skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet more and more studies of learning (granted, very basic forms of learning like fear conditioning) provide evidence in support of the connectionist approach to learning , in which machine learning is based. In fact, no other theory has emerged as a popular candidate to replace it , despite the fact that experimental neuroscience has done huge steps forward since the 60s. If machine learning works so well, then its a valid question whether real brains work similarly.
Twitter wanted to do end-to-end encrypted DMs once, until it gave up on the project with no explanation:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5523656/twitter-gives-up-o...
The Perils and Promises of Praise (2007)
Somebody who believes in their cause.

While I wouldn't take it out on a child, I won't want to associate with somebody who was against gay marriage or try to save somebody who was against women's rights to their own bodies.

I feel that anybody who spends time with the people they strongly disagree with, when they don't have to, lack a moral backbone.
Highly misleading, for a number of potential reasons a) Google was undergoing tremendous growth at the time, so many employees had 0 or low tenure, b) they had just purchased Motorola and their 20k employees, who knows how that factored in, c) it doesn't say they exclude temporary contract workers of which Google has quite a lot, d) it's only employees they were able to survey, which is likely to have selection bias towards people switching jobs. A much better measure of employee loyalty would be attrition rate, and average tenure of people leaving (but that data would still be skewed by some of the biases I mentioned). From my observations the attrition rate at Google is extraordinarily low. Very few people I've worked with have left the company.
Good luck. Cygwin has explored this space thoroughly. If there were a better option that preserved compatibility, the project would use it. Keep in mind that Cygwin already uses the native API extensively. Read the code.

As for fork: believe me, I'd be happy if, as as side effect of this work, more applications used posix_spawn. But Cygwin can also support an efficient posix_spawn implementation: https://github.com/dcolascione/cygspawn

A lot of the complexity actually comes from mapping POSIX filesystem semantics to Unix ones. stat(2) in Cygwin is ungodly expensive for this reason. Your layer won't be able to avoid this work without providing fewer features.
He later mentions the argument against the strong version of S-W.

As for "S-W is not correct", that's interesting - arguments countering it are not known to me.
Year of Reason
LaTeX got a good workout compiling that tome!
Trains in Japan you mean. When I travel bullet train in China, the station is far away (often outside the city, at least on the other side of town), there are security checks, and I get there a couple of hours early just in case. Then I am on the train for 8 hours vs. a 3 hour plane trip (but can get off at my wife's hometown directly, so we still save time).
more red flags.

Taking commit counts as a measure (and line counts for the same reasons) is like evaluating a writer by the number of words they write without looking at the content. A writer could copy a phone book to get good reviews.

Individual velocities are bad for several reasons. (1) they discourage team work (2) they are inexact (story point estimates only work because we look at the sum of them for sprint planning, they work on average, not for individual stories). (3) there are better metrics available.

If your management wants you to do agile develoment, they should be there in the sprint review and look at last sprint's work.
Sony Music CEO confirms Apple's streaming service 1 day before WWDC
Maybe this is just my Silicon Valley-centric, rarefied group, but I have genuinely never met a rabid environmentalist hell-bent on shutting down nuclear power.

I know many environmentalists, including career activists. The worst they could be accused of is not making nuclear power their number one priority. But, abstractly at least, they all support increased nuclear power in principle.

I know many people against nuclear power. They, however, don't have many political or scientific beliefs, and their intelligences lie elsewhere than scientific or conceptual thinking. None would identify as green or environmentalist.

The biggest problems with nuclear power seems to be (a) the inertia of leftover regulations and bad vibes from the 60s-80s and (b) nuclear power is really, really expensive and requires a great deal of capital outlay and time to build and even to recover the energy costs of building it. People are also more sensitive to the worst case failure modes of a nuclear plant (which has happened like once in history) than they are to the failure modes of coal power (which are when they function like they're designed to).
You can see all the code in

https://github.com/projectvault/orp

You can see the demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbWQbkl8_g

Cheers, Pedro
Ah but the only restriction is the app can't become a brick. He was still offering 1 a day, and could probably restrict that further and be perfectly fine under that rule. In my apps I limit the things you can save. You are welcome to delete them and save more, hence the app doesn't brick, but most people like to keep their data.
The creditors from UK and Netherlands were really pissed off and still are. So mainstream is rewriting the history now?
Even if there is zero surface-surface friction, there is still friction and resistance generated by, eg, the flexing of the materials making contact.
Ask HN: Blue Bottle Coffee Co just raised $70M. What makes them so unique?
Like the question says, Blue Bottle Coffee Co just raised a huge amount of money in a Series C, and I'm having trouble understanding what makes them so unique and so strong, other than just their brand.

