skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK constitutional affairs are crazy; believe me, I've looked at them at several times. It's a rabbit hole of ad-hoc agreements for little bits of land here and there, acquired or controlled at various points in time by feudal or commercial means, and just maintained as they were or with minimal harmonization. It's the same at all levels, from the smallest of towns to the humongous London (the City or the Metropolitan Authority? it's all a mess...) to Crown Dependencies, Overseas Territories, etc etc.

You then couple this legal patchwork with Common Law and a formalized-but-not-quite-fully-consistent parliamentary process, evolved day-by-day over several hundred years, and you can understand how very few people at any given time actually know who really should be in charge of this or that. What matters is that the right someone should be considered in charge at the right time on the right matter, correctness be damned. It's an extremely pragmatic stance on Power: it decouples highfalutin declarations of what Power is and where it comes from, in favour of simply making sure that Power exists and can be exercised for everyday purposes by trusted insiders without facing a riot.

The current system has been running continuously for more than 300 years (and it's not incredibly different from the one it replaced, which was almost 600 years old at the time). Imagine maintaining a custom backend for 300 years, piling hack over hack because you're never allowed to rewrite it all from scratch. That's what the British system basically is.

But going back to your question: of course the Queen is a figurehead, but it's because she decides to be so, as British monarchs have done since the Glorious Revolution. In theory, she (or her heirs) could, at any time, try to force the constitutional compromise, reasserting everyday powers that today are in Parliament hands (the list grows longer every year, as it often happens with elderly rulers)... but there is really no reason for her to do so: she is well looked after, paid handsomely to basically be a 365/24/7 global PR representative for her country, and allowed to own a large amount of wealth and property, some of which she (or rather her heirs) can directly manage and profit from (Duchy of Cornwall etc). Why would you give up all that and precipitate a disastrous conflict and potentially a civil war? For some misplaced pride of power, at 89, after having seen through (and won) the Cold War?

So the powers stay there, she just doesn't use them (and would likely be rebuffed if she tried too hard to); she exercises influence were strictly necessary and that's enough to keep everyone happy. It's a bit like owning nuclear weapons without ever using them.

This whole setup is also the reason some people still worry about the return of "activist" monarchs. HRH the Prince of Wales at various points tried to wield his unwritten power a bit... ungraciously, stoking these fears, but he seems to have recently accepted that his reign will be too short to really worry about, so we should be ok.
My thoughts exactly.

Coming from Vim I really wanted to like the idea of some fully async editor with Vim ease of navigation and Emacs power packages (org mode, async repl like iPython, etc) so I found the idea of Spacemacs awesome.

But in practice it's just too broken, after almost 2 days where I fully dedicated my time to do something as simple as showing line numbers in a consistent way, showing the Git gutter and showing the syntax checker marks in the gutter and being unable to solve the issue, I just gave up.

Mind you, this is just a small thing that should work right away (and does work right away in Vim), but seems impossible in Emacs because the packages just don't play nicely with each other.
Worst, asking for help in Stackoverflow amounts to nothing, seems like the Emacs/Spacemacs just has their config and they don't want to touch it afraid to break it.
The open bugs in Github for many of the troubles in Space are just mostly closed without an answer (really, for instance getting the theme colors to actually work in a terminal in OSX is a nightmare and nobody cares about it and the devs just close the bugs without solution).

Still, I'm still thinking about giving one last effort of just ditching Spacemacs and try to config Emacs from origin with evil mode and build from there, let's see.

BRIGHT SIDE:
The philosophy being Spacemacs is really nice tough. I've been changing my Vim config to use a consistent approach to the <LEADER> keybindings and it's really productive and intuitive.

I just which there was some package that allowed to see the available keybindings in a small window at the bottom in Vim like you do in Spacemacs. That would be absolutely great.
"If the AI created the tracks, why does the company own the copyright (and thus, have the right to sell it)?"

The same reason artists like Autechre deserve to own the copyright to music they created using algorithms. They wrote the software that made the song, it's just somewhat more abstracted version of composing isn't it?
I'm wondering if this will allow for a huge speed up in 3D rendering? Specifically, unbiased Monte Carlo ray-tracing / path-traching renderers like Maxwell Render. Does anyone know of any work being done in this area of Quantum computing?
It's worse than that...these folks (or whoever inherits the patent) can now sue anybody that actually can get it working.

This is a great example of patents being bullshit.
> Don't blame the companies, blame the government that writes the tax laws.

True, but also blame companies when they fail to educate their employees about the mechanics of their equity grant -- or even worse, when they obfuscate in response to direct questions on that subject.
Google Glass was a shitty augmented reality device. Magic Leap looks like it could be the real deal, if they can make the hardware unobtrusive enough.

