skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? And your insight is based on what? MV isn't exactly Chicago or some other large city with a problem of corruption ( yet )
Also created something similar a while back for fun, except for short text messages with the option for encryption in Javascript using an implementation of blowfish. It saves the data encoded (or encrypted) as part of the url.

Source with demo: https://github.com/alfg/jot
The truth about Purism: Why Librem is not the same as libre
Marvin Minsky on programming and sloppily-formulated ideas
in a way self-proved in context. Thank you.
This was posted two days ago here but I think it's worthy of discussion
I'd question whether 'everyone knows' how to do smartphones, or social networking, or any number of other innovations. The winners in these fields prove the opposite - hardly anyone knows how to do these things well enough to keep growing a customer base.

I still find an inexplicable number of startups apparently unaware of the critical importance of market-building and networking.

A poor product marketed well will always outcompete a better product marketed badly - or not at all - as long as it has acceptably basic functionality and isn't completely unfit for purpose.

There are so many examples of this in tech it's baffling that it doesn't seem to be considered more often.

And I think the article is just plain wrong about innovation, because in fact there's a constant stream of possible new innovations. The stream comes in waves, but anyone who isn't thinking about what's going to be possible soon isn't paying attention.

'If it was possible someone else would have done it by now' is a Dilbert argument, not one based on evidence.

What doesn't exist is a constant stream of opportunities with instant Apple/Google/FB/MS earning potential.

But these corps got big in many steps, which included choices about products and services, marketing and ecosystem building, customer lock-in, brand management, investor relations, management culture, and worker culture.

They didn't just make a thing and instantly kill the rest of the market because it was just that awesome.
For some reason, it's not working in my browser. Possibly NoScript or something? Well here is my workaround for anyone having the same problem.

Click the first result at http://www.bing.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farti...
Operating System Development Tutorials
Also super happy with T-Mobile's speed- it's faster (bandwidth-wise) than my stupid U-verse. But the whole text message issue they have is driving me nuts to the point that I'll probably switch to another carrier with less available bandwidth just to get sms that works.
Here in the North we have insane data caps on our regular DSL and Cable internet.

On a couple of the packages, it's possible to blow through your entire monthly cap in 6 hours - and I've seen people do it.
Indirectly: brand identity, community building, etc. YC makes money off seed funding deals.

Lots of venture capitalists blog heavily for the same reason.
I just ran a comparison with Expedia (which seems to no longer be ASP.NET based as an aside); not too surprised, Expedia found the cheaper flights. Read, cheaper, not necessarily better.
Civil wars and local conflicts have no shortage of weapons already. US is practically swimming in firearms and so far that has produced no such war here.

We do have a number of extremely terrible incidents with resulting loss of life, many of these are very much preventable. My personal opinion, more laws restricting distribution will not prevent these, but better mental health services, safety tech and training will.

All this article really proves is that people who want to have a gun will have a gun. It might be extremely difficult, but those hell-bent on it will still succeed.
Gerbils, not rats, 'gave Europe the Black Death'
My first thought was "I wonder what it looks like". It looks like this: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/tapestr...
Yes, uninteresting, as I said. Lisp syntax is quite simple, so I would not expect it to be very difficult to make a regex to parse it. Btw, does that handle quoted strings, strings with syntax characters in them, and strings with escapes?
>I don't see this as very complicated. Women, just like any aggrieved minority, don't want to be spoken for, or spoken to. They want to be heard; they want to speak for themselves.

Are you a woman?
Did United Put a Whole Route in the Sky for One Very Important Passenger?
Martin Pall has a history of dubious hypotheses. It seems more likely that it is simply the increase in heart rate that improves cardiovascular health.
You can do it by closing over a variable as well. Python closes over things just fine, it just has problems rebinding variables in outer scopes that aren't the global one. Here, I just make the variable a container, so I can alter a value inside it, instead of rebinding it ( only python2 has this problem, python3 has a "nonlocal" keyword to work around this in the language )

>>> def counter():
... x = [ 1 ]
... def count():
... y = x[ 0 ]
... x[ 0 ] += 1
... return y
... return count
...
>>> count = counter()
>>> count()
1
>>> count()
2
>>> count()
3
>>> count()
4
>>>
>>> otherCount = counter()
>>> otherCount()
1
>>> otherCount()
2
>>> count()
5
>>> count()
6
>>> otherCount()
3
>>>
Microsoft researchers say newest deep learning system beats humans and Google
I've shipped handloaded ammo to a buddy. You absolutely have to declare what's in the box, and the box must be marked "ORM-D" on multiple sides. Oh, and you goto the UPS depot, not some retail outlet.

I've had lots of non serial numbered/non ffl parts shipped to me via usps, FedEx, and ups.

This guy is completely full of crap.
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Frankly, not much - but it's not like I think they are doing bad things it just seems like it's yet another philosophical forum.

