skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. My brother keeps wanting to send massive toys for our kids, and we have to finesse out of it. "We have a small space..."
This is why Twitter is awesome and something entirely different from Facebook. It would be a shame to see it go.
So my in-laws violate my "I don't want anything" desire.

EVERY Christmas they but me a new pajama set (or two). Thing is I sleep in my boxers so I have a drawer full of rarely/barely worn pajamas. (I just realized... I'm going to be donating them now and from now on unused to the Salvation Army).

Don't get me wrong, I think socks are a great gift... they wear out and fresh soft fuzzy socks rock!
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>Advances in technology make privacy more important than it has ever been. Without privacy, there is vast opportunity for government to reach deep into our lives in the name of enforcement.

That was the plan for elites... you don't seem to understand our elites perspective on these matters.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

'In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason."

"Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position."

Written in 1982

http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetronic...

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic...
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> If I want some object, I will buy that object myself.

I can so relate. "What can I get you for birthday?" - "Nothing, mum. I got all I need." - "How about we go buy some new shoes for you?" - "sigh I already have a pair of shoes." :)
This makes me so happy to have adblock on chrome.

Frankly though, I'd use duckduckgo, but the android integration is so (intentionally by google) terrible.

Side note: Google includes YAHOO search, but not DDG. Because Yahoo poses no threat to them.
I give away physical books I liked to friends, and those that I didn't like to Books for Amnesty. While you can email someone the .epub, it's not quite the same. A scribbled dedication will persist longer and be more evocative that an email too.

Technical books I tend to keep as ebooks on my desktop where I work anyway.
Glad you did the edit. Still off by a lot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Damn, that's a really cool logo they came up with. Looks to me like combining the snake from the Rod of Asclepius, plus Python, plus the DNA double helix and the mouse snake head (which I'm guessing is supposed to stand represent using computers for medicine). Whoever made it, that's pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, the actual package is pretty cool too ;)
It really is a case of some being too easily offended.

One woman was offended that a Hasidic Orthodox Jew would not sit by her, thinking it was hatred of women.

In reality, the man is following his convictions to avoid touching women other than his wife.
What I meant to say was - when I added my number at donotcall, the calls dropped by like 80%. I still get these calls sometimes, but it is much better now. So yeah, it works, but not 100%, but I am very glad something like donotcall.gov exists
I think that's just the nature of the query. Every single one of the first page of organic results for me is exactly the same: http://imgur.com/cypF0He
I feel much the same as you, but I recently started receiving gifts from a newly important person in my life. Some of the gifts were not things I would get for myself and weren't even on my radar. But upon receiving them and taking the time to consider the gift and try it, I have learned that gift giving can include the possibility of expanding my tastes by exposing me to things I would otherwise pass over.

Reading through the linked blog entry, at first I got the impression that he just likes a minimal life. But then I started to get the impression he just doesn't want to make the effort to maintain relationships with other humans.
TBH, I'm not even sure I have an issue that needs solving. I'm trying to understand how you would design the back-end for a notifications system in a Node.js application that uses MongoDB.
Between my wife and I, the policy has been to go out and spend time together instead of buying gifts. I don't try to push this onto others but it does work with most of my close friends as well.
I'm not so sure about the attitude.

> After reading about the newest glibc vulnerability, I have decided to see how much effort there is in rewriting parts of glibc in a safe language.

If I were a C programmer, especially if I were a C programmer who worked on glibc, I might feel a little bit insulted that remark. Safety is a complicated concept, and calling Rust "safe" and C "unsafe" oversimplifies things, especially if your Rust code includes unsafe blocks. See also http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust.

I don't think we have anything to lose by being as diplomatic as possible with these sorts of things. We can acknowledge that Rust's safety is a work in progress, and that we're still learning about the drawbacks.
That analysis is very informative about how forensic instruments are validated, but that procedure would only apply for information that the FBI hopes to present as evidence in a court. The assailants in this attack are dead, so there's nobody to prosecute (unless accomplices are found).

