skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried it out, and 1) their definition of "nearly unique" was "1 in 2068276.0 browsers", which I agree is not good but also seems to be a non-intuitive rating scale, and 2) I swear from looking at the results that they are failing to take into account cross-variable correlations (but have not dug into this enough to be sure, so don't quote me on this or anything: do your own research), by which I mean that each entropy source is considered in isolation, even though my screen size and user agent (which tells you I have an iPhone running iOS 8.4) should massively discount the screen size statistic (which is effectively just telling you I have an iPhone 6), as well as my "browser plugin details" (as they are likely the same for every single iPhone), and probably to some lesser extent even my time zone (I live in California, where I would imagine having a semi-recent iPhone would be more common, though I could see an argument that my using an out-of-date firmware is less common ;P). FWIW, if this is not yet including any knowledge of my IP address, then one in millions is brutal, as I am probably one of only a small handful of people in Isla Vista that has this specific iPhone configuration.
Push him on it, sure. After the 5th time of accusing him of stealing the data it felt a bit more like badgering the same point.

I think there are certainly some parallels as mentioned by the parent of the what constitutes a understanding of a breach vs ethics of accessing a system.
Practical CoreBluetooth for Peripherals
Again, that is not saying you have to exceed the limit, it's just saying if you're slower than the flow of traffic, then you have to move over and let people pass.
Much like the US has all sorts of scrub lands in the west that knock down the population density numbers, China has all sorts of scrub lands in the west that knock down the population density numbers.
Bostrom's predictions about when human level AI will arrive are mainly based on surveys of computer scientists e.g.

http://www.givewell.org/labs/causes/ai-risk/ai-timelines
A loan is renting money. Patents and copyright are artificial state constructs to grant monopoly rental powers. You never "own" IP you buy from someone on physical media, you are buying a license to use it, or in other words renting it.

Rents by the OP's definition are the kind of revenue sources you wouldn't have in near-statelessness, which means it takes state bias to create them. Without a state it would be hard to lay claim to vast swathes of land peacefully, and homesteading would be abundant on unused land. Even in a simplified state model that offers courts to protect property rights with, you couldn't have the widespread real estate market manipulation we can simply observe with how out of control land prices have risen in the past twenty years.
aristole and ngpvan "scoring" isn't a game changer. Losing access to their existing work is what matters.
Your comment history indicates you're a Javascript programmer. No comment.
My read on this is that very few people involved in the conversation have a very good understanding of technology and gp's speculation matches my own understanding.
Well, de facto it can make the fire bigger or smaller. If the bottom of the fire is below the lower screen edge, only a small part is visible. Move the fire up -> more becomes visible -> the fire becomes "bigger" ;-)

At least is does in a graphical environment. Like I said, it doesn't work in terminal.
Maybe that's so now. But my comment addressed policy over several decades. And the AMA definitely played a role. Virtually all medical school faculty and administration are AMA members. It hasn't necessarily been a formal process, just an old-boys (literally, for decades) network.
Nokia Wi-fi connectivity test server offline, 'Limited Connectivity' messages
The paper can be found here: http://www.econ.upf.edu/docs/papers/downloads/1498.pdf
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
So pg predicts that hackers are going to hate Java. Hackers mostly hate Java. Because of this, pg predicts Java will be unsuccessful. Java's actually pretty successful. This is kind of sobering. Possibly we overestimate the social influence of hackers.
There's a lot of exploration of different development curves for AI in Bostrom's book, including the most obvious one, an S-curve.
Sustained popularity means it's language that solves a lot of problems for a lot of people.
It reflects another issue though which is that MAC address accuracy probably doesn't matter very much in a world without caps (it would make it hard to diagnose issues, but let's assume a relatively good uptime). That means there could be many, many incorrect addresses and Comcast won't find them until people receieve the wrong bill.
If you open it up with addresses/phone/email-addresses, beware that the main users may be commercial marketers (i.e. junk mail senders), not campaigns. Also note that many states license the data with a restriction that it only be used for election purposes.
You can style Qt Quick Controls, which are the QtWidgets equivalent objects in QML.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrolsstyles-index.html

This is how many new apps are coming out using QML and doing their own custom UI theming rather than doing system default. It also beats the hell out of CSS by using the same object model relationships you are already using when laying out QML objects.

