skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ideal web browser should be able to identify if a page really needs JavaScript enabled or not, and disables it if all the page does with JavaScript is load Facebook/Google/Twitter's iframes, advertisements, shows animations and popups etc. which have nothing to do with the content. Disables all autoplaying content, doesn't load images like large banners and footers automatically.

Kinda like switching to that "Reader mode" of Firefox automatically based on some AI.
Just watch Neil deGrasse Tyson walk the dog while explaining it. I can't really do it any better than him.
Sine wave speech is an example I use in my early Linguistics classes to reinforce the position that speech perception is basically magic. Absolutely incredible that it works.
> I don't see how child benefits and state pensions need to exist if you have lifelong BI.

State pensions need to exist as long as you expect state workers to work for (pension excluded) below-market compensation for the jobs they do. BI has no effect on this one way or the other.

> Sure, you could convert state pensions in the public sector into a voluntary retirement fund but the basic idea behind pensions is that the government gives you money in old age so you can afford not to continue to work

No, the idea behind pensions is that, as part of the exchange for work now, you accept a deal which provides payment later (including specified contribution of the funds from your nominal current income, as well as the rest being contributed by your employer.)
Snark?

I'm talking about the contribution of ghetto culture. You're a kid. Your dad spends time in prison for drug possession. That impacts your life. That is fallout from the war on drugs.
Algol 60 had conditional expressions. Pretty much every functional language and LISP has them. They've also been in use in mathematics for longer than computers have been around.
Darpa calls for 'revolutionary' software development
Conflating six heads in a row with a periodic new record is unproductive. For any given area of the country we generally have several record highs per year, and record lows per year, and have every single year since 1880. That's the nature of having a very small period of records.

People acting outraged about a simple statement of fact like "since 1880", or the notional, obvious statement that a sporadic high or low is, by itself, not compelling, diminishes everyone.
> you generally could be [successfully] sued if you just took the picture of a random businessman and revealed he was going somewhere other than he told his boss

But is this actually true? (I interpreted you as meaning "successfully sued", as anyone can be sued for anything)

We're not quite at the point where location surveillance companies are selling data B2C directly to the boss. But it's only the mechanism of harm that differs - influencing subjects to make suboptimal decisions and overcharging consumers are these companies' explicit goals!
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I think that is just to refer to the instruction set that is being emulated (8-bit AVR - see Erin Ptacek's blog post about it on sockpuppet.org), used by the microcontroller on many Arduino boards
> This is the next step of our species evolution.

The ethical problem isn't necessarily with the individual or even the family.

Genetic engineering isn't so simple. Genes frequently have multiple functions. You might edit a few genes and give someone a high IQ, but those same set of genes now make them socially inept.

So let's say tons of parents do this. You now have a generation that can't effectively socialize and communicate. How does that affect our species as a whole?

Most of humanity's accomplishments are a direct result of our ability to work together. We may worship the individual, but it's groups of people that actually get things done. So by tweaking that one little tidbit to increase IQ, you completely threw the delicate balance out of whack and sent everybody back to the stone age.

That's just one hypothetical example.

By bringing gene selection purely to the parent level, you're excluding millions of years of evolutionary pressure for the sake of whatever happens to be fashionable in that moment.

The good news is that most genetic modifications will have immediate and nasty consequences. You can dick around with corn and have fields upon fields that go bad and simply pick out the winners ... try doing that with human beings and there will be a huge outcry, very quickly.
>> Samsung clearly do not share that opinion, and justifiably so.

And Samsung would be wrong.If Google hasn't decide to add Samsung to android, it's very likely that Samsung would be in somewhat similar fate to that of microsoft. But Google did share it with them , and they did make lots of money, and probably still do.

Sure they would want more, and more control, etc. And android is a tough business. But still Open Android was a great thing for Samsung.

As for Apple behaving better towards their partners - it's hard to tell , because they target a different customer segment than android so the dynamic is different.

But if you look at every big company - MS, Amazon, Wireless carriers - commoditizing a complement is a very common technique.
> People don't want bad news ... People won't tune in to hear constant bad news.

Where do you live? Every time I turn on the news its 90+% FUD.
For other readers who aren't aware of that pattern, it's called Event Sourcing. (currently implementing it using Firebase as a combined message bus + storage)

Ref: http://ookami86.github.io/event-sourcing-in-practice/#title....
Interesting. Have you built real apps with this?
There was a thread a couple of days ago about a project whose name happened to mean something dirty in an obsure language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072472

I suggested a site for looking up these unwanted associations, and someone told me to build one. So here it is!
I suspect it is from Tony Heller (aka Stephen Goddard). Looks like he has a blog post about it here [1].
(note: Heller is nuts so it is hard to take what he says at face value, but it would appear he has a valid point on all the temperature adjustments going on).

