skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politics by numbers
Edible Cutlery the Future?
Thoughts on the iPhone SE and iPad Pro Event
https://intelligence.org/research/ basically exists to try and make sure AGI doesn't become Hitler (or much much worse).
The brilliance is knowing that you would disobey. If you were the type that folded over she would have just asked you to read more.
I grew up in rural Scotland with an address which was:

- House name
- Community name
- County
- SCOTLAND

Just the other day I found myself explaining this to a cow orker some ten years younger than me, and they couldn't believe it.

"But how did the postman know where the house was without a number?"

"They just knew."

"What, all of them?"

"Yup. Each postman knew their own area."

"But how did the post get to that postman? There's no postcode!"

"People in the sorting office read the addresses..."

We also had a three-digit phone number. (One of the outer isles used to have one-digit phone numbers.)
Without commenting on whether or not LamdbaConf is actually doing those things, the perception that it is is both (a) out of the control of LambdaConf and (b) completely up to the interpretation of, e.g., the PrlConf organizers.

In some sense, speaking at a conference or even a subconference is an act which builds the platform of that conference. If one wishes to not give energy to a platform which supports people who one believes should not have a large platform... then I can't really see what's wrong with canceling PrlConf.
Typically though most retailers are on there. Granted the current incarnation is much better for retailers in that it doesn't always make the cheapest price clear.
I'm disturbed by the amount of CSS that was used to try to make the page look like it hadn't been styled.

Font choice: "propagandaregular". Are we being trolled?
Did people stop hiring plumbers? It's difficult in North America to become a millionaire, but it's pretty trivial to escape poverty.
What I often find is people would rather be poor than sell their skills to the highest bidder, eg. I know welders who refuse $60/hr jobs because they dislike the oil industry.

Or train for jobs that actually pay, like plumbing.
Although it's on sociology and only tangentially related, I suspect you might enjoy Kieran Healey's upcoming paper "Fuck Nuance".

Preprint: http://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf
TL;DR
Why is it a myth?
Yeah, I don't understand that criticism of PDAs. PDAs were extremely popular for a time (until they were obsoleted by ubiquitous cell phones). Palm sold something like 30 million pilots. They were highly useful, incredibly desirable, and thus very popular. Were most of those 30 million palm pilot owners syncing them to their computers regularly? I doubt it. The PDA was like a notebook that you could take anywhere and was searchable with an enormous capacity compared to a typical paper notebook. It replaced "little black books", pocket organizers, pocket calendars, and pocket notebooks and did a pretty good job of it.
Why can't lower class women marry lower class men? Half of Japnaese are women, right?

I mean, it sucks, but it should suck in a gender balanced way.
Next Generation Social Science – GRANTS.GOV
Nope, not about fragility at all. It's about creating spaces where a large chunk of people aren't being literally attacked (and told they are better suited to being slaves) by a speaker. What's the problem? Free speech can also mean no speech. I have no problem with people pulling out if they disagree so strongly with the social views of another participant. This isn't the government smashing someone's printing press, this is people voluntarily deciding not to share the stage with someone whose views they abhor.
It's not thought policing. It's an individual's withdrawal from an event because of a disagreement. Basically, it's Jon Sterling saying "I don't want to organize a workshop alongside someone who advocates racial slavery."

Thought policing is bad because it violates the rights of individuals. Jon Sterling withdrawing from a conference does not violate the rights of any individuals. You are very wrong to call it "thought policing."
I am Indian. I agree with everything you said, fairly accurate analysis of the situation.
and it's important to be aware that most people who claim bootstrapping out of poverty is easy are the folks who've never been in poverty or worked menial jobs

I don't know about easy, but I know from personal experience that it's possible, at least in some cases. I did it. And I saw other people do it.

