skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That argument can be applied to all automation. I completely agree that it's a huge political and economical problem that owning the means of production becomes more and more important whereas actual labor becomes less important. To me the obvious solution is more socialism and eventually once everything is automated even some form of capitalism. However, especially in the US where due to the cold war anything social is a red flag for many we aren't going to be able to solve this before it becomes a much larger problem. So we either have to play this through and force action or stop all innovation because anything else just slows the process down and makes us less competitive.
And yet the meat-and-potatoes of guys like Eliot and his adversaries are things like heartbleed or goto fail. (Missing bounds check, improper braces + copy-paste). The bugs you speak of are IMO mostly unexploitable, don't make the news, and are generally about as existentially terrifying as the possibility of being hit by lightning.

If I was searching for some deeper meaning in bugs, I'd rather think about how the most elaborate and secure of digital structures are still vulnerable to a moment of distraction or laziness in just one person, and how software seems to be resistant to the sorts of engineering best-practices that make aerospace as safe and consistent as it is.
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Can you elaborate? I worked as a pharmacy tech when I was younger and never saw drugs dispensed without a prescription from a doctor. I also can't find anything on the web about this being possible in the U.S.
RFC 5737 reserves three different IPv4 ranges under the name TEST-NET precisely for these types of purposes (nominally documentation).
Which is why it is our responsibility as citizens to limit the government's control.
+1
Currently developing a Node.js / Express application. The choice of platform was a huge mistake. The brittleness of many of the libraries is indeed amazing.
I suppose when they talked about Transparency what they really meant was they'd be able to see everything you do.
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The difference is, we in The West have the right to choose what to consume, or be "brainwashed" by, and China's government chooses for them. Which would you prefer?
It is definitely written for a faster computer and larger screen, however the animations are worth viewing properly.
I wonder if websites dependent on bandwidth-hogging and loadtime-bloating ads will stop abusing their readers because of this.
> I don't want to ask for more at risk of looking like a drug seeker, and I don't want the jitters to increase, but I'm also not really sure what I'm supposed to "feel."

If it's working correctly you should not "feel" anything physical, but you'll be able to concentrate and focus (within reason) on the things that previously took significant effort. It certainly isn't a 100% thing -- focusing on some things is hard with/without medication, just as it's hard for people who are not on the ADD spectrum to focus 100% of their time.

Regarding your comment about "jitters", I'll offer you a short anecdote of my own.

I was on a higher dosage schedule of Adderall XR (60 mg/day) for a couple of years before I started to experience jitters and moderate insomnia set in. After talking to my psychiatrist we decided to give Vyvanse a try (70 mg/day). A few days after taking it my jitters went away and my body's circadian rhythm started to return to normal.

Vyvanse may not be for everyone's system, but if Adderall or Adderall XR don't agree with you, it's worth talking to your doctor about it.

Happy to discuss further offline if it would be helpful, you can get in touch with me through any of the links in my profile.
The Julia set slideshow/animation (36 steps) is really the best part, the animation of the set "folding" (square every point) is great.
At least it will make surveillance easier.
Note: Not all phone numbers that start with 555 are fake. In particular, 555-5555 is not reserved for fictional use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
> Hopefully the various interested lobbies don't try to put too many artificial barriers in the way of self driving trucks becoming a reality.

I just don't see this happening. A qualified truck driver costs a trucking company upwards of $30K/year in salary alone. The cost of running a truck capable of driving itself even partially is obviously going to be higher, but at $30K/year + other human-related expenses, it will pay for itself very quickly. Even if regulation drives up the cost a lot it will still be cost-effective to run self-driving trucks.

I think a bigger concern is that self-driving trucks create a high up-front cost and low long-term cost: the ideal conditions for large businesses to drive out small businesses and make it impossible to start a trucking business.
Ah, but there are multiple levels: You can take chair apart, or split your pants along the seams -- and if you can find a material with comparable strength, or a fabric you like -- you are free to make as many "copies" as you want.

You are free to attach a metal head to a shaft and call it a hammer, and look at other hammers for inspiration, if your hammer doesn't work quite right.

You are of course right that it only goes so far -- and this is perhaps most scary in the field of bioengineering -- with the possibility of a) sterile produce (you wouldn't be able to plant a potato any more), and b) patented/"copyrighted" gene sequences -- making it illegal to plant certain "proprietary" produce without a license grant.

