skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting argument and technically correct. I only wonder whether it's politically feasible/stable. My fear would be that the economic advantage of the capital owners (even if reduced) would eventually lead to a lobbyist capture of the government, which would then cut taxes and start a vicious cycle.
Sll – strip long lines from grep output
I checked a few months ago but there was nothing specifically for desktop apps only universal ones and even then they were mostly voice-oriented things so you can "plug in to Bing". Ugh.

As far as I can tell it is not [yet?] possible to integrate features from a classic Win32 application into Cortana to do things like I listed. Shame as that would have been very cool.

My examples are very specific to my domain for sure but they were just some examples for my use, the general concept of using Cortana as an actual digital assistant to automate/speedup boring and often done tasks.
Out of the 6M Polish casualties 3M of them were Jewish, the Polish people suffered extensively during WW2 there's no doubt about it.

Both the Germans and the Russians often practices universal punishment and exterminated entire villages for hosting resistance fighters and later on for cooperating with either Russian or German forces.

The 6M death figure which is horrible is also the total death accounts during the war which included Pols that died while serving in the Polish army, Poles that were conscripted to the German army, Poles who were Conscripted to the Soviet Army, Civilians who died in massacres, starvation, and disease.

Poland isn't the only country in which the civilian population encountered such acts, Germany wiped entire villages in Greece for showing the slightest sign of resistance and then wiped the nearest 3 villages as a warning to others.

War crimes always happens, but not every war crime is a Genocide, Poland might actually be a unique case because of how it was split between Stalin and Hitler and because of the animosity the Germans had towards it for "stealing" large parts of the "fatherland" after WW1.

But again it's hard to equate the crimes committed in Poland to Genocide, especially considering that even during the War both the occupied Polish government and the exiled Government continued counting loses of "ethnic" poles, which at the end amounted to about 10% of the pre-war "ethnic" poles population.

But that could've as easily been changed if the war would've dragged longer and once the Germans finished dealing with their "Jewish Problem" they would no longer see the Slavic people as "necessary slave labor".

Wars are shit, WW2 and the Holocaust is probably the shittiest of them all, but if you ask the Poles would they rather be armed and fighting or be the next inline for complementary train tickets you would probably get only a single response and that is we rather fight, there are many ways to die and while we all like idolizing heroic deaths there is almost no one that would rather not fight and die than die in naked in a gas chamber.
You had a 2390 on your SATs and were rejected from colleges?
Lol. A single x86 core probably outguns 6 of these cores. I'd rather have a quad core x86 that is actually useful and runs popular software.
The major changes to "consumer" behaviour were the Aricultural and Industrial revolutions. I'm unsure when the so-called "Information revolution" began - with the first writing, which was Sumerian accounting records (certainly data storage and processing)? Perhaps markets and the "consumer" were the most fundamental change.

We try to accomodate technological change - shape it to existing consumer behaviour - rather than change everything.

A great example is Moore's Law. The mind-boggling doubling of transistor density fortyearly is now routine. We're actually unsettled by the hiccups at 10nm.

Thought experiment: can you imagine a new technology which changed costs so drastically that current societal structures (municipal; national; consumer/market; informational) could not accomodate them, and instead would require another revolution? [limited by imagination, of course]

At some point, we'll have succeeded at modelling human nature, and we're self-limited from further change. Aliens might do things differently (or might not - it coud be that the greater part of humanity is just cooperative intelligence, common to all sapients).
And him giving the detail allows all the people who can't right now look at a video a chance to understand your point, and I don't see how the explanation detracts from the argument.
I agree that it's largely a mindset. From https://twitter.com/sempf/status/514473420277694465 :

"QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv."
The human body is chock full of limits. So much so that you are using electrons modulated at different voltages to communicate to another person instead of using analog mouth vibrations right now. The story of humanity is one of using tools to surpass those limits. Now as our technology advances we can understand the nature of human limitations, and possible novel ways of overcoming them, such as gene therapy or direct brain to computer interfaces. There is also the possibility that we will create our replacement capable of surviving the harsh realities outside of our comfortable planet.
This is a really shallow post, it doesn't deal with any of the complexities involved and just makes an unsubstantiated statement.
Piaggio electric bike
N. W. Ayer and Son
I tend to think that these kinds of summaries kinda miss the point. Yes, it's technically true that if the oppressed Jews had a lot more guns, they might have lasted longer, or took more Germans with them, or survived the war or something. But the real issue is more the mindset and culture they had than the weapons and the laws around them.