It seems like in this case the FBI wants to sift through the phone for leads into other potential terrorists, and they want to establish the precedent that no manufacturer should be allowed to add true unbreakable encryption to some device in the future, encryption that would preclude even what they are asking of Apple now.

Whether they have a right to that information in this particular situation, under current laws, even for the purposes of preventing terrorism, is a matter for the courts (probably the Supreme Court) to decide.

Whether Americans have a right to use personal strong encryption will have to be legislated by Congress, not by the bluster and propaganda of the FBI, Apple, and the tech industry.
Should have used C++ if they wanted that :D
The last time before I moved, I took a bunch of perfectly good furniture and other stuff I didn't want anymore and put it on my street corner. Within a day, it was gone. There was low income housing nearby so maybe one of those people took it.
In Scala you get the compiler to check for exhaustive pattern matching if you use case classes and sealed classes. So if you want exhaustiveness checks, you can have them.
I fight against this all the time. It's simply impossible due to all the guilt involved.

I do not want anything for xmas/birthday. My wife always wants to get me something and makes me feel like a killjoy. This is perhaps manageable.

Bigger problem is I have 2 kids who get invited to parties. I have to take the birthday boy/girl something. Fine - but this means it's reciprocated.

Valentines day recently. Used to be for asking a new girl out - now you have to gift something to your wife of 20 years. I have successfully vanquished this one.

Coming over for dinner? They bring a (bad) bottle of wine that I now have to get rid of. On and on the waste goes.

It just goes on and on.
People have different standards of behaviour according to their social background. I think the average American or European would be unhappy if someone said "I won't sit next to this person because they're black" for whatever reason, personal, religious etc.

The same people consider gender discrimination to be approximately as bad as race discrimination.

The Hisidic person in question has some kind of problem with women because of their own background.
I wasn't actually looking to argue; I was looking to understand.

And I guess it's going to come down to "whose definition of FP are we using?" If FP means "I can write in a functional style", there are many more functional languages than if FP means "I can only write in a functional style". That debate - about whose definition of FP is correct - is one that I can't bother to care very much about.
> Yes, a lot of bugs are "unsafe" memory access issues, but a lot of bugs are not.

A huge number are. For example: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...

> That alone, will yield far greater results than some lofty goal of completely re-writing 100's of thousands of lines of code which have been working, tested, and matured for almost 3 decades.

Windows, the popular Web browser engines, and antivirus software are all examples of systems software that are very well funded. But they still regularly fall to memory safety problems. The converse is also interesting to look at: djbdns and qmail are examples of poorly funded software, but they have had very few memory safety problems.

I agree with the general principle that funding helps security overall, though.
For context, Avira is a German anti-virus company.
Sounds symptomatic of many programming classes catering to non-programmers. The better programmers don't have enough material to go in depth, while the weaker ones get enough paint-by-numbers to get through, without really understanding anything.

And for better or worse, so much of data science is cleaning data and figuring out how to link datasets that don't have good indexes.
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There is a great twitter feed, @AsteroidMisses, that tweets out based off a NASA monitoring dataset. Browsing it provides some perspective on just how many asteroids are whizzing around the Earth all the time.

https://twitter.com/asteroidmisses
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I strongly suspect that our species is already on its way to inevitable extinction, and much more quickly than a few hundred years.

Barring some science fiction scenarios, fertility has dropped below replacement and is of a nature where it never truly rises. Children who grow up in a low-fertility environment learn behaviors and personality traits that encourage and enhance the already-low fertility, and any who are atypical and have above-replacement fertility themselves are never enough to get the global average back to (or above) replacement. Not only have we trained the kids to have few kids themselves, we've trained them to train those few kids of their own the same (but with extra!).

You can disagree, almost everyone does. But the implications of disagreement are bizarre, you must imagine some future where all 5th generation-only children wake up and say "I want 2.1 children" or 10 percent of those 5th generation children wake up and say "I want 20 children".
Somebody needs to create a betting game "Which next?" to bet on next closed product by a company.
For point 1, that does not seem evident in these tweets. They seem to move the man and woman to different seats, not the bystander passenger. One even noted that their seat was left empty.

