skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, until I went in manually, I was monkeying with f.lux around Daylight Savings switches specifically to make it show up the way I wanted it. 4PM is a good time for it to start for me, because it heads off eyestrain at the pass before the sun starts getting low enough and yet my work time's still ongoing. YM, of course, MV.
Looks like we are going to switch over the kids to Apple Music for Android when it is stable enough.
Rdio was at least available in South Africa unlike Google Play Music and Spotify.
It all goes back to Emacs vs VI.
thanks for making sameroom.io, it's great irc -> slack & slack -> irc in less than a minute or two!
Addendum: I assume repeated feedback was given several times, not just expecting mind-reading. Document each instance of HR issues/feedback in your own notes in case they try to make a legal claim in the future.
When Customers Attack
This is all true, but it's also true "governments" had previously had [court ordered or otherwise, depending on jurisdiction] access to communications, when necessary in order to track individuals or obtain evidence. The claim is that now people can choose technologies which allow them to evade communications interception [easily] which frustrates governments when they want to intercept communications.

I don't think it's far fetched to believe if not the US countries abroad will require technology vendors to provide interception systems ala BlackBerry. Big enough markets, can say, Apple, you can still sell in our country[1] but you must grant access [MITM, whatever] and you know what, Apple will not want to see its growth markets evaporate.

[1] They'd also disallow non-approved apps from country app store and also disallow carriers from allowing jailbroken handsets.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/17/external-blues-googl...
Maybe is it because some of us might experience social injustice (almost) every. fucking. where.?

(And no, I'm not talking about 21st century first-world problems like "getting offended on Twitter" or PC-bullshit or what not... I'm talking shit that drives you literally to tears, as you see your life's chances, choices, freedoms and potential getting gradually but relentlessly taken away from you by the actions and expectations of your employer, your advisor, your peers, your own family even...)

So for you it might be "just ridiculous and a huge waste of time" --but some of us this is indeed "tied too close to our personal identity". Because we have to live with it.
My SO is scared to death of sharks, alligators and snakes. Always on the lookout. Can hardly go out in the water. Talking on the phone and shuffling through papers while driving is nothing to be concerned with though.
Apple seems to be using the “Top Charts” section to promote its own apps
Intelligence agencies seem to operate on a very dubious assumption that if mass consumer products weren't offering end to end encryption, terrorists would just be chattering away in the clear, rather than trivially switching to one of the plethora of alternatives that do allow secure communication (some of them open source and "unbannable").

Are they really that dumb? Or is this a cynical PR exercise?
What Happens When a Journalist Uses Your Tweets for a Story?
The Luft plugin for Xcode tells you when your code is getting out of control
This is the first time I've been exposed to him. Seems like a great, creative person. Reading about him found me buying "The Design of Everyday Things" and "Don't Make Me Think". I'm totally into usability and interfaces, so his blog has been quite interesting.
Erlang Serpents
A few years ago I was wondering if the ubiquity of the internet would lead to less or more ideological balkanization.

I thought, maybe it would let people find other hateful niche people to be aligned with, and would allow them to be congratulated on their beliefs and have them reinforced.

This seems like a step in the other direction. Thanks Internet!
My now-6-year-old learned to count backwards before he could count forward. Rockets!

I've definitely been happy with some of the concepts that are taught early (like 0) and not quite so happy with some others. But, I've mostly went into this with the expectation that I'll probably be solidifying concepts more than his teachers will. This is primarily due to my time with him being 1-on-1 and sometimes because I know him better and can speak his language easier.
Personally, I thought this tweet was spot on: https://twitter.com/marasawr/status/666467808071573504
How to become a better programmer/developer?
It's not that terrorists with good operational procedures would not be able to find more secure means, but migrating to those means would do two things:

Fewer operatives would have the rigor to operate securely all the time. You just need one to trip up to give the house away, but with ubiquitous encr. anyone and their nona can encrypt without leaking.

Two, switching to alternate means would mean a big slowdown in comms speed and throughput/dissemination and comms can be compromised/altered via interception.
21 Inc's Bitcoin Computer is not meant as a mining rig
Exactly. I haven't figured out the true aim of terrorists. Unless it's to give license and cause for government to do outrageous things. Which seems to cause more problems for society than the initial terrorism. So maybe that is the aim.
Except, other than being a nice chat app, Telegram's encryption is snake oil

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
UCSF gets $177M grant to address dementia
Can you please share the story that led to weeks of debates but was so clear to Jessica? It is very interesting to see how insights or intuition can help make decisions.
ReSharper has been worth every penny that I've given them over the years for upgrades.

Seriously, it amounts to one or two days' worth of salary for a software engineer. The break-even point is extremely low.
+1. The extent of my use of LA in Fortran is pretty much BLAS/LAPACK. But for pretty much everything else numerical it still wins handily, at least for my uses (numerical PDEs, FFTs).

