skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of well-researched, clearly explained science here. He doesn't shy away from the terminology (randomized, controlled trials, etc.) but also offers a more accessible breakdown of the implications of research...
3D house printer can crank out a thousand square feet per day
the thing is, words have meanings. Writing

we want to create the best X (*)
[...]
* NB: not the best

or

we want the best X (redefinition of best)

is bs

Finding mangling language to deceive dumb is orthogonal to my opinion of the political goals of the gnu foundation.
But the important thing for a given demographic is for that demographic to get enough members to vote. Because if politicians see that a good chunk of their base is 18-25 year olds, guess what their policy is going to be directed towards? After all, there is a good reason that it is political suicide to touch social security -- quite a few seniors vote.
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“Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.”

– William S. Burroughs
And we know this because that is precisely what we got with college graduates.
It's standard, but it's shitty and unnecessary.
At this rate I also foresee a clash with Phonon and Plasma from the KDE project.
This was not the seniment the community expressed yesterday to me...
Torture gets people to talk. Those who say it doesn't work believe that it can't be relied on to get people to talk truthfully.
HFT is generally touted to provide liquidity, at the least. Of course, there are some that argue against that.
> A question I like to pose: If the US system is truly unsustainable (American-style democracies are rare and have all failed save one...so far)

What possible concrete definition of "American-style democracies" is there for which this is both true and meaningful (e.g., its trivially true but clearly not meaningful if the definition is so narrow that the US is the only "American-style" democracy that has ever existed.)
I feel bad for them, too. It sucks for them that it is no longer a viable business model to sell non-bespoke art to the public. I'd love to do this for a living. But this is not going to change, no matter how much DRM you attempt to add.

The only things of value in the non-physical world are monopoly, reputation, and customisation.
>I’d driven to meet a friend at an art gallery in Hollywood, my first visit to a gallery in years. The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps.

I don't see how the author makes the connection here.

How does searching for an art gallery on Google Maps translate into spam emails? Is he accusing Google of selling your email address and search information to spammers?
The part about voluntarily giving up confessions reminds me of something similar during the Vietnam war. People would be grouped together and would need to "confess" the allures of capitalism. You could only graduate from the program once you procured enough drama to guarantee you were a comrade.
That's a funny view considering that most semiconductor companies have manufacturing plants _in_ Asia.

Intel:
Fab 68	Dalian, Liaoning, China

AMD:
Fab 2 & Fab 7 Singapore
Be careful with the word "aggregate", it obscures a lot of the complexity of what's going on. In aggregate, for example, the average person will remain...average. That's not a useful conclusion when looking at absolute wealth (which nobody really cares about anyway - the working poor today have more information available to them than a corporate CEO did 20 years ago, yet it doesn't do much good for them), nor is it all that useful when predicting how to raise your social status (which a good number of people do care about).

What's really happening is that the class structure of society is being replaced entirely, similar to what happened during the industrial revolution. During the Renaissance, the class system consisted of landed aristocrats => merchants => guilds => working poor. The Industrial Revolution raised the productivity of certain industries so much that the owners of these machines displaced the previously wealthy class, leading to a class system of industrialist/financiers => unionized workers => non-union & service workers.

What's happening now is that "software is eating the world", and displacing the existing networks of production throughout the economy. That's leading to a class system of "those who own the data" (entrepreneurs & executives of large tech companies) => "those who work with the data" (software engineers, and likely hardware engineers & material scientists in the near future) => "everybody else". This transition has just begun, in the grand scheme of things; I'd estimate that we're at the equivalent of around 1900 on the Industrial Revolution timetable. The big losers likely won't be the middle class, who are probably the best positioned (in aggregate - see, it obscures a lot of relevant details) to move into the engineering class. The losers are likely to be the formerly wealthy, the descendants of the former owners & executives of old-line corporations. The landed aristocracy didn't make a great showing during the Industrial Revolution, and it's unlikely that the country-club set will make a great showing during the Information Revolution.

Pick where you want to be in the new world order, and work hard to get there. One thing capitalism definitely does reward is action. The old economic order has just been blown up, but few people realize it yet; that makes it the best time to build the new one.
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
--Cardinal Richelieu
I saw this as react choosing the obvious way to implement drawRect: inside a browser: painting with HTML.

You could easily have a "graphics context" that accepts high-level objects, or a variant of drawRect: that creates subviews and then tells those subviews to draw themselves.

