skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. To aptly quote Asimov: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
Here's a funny thing about culture. It distorts a lot, so some cultures accept public stonings and lashings, while others won't let a parent slap a child.

Yet what constitutes abuse is universal, and what constitutes positive social interaction is universal. In every culture in the world, a man putting his hand on another's shoulder is a gesture of dominance, and putting his hand inside a woman's knee is a gesture of intimacy.

The size of personal spaces changes per culture. Just as some cultures speak louder than others. Yet it always follows the same dynamics, positive and negative.
Doesn't work on two separate browsers (Firefox and Arora).
No, none of this strikes me as bizarre at all.

This is how things are going to be, now. Ad blockers will make rules, publishers will flout them, some normal URLs will be casualties.

...or do you really think them peculiar for loading SVG icons?
That is only partially true.

Company has to be within acceptable commute range for the employee. Lets say our company needs several employees. It is necessary to have critical mass of employable people living inside that range. The problem here is that 15min commute vs. 45min commute doesn't matter much to the employer.

So companies try to go near major traffic routes at the outskirts of big cities. There employable population and cheap property converges.
I think this is an example of a mutually beneficial filter. To me someone setting up separate office hours for white men and for everybody else sends a strong signal: "this is a person you don't want to deal with; avoid!" On the other hand, it makes them more likely to meet people who endorse the same kind of thinking, white male or not.
Check these out:

http://people.duke.edu/~ojf/DestructiveEmotions.pdf

http://www.amazon.ca/Destructive-Emotions-Scientific-Dialogu...
I thought the CFAA, like the UK equivalent Computer Misuse Act 1990, governed unauthorised access to computer systems and data. Seems appropriate to me.

Paper files would probably be locked up - the equivalent prosecution would then be something like trespass, breaking and entering, or what have you.

If you have access to data for operational purposes then access outside of operational needs is just unauthorised access which on computer systems is an offence in itself because physical access is already historically covered under various laws.
> bad actors

That's a common infosec term. Eg: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2124416/malware-cybercrime/...
Reading wired.com on mobile is also a shitty experience. The scrolling is stuttery and there is a small delay before the page reacts to any scrolling input. I don't understand how they can fuck up the easy task of displaying some simple text so badly.
I'd agree that the issue is with how we (US perspective) have built our cities and require too much face time. I'd also agree that driverless cars are a stopgap measure. That being said, they might present a way to transition to more efficient models, and in the short term they can relieve the burdens of many. It occurred to me the other day that there are many people who can't drive themselves and have to give up a measure of independence to be reliant on someone else to get them places. Driverless cars could give them back their independence.
Considering that insurance companies cannot exclude by law, aren't you paying for those things even if you go for private insurance over public insurance?
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> Bonus, no trains or tracks to maintain!

I'm honestly curious: what's the maintenance cost differential between train tracks and road? And between trains and other forms of public transport (buses, etc)?
I love ClojureScript, it looks even more neat than React:

(defn simple-component []
[:div
[:p "I am a component!"]
[:p.someclass
"I have " [:strong "bold"]
[:span {:style {:color "red"}} " and red "] "text."]])
If it's used to intimidate and isolate, then yes.

Remember school bullies? Same thing yet more subtle and stealthy.

Often the model of harassment is indirect. For instance you have a group of people who are happy and working together. A predator arrives and sees opportunity. He sees another guy is protecting and coaching the group. So he slowly undermines and destroys this guy's credibility, provoking him to anger and finally making him leave. Then, the group is exposed and easy to play with.

You almost never see it. Even when it happens to you, you can almost not see it. It is so slow, careful, smooth. This is why education of these patterns of stalking, isolation, and attack are so important.
“But out of 1145 participants, only ten agreed that the moon landing was a hoax!” he said. “Of the study’s participants, 97.8% who thought that climate science was a hoax, did not think that the moon landing also a hoax.”

So what? This doesn't necessarily invalidate the argument.
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> Yet what constitutes abuse is universal, and what constitutes positive social interaction is universal.

Only if you define it down to the basics. Some jokes are considered abusive in one culture and funny, or at least innocuous, in another. You mentioned one man putting his hand on another man's shoulder, but back-slapping is certainly viewed differently across cultures, and then there are the subtle rules around eye contact which usually aren't written anywhere at all except maybe sociological research papers. All of those things can make someone feel rather uncomfortable if they meet exactly the wrong person, perhaps after everyone's had a few drinks.

Abuse is culturally dependent. Some things are regarded as universally wrong, perhaps, but vast swathes of things aren't universal in the slightest.
Eschew thesaurophilia
"The problem is convex" and "the algorithm is unlikely to get stuck in a local minimum on realistic problems" are very different things.
I personally would prefer it, too – I actually don’t own a car, and live in a european city (Kiel, Germany) ;)

I’m trying to look at it from the american perspective, because I’ve long given up the hope that any non-american perspective is even considered relevant on here.

