skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think we're going to continue into the future using only paper books? Visual aids were immensely helpful for me in school. Computers are the ultimate visual aid, and tablets are just mobile computers, except for the fact that they actually allow you to manipulate the UI directly with your fingers, making the learning curve significantly lower.

My two year old can work an iPad, but has no idea what a mouse or keyboard is. It's crazy when you watch a child that young manipulating technology like they know what they're doing (turn on, swipe open, find YouTube Kids app, watch Thomas the Train, press home button when done to find a new app).

To think that this can't be applied to educating children of any age seems a bit naive.
He's saying that if you looked at the whole history of the US and divided that into 10 equal parts, then there would be a 10% chance of any random observation falling into the last part. Hence, all else equal, we have a 10% chance that we are looking at the US in the last 10% of it's history.
This is a big factor IMHO. Philosophy is trying to live somewhere between science and theology and there just isn't much room there anymore. Worse, a lot of that space is filled with dubious areas of study or rat holes (example: Bertrand Russel's Principia Mathematica) so philosophers find themselves hemmed in at both sides.
I go out for a beer with my friends and talk to them about post-structuralism. ;)
A good legal situation might be separating the part of Google that provides services from the part that uses them.

The part of Google that uses the services provided by the Maps provider would have to play by the same terms as any competitor.
This doesn't seem all that new to me.

At the receiving line for a party, back in 2002, the executive officer on the USS Nimitz greeted my wife by saying "Thanks for supporting him, the Navy has a long tradition of riding the good horses until they break."
Don't forget that a couple of hundred years later, the teenager was invented. Prior to that, then pretty much at puberty you were deemed to be an adult, and you'd go off to work/marriage/both. (But it's important to remember that puberty now is way earlier than it was then, mostly due to better health and diet, IIRC.)

I do find myself wondering what the next social step will be, as social maturity diverges even further from physical maturity...
Virtualization and emulation are not the same thing. You can have one without the other.

(Traditionally, virtualization precluded emulation: The hypervisor simply multiplexed hardware, and the guests got what looked like raw access to the real hardware, with no way of "seeing" the hypervisor at all. Very secure, very simple, and you could run a hypervisor as a guest with guests under it, recursively.)
This, so much this.

I hear Java devs argue in favor of using static types because the type checking and IDE autocomplete lets them write code faster.

Dynamically typed languages are great because you don't have to write as much code to provide comparable functionality. The best quality code that's also the easiest to maintain is the code you don't have to write to begin with.

I used to contribute to an OSS library for parsing raw network frames into structured protocol data. 50%-60% of the code was type coercion and design pattern boilerplate to work around the type system.

I saw similar networking code written in JS and was in awe at how little code it took to accomplish the same. It was easily an order of magnitude less code.

Types are good for handling some edge cases. When types are required by default, it just adds a ton of unnecessary noise.
How would that be the right thing for Google? They don't need Routebuilder, and they don't need the PR boost. Google certainly doesn't need to set a precedent that any company that depends on their APIs can expect to be acquired if they violate their TOS long enough.
Re 360

I remember reading that it converged two seperate segments into one. 360 degrees makes sense.

Re System/380

Always wondered why they skipped 380. Thanks for the enlightening details on that. The anti-cloning angle is amusing.
I sure hope they improve on Apple Music. The API responses are so amazingly slow, and large parts of using the app are really bad.
More ridiculous than that time Microsoft shipped an operating system with no firewall enabled by default and a feature designed to allow for remote commands to be executed?

I think the Blaster Worm and other variants that took advantage of that excellent decision were far worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

https://books.google.com/books?id=_TgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=P...
Police have been over-policing black and poor neighbourhoods for decades but no one is protesting that.

Er, apart from all those Black Lives Matter protesters that keep getting in the news?
I think there's a really interesting debate in the bottom of there somewhere. There are some questions that do not have a satisfactory answer no matter how long you keep looking. You could dedicate your life to answering the meaning of life and you'd fail.

Would that mean you life was better lived than someone who believed in God and that religious meaning of life? Does such a pursuit return any value? It's interesting to think about.
“Acquiring [MelOn parent company] Loen gives Kakao a massive music content library as well as a pipeline for future content. [The app’s] current businesses are built around K-pop and domestic artists, and they will continue to build on their success.”

Being a heavy supplier of K-Pop is probably very strategic. K-Pop appears to be a valuable cultural export, and I imagine domestically it holds up quite well too.

