skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, exactly. CPUs and their insides, the hardware, understanding that, and then understanding the whole software stack that runs on that hardware, I mean _really_ understanding, by definition that if one bit was off in the RAM you could completely trace it all the way from the application level to the hardware level.

Almost nobody can do that. The hardware alone is so complex, these modern CPUs have many BILLIONS of transistors packed so tight that it is impossible for us to even fix them. So we just have a vague understanding of what is going on when we program, but really, we have no clear picture. But the best programmers out there, they have this map of the computer in their heads and the systems, and the better you are, the better the map in your head is.

Think NASA level programmers. They truly have to know how the system works, and yet, they cannot most probably understand the whole stack even, down to the transistor level operation, and then below that even in some really extreme cases where the systems overheat and there is magnetic bit flipping happening and other obscure stuff.

Immense amounts of work equals to amount of commitment required, which equals hard. To be a really competent programmer that knows how to truly take advantage of the machine is really rare, and even then it is down to some very specific domain, like graphics programming, systems programming and so on. So it is very hard to achieve, and very rare.
> People today have no concept of how much computing power is wasted as excess heat because of modern software development practices.

Or of how many new ideas are created because generous power/space ratios give us the luxury to develop quickly using abstractions higher than highly-optimized references and pointers. You can take a hit on optimal energy efficiency if it results in a larger ecosystem with more possibilities.

The real challenge is to get both.
> the DMCA means he could put it up on his website and wait to see if anyone lodged any objection to his doing so (which they almost certainly won't).

Wrong. The DMCA provides safe harbor for online service providers. It provides no safe harbor for those who personally reproduce a copyrighted work, on an online service or otherwise. Rather, it increases the penalties if such reproduction is infringing. And I don't see how David Friedman is under any obligation to take such a risk or research the status of a work to which he owns no rights, did not author, and does not benefit from.
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NYU law professor Christopher Sprigman tweeted that he believes Left Shark is not copyrightable because it qualifies as a “useful article,”

Useful for what? It's silly for Katy Perry's lawyers to waste everyone's time on this, but that is presumably why they are paid a fat retainer, and the shark thingy looks eminently copyrightable to me, notwithstanding my complete lack of interest in Katy Perry, her music, or her stage show.
I just checked Priceline, SFO, compact 2/15 - 2/22. The lowest I get is $160 and then it jumps to $240 for the week?
So if they are melting down bars and reforming them, that should put to rest the theory that The Federal Reserve's bars have been tampered with and are just gold-plated tungsten... right?

The tungsten substitutes are just part of "normal" dodgy street counterfeiting?
http://www.businessinsider.com/tungsten-filled-gold-bars-fou...
Hmmmm.

What will they brand the next version? "Browser Two"?
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The whole point is that he did author it.
Interesting video talking about what women are really attracted to
Given that Gödel and Pitts most likely wrote to one another (although their correspondence doesn't survive), it's very probable that they were intimately familiar with the work of one another.

There's an entire chapter dedicated to Walter Pitts in Kurt Gödel: Collected Works, Volume V.
Not a gold bug myself (its a purely speculative and non productive investment instrument), however gold's price was under pressure due to Indian government restrictions on its imports. Loosening of these restrictions is one of the factors the price of gold has appreciated even in the face of US dollar appreciation this year.
Ask HN: What would you love for a web-hosting startup do for you?
Sounds par for the course.
I gave it a picture of a cat (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Turkish_V...) and got:

Photo	75%
Shoes	69%
Nature_Scene	69%
Meat_Eater	63%
Object	63%
Mammal	63%
Vertebrate	63%
Cat	63%
Indoors	62%
Room	60%
Person	58%
Color	57%
Judo	54%
Person_View	53%
Human	51%
Leisure_Activity	50%

If you give the classifier a hint (animal) it gives:
Meat_Eater	63%
Mammal	63%
Vertebrate	63%
Cat	63%

So, clearly needs work as a general classifier, but still potentially useful.
I dont think so. Why wrong ? Computers have huge potential. Forget the naysayers who dont understand these "big machines taking our jobs!", they fear the change and spread this fear to those who work with them too.

