skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to offend, but this seems quite banal (maybe it's just how insincere it sounds in face of what most people have to go through on a daily basis to tread water).

It's as if the only way of bringing effective change (for some definition of such) along any social economic dimension (read: ways resource allocation) dimension is running for office. Its laughable to think, pandering to the status quo will improve the situation.

Sure, what we have now may be what is currently running on the OS of collective human behaviors with a high resource load, but it doesn't really stand in the way of people trying to think/experiment and bootstrap other methods grounded in the realities most people have face everyday, as compared to a more fortunate few.

As things get worse for some of us, it can also the best motivation for one to pursue other ways of being.

Well then again, maybe if the US Treasury sells a couple trillion T-backs to the Federal reserve and a couple more rounds of QE will solve all the problems the world faces, again!
Amazon SingleCue – Gesture Control for Your TV and Entertainment Devices
At some point China will stop believing in the value of US bonds.
Demo AmpMe to Robert Scoble – Sync Your Smartphone Speakers
> As such, it would be more accurate to say "Not ALL rights are not enumerated".

It would be even more accurate to say -- as regards the meaning of the Ninth Amendment -- that it means that not all rights applicable against the US federal government are enumerated in the Constitution, in that the omission of legal rights recognized prior to the Constitution are not extinguished by mere omission from the Constitution (they might be extinguished by conflicting with enumerated powers in the Constitution.)

I'm not sure its really defensible to interpret the intended meaning of the Ninth Amendment to be that rights exist without being enumerated anywhere. (The closest the Constitution gets to that -- at least, as far as rights that the federal government can't encroach -- is in Amendment X, which does something like that, though its framed in terms of powers rather than rights, by expressly reserving all powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.)

Certainly, some of the same people who were involved in advocating for the Ninth Amendment had expressed the view in other contexts that rights exist independent of enumeration (e.g., in the Declaration of Independence.)
It's not surprising at all that this is the case. The mainstream media is not directly responsible for these decisions, it is in fact controlled by the powers that be to not report against the establishment. Blaming the media is missleading, it suggests they are responsible, when actually they are held on a tight leash. Many non mainstream sources however do report on these issues but obviously their influence is tiny in comparison.
Thanks for the feedback. The keyboard should be loading results from Giphy after every letter typed in the search field. The problem might be a weak connection, but I should definitely be handling the error better. Thanks again.
Averaging your intake over the course of a week.. try to get 60-100g protein per day (can get more if trying to build lean muscle, that's a minimum for most). Stay under 100g sugars, and try to keep a total glycemic load under 100/day. Keep your daily calorie average appropriate for your desired lean body weight. Try to get 5% more activity in each week, unless you are at a maintenance point.

Get a variety of foods (fruits, vegetables, meats, etc), and avoid what causes you problems with digestion...

That's hard enough without going into too many specifics and would generally serve people better in general. Once you get your needed protein in, for the most part, calories are a wash... excessive sugars/carbs causes other problems over time. But trying to say you can have X and not Y is a path to failure for most.

Also, trying to keep it on a daily basis doesn't always work so well either... if I get a few days a week that I have a longer fast cycle (eating once a day), I tend to do better... But it's a matter of keeping your overall intake in relative check without dwelling on any particular piece.

Eat food, avoid processed foods, eat veggies and fruits, get a variety, don't eat too much... it's not all that hard, but that's not how people think... we've also got generations of snacking, sugary drinks, and carb/sugar laden food supplies.
Too bad they didn't catch the fact that most if not all of the 2014 MBPr's have a terrible flaw in their screen coating [1]. (One of the worst things about it is that many people think it was their fault, when it wasn't.[2])

If they had a lid closing/opening robot in the mix, maybe they would have caught this.

[1] http://www.staingate.org/

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/607572909386595/
Tesla will release the PowerWall thing in Africa next year, South Africa might very well get Tesla cars as well but it's some what of a unique case where it comes to the rest of the continent.
But anyhow no Tesla wont sell it's cars in Africa just like BMW won't sell it's cars in Africa (outside of few corrupt government officials) even their planned 30,000$ car is way too expensive for most of the world.

Africa is also not a very good place to sell electric cars in it lacks the required infrastructure it has at least 3-4 more decades of development until electric cars will be viable there.
Africa needs cheap, dependable preferably multi-fuel (diesel/bio-diesel) cars, it might be able to handle hybrids but even that is pushing it.

China doesn't need to replicate Tesla, if they make an electric car which is just good enough it will have huge impact on the air-quality in the cities and sine China is pretty much the only country which is developing and building new nuclear power plants as well as leading the research into fusion when it will be able to make even a 1/3rd of a Tesla it should have enough emission free electricity to actual make a big difference.

