skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a point that really needs far more consideration. Do we really want human AI? It strikes me that the very notion of a human like AI at exponential capacity is a terrifying thing not for its potential for advancement and good, but for its potential for falling for the same fallacies that humans fall for on a regular basis and are mostly relative as is. Humans are wildly imperfect even, and especially when they think they are correct or right. That does not sound like a characteristic I would want an AI system to have.
I don't know, the court documents that show he's done at least a few of the items on that list?!
Apple II Library: The 4am Collection
What Does It Take to Become an Astronaut?
Spoofing your user agent on your own typically makes you easier to fingerprint, not harder. See footnote 3 of the Panopticlick 1.0 paper:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf

It's more plausible for a large population of browsers to share a single spoofed user agent; all of the Tor Browsers pretend to be a single specific version of Firefox for Windows.
Just to let people know what 'a fraction of the price' means here, good brand double-edged safety razor blades can be had for about 10 cents a blade.
Entrepreneurial Journey
So much this!
asyncio was the main selling point for me, but in general, why not follow the language?

I never really understood the "rather stay with py2.7" thing.
I get it with big old monolithic applications. You don't "just" rewrite those, but
_every new python project_ should be done with the latest stable release.

Is anyone starting their PHP projects on PHP4?
Any new node projects in 0.10?
Of course not, that would be moronic.
it seems like maybe a more reasonable conclusion to draw is that the search feature is still being tested and tweaked quietly, and as such facebook's press office isn't hitting the gas as hard on getting it media attention as it is on the professional services page. There isn't necessarily a 1:1 correlation between what they send out to journalists and what's reported, but there certainly is one.
I've not been in Houston long (6 years) but this December also has been much warmer than I've experienced.

Anecdata ftw!
It is ambiguous. When you still don't get encodings. As surprising as this can be, I click faster on monads than encodings (maybe it doesn't tease my brain enough for me to retain it).
This is exactly the kind of functionality that I was missing when I was building Toc [1], a decentralized messaging app built on web technologies and Cordova.

Since mobile devices tend to pause apps rather aggressively, getting the Cordova app to retry message sending in the background required messing with native plugins, and getting the browser app to do this was simply not possible at the time.

Glad to see this feature finally become a proper web standard!

[1] http://toc.im/
Of course you may be right, but obviously I don't think so at this time. I feel I made a smart, safe bet. I'm still writing valid 2.7 code that could be migrated to 3.x at any point if for any reason my current plan would fall through. It would be just as easy for me to migrate to 3.x as it would anyone else with 2.x codebases.

So far, solving CPU performance in Python and removing the GIL is pretty much the holy grail. Python2 would have to completely collapse (no signs of this) for CPython3's ecosystem to outweigh the long-tail of libraries only on 2.x and the truly next-level dynamic language CPU performance.

While I am enjoying "performance as a feature" and GIL-free Python at the moment, I can still migrate to Python3 at any time if I lose my safe bet with PyPy4/Py2.

To me it looked and still looks like a no brainer.
Indeed. It is the very crux of my post. I view the distinction as worthwhile. In fact, I should probably have gone further and drawn distinction between convicted criminals and convicted criminals who are currently serving time.
Tits are nude beach; this would be a baby feeding on a teat, something like this[1].

[1] http://imgur.com/QOwxiHp
I believe Sandberg was referring to positions where someone might think an MBA is required, like product management. No one is asking whether an MBA might be useful for highly technical roles, like the above posting for someone doing the technical implementation of an online ad engine.
isn't this kind of like how Yakuza operates, allowed/enabled/blind-eye by the police? maybe it's the natural evolution of org crime
Universal Music parent Vivendi has acquired Winamp owner Radionomy
Everything that you have ever done in your life has been about reusing the work of others. When was the last time you mined your own copper ore and created your own wires, with a pickaxe you built yourself?

We have to draw the line somewhere.
Title should be "Google bribed US congressmen to fight EU antitrust case which could hurt their profits."

Google is one of the most powerful companies in the world. We need a system for holding them accountable when they intentionally corrupt our political apparatus for their own benefit.

Surely there must be some Google employees here-- how can you consent to complicity in this socially harmful activity by your employer?
Neither have most of the engineers working for large corporations, unless it was required by their degree program (mine did not).
Tencent Acquires Full Control of U.S.-Based Riot Games
I am not sure what "natively" means. I use Tcl because it's a conservative choice; very nearly any of the usual suspects will run on both. There are of course many small and irritating differences.
Having spent 7.5 hours on multiple customer support calls to Adobe just to get a feature enabled (compatibility with a 32 bit system) that was stated ON THE PRODUCT BOX as being present and working... YES!

(Yes, this is a bit OT, but still, "Adobe".)