For point 2, that may have been the case for some of these tweets but I don't think that holds true for all of them. Some of these people understood that this person came from a different culture. One even said "the chasidic Jew." [sic]
Inevitable I guess because of mobile. I don't imagine it will be popular with their smaller advertisers though.

The main block tends to be dominated by the brands and the cost to get into the main block is too expensive for a smaller advertiser. Aiming for the top of the side bar ads can do pretty well getting business for a reasonable price.

Add in the number of knowledge graph results that now come from some horrifically spammy sites and G is looking a very unfriendly place for a tiny business to start up with.
Getting rid of stuff feels great, but I think we have a cultural thing where we equate it with some sort of higher virtue. That's a mistake, but sure, get rid of all your stuff. Like I said, feels great.
Why are people who do not know you well even aware of when your birthday is?
I'm still trying to understand (not argue). How is Rust like Haskell and the ML family? My impression of Rust is that it's like C++ but with clear tracking of who owns what memory.

[Edit: I see that the link from jnbiche is probably going to answer my question, though it's going to take me a while to digest it...]
this is why when i give gifts, i give something edible, or consumable, like nice chocolate, wine, coffee, etc, usually something gourmet or something that the person wouldn't normally buy.
That isn't really easy.

99% of the phone can be tampered with when running, after the signature is checked at install. They'd need to put that check in the secure enclave to make sure that it wasn't simply bypassed. That might not even be possible on that model.
My number one wish/want/desire for my birthday (which happens to be today!) is no gifts. I prefer no one make a big deal either.

One year my parents didn't send me a card or anything. It was soooo sweet! They finally listened and respected my desire(s). Then I found out they actually forgot. Which was bittersweet because that's sad to many but awesome because they made my birthday a non issue.

Anyways, for my birthday... I want to celebrate my parents for giving me the greatest gift of all, life. I'm ordering flowers for them right now.

Edit: changed "a catch 22" to "bittersweet" and "mother" to "parents".
Sounds like you need new shoes ;)
Yeah me too. I had to make a rule where if it was over a year old then we could take it down.
>(easy this year as I dropped nearly 70lbs, virtually nothing I had fits).

Good job. That must feel good.
He also harps on how Cellular Automata will replace (or complement) a lot differential equation based physics, but I havent seen many significant exampled. Hew wrote a whole book on that and refers to it a couple of times in this blog.
WordPress is one of the easiest-to-use CMSs out there and has changed over the years to be much more than a blogging engine. It's not abuse, it's intended by Automatic because they've modified core to support these features.
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The attack is "differential analysis" -- essentially, if you have a black box encoder, carefully chosen plaintexts sent through the system can leak information, and substantially weaken DES as described.

Academic literature started discussing differential analysis in the early '90s if memory serves -- NSA helped harden against it in the 1970s!

Current wisdom is that the NSA is not nearly so far ahead of the cryptography curve these days. But, it could just be speculation. :)
I would read this post if you wrote it... because I don't know what word2vec & doc2vec are and why they are useful.

If you write the post maybe someone will be inspired to build a tool for journalists using these algos.
It works inside family or with girlfriends, but only as long as everybody agrees to go somewhere. As with normal gifts, presenting tickets as a surprise is not a good idea.
I've recently started building an actual database of my physical inventory, and have already found multiple items which I needlessly own twice because when I bought the second one, I didn't realize I had one already.
The dangerous narrative is Apple's reframing of this debate to shift attention away from the simple truth:

Apple already has a backdoor. This is DRM, not crypto.

They control these devices, top-to-bottom, regardless of the owner's actual wishes.
David Brin did that too. Then an earth goddess showed up, some white guilt about overpopulation and coke can pull tabs.

Is the DeSmedt book better?
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The Supreme Court says otherwise, and ruled that the accusations would be considered a crime in the UK. I am not a lawyer. You may be, I don't know, but I'm willing to bet that you're less qualified to rule on what is a crime than the UK Supreme Court.
A kid I went to school with would be driven mad by fluorescent lights flickering, even if no one else could see it.