China is also quite good at actually completing tasks it sets it's sights on no matter the "cost" or what the market says if the Government will put electric cars by 2025 as a mandate the rest will fall in line.
I almost forgot about this incredible travesty to human rights. You really do selectively forget the bad when remembering the past.
Apparently the people doing it are gaining something from it, else as you note there would be less of it. I don't know whether it's value-creating or not as a whole; there are different types and classes of HFT operations and algorithms (including those that try to trade based on rumors and sentiment), and various arguments about who is or is not better off for their existence. Someone who wants to assert that it's harmful needs to have some kind of tally of all the benefits/profits and all the harm/losses that shows net value destruction, or at the very least a complete ethical argument. All we got was "the world needs less of this", which doesn't really do much to further anyone's understanding nor provide a digestible view on the matter.
Please do tell re: automation. The first thing that comes to mind is trading. Or cue cards a la http://archive.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wo....
I am honestly amazed they allowed a Dell monitor to be photographed in the lab.
"But with most jobs are already meaningless from the viewpoint of economic productivity"

That's highly debatable (the word "most", specifically). I've heard the argument before, but there is a reason we have labor productivity statistics that try to quantify this.

"A major fault line in the current economic system is the concept of 'right to work'."

This isn't just a fault line, this is the foundation of market economics for the purpose of human welfare. You participate in the economic system by trading your resources, e.g. land, labour/time, capital, and knowledge.

At first glance, we seemingly never have enough time in the developed world, so lack of jobs implies there seems to be a problem in the distribution and renewal of knowledge.

If a market can't work for the world's exchange problems, we're currently fucked as to a lack of functional and pareto efficient alternatives.
You're misremembering the article. The spam emails were claimed to be because of a Google Maps search. The AA link was because an app on the phone (probably Facebook) was mining the address book.
Btw, for those that aren't aware, it might be timely to mention the legendary German interrogator, Hanns Scharff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff#Auswertestelle_W...

as he is often brought up in discussions on interrogation techniques.
Open source projects for modern COBOL development
Torture doesn't "work" if you mean "getting useful information out of people". Torture "works" if your goal is torturing people.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I would not write them off - my whole point is that by making the double argument people are trying to avoid having to think about trade offs.

I get very suspicious when I see conjunctive arguments that neuter hard value judgments. It's extremely common to see them: "I think you doing X is objectionable AND it doesn't even work!" Example from the right:

Gun control is unconstitutional AND criminals will still get guns anyway!

In my experience, the second half of these arguments usually has nothing to do with the arguer's real motivations, it just helps him/her avoid cognitive dissonance from the trade offs.
Classified video shows US Navy testing bacterial weapons
I wouldn't expect anyone to spend a lot of money on an incidental.
Since the founding common people have not had access to mathematically unbreakable encryption. This is a new era and new legal doctrines will have to be developed. Privacy activists are trying to influence this process, if they were just trying to overturn established case law the courts would be throwing out all these cases.
One of my side projects is a photo water marking SaaS. I was surprised when people actually started paying for it years ago, as I figured, "there's a ton of watermarking apps out there". But it turns out there's a lot of demand from amateur and semi-pro photographers who believe, rightly or wrongly, that they're being ripped off (and want a simple way to watermark their photos).
For pros, There are other services out there that actively scan the internet looking for infringers and send DMCA takedown, or similar, notices. These services are generally two pricey for the type of customers my side-project has.

I guess my point is - there is a pretty big demand to protect images online. I suspect DRM will end up being implement in some form or another.
> Chick-Fil-A

I always pronounce that restaurant as "Gay hating Chick-Fil-A."
Angular is very similar to the MVVM style of GUI programming that's popular in Microsoft's XAML-based libraries (e.g. WPF, Silverlight, WinRT and now UWP). Which I think is interesting because that's where they ended up. Modern windows programming doesn't involve writing WndProc functions anymore.
Meet USN Rear Admiral Grace Hopper:

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

Inventor of the compiler, early advocate of machine-independent computer languages, creator of COBOL, originator of the verb debugging.
That sounds like it would only apply if the relative population growth of each group was similar. The statistics say it's not, even with child-mortality rates, the poor outnumber the rich and that gap is increasing in number.
You hear a lot about the bad examples of this, but little about the good examples. I remember wandering through a working class high rise area in Southern Spain, and being amazed by how friendly the atmosphere was, but you'd never hear that area discussed in newspapers and magazines. The fact is living in apartments is very common all across Continental Europe, and that area is not well-represented by the Banlieues, or bad council estates in London.

FWIW, although I don't like Brutalist architecture, my attitude is that these mistakes are almost entirely down to social policies that came with the construction - or at least a mismatch between construction and policy.