I was active from 2007~2010 when it was just transitioning from the Hanson/Yudkowski combined blog with a robust comments section to the beginnings of what you see now. I'm sure some of my comments are still floating around there somewhere.

I think in the early days it was a pretty good place to bounce ideas off of each other about philosophical ideas/concepts WRT AGI, and probably still has that to some degree. It just became too cultish around Yudkowski for my tastes and ended up being very navel gazing around Bayesian probability and "rationalism" as religion. That's not to denigrate Bayesians or rationalism at all because those are great things.

In the end the community is more interested in talking than they are doing and SIAI is somewhat of an offshoot of that ethos with roots in the original Future of Humanity core group, and continues that legacy.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really smart great people contributing interesting things there about rationality and optimization. I just moved away from their religion of rationality that boils down to these super hardcore utilitarian calculations which end up kind of defeating the populist goals of spreading rationalism.
Even beyond that though, if an iOS app requests ALL possible permissions, it doesn't have the same capabilities that an android app does.
Hey guys - I'm Jonah, the founder, and am more than happy to answer any questions you have.
How many of those AI researchers are actually working on AGI though? As you mentioned, most of them are in fact just developing search and optimisation algorithms. Personally, I believe the fields of neuroscience/biology are more likely to produce the first AGI. People who claim machine intelligence is dangerous are not scared of k-means clustering or neural networks, they are scared of an hypothetical general intelligence algorithm which hasn't been discovered yet. One could argue that the fear is absurd because AGI is not likely to happen within our lifetime but it's hard to argue that it will not happen eventually and be a potential threat.
Ask HN: Are Computer Science Courses at Santa Monica College Any Good?
I don't have a background in computers, but I know how to do all the straight forward stuff (Windows, Microsoft Office, basic computer knowledge for office use, etc.).

Are programming and web development courses at Santa Monica college worth it? I'm a California resident, and it'll only be a couple hundred dollars per class.

I work full-time as a copywriter so I can only take a course or two at a time. My employer knows of my interest in web development, and my manager is interested in exploring opportunities where I may use them currently.

Also, my end goal isn't necessarily a degree or a diploma. I just want a chance to work on standard 'challenges' and have some type of guide. Also, I hope to meet people with a similar interest because I am somewhat new to Los Angeles and don't know many people.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
Is this using SE Linux for isolation, like Samsung Knox?
Sure, tech companies aren't going to start writing code on mobile devices. But there are plenty of enterprise companies where writing, viewing and editing can definitely be done on phones and larger form factors such as tablets.
Am I the only one who fails to see what any of this has to do with Vagrant? My only takeaway from this article was that the author doesn't like to deal with virtual machines.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+did+dropbox+create+Pyston%3F
Great point about zero-down solar and we're by no means wed to any one structure to enable solar for the masses (lease, loan, PPA, etc.). Our goal is to get solar on as many houses as possible.
I think the idea is, you create a dedicated "sandbox" account, install apps in it that you don't trust that want access to calendar, contacts, text messages, etc., and then don't put any real data of those kinds in the account. So, they still have permission to see those things, but they don't see anything when they look.

Note, I have not looked deeply, so maybe it doesn't work like I said. I would not expect multitasking to be very seamless with this method. Also, I know there are some permissions that have "cross-user" abilities, so maybe there is still a way to accidentally allow an app to access your real data.
That is a great intro. Thanks for putting it together. If you were to continue this to a Part #2, I would be interested in seeing the approach for determining if something was "abnormal". Is it considered abnormal to add a node to the chain, or to add a transition? Is detecting abnormal behavior more complicated than detecting new nodes or transitions?
Deepmind office interview
But you have to wonder what a bus shelter is for if there are air raid shelters too - to protect you from buses??
You are right, They are commodities, and commodities are where branding matters most.

I guess I should differentiate two types of brands. There are category defining brands (i.e. Kleenex, Xerox, Google) and there are recognizable brands.

The fact that you dont differentiate between avis, hertz, enterprise, and national, but exclude rent-a-wreck, which is almost always cheaper tells me that the commodity you are convinced you buy in price, is in fact driven by your perception of those brands.

Being first in peoples minds is the BEST way to build a brand, but it's not the only way. The fact that Enterprise overtook Hertz as number one, even though they were late to the game...and the fact that you don't buy from only one brand, tells me that being first mover is not the only way to win a market.

Although,to be fair, enterprise was a first mover in the "central business district" car rentals.

