skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How and under what terms someone releases their work is their choice, not yours. The only choice you have is whether or not to partake.

And all people are saying is that they won't partake or support if it's not licensed to their satisfaction. There are no license fascists going around breaking windows to make people conform.
So if one wanted to knock over a competitor's business, it would only take to arrange for the owner to be unavailable for a couple of weeks, send this email, wait for the deadline, grab the domain. Profit.

What happens if you become sick or get in an accident and must go to a hospital? Game over?
I totally agree. This is one of a number of concepts that keep me away from most GC'ed languages.

BTW: Even in C++ though, I wouldn't use a pthread mutex directly, or in a wrapper class if I haven't banned exceptions. The "correct" way is to create a resource wrapper class without public lock/unlock calls and then a second RAII lock class that can lock/unlock the wrapper. Then if an exception happens while holding a lock you at least have a chance of properly unlocking it, or noticing that it wasn't unlocked.
True! Modern gravity gradiometers/differential accelerometers probably are sensitive enough for coarse orientation, particularly if they were deployed at the perimeter of the sail.

To do so would, of course, obliterate LightSail's budget :)

Source: worked on R&D for the LISA inertial reference system.
lodash is consistency and compatibility first.
Agreed. The mere idea of having to globally expose your personal details is idiotic. Or at least it belongs to a more civilized society we're not seeing a glimpse of yet.
Do we need hundreds of reposts?
Also, I have seen a visualization using Kinesis to-from a web interface, where there is not compute happening in AWS at all. It was really cool - they took audio input from the microphone via the browser, and streamed it through Kinesis to all the other browsers; compute happened in-browser.

This makes me wonder if, rather than using S3 as a backing store, you could have Lambda insert messages into Kinesis and have the browser read from the Kinesis stream.

Of course, the goal here is to build something with Lambda - otherwise I think you could do the whole thing with Kinesis and client-side compute.
Really? Can you think a bit more about this one?
I find myself sometimes resenting something for not being free. I try to rationalize the real costs of things on the internet, but as they say, for the brain, going from 0€ to 1€ is an infinite raise. And it's hard.

The ironic thing about it is that, the more things are free in the web - even crappy versions bloated with ads, with security concerns, with the big question of why should anyone keep fixing things and maintaining free products of services -, the harder it is to find something like this and not think: "Payment? Why should that deserve payment? the other day I saw something else almost completely independent that was free! And I know of at least one thing that is free and it is more valuable to me! It's ridiculous. That guy/gal is nuts, they have an absurd self-esteem. Not worth it.".

So what I try to do is appreciate every single thing that I get for free, and try to imagine if I could do it from scratch, and how much of my life I would need to put into it to get what is now free. That helps putting value into something, as even if it is a faulty measure (effort and cost don't drive value), it helps to put consideration of someone else's work on the table, and a little empathy, that so easily is lost on the internet.
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I'll agree that this is interesting, but it seems like a lot of people in this thread miss the point: we're working with multi-layer tools now. This enables modeling of multi-layer processes. The code generation as it stands is a obviously a toy, but what happens if we actually think about the real processing layers?

Take this example of code processing, and instead front it with a parser that generates an AST. For now, an actual parser for a single language. Maybe later, a network trained to be a parser. The AST is then fed to our network. What could we get out of the AST network? Could we get interesting static analysis out of it? Tell us the time and/or space complexity? Perhaps we discover that we need other layers to perform certain tasks.

This, of course, has parallels in language processing. Humans don't just go in a single (neural) step from excitation of inner ear cells ("sound") directly to "meaning". Cog sci and linguistics work has broken out a number of discrete functions of language processing. Some have been derived via experiment, some observed via individuals with brain lesions, others worked out by studies of children and adult language learners. These "layers" provide their own information and inspiration for building deep learning systems.
US population is growing, but only because of immigration. The birth rate was at 1.88 per woman and falling, well below replenishment. We're growing at .7% per year, somewhat below the world average.

Domestic food production is rising much faster than population is, causing rising exports. Imports are going up as well, due to increased appetite for variance in our diets.

You must've missed the memo. What's going to be the big problem in the medium term is de-population, not overpopulation. We're going to find our workforce resembling Japan's in 30 or so years unless we overcome our political resistance to immigration. We should be begging Mexico to send their best and brightest over here.
The company itself, which essentially just lost the difference in cost between the IPO shares and their actual value in cash.