I also fear the CDM support being used to "lock down" ever more aspects of web content.

And I fear attempts on the part of Adobe as well as others (perhaps in concert with a State or corporate power) to escape sandboxing and do "whatever" on client systems for their own purposes. In other words, here is another binary blob from Adobe (et al.?) that we are supposed to trust.

Sorry, Adobe, but -- through dint of extended experience -- I simply don't trust you.
Fail on history: It wasn't the Sensor in 1990 that introduced the 2 blade cartridge, it was the TRACII in 1973, followed by Atra, and then Sensor. Meanwhile, Shick had their own inventions, such as the Tracer.

Further, IP was such an issue that it caused King Camp Gillette to lose control of the company because his competitor held the patent to his newly invented blades. It was going to be settled by buying the competitor and giving the competitor's founder non-voting shares, but it came out in due diligence that Gillette had been over reporting profits. American Safety Razor executed a reverse takeover and kicked Gillette out... and it all began with an IP failure over blades.
All of this would be moot if people would just grow a beard and discover all the awesomeness that comes with it! Most of all you don't have to shave anymore!
FS is a bit of a special circumstance -- you are expected to understand complex financial instruments well enough to write code around them, so a background in investment finance is almost required. There are few places to learn about investment finance outside of an MBA, so it's almost a requirement.

And I can understand what Sandberg is saying -- it's definitely not an explicit requirement; some people are great engineers and have excellent soft skills and can play that up into management. They can play the politics game well, and likely had role models who taught them the rules of the game.

But for myself, an MBA was absolutely necessary. I wasn't ignorant about how to run a business, but I was completely unprepared for how corporate politics work. There are some things you can learn by trial and error, but the complex dance between operations, product, sales, and finance is something I didn't even fully understand until I was working post-MBA.
Why not? You could name your company after a fruit if you wanted to (as long as there isn't already a company in your industry with that name).
A Codebase is an Organism
This is the most important point. I didn't like that "TIFU by using Math.random()" article because it felt like it was deflecting some of the blame by focusing so much on the details of V8's PRNG, when it reality it's 100% his fault for not using a CSPRNG (in a gambling application, no less).
How the century-old Federal Reserve manages the controlled chaos of free markets
I find it slightly amusing when journalists call companies like Dollar Shave Club an "upstart". It paints this picture that they're this small scrappy startup when in fact they've raised $163M, founded in 2011 and air prime time commercials. But as compared to P&G's market cap of $220B, I get it, they're small potatoes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects#North_Ame... suggests: CityCenter in Las Vegas, Brickell Key in Miami, and Battery Park City in NYC as recently completed megaprojects in the US. (The last has been in development for a long time.)

It also lists the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project as an on-going $20 billion megaproject, which broke ground in December 2012 and appears to be doing well. It's the largest real estate development in U.S. history.
>The US does not have a general right to privacy

Yes we do. It isn't enumerated, but our rights are not limited to merely those which were enumerated.
I don't know if it's been edited since you posted this, but at the moment, the comment is a question asking why somebody would want this other than laziness.
The older business culture do not hold MBAs more often than not. They usually came from finance/accounting backgrounds. The better ones had some operations experience before going to university for a bachelors degree. That or were former engineers who had learned finance on their own.

The contempt I have often seen towards MBA holders has more to do with them being young people with little or no experience in operations, but with huge amounts of encyclopedic knowledge on "business stuff" (strategy, management theory, etc). They are good to have as tacticians if you can pair them up with some greybeard who can provide context, but left to their own devices they tend to abstract away too much details of the businesss.

Or maybe that is what you refer by "old" and what I am talking about is "ancient history".
This amazing thing called "bookmarks".

Changed my life tbh
Until some beard oil company finds a way to sue Dollar Beard Club. ;)

https://www.dollarbeardclub.com/
I acknowledge that this is how libertarians see themselves, but it is inherently dishonest to assume that just because someone disagrees with you then they're doing it out of a misunderstanding and overreaction about you "trying to dismantle all of their 'noble' ideas".

Their values can simply be different, and it is valid for them to disagree with you based on the conclusions they get from those values.

Aggression is defined differently by different groups after all, so the set of actions that a libertarian objects to based on their understanding of "aggression" would be different to a set of actions that someone else would object to based on a different understanding of "aggression".

Obviously you disagree with their conclusion of dismissing libertarianism and blocking libertarians, and that's fine. What's less fine - in my eyes - is to imply that the disagreement comes from the fact that you are the only one who understands some basic Truth about the world and those that disagree are foolish and cliche for disagreeing with you.

That's the sort of thing that I associate with religion, rather than an honest intellectual discussion of political merits of an ideology.
> Hopefully this gets more love than it did last time

We invited the submitter to repost it for that reason. I'll try to merge the comments from there into here.