I do agree that the analogy is flawed -- is the shape of a fork more like the api or the source code? I suppose the main difference is that many useful physical things are trivial conceptually (once you've had/seen the idea).
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Isn't radioactive fallout a direct cost of the technology?
> both are psychic

Their predictions of the future have been a bit off the mark...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898883
Mars One intended to broadcast the missions as a reality TV show and hope to fund themselves by selling the rights to said TV show. So maybe SpaceX will look at a similar model?

I think long term ROI is expected from selling and benefiting from the advanced technology developed and possibly the resources obtained from Mars. Possibly commercial flights and space tourism too?

They also have contracts with NASA which wouldn't necessarily dictate the time frame as they seem to be technology development contracts.

I don't think that the Mars colonisation is their main goal, simply something that would advance technology and aid them in their other commercial goals.
right -- the phone number 8675309 ("Jenny") is often a target because it was used in a song.

See, for example, http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/jenny07.txt

Using a real phone number, license plate number, IP address, or physical address in a show/movie/song has the potential to provoke throngs of fans into malicious, or merely inconsiderate, actions -- prank calls, ping bombs, or simply visiting and not cleaning up after yourself (which is what led to the Goonies house closing: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/g... )
While "cognitive enhancers" and nootropics can increase performance (caffeine is my stimulant of choice) I don't think any can really act as a substitute for proper sleep. Sleep is incredibly important to learning & memory - stimulants can only really temporarily mask the effects of sleep deprivation but they rapidly lose effectiveness if one isn't maintaining proper sleep hygiene.
When you get down to the meat of the article, all it has is 1) an anecdote about how some Indonesian tribe has special ways of communicating earthquakes, extrapolated to a claim that "indigenous knowledge has a lot to offer the scientific community." 2) that the dominance of English wasn't the case in the 15th through the 17th centuries, never mind that communication between those science communities in different countries was extremely limited compared today in large part because of LANGUAGE. 3) the dominance of English has led to atrophy of scientific terminology in other languages (does there need to be a Spanish, Chinese word for quark?) 4) it hurts some people's self-esteem because they're not good at English yet.

This is all pretty petty and extremely unconvincing. There is nothing here that even remotely makes the case that English is any sort of a problem for science that wouldn't cause massively bigger problems for science if we went back to a giant hodgepodge of languages that no single scientist could ever hope to learn all of to maintain a competence in their field.
What would you think of a rule that said you could only continue driving if you have slept for at least 6 of the past 24 hours? (I'm not sure what the exact numbers should be, but you get the idea.)
I love the Notes Web Client, but the desktop versions are just... outdated.

Google Docs, Mail, Calendar etc. has the problem that the data is wandering off to a datacenter under someone else's control which makes it a no-go for anyone handling sensitive data...
I agree with practically everything you said. However, I expect that the companies that do most of the lobbying are larger and are all the ones expecting to be one of the one out two companies with the iPhone apps that now also don't have to deal with drivers anymore. The big companies will be able to upgrade their first, small companies won't be able to. The small companies get pushed out of the market. So I expect large companies to push for this.
Shockingly offensive to pussies, perhaps...
IBM, Facebook, Nuance, and most importantly: Google Google Google. "Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain"[1] is a good start, plus it's follow-up[2]. Some lay-of-the-land, least-to-most cool IMO:

* Facebook's interest is in AI for social purposes (face recognition, NLP), rather than AGI (reason DeepMind turned them down). But they're still solidly in the field / a worthy target.

* IBM has been interested in AGI for a very long time, hence Watson. NLP, neural nets, machine learning, etc. Dig into Watson, lots of fun here.

* Nuance. Smaller, Dragon Speak. NLP & Markov Models primarily, but their creator Ray Kurzweil (now at Google) is the biggest AGI champion you'll see. He started this Singularity religion based on what AGI will bring to bear, see "The Singularity is Near" and "How to Create a Mind". Super fun stuff; inspiring follow, if not exaggerated. Both Nuance, and a ~similar company Wolfram Alpha (which Siri uses) would be really cool targets.

* Google. G's always been interested in AI for NLP for translating web queries & mobile speech queries; speech synthesis for play-back; computer vision, robotics, & machine-learning (neural nets) for self-driving cars; you name it. If it's AI, G's on it. Importantly, one Geoff Hinton recently tweaked an AI algorithm which unblocked a clog in the field, and now shit is _throwing down_, catalyzing Hinton & Jeff Dean's G-internal "Google Brain" project. Shortly after, G acquired DeepMind[3], and _this_ my friend... this is the grail. Deepmind is working on some benign-seeming game-playing algos presently, feeding some findings back into search. But its CEO is not _at all_ shy about his ultimate goal for human-level AGI. In fact, it's DeepMind (well, and that sophist book "Superintelligence") that got all these hot-shots up in arms[4]. These guys are the SpaceX / Tesla of AGI. If you want to shoot for the moon: DeepMind.

