skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how will the model be used? Isn't this important given that the conclusions in this paper could be stated by anyone thinking about the subject for ten minutes? Abstracts usually tell us about the paper and the reasons for conducting the research. This one does not.
Neat. The animation/rendering of the blue and cyan particles on the page I'm sure is done by Krakatoa, a renderer I wrote. :)
This is supposed to be a book review, but seems to be mostly uninformed blithering by the reviewer.

Actual physical robots still aren't very good at dealing with the real world and cost too much. Progress is being made, but it's slow. Having been in the field, it's been discouraging how slow. Robot manipulation in unstructured environments is still very weak. "Pick up thing and put it somewhere" works reasonably well. Beyond that, performance is poor.

The robot cost problem is severe. Look at prices on industrial robots or intelligent farming equipment.

On the other hand, jobs which involve sitting at a desk and dealing with inputs and outputs which come in via wires (or paper, for retro outfits) are looking vulnerable. If they haven't been automated already. Computers are just so cheap now.

This leads to "Machines should think, people should work." Computers are better at organization and scheduling than humans. Humans are better at the grunt work, for now. Consider Uber. Or Amazon's order-fulfillment operations. It's not clear how far that concept will reach. HouseCall tried to do it for plumbers and repair services, but didn't get much traction. Uber is in a space where the product is uniform and the pricing model is simple. HouseCall is not.

After reading a review like this, it occurs to me that it's probably not too hard to write a program to review popular non-fiction books. Grind through the text. Run each chapter through a summarizer like the one that used to come with Microsoft Word. From the summary, find key phrases and look them up with Google. Find popular comments on the same subject from people with some notability. Look at the Amazon sales statistics and generate some prose using a modified business earnings story generator. Generate a clickbait title and feed into the Demand Media or AOL content mills.
> People do break this all the time but typedefs ending in _t are reserved by POSIX.

hahaha, shame on me, I always use _t to abbreviate types or make custom ones, ex. uint_t, fraction_t, bitfield32_t, etc...

bitfield32_t:
https://gist.github.com/AldoMX/526e84da13b00ac0c75e
The price of oil has halved in the past few months that's why the rigs are in trouble.

You can still learn skills like programming without schooling.

I do suggest looking into getting educated in basic finance and basic accounting to teach yourself principles of investment, so the good money you make won't be eroded over the years by inflation. (Which basically means, the price of things go up every year, by more than how much interest the bank gives you on your money, so over time your money can buy less and less things.)

One semester of one finance subject and one semester of one accounting subject would probably do.

Net Present Value, Portfolio theory, diversification, and enough accounting to read financial statements from companies listed on the share market.

But don't buy shares for the next few years - I think there will be a crash coming soon enough.
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I think part of it is also the big fish, little pond --> little fish, big pond phenomenon. When high school teaches you to define yourself as intelligent, academic, and driven and then you're placed in an environment where everyone else has developed a similar set of character traits and amassed a similar collection of academic achievements, I think students suffer a bit of an identity crisis. All of the sudden very key components of one's character are the norm, and the transition is far from easy.
These disciplines attract a certain type of personality and are often people of high intelligence. Suicide rates among these cohorts is elevated to begin with. I don't know if it's enough to make up for an extra 4 per 100,000, but I can't help but wonder.
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I just want to point out: the history of software, just regular software, has been typified by the New Jersey approach and the MIT approach. The former consists in just hacking together something that kinda-mostly works, releasing fast, and trying to ameliorate problems later. The latter consists in thoroughly considering what the software needs to do, designing the code correctly the first time with all necessary functionality, (ideally) proving the code correct before releasing it, putting it through a very thorough QA process, and then releasing with a pre-made plan for dealing with any remaining bugs (that you didn't catch in the verification, testing, and other QA stages).

Only the latter is used for programming important things like airplanes, missile silos, and other things that can kill people and cost millions or billions of dollars when they go wrong -- the things in which society knows we cannot afford software errors.

I don't think it's even remotely a leap to say that we ought to apply only this thorough school of engineering to artificial general intelligence, whether it's at the level of an idiotic teenager or whether it's a superintelligent scifi thingy.

Now, if we think we can't really solve the inherent philosophical questions involved in making a "world optimization" AI that cannot go wrong, then we should be thinking about ways to write the software so that it simply doesn't do any "world optimization", but instead just performs a set task on behalf of its human owners, and does nothing else at all.