Actually, self-driving cars, while nice, won’t really improve your abilities inside the city – you’ll still use bus, metro, etc.

The "transport hub at edge of the city" is already a common concept over here, called "Park+Ride", with parking spots usually at places which have bus stations and train stations or metro stops.
Recently I started noticing ads from my insurer when I was up late stating the "benefits of going to sleep early" and "why sleep is essential". This business is going to get real sketchy in my opinion
Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
Microsoft to open source Chakra, the JavaScript heart of its Edge browser
That would be an even better solution (to stop forcing monopolies) but I'm not sure which of the two would be more likely to happen.
He was apparently fired for violating his terms of employment, so he was punished, but not criminally punished. While I am very disturbed that a major restraint (the threat of criminal prosecution) has been taken off the table for abuse of sensitive private government data, I'm happy that it has been taken off the table for me as well, as a non-government employee that only has access to sensitive company private data.

Quote from the appeals court ruling: "Valle concedes that he violated the terms of his employment by putting his authorized computer access to personal use..."

Ref: <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/repugnant-online-...
I noticed that Splatoon on the WiiU has a game you play while waiting for a multiplayer match to start, but I guess that skirts the patent because the game isn't "loading" at that point.
> It seems like the whole congestion problem could be greatly diminished if employers would take responsibility of the negative externality they are causing.

Yes! If employers had to pay more to compensate employees who insisted on living closer, this might start to solve the underlying problems. Here's some more food for thought:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...
This is a bit of a premature headline.

As far as the article says, nothing has actually been effected yet; this is just the PM confirming his intention to legalize marijuana.
Roads for busses are far more expensive to maintain than light rail. Road maintenance of asphalt road for heavy use (like bus lanes) is so expensive that all the bus stations here are using the same road-building techniques the romans already used, and they still go through the stones in a few decades.

Just for my city the estimated savings are in the amount of 19 million EUR for switching the main bus lines to light rail.

And it would improve quality.
Zirx does U turn on surge pricing
I don't know if it's the case here but one needs to be sure to read the granted claims to determine the scope.

Abstracts are notoriously broad definitions that people often read and get confused by as they think this applicant written section defines the patent, it does not (file wrapper estoppels aside).
The issue is not exclusion, it's actuarial pricing. If companies can't exclude, but can charge people their expected cost, insurance works just fine and fitness vegetable girl doesn't subsidize hypochondriac unprotected gay junkie glutton. The latter person just pays a lot more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem#Lyapunov...
Disney's evolution of Tomorrowland/EPCOT reflect the three phases of futurism since Asimov's essay. In the early 20th century the future was about more fantastic machines- rockets, super-cars, better home appliance. The Tomorrowland Rocket to Mars ride embodied this. But young people became disenchanted with the pollution and militarism of hard engineering in the 1960s and turned their attention to the biological sciences on Earth Day 1970. The future was about ecology, sustainable living, commune type socialization, etc. The EPCOT dome ride embodied this vision of the future. Then came personal computers, video games, special effects movies, the internet and mobile. The future shifted to an information rich world. Now younsee lots of computer screen exhibits in Tomorrowland.
The source http://www.afp.com/en/news/canadas-new-liberal-government-se... has more than 2 paragraphs, is less click-baity, and has less obnoxious ads.
I guarantee you most Firefox users either use Pocket, or don't care that it's a default feature in the product now.

I am in the boat that wishes it was removable, perhaps as some kind of "default add-on", but it's not. I'm not removing FF because of it.

And as for ads: Were they tracking people with them? Were they sending back GUIDs of my browser every time I loaded a new tab? This is a legit question that would affect my opinion on the matter. The ads I see are brief, and cannot take more than a miniscule amount of data to serve. By those metrics, I have no problem with them.
All so true.
"As much as possible" would be doing node_modules/$PACKAGE-$VERSION for all packages (like e.g. Rubygems does). But instead they're doing node_modules/$PACKAGE and still nesting conflicting dependencies, so it's entirely possible to still run into the same issue.
If his party holds the majority in the Parliament and they're all on the same page regarding this issue, I say it's already in the bag and it's just a matter of a few formalities.
And, if one looks at it from an engineering perspective, even self-driving cars don’t improve the passenger per m² per hour ratio of cars.
I'm having the same problem. Getting the session token from a request made via browser, and using that token in my programmatic requests, does work, but that feels like cheating. What I really want to do is authenticate to Advent of Code programmatically via Github, but I haven't found a way to get my code to authenticate to Github itself; I keep getting redirects to github.com/login.
There's a ton of COBOL doing most backend stuff. Guess it's a great language. See the problem with your claim?