And while it's not politically correct to say this, I firmly believe that a significant factor in whether (some) people escape their circumstances or not is simply desire and work ethic. Just to share an interesting anecdote... when I was in college, I had a friend who went to my same school. He didn't have a car, and the campus was about 12-15 miles from his home. Did he let that deter him? F%!# no... dude walked to school the days he couldn't get a ride. This guy had a burning passion to improve his life and he wasn't going to let something as trivial as lack of transportation stop him. Now, how many people are willing to commit to that level of effort to raise themselves up? I don't know, but my experience suggests that it's a pretty small percentage.
That appears to be a bug in munmap() on OS X that just happened to bite LevelDB.
i wrote a simple clap trigger (using the raspberry micro) that is always listening. I use it to shuffle my phillips hue light but it can easily be used to trigger echo voice
https://github.com/131/clap-trigger
people aren't being literally attacked (and told they are better suited to being slaves) by a speaker.

Was that actually the content of his talk? If so.. okay, this makes perfect sense.

If not, it's crap.
many studies: http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/02/americans-think-upward-m...
I find it amusing that one of Instacart's competitors, TaskRabbit, is currently blanketing the NYC subway system with ads that say "We do chores. You live life." The implication being, at least the way I read it, that they consider their workforce to be perhaps slightly less than human.
How do you create a firmware ID system that provides anything meaningful? Wouldn't an hostile device simply spoof another device's IDs?
‘Understanding celebrity investment in eSports’ and more insights
Well, isn't the point here that you can verify that it isn't listening except when you want it to?
Also, he's no garden variety racist. He's the creator of the "Neoreactionary Movement" http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

Regardless of whether or not you think a racist should or should not present (be paid to speak? Edit: they are not paid to speak at this conf although some expenses are covered) the founder of a pro slavery, pro facist movement speaking at your conference is a different sort of thing.
The invitee in question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
The Stanford School of Ancient History – New Rambler Review
Sex and death are both metabolic hacks. They offset one another in the bioenergetic arms race tripped by the costs of complexity. Think about it.
One of our guiding principles when designing experiences on Microsoft Band is to try to limit interaction time. We had an "in and out in 5" rule we designed around.

I'm still not 100% happy with how long some activities take to launch, scrolling over can take time, but I feel that we've worked hard to adhere to this.

I have always admired Palm's for how fast it was possible to access their features. I was the most organized in life when I had a Palm Pilot and I could take it out of my pocket, press one of the front buttons, and see my to-do list pop up in front of me.

In comparison, getting to my to-do list on all smartphone platforms is a multi-step process.
Githunt – Chrome Extension to replace new tab with trending GitHub repositories
There's no way in hell he would get off that lightly. People want to see the guy executed for treason.
I don't know what it's like the US, but in the UK becoming a plumber is a long way from "pretty trivial."

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/may/15/fast-track-plum...
Don't cell towers already have substantial backhaul connections?
Nope, talk content doesn't matter. If I know you believe that "rape doesn't exist" and you regularly publish about it, but you are giving a talk on 'advanced garbage collection in Ruby", I can still feel totally ostracized from the conference knowing what you've said in other spaces is literally an attack on my safety.
FWIW, LambdaConf speakers are not paid.
After reading that article, I realize how much truth there is to the old adage that, with a good article, you delete more than you save. This article feels like an interesting and thought provoking topic, but if it's there, it's hard to pinpoint while wading through the biography of half the author's family.

Twenty three paragraphs but no message.
I don't think "trivial" is quite the word you're looking for. This article doesn't really address that point, but "escaping poverty" isn't trivial. If poverty simply meant lack of money but all else were held equal, your claim would be more accurate, but would mean very little (e.g., was Elon Musk "poor" during the time when all of his net worth was wrapped up in trying to get Tesla and SpaceX off the ground?).

Poverty is pretty complicated. Escaping it is too.
> Why does someone has more right than me to decide what's offensive, smartass or spam? Either leave that to the administration, or give that to everyone.

