skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that article was going to be about Leibniz, and his "let us calculate" approach to decision making.

"What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" (http://neuromajor.ucr.edu/courses/WhatTheFrogsEyeTellsTheFro...) is still worth reading. It's the first paper on what is now called "early vision".

I'm painfully familiar with that world view. I went through Stanford CS in 1983-1985, when logic-based AI was, in retrospect, having its last gasp. I took "Dr. John's Mystery Hour", Epistemological Problems in Artificial Intelligence, from John McCarthy. The logicians were making progress on solving problems once they'd been hammered into just the right predicate calculus form, but were getting nowhere in translating the real world into predicate calculus.

For computer program verification, though, that stuff works. For a time, I was fascinated by Boyer-Moore theory and their theorem prover. They'd redone Russell and Whitehead with machine proofs. Constructive mathematics maps well to what computers can do. I got the Boyer-Moore theorem prover (powerful, could do induction, but slow) hooked up to the Oppen-Nelson theorem prover (limited, only does arithmetic up to multiplication by constants, but fast) and used the combination to build a usable proof-of-correctness system for a dialect of Pascal. It worked fine; I used to invite people to put in a bug in a working program and watch the system find it.

But it was clear that approach wasn't going to map to the messiness of the real world. Working on proof of correctness for real programs made it painfully clear how brittle formal logic systems are. Nobody was going to get to common sense that way. The logicians were in denial about this for a long time, which resulted in the "AI winter" from 1985 to 2000 or so.

Then came the machine learning guys, and progress resumed. Science progresses one funeral at a time.
The day most people get their news from reddit, we're doomed.
Thanks. I run very locked down browsers, and it's amusing to see what sites break. Some of the effects are strange. I can't watch video on ABC, while video on CBS plays without ads.
I've been wanting to do this for a while... I think I may now. Thanks.
Ah, that makes sense.

I have not worked under such a power structure, so I can't speak from experience. What I would wonder is how does one know where the power lies? It can more or less become invisible.

I gather it could become somewhat tribal --where while perhaps there are no titles power does reside somewhere. So here bad things are one's fault rather than say a boss's fault. How can you even vent? At least in set hierarchies you know who to blame. you know who the bad decision makers are you know who the asses are. But in this kind of structure it all more or less hidden but decisions are devolved and distributed.

I'm not sure I like the shadowy aspect of this structure. Then again, I haven't formally experienced it --except for informal groups and there you get cliques.
I remember a while back Mozilla came out with Prism, which was basically Node-Webkit w/out the Node.
This one, I'm guessing, which sounds pretty bad: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/0

Apparently Microsoft was notified in October but it's still not patched.
I thought this was a joke until I read your HN profile. Then I discovered that the joke is much bigger than this solitary comment.
Why we should worry about domestic drones and how to bring them down
If there is only one person who can save the ship, that means there's one person who can single-handedly sink it.
Specialized Evolution of the General Purpose CPU
Data Ethics and Good Practices
"But still, outright dismissal based on small sample size is not reasonable."

The burden of proof, in my mind, is the one making the claim.
Guaranteed Auto Finance with No Credit Check
Open Sourcing My Face (or at least the design of the hair on it)
Alan Watts said that, if you want an interesting person to read about and haven't yet :-)
This was really a fascinating read, well written, and the information was levelled correctly, for someone not involved in the subject.

Interesting.
What ever happened to Technorati?
A city-scale molecular profile of DNA collected from NYC's subway system [pdf]
Facebook is certainly testing a public status updates firehose: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed/
As I said, statistical significance is a prima facie argument for the claim. If someone wants to dispute it, they need to show why the alleged statistical significance does not support the claim. The statistical significance trumps the sample size, unless someone can show otherwise.
Skipped on YC for this reason ;)
This has been happening for 200 years. The tractor must have been a scary thing to farmers of a hundred years ago. It was easily the biggest job killer in history. People have to learn and adapt to technology.
.zsh_history with no limit has served me well for a decade
> Seems like they have thrown in the towel on social :)

They shouldn't. Anecdotally I've found that young kids seem to prefer google+ over facebook.

Mainly because you can control exactly who you share what with by using circles, and because parents are uneasy about letting kids go on social media (facebook), but email is an easier sell (gmail) and once you have gmail google+ is not far away.
Works for creationists, though. Their constant is "God" who they then define as a number of infinities on various axes. Then they tell you that you're not allowed to question it.
In reality giants like John Deere have such chokeholds on the market that they can either buy out "disrupters" or bankrupt them.

Hardware is so costly and slow moving compared to software that the swiftness of startups compared to incumbents isn't enough.

