skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be pretty awesome! Also, do you happen to know if your current patch is safe to apply on top of OpenSSL 1.0.2a?
I hope that this takes off but unfortunately it'll only be for Google ads which aren't obtrusive like layerads or youtube video ads...
Amen to that. Twitter is a great thing and business, it just doesn't print as much money as management told everyone they would. As such, the stock is continually under pressure.

The stock being mispriced has nothing to do with the "value" or viability of the business, just the lifespan of the current management team.
Calling people's attention to dangerous ideas is a risky thing to do, regardless of whether the information was technically available or not. Often the risks are small compared to the benefits of bringing the ideas into a discussion. But sometimes they're not small enough, and the responsible thing to do is to think before posting about whether you're creating the wrong kind of inspiration. You don't know what sort of crazy person might end up reading it.
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Aaron Swartz – Persecuted little guy or powerful revolutionary?
I'm not sure what's involved with getting assembly working in Go (my experience has only been with servers/clients and CLI's), but could this not have been implemented as a stand alone package? What's the benefit of a fork in this case?
I'm not sure that's strictly true. I've not yet heard of another species as good as us at making, for example, cars, or computers.
>Your comment is significantly out of place. The Go team is extremely open to quality external contributors.

I think his comment is still valid. Adapting something major like this is not the same as accepting bugfixes from hundrends of people, or ports to a different architecture.

Even more different would be accepting some code for the standard library whose API wasn't designed by the core team.

From what I've seen the core team is quite opinionated and micro-managing things.
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At some point I think people will start to realize that there is no "investment" in social media. It's too fad-driven. And internet speed has greatly accelerated the pace at which fads rise and fade. Nearly by the time something appears to be getting popular, the new users are already looking at the next thing.

Twitter is slowing because it's just not "the thing" anymore. Facebook also, though both services have millions of users, they're not attracting the younger users anymore. They've already moved on. I predict that in less than 10 years, both services will be seated at the "MySpace" table in internet history.

There's only so many ways you can create interest in a proprietary package around "sending notes and pictures to friends" which is all these services really offer the average user as a value proposition. As soon as it becomes too heavy, too bloated, too ad-infested, or "what my parents use" then the next batch of users moves on.

The "value of the graph" which is what these services claim is the true value, is meaningless to the average user. They don't give a shit about the graph, beyond their own little piece of it. And if the users go elsewhere, the graph ceases to have any value beyond academic.
C is "pure" too.

The statement

puts ("hello");

is a "pure" value of type int.
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The bigger problem with Twitter is how damn hard it is to use the service well. Twitter's value increases or decreases along with one's ability to curate his or her feed.

It seriously took me years of careful tweaking to get my feed (and lists) where I want them. Now Twitter is absolutely incredible; Twitter lets you be in a room with anybody in the world you want to. That's really, really cool. For me, that's startup legends and tech geniuses. I not only get to see what they're saying, but often what they're reading and thinking about. Because of that I wanted to see the feeds of some of the top tech investors look like, so I created them in lists. They're fascinating to watch (lists are here http://theireyes.austenallred.com/pages/viewlist)

But I look at so many of my friends who don't use it, or who have an account and don't log in, and it's almost always because they haven't taken the time to follow the right people. That's hard to do. Facebook is easy - my grandma knows me so she'll accept my friend request. Twitter, by its nature, forces you to be proactive in creating and culling that list. That's an action that most people don't take.

So Twitter is trying something new - what if we put together lists of what people want and had those available as the logged-out homepage, letting people quickly get involved? It's an admirable effort, but look at the categories available: It recommends I search for stuff like #NationalDayOfPrayer or #BadBloodMusicVideo. The top categories right now are literally politicians, high-end fashion designers, nascar drivers, and hotels/travel agents. I get that they're trying to show you variety, but talk about shots in the dark.

I don't know what the solution is. But I think Twitter's biggest problem is that it simply takes too much work before anyone gains value from Twitter. There are a lot of people on this planet who will never put that much work in before expecting something of value back out of a service.
I tend to disagree with the idea that we don't have the computational power equivalent to the brain. The reasoning is that, yes, all the things you say are true about having billions of slow neurons, but that makes the assumption that their only fault is that they are slow. I don't necessarily agree with that assumption. The evolutionary process doesn't find true maxima, it finds local maxima. The key is that the neuron is good enough for the task of intelligence and planning and pattern detection. However, the architecture is most likely highly inefficient. The reason why they are so good comparatively is because we just kept adding neurons, either by increasing the size of the frontal cortex and by the folding, so as to jam more in there.