Invited reposts are mostly deprecated now in favor of re-ups [1], but when it looks like the submitter might also be the author (as e.g. with Show HNs), we still send them. It's nice for an author to know that their post may still get discussed, and it's good for HN when an author jumps into the thread.

[1] All the details at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and previous posts linked there.
I like calling those "Debug tools".
When it comes to rapid onset dementia, that's a risk many people are willing to take.
My positive experience as a woman in tech
"Many more people are living in to their 70's, 80's and 90's than previously in human history."

Correct, though largely (not entirely, but very largely) because the proportion of people living past age ~3 has skyrocketed. Correct for that factor, and our life expectancy is actually lower than it was in, say, mid-Victorian England.

(Note, as well, that I'm referring to life expectancy and not, say, the potential maximum human lifespan).
We don't think of it as BaaS. Instead, we think of it first as a spreadsheet-like UI, and it also has an API.

The use cases people have been most excited about need both. For instance, set up a configuration database or CMS for your app--an engineer can create the schema and read via the API, then anyone on the team can view and edit the configuration.

With the BaaS offerings I've seen, you get the database and API, but you have to build any UI you want yourself, including any web or admin UI.
Some people go to Switzerland for specific chemicals to render them dead as fast as possible, since they see it as preferable to living with Alzheimer's.

Admittedly it seems like a bit of a gamble to just start popping drugs whether they've been studied or not, but people spend lots of money on "natural" supplements which are at least usually reasonably safe but are even less likely to work.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/
Sadly it seems like whenever this happens they get acquired by someone(probably Salesforce) and you never hear about the product again...
Gathr – Don't spend Christmas alone
On a related note, it's cheaper (per cartridge) to just buy from Dorco directly. I buy the Pace 4 cartridges in bulk.

It's a solid product, at a great price, with excellent customer service. I recently had a package lost by USPS (they got confused because someone had forwarded mail to my address), and after a single email to Dorco, they sent out a replacement order (despite the fact that they had nothing to do with the original package getting lost).
Unfortunately I have no answer for those. For now scikit and pypy seem mutually exclusive.
As a team, we all are tweeting all the time, not just replying. I want our original tweets and our responses in a single place. Bigger teams may be more specialized (support vs. marketing) but we're small and like single tools that serve multiple needs.
It's not just me, it's other researchers as well.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Australia#Measurin...

"The results of these tests suggest that the NFA did not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates."[61]"

"The implemented restrictions may not be responsible for the observed reductions in firearms suicide. Data suggest that a change in social and cultural attitudes could have contributed to the shift in method preference.[60]"

I wouldn't assume that it's settled.
A bit long, but probably the best explanation you can find out there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7998qfjgk
30% similar? Didn't we find that bananas share 50% of genes with humans?
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Apparently it's okay to call low latency "Zero Latency", just use title case and fire at will.

Zero Latency is mentioned only 35 times in the article.

Tickets on sale now for 88 MPH.
The co-investors behind 2015's most active VC dealmakers
What do you think about $0.99 pricing for a Smart DNS?
The Tunlr Smart DNS has been resurrected and after a while operating in open beta they have now released their pricing of $0.99 a month.

Do you think this will create a price war in this space or will competitors with $4.99 a month pricing not want to cannibalize themselves?

Thoughts?

https://tunlr.com
Is that the best you could do? :)

In terms of jokes, I mean.
One interesting fact is that the mafia was reduced to meaninglessness during the facist era in italy. I deduce from that that there can be only one villian in town.
If it's a slow thing that happens with aging (as some research suggests) then this might also be an anti-aging treatment to a small extent in that it might restore a little bit of the health of a younger brain.
If this is only available in chrome canary right now it may only take the next version of chrome stable to get it and 3 years for other browsers to agree on it. I hope it doesn't go that way with this feature again because it's something the web really needs
And at least for me, the blades last quite a bit longer too.
Yes but I think it would then be harder to trademark.
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Correct. It's illegal in the US to promote drugs for off-label uses. That doesn't mean the drugs don't work.
It seems that he implies that brain models aren't good because they haven't piqued Google's interest. Almost immediately he goes on to say that his method is great even though Google isn't really interested in it either. Seems a little contradictory.
It says on that site they are only a distributor. They probably aren't moving enough units for Gillette to care about them. DSC on the other hand...
How exactly does someone run a company for one year during a sabbatical? It seems like you are signaling that you don't believe it will succeed, if you are pre-announcing that you only intend to run this new company for a year. Has this structure ever succeeded?
You know what's worse than thinking you're not capable? Others telling you you're capable and despite your best efforts you fail to meet these expectations whether those reasons are within your control or not. This is putting a carrot on a stick in front of a lot of kids potentially and saying "you just need to believe you can do this and try real hard, gosh anyone can do it!"