Here are some links related to global interest in Korean culture and pop culture:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Wave

- http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21611039-how-re...

- http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/how-...

Just musing...
Well, that diagram at the end is something I've been looking for, for the longest time. I haven't been able to find a concise relationship of all the functional terms/interfaces.

I think the part that eludes many tutorials and articles, is explaining what exactly we're calling a monoid or a monad. Is it the actual set of laws? Is it an abstract "object"? And although there are many attempts at simplifying their explanations, I found that is necessary to grasp the concept of a category first. Really having an intuition for a category gives way to understanding functors, etc. because that's what their definition is based on. Attempting to explain functors, etc. just with functions (of any language) will leave the learner hanging as to what exactly a functor is, since languages just implement them, but category theory provides the underlying abstraction that gives them context.
Perhaps a quick fix would be to allow variables themselves to be tagged as unsafe, so they could only be changed from unsafe blocks.
iPhone screens look blueish in a warm light environment. I wish Apple would implement real-time dynamic white balance by using data from selfie cameras. So that screen white would blend with white phone enclosure the same way they try to blend black with black.
I'm really confused as to how your link associates this phenomenon with millenials. It doesn't contain that term, nor does it talk about children in any time period where millenials could be their parents. If anything it is talking about the parents of the millenials.

Making this about a particular generation is just silly in general, and the trend toward blaming everything on "the millenials" in particular is ugly and misguided.
Lol at the last line. No doubt.
Zizek has published a large amount of works that are taken very seriously. I don't like a lot of the things he says either, but calling him Dan Brown would only be true if Dan Brown was accepted as a serious scholar.
One of my really lazy really common searches is the module codes at my university. It's really nice that Google know which university I mean and always get it right even if I've never searched that code before.
Aside from the Tesla lease being ~$1.37/hr (as analyst74 points out), you would never be paying that amount per hour because that assumes 100% utilization of the car and absolutely zero cost for the person/business who owns the Tesla (and also provides no margin for the owner).

The cost would be no where near that per hour amount once you factor in everything needed for someone or some business owning a Tesla.
And a popularized version of the article:
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-ha...
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I still don't understand how one can express a concept such as monoid or group in, say, Haskell. One option is typeclasses, but they don't actually let you express the laws.. Furthermore, sometimes the laws require more than one different objects, or objects which satisfy some other laws and so on recursively.

I can see how one can start from types, but I don't see how one can start from abstract algebra (or categories or something). That is, possibly not to have fully specified objects that you work with.
Jack White isn't a great singer, but he might just be one of the 5 greatest guitarists alive today. I'd argue he is the best guitarist alive. As I read somewhere, Jack White is in his own personal genre.
I disagree with Tumblr and Reddit being compared with Facebook in this regard, and completley disagree that HN is in anyway similar in this regard. Facebook will automatically stop showing you things you disagree with, whilst it has to be a conscious choice on your part on Reddit and Facebook.

On HN you don't actually get to choose the content in any meaningful way, and therefore have no means of creating an echo chamber for yourself through other means then down voting.
This is marketing for design, not engineering. Audi will not put a rover on the moon in 50 years. None of their statements are novel. Sending printers to somewhere to make robots is probably an idea that most engineers already know. The mock up itself is just a basic model with X-Prize on the side and an Audi hood ornament. Remember Lexus's hoverboard? It was not a hoverboard, its was great advertisement for their style. This is also just an ad.
Religious ideologies have never answered these questions either.

Just because we have not yet answered these questions in a scientific manner does not mean that we cannot. But religion, being absolutist, cannot evolve in a way that scientific understanding can. A religion that evolves is a religion that was false to begin with.

Suicide and depression are largely a result of over diagnosis, which is to be expected when incentives align that way in a capitalist system.

The world is much, much more complex than you understand it to be.
> Philosophy just seems to be

You may want to investigate what philosophy _is_, rather than what it seems to be.
> Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions.

No, it really isn't. It's really strange that you talk of science, then just throw out that 'today we have more suicide and depression', when we know we have extremely poor historical records of both those things, particularly depression.

Just because it doesn't have some canned answers doesn't mean secular thought is an inferior product. Secular thought has brought us egalitarianism, for example - civil rights gains are not birthed from religion. It wasn't Jesus that brought us feminism, desegregation, or minority voting rights.
If we assume that we're observing at a random point in our history, we are equally likely to be observing at a point in the first 10%, second 10%, third 10%, and so on. That's what the assumption means. Which means there is a 10% chance that we're observing in the last 10%.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument for the most famous use of this line of argument. (It concludes that the human species is likely not long for this universe.)
This is clearly a terrible design flaw by Trend Micro. I hope some responsible are looking for new jobs.