That is not an architectural design per se, and I highly doubt that it is optimal. Rather, it is good enough. Now, the Von Neumann computer architecture is of course lacking. Parallel computing as we know it works, but it's a total nightmare, and hardly competes with the incredible parallelism in nature. But I do think that there is sufficient power now to really feasibly compete with the brain, intelligence wise.

All this with a grain of salt. I have been reading stuff in the weird corners of AI research. I think this article is fundamentally a straw man. (I believe that...) Deep learning and probabilistic machine learning are fundamentally flawed for strong AI. Jeff Hawkins is a well respected AI researcher that I think seems to agree. Another problem is of course that these are all trained in a supervised fashion. Google does well because they have huge tagged data sets. However, the brain doesn't work by training on tagged data sets, it can learn on it's own, unsupervised. So long as we keep pointing mainstream AI down the supervised statistical machine learning path, we will always be far away from strong AI.
Agreed, the south shore chicago trains have feelers to harvest electricity as they go. Maybe a Tesla with a whisker on top could go indefinitely on long stretches of highway.
This site would be perfect as a plain text website with pertinent information easily available.

It is easy to design simple, textual content that is still aesthetically pleasing; print has been doing it for more than a century.

I dislike this new web design framework junk (especially vertical overlay scrolling) as much as I disliked the Flash abuse of the late 90's early 2000's in the design community (Praystation, True is True, K10K, etc.).

I really want to channel a little Adolf Loos here and say "all ornamentation is bad and useless."

That said, their service is really cool. Prices are pretty good, and I love that I'm not beholden to a web UI for it.

I might just use them for backups for our district.
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Yes.

Microsoft said Holo Lens was coming out this summer - http://bgr.com/2015/05/01/microsoft-hololens-release-date-an...
I think at this point everyone has already heard the "social utility" description and it dire straits add much to the conversation, particularly because phone books were a social utility too.
That you can turn the regular investments you do in yourself: food + water + time, into a million dollar product, something that's impossible to do in almost every industry I can think of.
Have to disagree. If you feel like you have something to say, and you feel like a blog is the right format, then sure, have a blog. But this article feels a lot like one those "self-help" articles that instructs you how to improve your life (Work-out in the morning! Eliminate all sugar from your diet! etc.) In the end, this author has the audacity to say that since something works for him then that necessarily means that everyone else should follow that formula.

TL;DR: do you whatever you want to, man.

Oh and disclaimer: I have a blog but I rarely post technical insights. It's more or less a way for me to post my creations and occasionally a cool picture or something. http://davidvedvick.info
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I don't blog because I have found the internet is too hateful, too quick to judge, and too eager to bring torches and pitchforks. I have a quiet, calm, low-stress life and I can not justify giving up those for free, just to share a few thoughts on the internet to others. My mental health is worth more than whatever notoriety I might gain from internet blogging.
For comparison, what would be the radius of a continuous cylindrical battery that powers the Tesla Model S? Assume, perhaps, that the battery has the same energy density as a typical AA battery.
Twitter's principal prob is information overload that users experience inevitably on as they dedicate or spend more time on the platform due to the reality of its non filtered laissez-faire stream of tweets[0].

The second most nagging prob for Twitter is the blurring line between its FB page-like accounts and real/personal ones. Both unfortunatey stand on an equal footing in the platform unlike the situation on Facebook where everything is distinct and clear and the line is drawn quite obviously between groups, pages, personal accounts ...etc

([0]: I like that it way as I am not in favor of FB's authoritarian policy of curating/dictating what content should I consume. I'm very OK with rationing and having full control of my TW time the way I see fit)
Can somebody explain how a constitutional challenge could be dismissed under the pretext of "it was authorized by Congress"? Isn't the whole point of a constitutional challenge to address things illegal things authorized by the government?
If functional programming actually mattered we would stop having to remind ourselves why it matters.
Strange they dont mention AES-CCM at all. I'm using it a lot in IoT applications (dtls). It's not frequent in the "web" world?
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Precisely. I'm contributing anyway (by commenting, breathing, farting), so why should I do it even more?
Note that Ben (a personal friend) has been an enthusiastic user of Mercurial for several (4? 5?) years, and is pretty happy with it. He was even using hgsubversion for a while I think.