Be proud of what you do. Love it. Aknowledge you are on the right path. Or else change path or your way to approach it. Why do it if it feels wrong ?
As a mechanical engineer who works in this area and already follows hacker news due to colliding interests, this is very exciting.
This story reminded me of an NPR story about the gold standard:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/16/376967946/episode-...
Cool. What about tempest? If you're buying a heavy, slow laptop for security, it would be nice to know it's tempest-safe.
Whenever I find myself in a conversation with a goldbug, and they complain about something like "the craziness of unbacked monetary systems" I say "I like your shirt. I will give you $500 for that shirt." (This assumes the shirt is clearly worth less than $500.) If they ask why I make such an offer, I ask if they would accept such an offer. If they suggest they would, then I ask why they would accept such an offer. If they think my "unbacked" $500 is crazy, why would they take the deal? The shirt is a real physical object, and the fact that it has value to them is demonstrated by the fact that they are wearing it. The $500 in paper money is to them "a fiction", as it says in the article. So why would they take a fiction over a real shirt that that gives them real value?

This rarely changes anyone's mind (few people ever change their minds about issues regarding money) but I hope I can at least raise the contradiction to the top of their minds. All currencies are backed by our willingness to accept them, and that is the only backing that any currency ever needs.
At the end of the day we live in a world governed by supply and demand.

We're not going to shift to a 'usefulness' based mindset, and we should avoid shifting to the mindset that an object is equal to the sum of it's parts. Supply and Demand are king.
Why would any sane person tell "us" to not fear them at all?

I live and work in Manhattan. I'm aware of the non-zero chance that I'll be a victim. I don't "fear" this enough to move away but I'd be a fool to believe it could never happen.
Each community has its rules, uses and customs. Post the hiring announcement in the monthly official "Who is hiring? (February 2015)" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980047 (446 points, 4 days ago, 588 comments). Read the other posts and try to follow the style. For example, try to use complete sentences.
Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...
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I can reproduce with Chrome 40 on Windows 7.
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This is a good site to visit if you have these kinds of data transfer issues: http://fasterdata.es.net
Is standing out a bad thing ? Look at where we are now. Consumerism at its highest, people becoming mass educated, mass medicated, mass produced. Is the world in a good shape ?

Maybe those who stand out are exactly the specialists we need to change this world. To think differently, as Steve Jobs famously said.

We are not broken. We are perfect as we are. It is our approach to these children and people that is broken. We should embrace them, and foster their creativity and unhuman kind capability to concentrate. And not medicate them with medicine that will kill their creativity and unique way of looking at the world.

Think of them as Specialists, not Generalists. Our current education system sucks for them, sure. But it will change.
We have devices nowadays that put effort into battery economy high up their list of priorities. Kindles are an example. Their common features: they tend to be single-purpose devices, they tend to have crappy displays like e-ink or black-and-grey LCD, and to the extent they are general-purpose, they aren't effective or much fun.

So they would never have been tablets or laptops. They would have stayed as e-readers and PDAs and so forth.
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Not nearly as bad as it was 3000 years ago. Back then the European economy was in such a bad shape people couldn't even afford to buy toilet paper.
> You are missing the part about manipulating other applications or controling GUI elements, like Powershell kind of allows via DLL interop and OLE Automation.

There are lots of command line hooks for GUIs. Want to copy data to the clipboard from the command line? xclip. Want to pop up a notification in your desktop environment's notification bar? notify-send "hello world!" etc

> As for /proc/sys, not all UNIXes have such features.

That example of mine was clearly taken from Linux - so it goes without saying that most UNIXes would behave different in that specific regard. Even so, they'd still have command line tools for doing the same thing (and to be fair, Linux does too, even with a vaguely-Plan 9 virtual file system)

> In Oberon I could pipe selected text from any application into any command that had a GUI aware type signature, for example.

Well like I said, I'm not trying to say that all REPL's are equal, but most of what you're describing is still possible in at least Linux. I'm not saying it's as intuitive nor "pretty" as it would have been on the Oberon, but it's certainly possible.

To be quite honest, most of what you've been posting on this topic has really just been elitism. And I do actually sympathise with your point as working in Bash can be a complete hateful mess at times (even without comparing it to the old Lisp machines). But that doesn't change the fact that Bash is a REPL environment.
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Scientists just cracked the viral equivalent of the Enigma code
> So now, gold prices have been weak for a few years, so they have to come up with a new narrative. And that narrative is global conspiracy. So you get groups like GATA [1] and Zero Hedge [2] pushing various stories about how gold is being squirreled away somewhere mysterious, or prices are being suppressed by faceless multinationals or what-have-you. Maybe it's true! I don't know, but there's never really been any evidence, and it just sounds like someone justifying a failed investment thesis.

I've been following the Gold bug sphere in 2006, 2007 and there's absolutely nothing new about these conspiracy theories. They have been pushing them ever since, and you haven't even scratched at Bilderberger/Illuminati/Jews/Take your influential minority.
There just are programmers who feel static typing is the only correct way to program. Google has always been in that camp (company wide directive, I suppose). Meanwhile, most of the internet runs on PHP.