I don't see this as being fundamentally/structurally different, though there is a slight difference in the implementation.
She and Saydean Zeldin used to have a company called Higher Order Software. I met them decades ago, when they were promoting that. They have an unusual formalism which never caught on.

There was a lot of interest in formal techniques in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but the technology didn't go that way.
I call it "the crowd"
Our humble booth setup at the career fair
I am old enough to have watched Anna Eshoo go from a rinky-dink Santa Clara county supervisor (with only a 2 year associates degree in English) to a Congressional Representative. Her path was pretty straight forward, she was interested in politics, she cared, she hung out with the Democratic committee groups and then got her ticket punched for the big leagues in 1988. (I voted against her).

Trust me, if she can make it all the way to Congress on passion alone, anyone can.

> That's a mythology we are told to pacify us.
> It has no factual connection to reality.

Sadly it is what people would like you to believe because it keeps people who care out of the way, but it is factually untrue. At any given instant in time you are not the government, but over the span of time you absolutely are. Civil rights, the Suffrage movement, Gay Marraige, Health Care reform, these are all things that are driven by people through instititutions that are designed to give them the power to affect change over time.

There is a folk story, I think it is originally Chinese about a worker told to move a large boulder out of the road. He says "Can't you see, no man could move that rock it is too large!" and another man steps up and says "I'll move it." The second man picks up a rock hammer and walks to the boulder and taps it until a piece breaks off in his hand. He carries that to the side of the road and then goes back to the boulder. The next day the rock is gone.

The moral of course it that what you clearly cannot do in an instant, you can often do over time. That is the power you wield. And it might take you 5 years of hanging out with the local party bigwigs, then another few years of local public service, before you make it up to the big leagues, but if you care you can do that. We take high school students and train them to be Neurosurgeons in 15 years, but nobody expects that they can say "Hey I want to be a neurosurgeon!" and instantly become one, why is it so surprising that you can't just decide you want to be president or governor without any training at all?
Actually, with your numbers the chances are 65.1% and 28.3% respectively.
From the article:

>Once the code was solid, it would be shipped off to a nearby Raytheon facility where a group of women, expert seamstresses known to the Apollo program as the “Little Old Ladies,” threaded copper wires through magnetic rings (a wire going through a core was a 1; a wire going around the core was a 0). Forget about RAM or disk drives; on Apollo, memory was literally hardwired and very nearly indestructible.

I was at a talk by Richard Battin, also of Draper on the Apollo program, a few years back. One of the stories he told was of a number of the Apollo astronauts visiting Raytheon (where the core memory was being "sewn") and the general gist of the visit was "be really careful with your work or these nice young boys could die."
What’s the Difference Between Data Science and Statistics?
> web-apps as desktop-apps is probably the future

Can you expand on this? I'm interested in your viewpoint because the general consensus on HN seems to be that webapps are better off as webapps and desktop apps are better off as desktop apps—being in the browser seems to be good enough for most webapps, and when packaging something as a desktop app there are little quirks that mess it up.
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Yes. China is already running our of its cheapest new labor recruits. And while people haven't been looking many of the biggest African economies have started to get going. The time when you cannot outsource for cheap labor anymore is approaching fast.
Why the future doesn't need us (2000)
I've seen no conclusive evidence that the missile was launched from within any definite area and by any definite side. Both sides have access to those areas, and the control of those areas was always fluid.

The only thing I've seen conclusively is the size of the anti-Russian rederick. Which has been of such giant proportions that less than 2 hours after the crash happened, it was made out to be all Putin's fault, and every event after was spinned that way (example - Keiv was preventing the OSCE access to the area, yet media coverage claimed it was the Rebels).
Who needs a job? We need "goods", and to obtain then we usually trade in part of our monetary income; but that does not need to come from a job.

I believe in "mincome" or "basic minimal income", as provided by a form of government to all citizens; to be paid for by tax money. This will be low, but enough to sustain yourself (simple shelter + food). If you want more then that you need to either find a job or walk a more entrepreneurial path and make a job.

The amount people receive as "mincome" will be an important number to control by politicians. It will have a strong effect on the then emerging "post-mincome unemployment rate". This would be all people that are looking to supplement their mincome, but currently have not found the means to do so.

I think a mincome-society will find a lot more people entrepeneuring: as a safety net is in place.

The "jobs" that the article speaks of are only going to be created if there is a strict need for them. A business will usually only create a job in last resort, as employing people costs money and brings risks.
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Clearly it is possible to use self-replicating microscopic things (cells) to produce macroscopic objects. Life does indeed prove this.