But either way, I think leaving it up to New Jersey kludging is a Very Bad Idea.
It's a liquidity problem for the whole marketplace. There's only a limited amount of space to rent in the first place. When people get older and don't need as much space, they don't move to a smaller unit to free up space for people who need more space for growing families. So you end up with one person living in a space for four people and four people living in a space for one person.
(most implementations just naively discard 2-3 bits, because of RAM limits in '80-'90s)

Might it also have something to do with earlier VGA DACs having 6 bits per color channel? I seem to remember that newer video cards required setting a separate register to enable eight-bit-per-channel palette entries.

Edit: never mind, the discussion of Wu's algorithm in another thread, specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216252, makes the RAM limitation clear.
My bank provides me virtual visa card for online payments that I transfer funds into. So there is cap on how much can be spent - and I determine it. I usually keep 100 EUR there and replenish (e-banking is great in Europe).

Solves a lot of problems that way - you cannot charge what you don't have.
>That said, it's indeed very hard to directly specify a utility function involving paperclips. If our universe were a Game of Life universe and we knew exactly which configuration corresponds to a paperclip, I'd be able to do that right now. But since we don't know the true laws of physics, the "hard way" involves encoding some kind of Solomonoff prior over all possible physical universes, and a rule for recognizing paperclips in each of them. That's kind of a tall order.

Or we just need an approach to AGI that gives us more conceptual abstraction than AIXI and its Solomonoff-based reasoning. Which we needed anyway, since AIXI_{tl} is "asymptotically optimal" with an additive constant larger than the remaining lifetime of the Earth.

Luckily, there's quite a large amount of bleeding-edge research into exactly that: learning "white-box" representations that are understandable and manipulable to human operators.
Something like #define DATE(month, day, year) ... would help to read dates without program running.
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It's still there, and it still has the features you claim you're looking for. You don't sound very eager to check it out though...?

As for your edit: "the US government essentially provided this sort of start to Silicon Valley"

No. Re-read your first paragraph. The US government provided none of that. Watch Steve Blank again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Obamacare is an abomination that needs to die a quick death before it does more damage to our country. People are getting insured on the backs of those nobody is talking about: The families who got royally shafted. The financial promise was a savings of $2,500 per family.

Reality at my household and many others is quite different. Our premium went from $600 per month to over $1,200 a month. Our deductible from $5,000 per year to $9,000. And our co-pay is higher. This is otherwise known as a royal shafting.

That's at least $12,000 per year instantly burned in exchange for exactly nothing. That's $12K per year not available for my kid's college fund or to buy any goods or services or to save away for a rainy day.

The law, the process used to pass it, the lack of transparency and the lies to the American public make this nothing less than a disgusting abuse of power for political gain.

I know most of you "kids" don't get it. Perhaps you can't imagine what it is like to have a family and, out of nowhere, have your government reach into your pocket and steal tens of thousands of dollars from you. And, at the same time, provide you with worst medical care options, having lied to you about all of it. Unkess you have that perpective my position is unlikely to make any sense to you. And the reasons for my deep sadness because of what we've allowed politicians to do to our country (regardless of affiliation) might not register with you for a decade or more.

The damage done to this country by the current administration will require at least 25 years to repair, if ever. In about three decades you 20-somethings might just start to u derstand the significance of having entrusted the country to a man hardly qualified to run a cookie baking operation.
Actually, I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

As with the example you gave, though, a key reason for the crash was that "The flight engineer's and the first officer's apparent hesitation to challenge Veldhuyzen van Zanten further", leading to over 500 fatalities.
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I may not have read the article, but wouldn't this be obvious?

When's the last time you learned someone's name, didn't say it a single time, then saw them any amount of time later (an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year) and remembered it with ease?

I learned a lot about memory from a world memory champion Dominic O'Brien and his keys for long last memories are imagination, location, association, and finally repetition. To make the initial long lasting memory you use the first three, and to make it really stick you run through that scene you've created a week later, a month later, and a few months later. After that, it is very difficult to forget.
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Increasing supply lowers the mean price for the market as a whole. The laws of supply and demand do not rule out local changes that run contrary to the overall market depending on the nature of the new supply.

To pick one particular example, Facebook's construction of 394 apartments next to its campus is actually driving up home prices in that part of Menlo Park because the apartments are nowhere near sufficient to meet the demands of Facebook employees but are accompanied by new commercial developments that make the surrounding property more attractive to other Facebook employees.
can anyone explain why doesn't the object risk detaching from the panel that lifts it up? How is it attached to the moving part?
> they are not as easy to use as PHP(while ironically it is easier to go further faster with rails for instance than bare bone PHP)

PHP's frameworks (Laravel, Yii, etc), being based on previous frameworks, are more mature and frankly just better than Rails in most ways, though less integrated with the stack. Which also provides more choice and 'competition' in the PHP ecosystem.