It likely seems niche to most programmers, but array slicing is such a godsend to certain areas of software that there really is no more natural language to write a code in. There is Matlab, but its purpose is for prototyping. In fact it is a major credit to Matlab that the conversion is very natural.

This niche is why Fortran exists and has such a strong following. And the more modern features are like candy sprinkled on the core features. I could write a sonnet about modern fortran.
This is like saying that because the NSA could record all communications forever that they should.
>He also gave at least one example (Airbnb) where they didn't like the idea, but funded them because they liked the founders. Who do you think was the primary judge of "liking" the founders in that case?

This only really shows that Jessica (assuming your implication of who the primary judge was in that instance) may also advocate for particular founders, not just veto some.

>What if the logical argument doesn't exist?

Then lady justice should not make a decision.

>"Character and social cues" just means "information about what the person will do in situations other than the one they're currently in."

The problem is that this is nearly equivalent to tea reading. What theory allows you to accurately predict what I will do, purely based on your observation of me, or even under cursory verbal examination? I don't think that there is one. That people in this thread believe that there could be one is strange.
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Really? You want to hold me feet to the fire over my use of the word "hence"? Very well, let me be as excruciatingly precise as I can.

Ben Carson self-identifies as Seventh-Day Adventist (7DA). Hence, if he follows the doctrine of the church he professes to believe in, he is a YEC.

Now, it is possible for someone to self-identify as a 7DA and not be a YEC, just as it is possible for someone to self-identify as a Catholic and deny the authority of the pope, at least on some matters (e.g. all the self-identified Catholics who deny that the use of birth control is a mortal sin). But Ben Carson is clearly a creationist. He's said so on numerous occasions. Arguing over whether he is a YEC or some other flavor of creationist is really whittling at the margins. He's specifically proclaimed ignorance of the age of the earth. He uses YEC code words like "evolutionist" and "micro-evolution".

Finally, it would be exceedingly peculiar for a 7DA to not be a YEC. The name of the sect derives from their belief in Biblical literalism, and specifically from their belief in creation as described in Genesis. A 7DA who is not a creationist would be like a Mormon who thinks Joseph Smith was a con man. Again, not impossible. People can self-identify as anything they want, and once you've abandoned science and reason anything is possible. But it would be really, really weird.
Well said! Also, only criminals want to keep their thoughts private. Every home needs a covert monitor.
Quad Congress models would easily support Married Teams. Generally speaking, the plan was four interpendent voices, rather than a "bilayer family" "social membrane". In a Livingston-Graham sample case, this would equate to Livingston with an X Peer and two Y Peers. As an altarnative, if the first proves familially unstable or unequal for any reason, it could be reconfigured as Livingston-Graham, with an additional X' and Y' sharing the Quad.

Sex-quadraphonic balance can be attained across the Racist Districts on Consistent District Cross-Couplings, with Moderate Racist Flexion on Regional Race Mobilities to heterodyne and finetune the balance signal requirement.

The photographic concerns are true nightmares for wide swaths of otherwise calmpetitive entries. Athletic, popular telegenic builds are important, perhaps, for beauty model message lift, but can be delimited to at most a single "M. Universe" position on a STEAM, supporting and attending more frontally to the popularity contest loads. It is not inaccurate to say that sub 6'2'' height is a leading bar on Precedential Candidacy today. It's mixed in with "Bearing".. people like to look up with eyes awonder, as a middle school student looks up to teachers, as someone larger and morer authoritative, by stature-default, than they are. Height is selected for by the NBA and Major Party Presidency Preparation Teams, because it's single-player, winner-takes-all, with large "coat-tailed" entrailments in single-party, singleton, hierarchically solitary (hence faction- and funder- in-group, out-group hierarchy repositionings vulnerable), winner-takes-all districts. With Quad Seats, Triple Teams, or Duets carrying "Minority Report" Rites and Rights, with Heterodox and Heterodyne Perceptive Traits and Internal Flat Third, Fourth, Fifth, and even Sixth Why? Concensus Formative Pressures, rather than External Seniority-and-Until-Death-Do-Us-Part-Incumbancy Orderings that easily move into Lonely Singleton Courtroom Showdowns and "Loop Audio" Repetitions to try to effect "culture change" through decamillions of repeated argument impressions, rather than deeper choice architextures and technical pivot search facilitating longer-term Learning Network and Learning Platform Centripetal Calmpromise.