> the way we consume content is supposed to have been revolutionized about 100 times by now.

It has been at least once a decade for at least my lifetime (personal computers, internet, mobile)

I predict in 10 years VR/AR will be as boring as smartphones are now.
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https://www.jukedeck.com/share/9b06d5df52e9a4c044cbe7da7a76d...
I'm a maintainer of clj-rethinkdb. It makes a ton of sense for clj-rethinkdb to use as much as possible from the Java driver. I might be a bit biased, but I think the query language is really idiomatic for Clojure. The docs could definitely do with some love, I'd appreciate feedback on what else we could do to bring it up to par with the official drivers.
The music it generates in Electronic - Aggressive - Drum and bass - 130-135 bpm could replace my spotify subscription, pretty good stuff and when you get tired of a track, you just generate a new one that you can download Awesome!
A hit, a palpable hit ;-)
The problem is that colleges don't rely only on SAT/grades (at least the elite colleges). Extracurriculars are, obviously, very non-meritocratic - doing extracurricular activities is not really correlated with how good you are at them (or at anything else), but rather with how much time you have and how much your parents can afford to pay for your activities.
It's easy to think of reasons why this isn't a sound investment. However, here are some thoughts why this may be sensible:

* This is largely Google's investment to cover possible future success of Facebook's Occulus or Microsoft's Hololens.

* They could have valuable non-tangible patents or employees. This is way past the "acquihire" funding levels, but perhaps the technology itself is valuable. Perhaps they get around that valuation with 100M/year in patent licensing. For perspective, IBM Research provides ~O(1B)/year in revenue from licensing patents.

* Magic leap has a technology that is going to revolutionize entertainment consumption. It could simply be good execution of augmented reality, but I don't think this is sufficient to get the market excited and stop using their mobile devices or TVs to consume a lot of entertainment. It seems like at best here it is a "better mousetrap" than Occulus or Hololens.

I'd love to hear other thoughts why this could be a useful investment.
Anecdotally, I only see "cyber" in security-related discussions.
Yes?

Looking cool on TV doesn't mean it'll sell. Movie OSes have every keystroke and action make a sound and use 48pt font for everything. I wouldn't bet much on such an OS selling in the market.
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So every hardcore gamer is displaying the 'warning signs of cyber crime' now? Because let's face it, most of those signs also apply pretty well to die hard gamers or video game fans, especially ones who discuss them on internet forums and watch videos on Youtube.

But hey, keep buying into the crap about the average cyber criminal being your typical 'geek' or gamer type.
Do you have citations for your libelous claim?
> The Employees’ Choice Awards is based on the input of employees who choose to provide feedback on their job, work environment, and company via an anonymous online company review survey. Glassdoor then uses a “proprietary algorithm” to determine an overall ranking “based on the quantity, quality, and consistency of reviews.”

What does that mean? The "algorithm" could be anything, possibly not even an algorithm.
This is what I ask myself whenever I feel upset, "Am I over reacting? Am I being overly sensitive?"

This is what I ask when someone else is upset at me, "What did I do wrong?"

Hopefully, these questions prevent me from being too self-righteous. The downsides are that it takes me a while to understand my mistakes, and I don't get to be smug and self-satisfied.
That's awesome to hear - thanks!
Cool, I learned something – thank you! :o)
We're actively hiring for database engineers right now. Backups are coming in the next release.

Which features from 0.8 aren't there?

TSM is an effort, but not never ending. We just refuse to put it out there until we've done enough testing on it to be certain about its robustness. We think the community will be happier if we wait to release it rather than rushing something out that may or may not be ready.

That being said, please test out TSM on the 0.9.6 release. I think you'll find that its performance is better than anything we've released previously (including 0.8) and so far we've been able to write far more data into it than in previous 0.9 storage engines.

I'm sorry to hear that you had to go back to Postgres for your time series storage. Hopefully our upcoming releases will give you a reason to take another look.
I read it the same way, that the contact lenses would act as filters for an external source of light.

Edit: Specifically: "Referring to FIG. 17, in one embodiment it may be desirable to have a contact lens directly interfaced with the cornea, and configured to facilitate the eye focusing on a display that is quite close (such as the typical distance between a cornea and an eyeglasses lens). Rather than placing an optical lens as a contact lens, in one variation the lens may comprise a selective filter."
This reminds me of another article

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
Given the former omnipresence of flying cars in science fiction movies, I would say yes.
All those are after the fact explanations. When Yahoo! ruled the web -- and I was there for those years back in the mid-late nineties when it was as big as Google is now -- the name clearly wasn't a problem.
And when confronted with someone violently harming defenseless children in your care?

