skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point. My knee jerk reaction is to say well, prohibit discussion of education then... Kind of like how parental status, race and in some places criminal history, can only be discussed after a certain stage of the hiring process.

On the other hand maybe it'll weed out things like QSR managers who were asking for degrees at the peek of the recession just because they could.
I assume because Cuberite is only a server component, the examples in the linked article are all open-source minecraft-style standalone games or clients.

Most customers probably want Minecraft, with the mods for the original and such, and not something "minecraft-style", so I don't think that would have been a good option. Maybe a nice extra, but this project really doesn't look like it needs "nice extras" that add complexity.
"Machinery of Freedom" by the same author: http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

The chapter "Private law enforcement, medieval iceland, and libertarianism" is specifically about Iceland.
I'd like to see less accusations against the tech industry, and more exposés of what the sales teams are doing.

Because if you want a gender-hostile environment, it's almost certainly in the sales team.
Hinton has a very balanced perspective. His comments on the short and medium term dangers of AI are interesting. He considers the main risks to come from politics, which sounds right to me -- deliberate (mis)use of AI, not drama intrinsic to AI self-improvement. Look at the current FBI vs. Apple mess, and our drone program(s).

His comments on his own professional experience, toward the end, are also very interesting -- not the sort of discussion one usually sees from senior scientists.
Apparently I'm using one. It's called NoScript. ;-)
When elements in the UI move it increases the chances that I'll click on the wrong element. When it happens, it's so incredibly frustrating.
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Note that this is just one chapter in the larger book, "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours":

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
"had progressed"? It's still running, isn't it?
Wow, that comment about OpenSMTPD. I highly recommend reading beyond the first message. The reddit poster links it as supporting their claim, but the rest of the picture sure doesn't.
Last time I played with Clair, it would say my image had numerous vulnerabilities even though I would update the base image. Turns out, it was reporting older layers were vulnerable even though the issue was patched in a newer layer. Does anyone know if that's the case? I can't seem to find any information on the matter.
> but he said he was just using it for some home projects

I think here lies the biggest problem. For small/hackish projects you barely get any benefits from test driven development but still have the higher costs. Test-driven development means that you will spend more effort while developing, but will have to spend less on maintaining in the long run.

The fun part about home projects is that you don't really have to think about maintenance at all and you can just hack things away until they work for you.

PS: you should write out acronyms once in the beginning of an article
So their argument is that Postgres is not feature complete with Oracle due to this new law? Yeah, that's not going to fly. All the register needs to show are the few things Oracle can do that Postgres can't and then Oracle will only be allowed to be used in those limited scenarios.
Its not hard to add blocking elements, which stop more changes until animation is complete.
Can someone fill me in? I didn't understand. There was an after party where there were dancers. What happened between that moment and the moment people started complaining?
Most of the money in academic research comes from the government.
Cool site, I added info. It doesn't display as you probably intend it on high res screens though: http://i.imgur.com/2NZZoln.jpg
> there are a lot of people who believe that the framers intended to give the President great powers when it came to foreign relations and the exercise of military power, and didn't intend for Congress to be able to check those powers

Foreign relations, yes. The exercise of military power, no. Especially not creating a permanent wartime condition, secret courts, etc. where military power, including spying, is exercised within the US and against the people.
This case was about damage to someone's life and career as a result of speech.
If I added it up right, more than half of the backers selected a version without wifi. And are there really devices around that only provide WLAN and don't have Ethernet ports?
Title is slightly misleading, so for anyone reading the comments first, this is Uncle Bob's rebuttal of yesterday's "Giving up on test-first development", in the form of a Q&A.

Original discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310711
This is a really nice project, and personally is a humorous full-circle:

When I first started moving away from Java web apps (where I hated JavaScript), I fell in love with Scala and it's mix of functional and OOP. Features like Futures/Promises, closures, awesome collection library, etc were so refreshing from Java at the time. After a year or so though, I realized JavaScript offered almost the exact same functionality, and had nice libs like underscore.js for collections, etc. :-)

I've been basically 100% JS for the past 4 years, but still admire Scala.
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This is an extremely biased article. Having been involved in numerous Hague Convention proceedings, UNCITRAL Arbitration proceedings, and witnessing the current treaty renegotiation efforts of my governments with regard to drug legalization[0][1], I see the United Nations succeeding.

The United States, and it's media arm (NYT being part of it), have been visibly anti-UN pretty much since Clinton left office. Take it from an expatriate: The UN is pretty awesome, once you're out of the confines of the Lower 48.

0. http://idpc.net/events/2016/02/ipu-un-parliamentary-event-ac...