Is there a unique distinguishing competitive advantage that makes Blue Bottle Coffee so attractive?
I also thought this interesting. On second read though, trying to give them a more charitable interpretation, I realized maybe they believe since they are using ads that are 'clearly labeled as ads' it is a different thing - as opposed to OpenText just moving an ad into the top ranked search result spot and thus when using OpenText youd never know if you are looking at the real result or an ad.
> We're supposed to be astounded that Roman goods were found in ancient Ethiopian graves, when said ancient Ethiopian kingdom lay athwart one of the main ancient trade routes linking the Mediterranean and India/Southeast Asia

This is an interesting comment, but it reads to me like you're dismissing new work, and that is something we need to see less of on HN.

The article doesn't say you're "supposed to be astounded". It describes "evidence that the Romans were trading [in Ethiopia] hundreds of years earlier than previously thought". Your claim seems to be that the Romans traded with India, Ethiopia was near that route, and therefore these goods could have just spilled over into Ethiopian graves. That's fascinating. And it would be fine (more than fine!) to pose it as a question. But it doesn't justify the crushing-objection-on-internet-forum genre.

It's possible, of course, that (once again) a crushing internet objection has demonstrated the triviality of some discovery with a wave of the hand and a Wikipedia link. But the odds are much greater that the researchers are aware of such objections and (were they here) could tell us why the evidence they found is stronger than random spillage can explain—or any number of other details or arguments that didn't make it into this story. Given those odds, the burden is on you to be less dismissive, and certainly less snarky, even if you do know their field better than they do.

Aside from the above, I enjoyed this comment and learned from it. I'm emphasizing the procedural issue because HN, like a lot of places on the internet, has a big problem with this.
While I totally agree that memory management is a huge source of problems (learn Rust is next on my project queue), I suspect that the problem of "writing secure software" is not actually technical in nature. The best tools and methods in the world are only useful if they are actually used in practice.

A better question is why people accept insecure software and then let the software industry blame the victims (like calling them "hopeless idiots"), when it was - as you say - the insecure software that was the actual problem.

Dan Geer was right - you fix this with product liability. The tools (such as new languages like rust, etc) will happen automatically if you make the person who sold you software liable for the damage it causes. (standard "when used normally" restrictions apply, of course).
I think you underestimate how hard this is, especially since your suggested solution would be a maintenance nightmare.

Also the problem isn't so bad to invest the non-trivial amount of time in it to fix it.
Last I checked they had 50k total staff and a big chunk of that would be in sales.
Yes, this is extremely helpful.
They're certainly not unsuitable, but they have a tendency to take observation/realization/grasping/proving as an instantaneous process. In most people's regular understanding of logic, however, this is false. There is a process by which new data and new conclusions from that data are drawn and made available to you.

So ultimately, if those things matter for either UX of mathematics or for actual mathematical content is a large question, but it's fairly clear that if you need to capture something closer to the actual dynamics of knowledge/learning/understanding then you are sunk when you base your foundations in set theory.
"the public will never change consumption patterns to be more environmentally friendly"

Gas / oil / coal / food are not free. In fact the poorer you are, the more expensive they are relative to total lifestyle.

The financial markets are pretty messed up. The newspaper interest rate is 0.025% or whatever, but it doesn't matter. The real world interest rate for poor people is 29.99% credit cards and loansharks and rent-to-own scams. If that were fixed, so poor people could buy house insulation and solar panels at bank level interest rates instead of loan shark level interest rates or no operating financial markets at all...

"So it seems systematic changes are necessary."

We don't have the political organization at this time to do anything other than mess things up worse than they are currently. The same folks who can't provide a modern medical system, a sensible K12 or higher ed system, can't do foreign policy without killing millions of innocent civilians, can't run an economy to the benefit of more than 1% of the citizens, if, given more power over environmental issues, are just going to find a way to make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and kill a bunch of proles all while telling us its for "our" own good. One has to be pragmatic, screwing up is the only thing they've done for a couple generations. Given that historical record, its very hard to support .gov intervention beyond the "put a green ribbon imported from a Chinese factory on my car to raise awareness" level of action.
Also add [2009] to title.
Terry, you are fascinating. You have a number of haters, but you also have a huge number of supporters that don't label you by your illness.

Keep up the work. You're an inspiration to all of us.
> The problem largely comes down to write secure software, a large part of which is stop doing manual memory management,

This is, unfortunately, not true. Writing in .net or in java or in php does not involve manual memory management, yet such web apps still contain game-over vulnerabilities. (I am looking at you, wordpress).
Visa Program reforms could boost venture capital pool for Australian business
I know a schizophrenic too, my grandmother. She has similar outbursts. She is institutionalized and unemployable and for many people near-intolerable to be around. My mother has been dealing with it for over 45 years. We take my grandmother out and do things with her, but she will say inappropriate things. My mother will sometimes lose control and will be downright cruel to my grandmother in response. I hate it, but I understand it. For longer than my lifetime she has been dealing with it. I have empathy and understanding and I tolerate, but I accept that some people with mental illness cannot control it and will never get better.
You shouldn't need numbers to evaluate a proposition with a premise that is self-evident.