First, it bears repeating that the vast majority of Jews killed were Polish, not German. This never really was a matter of not paying attention to the political progress of anti-semitism in your own country, but rather that your crazy neighbors get crazier and crazier and eventually invade your country and turn it upside-down.

The real problem is that the Polish Jews always had to deal with a relatively low-level anti-semitism, and their strategy of being meek and going along always worked well enough for them. They had been doing it for so long that even when the Nazis invaded and changed everything virtually overnight, there was no real widespread movement for resistance until it was much too late. If it had been legal for them to buy and own guns, they wouldn't have bothered, and if they had them, they would have given them up without a peep long before.

I suppose you could say that the even deeper root of the problem is the belief that It Can't Happen Here. The Nazis did indeed try hard to hide the facts of what they were doing, but they were greatly helped by the fact that pretty much nobody really believed that such industrialized mass-murder could happen in a first-world, civilized country. Even with the massive levels of documentation produced, there are plenty of people who still don't believe that it happened.

But the facts on the ground there went on to fuel history in another direction. Jewish shame at how passively they were led to the slaughter in Europe fueled their will to flout British colonial immigration laws in moving to what was then British Palestine, found a nation and an army, desperately build or buy weapons from any possible source, and successfully defend it against all comers over and over again. They were also helped in no small part by Western diplomatic backing, fueled by shame at not having done enough to prevent the Holocaust from happening.

In the end, having the materiel and skills to defend yourself is good, but having the knowledge that you might need to and the will to go through with it is more important. Without that, any armaments you do have will evaporate before they can make a difference, and with it, you can find a way to buy or make some kind of weapons, even if it wouldn't be as good as if you had gotten them beforehand.
Do I need to know math to be a good developer?
1) This is an article about an all-female company, not a business where they "hired for empathy"

2) Daily Mail, really?
Jamie Hull, who drives an electric Fiat, grew apoplectic recently when she discovered herself nearly out of a charge, unable to get home to Palo Alto. She found a charging station, but a Tesla was parked in it and not charging. She ordered a coffee, waited for the driver to return and, when he did, asked why he was taking a spot when he was not charging. She said the man had told her that he was going to run one more errand and walked off.

“I seriously considered keying his car,” she said.

That's not okay. Damaging someone else's property because they were being inconsiderate isn't acceptable.
As a software developer, you're actually manipulating abstract concepts about the future movement of data over time. The best way we've come up to do that is to describe those concepts using textual languages, and then build ourselves tools for manipulating text in the belief that that gets us closer to manipulating those concepts.

This has the effect that we actively reject some really good tools as being 'unsuitable for programming' because they are hard to work with with our text based tools.

I think there's a lesson in both directions here: the fact that often the kinds of tools software developers use could actually be of use in some other domain (lawyers could get a lot of benefit out of distributed version control and markup languages, for example), but also software developers can sometimes get caught up in text editors and command lines and forget that sometimes a nice graphical visualization or interaction is really helpful.
Horace Dediu has looked at how quickly technologies are adopted. He doesn't see any increase in speed of technology adoption (he said this in a recent "Critical Path" podcast), which he was expecting and looking for.
https://twitter.com/asymco/status/631108777333403648

Technology becomes more complex with time, so new technologies are necessarily more complex, and require an increasing amount of effort to develop. The Wright Bros could research and develop an airplane on their own. I see no chance that two brothers can invent and implement a fusion reactor or spaceflight to Mars on their own.
> Any day now, Google will knock on my door

Yeah, Google. Not a smaller, local company.

Sure, it's not a monopoly. But when only big players (like Google) end up servicing you, that's effectively an oligopoly, which is far from ideal.

Maybe there is no natural monopoly here. But there is a natural "only huge corporations may ever enter here". That's nearly as bad.
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Snowden explains tracking of mobile phones using a plane
I very much disagree. Computing is going more and more towards integrated devices (phones, tablets, etc.) and companies are making serious investment in voice. Siri, Cortana, Amazon Fire, even my PS4 claims it can be controlled with voice. Once this reaches a certain level of utility it will become dominant. "Hey computer, open that word document I was working on yesterday. No, the one about the Davis merger".

That is more a long-term goal. Currently the future of UI is physics systems. The little bit of UI animation that happens today often uses interpolation routines (e.g. easing in it's many forms). Interpolation is time based and has annoying limitations like it is hard to coordinate multiple animations, it is hard to update animations smoothly on the fly and it can be non-trivial to reverse out of an in-progress animation.

I think we'll see a strong movement towards natural looking physical based movement throughout the UI.
Grand Theft Auto V (first Person) Michael Meets Martin Madrazo
> "finding writers who will put in work now, with the hope of a bigger payout later."

