temperature at which first liquid component is generated).
What is the right approach to have the in-browser editor save? Users may want to manually trigger a save because it makes them feel safe before they close a browser tab.
7.

I was coding in Amstrad BASIC on a CPC 464. The program didn't work, because I didn't understand the difference between strings and numbers.

I wrote out my listing and took it to my teacher at school, to ask why my program didn't work.

This led to my first inkling that adults didn't have all the answers :)

My teacher had never used a computer before, didn't really understand the problem, and certainly couldn't solve it. To her immense credit she clearly explained all of those things at the time rather than bullshitting me, and suggested I try to find an adult with an interest in computers. Basically, she helped me develop me the skills to solve my problem.

Quite the formative experience, that was.
While I do not doubt the intentions are honest and government is waking up to the new reality of digital, until the new CTO has any kind of budgetary powers...this is just a dream.
“Embellish” is used here because this happened a long time ago and it’s just completely, utterly irrelevant to anything at all …

People around here seem so, so convinced that everyone here loves Apple and anything to do with it, all the while all I ever see is complete, unfettered hate. And that’s ok, definitely, nothing wrong with that, but to me this perception of Apple being irrationally loved by anyone around here is just so, so weird and unrelated to reality.
Try applying for a hiking permit. Some CA ranger stations take only snail mail or, wait for it, fax.
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Actually, this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
How is this a different problem?

Yes, PoW is trying to find near collisions, and password cracking is trying to find direct collisions, but its collisions still the same.
What is important here is 'hashrate' which gives you bounds on time to crack your dataset (or find a near collision).
It'd drive me crazy if Gmail _didn't_ do that. Love the keyboard shortcuts, including and especially the ones that override. Highly productive compared to the alternative.
I wish there were something like this akin to the National Guard. If I could serve a weekend a month (or maybe even more, if it were something closer to my civilian skill set), I probably would have opted for this over joining the Army.

Hell, if they did that, I'd probably serve after my time in the Guard is up.
In regards to 1, I'd be genuinely surprised if they were. The federal government has a dramatically horrific hiring process, in general. Perhaps it is different for this effort in particular, but for reference, I used to work as a contractor for the ATF. The ATF had decided to terminate the contract of my employer, which meant that the contract would be recompeted.

While the ATF didn't like my company, they liked a few of the people, and tried to get us on a government employees, either because we were good, or because they thought it would ease the transition.

Some of the higher-ups approached me, asked for my resume, and then tailored a job posting from my resume so that they could hire me to keep doing the job I'd been doing for years.

After applying though, I was unable to make it past the first level of H.R., who decided that I was unqualified for the job... possibly due to lack of a degree, though no degree was required by the posting, again, as it had been created from my resume.

The higher-up attempted to work it through, but I gave up before they did and took another position. I told them that if they got it through, to call me, and I'd be happy to consider it, and received a call a full 18 months later, at which point I'd moved on in both body and spirit.

To your point 2, again, I'd be shocked if they were comparable. Private contracting pays generously, but government employees are pay-banded in a rather rigid system. One can eventually make established-startup wages, but rarely without direct reports, as the pay bands demand it.

As well, with sequestration and a less and less elastic federal budget, the government benefits are rapidly dwindling. I live and work in the DC area, and job-hopping is still the preferred way to get a raise, though of course government jobs have the strong benefit of being nearly impossible to be fired from.

Pay freezes, cut conference budgets and crappy equipment have been the norm for the past decade or so, and with continuing resolution, even unpaid furloughs have become more and more common.

Again, I don't have any particular insight to the US Digital Service, but a LOT of experience with government work and contracting, and it's definitely not the panacea it once was, for better or worse.
>>instead of working in an industry that respects us and views us as leaders?

What industry is that? Because in the tech industry I work in, the clueless politicians you speak of are replaced by clueless business-people who are equally obsessed with playing politics. Sure, there are a few "enlightened" companies that empower their technical staff, but those are a small minority.
True, but as we all know, continuity has inherent value that we would lose under say, a drastic replacement of staff.
Agreed. I go to a pretty low/mid tier school and it seems like my options are limited if I'm interested in this subset of the industry.