Expecting a person with severe learning disabilities that they can go work at a top HFT shop or a paraplegic that they'll be able to beat the world record for a 100 meter dash is the kind of goalpost that is being set for many children that are born disadvantaged. Bill Gates may have been studying what keeps the world's poor the way they are for a long time but there are a lot more factors that keep people down than just simply motivation.

Part of why I haven't started a company yet is out of fear of kind of literally destroying my life and others around me. The sheer amount of work that you put into a company is one thing, and not having the closest people you know be supportive of the work you do puts you into a position where you must either be so secure that failure is not a problem or that you must succeed on a first try.

Reid Hoffman's tips on when you DON'T want to start a company come to mind. Some of those criteria include "if you cannot get another job" or "you will put yourself in harm's way by doing so" (paraphrased, can't find the slides he had). So for the poor, despite having not much to lose in theory, they do have everything to lose in that their lives are all they can give up in the absence of capital or remarkable domain knowledge / skill advantages. Risk tolerance for the poor is actually very low thusly.
Except that's wrong. If you want to get hired with a job title of engineer, you at least have to take the FE exam.

That is unless you're a webdev, in which case you can call yourself head fruitloop and it would still be acceptable, apparently
It works only in Chrome Canary
There's good press and then there's good advertorials.
Gizmo: OSS Microservices Framework from New York Times
I think everyone here knows what "customized" really means, right?
RMS on Apple
There are some occupations where that is not an option.
From the perspective of the Catholic faith, God can do whatever He pleases provided it's logical and consistent with His past promises. While God could decide to grant the pardon and grace of the sacrament through an app, the Church expects the Holy Spirit would inform us of such a decision. It also seems highly unlikely since it would be antithetical to the theological premise of Penance, in which the humility required to confess your sins directly to another human is central.
Rights must be absolute. One only needs to see how every post here ignores the difference between someone born with an attraction harmful to act on and someone who does act on it to see why we must afford all people their basic human rights. To say nothing that governments, including the judges that are part of them, cannot be trusted.
‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud
It seems the number of records set per year in either direction is a useful signal to climatologists. More records than prior years indicates a trend.
Because that's difficult to do. But the PyPy team has already done it for Python2 code. Check into PyPy-STM.
Yet another instance of Facebook presenting one position externally, that is incompatible with their internal thinking (for all but the most hairsplitting, lawyer-driven definitions of incompatible).

I wonder if it's internal disagreement, arrogance, or just the folly of such a young staff. Anyway, I begrudgingly await their shit-polishing response that acts as if they don't have a horrendous track record. At least it'll be good for a laugh.
Or just click the 'web' link under the title at the top of this page.
Same here. $20 handle, too. It took me a couple of tries to find a brand of blades and shaving cream that suited me, but the up-front cost was really cheap. I'm sure mileage varies.
I'm in the opposite camp. I tried Harry's. Twice. A year apart. Couldn't stand the blades. Poor shave and somewhat hurt. I do somewhat like their shave cream though but that's pricey to what I can find elsewhere.

I now alternate between Dorco and a safety razor.
You could try applying The Elm Architecture [1]. It's developed for the Elm programming language [2], but I've seen more than one framework outside of the Elm ecosystem cite it as inspiration for their structure.

[1] https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/
[2] http://elm-lang.org/
They do. There's an audit that confirms it, and you can use Validation Logging to verify it yourself: https://threema.ch/validation/
In order for it to be a fallacy, he has to be basing his argument off the fact that people believe this fact. I do not see him basing any argument on his first sentence. In fact, he mainly seems to be using it as an introduction mechanism. "Many people believe A. Proposition B about A." He states it as fact, and you may disagree with that fact, but that fact is in isolation from his actual argument.
A reason to fear human AI would be that they would realize how destructive humans are and how little they perceive us necessary to the evolution of the species.
> My guess is that in a "professional" organized crime family if you have to whack someone it means someone (possibly yourself) screwed something up very badly.

Maybe, maybe not - a lot of those groups operate via intimidation, and there's nothing like a gruesome murder to underline that.
Where We Are and What’s to Come – CustomElements.io
So, how many "profiles" will I need to make? I'm sure my typing is different when I'm on the bus, out for a walk, after I've had too much coffee, etc.

I've yet to try it out of course, but don't see how this would be effective in any way other than making me frustrated.
As an Italian entrepreneur in Milan I must say: absolutely not! We are ensnared with inefficiencies often requiring ‘networking’, nepotism and clientelism, but the reek of the Mafia is nauseating and avoided at all costs. It's about, of course, but nobody I know or know of ‘accepts’ it.
PSA for those stuck on Windows: Mozilla makes an EME-free build for Firefox available here:

http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/43.0/wi...