skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your response was to write a comment filled with obviously racist invective attacking black people in general.

Quote: "Maybe if they spent more time DOING things and less time complaining about white people there would be more futurists/engineers/painters/doctors etc instead we have BlackLivesMatter doing die-in's in shopping malls or protesting the deaths of career criminals..."

Perhaps the original commenter is accidentally committing a subtle act of prejudice, but you are being overtly racist.

Noting that the original commenter may or may not be black, Your choice to attack black people is independent of your concern about the potential prejudice in the original comment.

At least this makes it clear where you stand; your comment was not about fighting prejudice.
Not all hardware start ups are failures. Its like most start ups. Most of them fail or manage to break even. A couple though blow up and that's what continues to drive people to invest.
In most situations where people are currently recorded constantly, the recording doesn't seem to produce social awkwardness. Nearly every urban public or semi-public space is this way; one may argue that cities are pressure cookers, but it's not clear to me that the reason is ubiquitous recording.

In any case, as the tech to record becomes ever smaller and less obtrusive, there will ultimately be no way to know whether you are being recorded digitally. Therefore society and people's reactions will adjust.
The fact that growth is really the only way. If you think about it, everything we achieved has been through growth (i.e. how China managed to bring millions from below the poverty line in few decades). We face enormous challenges (i.e. 7 billion people on the planet), without growth we are pretty much doomed.

So, it's not so much about confidence, I think is rather hope for us as a species.
30 cents per article?
Tesla's secret formula
I'm willing to bet you don't live in Perú.
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I'm not going to defend Avis, but all of the rental companies have tons of complaints. For some of the complaints Avis in the right. (There are people who treat rental cars as completely trashable)

However, rental cars have a strong desire to completely disregard their customers. (Theres no sense of loyality, and they'll "find" damages that don't belong to you) The hilarious thing is that they're allowed to operate on airport property. (They have no flexibility in the way they operate to account for irrops or delays in travel for consumers)
I had a conversation with someone from a country that does this type of thing. He said that false accusations are his main problem with mob justice.
There's a massive difference between what makes a valid XML document and what makes a valid JSON document.
After writing a custom CalDAV server I agree with the author. The number of requests it takes to get the data you need is insane, and most requests will involve a DB hit. My CalDAV server is much more "chatty" than my web server even though they serve essentially the same information.

Plus each CalDAV client does things a little differently so it's very hard to debug, especially when most clients are black boxes. Permissions and feature and how they respond...a potentially different.

I (unfortunately) consider the custom CalDAV server I wrote to be a bit a technical achievement, even though I'd rather I didn't have to do it. But I had to do it because there's really no other good option for writing calendar services that work with native calendar applications.
From what I've seen, airlines account for their point liability in a number of round trip tickets. I believe the average liability incurred across the industry is $64 per ticket.

About 75% of points get redeemed (since people who get a lot would tend to use them), so the total cost of a ticket if everything was redeemed might be around $64/.75 = $85 USD.

Seems like tickets range in cost, but 50k seems a fair estimate of the average flight (probably a bit high). So $0.0017 per mile incremental cost (higher opportunity cost).

This INCLUDES all the people gaming the system right now, though. And Avis is paying the airline for the points, so the airline wins no matter what happens — it's a billion+ dollar profit center for them. Avis might be a bit more annoyed.
Oh good, I was hoping for a Stanford and Princeton graduate who presided over Google's hiring practices to combat the problems our society is confronting as a result of elitism: music curation.
There's also Graham Dumpleton's "How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong" blog post -
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/01/how-you-implemented-your-py...
and the related "Decorators and monkey patching" list
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/p/decorators-and-monkey-patching.ht...
I recommend that you simply write a JSON parser and an XML parser using a parser generator. Then you will see. They are both trivial. I would be surprised if it took you more than an afternoon to do both.

Ease of parsing was the whole point of XML. It was actually a beautiful concept that because it was a subset of SGML, you could validate documents and build smart editors, etc, etc on file formats in XML. Then when you wanted to simply read the file, the parser was mind blowingly simple to write.

Of course people decided that it would be great for communications protocols, and inter-language object representations and... all the stuff that it really wasn't great for.

And people decided that you would want to write event driven parsers and do DOM traversals and crazy things like that.

Yeah, that stuff is complicated. (and dare I offend people by saying that it wasn't really a good idea after all).