Exactly my point. "Karma Privilege"
Let's Encrypt certs issued as of today are compatible with Windows XP
Open Source BeagleBone SDR Cape Taps Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA
A speaker's personal views are not and cannot be an attack on your safety.
wow the authors company is right by my home town.
That's a great point. A little openness can only help Amazon sell even more of these things. I don't have one, but everybody I know who does really likes it.
As was pointed out on another thread, the bot literally just repeated some messages from people word by word, copy paste style.

So if you think it's original, chances are it is. Not to mention the various instances where Microsoft is posting "as the bot" like that signoff message (cringe for whoever had to write that).
Why you should be skeptical that any video is real
When a comment is egregious, please don't dignify it by replying. Instead, flag it. You can flag a comment (if you have a small amount of karma, I think 30) by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top.
Without commenting on LambdaConf's statement, PrlConf refers to the JonPrl language but much, much more broadly the general PRL ("Proof Refinement Logic") system of proof languages of which Cornell's NuPRL (http://nuprl.org/) is by far the most advanced example. Unfortunately, NuPRL is engineered such that it is really difficult to get started with it and usually depends upon having access to an instance of a NuPRL server running at a major institution. This prevents the spread of the ideas of PRL and both JonPrl and PrlConf are, most likely, attempts to reverse that.

Generally, PRL is a mechanism for proofs which varies slightly but significantly from the "proof calculus"-oriented provers like Coq/Agda by including at its very core an unbounded notion of untyped computation. This allows more interesting, exotic things to be expressed in PRL even if the proofs about them must ultimately be finite.
Lol, biggest bug is developer ignoring that latin1 & unicode encoded in UTF8 can coexists in the same stream of data :

- HTTP 1.1 headers are ISO-8859-1 (CERN legacy) while content can be UTF8
- SIP being based on HTTP RFC have the same flaw.

The CTO of my last VoIP company is still wondering why some callerIDs are breaking his nice python program assuming everything is UTF8 and still does not understand this...

Yes, encoding can change, I also saw it while using regionalisation with C# .net in logs.
The topic itself is worth discussing. However I'm not actually sure why this specific article was the one being picked for a second chance.

It's one long life story (stories?), and there is nothing in it supporting either the title or subtitle. Yes, her upbringing was bad, but I wanted to know what happened personally to her after graduating that she's where she is now. Or even better: what exactly could have helped her (by government or society) getting to where she want to be in life? Those details are no where to be found.

And I'd like to hear others' opinion on this, but I don't consider her writing to be good. Maybe if she want to be a writer, that has something to do with it?
Twenty three paragraphs but no message.

The message is "tax the rich".
There are 4,185,000 members of the Federal government. According to the Bureau of Labor, there are 22 million people on the payroll of government nationally.

That's like saying it makes sense to say that all Muslims are terrorists just because 1 in 4 Muslims believe terrorism is justifiable. XD
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_towards_terro...]
Agreed, I think this can be generalized to say that this should be the case with all these cloud services. The hardware should be open source, so you can at least control that part. At least you have that much control over the cloud APIs.
Hackers raid Verizon enterprise customer data, 1.5M affected
This thread is what it would be like if "The Vagina Monologues" were performed by an all-male cast in front of an all-male audience.
Are Korean and Chinese not like factories? I always thought they were more so than American, to the point of famously turning out people who have a bizarre ability to imitate knowledge but not have it (much like Chinese factories can fill dollar stores and Walmart with stuff that has an amazing superficial resemblance to functionng functioning products)
At my work we're running all Jenkins jobs in Docker containers using some simple scripting [1].

Works really great. Jobs can run on any slave, no snowflakes, full CI config is versioned in the repo along with the code. Jenkins job only point to a single script and that's it.

[1] https://github.com/kabisa/jenkins-docker
Please explain how you believe its pretty trivial to escape poverty? A grossly ignorant statement that.
Props to Amazon for putting this up. There are hundreds of steps and a lot of it is manual drudgery. 10/10 would hack again.
If urbit were any good I might be inclined to disagree, but not even the technology holds up. I invite anyone to try to read the source - it looks intentionally obfuscated.
Focusing on SSDs seems reasonable.