Still, there isn't much faith I put in any endpoint security solutions. They are all terrible.

Bromium seems to be bucking the trend of traditional endpoint security but they have one of the worst sales / business dev programs I have ever seen. They should be much more ubiquitous than they are.
and finally the Notes app can be locked.
> They said (paraphrasing): Women are ok. Men are not...There's no other way of reading it.

No, they said "bias towards female." Any reading which reads "bias towards x" as "x is ok, !x is not." is a complete violation of both the words and the intent of the statement.

Furthermore, biasing towards women doesn't remotely imply "men are bad." It's simply an established fact that women on average are more nurturing and empathetic, and those are qualities one should seek when one needs help.
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I don't think it's an accident that a modern, secular framework hasn't arisen to replace traditional religion. For what resources could a framework draw upon? The founding principles of the Enlightenment have stricken notions of "value," "good," "bad," and "purpose" from the realm of knowledge. Modern rationality is anti-teleological. It precludes any exploration of first causes. When constrained by the epistemological standards of empiricism, theorizing about such subjects is impossible. For before it produced modern standards of scientific proof, it was a rebuke against Aristotle and Aquinas, whose methods represented the most fruitful exploration of "value," good," etc. Modernity's absence of such a framework is a feature, not a bug.

Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has written in far more depth about this change. Anyone who's concerned with modernity's apparent difficulty in handling "meaning of life" questions would be advised to discover how exactly we landed in this situation:

http://www.amazon.com/After-Virtue-Study-Moral-Theory/dp/026...
Those test kits are sometimes called probable cause kits, since they produce false positives so frequently. The conspiracy theory is that they're working exactly as desired and that more accurate kits would be counterproductive to their actual purpose.
No it doesn't sum it up.

You are assuming an advanced civilization that spread through the universe would either announce itself or we'd be able to detect it.

The scenario that nobody mentions is that they're already here.
36 year olds have about as much in common with 20 year olds as 20 year olds have in common with 4 year olds.
All drug raids are outrageous. The stupid war on drugs is tearing society apart, criminalising citizens, filling jails, ripping apart families, wasting police and court resources, throwing away tax on enforcement, missing out on tax revenue and funnelling billions to organised crime. All because people want to get high, which is (for most drugs) a personal choice health issue.
This is basically my stance at this point.
Out of those, Direct, Mobilize, Greet, Recall and Whistle are far, far more ambiguous (with multiple meanings) than Summon. Hail is associated with taxis. If you put them all in a list it would take all of five seconds to realise that Summon is the best option.
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That Dragon, Cancer will make you want to hug your kids and never let go
Which is why the linux kernel is such a pinnacle of security excellence. /s
Awesome, it uses TypeScript. Biggest reason I avoid Phaser is because it's always short on type definitions, especially at updates.

Nice to see this being written from scratch in TS(?).
> Sounds familiar?

Java JIT doesn't write machine code to disk. OS/400 does, and then it re-uses the machine code until it no longer exists (you move to new hardware) or the bytecode is newer (you change the program and recompile), at which point it compiles the bytecode to machine code and stores it to disk again.
Google has a patent on algorithms for detecting dangerous drivers:

https://www.google.com/patents/US20110202305

Free idea I've kicked around: Give away free dashcams to drivers that upload their footage nightly to Google (with user's permission), have Google process the data to find high risk drivers, sell that information to their insurance companies to properly re-price their premiums. Take a cut, share said cut with dashcam drivers.

Drive the price of human driven vehicle insurance high enough to where self-driving vehicles are the logical choice.
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> 1) Oligarchies are not dictatorships.

Good enough for a general heuristic. On paper we are Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy either. But it depends on the level of conversation. Most people on the street would not know Constitutional Republic vs a Democracy even if it hit them on the nose.

> 2) The US was founded as an oligarchy and has been a relatively stable one. This being the case, the OP's point still stands.

Note: I didn't say a dictatorship would be unstable or everyone would have a bad time. There are and have been lot of dictatorships people support(ed) and didn't rebel against in order to turn them into democracies.