But parsing is dead easy. Personally prefer JSON for most things because it is easier to type :-)
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Obviously, I'm playing devils advocate a little, but I don't like this line of thinking.

It's kind of deifying the official. If the official process sucks, then it sucks. At least there is some process in place to hold the official justice system accountable only counts (in my eyes) if and when that works.

I think there's a stretch of an analogy to the current refugee crisis. On one hand we have this official set of ideals in laws and institutions. The principles are clear enough. Refugees need to be assessed fairly and settled in safe places.

In the other hand we have selfishness, bigotry and/or genuine practical objections mean that these do not produce a result. The reality is that taking refugees from some distant war on a different continent is politically a landline.

So, the official establishment ties itself in bureaucratic knots. Throttles and avoids the rock and the hard place.

Lets not forget that it's all people. Cops are people. Judges, Presidents, people.

Just because a system is not formalized doesn't means it works worse.
It's an exciting day for us. Working on Android allows us to serve billions of user across the world. A very large number of these users share the frustrations of spotty network coverage, high latencies, intermittent dead spots and other such ailments. We've been working hard for over two years to try and help fix some of these problems with our network protocol built over UDP.
If those books were from the British Library, then they're available for free online from the British Library
Google to provide Wi-Fi hotspot at 400+ railway stations across India
I bet it's easier to use SabreDAV (http://sabre.io/dav/) for your server than writing it all by yourself, even though it means writing PHP. I really feel like its author is the only one who understands what the hell is going on.
A very simple, obvious, possibly universal example of buyer and purchaser disconnect is well meaning grandma (or other non-gamer relative) buys kid the wrong video game. If you take the antics out of the sitcom TV trope and into a business, you can see the laugh track turn into agony.

Another example or analogy that everyone probably has experience with is the old Robert Conquest's "Third Law" or fourth or whatever about all organizations devolving into appearing to be ruled by a cabal of their enemies, and if you think that manual hand operated torture devices are painful, wait until the same gang implements automated computerized high performance torture implements upon their organization. An organization that can tolerate the destructive influence of its leadership in a manual process arena might not survive automation of the destructive processes.

But enough comedy (or is it merely snarky insight?)

Two business sociology problems are empire building by complicated processes and projecting power by gatekeepers, both being short circuited by "the big automated system".

There is also a psychological trap where automation systems are more accurately described as micromanagement systems, and two outcomes are possible under computerized micromanagement, one is a spontaneous rebellion where everyone knows they and everyone else are better off if the project fails so they do the obvious, and the other outcome is an organization that can be micromanaged is either already dead or solely exists as a theoretical construct, so the project flops.
Heh, I guess I'll share the one backdoor that was left in some the NVG510 (AT&T UVerse modem that you have no choice but to use) modem firmware. Now, you did have to solder on the board to get a serial console, but once you got that, you could quite easily get to a root shell. (by default, it was this "user" shell that was exposed in some non-US configurations on the network by telnet)

All you had to do was type "magic", and then once magic mode was enabled, type "!" and you got dropped at the root shell.

A shame they patched the firmware to remove magic mode and really locked things down after I published an app to root the modem via the web interface to fix various bugs in the firmware.. App eventually got pulled for ToS violation from the Play store, and just so happens a few weeks later AT&T pushed a firmware update that fixed all the exploits I knew of
What I find interesting (fears aside) is that we are already capable of interfacing our brain with machines, just not in a way that bypasses the conscious/sensorial part of it. In that sense, directly interfacing with the brain seems like just the obvious evolution.
By explicitly calling the destructor, you could do away with the requirement that classes must implement a "reset()" member function (which, aside from being an extra step for users, does kind of make RAII in their classes somewhat confusing):

void release(OBJ* obj) {
// ...
obj->OBJ::~OBJ(); // OBJ was the template type
// ...
}

acquire() could be improved by using placement new and forwarding the constructor arguments via variadic template:

template<typename... T>
OBJ* acquire(T... args) {
// ...
return new(mem) OBJ (args...);
}

Finally, you can exchange potential upfront construction cost (and remove the need for a default constructor in user classes) by making an inner dummy struct that matches the size:

template<typename OBJ, int32_t NUM_OBJS>
class Pool {
struct MockOBJ {
uint8_t data[sizeof(OBJ)];
};

public:
Pool(){
// ...
std::for_each(std::begin(_available), std::end(_available),
[](OBJ*& mem){mem = reinterpret_cast<OBJ*>(new MockOBJ);});
// ...
}
// ...
};
Running this on multiple rPi's would probably work with what you want. Sure its added hardware but its not much. And you can just populate the same tables.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism ?
I think the harsh reality is he was a foot soldier, and the people who encouraged him got away (so far)
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I realize that about databases, yes. I think the particular ways that frameworks have been trying to handle state are bad patterns. Not sure what would be better at the moment, but currently it's a mess.
Very good!!!