Rotational disks are on their way out. For example, Samsung recently introduced a 15TB SSD[1], able to compete even with the largest rotational disks.

[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-now-introducing-worl...
A lot of Walmarts have drive up grocery loading now. Order on the app, drive up, they load your groceries into your trunk, and off you go.
If an AI bot threatens to hurt someone or defames them, are the creators legally accountable?

What if an AI bot purchases grass from the silk road or hacks into a database and discloses privately held information?

This opens up a whole, new legal world.
I'm struggling to understand how you can possibly jump from "we do chores; you live life" to "our workers are subhuman".

Are you saying that only subhumans do chores?
I tend to get my refurb Thinkpads from arrowdirect.com.
You can use the code ARROW for 20% off.

I ordered this one as 4G/128SSD but already had the RAM on hand to upgrade it to 16G.

Part sources:

(if you want to upgrade from the 128G)
Intel Pro 1500 180G: $55
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pro-1500-180-GB-2-5-SSD-Intern...

(optional) Intel 310 80G mSATA SSD: $30
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-310-Series-80GB-mSATA-SSD-SSDM...

Ultrabay battery: $28
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Battery-43-3-Cell-Ba...

Intel 7260 802.11ac MiniPCIe wifi card: $28
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-7260-HMWG-R-Wireless-AC-Bluetoot...

An external USB3 enclosure for the Ultrabay DVDRW drive will run around $30 on Amazon.

To install the Intel 7260 card, you will need to install a modified "whitelist removed" BIOS, as Lenovo restricts what MiniPCIe cards can go in their systems by default. The system comes with an 802.11n card (mine was an Intel Centrino 6205).

My only complaint about ArrowDirect is that if they have a system model that could have different screen resolutions, you have no way of specifying / requesting certain specs; you get what they pull and send.

Every system I've ordered from them (close to ten now) has arrived in near-mint condition; this t420s would be amazingly perfect if not for a scuff of the rubberized paint/coating on the top lid (which doesn't matter to me one bit).
> build configuration is purely declarative and can be checked in with the project.

Seems like you are missing the point of pipeline and the Jenkinsfile concept, namely that the pipeline is part of the SCM.

Yes you can have the pipeline defined in the old-style text box in the job config, but that is intended to be used only while you develop the pipeline. Once you get it developed it gets checked in to source control.

Of course there are down sides to having the build instructions in source control, e.g. drive-by hack via Pull Request... granted this is nothing new... You can always do the drive by hack in a unit test... but it does take a little more work. In that regard having the Jenkinsfile in a text box (or better yet in a separate SCM) can be a useful protection (as can mandating that PRs use the target branch Jenkinsfile rather than the Jenkinsfile in the PR... again a feature in Jenkins pipelines)

For me the real advantage in pipeline is the organization folders support. You can tell Jenkins to scan all the repositories in your GitHub org and automatically create Jenkins jobs for any branches of any repositories that have a Jenkinsfile... PRs will automatically (subject to basic drive-by hack protection) be built and the commit will be tagged with the result.

So as with all things Jenkins, you have choices... we are providing some opinionated defaults (which is a change from the 1.x series)

> That said, this appears to be achieved by promoting the plugin into the default installation.

So the thing to remember is that the core of Jenkins is really better viewed as a platform. The plugins are really where functionality for Jenkins lives. I would expect to see more of the "current core" functionality get shipped out of core and into plugins. There is no reason why the Freestyle job type needs to remain in core. The advantage of having these functionalities outside of core is that we can be more reactive with regards to developing features.

> Further out, the Jenkins pipelines are tricky to do fan-out/fan-in with

I might have a different view on that claim, but hey I'm significantly biased.