Okay, if you want to be really nitpicky, they didn't lose quite that amount. But they did lose a substantial amount of cash.

Also, employees are likely hurt indirectly, as they can't sell their stock for 90 days. Underpriced IPOs flood the market with stock, potentially causing the price to collapse (as in the case of LendingClub) before they get to cash out.
Would the returned samples from PG/Shakespeare/Wikipedia examples be of higher quality if you used a word-level language model instead of character model with similar parameters?

I was curious if the overhead of learning how to spell words (vs a pure task of sentence construction with word objects) out weigh the reduction in sample set size?

(Awesome article for a RNN newbie)
Some amount of pop increases investor's appetite for participating in IPOs, I think. Hurts the specific company but might be good for the ecosystem. But 51% feels like a mispricing.
I do not think that we have the capacity to create a brain capable of being conscious with our current technology. Storing zeroes and ones deterministically on pieces of silicon with crammed together transistors and doing computations by what are basically logical gates is kind of limiting and inefficient. And lets say that the teraflops we're talking about are meaningful. How many teraflops do we need anyway? Shouldn't Google's data-centers suffice already for reaching the potential of a piece of gray matter that fits in under 60 cm of circumference?

I also agree that AI will never be "human" (i.e. it will be different), however without understanding how the human brain works, what chances do we have to create AI?

And we have yet to crack that nut. We have yet to understand even high-level stuff in detail, like how information is flowing from short-term memory to long-term and how we forget and why we do that (i.e. forgetfulness is surely an evolutionary trait). A brain is also fascinating in how it recovers from serious strokes by re-purposing brain structures. We have yet to produce software that is that sophisticated. And we don't even understand the brain from a biological perspective yet.

Surely huge progresses have been made, but on the other hand we may still be hundreds of years away and there's a very real possibility that we lack the intellectual capability, or maybe the resources to do it (we have a history of settling for lesser solutions if we stop seeing financial benefits, like with space exploration).
> A child's brain is just a large neural network being fed patterned data over the course of many years by a variety of extremely high resolution analog sensors. Eventually the child begins to respond to the patterns

Seems a bit early to jump to the conclusion that we understand cognition. We don't. I agree that there is nothing exotic or metaphysical about brain meat, but really we're still feeling around in the dark with respect to how thinking occurs.

I'm confident that we'll get there eventually though.
What is ICANN's motivation for complying with law-enforcement agency demands? Quite a number of them have proven themselves to be bad actors in the past, and there are provisions in civilized society that restrict them from actually demanding things, absent a specific court order. Which shouldn't really apply to an international regulatory body in a prescriptive manner by most standards - and if it gets such orders it needs to leave for another flag of convenience that doesn't cripple a global infrastructural standard.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" should be the ideal we aspire to. LEA and intelligence-agency intervention in the Internet system is typically damage to our liberty-printing machine, one way or another. Their incentive structure offers no benefits and poses a lot of difficulties in dealing with a free Internet. Pressure from them should be expected as an open adversary to the free Internet, and defended against.
Can't we just get Namecoin or another blockchain based service supported in major browsers, so ICANN is no longer a sole monopolist?
I hate, hate, hate this sentiment. Pricing IPOs is not a perfect science. You want at least a 20-30% pop to generate enthusiasm. So it actually was 50%. It's not that big a deal. Plus, I can easily envision it falling back a bit in the coming days as the excitement wears off. The big money can be raised in a secondary, but ONLY if the stock isn't perceived as a dud.
I'm sure you guys have already figured this out by now, but you just need to add a polyfill for `endsWith` since Safari doesn't implement the ECMAScript 6 spec.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I like the payment process with a slider that can go to a price of 0, that had Ubuntu at some point (perhaps currently).
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I think this is why some techniques for doing rolling deploys set up a health check for the node which is configurable by the deploy process. That way, otherwise healthy nodes report their status as "down" while still accepting and finishing requests, but then get taken out of the HAProxy rotation without having to re-load the configuration. The new code is rolled out on that node, and the toggle is set to report "healthy" again, so HAProxy brings the node back into rotation.
>Money represents the value I created to someone in exchange for it. So yeah.