1. http://idpc.net/policy-advocacy/the-un-general-assembly-spec...
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Am I the only one that feels shaky sharing my salary? I work at a start up and if I share my position and company it won't really be anonymous, as I am the only person at the company with that position.
I do agree its nice for people to post their salaries so i know if I'm underpaid. But what if I'm overpaid, or at least played more than most at my company? What will that do to people I work with who find or how much I'm paid? It makes me a little uneasy to think my friends might find out I make more than them, I don't really want to flaunt my pay.
I'm not saying I am overpaid, but that is the thought that gets in my way from sharing my salary on sites like this and glassdoor. I always assumed because of this salaries on glassdoor where scewed to the lower spectrum.
Am I alone in this?
The company bears far less risk than the employee. The company can easily fire you if it doesn't work out, whereas most employees can't suddenly leave a job that treats them badly.

So employees can ask lots of questions about company financial health, as part of trying to reduce the far larger risk they are taking.

Meanwhile, a company doesn't need to know your salary history to make an informed opinion of whether they want to hire you and for what amount of pay.
If you prefer English-language content it can cost a lot more to get it through local distributors -- sometimes services are only made available in the US and a select few countries internationally. Everyone else would have to lie and proxy to get such a service, with no local alternatives.

Ironic, since we're talking about how you can't visit this article from the UK, and for reasons that have nothing to do with US licensing. Of course, I've had the same happen to me with UK-exclusive, unlicensed content, so.... Works both ways. Ultimately even though the US catalog of Netflix is huge, it's overshadowed by the global catalog's selection in aggregate...
It is a shame that OS development is so dependant on toolchains that whatever focus an OS may have, it excludes other areas of development. For example, I very much like Genode. But to redo Genode in Rust would probably be harder than making a Unix-clone. Safe language or safe API's, it seems like you have to choose one.
I'm a bit confused why people are taking the side of Hulk Hogan. Maybe the dislike of gossip news is blinding people to the larger free speech implications.

Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person?

Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person without their consent?

Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person that were initially obtained illegally but were given to the publication? (see wikileaks…etc)

If you answered 'yes' to all 3, what principals (or ideally…laws) let you side with Hulk Hogan?
I read a really interesting account of how public disclosure of lawyer salaries led to a boom in the 90s.

Finance people also are very brazen about how much they're making, from accounts I've read.

Doctors too.
Maybe you can add some details about what stage your company is at (seed vs Series A/B/C), instead of identifying your company?
>The government’s ponderous declassification process released this letter far too late to have much more than historical impact. But, in the end, the secrecy clouds parted, and the pattern is clear; we’re back in a place we’ve been time and again. One-sided legal arguments lead to one-sided legal interpretations. The government’s secret process let it get away with drafting an entire 22-page letter that did not even cite let alone grapple with these issues.

If there is one thing history teaches us, it is this pattern that repeats itself over and over. For example look at the Stasi of East Germany. The Stasi did everything it did to protect the state and the 'people'. When we look at these totalitarian governments of past, we are shocked and can not believe people allowed it to go on. It is much harder to see these patterns in the present context of our own culture and even harder to do something when things go wrong.

Next time you are in Berlin visit the old Stasi headquarters.

http://www.stasimuseum.de/en/enindex.htm
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You can just mention "A startup in XY technology located in bay area", and hopefully that would be enough to give you ambiguity.
I applied to Geoff's lab fora postdocs in 2009. He said that he didn't have any grant money to take on anyone else. Those were dark days.
It's obvious that the parts of humans can't feel. Either "feeling" is an illusion or it's emergent. Or it's mystical. I'll go with illusory, as a part of that a lot of what we think of as "me" is illusory.
People skills.
It is actually possible to do this (the gaits are discovered not programmed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yci5FuI1ovk
While they did add EnterpriseDB, they left out Postgresql.

It also seems like the chart is stuffed with a ton of databases you wouldn't even consider, just to make it look like they are more ahead than is really the case. It's not that the databases in the lower-left aren't any good, they just fulfill very different roles.
I see your point, but I think this kind of meritocratic status increases mobility, at least for talented people. Instead of having say someone give me $50,000 to open a store front studio, I can buy camera equipment for a couple thousand bucks, open a website and start advertising in Instagram, FB whatever (side note, I do some photography on the side, and book most of my paid work from organic marketing there) and be in business. Creative enterprises in particular are fields where talent, not inherited social status, determine ones success.