[1] https://medium.com/backchannel/google-search-will-be-your-ne...

[2] https://medium.com/backchannel/the-deep-mind-of-demis-hassab...

[3] http://deepmind.com/

[4] http://time.com/3973500/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-ai-weapons...
Is there a link for his blessing of btrfs and an explanation?
As an engineer turned PM who might start a company some day, I've always seen financial literacy as one of my weaknesses. Companies are ultimately judged for their finances. Ignoring this subject is dangerous for a company's prospects, and illegal if it causes you to make misleading statements to investors.

If anybody is looking for further reading on this subject, I enjoyed "Financial Statements" earlier this year(http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Step---Step-Under...). Quick and straightforward, it starts with the vocabulary and explains the major financial statements (Income, Cash Flow, Balance). The majority of the book follows a company from inception to dividend disbursement, explaining how various business activities (e.g. signing a lease) hit the financial statements.
On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)
I recently set up a raspi to monitor my wine cellar temperatures. If you're looking for a 3rd party solution, check out librato [1]. We use them at work and they're really great. I hooked temperature readings up to librato and set up threshold alerts within a few min without ever having used their python api before.

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Definitely control flow not data flow, but the data is defined at each step of the graph in variables like normal. In Frank McSherry's Rust stuff and the Naiad stuff they seem to have a basic data structure of progress and "data to process". Where progress is handling the time step of the process. The dataflow isn't anything more than a variable being passed around and inputs and outputs. So the control structure is the important part.

This is sort of rambly, but in pd/max/msp you end up with at least 2 types of data flow rates (common in musical stuff like supercollider as well) for musical sample rates (aka 44.1khz or whatnot) and 'control flow' rates (like an LFO wub at 120bpm half notes). Those are all still wired up with the same "lines" in pd so it can end up being confusing if you put a control rate into a sample rate or vice versa. I'm sure current MaxMSP has ways to separate and handle those (along w/ "bangs" which are one off messages), but the beauty of something like drakon is that it is just control flow. The data is explicitly defined in the boxes. So even though dataflow is the phrase google and microsoft are throwing around, the real art is in the control flow. Look at the scopes and contexts from the naiad paper: http://www.frankmcsherry.org/dataflow/naiad/2014/12/29/TD_ti... I think that drakon would be an interesting way to draw that diagram out. Not one hundred percent sure, but it's a thought.
Design can embed intent into an object. Software can embed it very well.
Only because they don't have huge ghettos with gang problems. It's basically a demographics issue.
Another honest assessment: if MVC is the only thing blocking you from various better positions, just say you've got it on your resume. Then spend a couple days after work going through MVC tutorials. "New Project->Web->MVC->OK. F5." Bam, you've got MVC experience.

Seriously it's way easier than webforms so if you've got that much webforms experience, you'll have absolutely no problem picking it up. Within a week you'll know 95% of what you'd need to know on most tech interviews and you'll do fine at your new job. Stuff varies so much company-to-company that MVC will not even be one of the top five differences.

In my previous response I was thinking more you were looking for some big change into something very cutting-edge. That would be a more difficult proposition. But if you're just looking to go from webforms to MVC, or even to a Java-based infrastructure, it's not a big hurdle. Like others have said, the HR filter will be the biggest problem. There will be an age bias too, you'll just have to deal with that.

FWIW I don't think you should expect a paycut or a cut in "rank" either just because of changing technologies. You'll get caught up on the technical side very quickly. Outside of extremely technical companies, "rank" is far more about knowing how to get through a release cycle coordinate teams than it is about specific technical knowledge.

All that said, just be warned, working on websites in MVC (or really any technology) is really no more interesting than Webforms. (In fact webforms may be more interesting because you get to invent your own way around its inadequacies).
If it makes you feel any better, I'm also short and a minority. But if that's going to be your excuse, you'll have to do a lot better!