Tesla for example is basically a charity project where the automotive industry is being given the technology in order to encourage them to adopt it. If Tesla was being run for purely economical purposes the incumbents would have moved to buy it or crush it.
Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
The Owner of World’s Largest Coffee Cup Lid Collection on Consumerism and Design
Well that wasn't obvious to me, but you explained it well. As you say, it's as much about controlling the market for professional repairs as it is preventing DIYers.

It reminds me of how much more expensive it was to get my car serviced at a name brand gas station than a local car shop.
Intentionally Disposable Software
Werner Koch will have a very pleasant surprise when he wakes up in a couple of hours. Looking forward to an updated GnuPG splash page and blog post.
looks something new~get it! MARK
Slices to Share
Although it may be due to the incredibly high number of fake Twitter accounts generated in India.
I have no problem with them pursing the criminals.

However, the criminals lately always seem to be "China" or "Russia" rather than "Chinese individuals" or "Russian individuals". The reason for this is that practically every contract includes an escape clause for "Act of War" by a foreign state but not for foreign individuals.

To further your analogy, if someone burgled an apartment complex because the manager left the skeleton key under his doormat, you can be sure that the apartment manager would be getting prosecuted for gross negligence as well as the individual who burgled the apartments.

It's time that an IT breach carry a charge of gross negligence against the CEO. Suddenly, IT will have lots of funding and importance.
Getting Closer to Delivering Big Things in Small Packages to Space
Really sad to hear that the project has gone down the tubes. It was one of the most exciting open source hardware projects I've ever seen. I think something like this is vital, and I hope that someone is able to pick up where OSE left off.
All of this, all of it, is excruciatingly stupid. There are not enough people for a reasonable conclusion, the arguing is amongst a bunch of people who don't understand statistics or that this is an extremely hard subject to study and one in which the results are very person specific.

We don't need more poorly done, argumentative, non tech related research on a news site for computer programmers.

Can we please, please stop with the diets that have only been tried on mice and the exercise warnings. None of this in informative or even interesting, it's just trash tabloids masquerading as research that's pertinent to anyone's life.
PCB manufacturing and assembly is one part of the equation.
The other important thing that we are missing out on (by not being wired into the whole Shenzhen scene) is the hardware that they have. The kind of chips they are using are not even available to us but are cheaper and better by an order of magnitude.
We are talking about 35$ computers, whereas they are using 12$ phones. All of this comes under the Gongkai method of 'innovation'.
How Daily Pulse Helps a Remote Travel Consultant Stay Productive
I really don't see how it can be seen as a favorable outcome (A fantastic performance!!! Charlemagne, Disraeli and Jefferson combined could not have done better!) when over a 10 year period, my population has dropped 62% and the state has sold off 16% of its land just to feed its people. Obviously that's not sustainable.
So basically Margaret Weisner was the Yoko of the scientific world?
For many reasons we can remove phi from discourse, and that might be a point. http://www.quora.com/Language-Seeking-Behavior/What-great-sc...
Such an important article.
Social Commerce Script – Wanelo Clone
Net tarot
Sparkly Fit and Flare Prom Dresses
This is what gets me. It doesn't even need to be an ongoing conspiracy. The gold could have been spirited away during the Cold War for some critical-at-the-time purpose, with every intention to be restored, and for whatever reason it just wasn't possible. Decades later you have an institution and a government staffed entirely by people who had nothing to do with it but are left holding the bag. As you say, there is literally no incentive to expose this fact, by anybody. The gold itself hasn't left the vault since the 1960's, it can be traded on paper forever if nobody looks.

To be clear I'm not saying this is what happened, just that there doesn't have to be an ongoing conspiracy among hundreds of people and institutions for the gold to be gone and nobody wanting to say anything.
I use a simple personal Wiki that I made: http://wikitten.vizuina.com
At first, I thought the app name was "cosplay" :P
"Stallman urged the crowd to write their own version of PGP. 'We can't export it, but if you write it, we can import it,' he said."

"Inspired, Koch decided to try. 'I figured I can do it,' he recalled."

"Koch's software was a hit even though it only ran on the Unix operating system. It was free, the underlying software code was open for developers to inspect and improve, and it wasn't subject to U.S. export restrictions."

Brilliant :)
Subscribe to Get Best Online Deals and Offers
You can downvote me all you want but it is a valid question.