The NOAA does adjust the data (and continues to do so) based on various factors like time of observation (TOBS), urban heat island effect (UHI). As well as infilling data when a station drops or they don't have the coverage.

As for the global temp dropping. That is most likely based on the satellite data showing a slight decrease (the hiatus).

[1] https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/the-majority-...
Furthermore, as someone I know is fond of saying, the law doesn't compile cleanly. If you think you've uncovered a loophole that lets you murder someone in a tiny slice in Idaho (http://loststates.blogspot.com/2011/08/loophole-landwhere-cr...) and no one can do a darned thing about it... well, no, you almost certainly won't just waltz away untouched while the legal system shrugs.
I have become rather partial to it, myself. To me it applies the mental image of a small and rather stupid bird to the target.
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You get those benefits if your employer pays you for them. The problem is that you, as the employer, have chosen not to pay you, as the employee, those benefits. That money has to come from somewhere and if the employer doesn't pay it, the employee doesn't get it.
Daily load tests against both staging and production (yes, really) can help catch a lot of issues of the kind described in the article. You do have to have a solid monitoring & alerting set up still though.
Michael Crichton once intentionally plagiarized George Orwell while at Harvard and got a B-

http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-got-a-b-at-...
That was their first problem.
There are four dimensions there: happening/not, natural/anthropogenic, beneficial/harmful, and the relative economic impact of intentional terraforming efforts.

Of those four, only the last two are worth debating, and they're really almost the same thing. Everyone who screams about those first two dimensions are probably profiting more by perpetuating a meaningless conversation than by solving an identifiable problem.

Sounds like a lot of political issues, actually. Some people can make a curiously prosperous living just out of getting other people to shout at each other.
Make them stay for longer. That way the good habits are more likely to build. Have you considered that?
It seemed to make a pretty strong statement by the end: "The old story of high primary sex ratio — as high as 282 (74 percent male) by some accounts — declining rapidly and then steadily to birth, is gone. Any sex ratio much higher than 108 (52 percent male) at any time during pregnancy is essentially excluded by modern data."
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The Defense of Hillary Clinton's Email Server That She Dare Not Utter
Professions that require creativity of a type that relates deeply with human experience will the the last to fall.
Well, I fell for the clickbait headline. This is a puff piece about a minor experiment extrapolated to a ludicrous conclusion. At times like these I'm glad I block ads.
As can Google, Intel, the mesa project, and a lot of other donors and contributors. As much as certain people would like for you to believe otherwise, llvm is far, far bigger than any one company.
This doesn't appear to recognize certain common latinizations. For example, splitting ö int oe, as in "Foetzen". If you intend to commercialize this, you might want to invest some effort into that.
The reality is they don't need perfect security. Just "enough" to keep things like piracy at modest levels. For example, if your new system allows you to trounce your competitor and obtain most of the marketshare, it is easily worth a modest increase in piracy.

Sony has done MIPS (PS2) before, and they have done PPC (PS3) before. They might change their mind again for the PS5, but it's not like they didn't even think of MIPS or PPC.
I imagine you've read it, but if you haven't, you may want to read about the LMAX architecture (from which they created the well-known Disruptor) because they dealt with this exact same problem: http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
Pretty much any time Fox News talks about climate change temperatures?

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/feb/13/...

"They're (the White House) actually kind of lucky that we don't cover climate change as much as we should," Perino said.

"Because yesterday, it was reported that the temperature readings have been fabricated and it's all blowing up in their faces."

Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle interjected that it was "fraud science" and Perino said, "Yes, I agree."

That took me less than 10 seconds to Google.
That's why I always check radar map forecasts. They forecast rain everywhere in my area but not at my exact spot? Yeah, I take my umbrella.
Something about "startups fail because they simply don't listen to us, get confused, and stop working" feels wrong coming from the President of YC. It bothers me that there's no institutional or personal responsibility being taken. It also bothers me that the risk the founders took isn't being acknowledged - that all the failures are being placed back on the founders' shoulders. YC selected these founders from thousands in an incredibly selective process. Why is Sama crapping on alumni? Wouldn't you want your president going to bat for you and defending your efforts?
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>You now have a generation that can't effectively socialize and communicate.

Not just one generation -- Crispr changes are passed down inter-generationally.
Why do you suppose that children with edited genetics would be a result of parents wanting the best for them?