I guess my point is that every business has the opportunity to define themselves in their own category, regardless of market conditions. That is the job of your branding. To create the perception that you are first.
It may be because startups are looking for experience with specific technologies and not good software engineers. Startups generally don't want (or don't have any money) to train their engineers.
Definitely hipsters. We love being hipsters.
To be fair, I've seen ISPs give special treatment for packets coming from speedtest.net. I'm looking at you Comcast.
I'm not an economist, but my understanding of the massive social impact observed in the Industrial Revolution was not so much that it happened at all, but rather the rapidity with which it happened. We ultimately reached a new, stable equilibrium, but until various social forces and trends, government policy, etc. caught up, there was massive disruption.

People like Jeremy Howard believe that we are in for a similar wave of disruption. I have no doubt that there is a new, stable equilibrium which we _could_ eventually reach, but if the change is so sudden and the shock strong enough, perhaps there could be permanent or semi-permanent negative consequences before the new equilibrium is reached.
SCTY is definitely a great model and has done amazing things in the US. The key difference with Bright is we focus just on software and finance to enable local Mexican installers to scale. In comparison, SCTY is a totally integrated entity and installs all of its own projects. Analytics around underwriting to protect project investors is a key element for us as well.
Shshshano's comment is technically correct - we treat our dev branch as master - or at least how I've always treated master. It's the most up-to-date and production-ready branch.

Our git strategy can be summed up with:

- Commit everything to one, main branch

- Cut production releases on a separate branch or with tags
I got roped into one of these idiotic interviews at a Very Important Company.

Them: How would you solve (well understood, theoretical and tedious to solve problem). Me: I'd Google it. Them: That's cheating. I want to understand how you think about the problem. Me: We're not in school. You'd be paying me to be efficient and solve problems. Why would I waste time on something I can Google. That's how I think about the problem.

And that was about the end of it.
How to be motivated 100% of the time. Wake up
San Francisco has notoriously bad infrastructure due to all the NIMBYs blocking any kind of development. I don't think it's very representative.
Actually, she wanted to date you, but when you asked her to write a 1000 word essay on why she would be a great girlfriend, she decided to forget it.
Great point - we often see bills for the highest electricity consumers between 1,500 and 5,000 pesos per month, which is around $100 to $350 USDs per month
The x86 Memory Model
Makes sense, it does seem like they would have a harder time retaining people if they moved to Boise.

That would be pretty sweet if a giant tech company like Google packed up and left Silicon Valley. It's going to take big moves like that to get a real exodus rolling.
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Google Finally Kills Off GoogleTalk and XMPP (Jabber) Integration
The thing is, any of those early tech companies could have been an Apple or Microsoft. There was nothing special about Altair Basic. Other companies didn't because they made disastrous mistakes along the way - see "In Search of Stupidity" by Chapman.

Microsoft grew into a behemoth by making crucial decisions at several key turning points, and avoiding making disastrous mistakes.
One example happened last week when we upgraded our mocking library from rr to rspec 3. We didn't pair for that since it was just rote syntax changes.
How Twitter’s Aurora Replaces Operating Systems with Stateless Services
I think it makes more sense to rent or re-sell the machine rather than take the risk of selling bootleg AR-15 lower receivers.
>The thing they leave out, the big giant piece of the story that they always, without fail, gloss over, is that setting up Vagrant is hard

No, it was an 1-2 hour affair, without even reading the manual. Maybe you're just not competent enough?
When talking about the Spanish Empire, I think it's fair to say that few historians lay the blame sorely on the Church.

There are so many factors involved it is really impossible to even decide on a single factor as the most important.

Spain had huge and unsustainable drains on its treasury caused by it's European wars (and their overflow in the Americas against eg the Dutch) as well as campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary pirates, and most would argue that was a huge factor. There is a religious part to some of these conflicts, but they were also about keeping Spanish influence strong in Europe.
The name is silly, but it makes sense. Google Play is effectively a package manager. "Google Play for Work" is an enterprise-controlled package manager.
There are a handful of recruiters that I refuse to deal with at all. I set my cell phone to block their number and set my gmail to automatically archive their emails.

Actually, I have a simple solution now, that works surprisingly well. When someone contacts me, I search my gmail for past interactions. That's saved me from wasting time on several occasions.
This is a work of great beauty and foresight. And does he just invent the minimax algorithm in there?
This is actually good news for Google. Their current YouTube ad revenues are paying for all the fixed costs right now. Any additional ad revenues for YouTube from now on will go directly to the bottom line as profit without further operational expenses.

I think we'll be seeing expanding margins for Google this year. Maybe good time to load up on GOOG while analysts are disappointed at recent earnings.
Python version of the LLVM tutorial
It's a question of rates vs. odds.

Rates like HDD failures, Diseases, Homicides, Accidents, are often described as X:100,000.

Odds on the other hand apply to specific events such as the Redskins winning the next Supper Bowl. The difference is when talk about a wide range of things you speak in terms of rates. Thus, the odds of getting this much snow next year that's ~1:26,000. But, the rate of years with this much snow is better described as 4 per 100,000 years.