My sense is that on Social Radar review, a Quadraphonic Castling of Congress, with Incumbant Protection, will strike Livingston, J. as not only doable, but a near-optimal thesis for Congressional Decisional Algorithm Optimization. Certain incredibly important algorithmic reformatory questions, like civilizational tithing, can be set on a 10 Year "Protected Experimental Platform" Timer, to clear space for other discussions, and clear out testably bad and "not even wrong" deeply misframed theses more permanently with "accept truth or lose your shirt" market betting side-markets.
Essential habits of the successful entrepreneur
Next, nuclear powered car, hopefully.
The sooner the better. The added bonus is you'll get more quality work out of your engineers for the next month or so until they fall into their "tests are running" routine again.
Every tragedy will be used to further the cause of totalitarianism. The contents of this article, and every identical piece that is written after every new disaster, is less worthy of HN discussion than this broader issue. Encryption is the primary facilitator of privacy in our current times, and privacy is a fundamental human right. Law enforcement doesn't understand this, they only know "getting the baddies". And in times where violence is at an all time low despite recent tragedies, "getting the baddies" is decreasingly important relative to the preservation of rights.
An Ill Newborn, a Loving Family and a Litany of Wrenching Choices
its a fair point though not sure its purposefully manipulative as many magazines like The Atlantic for example try to give voice to various sides of an issue, even before the internet and click-bait existed... then you have "extremists" like Slate who can spin every single story to their far-left wing schedule no matter what, even when it makes absolutely no sense
Wow, going for a walk in the woods is also a pretty good way to avoid be spied on by the government. Better burn the forests down, or at least fill them with video-cameras and microphones!
Oh they do, depending on how you define "mature". The primary difference isn't really an age thing though. Typically, girls in classrooms are perfectly happy to sit still and listen. Boys, not so much. Obviously, this isn't binary, it's a continuum. But oh boy does it skew heavily.

When we're talking about a general rule for the masses, I don't think different cutoffs would be that helpful past 4-years old. It would be more beneficial to split them up and teach them differently. That said, it's far more important for parents to make these decisions for their own child. Sometimes they're ready, sometimes they aren't. But there's a lot of growth that can happen when we aren't quite ready for something or when we don't think they are. Everyone is far too afraid of failure, or barring failure, afraid of difficulty. Let them try. They might surprise you. If they struggle, help them along. The trouble is, there are a lot of kids who struggle and simply can't or won't get the help they need to grow through it.
Uber Considers Steering Drivers to “Vocational Training” as Cars Go Autonomous
While I agree with you generally, the linked script isn't really a fair criticism of Spinnaker.

The linked script is just a standard bootstrap script, used by Gradle - I won't defend the logic behind it (they have a page for that themselves: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.htm...), but you can see the same thing in just about any project's Autotools files (see https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/aclocal.m4)
It's still unfortunate because this easily the best product in the market. They cared deeply about the experience...

Vdio was a terrible decision though.
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Schneier called micromort a "great concept" (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/11/micromorts_1....).

"There's a related term, microlife, for things that reduce your lifespan. A microlife is 30 minutes off your life expectancy. So smoking two cigarettes has a cost of one microlife."
Georgia passenger with gun in carry-on goes unnoticed by TSA
Well, their reasoning may be faulty, but I'm not entirely sure the result is wrong. In my opinion, computers should be avoided (in schools) when the teachers have no idea what they're doing or how they're doing it. There's so much technology in schools when a simple blackboard would get the job done and save more time. Most elementary teachers don't have the time or interest to learn enough technology to keep up with the changes from year to year. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for kids having access to computers. I'd just like for them to be able to get their questions answered or get real help when they run into a problem.
I thought everyone did this? I certainly do. I remember reading Bridget Jones's Diary and cracking up at this list of statistics at the beginning of one entry:

> 124 lbs ..., alcohol units 4, cigarettes 10, calories 1876, minutes spent having imaginary conversations with Daniel 24 (excellent), minutes spent imagining rerun of conversations with mother in which I come out on top 94.

That's when I realized it's more or less a universal thing.
As a notable aversion, The Economist's coverage of computer topics seems pretty good, so I trust their other reporting more.
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Integration of clouds
> (And no, I'm not talking about 21st century first-world problems like "getting offended on Twitter" or PC-bullshit or what not.