Yes, if you use language primitives like rect's and text's then you have to create either your own theming engine template classes and then use those, or manually manage all the styling per object. But then you are doing it wrong if your project does not warrant that kind of ground up custom craftsmanship.
Personal experience here. My depression has been an unending struggle since my tweens. I've been on every medication, spent fortunes in therapy. I also abused dissociatives like Ketamine. Ketamine's antidepressant effects seemed very real after the initial high and it was qualitatively different from SSRIs. SSRIs seemed more like a drug than Ketamine which felt more like relief (again, for the days following the high - the actual high was, you know, psychedelic and stuff). I think for some people research into this area would be a real boon. Not everyone responds well to traditional treatments. I'm not sure what's different about my brain that makes even high doses of SSRIs ineffective or even unpleasant, but I don't think we understand all that well how depression actually works at all, other than SSRIs and similar seem to kind of work.

If you think depression is about just increasing serotonin in the brain, let me point out that "serotonin syndrome" is a very real risk of using antidepressants. It's essentially an overdose on serotonin. It's clear that messing with serotonin in the brain, you can give a sort of neurochemcial nudge that can help you overcome depression, but happiness is not itself the amount of serotonin in your system.

Either way, I quit using drugs and alcohol many years ago and regular exercise with exercise, tons of CBT, and lots of vigilance has helped the best. But it would be nice to have a drug on the market that would make keeping depression at bay so effortful and so much hard, consistent work.

Anecdote isn't worth much in medicine, but there really is something special about Ketamine.
It's Nearly 2016. Why Aren't Banking Apps More Secure?
> yes, it is clearer the Go way.

Hardly, but that's not the argument, I was replying to an assertion that not having default arguments enforces you to actually design an elegant API. It does no such thing. Contrary to the person I was replying to (and to you apparently) I would say that there are advantages to and issues with both options, but the claim I quoted and replied to is just plain insane.

> things are up-front and obvious, easier to document, and less error-prone.

Things are none of these, the exact same claim can be made about having optional parameters and against not having them.
It's funny how much has changed. Today, we are learning python and Java because python and Java are all you will ever need.
Vulkan Working Group Update: year-end target release date will not be met
Funding is a byproduct of new discoveries.
See You on Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Our Lives
The reason I brought it up is because of the irony of their demands.

Most women want men who have it all figured out (aka grown up men) but themselves don't realize how imperfect they are. They'd rather spend hours on pinterest looking at hair ties of different colors than on something that gets their student loans out, career planning, family planning etc.

So many women are vapid but want a guy who makes six figures, is six feet tall, knows how to build a car from ground up and can has some cool artistic side and yet can fight drug overlords....I mean...these are such divergent qualities and skills...it's pretty funny when one hears it out loud.

If they expect an amazing guy with everything figured out (aka worked his socks off his entire life exploring different things and learning how to deal with shit), they better be amazing too.

EDIT:
To answer you:
I agree...so many men who don't take care of themselves want a hot supermodel with a degree in physics. It's just so divergent. Many men suffer from the same dichotomy.
>.. otherwise it wouldn't be as "pervasive" as it is.

There are plenty of reasons why we could suppose it is pervasive without the language overall being very good compared to other languages. Entrenchment comes to mind immediately.

It can also be that a language is great for a period in history.
Technology is not always positive! Do you think the people who designed and built Room 641A were giving back?
I'm concerned that there is a cap at all or more specifically there aren't any viable competitors (with a decent network connection without caps).
I’m in the first 3k users and still can’t comment. I was able to submit stuff at the beginning but they quickly limited this functionality to some group of users.
>I'm a proud Canadian, and all else being equal I'd rather live in Canada than the US,

I think we need some border-tightening. :-)

Here's another title: "Canadians Drive down Salaries of US Artificial Intelligence Researchers"
I can buy a piece of land, wait for the price to go up, and sell it. Or I can buy a piece of land, improve it, and eventually sell it. So I'm not sure why you single out the former as the defining thing that private property rights causes.
No one loves it. C, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, and Lisp programmers love their languages. I've never heard anyone say that they loved Java.