Can I pre-setup a environment? To debug my service I need to go always to some address, set a referer header, disable SSL and set a cookie before starting. I would be awesome to save a state e continue from it everytime.
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You might be happy to know that WebDAV didn't work any better for those of us at Apple, either.
I wrote a disassembler as part of my own Chip8 IDE[1]

It doesn't look like it impacts this disassembler, but it's worth noting that Cowgod's Chip8 technical reference gets the shift and load/store instructions wrong. A much better reference is Mastering Chip8[2].

[1] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

[2] http://mattmik.com/chip8.html
Porting code from Lisp-2 to Lisp-1 is not that difficult.

Example:

Lisp-2:

(defun new-map (f l)
(dolist (e l)
(funcall f e)))

Lisp-1:

(defun new-map (f l)
(dolist (e l)
(f e)))

Another example:

Lisp-2

(defun foo (l)
(flet ((new-map (f l)
(dolist (e l)
(f e))))
(new-map (function sin) l)))

Lisp-1

(defun foo (l)
(let ((new-map (lambda (f l)
(dolist (e l)
(f e)))))
(new-map sin l)))

To make it easier, just define FUNCALL, FUNCTION and FLET in Lisp-1...
In the UK at least, they can "get away with" (i.e., there's nothing to get away with, it's totally legal) correcting a mistake like that.

I can't remember exactly what it's called - I assume it has to be an "obvious" error.
This is not a very interesting piece. "Deep learning — have you heard of it?"
The article states:

"Notice it's configured to use three rtl-sdr sticks as scanners"

So I think they have you covered ...
Many have far more brutal names than the original, adding phrases like "leave him paralysed", "cut off his hands" and "castrate him" into the title.

Does this scream punishment or identification to you?
Well if growth is both the only way and unsustainable then I guess we're in trouble.
Some categories (the article mentions psychotherapy, for instance) use very little energy, although they also have output whose value is harder to measure.
So maintain the status quo and change nothing?
A lot of social mechanisms are quite counterintuitive. One example I like to point out is that the purpose of voting is not to determine the winner, but to determine the loser. The winner already knows they won. Problem is, the loser also knows that they won. Voting is brilliant for creating a non-violent mechanism for convincing losers to go away while feeling like they have a chance next time. That's why voting corruption is so dangerous... the problem is less "the wrong thing winning" and more "society breaks down, the losers stop trusting the ballot box and start trusting their guns". People ought to be a lot angrier about voting corruption, even if they think it corrupted it on to "their side", then they actually are. (This is also why high voting rates are important. It's not about whether you tipped the balance between the two options, it's whether you are bought in to the result being fair, at scale. Low participations leaves rationalizations available to the losers. It really is a civil duty, even if the immediate payoff seems low.)

Similarly, police protect the citizenry, right? Well, yes, but the citizenry unless actively prevented will work out ways of protecting themselves. The notable difference with a formal police and court system is that we still treat criminals with respect. Allowing the police and courts to breakdown is, in the final stable societal state, more dangerous for criminals and anyone perceived to be criminals, ultimately potentially degenerating into outright tribalism (usually called gangs in this context) that simply equates "outsider" and "danger".

People really underestimate the importance of these social mechanisms, and corrupt them at more peril than they realize for their own petty short-term gains.
"The crowd promptly erupted into boos. One student declared the items “dumb.”"

wow - tough crowd. I would have been interesting just to be there and experience the reaction.

was worth skimming just to learn about the mercury dime : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_dime
Huh, I was wrong, there's no such thing as an invalid code unit. Even U+FFFE and U+FFFF are allowed.
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Meh, I have to agree that it isn't a good point. I guess I was merely trying to point out that both have its performance deficiencies. At least the ones of remoteStorage are avoidable, while you can't just avoid XML in WebDAV.
I remember a mob going to assault a house in Argentina because a man was accused of molesting an elementary school student. The mob arrived angry and yelling and started vandalizing the house. A man tried to escape the house and he was caught and beaten. Took a bit for someone in the mob to say that was not the accused man.