OTOH my personal view is that for the 99% of jobs pipeline is overkill and literate is actually a better fit... but sadly most people don't seem to like the idea of actually making your source control have a README.md file with a - shock horror - "build" section that actually has the verbatim command required to build the software in source control (perhaps with an "environments" section that describes the build / test toolchains and environments)... I guess there's too many people who signed up to the mortgage-driven development manifesto [1] to actually want to leave a README file in source control explaining how to build and release the software!

Disclaimer: I created the weather report column and I am an active Jenkins developer

[1] https://refuctoring.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/the-mortgage-dr...
Sorry about that. This note replaced our "call for proposals", which had much more formatting. Also, I'm a shite web developer, so there's that.
Oh well. I was secretly hoping it stood for Randall R. Randall.
Yes, they are all over the financial district in SF. They are odious, especially in contrast to the squalor and desperation of the surroundings (Bus stops full of the homeless and the working poor). Very American Psycho.
Standing behind the open and casual use of racial slurs isn't advocacy of freedom of speech. It's advocacy of a specific kind of hate speech that is only used when someone intends to vilify and direct hostility towards a marginalized minority.
The Dyson handheld really benefits from the over priced attachments they sell.

Even in the standard set, some of the included attachments are worthless, and you ought to buy the extras.

The laser gun is the most versatile vacuum I have ever owned though. And for some reason I use it much more than any other vacuum I've owned.
Correct; we are typically given funding to attend though. (Travel & hotel expenses, free ticket to the conference.)
I only recognize 386, but that's "Someone is wrong..." and now you will too.
Which is the wrong message, but that's what happens in constant class warfare society. They screw us we screw them, and on and on it goes.
"We do chores. You live life." The implication being that they consider their workforce to be less than human.

That doesn't follow at all. Just because people do chores it doesn't mean they aren't able to live or that they are less than human.
It's not nearly that simple. Most scholars for example agree that the common law permits a right to change your name "with legal affect" without relying on state procedures or approval.

[1] http://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/57-1-7.pdf
Incorrect.

Voting is a form of expression, and a comment has much less weight than a downvote in terms of ranking.

The only way to be able to express that type of opinion is by complying with the masses long enough to hoard enough karma. So, yes, only the "popular" people get that power.
https://twitter.com/merylnet/status/703079627288260608
Nice to see them walking through pretty much everything from getting your RPi running to making it work with AVS. That said, Sam Machin's Python CHIP / RPi client was there first, and has a smaller footprint: https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaCHIP
Personal attacks are not welcome on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do this.
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Pilot plans historic flight using plant-based biofuel
We're using this as well, it's got warts but it's 100x better than authoring jobs in the web ui.
My thoughts exactly. I thought it was going to be another "I got a liberal arts degree and now I'm outraged that I can't find a job; upward mobility isn't real!" article, but it wasn't even that... :/
Don't run production code on a nano.

Don't run production code on a nano.

Don't run production code on a nano.

I don't care what language you're using, if you find yourself saying "well, I could run on a nano" just stop.
I'm not sure, he works in a different office than I do. As far as I know, he's American, and I'm not sure if he had a mononym from birth, or if he changed his name.
It was either:
1) A brainfart on OP's part or
2) You're watching someone who doesn't do chores pontificate on how bad "the poor people" have it.
I'm African and should be very disgusted by this person's views (I am) [1]

However, the views were written under a pseudonym years ago and has no bearing on technology.

Basically, these were anonymous talks jotted down somewhere.

It is shocking that this person John Sterling canceling this talk thinks it's a good idea to permanently sentence a person for what the wrote UNDER A PSEUDONYM years ago and may or may not longer think the thoughts.

This is the height of intolerance I have ever seen. Left to this guy, thinking absurd stuff today about various issues (not even acting on it) should banish on from society when it is discovered in 2 decades.

I unreservedly condemn such intolerance and declare it far more dangerous than folks who think Africans are a lower species. One is an uneducated thought the other a dangerous totalitarian action.

[1]https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/606576005667504129