I mean, correct diagnosis is one of the first and most fundamental things a hospital does when admitting patients. Failure at this stage cascades through every step that follows, possibly with fatal consequence.

If you're "managing" a place that handles this work without a working understanding of the process involved, there's a very good chance that failures can be traced - in large part - back to your desk.
Goodness. Winklepickers taken to the extreme.
White hats go down for speaking out, because the government works with the private sector to punish them.

Outside of that, it does make them celebrities. It gives them professional credibility, publicity, and the opportunities that go with all of it.
TL;DR: “Our way of life is under attack by all those mobs of non-straight, non-white, non-males.”
I've actually tried Duolingo after suggesting it to you.

I got hooked playing with it for many hours. The speech synthesis for the course I'm taking (German) is pretty bad, and while using it I find myself spending an awful lot of time writing in English rather than German. Also it is messy in many ways (example: after the "Seasons" lesson I know how to spell Autumn and Summer, but not Winter or Spring).

Nevertheless I like it, the amount of material available is outstanding, so I guess I'll keep on using it for a long time.
The Wiki Game
The major fitness apps all do this. Things like runkeeper, map my run, Strava, etc
That if you understand yourself, who you are and why you do what you do you will be happier, sleep better and make decisions faster and truer to yourself.

I also learned that making decisions quickly and not ponder over them too long really makes a dfference!
Rebuttal:

http://www.sierraclub.org/nuclear-free

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear...

Sierra Club and Greenpeace are two of the largest and well-funded environmental groups.
You're probably going to have to switch jobs to get anything better.

You can try your own startup, but that also is hard.

1/500 options are nothing. When they raise money, you will be diluted. So if you have 0.5% now, you might have only 0.1% or less when they cash out. So if they sell for $100M, 0.1% is only $100k. When you consider 4 year vesting, that's only $25k/year.
The Machard Knot and its 16-year-old inventor
You said they stopped it because there was no benefit. Do you have a source for that claim? Wikipedia (not a source) doesn't give reasons for the discontinuation of flouride.
As much as I admire many of the people working towards divestment from fossil fuel companies, I think the whole movement is defeatist. Great, you convince your university endowment fund, pension fund, etc to divest -- now what? Now those shares will be bought and controlled by an institution that is immune from popular pressure. Who wins here? Nobody.

On the other hand, if instead of agitating for divestment, the students/workers/activists were to ask for proxy votes, then we could put up a real fight at shareholder meetings. Sure, we might not have enough power to elect board members in the early stages, but nothing builds a movement more than meeting up with like-minded people and confronting the enemy face to face. It would provide a forum for activists to make connections with one another, grow the movement, and get excited about the possibility of fighting climate change by being an engaged citizen.

It's heart-breaking to me to see so much support given to this divestment movement -- I've never seen any of the major figures involved give a justification for why we should be divesting rather than fighting the corporations head on. Especially since proxy fights have a history of driving movement growth in the US. Divestment is a retreat. If climate change is really as much of a threat as most of us know it to be, then retreating should not be an option.
Snippets Are the Future
I think I found a short way to web-developer's garden eden...
IQ is heritable, to the extent intelligence increases one's human capital ( quite a bit) intelligent people will on average be richer than less intelligent people. This explains much of the differences in educational outcomes. I'm all for improving outcomes for poor children, but the solutions will need to be technological not environmental. I don't expect people to be able to separate the normative from the descriptive when it comes to their sacred issues, but the whole "education and nutrition is all that matters" approach is basically Lysenkoism.

We are in this strange dynamic where our inability to perceive ugly truths cause us to perpetuate the outcomes we so bemoan, leading to an arms race of ineffective interventions and reflexive shunning of people who actually care about the real cause of the problem. It might be nice if everyone were equally intelligent, but that's an engineering goal not the state of things now.
ooookay, That might sound a biiiiit too self-convinced, sorry for that :D
Survival: Kid Whips Snake into Shape
One other problem with "no sugar added" is a workaround that allows them to add artificial sweeteners and still be able to claim "0g of sugar". To me, that is not only untrue but intentionally deceptive. I want to drink iced tea without any sweeteners, eat tart Greek yogurt, and yes, eat fruit without sugar.