- You must be kidding me, ever been to any JUG meeting or JavaOne conference? There are millions of hardcore Java lovers at those places. Java has one of the the biggest developer community world wide. I love Java - it's one of the best programming language till date.
It is actually not a bad language and with an IDE like Eclipse or inteliJ you can be quite productive. Sure, they've screwed up majorly a couple of times like inventing JSP and going a bit overboard with J2EE. Overall it is not bad.
Indeed; I've noticed often while observing people of older generations that one of their big problems using apps today (especially mobile) is that they don't have the same understanding of iconography as younger generations. It's usually not intuitive for them.
if you have to work with a framework of corporate pick in java it usually turns into an ugly mess really fast because many of them came from a decade of crazy soft coders which decided to put everything in xml whether it made sense or not

otherwise it's a very good language if you get to pick which libraries to work with, has some of the best tooling out there and has matured enough to let dev do what they need to do (like having first citizen memory mapped files, heck, it did non blocking i/o before it was cool and still people think node is radically different because of it)
Ouch. But fair ;-)
Ketamine, unaltered, would probably never a good treatment for depression except in some extreme cases. I think people are more interested in understanding how Ketamine can have this unexpected effect so that they can develop classes of drugs that are designed from the ground-up to treat depression. Kind of like how understanding how MAOIs led to tricyclics and then SSRIs. I think that's the direction research is going in.
Bad faith seems like a pretty nefarious claim. For all we know Hillary's campaign was accessing Sander's data this whole time. The breach went both ways.
Is there any working group on it? I'd love to read more on what KDE is doing on the topic, my casual searches just find Dave Edmundson making some fantastic rants on how terrible the field is.
Haters gonna hate no matter how many reasons you give them. Java is the #1 language out there.
The 2016 JavaScript Job Market
Well, it's a bad process if it relies on that. One would think that this would be automated somehow when the tech comes out to install the modem. Given the error rate of typos and the size of their customer base, it could affect a lot of people.

Don't forget that this data might be relied upon for other things, such as identifying the subscriber account associated with DMCA requests or such.
> I can see the alternate viewpoint but given that we can use structs and default fields to get the same effect I'm happy with the current solution.

And that's completely fair, I routinely use languages both with and without optional parameters[0] and that's fine I'm not saying languages must[1] have optional parameters, or even that they should[1]. My comment only tries to humorously denote that the claim I quoted is pure lunacy.

> we can use structs and default fields

Don't forget the builder pattern which works pretty well to replace optional parameters (and keyword/named parameters), though it's less convenient on the implementer's side.

[0] whether in the "native" sense à la Python or C#, in the "overloaded method" sense à la C++ or Java or in the "well your question doesn't even make sense" à la Smalltalk

[1] in an RFC 2119 sense
The Sanders campaign did not report the recent issue to the DNC or NGP VAN.

The Sanders campaign had reported a different issue with a different vendor's software in the past.
Hear, Hear! A Java fan here.
No one's arguing that doubling in three years is average, but of people that get jobs at Google, doubling in five years seems very reasonable.
how long did it take you to put the site together?
No, I understood your point the first time. I'm saying that there's no empirical evidence that "scientific skepticism" is necessary or even useful for increasing the whole of human knowledge. If I accept your point without evidence, then by your own words I'm being anti-scientific.

Everything I've seen of Galileo leads me to believe that he was't a scientific skeptic (the dude still had epicycles when all he had to do was pay a bit more attention to Kepler). I'm interested in what evidence you use to believe that he was practicing any form of skepticism.
Not so fast. If I double the productivity of my farmland, I increase the rent on my land (but typically I have to invest in it to get that, so it's not just rent in the economic sense of the word). But if everybody doubles the productivity of their farmland, the price of wheat falls through the floor, and the landowner may be even worse off than before, while consumers get a windfall.
I'm not quite sure if I believe the Sanders campaign story

Well, if they didn't report, then we'd have more reason to doubt, no? Self-reporting deserves benefit of the doubt.

edit: Never mind my comment, now more clear on the situation.
There is a big difference between hackers and professional programmers. He is clearly not talking about the latter.
I always laugh when I see that "unclear laundry icons" image, because I recently had the experience of trying to use a combined washer/dryer machine in a foreign country. The icons truly are asinine, you can't even get close to guessing what you want.

For fun, I looked it up. Some of the icons are obvious, a few make sense once you know the basics, and still others seem almost sillier once explained.

http://www.textileaffairs.com/lguide.htm
GCHQ Holiday Puzzle Part 2
This is the first of 6 multiple choice questions.

On this first one I'm thinking the answer is SHALLOT...

But I haven't answered it yet...you must answer ALL 6 correctly to move on to Part 3 of the Christmas Puzzle!

Any thoughts? The word "not" in the question is throwing me off.

http://www.gchq.gov.uk/puzz/Pages/index.aspx
Couldn't agree more with all of your observations.

I agree that cloud is currently the center of the ecosystem, and will be over the short term. Data is the blood and the cloud is the heart that stores and pumps that blood. Will become increasingly important as silicon per capita ratio increases and people look to analyze data for optimization purposes.