Some believe violence is wrong even then, others believe pacifism is wrong then.
At the dawn of the Triassic and onwards to the early Cretaceous all the major continents were part of Pangaea. So assuming we arn't relying on just a few fossil beds to paint the picture, its virtually certain we are seeing the large continent species.
"Cross-culturally, I looked at why it is incomprehensible to Westerners to kill women for sexual infidelity, yet other parts of the world encourage this practice."

Could the author be more "Westerners"-centric? It is incomprehensible for all the human beings except the fundamentalists from those religious sects.
Without labour working in those factories, producing goods, those deeds are about as valuable as toilet paper.

You're confusing creating value with economic velocity. Mere ownership cannot create value. Mere ownership can change the rate at which money circulates in the economy.
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Isn't this less permissions than Facebook apps use anyway?
Can anyone explain what force is recoiling the shooter's hand in the second video? Or is that gun computer-generated?
Sounds familiar...

* Has your son asked you to change ISPs?
* Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing?
* Has your child asked for new hardware?
* Does your child read hacking manuals?
* How much time does your child spend using the computer each day?
* Does your son use Quake?
* Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour?
* Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
* Has your son radically changed his appearance?
* Is your son struggling academically?

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
He is already avenged, as the majority of real time OS and embedded systems use micro-kernels.
Envy of what, exactly?
Kind of missed the point. Most people drink "bad" tea because they enjoy it. In fact the "correct" way usually is rejected when tried by your average tea drinker as being too strong.
> They say the stack is optimised for OpenDataPlane (ODP) programming interfaces. This will let OpenFastPath take advantage of acceleration in systems-on-a-chip that support ODP, and make the protocol programmable via the ODP environment.

Are those SoCs optimised for line rate packet processing / DPI?
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Wouldn't Nashorn in Java 8 count as 'native syntax'? Use javascript in the JVM to munge your JSON.
I purchased Nokia with Windows Phone 7 expecting the same kind of OS updates that I got as an Apple user. My iPad 2 (from 2011) is on the latest iOS version. Instead Microsoft abandoned Windows Phone 7 users. It's mildly annoying that I can get Cortana on my iPad now but not my Windows Phone device.
DELTE FROM hasn't been wired up yet: https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/1647

Unfortunately, we were passing that through to the DB which was causing problems. The current release 0.9.6 will return an error.

You can drop an entire series, but you can't yet drop a specific time range. We'll hopefully get that in soon, but we need to get TSM out in production before we start looking at those additional features.
>Are you asking why do people care about ethics?

No. I'm asking why the parent thinks people WILL care about such ethics.

Between "ethical ad-removal: keeps some ads" and "non-ethical: it removes all of them", I don't think most people will give it a second though to go for the "no ads" option.

And they certainly won't go out of their way to find if there an "ethical ad-removal" option even exists in the first place.

>I think most "ordinary" people do feel at least a tiny bit guilty about nuking every single ad on web sites that they use regularly. I know I do.

I think those are probably outliers. The same way people (millions) didn't give a damn about skipping ads with their TiVo's or what have you.
Super offtopic, but it looks like they only support SSL3 and TLS1.0, you might have something that does TLS1.2 only.
Making unhackable e-voting systems for national elections
It's not Facebook's responsibility to enforce this absent a complaint from the copyright holder.
Coincidentally I was reading this earlier today after coming across a comment on a different article questioning whether pros use the term.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/03/cyborgs-cyberspac...

It seems like cyber is generally used for online badness (cybercrime, cyberwar) while the e- prefix is used for online goodness (e-mail, e-sports, e-commerce)
That would probably get shut down pretty quickly, as it would be essentially allowing a group of small-time players to make non-sports-related proposition bets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700092
I think the two of you are using slightly different definitions of "meritocratic". Yummifajitas means "who's better", whereas you mean "who's potentially better".

Obviously, in average whites are better than blacks (and Asians are better than whites). All test scores prove that. That's what yummifajitas is referring to when he says "meritocracy".

Obviously blacks have been severely disadvantages throughout their lives (before college), so they aren't as good as they could be (again in average). Therefore, you're saying that we should accept more blacks, who could be just as good as whites are.

Personally, I agree with yummifajitas' definition of the word "meritocratic", but I think that favoring the disadvantaged is a better outcome for the society than a purely meritocratic system. However, I also think that favoring (affirmative action) should be non-racist, but instead targeting the disadvantaged people/families (regardless of their race); furthermore, I believe that the effect of such policies would be orders of magnitude greater if they were favoring people waaaay before university.
Jersey is under UK military control, it even has a formal Territorial Army regiment, so it's certainly possible in factual terms.