Other words like "natural" and "organic" have suffered a similar bastardization fate where these words mean nothing anymore (look at this Gatorade bottle for example: "Naturally flavored with other natural flavors". http://cdn-jpg.thedailymeal.net/sites/default/files/u58340/o... What??)
Just so I understand where you are coming from, you view peer-reviewed studies as "woo"?
When I want to understand in a few lines some business or software, I normaly avoid their web site because it's usually just riddled with buz words and a sales funnel to force you to register or get some trial without even understanding what it is or how it costs.

For a good 2-3 sentences description I go on Wikipedia when available.
A bit off-topic: I always wondered why Docker recommends volumes. Given that they are removed when no container uses them anymore they seem a poor choice for persistant data to me. Shared directories are much better choice imho. Would love to hear why this is not so though...

EDIT: looks like volumes are (now?) persistent: https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/
Still don't see any advantage in using them though... Am I missing something?
Jsonified Ini Notation
Is Internet Fragmentation the Newest Threat?
If your mommy and daddy pay your bills, it does not mean you have any smarts about you. I am reading some thoroughly biased comments here. Money is for people without skill, more often than not.
One way to look at this is to note ask what exactly it meant when you said "a sphere of volume". In the real world it's ultimately impossible to imagine spaces which don't have volume of some kind or another, but in mathematics we often study models of the world too sparse to even have "measurability". These are obviously aphysical, but it turns out that when one tries to construct reality via set theory you have to go through a zone of "funky aphysical things" before you reject them all and consider only measurable things.

BT exists just before we make that last transition and abuses the fact that the constructions we've made so far are not required to have any reasonable sense of "volume" whatsoever. All of the "infinity" bits are sort of a red herring as there's no reasonable way to think about taking physical things and cutting them into aphysical things. Instead, this all arises from taking incredibly aphysical things (raw, theoretical sets) and building them up until they feel physical.

If you lay out the constraint that "cuts" must divide measurable things into measurable things, which is a reasonable expectation we have of physical items, then BT will vanish.
Ab urbe condita wasn't really that widespread as far as I know. The Romans named their years after the consuls of that year.
Interesting question. What would prevent this to happen indeed?

One reason I can think of is that for GCC all input languages are converted to the same intermediate representation (IR). From there, it's easy to apply the same optimisations, generated code, etc.

For refactoring tools, I have never heard of such IR. The benefits of going for an IR are not obvious either. The drawbacks are huge: a lot more code, difficulty to build an IR rich enough to represent the semantics of all input languages, and there's an extra mapping to go back to the original code by keeping indentation and formatting.

While it is more obvious for GCC: you need another representation than the AST to compile to assembly, optimisations are run on the IR, there is no need to take care of the original source formatting.

Languages also have very subtle differences in meaning/behaviour making it harder to reuse refactorings across languages.

Maybe it's possible to go with your idea, but I think it would require a big team working on it. Who's willing to spend the money or the time when the current approach seems satisfactory?
And if you make your own space online, then what happens when you lose your job because you were a member/founder of offensive side X?

Heck, look at how much bullshit the Reddit founders have had to wade though?
The thing is you can't return your education.

With other secured loans they can take your house, car, etc.

Student loans? Get a 4 year ride at a liberal arts school, end up bartending and the default. There is nothing to take away.

You can file for bankruptcy but ultimately unless disabled you will be able to resume your profession.
Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead [pdf]
Entirely accurate!

The interesting thing about the poor man's OCR is that it works way better than out of the box OCR tools. They're all built around handling arbitrary, often quite noisy input, so their handling of 1s and ls in this data is often not great.

Doing the cheap OCR works really well because we can overfit our data: we know the font, we know the grid, and we know the orientation, so our problem is way simpler than generic OCR.
JavaScript ES7 Function Bind Syntax
yes, it takes many years to harvest the value of education, it is moot point to argue that they choose to ignore the benefits regardless of what is going on around them.

the point is, just because they don't have access to trader does doesn't ruin them. their genetics probably don't make them stupid, and what ever umpteen dozen excuses you can come up with does not permanently seal their fate in a class.

what does change things is valuing education. being born poor is usually the situation of people prior making bad decisions, most usually not valuing long term benefits such as education. staying poor is continuing those beliefs.

and it is totally within their control. it doesnt sit well with many, because its hard to believe people cant be fixed, that they have to fix themselves. its hard to believe that people in a bad situation need to start making better decisions for themselves. its hard to believe this isn't something this can be fixed by throwing more money at bad, by taxing more, etc etc

in many places, this isnt always true. In the Philippines for example, you can value education all you want but opportunities are rare. but not in the US, there are ample opportunities for those who want to take them, and now with the internet it is even easier for those to find the resources they need.
Huh! I did not know that - could this be used for JSX rendering on the server side?