In particular, it was a mistake putting large percentages of very disadvantaged, vulnerable families together into brutalist, modernist constructions that they found ugly, where they didn't want to live, and then not putting in the money necessary to maintain them. I don't think the same problems are likely to be repeated if you're replacing low density suburbs filled with wealthy professionals, with high density flats filled with wealthy professionals, who are specifically choosing to move there.
"Generation’s best-known analysis is its 2013 report asserting that coal and petroleum reserves were “stranded assets” whose theoretical market value would never be realized, because environmental, legal, technological, and market constraints would inevitably prevent much of that carbon from being sold and burned."

That might be another motivating factor for the Saudi's to sell their oil cheaply. Sell as much as you can now because the future market will be more hostile.
The two other times, when new iPhones suffered from antenna issues and when iPhones (again) seemed to bend under pants induced stress, we saw apple (probably) sponsored content over Wired and others about how amazingly careful they were on testing iPhone antennas and how wonderfully amazing they were on making bend resistant iPhone bodies.

Please don't get me wrong, as I am a apple fan, but I must ask: Which Apple product is broken this time?
It's perfectly reasonable to not want to work for the military in any capacity.
> Don't get me wrong, pizza is awesome. Pizza is EXCESS is horrible. Be good to your groups and don't buy pizza (or sandwiches). Look for creative alternatives. Attendees will love you.

Can be said about any of the food listed
Startup from UC Berkeley makes messaging yet another messaging application
> I don't know. If the convention had to get it past the states, then they couldn't do anything too crazy, even if they totally rewrote it.

Again, the Constitution itself is an example of why this may not be reliable: The original Constitutional Convention was called to propose revisions to the Article of Confederation, which required such changes to be adopted unanimously by the state legislatures. When it ended up proposing throwing the whole thing out and starting over, the new Constitution it proposed also had a different standard for passage -- requiring only nine of the states to ratify the new Constitution before it went into effect.

People are afraid of a Constitutional Convention arbitrarily rewriting the rules independently of the governing authority because that's exactly what the only one we've had did.
Exactly - more demand, and thus a rising price - as has happened in recent years.
Looks like he withdrew himself from consideration (2nd reply paragraph):

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...
Sigh I've had more than a few arguments about this perspective in the past, and I'll hold steadfast to one simple rule - if you're not on stage, then you're not "in the band." I didn't say "not important," but if your bassist gets sick, your PR person isn't going to get up on stage and fill in. There are ancillary roles that are important, but firing a Tour Manager or Lawyer is not the same as replacing a drummer, it just isn't. Or, in a rough analogy, just because a waiter brings you food doesn't mean they had a hand in making it in the kitchen.
Ha! Ironically enough I was born, raised, and currently live in Detroit (albeit the suburbs). I have worked in the city right next to Comerica Park (Maybe next year Tigers).
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash anyone?

http://genius.com/Neal-stephenson-snow-crash-chapter-three-a...

Hiro Protagonist and Vitaly Chernobyl, roommates, are chilling out in their home, a spacious 20-by-30 in a U-Stor-It in Inglewood, California.
would love a yeoman generator for this.
It'd be straightforward enough to define metadata tags that are specifically not to be automatically added at source, intended to use specifically to survive privacy stripping. Of course that'd depend on tools actually respecting the intent and not adding them other than when explicitly requested to.
Apple Loses Patent Case to University of Wisconsin, Faces $862M Damages
For a more concrete instance, we have the case of a friend of the Boston marathon bombers deleting his search history and getting charge with obstruction of justice[1]. However, that doesn't mean the DOJ can use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevent browsers from allowing the user to delete history.

[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/clearing-your-browser-histor...
Video: Big ships first launch into water
This is an intellectually fascinating implementation of an alternative app store - great work, keep at it!
Right, I do understand. I think the point I was trying to make is that "rights holders" made legally binding deals with certain entities, and trying to use those entities (YouTube) in a work-around violates a different kind of binding deal - how a system uses an API. It's pretty hard to describe, but I have a really bad feeling about the approach being shown off and asserted as legitimate.
In Australia everyone has to vote. I think this is as it should be - voting isn't just a right, it is a duty. But of course the entire system is flawed because it seems to make no difference who you vote for. Team A and Team B play exactly the same game.
> A patent includes the description of how the invention works right in the application. Consequently, if you live in a jurisdiction where you don't fear prosecution, you can immediately clone the idea. The only way Tesla could have kept their ideas "secret" would have been to not patent them at all!