But, you know, it takes billions-of-years evolved plantlife about 20 years to produce a simple structural element able to support maybe a thousand lbs and 20 feet long (ie, to grow a tree). We notably do not see anything in nature that does "molecular assembly" from microscopic cells to differentiated macroscopic objects in a time-scale of less than months.
Don't get me wrong but I have to say it: I kind of like the guy and what he does but it is getting closer and closer to not be surprised if he shoots belfie one of this days. Whole Peace drama and how it was performed is something I would expect Kardashians to do.
why does it seem that projects which go to IndieGoGo just never hold up to close inspection? The most famous I remember is Solar Roadways
I don't know how important is it for the overall argument. I may be just nitpicking, and your "go do something about it" message is great. But...

> The top 1% of earners pay 50% of federal taxes.

Don't they have 80% of the income in the US? If so, that's not doing their part.
I guess this will impact the Emacs 25 release?
What would be really nice is to have a non-military civil service option. So when someone graduates high school, they can still get a government job doing things like road construction or garbage collection, or even get trained on higher skilled areas. The only problem with this, is most of these activities are done by private companies that bid on contracts, so there is no room for a government organization to fill this role.
>why the gender inequality of the Mad Men era persists to this day

Well, that's demonstrably untrue, but the narrative, it must be pushed at all costs.
I will never be in that position, because I will never have millions to spend running for office. I would have to sell out first, just to get the money to become an elected representative, and then what moral grounds would I have for turning my patrons away?

It doesn't really matter what I or anyone in my peer group thinks; as long as the war on drugs continues, none of us will ever run for office or have any visible role in politics. But it doesn't matter, because the tech industry offers most of us substantially more significant opportunities to change the world around us than anything we could accomplish if we wasted 10x as much time on the political process.

You're right that local politics is different; it is still mostly sort of democratic and amenable to change on the scale individuals and reasonably-sized groups can hope to achieve. But the scale of accomplishment available is correspondingly trivial, and the timescale is just as slow.

I don't see that the tea party accomplished much as a grassroots movement. It looked to me like the established political power structure successfully co-opted the grassroots tea party during the year after it emerged and has been continuing business as usual ever since, using the "tea party" brand to give their existing agenda populist legitimacy.

I am very much visualizing a better world and doing what I can to help create it; I'm just not wasting my time trying to accomplish that through some sclerotic, glacial, anti-transparent political process. I'm just working to create the organizations I want to participate in directly, helping build mutual aid networks, and supporting community values around resource-sharing and skill-sharing. Hackerspaces and co-housing and open source software, these are the kinds of projects where my efforts can actually accomplish something to help make the world a better place.
Source? I always took XHTML to be an effort to make html into a stricter more parse-friendly format. Xhtml lets you use an xml parser to pull apart a page rather than having to deal with some kind of markup tag soup (which also makes it a great target for tooling within an IDE). XAML is concerned with layouts and binding in ways that, I don't believe, were ever intended for Xhtml. I could be wrong but they've always seemed to be worlds apart.
Forgive me if I maintain my skepticism...
Google Files FAA Registration for Two Drones for Access, Project Titan
It is scary for me to know:

#Majority of people post photo of friends on Facebook without understand facial recognition always scans.

#Prefer convenient over privacy, such as Toll Tag on cars.

#Follow trends.
Actually, this guy is paranoid and crazy. It doesn't mean he isn't right, but by any definition he is both paranoid and crazy.
“Add Initial Wayland and Weston Ports for DragonFly BSD”
Zendesk acquires cloud business intelligence startup BIME Analytics for $45M
Why you shouldn't go to law school by Tucker Max
It may be counter productive to try and argue both (totally consistent) positions at once since it opens you up to the implication that if it somehow worked that you'd be OK with it. Still I don't see why we should allow pro torture advocates to own the conversation on whether it works. All evidence is to the contrary and its deeply unethical to continue trying it just in case it does. Even if not torturing did lead to innocent death's it would be the wrong choice to torture, but simultaniously I reject that as a false choice presented by torture advocates who want you to concede that it works and give power to their argument.

If someone wants to claim that some action has some effect it is on them to prove it not the rest of us to refute it. US torture advocates have had every opportunity to do so and failed.
>If a piece of third-party software somehow doesn't work with the standard OS pointer system...