No you don't. You may have earned the principal. But the growth was not earned by you. The growth is the direct result of employees within the company, if that's not you, then you don't deserve it.
The super-slow compilation speed is mostly because C++ encourages massive all-inline template libraries like the standard C++ library and boost, which need to be parsed and have the used templates instantiated for every compilation unit.

Here's idiomatic hello world, with <iostream> vs. <stdio.h>

> g++ -E hello.cc | wc -l

17906

> gcc -E hello.c | wc -l

842
I'd guess that a series of releases (10% of shares each day for two weeks), each at the previous day's average price, as traded among members of the market, would do an okay job of discovering market price.

Alternatively, the entire block of shares offered at a slowly-lowering asking price might do it, too.

I don't doubt that these things have been thought about a lot...
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I have a feeling you didn't even read the article and instead interpreted the headline to mean "we use whatever technology generates lots of blog posts," which was my interpretation too, prior to reading the article which is describing what's actually a pretty good approach.
Because there would be a huge demand for those initial shares.

Probably a better thing to do would have it participate in the open auction, like other stocks do.
True, although it's a community project and not part of the main Akka project AFAIK. Worth mentioning though, thanks for pointing out.
How so? It's less than $400 for an unlimited use single developer license without support. That doesn't seem very expensive for a good product that saves time and helps productivity. I'm sure they might offer discounts if you contact them about the startup situation.
> Storing zeroes and ones deterministically on pieces of silicon with crammed together transistors and doing computations by what are basically logical gates is kind of limiting and inefficient.

And yet it is less limiting and more efficient than pretty much all analog computing devices we have built. I don't think the hardware is the issue anymore, I suspect that with the right models and training we can have thinking machines.
Eye tracking looks very promising. After seeing the video, I'm curious to see how they plan on adding facial expression tracking.
The Web of Trust Firefox add-on throws a scary warning "The site has a poor reputation based on user ratings"

https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/name-services.com?utm_sou...
Reducing consumption to the point where first-worlders aren't suffering increasing rates of obesity-related health disorders doesn't sound like a lower standard of living to me.
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There weren't many options for aftermarket pickups in the 1970s. He was almost certainly installing secondhand pickups extracted from broken guitars. Those would have been significantly cheaper than a distortion pedal, especially considering that most amps and pedals were still hand-wired.
I'm an absolute layman with regard to AI, so I'd be keen to hear some explanations with regard to the possibility of creating strong AI in silicon.

Might there be properties of our biological brain that silicon can't capture? Is this related to the concept of computability? I'm not suggesting that there is a spiritual or metaphysical component to thinking. I'm not, I'm a materialist through and through. I just wonder if maybe there is some component of non-deterministic behavior occurring inside a brain that our current silicon-based computing does not capture.

Another way to ask this is will we need to incorporate some form of wetware to achieve strong AI?
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Flawed Android factory reset leaves crypto and login keys ripe for picking
Relevant blog post: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-h...
I found the learning progress great. I was thinking some time ago how to generate english-sounding words which don't exist. Well, here they are: (from iteration 700)

Aftair, unsuch, hearly, arwage, misfort, overelical, ...

(although I admit, some of them may be just old words I haven't heard of before)
Yes, my experience was in the biological sciences, where bench work can have a very long amount of time between iterations. I'm always amazed that anyone working with mammals (eg evaluating transgenic mice) ever finishes their work.

The issue is really the hard cut off that was mentioned above. Had I stayed on longer at that lab, I may have been able to get my results published, but there are many incentives to move on.
Bill Gates donates 25$ for each #RedNose25 tweet
What constitutes a staple-thesis varies a bit though. My advisor required 3 top-tier papers in a well-defined topic. Papers in other topics or workshop papers does not count.
The methodology here doesn't seem particularly useful— they say Seattle is seen as 90% urban, but apparently 40% of streets in city limits don't have proper sidewalks:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/giving-everyone-a-s...

Probably because most people define 'urban' and 'suburban' in relative terms, and a neighborhood that might well be 'suburban' by NYC terms is 'urban' by the Seattle definition. Or a 3000sqft. house on an acre lot in Orlando can be 'downtown'.
This is better, but you get pretty far with just markov chains with probabilities for letters actually.
When the heck did learning to code become cool?
For CS? Not in your thesis, but maybe in a paper based on the thesis.
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I, however, do. Very much, in fact.
And now with more bandwidth...