The mob had the wrong house.
The concept you're looking for is Stocastic [1]. The distinction between being 'stocastic' and 'random' is one of 'unpredictable & determined' vs ' unpredictable & undetermined'. Cell biology deals with (and utilizes) a few stocastic processes, but that doesn't make those processes random. An interesting test to differentiate the two (at least in biology) is what happens when you run the simulation backwards - if the occurrence of an event is still unpredictable in reverse, then it's 'random', if every causal incident can be traced, it would generally be considered stochastic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic

(edit to fix wording)
On top of that you get Jevon's Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Basically that improvements in efficiency leads paradoxically to more usage, as new uses becomes feasible.
I suppose that's a possibility but we're a pretty long way from having space colonies and it's not entirely clear how we would power such an endeavor.
To free the suspect? Random gang activity? It's kinda hard to stop and think in situations like this when you think someone is going to shoot.
Then why the heck are people posting psuedo science and click bait?
I'm not talking about game rendering, but multiplayer games and game servers might be affected. I mean, the requested size must come from an external source.

Here's an example with a better description: https://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-in...

>(...) could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.

>The vulnerability occurs when reading the header of the Pack200 compressed Jar file during decompression. To calculate the size of a heap buffer, the code multiplies and adds several 32-bit integers. The bounds of these values are not checked, and the arithmetic operations can overflow. This results in an undersized buffer being allocated, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

I remember there was a similar bug in some other decompression library.
>So in terms of predictions, I think we will be getting only worse over time.

Are there any serious minds trying predictions? When we talk about futurism, in reality it just ends up being weirdos on the internet (hi /r/futurism which is always 10-15 years away from some tech revolution) or whatever sci-fi authors are doing today. Except sci-fi isn't futurism, its literature. These authors aren't trying to divine the future, they're trying to write sellable dramatic stories. There's a reason Star Wars has action-packed dogfighting and not boring over the horizon missile launches. Or up-close-and-personal lightsaber fights instead of drones attacks from miles away.

Maybe getting the future right isn't that tough. Some investors seem to be able to do it. It just doesn't seem that anyone is seriously trying outside of the limited scope or very near future investing. I imagine there's a poor value proposition here. Maybe you can tell us that in 30 years some hot new tech will be common, but if it costs $50m to get to that conclusion, is it worth it? Especially if you can't monopolize that tech?

I also think its a little foolish for the author to conflate technology and society. You can get a car or an iphone in Saudi Arabia with no problem, but if you're a woman, you can't drive the car, but you can use the iphone. Social advances don't propagate out like technological ones do. Or if you're gay you can run a powerful company and be influencial like Tim Cook or Peter Theil, but Tim Cook's equivalent in Russia would have been discriminated away from any position of power.
Actually farming still consumes vastly more energy than oil has provided. 1kw / m^2 is a lot of energy even if plants suck and significant parts of the globe have been under cultivation for thousands of years.

http://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fue... US navy synthesizes jet fuel solely out of seawater; costs $3-6 gallon

Wind is already cost competitive with coal. Sure, if oil was going to run out in 10 years that would be a huge issue, but when we have 50+ years to deal with the issue and it's bound at ~3x current costs it's just not that huge of a problem.

PS: The navy is interested in this because shipping fuel around is a major issue for them where nuclear reactors can provide plenty of energy.
Given that it's nice to see posts like this (disclaimer: I'm in one of those HW startups listed) I'm reminded of an old ASIC joke:

How do you make a small fortune? Take a large fortune and build a chip.
Author here: I don't have a strictly better idea.
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Sorry if I was not clear. I consider threats harassment which I tried to explain are a kind of punishment that should not be taken into our own hands.
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Not to threadjack, but: people are mentioning "priority access at security" as a perk of higher FF status. Which begs the question: what does FF status have to do with security? You could get a higher status by just renting a car (or cars, as per the story). Does that make you a less of a security threat at the airport? Shouldn't security be independent of your status in some points collecting game??