And I am talking exactly about those. Because this comment against pg's essay was a typical 21st century first-world problem. And those problems are what dominates mainstream discussions. It hurts those who experience injustice more than it helps by trivializing their problems.
The article mentioned encryption, but I was more interested in their details on how Daesh was using it as an unmoderated platform to spread tutorials on manufacturing weapons and launching cyberattacks, calls for targeted killing and lone-wolf attacks, and Daesh's use of bots on the platform.
Unfortunately, goading western countries into wars we can't win is the basis of their strategy. So if your attitude causes you to short-sightedly support military action out of fear (even if you tell yourself it's anger), you're helping the terrorists win.
But it is worthy of discussion around the issue of privacy to raise awareness. Current and past events serve as an example for us discuss and show that privacy is a human right that should not be compromised.
So, in other words, kids who delay kindergarten (and had another full year of pre-K in-leiu) tended to do better at sitting still in a classroom after a full year of practice than kids who didn't get that year of practice?
I think Jessica should have become the president of YC. Then this essay won't be needed as her achievements will be very visible. Imagine a woman leading the most prestigious VC company or incubator. She will be seen as a role model by many women who wants to get into tech. Instead, she just fades into the background.
This is mind-blowing to me. I trust there was mostly good reason to it, but why did you need to move with so many physical things? I've moved all around Europe with 3 suitcases (and even that seemed a bit excessive). But then again I've always accounted for these plans and only bought furniture of either "use and discard" or "high resale value" variety (used design classics, etc.)
Entirely off-topic, but was the e-Learning stuff using SCORM? 1.1 was out by 2000 if I recall correctly
You might want to look at Visage (http://visagepayroll.com), which I think was first in the "free payroll" market; their revenue stream comes from Credit Karma-style financial product targeting, but all the payroll features are free. (No affiliation, but I've run into their CEO in the past and he's a very solid guy.)
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There is, but I don't believe it balances out, not in the slightest. You can obstruct a channel, but I can use others to reconstruct it. Everything you do leaves casual traces within your lightcone - be it low-level like your reflection in the shop window, or high-level like behaviour of your spouse being influenced by his knowledge about your plans, which can help reconstruct them even if you lie about them. It's like with error correction - you can try and damage the information, but we're figuring out more and more ways in which to recreate it.

At some point, to protect privacy, you'll have to expend a lot of computing power on lying about everything to everyone around you - which is not exactly a way to live or run a society.
The relevant clip from the last episode of QI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFIxrsYSxs#t=3m40s
Let's put some actual numbers to this.

Using IraqBodyCount.org's estimate, Iraqis suffered 1.86 micromorts per day from March 2003 to present. Compare to 2.18 μmorts/day during the Iran-Iraq War or 29,090 μmorts inflicted on Halabja residents in one day in 1988.

Here's a calculator, with my data in the Iraq tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wH6BOoKXun-C3_WLHZr7...

(n.b.: I use conservative estimates to yield higher μmorts for the US-initiated Iraq War and lower for the other two, like 1988 populations for Iran-Iraq and 2003 populations for the US invasion/aftermath. IBC measures only documented deaths; I used their figure for total deaths including combatants. Alternative figures are listed in the cells/notes on the right. Feel free to plug in different values and see how things change.)
"Erm, this is a well known general trade off. Driving 55mph vs 80mph on the highway - the former uses less fuel for the same distance, the latter gets you further in the same amount of time."

If you're using "production" as a synonym for "output", that's my misunderstanding of the words used. I get that it's a resource vs. output tradeoff. I had thought we were talking about productivity, i.e. lower rate of a unit of resource for the same output.

"If something is growing, eventually it becomes constrained by some sort of limit. If the expectation is that it is continually growing, hitting a limit means that it has "failed"."

Are limits fundamental and eternal? I mean, economic growth is basically the science of human achievement, the ability to accomplish more for fewer resources. And while certainly there are physical limits on Earth, which will temporarily halt growth at some point, is there a limit on innovation or on seeking out new resources? It's a big universe.

"Both of these general juxtapositions are quite common, so your picking apart of them seems quite defensive rather than understanding."

No, I genuinely find your point of view fascinatingly bizarre.

"Which is it - are you sure Keynesianism has nothing to do with them, or do you not know?"

I am quite sure about what Keynesianism thinks on this matter, and find your arguments confusing.

"In general, it seems that you're conflating production with the integral of production. This is a general theme of Keynesianism, given that it is explicitly about maximizing output by maximizing work. Given that the major economic phenomenon of our time is robots taking over historically human work, we should probably rethink this goal."

I'm not so convinced the current wave of robots taking over human work is all that different as the early industrial revolution in the late 18th century through Fordism and Taylorism in the late 19th/early 20th century.

However, I'll admit, if this time it truly is different, i.e. we're heading for an AI singularity or whatnot, we do need to rethink the goals of economic policy.

"My point regarding deflation is that what happens in the tech sector is just a more pronounced version of what should be happening everywhere. Prices may rise in the short term (eg a discontinuity from depleting a source of a natural resource), but in general market competition should cause all prices to be trending down in the long term."

I really can't agree with deflation as a desirable goal in our lifetimes, as it incentivizes doing nothing with capital.

Of course, as above, if diminishing returns to capital accumulation vanishes due to basically free automation, this may be worth considering. I think it's overly optimistic about technology to expect this, however.
Here's one of their strategic guidebooks, 'The Management of Savagery/Chaos'[1]. They want to cause America (and Europe) to exhaust their military resources in the Middle East and cause the states there to fail. In failed states, they are able to establish a caliphate, as the strongest armed force on the ground. So far we are fulfilling their goals quite well with our useless war, and France is now going down the same path.

[1] https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the...