In legal terms I honestly don't know, but after Snowden I thought we agreed that the law is no obstacle for these people.
It'd be interesting as a musician that often plays just by myself if I could record and upload it somewhere and have something to add accompanying music. So say a guitar track, and have an "AI" that could add drums & bass that fit the timing.
This is a much better path to follow, royalty-free music market is so limited, and I see interesting tech going to waste, if you want more market data on this, It is available.
Flying cars don't exist. That's a technology problem, not a market problem.
so what's happening with ubuntu phone nowadays?
Yeah, sounds kind of random.
I always held the belief that almost no one (except maybe for some persons with mental health problems) could cope with consistently acting "evil" according to his/her own internal moral compass.

There's always an excuse or twisted moral justification, which boils down to: Someone acts against my interest so I am right in doing X.

Doesn't matter if that someone is a person, the society, the state, culture or the economic system, there's always something you could come up with to direct your hatred against when life didn't work out the way you wanted it.
> Binaries produced by gcc don't bear GPL license and Adobe can not dictate license on pictures created in Photoshop.

I don't think there's anything legally stopping either behavior; it's just that neither GNU nor Adobe are in a market position where anyone would put up with that sort of behavior.
>To be raising such ridiculous amounts, they must have some incredible technology to demo.

I used to think along this line too. But examples like Theranos make me more skeptical
So the answer to the question is, of course, nuanced and anecdotal.

The media has misused it so much, that much of the information security world (With the exception of pentesters from what I've seen) seems to have given up trying to use the proper terminology. They still seem to be trying to recover the term "hacker", though.
What gets left out of these time estimates is the error bars. Lets assume the claim that the evolution happened in a few million years is true, then what has happened in the original estimate was 10 million +-8 million years and the new estimate is 3 million +-1.5 million years. The two estimates actually overlap and all we are doing is improving the precision of the estimate. This happens in science all the time.
I can't get the original public release running on Ubuntu 15.04. Obscure install error with no online remedy prescription.
Let's hope so. We see a lot of promises with this and HoloLens, but somehow production versions are still not here. I'm still not really sure if the latter isn't just a prank, or at least mostly post-recording CG.

> they're basically building Tony Stark's home computer interface in Iron Man.

Since you're bringing up Marvel - I fear the reality, at least with first released products, will turn out somewhat like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeiJ2jHyy7U
Hmm. Shouldn't the data packets arrive in kernel space at the beginning (in the HW driver, or if the driver is implemented in userspace, the PCIe-bus driver in the kernel) - thus making at least one context switch to userspace (with copying the packet, possibly) neccessary?

A full-kernel TCP/IP stack should not need to leave kernelspace or copy stuff around, except when passing control to the userland application.
They need to fabricate their light field emitter photonic IC. I imagine that's pretty expensive.
They don't seem to want to outlaw encryption, but rather force service providers to always be in the middle of their users.

Of course, terrorists, child pornographers, moderately-intelligent criminals in general, foreign-made and/or open-source software users, etc. would all be unaffected. It's everyone else who would be thrown under the bus.

The major implication of this obvious prediction is that it's Feinstein and Burr's intended result. They know they can't stop the real baddies (along with a way larger number of regular people) from using good crypto. They just hope they're not too late to stop the masses, too.
I'd love to know where you're buying from, that you can get a range, oven, refrigerator, cabinets, and counter for $500. (I'll be generous and leave the dishwasher off.)
Releasing it would just be nothing but incentive to game it.

Unless you think they're lying?
Even if the graphics are real (and that's a big if), the video is certainly a staged "proof of concept", and the apps are not real.

Thus, the shooter is recoiling the gun himself, to fit the narrative.
SO CLOSE! You almost got there. I DO want a language that replaces C, Java, Python, etc. It must have: garbage collection, compiles, and compiles to single static executable with no run time dependencies outside a clean install of the OS, and it must have no requirement for me to think about memory layout/management.

BUT, it must also have a nice set of high level abstractions. For web and application level stuff rather than system level stuff.

So, what's that magic language? Really!

Go is almost that language, but it "missed it by that much."
What would be wrong with that? People do it informally all the time.
I don't think it describes Uber's business model at all. Talking to non-tech people, Uber is immensely popular. If anything, it describes the taxi business model.
>No, it's not your idea of simplicity. It's not wrong, it's different.

What is your point? That words have no objective meaning and no one can ever be wrong ever?

I'm operating under the assumption that most people have a definition of simplicity that's similar to mine. Go is not simple under a very broad definition of "not simple". I'm not saying using Go is the wrong way to do things; I'm saying this classification is misleading.
You were probably already better informed on Jersey than most of us were before reading the article. There may have been significant details left out, but as a broad brush I felt the article probably did a good job of presenting a general picture of the island's economy.

Perhaps there are some important specifics that you would like to contribute, rather than just criticising the article's tone.