The previous white plastic Magic Mouse did allow simultaneous left and right clicks, the limitation is specific to this generation of the design, so that argument really isn't going t get you anywhere.
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Well buying robots will probably cost the same in China and America. But for US market, if you manufacture things in the US, you will shorten your supply chain and save on logistics. But yeah, your guess is as good as mine.
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I've seen that one before. Truly an amazing work of art.
"Today, Abu Zubaydah is imprisoned at Guantánamo. He continues to suffer as a result of the torture. He has permanent brain damage. He suffers from searing headaches, sensitivity to noise, and seizures. He can’t recall his father’s name or his own date of birth."

-- That is simply fucking abhorrent.
Some nice insights but unfortunately some of the pictures are overexposed, presumably to get a "sciencey" look.

EDIT: language.
3D printing has been huge in design prototyping for a long time - and at least SpaceX have used 3D-printed parts in actual flight.
Do you believe that all those people that signed confessions to witchcraft during the Inquisition were truthful?

What about all of the people that are tortured that don't have anything to do with terrorism? What sort of reparations do they receive? What sort of penalty does the US citizenry or the US government pay for those types of mistakes? It's easy to throw others under the bus to save yourself, but I'm not sure if the US can really claim to be the world's Moral Authority when they are doing such things.
Is the setup menu supposed to do anything? It doesn't do anything for me on a Mac.
You were a law student, then a lawyer, and found time for all that? Bravo!
the quote was from a 3rd party; the castro devs said nothing about Marco going free.

edited to add: rather, after people assuming the quote was from them, the developers of Castro issued a statement of "Castro 2 is coming along wonderfully and we're not worried about Overcast going free. <closes twitter, gets back to work>"

https://twitter.com/Padraig/status/654012918292320256
People interpret things differently. It's better to err on the kinder side of language and minimize the possibility that someone will interpret your attempt to communicate efficiently as simple crass disregard for the lives affected by the significant decision announced.

I think Dorsey's email is pretty crap-free. I think to the extent that he employs long forms or euphemisms, it's intentionally intended to communicate compassion.

Management is hard, because people are going to read any interpretation that they want into your actions, and there's almost always the potential of reading in a negative interpretation. You truly can't please everyone. All you can do is try to do the best, most reasonable thing, and keep as many people on your side as possible while doing it. There's probably a lot more people that would see "we're cutting" as crass than there are people that see "we're reorganizing" as patronizing.
Hacker who sent Brian Krebs heroin faces charges in US
How is it a "redefinition" of best? What was the original definition? Unless you add some qualifier, "best" for a software project doesn't have any kind of objective definition. For a company it might be "most profitable", for a newbie it might be "easiest to use", etc. There are a ton of criteria that can go into it. RMS helpfully explains in broad terms what in his opinion would constitute the "best Emacs".
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Feedback survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K96ZP6F
The article is critically lacking in insight because it implies that open sourcing patents gave Chinese manufacturers an advantage.

That's not how patents work.

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!

Tesla's patent pledge was just a public statement that, under certain conditions, they wouldn't sue.
I realize it's basically impossible to pass a constitutional amendment at this point, but guaranteeing the right to privacy would be pretty awesome.
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> There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love.

Sure, that works, for some people, with certain preferences.

Sometimes, though, you do what you want -- the things you love -- and take a job that you merely tolerate so that you can afford to do the things you love. Its silly to think that the things everyone loves must also be, exclusively, jobs.
A blog post can't be a Show HN. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
What scares me is how few people take passwords, anti-virus/anti-malware, clean browsing habits, etc. seriously.

Without better end-node security, individuals and the entire internet are always at risk. (I'm primarily looking at you Windows...). In other words, IMO big government and corporate overreach are minor problems compared to the active-assault going on to dominate the non-technical end-user computers.
The New York Times builds out digital rewrite team
stuff like intel SGX goes a long way to making something like this possible.

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2013/08/thoughts-on-i...
Sure, local issues are a whole different matter - my comments above were about the national government. I could see getting involved in local land-use or transportation issues if there were an opportunity which didn't involve becoming a public figure or exerting an effort disproportional to the potential results. For the most part, however, politics seems like a really slow and wasteful way of accomplishing social change, and I'd rather spend my oh-so-painfully-limited hours on projects offering a better rate of return.
This is so cool. As an Electrical Engineer turned Software Engineer, this makes me miss working with hardware :(.
I'm not naive. All software has bugs. Only thing that works out the bugs is battle testing. I was just wondering if LibreSSL was battle tested enough to use in production.
Just to note, it is the original commenter's blog, not stolen. @gecko wrote "And the comment is now a blog post with more context for those who were lucky enough never to write raw Windows code"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380508
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