To be generous; starting with plain PHP would be like starting with Ruby, not Rails.
That's fascinating but a bit out of my depth. Do you have any references that a newbie to 3d printing should look at before taking the plunge?
Interestingly, both of the quantized versions appear slightly brighter in all colors than the original. It's easier to see in the dithered image, but also visible in the undithered image.
Easier to parse, but it would be close to impossible for humans to edit the real-world pages. Try turning any bootstrap template with their 10+ nested levels of tags into the syntax you propose, and then try moving things around in the editor, finding the right spot to append an element when all you see is something like )))))))), that would be crazy hard to do without errors. To make that work we would first need some kind of function syntax, so that deep nested blocks can be simplified.
This is a hit or miss. Say they are looking for a C coder. A bad recruiter (most of them) would just discard this as he/she wouldn't even recognize it as C code, just some junk not fitting into his/her template.
A good recruiter though, or if a recruiter wasn't used - they would see this as smart and creative and definitely get you an interview.

I've seen companies shutting down/relocated because of bad recruiters filtering good programmers like this.
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I'd better to care about markets -- counter-intuitively, humanity will be better then. I've grew up in USSR, and I know what I'm talking about. The rent control smells so communist to me.
Sounds interesting. I'm probably too dumb. But I referred a friend to your post!
Exactly. Remember, Amazon did the same thing with their Fire tablets http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/24/amazon-introduces-mayday-a-...
Indeed, there appears to be no reason to believe in objectivity and any claim to it should be viewed as highly suspect. Subjectivity is the best we can do.
Yes, but if i is divisible by 3, you need to print... oh, never mind.
I think there was not a giant leap in perception - high-altitude balloons were quite common during 1930's and the curvature, clouds etc look the same at 20km and 100km from the qualitative point of view.
at the bottom of the page there is a video -- it looks like they cure the resin to make a thin layer across the whole plunger/panel, at the very least there is the small layered grid that holds it on before they start "printing" the object. seems like cured resin will stick to the panel, so they just have to do some simple layered curing before they engage the actual object
> We assumed there would be a Teespring for packaging. But there wasn’t, so we decided to go ahead and do it.

Have you folks seen the bags that Teespring ships with? All cool branded logos and such on them. Do you imagine that you'll be offering something like this? To me, it seems by selling branded courier bags like that would mean people purchase in bulk from you and can be used for more rather than just focusing on boxes. (I imagine there'd be a whole lot less overhead and such. But I'm no expert!)

They also ship air fresher stuff in their bags. I imagine that would be a pretty neat thing to have with your service!

Best of luck. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

EDIT: Have you guys seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLDA2miW7gg I've got a few friends that sell their music on vinyl, and they would literally go crazy and throw money at you if they could get something like in that video, but branded etc. (sorry if these suggestions have been put into the idea bin already!)
I'm not very sure the news is the place you want anything besides "news". And weather is certainly news in that when it is extreme it is an event which often affects millions of people.

The best news stations (in my opinion) report without respect to personal belief. In that regard I respect the BBC for reporting news and not adding personal opinions, beliefs, or motives to it.

When it comes to espousing on things such as climate change I (personally) expect that I'll have to do a fair amount of research on the matter to form an opinion.

I recently read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. It was wonderful. In it he talks about how precarious a knife human existence sits on. The lack of ice ages in recent eras seems to be an outlier, and one of the biggest effects of climate change might be to knock us right into one. It was something I had not known and it was presented with detailed evidence as to why that may be the case. I'm not sure news organizations can or should offer these perspectives as they will either be presented in a manner which leaves a fair amount of details missing or in a manner which impedes upon the presentation of other news.
The video play "mpv" is also almost a wrapper around ffmpeg, it seems.
it's like a laser printer but instead of toner it uses gooey resin. project (in UV light) a shape on the bottom of the goop and it will start to solidify in that shape (once it touches oxygen)... so gently pulling some solid surface goop out gets you to the point where you can "print" stuff! Pretty cool! It's not clear to me if the resin solidifies only on contact with UV light and the oxygen level is controlled from below or above, but at any rate the balance of UV light (in a particular projected design) and oxygen is what makes this possible.
Well, I stopped dead reading the article right on the first paragraph. I really could not believe. Ice on water does not raise it a millimeter whatsoever. Once again it is just stupid media writing the next Apocalypse just to sell papers or whatever because really they have nothing better or more intelligent to do.

Sea level has not changed at all in the past 200 years, I would dare to say they probably have not changed at all since the formation of the Mediterranean Sea.

On sea level, it is very simple, the moment the Dutch start fleeing The Netherlands, then I will start worrying; but if they are not buying land on the Himalayan, I will really not to worry about it.