The bottom line is people don't have the representative power they think they have. And other, most concentrated power centers make decisions for them. Whether it is one person or 20 large companies doesn't matter much. I can't quite be one person so on paper it will never be dictatorship, just like on paper very few countries identify as "The United Dictatorship of <blah>". Even North Korea, is a "Democratic Republic" on paper. That doesn't mean it is one in reality.
It could be immensely useful for the enterprise as well if they marketed it right. But apple hasnt seemed to care about business uses for the past few years.
The Education stuff seems to require OS modifications to support multiple accounts. The rest is probably marketing ("hey, look at these new features of apps you probably don't regularly use").
OneSafe protects cloud privacy for everyone by just one click
Loving the comprehensive news sources to select from
Incidentally, that's exactly what Russell Kirsch (invented the first programmable computer) told me when I ran into him in a coffee shop in Portland.

He said:

> “I’ve been against Macintosh company lately. They’re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.”

The full story is here - http://impossiblehq.com/an-unexpected-ass-kicking/

I hope it doesn't seem like I'm trying to link to my own stuff, but you asked for anecdotes :-/
The article stated they spent 25,000 on legal fees I believe. Their lawyers probably did the smart thing and tackled the issue on every front possible to see what would stick.

As my dance instructor might have said... they seem to have taken a holistic approach (to their lawsuit | to dance) in an effort to achieve better results.
Thank you. Makes sense.
> Before its migration to the university, philosophy had never had a central home. Philosophers could be found anywhere — serving as diplomats, living off pensions, grinding lenses, as well as within a university.

I think we've come back to this. While philosophy in the academy might be navel-gazing and disconnected, blogs and regular people talk about philosophy all the time. Philosophy is something we engage in before we've fully wrapped our heads around a problem, or know how to test it or formalize it. It's all the gaps between formal logical reasoning and science, and there are a lot of those gaps.

Read something like [1], written by someone who's a doctor by trade, and you can see the hands-dirty philosopher is still out there.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I am not religious and I don't feel scared or lonely.

Religion provides wrong answers to all the core questions you raise. If your life is made better by getting wrong answers to these questions I am happy to oblige provided you send me a bank check for $100,000. My contact details are in my profile :p
OneSafe is an extremely easy-to-use web tool which adds a layer of protection onto your existing cloud storage accounts, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. With just a click, your files are safe from prying eyes.
I'd love that to be the case, but I'm not sure it is.
Wow I've only played with js a few days and I can interpret that pretty easily, so this seems pretty simple.
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A person that we can't even begin to understand.

Philip Dick had an empathy test to detect androids - they did not show compassion towards cute animals in trouble.
We have a similar problem here, if a person chooses to side with federal judges and the police versus public, we have an alarming creature on our hands.
I really don't think a world devoid of meaning is the main cause of depression. I would be much more inclined to look at more immediate, physical stressors as the causes of depression: working too much, working a job you hate, worrying about paying the bills, being socially isolated, not exercising enough, relationship problems, not getting enough sun, having a chemical imbalance in your brain, etc.

Stoicism (the actual Greek philosophy, not the pop culture perception) is very much concerned with the practical aspects of living a meaningful, enjoyable life. It's helped me immensely in dealing with the mental habits of depression. But it pales in comparison to the benefits of a steady job I like, a little pink pill, a loving partner, and playing sports regularly.
Frankly, as a committed believer in a traditional religion, none of those questions are concretely finished there, either, after you take off the lid and start asking hard questions.

I agree with the thrust: religion provides an assurance, but not to the level you suggest it does.
That's the third paragraph of the article. Keep reading.
I don't have much to say about it, other than the specific belief that I don't think this comment will ever be directly connected to me by the NSA or anyone else, almost regardless of its content.

A lot of the concern over the loss of privacy from a 1st Amendment standpoint revolve around the idea that the US government will eventually start to silence dissenters. I don't worry about this, because I can write this comment, and as long as I don't literally make a direct or actionable threat against someone, no one on the planet but me will know who wrote it. Even after everything I've read about what the NSA is doing, I still don't think they have the capability of identifying someone in a position like mine without a warrant.

The idea that this comment is safe makes me think the US government isn't yet at a point where the article writer seems to think it is.
TL;DR : Your freedom is an illusion.
Probably this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians

Disclaimer: I do not believe in these, but I think this is what was being referenced.
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An excellent reply and elaboration to the original article. Although I had my own qualms about Kerr's article (I commented here on HN when it was posted) having read his blog posts for ten years now I have a lot of respect for his erudition and even handedness. I look forward to his surreply which he promises to start working on in the comments section to the linked article.
As soon as the model were public it would be useless. The first thing an aspiring criminal or terrorist would do would be study the model and then do whatever necessary to make his or her own threat score low.