Thanks for that, could be, and you're likely right, though my understanding was that the work he's discussing hasn't been published. Hard to see it _not_ being CAES though.

Another avenue I've looked at is ocean-based pumped-hydro. Same as the usual suspects, but the ocean is the lower (and hence inexhaustible) basin. That means creating an elevated high-fluctuation saltwater estuary, and you've got corrosion issues associated with salt water, plus marine life fouling. Japan's built a test facility. Tidal barrier systems can also be considered as such (with or without active pumping).

https://www.reddit.com/r/RenewableTech/comments/29t6t7/seawa...

http://www.hitachi.com/rev/1998/revoct98/r4_108.pdf

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/Lago...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610214...

Flow, liquid metal, and molten salt batteries also have my eye.
I dunno, Staten Island is pretty suburban. Same with parts of Queens. Hell, parts of Brooklyn have streets upon streets of single family homes with large yards that wouldn't look out of place in quaint Connecticut towns.
Indeed, I think that taking the place of C for writing Python and Ruby extensions will be an enormous opportunity for Rust.
"- Provides an email forwarding service to your real address as above"

Another suggestion - the service keeps a public gpg key you supply, and posts the email, after encrypting it to you, to usenet/pastebin/wherever searchable (perhaps by the key fingerprint?), and maybe publishes notifications of that somewhere distributed (maybe a has tagged Tweet where that hashtag is the key fingerprint?)

Sign up over TOR, and you could have a pretty good "air gap" between you and any messages it receives for you. Wouldn't matter if they get subpoenaed or NSLed - they'd never be able to see who's _reading_ those messages.
Without the 1965 immigration act U.S. population was on a course to permanently level out at a quite sustainable ~230 million level. Immigration levels of recent decades clearly play a roll in suppressing native fertility to below replacement levels. If the problem really was not enough population, it is actually not very difficult to pursue policies that increase native fertility.

Japan is way over-populated. There is a myth that they face some sort of crisis as they deliberately pursue policies that bring population to sustainable levels. This is actually mostly immigration lobbyists in the west shrieking. Japan is being sensible and will be fine. Certain elements hate the Japanese example.
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Part of the problem with regulations is that regulators often don't have the tools they need, resulting in wasteful and needless compliance work that leaves systems less secure than they were before.

Regulations are generally OK where they dictate personnel or procedural requirements but often extremely problematic where they intersect with technical matters.

An example would be cryptography in the HIPAA security rule. The only crypto standard regulators had in their toolbox was FIPS 140-2 (I believe it's a recommendation, not a requirement). Sadly, FIPS is a total footgun.

Many organisations however (sometimes under misleading advice from compliance paper pushers who do not know anything about security) then interpret FIPS 140-2 compliance or certification as a requirement for vendors.

Well, what's the problem? FIPS-140-2 is absolutely toxic to software. Trying to run systems in FIPS mode weakens them and breaks a lot of compatibility. Also, technically, you're not allowed to patch the crypto routines after certification!

See: e.g. https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/fips_140_2_actively_ha... for a discussion of some of the problems.
That's awesome.

On a meta-note, I felt like the abstract wasn't very clear and I had to skim the rest of the doc to figure out what was going on.
Eating meat every day is totally sustainable without overpopulation.
Co-developer has built apps in the past and met a dev relations guy at a conference or WWDC or something. We give them heads up on product releases or major updates and they forward it to editorial teams (local or worldwide) for consideration.
I literally got hit with this the other day and set it to my registrar as an obvious example of cheap bullshit fishery.

Imagine my surprise when they wrote back, telling me it was legit.

What an awful, awful program.
Really awesome to see more research like this. I actually took the same approach in my master's thesis several years ago, and collected 1000+ responses from across the country on sources of meaning in life. I then used natural language processing and machine learning methods like topic modeling to compute a map on the meaning of life, and presented a poster at the World Congress on Positive Psychology: https://i.imgur.com/AFDCYuJ.jpg?1 If anyone is interested, the website is still online here, but a little neglected (I'm building a new one right now): https://www.whatkeepsusgoing.com The SSL certification is outdated, but it's secure, I promise. :) Answering the questions unlocks a bunch of interactive tools to explore the data yourself.
This one's even faster. https://github.com/ahmadassaf/booklight