I have no reason to think he had been taking hallucinogenics as a preteen.
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Oh no problem.

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Would it be fair to say that since I am from America that I should get upset at anyone who wears a hijab for their own religious purposes? Covering women is very anti-American, specifically being prominent in the most recent generations. Yet, as civilized people, we can come to the understanding that even though I don't support something doesn't mean that I have to tell others how to live their lives or expect them to live their lives in a way that makes me happy.
Including other search variations tells a much different story –

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=react.js%2C%20angula...
excellent, but please please please just invert the colors on the slider (so that the chosen range is a contrast to the background). it's an easy fix but would have saved me 30 seconds of confusion.
> Being offensive on purpose, even claiming the guise of an experiment

Once again wrong. Not what I meant. By not padding it in an apologetic way, [1] I knew it would get a certain reaction. In my book, nothing wrong with that. I am tired of people always having to apologize when no apology is necessary. Also consider that people of different age groups who were raised differently might see things differently as well and that is ok.

[1] Meaning "I apologize deeply if anyone finds this offensive but.."
Folks here are focusing too much in the "homeless" part. But I think the other ideas are adding something interesting to the discussion.

How prevalent is/will be being minimalistic when people get older?

Is the correct approach to saving to include only cash/bank accounts?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. "No one is certain" is not the right way to approach the possibility that Tesla actually caused Tunguska.

edit: clarified what "this" means
That's not an argument against legal search and seizure.

If Apple doesn't want to be in that position, they shouldn't have put themselves in that position by retaining and requiring full control over devices via platform-level DRM.
> Software like glibc is battle-tested

This seems a bit counter-intuitive given that serious problems are still being found years or even decades later. Perhaps battle-tested is insufficient.

And while new code is likely to have bugs, assuming it's already based on the original C code it would be less than if it was re-written from scratch based on a spec. New code can take advantage of the battle-tested nature of the original code even if it's in a different language.
This glib comment has a long history in technology. So it seems appropriate.

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
A whole lot of testing and functionality. I've used micropython on a few of my esp boards, and while it works, it is exceedingly buggy. I write most of my apps for esp boards in the Arduino IDE in C, which is totally fine, but it is easier to prototype in Python, so I backed it.
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There are things you can't do when bidding on competitor's brand names, but essentially, you're correct.
it might oversimplify it, but there is truth in there too
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You didn't call out any difference, and you strongly implied that you agreed with this old-fashioned term. And I'm quite confident you did this on purpose, just so that you could come back and whine about how oppressed you are afterwards.
Are you sure about the contempt and dislike? When I hear somebody say something stupid at work I won't necessarily say anything, or say what I think, but I will change my like/dislike of that person.
How is this different from Product Hunt?
I very much appreciate the sentiment, particularly in todays marketing-saturated environment. However, I can say from personal experience that having a few nice or meaningful things can lead to some happiness, given the appropriate relationship with them.

This book has quite a bit of silliness in it (I found it charming, you may not) but it has been very good for my mental health:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Declut...
It doesn't? Are you sure? Google must just be being nice to me and not showing ads.
Well I am in luck because I also don't need my wife's approval to use HN karma points. Besides, they are close to worthless! (Although I've often wondered if there would be a secondary market for people with high karma I have to admit..)
You can't be serious. You just said you fly first class (meaning you pay a big premium), then you say free alcohol and snacks.
Not really even if both are largely based on the fact that the person doing the purchasing is often not the one paying for the purchase.

The business model behind high WiFi prices and $9 bottles of water is more that they're opportunities to sell high-margin add-ons to price insensitive customers. Thus business-oriented hotels charge for these things while they're free at the Holiday Inn down the road.

(With respect to WiFi, this does seem to be changing as WiFi is increasingly viewed as more or less essential by those traveling for pleasure as well as business. The trend I see increasingly is free WiFi being used as a perk to encourage behaviors that the hotel chain wants to encourage--such as booking directly online.)
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