And yes there are OK photographers (Annie Leibowitz comes to mind) who just cash in on their brand. But I knew one guy who worked as a florist, and built a high-end wedding photography bussines. He was not rich, but had artistic talent and marketing savvy, and now has people working for him.
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Yeah, until MySQL gets a corrupted LSN that points into the future and you have to dump the table then reimport it... :P
The issue is that someone has to decide what "participating in society" actually means. Today, it's often seeking work or working for pay - but we already agree that there's ways of participating in and contributing to society that don't involve that. I'm sure that whatever you or anyone else can come up with that's "easily measured", there's people who contribute to society in other ways, and people who can't participate in the way that you want.
That, along with "Donny would have liked this" posts both seem rather nice to me. It's seems a little cynical to assume they're doing it for likes from other family members. I think it's a nice and natural way to reminisce with your family about those who have passed on. I think it'd be heart warming if people posted about me on my FB years after I passed away.
The wife was on who wants to be a millionaire too it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-L3tW4-5W0
This is just SJW stuff par the usual. I was at the event. First of all, it was an optional after party hosted at a dance club - from what I understand, Microsoft paid for the full package that the club offered, which includes dancers. The club normally has dancers, most dance clubs do. Most dancers are female. Not only that, but dancing is tedious and thats why most dancers dont wear turtlenecks, they would sweat with covering attire on. I would go further and explain that women also like the female form, that the female form is more aesthetically pleasing and the difference between arousal of men by vision and women by emotion but I'm afraid the concept would be lost on idiots who think clubs should employ male dancers. This whole women equal men thing is just sad. For rights, of course. But we are not the same biologically and in terms of career preference. Dance is one of those.
Which is largely used for propaganda and often doesn't exactly mean very much.
These have become known in Pivotal as "frenemy tests". Poke a remote API to see that a) it is running b) it hasn't dropped a world-stopping change.

Typically run as a pre-build sanity check when you have remote integrations.

On some Labs projects we've written extensive request tests and stub services based on documentation, then handed those to the upstream service. Usually there is some angst at this point, being the first time that any kind of TDD suite has turned up to ask awkward questions.
I find that the human visual system is interrupt-driven in that it responds to changes --- any movement or change will cause some sort of processing in the brain, which is why I think animations are distracting since they compete for the resources of the user's brain which are devoted to the actual task, and could cause cognitive overload and inattentional blindness.

To use the example in the article, if I'm creating an item I want to be able to start interacting with it immediately, not wait even a little bit for it to finish animating. Having to wait and watch the animation breaks the "flow" of the sequence of actions I've mentally prepared.
> It's anonymous. I'm not sure why you think it'd be so susceptible to bragging or complaining.

Because people are irrational by their nature, and it takes a lot of effort to eliminate such factors when you make a decision.
I made this. I'd love feedback about this project.

This was inspired by http://notepad.cc and http://shrib.com, but with features that I've always wanted in a notepad system (encryption / page locking / math support / practical lists). Its written in Golang and designed to be simple and light weight so it runs off a Raspberry Pi server.
Don't use Power Saver for this. The mode affects many things pretty pervasively. Instead, under Settings->Developer Options, you'll find three settings related to animations. I keep them all turned off.

Of course, this is the first thing I do no matter what UI I'm using.

Dear UI/UX designers, I don't care what you do with these animations as long as you let me turn it off completely (via the OS, if necessary). Just don't force animations on users.
Oracle:

Vision: Screw customers over and get their money.

Execution: Very probable, customers don't run fast enough.
Famine: amateur research on starvation, ketosis and cancer
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The difference I think is twofold:

1. Snowden didn't reveal somebody's private information, but information about the abuses of a government agency.

2. There's a compelling public interest in making sure government agencies don't abuse their power. Not so with private sex tapes.
Or they simply answered that they had thought of a real steeple and not an abstract one for whatever reason. Perhaps programmers prefer to be seen as thinking of concrete concepts, and so will likely respond that they thought of a 'real' steeple.

Or the programmers might live close to a church.

Combine this with the test not being very good and you've got a recipe for wasting time.
Q: Are you sick of the Socratic method?

A: Oh God yes.

Q: What's wrong with it?

A: It's overly verbose, condescending, and allows you to give the appearance of resolving a debate when all you've actually done is talk down to a sock puppet.
Theres nothing hostile about having an after party at a dance venue. Every club has dancers on the platforms to set the vibe and get people to dance. The women are getting paid and wear revealing clothing to sweat less and to offer entertainment. SJWs are just putting a hit out on this but wheres all the outrage toward music concerts and dance clubs?
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Hinton seems to refuse to talk about a timeline longer than 5 years, and 5 years seems to short to have any kind of human-level AI, let alone a self improving superintelligence. The real danger lies when we approach the human-level threshold.
For many paragraphs, I thought this was a parody of TDD defense, but then it turns out it wasn't.