I think it vastly more likely that (lets call them East German) government agents would be impersonally having children edited, so that their country would win more medals at the olympics. These supposed government agents wouldn't care that these adults would burn out and die of terrible diseases in their mid-lives. They wouldn't care that there might only be a 5% success rate, and that the other 95% had terrible lives.

Thats why the option to NOT edit the human race is on the menu, but I am confident that that option won't be taken, except officially by the nations which are bothered by ethics. We as a race will tinker.
Swimming pool bridge
This is awesome. I still don't see how this isn't easily cheatable. What's stopping me from writing up a little tool that can win these levels and providing minimal instructions?

At one point, it even says they will award people that write OSS for it. Doesn't that just further reduce the effort needed to pass levels?

Not to be negative. I'm very, very much looking forward to this.
This is interesting. I'm experiencing the opposite results for my long-tail latencies. Maybe it's to do with the way I have structured my system (too much reliance on the GC?), but switching to the Go 1.5 release in my testing has shown my 99th percentile latency to triple and my maximum latency across 1M requests jump 10x.

While I certainly don't have billions of requests per day, the millions of requests I do process are important and these results show that I need to do a bit more profiling to figure out what's going on inside...
I contest those are not "real challenges" in the way you are implying. Sure they might be on the mind of inexperienced founders because they are suddenly relevant and novel, but they are also quickly solved by bringing in experts or firms. These are superficial challenges and only become "real" if they are snowballing with more fundamental issues (lack of growth, money, market fit)
My biggest question is what is a 'close call'? Is it something that a layperson would also agree is a close call? Some of the examples in the article don't sound too scary.

"Whizzed underneath aircraft as it approached a runway" leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Other examples in the article do sound more scary, but is that just cherry picking or typical?
Both Jack Dorsey and Anthony Noto recently bought shares, fwiw.
Many companies where I have worked typically ask potential suppliers to sign NDAs because they don't want details of future product plans either being made public or, more likely, discussed in the industry.
White privilege is just one type of privilege, it's not the only one. Rich white guys get two sorts of privilege - not only are police less likely to stop them because of their race (for instance), if they do get stopped they will be better able to defend themselves in a legal manner (because of their wealth and probable education levels).

Whereas a poor white kid might be less likely to be stopped, but also not really able to defend themselves if they are stopped.

Finally, a poor black kid is more likely to get stopped and not really able to defend themselves if they are stopped.
That means turning a form into a crappy app, because it's easy. That's exactly what he's arguing against, then doing.

Bar-code reading and OCR software is available for phones.[1] There are apps which read a VIN plate by bar code and return car info. (The one for IOS is reported to lock up, but the one for Android seems to be OK.) The task is to make it simple for low-level developers to integrate that into larger systems.

[1] http://www.abbyy.com/mobile-ocr/solutions
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Probably has to do a lot with timing. At the time of your report, the Security Officer was DES. Life happened, and he wasn't able to keep up or respond to events as quickly.

As of June, Xin Li (previously Deputy Security Officer) has taken over as security officer and things have been handled very promptly and succinctly.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Ju...

edit: I'm passing word to FreeBSD security officers to see if they can review this
While drones colliding with aircraft is not a good thing, aren't most aircraft rated for bird strikes? It seems like most hobby level drones are approximately the same size and weight.
Actually it does handle alternative umlaut spellings, but that word was missing. Thanks for the addition :)
This site is weirdly reticent about the fact that he's been dead for years...
Not advocating it, just saying the most plausible reason they might have had in mind. I was going to compare it to the case of following someone around, which could be called harassment (and which the businessman might argue), but he would have the defense that "even if I followed these hijacking victims too closely, my presence there was getting something that has a public interest".

Agree though -- I still don't see why you need a legal defense for "filming people as they leave a plane".
Sony got pretty burned by the SPU architecture on the PS3 by being late follower to XBox, This meant that developers were porting from Xbox or PC(!) which was the Wrong Thing(TM).

You could really make the SPUs scream if you knew what you were doing and the added benefit of better cache locality on other platforms. I think they went to a similar architecture to avoid the pain that it brought to the developers on their platform that weren't ready for it.