Remember: everyone is attractive to someone. The point of mentioning women buying me drinks wasn't to brag, it was to point out that as you become more at-ease and confident, it shows.
I commend Russians for being pretty savvy about operating systems these days. Building their own, sponsoring Linux variants, and now this. I can see how Microsoft's OS can be seen as a USA trojan horse for other countries, and I won't be surprised if others (China) follow suit. Even as other US companies tout increased security practices (Apple Apple)
I don't know if this is the case, but I think it's entirely possible to know that shadowsocks is being used widely without being able to do anything about it at the network level. I think that's plausibly how shadowsocks is designed to avoid the GFW in the first place.

For example, if their capabilities to identify shadowsocks traffic is not particularly specific, filtering would result in undesirable impact on other traffic. They can also have other out-of-band estimates for the extent of shadowsocks use (presence of the software on seized or searched equiment, observed chatter, informants, etc).
Woooo, Robinson Crusoe! I read that in the third grade, favorite book of all time.
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The question I have: what's the advertisers' next move after iOS 9 drops?

Feels like there are a few possibilities:

- Nothing: the impact of users who install these plugins is minor.

- They sue Apple. Feels like a short game.

- Try and game the system: multiple domains to serve trackers and ads, etc.

- They adjust their technology stack to serve fewer ads and reduce page bloat.

- They put up paywalls.

- They bet more heavily on things like Facebook or Apple's new News app.

Of the options, #1 and #4 feel like the most likely options long-term. People want free content, which requires _some_ sort of revenue stream. And they don't want to put their futures in the hands of Apple or Facebook.
Why I drive to work and don't take the bus:

* The bus still takes longer (2-3 times as long)

This might change, but only if normal traffic gets worse.

* Loss of freedom

I have the option of visiting friends/family in other locations if I drive.

Loss of freedom is also related to the very poor intra-networking; the entire transit system in the area is designed as a star pattern for getting workers to the city.

* Commuting in a carpool is hard when you aren't a shift worker: your hours and those of other workers aren't the same, you might not even have multiple workers from the same area at a small company.

* Commuting in a carpool is hard when you aren't a full time worker: (I don't have this problem, but friends do) if your hours aren't consistent or you might be called in at a moment's notice.

I think the answer to all of this is flexible pooled transit. Probably an extension of what we know of today as taxi/ubur; but much more Johnny Cab (80's Total Recall).
We install a keylogger and store your passwords... anonymously!
To help you.

1Password? LastPass? Nah we don't know anything about the state of the art.
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OS X key shortcuts are very much biased towards alphabetical keys. F-key usage in standard system shortcuts is a very rare thing. In your particular example, reloading is done with Command+R while force reload is Command-Shift-R. Most OS X shortcuts follow this pattern: they're easier to remember (phonetic association) and usually make for less awkward hand positioning when used.

Because of this, on my MacBook I've mapped FKeys to do global stuff; F1 brings up Spotlight (launcher), F2 shows a Quake-style drop down terminal, and F3 bring up a popover calendar (Fantastical). The only exception is F4, which ive set up to pop open Xcode's "Quick Open" UI.
I was really confused by this headline -- having not seen the show, but knowing an indie video game by the same name (http://moonpod.com/English/about_mr.robot.php ) that used the word "hacking" to describe RPG-ish battles set inside the circuitry of other robots.

It is refreshing to see on-screen depictions of hacking that use legitimate tools in ways they're actually used in, instead of "GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU ).
They are all relative timeframes by which a store my be closed; certain hours during the day, certain days during the week, and certain days during the year. Your inability to make sense of it doesn't affect the rest of us. It's like a creationist saying evolution doesn't make sense to them: at some point it is the result of a willful ignorance that you are bragging about. It doesn't make for very interesting trolling.
I use an Android Note 4, but I don't install many apps. I use a web browser instead for Facebook, Twitter, and many other sites instead of installing apps. I do this because of the permissions many apps require, even though they don't need some permissions to support their functionality.
1. is probaby a mistake by set designers. Although hypothetically one could argue that (A) he actually needed to refernence Microsoft Excel for one of his hacks and kept it around (B) it is a disguise for when people enter his apartment and sees the MS Excel book cover, they will not think he is a hacker (and who knows what is actually contained in the book cover...could be some secret hacking stuff inside).

2. Sometimes, if extra paranoid about being hacked, may want to do things with paper as much as possible. Also, were they going on an airplane? That might explain need to have paper copies so have something to look over during silly takeoff and landing procedure. Also, to be honest, paper can be much more usable.
Abstract [non pdf]

Decentralized Constraint Satisfaction by K. R. Duffy, C. Bordenave, D. J. Leith

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3240
GAAP for those that don't know simply means "Generally agreed
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