I hope it will play out so that the statical types people can use something with statical types, and the dynamic types people can happily continue with their static types.
Rubbish! The CPU isn't the power hog that you think it is in smartphones, nor are the programming techniques. Things like the screen and the radio consume most of the power.
this is exactly what i've been looking for. Thanks!
maybe add hbo go?
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Definitions are everything here - what are considered "smaller farms?" - My cousin in Alberta, her husband, and two kids with occasional contract help farms two sections (1280 acres) of various crops - and his role in the harvest/planter (outside of parking, which is epic when he has a full set of fertilizing tanks connected) seems to be predominantly supervisory - GPS and software-defined systems do most of the actual work now. He even has a mini-fridge in his Air-Conditioned Cab.

Would we consider that to be a smaller farm?
It might. I don't have any prosthetics per se, but I had to undergo some major reconstructive surgery in one of my arms a few years back after a bad accident. As a result, I've got a lot of "hardware" in that arm. Personally, I've always found the word "cyborg" a fun and interesting self-description, since, technically speaking, it's accurate. I'm also aware that I am a lot nerdier than your average potential user here.

For a lot of prosthetic limb users, I imagine that preserving some measure of dignity is almost as important as preserving or attaining limb functionality. It's important to feel human, and to be taken seriously. "Cyborg," spun the right way, might have an empowering angle to it. But I could just as easily see it reading as glib and borderline insulting. I'm sure the founder intends for the former, but the market will determine which connotation prevails.

Whatever the case, I'm happy to see a YC entrepreneur in this space!
"The suggestion that universities might be more efficient than private corporations at anything is almost comic."

It's not a priori implausible to me. Why shouldn't there be things universities do better than corporations? They're different entities with different structures; it makes perfect sense that they'd have different strengths and weaknesses.
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Is there any interest in (fabless) semiconductors? Traditionally thought as ridiculously capital intensive, there are a lot of new developments that have brought the time and costs involved down dramatically... My experience trying to fundraise for one shown there are a lot of misconceptions and (10-15 year) old ideas in the silicon valley investment space regarding fabless semi.
Covered as well, briefly, in Daniel Yergin's The Prize.

Oh holy hell you've got the whole thing online? Thanks!
this is exactly what i've been looking for. Thanks!

would be great to see HBO Go as well.
>If the BI is too low for disabled people, then it is too low.

Whatever level you set it at, disabled people will get less money than able-bodied people on average, though no fault of their own. I don't think that's fair however you frame it.
> So, no, actually, most of what you've claimed here is extremely mushy-headed bogosity.

You didn't de-link the Saudi money, the people, or the organisations to the events (and you'd struggle as it is in the 9/11 report!). In fact you failed to make a single correction to my post.

But yet it is still "bogus." Ok, how nice.

As an aside, I didn't bring up the Saudi royals or the Saudi government. I said well reputed individuals, of which there are many, I was more talking about the Saudi elite, who have known links to terrorism and have funded it before (some of which are literally in jail now for doing such).
Whether or not it's possible has nothing to do with fearing it. It's not that brave people don't feel fear. They do. They just aren't ruled by it. Brave people move forward in spite of whatever fear they might feel.

I would like to see America's leadership tell us to be a strong nation, not to constantly harp on how vulnerable and weak we supposedly are so they can pass pet legislation. After 9/11 I feel like the only thing my government did was encourage us to cower in terror before bin Laden (and Iraq, etc.) so they could avoid debating otherwise dubious policies like the Iraq invasion.
I just want to second this comment. Focus on solving problems no matter what the technology is. Also, HN talks a lot about web apps, as if they are the only apps out there. Don't get me wrong, I prefer writing software for the web, but there is a surprisingly high number of people who don't feel the same way and would rather use Excel or FileMaker or whatever to get the job done.

Bon chance!
> The relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia is s quite strong and close

Should read:

The relationship between the U.S. Government and Saudi Arabian Government/Royal Family is quite strong and close
I'm also a farm kid. I think the problem is defining what is a small farm vs a large farm. And that definition will change depending one what part of the country you are in. A small dairy by me is anything less than 1000 milking head of cows. A small farm is less than 1500 acres (5000 acres is common). In a different region, 300 milking head is large, so is 500 acres of farm ground.
If that were true, why would they be about to launch a new OS - WatchOS? Wouldn't the Apple Watch run iOS too?
I'm not a goldbug, but I'd answer to

> So why would they take a fiction over a real shirt that that gives them real value?