That's exactly why SpaceX doesn't patent their technologies; the actors who would copy them are orgs they can't sue (nation states).
Laser Razor will clearly have to show actual hair removal to prove itself; fleecing countless sheep of millions is a mere metaphor.
You could use a crystal oscillator, but you'd need a bunch of circuitry to divide the frequency down to 1 Hz. The lowest-frequency crystal I could find is 20kHz. In other words, it's a lot easier to start with 60Hz than 20kHz when you're using individual transistors.
That is a very strange way to generate molecules. It would be interesting to see if this is any better than other approaches used to generate molecules like those used in drug design. It would be particularly interesting to see how this compares with the approach that was used to generate GDB-17[1] a database of randomly generated molecules or at least see if generated molecules pass through the filters used to make GDB-17. Grammatically correct does not necessarily mean physically reasonable, recall Chomsky's "colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

While it would be interesting to model reactions with RNN, I'm not so sure this would offer any advantage over simply searching a database of reactions like the Crossfire Beilstein database[2][3]. I am also curious if you investigated reaction MQL in work with the carbonate project.

This work is interesting though. Essentially you are using a neural network to generate graphs. There are a lot of things that can be represented with graphs, IE electric circuits and such. Maybe you could make a RNN for generating neural networks!

[1]http://www.gdb.unibe.ch/gdb/home.html
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein_database
[3]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21378798
To each their own. A big part of it is faith. I'm willing to hand $100K to Tesla for a Model S, moreso because its connected to them all the time.
Drawing under the microscope
That's true, but those all work precisely by taking advantage of thermodynamic jitter to get things done.
According to the website, you can just change a couple wires and it will work with 50 Hz power. This changes the divide-by-6 circuit to divide-by-5. http://www.transistorclock.com/50Hzmod.pdf
There's a bit of a 'reboot' as such (I forget what it's generally referred to) that contributes to this. By that I'm referring to the way that microcomputers reset progress in software.

When low-power microcomputers hit the masses, the advances that had happened in software in the minicomputer / mainframe world couldn't follow along. So in the first instance you had computers that could only barely run BASIC programs and where you were programming in assembly close to the bare metal if you really wanted to do much more advanced things with the machine.

Now, the kids growing up on these computers in the 70s and 80s (I'm an 80s kid myself) had no idea about things like GUIs or the latest in virtualization technology on minicomputers or all the many problems that had been solved in big-mainframe world but were yet to hit consumer devices. One factor is that consumer hardware of the time wouldn't have run the software efficiently anyway; another one is that there was no Internet where you could just Google anything and find out.

So many of us then grew up in this era and became software engineers that would go on to write operating systems and software of the 90s and beyond. We'd never seen or heard of, for example, Lisp Machines or what they could do. Which is I think why you end up with this weird generational gap, almost like a chasm of knowledge born in the 80s and 90s.

Whenever I watch an Alan Kay video I'm blown away by how much was possible 'back then'. My mental map of technological progress starts with 8-bit micros in the 1980s, which we all thought were 'cutting edge technology' except that they weren't, in the broadest scheme of things. It's this amazement that I think leads to the feeling of a 'Golden Lost Age'.

Remember when Windows 95 touted preemptive multitasking as a groundbreaking new feature? Or when DMA for hard disks was a 'new' thing? (except that the Mother Of All Demos basically showed the concept, from what I vaguely remember from watching it many years back).

We see the same cycle in mobile computing - phones were once close-to-the-metal devices; now they're running full mutli-tasking basically desktop-class operating systems. The difference these days is that we have the Internet and we have the lessons of history actually available to us.
This is easy; you market the safe for the storage of trade secret documents. Getting back to the original issue, Apple can (and does) claim it offers encryption with no backdoors because a backdoor would give hackers a way to get in.
Technology isn't a tool, it's an instrument
A good analysis of this is by Vaclav Smil (One of Bill Gates's book club guys) http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/moores-curse
Most blond people don't have blond beards.

Source: blond hair, reddish-brown facial hair.
Moore's Curse: On the Historical Growth Rates of Various Technologies
Totally tongue in cheek, but no mention of "Can we make this just different enough so that it works like a past product but won't be backwards compatible?" seems a little suspicious.
Granular permissions shuts down random app developers, but it does nothing to stop the big league: the carriers, Google, and NSA.

One massive concern is the 'secret' second operating system that every phone carries on the baseband modem: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-secon...
Charlie Munger's Last Meeting
As far as I know, d3.js has force-directed but not "directed" force-directed like Sugiyama.
NexTravel (YC W15) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer
I am really glad you invested some time and effort into making things better, and I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you wanted it too. But it sounds a bit like you're sort of "one and done" here on trying things, is that the case?

It isn't easy, and it takes a while to learn all the tricks that you have to be aware of, but anything worth doing is like that right? I hope you won't give up trying, learned helplessness is a terrible terrible place to be.