As another poster commented, a paradigm shift in I/O (VR/AR?) will drive the next surge in productivity as new tech adopts to a better/faster way to get it to do what we want.
Close enough for government work.

See also: "goto fail;"
The Failure of the Surveillance State
if I define open as, "your campaign would have to register and be verified"...then it abides by the state/fed rules for these datasets. I can't just throw the data on github.
Trading services does not involve property, so no.

It does. Everyone has self-ownership, and as such services can only be sold in the units contracted. A contract for a single indefinite unit service (slavery) would be logically consistent, but a property rights violation and therefore invalid.
I think they have the same root cause -- you're not having a face-to-face interaction with someone where you can read subtle cues. You react to your perception of the person's intent, not their actual intent.
"the ecosystem of ARM, iOS and Android"
It is not what has been doing COBOL During Decades ?
I wouldn't let a single requirement that you don't meet deter you from applying -- if you're a 90% match for a company's requirements list, and truly believe you'd be a good fit for the job, chances are you're a better candidate than many other people applying for literally everything that has a particular job title, regardless of their experience. It doesn't hurt to apply. Just make sure you're pursuing other opportunities as well.

Since you're a Stanford student, I'd guess Facebook actually comes to your campus for some recruiting events as well. Check with your career center to find out. Meeting one of their recruiters in person would be a good chance to ask questions about their requirements and how your experience might match.
When I need a reminder that I'm not like most people, I just need to look at how something in human psychology means that being the president / prime minister / dictator's son/brother/wife means that you get your turn as well.

Maybe it really is nothing more than "Oh, I've heard of pepsi, so I'd better buy a fucking ton of blue-labeled sugar water every week of my life", but there might be something else evolutionary about power and loyalty and reward.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758571 and marked it off-topic.

(Some users have flagged that comment while others have vouched for it. It is currently not flagged.)
I don't see how you reach that conclusion. It's possible that posessing some knowledge may lead to overconfidence, but that too is a problem with a lack of knowledge - knowing the limits of your knowledge. Knowledge is always beneficial to a rational agent.
Sounds very similar to approaches we've taken with C++ with a team that largely didn't have C++ experience(~15 devs, 2-3 C++ "experts", I use the term losely). Also similar to the approach DropBox said they use with their cross-platform C++ code form a talk a while back.

In cases like this I feel like convention does a good job of keeping a codebase from spawling out into using every feature of the language.
To clarify:

The Sanders campaign had in October reported an unrelated software issue in a non-VAN system.

They did not report THIS issue to the DNC or NGP VAN, but claim they were gathering information about the breach for the purposes of reporting. Based on my reading of the OP, the breach was discovered by NGP VAN employees.
But the first two are part of the government, so anything they use is by definition in use by the government. Would the other groups get the catalogue? I would think not since it's supposedly internal to the US government...
APT Friend Finder:

http://www.aptfriendfinder.com/
Well the press release states: "Our team removed access to the affected data, and determined that only one campaign took actions that could possibly have led to it retaining data to which it should not have had access."
> Bear in mind, this is not a critique of Java, but a critique of its cover. I don't know Java well enough to like it or dislike it. This is just an explanation of why I don't find that I'm eager to learn it.

I think this post proves two things: a) "books" are in fact very difficult to judge by their covers and b) predicting the future, even only a decade ahead and in an industry you live in, is a fruitless endeavor
Would love to hear more and see if we can't collaborate on this. My email is seth AT amicushq DOT com.
I think it helps that it's not a direct threat to an actual person. The reader gets the feeling that the writer not only will not figure out who made the decision (and, therefore, who to kill), but also won't even bother trying to figure it out.
Tangential but:

As a cyberpunk hippie who thinks people should own their data and control their computers (personal comput-ing regardless of form factor), that's why I focus mostly on the transport and the cloud. The cloud is where your data mostly lives today and probably will live even more in the future, and having private transport envelopes to get that data to and from your multiple devices is key. In the long term I'm excited about personal cloud devices and homomorphic encryption, which would enable your own cloud resources to be hosted in commodity cloud data centers without compromising security. The next "PC" will really be a kind of amorphous blob of silicon orbiting cloud resources linked by an encrypted communication envelope.

You'll be able to access all that from a variety of different I/O devices: things with big monitors and keyboards, things with little screens and touch panels, refrigerators, cars, thermostats, etc.
"I'm not writing here about Java (which I have never used)"

"I've never written a Java program, never more than glanced over reference books about it"

... yet he felt qualified to dismiss it all the same.