Note that there's a lot of social problems around DVCS, and the thing Ben worried about is still a _real problem_. I get potential contributors showing up with months of work, and it's an enormous pain in the ass (both for them to rewrite and for me to beg them to work with me) when they did something architecturally unacceptable early in the process that a simple 2 minute review could have caught.
Yes, it does. My oversight. Thanks.
Don't know (and I don't think anybody knows) if Twitter will be around in 20 years but I do check my Twitter account constantly. Twitter helps me stay up-to-date with things that are important to me. I prefer Twitter over any other "social media" sites (and I subscribe to most).
It's not so simple, if you look from first principles. It will always depend on the cost of communicating versus the benefits of economies of scale in computing. Currently, most many can only be done in the cloud due to the massive scale benefits and relatively low communication costs. If communicating doesn't get cheaper but smartphones get massively more powerful and roomy overnight this might change; but it is a fact of computer science that there are economies of scale to lumping queries from different users.
> There's no tool out there that generates log files it cant itself read.

If only. I've used two such systems myself.

When the tool for your binary data file says "data corrupt" when you try to open it, what do you do?
He wrote this more recently when convnets surpassed "human level performance": http://karpathy.github.io/2014/09/02/what-i-learned-from-com...

Gains have continued in 2015.

Also, more recent reflections on his research which I think gives a bit more color to the OP: http://karpathy.github.io/2014/07/03/feature-learning-escapa...

Kind of like with the rise of electricity, the microprocessor, the PC, or internet -- in the beginning, only the people building it understood what all the fuss was about. But that changed quickly over the course of N years (where N ends up being sooner than everyone thinks). If you had started a career in any of those fields before they were obvious in hindsight, you would have probably done quite well.

The author of the post has not quit to go start a photo app as far as I know, he's still doing research on the cutting edge of deep learning because that's where the most promise is.
In other words, humans aren't all that different than fish in that we respond to base stimulus.
If I understand it correctly robinhood makes their money on the spreads[0] they offer (see point number 3). So much so that in many cases it's better to use a broker like interactive brokers or etrade.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907334
How big of a solar panel would you have to stick on top of an electric car to keep it going forever (ignoring the extra weight/wind resistance)?
If people reading posts is a "happy bonus", why make anything public? I do shitloads of self-learning, but I don't publicize the vast majority of it.

The primary purpose of publishing material to a wider audience should have something to do with said audience. It could be publicizing yourself. It could be a desire to help people. It could be simple narcissism. Whatever the reason, it drives the decision to publish rather than keep the material as simply a personal journal.
Yes, and maybe. ;)

http://elixir-lang.org/

So far I love it. It's bent my brain into pretty shapes.

It borrows a lot from Erlang, which it sits on top of, such as incredibly fast process spawning, and the OTP library.

But its syntax is sooooo much nicer (at least coming from Ruby).

The potentially extreme fault tolerance ("nine nines" is not unheard-of), and things like hot code deployment, appeals to me as a web developer.

It also has some unique features as far as languages go, I believe... such as full-fledged macros in a non-homoiconic language.

If you want to dabble in it, Dave Thomas' book on it is awesome: https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir
Pre-Snowden, I wonder if the ruling would have been different. Back then the judges would only know what was presented to them. The government would have obviously presented in a way that was most favorable to them, and their opposition would not have access to crucial evidence.

Now that the cat shit is out of the bag, judges and everyone else have more background to evaluate what's in front of them. The government would still present in a way favorable to them. But a judge would now more fully understand the significance of what's presented to him. We live in the world, and we bring our entire experience to bear when we evaluate.

Thank you Snowden. Fuck you NSA.
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Well put. Greg and the Collison's have built an amazing product, helping to pave the way for innovation in the space. However, we agree that there's a larger fundamental issue that can't be addressed by the processors themselves. That's why we're building http://accepton.com I'd love to hear the challenges your clients are facing: jonathan <AT> accepton DOT com
...and "awesome".
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the ad-based business model is as toxic for quality as being a public company dependend on quarterly results. if you have no other fallback revenue, you get pushed in a very specific, user-hostile direction.

google search as case in point, banner ads, etc., all broken promises.

why not do what linkedin does? offer paid premium accounts. the 'verified' badge is already much coveted, so mark affluent users. re-sell short, unused twitter handles. cap the number of followers at say 500, above needs to be premium. want to persist your tweets longer than x months? premium. want to connect an official 3rd party app? premium. remove fucking ads? guess...

and i am not talking about making this expensive, it does not need to be. earn enough money to keep the lights on with premium users.

twitter has the best content on the net, so they're like HBO - but trying to make money like network TV.

tl,dr: build a premium and 3rd party connector paid system, a mix of LinkedIn and Slack's models.