Legally the definition of a crime must be clearly and objectively defined or it is unfair and invalid. So what constitutes sexual harassment? Is it the feelings of the woman? If that is the definition then eventually no man will work for any company. Is that the goal perhaps?
There is also a port to Guile: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~gildea/guile-scmutils/
Scientists reprogram plants for drought tolerance
Yeah seems like a bit of a misfit. Check out Celery (https://www.trycelery.com/) for taking HW pre-orders. They also came out of YC. I believe they power pre-orders for guys like Pebble, August, Lockitron, Meta and Coolest Cooler etc.
Microservices Architecture and Containers distilled
I'll second that vote. Very cool stuff guys.
Chatting about this with you made me challenge my knowledge of how web search works. Many articles I've found suggest that the hardest problem to solve isn't competing on the size of Google but the relevance of Google. Which is partly to do with the size and power of their datacenters. But also to do with smart engineering of the servers, database, and algorithms. The algorithms not only determine the how to order the results but which pages to crawl and how often.

What this all makes me think of is all the work being put into AI research lately. IBM, Google, Facebook, Baidu etc. There is a race to AI and the winner could very well make a better Google.
That depends on who you are. For a very important segment of users, Status Updates == Tweets. Additionally, from the perspective of their followers, it would not be horrifying if those suddenly became more public. In fact, for certain users, that may be preferred.

Social networks are weird to talk about on forums online since everyone has such personal experiences with them. I think that this taints our perspective more than usual, and makes it more difficult to properly assess their real value.

Not to take sides over FB vs TWTR. But, your "absolutely horrifying" could very well be everyone else's "absolute best case".
The randomization is VERY sever in this. On 5 new games, always doing 2000 food and 800 seeds, i get a Year 2 bushel total of: 748, 800, 1650, 2800, 4000.

That is a 536% swing in return for [seemingly] identical starting conditions.
From your reference, while there are a ton of small farms (median size 45 acres), the vast majority of cropland is on large farms.

Even if I concede less than 100 acres as a "small farm" (and 100 acres is almost twice the median farm size), that represents almost 66.4% of the total number of farms yet only 8.4% of total production.

Small farms are not a rounding error, but they sure are headed that direction.
Congrats! Looks interesting, but what is that? Bit more explanation in README would be great!
Yeah, this worries me. I think we're probably counting down the final months before the first time someone is assassinated via civilian drone. It could be trained to keep its distance until it recognizes its target's face, and then approach very fast and detonate explosive when close enough. The attack could be complete before anyone realizes anything is wrong.

One defense might be to have your own fleet of anti-drone drones, and hope that they're faster and more aggressive than the attacker's. Another might be to place a rifle under the control of a CV system. Both options seem awful to me, and inevitable.
I've been using https://snipt.net for the last 6 years.
The differentiating factor is that it connects to your social accounts to make that process easy. You can already make collages at the dozens of photo printing sites that exist.
My understanding is that credit cards give you the best exchange rates available at retail.

Some banks do tack on a foreign transaction fee though, but that goes on the payer.
What I learned making 14 sites in 14 days
Abstraction is for the weak
> and anyway that's more or less what a consultancy usually amounts to even at 50 staff.

I recommend Managing the Professional Services Firm on HN every few months, but it's really good. In the very first few chapters he shows that in a partner/associates model, brining in new customers doesn't actually increase profits for the partners, but only gives you room to promote associates to new partners. Not that that's perfectly true, but it's good to think through it.
Correlation between where Startups are and how well they do.
Don't pay a company to do what can be done with a library.
Depends if you're trying to debug optimized code or not... sometimes I try to do that since I'm too impatient to recompile something at -O0. Sometimes it works, sometimes I end up wasting more time than the recompilation would have taken.
> Well, somehow engineers and architects manage to resist management pressures in favor for security, you don't see many bridges collapsing but they have financial constraints too. And accountants resist management pressures to bend the accounting standard, or they go to prison too.

Generally, yes, but not always. Sometimes they get boxed in by management and forced to make bad choices. When this happens, it usually leads to a spectacular failure ... and then the scapegoat is found.

The most famous case is probably the Challenger space shuttle. At Texas A&M they make sure every engineering student reads the story [1] of the Morton Thiokol employees assessing whether or not it was safe to launch at such low temperatures. The engineers had solid doubts, and refused to declare it safe. The managers had pressure from every direction to get to "yes" and launch the bird already.

Finally, during the teleconference the night before, one of the engineers' superiors said "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat." A new recommendation was put out (bypassing the engineers who still refused to sign off), and the next morning they got their launch like they wanted.

Just over a minute later the shuttle exploded, killing the crew and putting American manned spaceflight on a multi-year hiatus.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[1] http://ethics.tamu.edu/Portals/3/Case%20Studies/Shuttle.pdf
I went the engineering route and I'm glad I did. Originally it was a toss-up between math (which I enjoyed in high school) and EE, but since a lot of math grads seem to go into teaching and I have nowhere near enough patience to teach, I went into engineering.