Far as powerful, most things you need a new compiler for in other languages you can do in LISP with a mere library. And concisely, easily, fast, and sometimes with zero overhead. That property doesn't go both ways. Hence, why LISP is the most powerful or nearly so.
Even if it is beneficial, their calculations of risk will be imprecise causing unjust penalties.
Wow. I admire your ability to take command of a situation.
One example of this is the Toyota Just-in-time system, where i believe they have a number of suppliers, some of them mom and pop producers in a basement or loft somewhere, that are gathered up and delivered to the factory as needed.

And i think you find a structure somewhat similar on Germany as well, where quite a bit of the parts manufacturing is done by smaller companies dotted around the nation.

As for traditional economic textbooks being wrong by ignorance, no surprises there. Check out Steve Keen's book on the topic, Debunking Economics.

Also, as best i can tell the soviet system was pretty much a perversion of what Marx was musing about back in the day. I think he even told Lenin that the latter was barking up the wrong tree.
Can't check the details since I'm on mobile, but thats quite a bomb they're dropping here. Thanks for the link!
Great article +1 to The Guardian which is becoming a favorite source of things to read.

Good point at the end about privacy not really being about hiding dark secrets. Privacy is a psychological benefit. I argue that privacy is a basic human right.

Re: writing diaries: I sort of do this, but in the cloud. I write a ton of stuff for just myself in the form of organized notes. For things that should not be public, like research on medical problems, I like to keep notes in SpiderOak (encrypted cloud storage). For other things that are for myself but not sensitive tools like OneNote and Keep are fine.
I've found keeping a diary to be more difficult and more rewarding than it might popularly be thought to be. There are different approaches, from logs of events to records of thoughts/feelings, with varying levels of detail, and there are inspiring published diaries of all stripes to take as an example. I completely agree with the author about the latent connections between diarizing, privacy, self-awareness, awareness of one's public image, and the internet era. I think it'd be a great idea if diaries were a standard unit in secondary lit classwork.
Citations, please. I've grown up and lived in many cultures. Manners change. Abuse does not. Invoking cultural relativism is not going to work here.

Let me explain: abuse is about identifying a boundary and then crossing it, deliberately, and repeatedly, to gain control over another person.

The boundaries shift from person to person and culture to culture. Yet it always the same dynamic, and you can see it, and you can stop it.
NG-NL 2016 – Angular Conference in Amsterdam
I had an idea a while back for a HIDS or at least post-infection analysis. You record incoming data and files onto storage. Have a separate machine running it which is instrumented to check all jumps, etc against a whitelist generated when compiling same system. It would eventually spot the compromise plus be able to show the exact sequence of data & instructions that caused it. Which would aid patching it.

Stayed on prevention instead. Thought it would be fun building & optimizing it, though.
Thousands of particle physicists dont have much to do than add another decimal place to their measurements of known physics.

Someone said this in 1900 too when classical physics was mostly wrapped up save for a few loose ends like newly discovered radiation
In the UK for example, when you buy cigarettes you pay 77% tax. The total tax receipts for this tax are about £9bn per year, whereas the NHS spends only £2.7bn. (Figures from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7654153.stm, 2008.) Therefore, you could argue that the costs of this behaviour are fully funded. The point is, there are other ways to deter dangerous acts than via insurance premiums.
Adding to the chorus. You sound like a good self-teacher, and that's a big part of being a regular developer. Don't sell yourself short.
Manifesto: Lets hack immigration
How on this was this deemed not too broad to be a patent?

Good thing ancient humans didn't not have IP laws, otherwise some wiseguy would have patented the fire and taken down civilization with him.
I wonder if this less than the total lawyer fees from nearly a decade of litigatiom?
e-bikes are a thing in other parts of the world. hope to see them catch on stateside. They have all the advantages this guy mentioned.

The one I own is a bit like this model
http://i00.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/663/828/722/722828663_048.jpg
Ahh, I see. They are speaking of a specific type of latency.
> in my experience, the same motives that drive people to be bad actors makes them poor, even toxic, at collaboration

Toxicity can kill. You still don't see how you're being a bully by exaggerating the effects on community of people you don't like?

I'd rather deal with the genuinely obnoxious, than with the entitled amateur policeman that can kick people out by pointing some item on a list.

I'll even tolerate bullies like you, if you're not given any administrative power over the rest of us. You want to organize your own little tea party, on your own terms? Do it in your own "safe space conference" instead of hijacking the technical ones.
CERN+IS+STILL+RUNNING+AND+CAN,T+BE+PUT+OUT+TILL+ARMAGEDDON+-+YouTube
Wages Up, Prices Low: Shake Shack’s Food for Thought for the Fed
I misunderstood that the issue was input-to-output latency, and was instead thinking of audio/visual sync issues.
> I wonder how they thought the SEC would not find this out, that there's two companies outside a financial centre with owners of the same name and birthdate, alternating their trades.