Because they can nearly immediately exchange the $500 (fiction) into something of real value (gold).
The used market is pretty good.
Universities are to organizations as cockroaches are to organisms. They're ridiculously inefficient and bureaucratic; but they're also the only form of organization likely to be around in 10,000 years.
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I agree. One medical student I know personally (whom I shall not reveal publicly) was interning in a hospital recently and during the course of their learning there had a very good opportunity to just take away tons of private medical data with them. They of course didn't take that opportunity, but from what they told me, it's very, very easy to do that. Frighteningly easy.
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A nice Bill Nye science geek type video from inside the gold vault of the Bank of England. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA
Saudis, too much money and too much time. And that money wasn't earned with hard work. Not a good combo there.
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Download duolingo. It's awesome, and you can set goals of 5, 10 or 20 minutes a day, which sounds like it would fit in perfectly to your schedule.
Agreed that deflation is terrible. I hate paying lower prices for goods and services. Thankfully we have central banks to fight the scourge of lower prices.
Counterpoint: "New paper claims that evolution has stopped in a bacterial species. Is it true?" (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com) (23 points, 9 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003279
Check out http://www.mylio.com/ - it's all about preserving your file structure.
I used to teach English. You need to talk to a native speaker who can answer questions or explain the pattern of mistakes. And I do mean talk - doing it in writing is going to be much, much slower. On the positive side, your English is not great but it's not 'very bad' - I had no trouble understanding your sentence construction.

I fyou don't have access to a native speaker, the next best thing is to practice with movies. Audio/video courses are no good because typically you are dealing with isolated sentences or very artificial conversations - you don't care about any of the imaginary people or their situations, so your brain is not doing any work to imagine what things they would want to say. Pick some English-language films you like a lot (because you are going to have to watch them many times) and watch them with subtitles in your own language, then subtitles in English, then without any subtitles. Practice repeating the dialog to yourself, as if you were going to do the work of an actor. You can also practice writing out some of your favorite parts.

Repetition has value, in the right context. The story and characters are easy for your brain to engage with, so they will function as a mental anchor for the more abstract patterns of grammar and correct usage.
Yup. Compare that to MIT endowment's annual return. And guess where (a big chunk of) the MIT endowment gets invested (indirectly through VC funds)? The same startups that their alumni are founding.
> The $500 in paper money is to them "a fiction", as it says in the article. So why would they take a fiction over a real shirt that that gives them real value?

He didn't say that fiat currency is a fiction, he said that he is worried that the world economic system might be built on the fiction of fiat currency.

Since you can print fiat, it's entirely possible in this current fractional reserve system that most fiat's employ to create a lot of artificial wealth.

Just because he's pointing out there could be a bubble doesn't automatically mean he ascribes 0 value to a US dollar, he just won't put his life savings in it.

> This rarely changes anyone's mind

Mainly because it's a dumb strawman.

> but I hope I can at least raise the contradiction to the top of their minds.

I really can't see the contradiction in thinking that there is a bubble in currency and still believing that said currency still has value in the current.

> All currencies are backed by our willingness to accept them, and that is the only backing that any currency ever needs.

Until people aren't willing due to inflation through debasement.... Thats the point....
With ISIS it's important to look at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his group, Al Qaeda in Iraq (ISI). He formally broke his affiliation with Al Qaeda when Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned ISI wanting to merge with groups in Syria (Jabhat al-Nusra in particular). A coalition of different groups from these regions make up ISIS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi#Expansion_...

The affiliations sound like they were achieved organically, though who knows what's really going on behind closed doors.
Applying sense to copyright law will only lead to heartbreak. I would suggest the law professor knows more, and in any case the key point is that this looks like the sort of case where the most money wins.
Yea, it might not matter whether the conspiracy theories are true.
Thanks for raising this to the top of his mind.
> The Depression proves that the gold standard doesn't work.

Not really. The government went off the gold standard in 1914 when it began printing whatever dollars it needed. A legally fixed exchange rate, however, continued. This led to an increasing disconnect between the dollar and gold, by 1929 gold was worth about twice as many dollars as the legal exchange rate.

This is what lead to the banking collapse, as everyone suddenly realized this and rushed to exchange their dollars for gold at the official exchange rate. The runs persisted until the government suspended exchanging gold for dollars.

We see the same thing happen in modern times every time a government decides to peg its currency to a foreign currency, and then inflate it.
Agree on this one. Certain kinds of people and thinkers tend to gravitate towards programming. The aspect of getting satisfaction from seeing the perfect alignment of code on the screen, and the satisfaction of re-factoring code into clean, modular pieces, must somehow satisfy the programmer in order to get a kick out if it.

So probably those who are naturally logical thinkers, even to a level that normally would not be very useful, become useful in the computer space where they can utilize their internal skills of putting things into neat ordered rows of zeros and ones.
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