As part of EE I had to take statistics and linear algebra, plus enough calculus to understand surface and line integrals. I hated it. If I'd gone math I would ended up being just that kind of "disengage from the thinking part" person.
The article gives an example of Java .class files and .jar files for a binfmt_misc use. Another good example is QEMU user mode emulation. With binfmt_misc, you can detect ARM binaries on x86 PC and automatically use QEMU to run them. This is how Scratchbox is implemented.
https://github.com/rack-amqp 's Jackalope might be of interest to you. It uses AMPQ rather than ZMQ though.
Rovio's ex-managers reveal: Serious problems with strategy and management
LG Innovate Brand New WI-FI Speakers
Ask HN: What is wrong with me?
I am getting confirmation day by day that people dont want to spend with me. Usually I do small talk, initiate conversation but it seems many people I come across do talk only because I initiated conversation.

I also feel resistance when I ask someone to go out on outings, trip or to bar/club.

Without saying it goes that I still don't have GF or wife. I am 29 and getting near 30 is a bit scary.

What is wrong with me, seriously ?
Wish society would incentivize more smart people to tackle these important problems rather than go into finance, management consulting, working at the next hot tech startup, etc.
Here's an email exchange I had with someone who bought a domain from me:

Buyer
Hi there,
Is the domain-name.com domain for sale?
Cheers

Jotux
I have future plans for the domain but I'd considering selling it. Make me an offer.

Buyer
Hi Joe
How about $500?
Cheers

Jotux
That works for me. You can paypal or dwolla money to me, I'll give you the auth code to transfer the domain.

Never hurts to just ask.
Um, exactly what is your annual market for tractors when the average tractor is 10 years old?

Call it 20,000 tractors? Now, how much of that market are you going to pick off? And can you make a business of it?

This lack of volume is exactly why A) the companies are locking things down and B) the service calls take too much time. I'd bet that practically ALL the service calls occur right before spring planting and right before fall harvest. Thus, your service people are incredibly busy exactly twice a year and totally idle the rest.

(My estimations look about right:
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/machinery/machinery-news...
"John Deere has retained its tractor market share of about 30 per cent in 2010, putting it top of the table again with 4,427 units sold."
ProductHunt wins best new startup of 2014
>An alloy of iron, aluminium and carbon (steel’s other essential ingredient) is too brittle to be useful. Adding manganese helps a bit, but not enough for aluminium-steel to be used in vehicles.

>Dr Kim and his colleagues have, however, found that a fifth ingredient, nickel, overcomes this problem.

As far as I know turbine blades are typically made of iron-nickel alloys. What is the new part of this discovery?
Perhaps, but I don't consider that time a loss. Rather I got some very good practice on my mechanical skills which is re-used in other areas like another poster here mentioning house maintenance etc.
Jeff, the founder, here.

Happy to answer any questions!
Titanium is no better than aluminum. The reason they use titanium in aircraft is its ability to withstand heat.
Why Facebook and Google succeeded
Well I loved the point about taking frequent breaks and it happens with me too when i use to search something on internet and use to go till 30th SERP.

Great write up.
that's a fair criticism. so far the reactions have been positive
Robot Scientist Discovers Potential Malaria Drug
No it doesn't work like that, statistics etc. As with any fixed interval maintenance part there is some chance that the part can fail before being serviced. As per my example, the timing belt was replaced at 100k, so the new belt failed at 60k, just bad luck.

Fixed interval maintenance is used for parts with a tight normal distribution when failure occurs and where you can't predict the failure before hand, or it is difficult to measure / predict. Timing belts fits this use case.
It was, it was the second belt that snapped.
Evolve OS PiSi (Gnome2) WRITTEN FROM SCRATCH
The FBI was compromised for decades for under a quarter million dollars. It seems unbelievable to think that obfuscating the final delivered product is going to prevent serious competitors. It's not like selling $100K+ tractors only requires a website. It's as stupid as Nikon "encrypting" the white balance info in their raw files, requiring their client to get the data out. Did nothing but hurt customers, and make a few extra sales of their shoddy software.

It's highly suspect to think such obfuscation is anything but a way to extract more money and exert more control over customers.
(1.) The plasticity of the brain changes, which means that it takes more time to learn new things and change your mind. Many other abilities remain at a high level.

(2.) You may look up a chart that plots dementia against age. Prevalence of dementia increases at an accelerating rate as you get older.
Is this similar to Faye?