I'm wondering how harder is to find this out if it's not so blatant, say two owner who are friends and based on different locations. Or for added stealthiness, if there's a third party between them so they never contact each other directly (at least online).
It is. You still can't say that "bad actors" are not bad.
You can't make mass surveillance impossible if you require a platform that is a mass surveillance nightmare.

Also can we please stop calling this a Desktop app? It requires Chrome to run, so it's neither Desktop nor Web app.
Ah, didn't know that was different. Yes, Tuileries.
Curiously though, it contributes to falsely exaggerated stereotyping, in the sense that given the title and abstract I might expect a far greater percentage (>2.2%) of moon landing disbelievers among climate change disbelievers until until I take time to read through column 8 of table 3 on a potentially publicly inaccessible pdf. Will the journalists report these details? Maybe. Maybe not. Which plays into a larger possible tendency in social psychology: It's a poor choice to publish negative sterotype about groups supported by your social justice allies (most of the field, apparently), but it may be more warmly received to sterotype the political opposition, easiest with the low hanging fruit of conspiratorial right wingers.
In the spirit of Douglas Adams, maybe that's exactly what happened, and we're now, in fact, 17 years behind where we should be.
There's a lot of exotic hardware on servers (enterprise RAID controllers, converged and 10GbE NICs, SAN HBAs, IPMI configuration utilities...).
Or learning to program in C on DOS, where a bad pointer could not only hose your program, but easily hose the OS too
Yes, less capacity for manually driven cars because there will be fewer of them.

Besides, the capacity increase from a pure self driving lane far outweighs the increase from a carpool lane. In fact, many argue that existing carpool lanes give less overall capacity.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-...
How do these compare to xxHash, which is 5x faster than CityHash? http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/
discussion are here it seems
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

most interesting so far is
"I'm doing the advent with 25 different languages, who wants to join?!"
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/3vhzob/im_doi...

No one is code golfing it yet
To demonstrate that a joke failed, you have to show it didn't work for the bulk of an intended audience, not just that you personally didn't like it.
PAYPAL WILL BUY BRAZILIAN PAYMENT PROVIDER?
Wow. They're really serious about changing their philosophy aren't they. Using Github for their stuff, making and open sourcing Visual Studio Code, other stuff I can't remember, and now this.
Millennials aren't very entrepreneurial
Fantasy Sports sites use math to show they’re not gambling
Wow, I've been thinking the exact same thing for a long time.

In principle there's no need to limit it to file-level granularity. Take for example a JS minifier-compressor where human-readability isn't a goal. If you're compressing a javascript file with a bunch of top-level functions, it shouldn't matter which order the functions are expressed, thanks to hoisting.

Once you make that jump, it's not even limited to re-ordering things. The minifier-compressor could also consider all possible results of swapping singlequote and doublequote, x['this'] vs. x.this when appropriate, and so on.
That said, Microsoft did port iOS frameworks to their native frameworks, so that iOS apps can run without code changes on Microsoft platforms.
ObjectiveC library for magical scroll interactions
http://adventofcode.com/about says
"If you'd like to support Advent of Code, you can do so indirectly by helping to Share it with others, or directly via Paypal or bitcoin. "

so I guess you are welcome to throw in some bitcoins...
What does it mean for a transaction to reference previous transactions? Is it just listing them, rather than using them as inputs?

> If two conflicting transactions appear, as more transactions are added to the
DAG-chain, the number of confirmations of one of the two will increase, but the other will not

Is that just because people go with whichever has the most references and/or proof-of-work so far?
The dragon book is mentioned often, but usually only as "this book covers these things," which isn't really a recommendation, only a comment. Is the book actually good? Can you recommend it?
I agree it would be useful to have a list of such places!
Edge is certainly much faster than Chrome/Firefox for JS processing that I wish I could use it on Linux. Looks like that might be happening. Really great news.

I didn't know Node.js could use anything but v8. This is also very nice.
Wow, I'll admit that I haven't been looking at Edge simply because of the IE stigma, but this blog post impressed me. 90% ES6 support? More so than Babel? Awesome. And it's getting open sourced! I hope to see it ported to the Unixes. Perhaps Servo+Chakra could be a thing?
While there are lots of materials (studies, books, etc.) to back the article, what backs your claims about the train costs?
No, I don't think you can extrapolate that, those seem like entirely unrelated issues. Neither of those points imply an overly broad law that only works based on the trust and restraint of the government.
If they go full SaaS I would not be surprized if they go Open Source on Windows itself, seriously. I think for that to happen Nadella needs one big win/turnaround and the shareholders might be on board.
I was literally blown away by Visual Studio Code. It is an amazing editor. I haven't opened sublime since.
I wonder if in the future node will enable swappable js engine
edit: ok just found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534138
I took Tom's Nature of Mathematics course. Lots of fun.