don't like my idea? discuss.
"But also, I must admit that I am a little disappointed in Aaron. I understand that depression is a serious disease that can fell any person, however strong. But he chose the path of the activist long ago. And the path of the activist is to fight, for as long and as hard as it takes, to effect change. Aaron had powerful friends, a powerful support network, and a keen sense of moral cause that put him in the right. That's how he got that support network of powerful friends and fellow activists in the first place" -- J. Atwood
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-end-of-ragequitting/

I always felt this Jeff Atwood blog post was a good run down of why everyone was so upset over Aaron's suicide. It was a stupidly tragic mistake and Aaron knew better.
But there is already so much content on the internet, that accelerated learning could still happen by way of proxied interactions visible in "old" content. Does your AI have to interact with people to learn how to interact? Or is watching interaction good enough?
Then your definition of free speech is different from that of most people. For example, under your definition it would be legal to falsely testify in court. It would be legal to publish child pornography.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500512
Aeon's Deputy Editor has also (just?) published a 2600 word detailed article on Aaron Swartz asking "Persecuted little guy, or powerful revolutionary – what sort of wunderkind was Aaron Swartz?"

Posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505156
Yup, you've pretty much summed up the underlying principles of how it works, although we're not using a scanning laser.
Why do you think that would be the case?

You could say the same about every tool that we use, which we don't totally understand. It just needs to work.
(0.1 mm^2 is half the cross-section of AWG 24, getting close to hair thin.)

I don't think you're correct here. For round numbers, let's take a 100 kW engine (134 hp), and suppose we feed 100 V. At full power, we'd be running 1000 Amps down that wire. Even at 1 kV it would take 100 A.

Better get a superconductor. Or a much thicker power cable.
As with startups, execution counts for a lot more than ideas.
What does this mean for:

1) the Patriot Act's renewal/new bills to extend/enhance it

2) the USA Freedom Act

Is the USA Freedom Act "compatible" with this decision, or does it allow the NSA to do some things that the Court here has just banned?
But that's not web-scale and written in a functional language!
Every case ever has had inappropriate and disproportionate trial/punishment? That's a very outlandish statement. Are you referring to a specific type of crime? A good argument can be made that this is true for many marijuana cases. But you seem to be talking about all crimes...
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Those are both reasons why it is in your interest to write a blog. They are not reasons why someone might want to actually read your blog (short of prospective employers).

It's interesting that this is the focus.
Seems to me the lawyers would attempt to throw noodles at the wall until something sticks. The "authorized by Congress" noodle stuck to the wall of the lower court. A higher court told them they needed to have cleaned their walls first.

Whether the lower court should have accepted the "authorized by Congress" argument is another matter, but the reason might be that the judge agreed. Or maybe he didn't feel convinced by the challenger's arguments. Or maybe he was having a bad day. I hope it wasn't the latter. Anyway, this is why the appeals system even exists - seems to be working.
Essentially nothing, until these cases make their way to the Supreme Court.
As I never tire of quipping, if you can't get it high on neurotransmitters, it isn't a neural network.
Title should be: "25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Vehicle Air Pollution"
An action by a federal agency can be constitutionally challenged as being outside of the scope or powers granted to that agency by congress. The constitutional challenge thus would be that the agency is operating outside of the checks and balances system the constitution lays out.

Congress has in the past and can today authorize agencies to do things like collect data on US citizens for national security purposes or public safety purposes.
To play devil's advocate, this is little more than a recipe to be followed by rote. I didn't learn anything in that gist other than a clever way to find the version number. Why does it get installed into my home directory... is that suitable for a production server? And so on...
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this will go in the other direction though - drones are remotely controlled, fleets of trucks will be as well. one operator, 25 trucks, only need to take over for special tasks.

depended on network coverage, yes, but most trucks move between well covered, urbanized areas.
You’re conflating two separate questions:

1. Would 10M programmers writing 10M blogs become better programmers? and:

2. Would 10M programmers trying to find the time to read 10M programming blogs maintain their productivity, much less become better programmers?

Perhaps there’s a benefit to writing a blog even if few or even no people read it.
But what you actually said was “Github/git is not an appropriate backup strategy”. Git is tamper-evident and uses strong hashes to protect against bitrot, has full change tracking and numerous measures to avoid data-loss becoming permanent if you detect human error before weeks/months go by, has integrated remote tracking so you can tell how stale your off-site copies are and trivially update them, and most server implementations allow as much access control as you desire.

Assuming that we're talking about things which are already stored in Git and not e.g. an HD video collection, what would make your original statement true?
I wouldn't neccessary call all of them "superhuman", their intelligence is usually not the identifying characteristic. But they're definitely alien minds, pursuing their own alien values, thinking in an alien way.
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