It's kind of a shame the PS3 hadn't lead. Almost every team that went PS3->360->PC saw huge gains(due to needing to pack into 256kb blocks for the SPU). Where as everyone that went (PC)->360->PS3 was in a world of pain.
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_h2.html
Anyone who thinks this is an issue doesn't understand trends and variance. It's a high-school level failure of mathematics.
Only the last one, but I guess that's not bad for a non-native English speaker.
Who needs work-life balance?
I also think it's real and sometimes hard work, like migrating from Angular to React which could make a company grow immensely, especially if even more time is invested in blogging about the process.
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"At stake is whether Twitter [...] can become a mainstream platform instead of a niche forum favored by journalists and celebrities."

I found that line interesting, because I often think of Twitter as a niche forum favored by technology workers and celebrities.
Even if you could provide that same level of basic income, there's an inherent unfairness between someone who worked in the private sector and saved $1MM for their defined contribution (401K-type) retirement and people who worked for less salary all that time and now rely on their defined benefit (pension) plan. Let's say both are living off $50K per year (4% plus a slight drawdown for the 401K person and $50K in straight pension for the other).

If you use basic income to replace the pension money, but don't confiscate the 401K savings, you've massively disadvantaged the pension holders. If BI is $25K/yr, now one person is living on $75K per year (or $65K/yr and passing along a $1MM inheritance) and the other is living on $50K and will die without a nest egg to pass along.

Trust me, those pensioners are one pretty well-organized voting bloc... ;)
My first thought was of a musical session, like at a studio.
Everyone says it is all about growth. Twitter is not growing. Pretty simple story, really.
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> The question I would like answered is "What is the optimal mean surface temperature of the Earth?"

I think I can answer that: the way it always was. Adaptation is always a cost, regardless of the direction. Not only human cost, but also cost for the ecosystems. If the change is fast enough it may cause migrations or extinctions.
It's not actually possible without making inferences via models. The NOAA recently switched their global temperature model [0].

[0] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag...
Which of his books were pioneering or futuristic in how they showed people using computers ?
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That wouldn't fly today. I wonder how his career would have been altered if he had tried that now.
Carbon nanofibres, a valuable manufacturing material, made from CO2 in the air
Their revenue is indeed growing, but, as you indicate, the company's valuation is not.
When I think of twitter I think nothing but mainstream. There are two platforms that anyone who is anyone (celebrity or business or politician) needs to have: either Facebook or Twitter. Niche is Instragram. Niche is Snapchat. But when Kardashian is on CNN once an hour because of a tweet, it's not niche. App.Net is niche. Twitter is the epitome of mainstream.
great response, Patrick. And count me in with the folks who love the longer emails. Your writing is invariably thoughtful and thorough.

I think the long email is a great example of how it's better to have 1,000 people who love you rather than 100,000 people who like you.
does there need to be one in order for something to change?
I don't see signs of drones getting smaller. It seems to me they will only get bigger and heavier especially if companies like Amazon are going to be using them to deliver products.
It's the same thing they do when they talk about Google+ being a "ghost town". Certainly doesn't look like a ghost town from my perspective. It's because Social Media gives out exactly what you yourself put in.
I don't know what the test case is, but going from the article[1], at 100µm layers it prints at 500 mm/hour.

Form 1+ claims 10 to 30 mm/hour at this resolution, so Carbon3D is 20-50 times the speed. That puts Form 1+ about 2-3 times as good as the graph suggests.

CLIP (Carbon3D's name for their tech) isn't layer-rate limited, but cure-rate limited so the comparison isn't quite fair.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6228/1349.abstract (free access if you sign up for an account)
> To be honest, and this is my opinion only, but 2-3 day forcasts, at least in my area, are horribly inaccurate.

It gets easier over longer periods of time. I may not be able to predict very well whether it's going to be 27 degrees C on July 17th 2016, but I can make a pretty good guess at the average temperature throughout the entire month, and I would be willing to put money down that it will lie within a relatively narrow band.
Yes, it is possible to look at the different causes separately and Bloomberg made a nice web page definitely worth the visit:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...
Don't want to speak for them, but why would they want to stop you from writing that tool?

Remember their business model, it isn't "get people to the end of the game following the rules", it's "identify people with talent to recruit". Your tool would just be evidence of the latter.
Fair point, but compare full-time workers to people aged 75+ (who are mostly retired): the latter have 4.5 hours more leisure time per weekday, and 60% of that is spent watching TV. The category most likely to contain creative hobbies ("Other leisure and sports activities, including travel") gets an extra 4 minutes per day. Education time rounds to zero. They do read more, though: about an hour more per day.

Dropping back to ages 65-74 is mostly similar, except they only read half as much.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm

[2] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t03.htm
Jack Dorsey has sold more than 10x the amount of shares he just bought over the last few years, so the gesture rings a little hollow.
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