In the end it's because they described it as events:years they should use a round number of years. But if they had said said the odds that this happens next year then 1:X should be reasonable.
decent site.

I'd update your copyright footer, if only because at a glance it makes me wonder if it's unmaintained.

I've been wanting a more powerful hotel search site for many years, but I think most of the features I'd care to see are limited by the messy data available about the properties (amenities, etc.) and the margins just aren't there to support an aggregator curating their own data. Maybe not even for a reseller like Hotels.com.
And that was my impression of the p-System too. The key thing that made Java fast, and wasn't clearly appreciated (except by a few people, not me) at the time was that the JVM was small enough to execute entirely in the CPU's cache. When the p-System came out, caches were tiny, a handful of bytes at most. By the time Java was defined, caches were growing larger, and the language designers knew it.
Someone, for the love of god and everything that is holy, please actually solve the password problem.

The countless caveats, the catch-22s, the madness - are any of the existing efforts actually getting somewhere? In the real world?
> a job market that doesn't need cashiers, janitors, gardeners, cooks, taxi drivers, car washers, many farmers, or most menial labor?

The job that I consider most threatened by advances in AI is actually the job of programmer.
I think we could get it right eventually, but the only solution I can imagine seems to be along the lines of a universal basic income, or access to basic resources (food, water, shelter, education, clothing, healthcare, etc.) without cost.

Given the resistance we are currently observing to Obamacare, the fact that "socialism" is regularly bandied at the current administration as a pejorative and the disdain for "handouts", this seems like a stretch. Perhaps we'll get there eventually, but not before a lot of pain.
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Yes, there are in fact many things that are true through a pre-defined definition.
what bullshit I have to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to read the article. Fuck them.
I and a number of my friends thought DEC would dominate the business! After all, DEC had an enormous head start with the LSI-11, RT-11, mature compilers, etc. I had an H-11 computer.

If there ever was a computer company that squandered a golden opportunity, it was DEC.
> Oh for pete's sake. This is why I swore off commenting on this issue on HN.

Swearing off commenting on this issue...you're doing it wrong.
So basically, the monetization methods (skippable ads and subscriptions) are working well, Youtube just needs more people watching consistently?
Human Head Transplants Just Several Years Away
Minor: got a certificate error when I clicked on this url. However that disappeared when I manually typed in www.skypicker.com in the browser. Most likely cause it seems is because their site certificate is *.skypicker.com
Just shared with two people I know in the field. Thanks :)
> the algorithm was able to generalize across multiple problem sets

Did it really? I think they reset it and retrained it for each game.

I'd like to know how much more is needed to make one instance of the AI that can successfully play any of the games. To play all 49 games that it could learn, does it need to be an extra level deep? Or 49 times larger? Or 2^49 times more?
> And the spokesperson for women in tech shouldn't be a man

I think this would be more accurate with the "a man" part. The spokesperson for women in tech shouldn't be. Women in tech aren't a monolithic group such that a spokesperson is sufficient.
Maybe. But I was replying to the second part of paulhauggis's comment, and I still think the general point stands.
what, are you saying Bozo the Clown wasn't a success? :)
So much effort to go under 1K (in the era of 128GiB fingernail chips), with this .gitignore:

node_modules
-uglify
-crush
-regpack
Why lawyers suck
I would be interested in hearing comments by anyone who lives in such a space. There was a discussion about doing something similar in Sunnyvale and the lack of actual experience really made it hard to debate.
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Stepping in each other's toes is part of the game artist workflow. :)

Seriously, with the tens of thousands of assets in a medium to large game, the way they can be reused across the game, and the peculiarities of art and in-house tools, it's not uncommon for two artists to try to modify the same asset. Sometimes it's accidental, sometimes it's necessary, sometimes it is an oversight, sometimes it is an organisational issue as you say... but locking detects the conflict and prevents it from turning into wasted hours or days.

Relying on a separate tool to manage this issue is a notable increase in friction. Since the SCM handles changes and conflicts for source code (and thankfully allows merging), why wouldn't it do so for art?
Business question
I'm sure a number of people who have contributed to Torch are working at DeepMind. However, Torch has been around for much longer than DeepMind (about 12 years at this point). Two of the major contributors to Torch, Ronan Collobert and Clement Farabet, were never DeepMind employees.

To be fair, another major contributor to Torch is a co-author of this paper (Kavukcuoglu).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
"Apart from real-time submarine applications such as guided torpedo control, I did an accounting package in kvikkalkul as well."

Yeah, sounds legit. I got a good laugh though.
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Explore the 2016 White House Budget on OpenGov (4T Visualized)
For comparison: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/. That is way more of a hack, but I am not sure this is that big a step forward. Space invaders and breakout aren't the hardest games and I haven't heard a hard argument that it is just a matter of scale to create a machine that, say, plays chess.