CO2 has nothing to do with temperature of planets, whatsoever! And by the way, "greenhouse effect", the is commonly described, with irradiation and CO2, etc., does not exist!!! And call some gases in the atmosphere "greenhouse gases" is a stupidity that makes no sense whatsoever.

Volcanoes alone on any ordinary year (and last year was nothing ordinary) put at least five times more CO2 on the atmosphere than humans activities today!!! Insects, at least seven times more!!

So, no, humans are not that powerful. CO2 does not control climate. Arrhenius prediction is as much bogus as Malthus. There is no proof whatsoever, nor there can be since the whole scheme is a Physical impossibility.

CO2 is also not a pollutant, never was, never will!

All that said, yes we must find better and renewable sources of energy, since something that is not renewable will end someday. Moreover, our energy system is very inefficient (of course is a Physical impossibility to have 100% efficiency, but we should try harder).

Notwithstanding, some of the apocalyptic scenarios proclaimed may indeed come to happen, because climate (noun) changes (verb). That is what it does. If it stops changing than we would have a problem because that would be not normal! It has been cold before, it has been hotter before. Places that today are land has been under water. Deserts had been green. The planet is in constant change. We do not understand much of the process and that is the reality, not a bogus, deceitful, and damn right ridiculous idea that goes against even the most basics concepts of Physics. Any high school kid should be able to point right at it, were it not so wrapped up in fallacies.
When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about pausing and resuming a thread of execution or some stack.

Could an editor put the slanty thing over the e in the title?
I feel you should visit any developing country to get a feel of why zoning / building / parking laws are required.
You get json from the browser?

Of course I manipulate the data - that's exactly what weak mode does, convert the strings into integers. I just don't see how doing the conversion myself manually helps anything.

> It throws an error in case you receive bad input, and as we all know you will receive bad input.

It does no such thing. (int) will simply turn bad input into a zero.
See this stackoverflow q/a -- it appears to contain most of the current highlights. Basically Ubuntu has started packaging a few go apps, and fpm[f] seems to be an ok alternative in the meanwhile:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15104089/packaging-golang...

packager.io (which upstream googs uses) seems to be a nice way to just get packages out there, but as far as I can tell it's pretty well walled-off behind a service, so no easy way to build locally, off-line, or without using packager.io etc. In that sense it strikes me as a poor choice for Free software, as there is no promise that things will continue to work, or can be made to work, long term.

[f] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Parent mentioned "specialized editor". What he meant was emacs + ParEdit, which alleviates these problems. With ParEdit, you don't navigate around and edit sequences of characters - you edit nodes in a tree - where each set of parens in the text represents a node and the individual identifiers are the leaves. It's awkward to use at first because you need to supress your usual text-editing habits, but the productivity gain once you're familiar with it is worth the training.

Besides, Lisp has the tooling for collapsing deeply nested structures into flatter ones if you need to, because one can use nested defines inside a function and later just call by name if needed. It just means the stuff that would've been more deeply nested will be defined earlier than it's container. Most of the time this is usually what you want anyway, because you're going to be reusing a lot of the structure elsewhere in the document - DRY becomes a lot simpler.
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Disorganized team/crew of what first have seemed to appear as "professionals", imho, is a curse of most sci-fi movies (I could hardly recall any movie with more than one actor, where characters won't behave like a bunch of strangers gathered together under some unfortunate circumstances).

Exoggerated drama (i.e. dramatic action out of nothing or due the course of highly regulated procedures (eg. EVA)) is harder to evaluate: sometimes that drama looks quite plausible. Nevertheless, action sci-fi without some sort of team member sacrificion/unexpected death is hard to imagine, at least for me. Hell, it is not even specific to sci-fi: just take a look into any action movie out there - pretty high chances to become a witness of the dramatic death.

Very frivolous treatment of the laws of physics in general. I am pointing out that instantaneous information transmission specifically. Well, pretty much of cliche either, isn't it?

Stupid reasons for "heroicity". Are you a script writer in a search for the rationale to balance around the case of dramatic death of one or more characters? Director struggling with producers demand for fancy attention-binding activity you might be. What to do? Easy! Just place some important peace of equipment in a morbid place and there you go - engineering have been favored out by thrill.

Life. Remember that in "Babylon 5" most of aliens were anthropomorphic? Well, 90th there were, no fancy CG, and, besides, convergention one may say, right? Second decade of XXI century, Wikipedia is here and accessible in a matter of keystrokes. Why not chemothrophs, why?! Although, phototrophs could be plausible even in a shady world, convergention one may say...