It is weird how corporate success demeans those at the bottom. I mean ... you've just exposed "the great exposure" fallacy.

"Work hard enough and we will start to include the carrot."
I've taken a similar approach into learning to read Hebrew, and hopefully one day speak it. I'm basically going back to the pictographic Hebrew, before the paleo and learning it from there, each letters an image of something, so it registers quicker, then I learn the modern alongside it. My only issue is I'll eventually have to learn the vowel system introduced by the Masoretes, but at least this is a huge chunk of the battle.
I will add to that - if you don't care about a particular person but you want to help someone in general, then pick a charity from GiveWell's list and donate to them instead. The more people do that, the quicker we'll go through problems, solving them in a cost-effective order. Your locals in need of food will have to wait a bit longer, but we'll have much more happy people who would have otherwise died from malaria.
Ah, okay. The German quota of child abuse per capita is over 3 times lower than the US quota, so it makes sense that you are more focused on that.

Still, children walking to school is not neglect. Children of age 10 walking and taking bus halfway across town is not neglect either.
I applied mostly to Ivies and similarly competitive colleges. They get plenty of applicants with near-perfect test scores and GPAs, so my poor grades made me a subpar candidate.
This would definitely look like sci-fi to someone jumping from 1950: https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let...
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Chromium/Blink – Intent to Implement: Experimental Framework
To put it charitably that's not the case, the majority of the latest studies show that if you are born to a "low-IQ" (less than 90) then genetics play a huge role (I personally have no quarrel with classifying IQ of 90 or lower as a mental deficiency, but i might have been more clearer on that), however for children who are born to average and above-average parents genetics seems to play a minor role compared to environmental factors especially during the early-adulthood development phases (or exactly before your "IQ" seems to stabilize).

Here is an example of a study which is one of the largest (if not the largest) studies that were conducted in this field (over 11,000 individuals) which seem to point to that exact conclusion.

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/01/095679761247...

Overall it seems that if you born with a higher "genetic" IQ than the environment will have a much bigger influence on the final outcome (average to highly gifted) while if you are born with a (considerably) below average genetic IQ potential then it wont.

edit:

Can't find a non-paywall for the research but there is a high level synopsis and analysis of it for journalists.

http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/education/nat...
Don’t you have licensed and regulated brothels in your city? Usually that helps with keeping prostitution in residential areas down.
An almost comically ridiculous premise. "/partyline create:task Blah" requires a user to remember both the initial slash and then that two words must be joined with a colon, with no spaces. There's a reason why many companies have "Find us on Facebook" rather than a URL - because regular people are bad at understanding computer syntax; slashes and colons and joining up words without spaces are more or less unique to using a computer, and people who don't have to program computers for a living really don't care to learn their idiosyncrasies.
Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, and a raft of other pernicious diseases resist cures despite large continuing investments.

I'd much rather get cancer today than in 1970: https://c0nc0rdance.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/crukmig_1000...
It is easy to come up with examples where this ethical theory leads to ridiculous outcomes. At the same time, it would be foolish to completely dismiss it.

Many of the examples listed in the article under discussion here give people the impression that exploitation is going on. And the broader point that is often ignored by self-proclaimed rational folks is that changing our society to accept arrangements that look like exploitation (even if they technically aren't) may itself cause damage, by increasing the acceptance of arrangements that are actually exploitation.

Of course, that effect is basically impossible to measure, and self-proclaimed rational folks tend to ignore the hard-to-measure.

Basically, there are underlying reasons for people to have Copenhagen-like reactions, even if they themselves are unable to articulate them.
A nice example for discoverability in conjunction with text commands is JIRA's search capability with JQL.

It allows you to type queries, and each point offers dropdowns that list valid attributes, operators, values (in case of limited choice of values). I like it.
If one looks at GDP per capita or life expectancy, progress did not stop or slow in the 50's.

I think the main difference is that progress is now made in much smaller increments. E.g. smartphones have transformed our lives, and yet the smartphone era really begin with the iPhone, which was itself not revolutionary from a purely technological viewpoint. It was however, sufficiently better in its hardware and software to appeal to a much larger market.
I agree with the idea of the article.
But it will not be limited to slack, check out the home page of this Ride Sharing service for example:
https://www.wadeeny.com
(disclosure, I am a co-founder)

I am the one who designed it, and I can confidently say that engagement is way higher than using traditional forms and button. The bounce rate is extremely low, almost everyone at least tries interacting with the bot.