His 'defense' of the point is basically: Look, when you do TDD you have to put a lot more work into the tests than you thought! It is not just a simple thing!

Okay, fine, but ... Before embarking on TDD, the programmer had a picture in his head of what the costs+benefits of this change would be. Now you are telling him the costs are WAY higher. So a successful defense would have to then make the case that the benefits are also WAY higher.

But he doesn't. Because the benefits aren't higher, in fact they are lower (as is the case with every well-intended scheme in the history of anything.)

As usual my advice on this is: look at the people who build things you find highly impressive, and study how they did it. This is much more fruitful than reading the output of people who want to spend all day telling you how to program (which leaves very little time for them to build software that is impressive, i.e. they never even test their own ideas!)
There's definitely some good points here, but I have a huge issue with this point:

> Something that is hard to test is badly designed.

In my experience, TDD has a natural tendency to favour decoupling at all costs, and TDD zealots will push de-coupling units as an unqualified positive. And if your metric is "good design = easily testable and low coupling" it certainly looks that way.

This mindset fails to take into consideration the fact that tightly coupled things are often simpler to understand and reason about. They're more closed to extension, sure, and harder to test in isolation, but a straightforward process that acts like a "black box" and performs a job simply in a few lines of code is often better than the class explosion that rigid TDD often encourages. And what's the value of keeping things open to extension if the only thing that is going to reasonably extend them are tests?

A good illustration made by DHH as part of one of his anti-TDD tirades is here: https://gist.github.com/dhh/4849a20d2ba89b34b201

Anyone who can honestly say the latter example has a better design has a very different opinion on "good design" than I do.
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A good grasp of computer science fundamentals.
Thanks! I'm a HUGE Bob Dylan fan, incidentally :)
I've done things like this before with recruiters I've worked with in the past.

They have only ever said that every position they are working on would offer a salary too low to compete even with what I currently made, let alone the larger amount I was seeking.

Yet at the same time, I have friends and colleagues who already are earning the higher level I am seeking, and who say it is a common amount to be earning in certain places.

My opinion is that recruiters focus a lot on whether it would be easy to get you hired. If your salary is high, few recruiters will bother because it means you are picky and you're looking to work at companies that are picky and so lots of times it doesn't work out.

Recruiters are a lot like crappy stock analysts. They are always looking for a story about something being undervalued, to hook someone on how they can get something great for an amazingly cheap price.

If you are justifiably expensive, most recruiters scatter like roaches. They can't sell things at their true value, and view it as wasting time even to try.
That's a really good point. I'll see if I can fix that in the response (I'm hoping I can just easily pluck the DMCA link from the repo).
The comparison with SQL Server is not very sound. SQL Server is MUCH cheaper. I would venture to say it is more performent and is on-par with features (certainly will be after the next realease). Moreover. SQL Server is not brute forced in the way you say Oracle is, especially with CRM. Maybe something like that happens with the ERP products, but much more mildly.

The most important difference is that SQL Server has everything that Oracle has to offer at a much, much cheaper price.

I agree that comparison with postgres and mysql are pointless. They offer a tiny fraction of what enteprise products have. If you need it, you will know.
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Connections, advice, mentorship, funding, credibility, etc. I hope I can make it without their help, but they would certainly give me a big boost.
I'm constantly amazed at what people consider a "rocket" these days.
If that was the case then why buy them in the first place?

Change of heart?
> Google made it clear it does not want these contracts and associations.

They did? Google still does DoD contracts for supplying Google Maps among other things. I figured they didn't care.
Q: Why should that be different than any other type of rhetoric?

A: If you want truth, read a scientific study, not a blog.
I would assume a lot of this isn't about the gender/sex of the dancers, but rather they are taking a professional event and making it sexually charged. This is uncomfortable for a lot of people, and awkward when viewed from people who understand it makes it uncomfortable for some people.

I am not sure you can try to rationalize the costumes as being practical when it's showing midriff, they're wearing push up bras, and showing lots of cleavage. Those elements exist only to be sexy.
That's when it gets interesting.

Creating code is not like being compelled to testify. Is the DoJ going to have a prosecutor ask them "Now what would be the next line of code?" until they get a working tool?

The coders have an excellent case against them being jailed. The government has already stated their fallback position - that they want Apple's source code and signing keys. Apple will probably at that point secure their signing keys and code, perhaps by moving them offshore.

It will be interesting to see if some defense contractor can make head or tail of Apple's code, build system, etc. That could be a comedy I'd pay to watch.