Now this is not a testimony that text will always beat traditional web UI, I think a big factor in this case is the fact that it seems so unconventional and people are curious to try it out.
Also depends on the purpose of the interface you are creating. Like 1971genocide pointed out, UI is good for giving commands and not learning for example.

In our case, it was important for us to get a limited number of very precise information from the user. Therefore having a Text based interface worked out.
Very long term storage
How job crapification works
In 1885 people were flying in balloons. In 1950 radios were ordinarily furniture, portable radios were luggage, and radio operation was a military rating. A mere twenty years ago, I accessed the internet with bauds, phone numbers, parity and gopher. A SVGA resolution picture [800x600 for anyone on my lawn] took about a cup of coffee to download and the idea of an online encyclopedia was the stuff of science fiction.

And science fiction is largely a cultural invention of the article's second epoch. Around 1950 is when it went from a few authors to a literary genre and ideas about the technological details of the future went from projecting steam into the future as rockets and submarines to projecting computers and radios. We don't have personal helicopters for two reasons: the laws of physics and the laws of information theory. I can order my potatoes and herring online. Strapping on a jetpack and flying to the Isle of Man for my fix, isn't just impossible, it's absurd.

I've got Hari Seldon's prognostic pocket calculator prognosticating Wednesday's weather and wending through the ether to an encyclopedia galactic. I can text you a photograph of it from a chair in the sky.

The article does not list irony among the cultural we got from ancient Egypt, and it is civilization which is not attributed a great sense of humor in the popular cannon. Yet certainly it had been invented by Socrates' day. Fortunately it thrives today. https://youtu.be/ZFsOUbZ0Lr0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

You're assuming morals can be overcome. Information complexity may simply be an obstacle that cannot be overcome. At higher energy levels technical and societal change may simply be too dangerous, and to survive long term societies must lock themselves into a steady state where innovation is actively quashed.
I am glad you liked it! There's already some image search engines, as posted above, including this one: https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/
For Debain unstable with also systemd-resolved enabled I needed these:

/etc/dnsmasq.d/network-manager:

bind-interfaces

interface=lo

/etc/systemd/resolved.conf:

[Resolve]

DNS=127.0.0.1 ::1

/etc/nsswitch.conf:

passwd: compat

group: compat

shadow: compat

hosts: files mymachines gw_name myhostname mdns4_minimal resolve [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

networks: files

protocols: db files

services: db files

ethers: db files

rpc: db files

netgroup: nis

They are so many as I also have the packages libnss-myhostname libnss-mymachines libnss-gw-name libnss-mdns. Important to note is the NOTFOUND=return directive after resolve, because libnss-resolved is not available on Debian yet and thus it's going to query dnsmasq directly instead of first resolved (which is also using dnsmasq anyway).
I beg to differ, as that's how Mac OS X works. They should certainly not be retrofitted on devices that don't do that natively, though.
I agree with you that it needs more study. Were you prescribed Marijuana? If not, then it seems like you may have just coincidentally been one of the few people who's performance improved as a result taking this drug.
Interesting continuation to one of the most famous pieces by shakespeare.
I think your interpretation here is missing the same point most of critical comments here are - the article is not advocating generalizing doing a little as a global moral axiom. Instead, the article is concerned about the problem people (unconsciously) subscribing to Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics cause - by criticizing everyone who does a little (thus inteacting with the problem) instead of not doing anything at all, they're creating an atmosphere where someone who wants to help will be afraid their help will not be enough and will trigger criticism, so it's more likely they'll choose to ignore the opportunity to do good. It's not "doing little" vs. "doing a lot", but "doing as much as we can" vs. "not doing anything, because 'as much as we can' won't be enough to avoid the hate".
I'd be happy for a couple of references from you (Moshe_Silnorin) and dogma1138.
Submit a pull request saying that membership of Homo Sapiens is a requirement of use.
It can look bad to have high test scores and poor grades because it implies you were a lazy student. It's not a sentiment that I agree with but our guidance counselors basically put it to us that way.
Why Is There No LIfe on Other Planets – The-Brainiac
Memories,+Don't+Leave+Like+People+Do
True, will correct soon, thanks!
Did Steve Jobs have a soul?
That is an oligopoly: You only have 2 high bandwidth providers.

The wireless offering do not count. Satellite is too slow, and virtually all 4G offering are not even internet connections: they don't give you a public IP.

Your very situation is evidence of what I am saying.

(Also note that you have one company on the cable, and one company on the DSL. Only one per physical line. Here in France, we at least have 4 big players in the DSL alone, and a number of very small ISPs that nobody knows.)
Why Do Stars Twinkle in the Sky – The-Brainiac