skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "little round carbon circles" are there go trap the particles, so they can put them later in a electronic microscope.

He shows the images he got in the video at 30:40.

I agree that the most sensible explanation is that in each launch they got hundreds of carbon dust dots, and he cherrypicked the most symmetrical and biological like, and then proclaim that they are "biological entity"s.

Some back of the envelope calculations: Let's guess that they have a team of 5 members, and each one looks at the microscope one day each week for 8 hours, and to select and focus a dot they need 1 minute. If they do this for a year they'd get 60x8x5x52 = 1 million samples.

The problem is how to design a control group. Perhaps someone can look at 1 million sand grains and find the more interesting. (This looks like an interesting blog post.) The chemical composition is very different, and the size is very different, but I guess it can test the human filter part.

(Bonus points: Repeat this 1 million of grains of other materials. Salt grains a too cubic to look organic. Soot particles seams more interesting and can be a possible contamination. How does flour looks under a microscope?)
If I were replaceable by automation, I would be.
Debian on desktop. Ubuntu on laptop (a macbook pro) because Ubuntu supports the wifi card and Debian doesn't (out of the box, at least). I'd prefer Debian because it starts with less, but working at all is more important.
>You have not made an argument for why a price floor is necessary or desirable.

I'm pretty sure that's all I did. Your inability to see that is on you.

>"The good argument for having a maximum 'price of bread' is that without it, bread prices will be pressured up, because every bakery on the planet wants prices as high as possible, and they generally have the means to achieve it." You can say that all you want, but you haven't provided a justification that it's actually true, or that the situation warrants legislation of one interest over the other.

No. You have provided that justification. You just said what the justification for maximum price of bread is. But those businesses don't have the means to achieve maximum bread price. And if bread was being sold for billions of dollars per slice, the price almost certainly would be regulated down. For exactly the arguments you've made: without it bread becomes absurdly expensive.

>The market forces of supply and demand create pressures both up and down on wages, and an equilibrium between them is what allows markets to be efficient.

Efficient at what? Efficient at reaching equilibrium. Not efficient at meeting the goals of society, which involve complex moral and political conditions not captured or measured by any market.

>Equating jobs to slavery is an outrageous argument, and disingenuous.

It is not. Especially with wages being systematically driven down to below what is necessary for survival. The minimum wage was created because there were real problems caused by not having it. Negative wages have existed in a "free" market.
Have you seen the Core Gudelines and the GSL? Not as powerful as Rust, but very interesting.
Looks very interesting!
Is there a way to restrict search access with some sort of authentication, or is it meant to be placed behind a firewall/reverse proxy?
> however the machines will drastically improve productivity, therefore reduce prices

Except why would that ever happen? If you were a business owner selling widget X, and it suddenly cost you half as much to make that due to automation, you don't pass those savings on to your customers, you celebrate how much better your margins have gotten and how much more profit you're making.
As a contractor who spent multiple years at a time there, it did seem insane -- Marines and Air Force were way less than a year! Although this depends a lot on role; a doctor or fueler does the same job everywhere, but someone building local relationships doesn't.

The British colonial model of a permanently based unit through which battalions would rotate seems far preferable.

The real problem was that we didn't actually need to win.
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No worries nitro. There are other secondary motives, such as military-industrial greed and the residue of the kind of violent, anti-intellectual, emotional nationalism best exhibited by Hitler and Trump. But honestly I'd rather talk about really real motives than the fake ones :)
The cost per click is dependent on an ad with a high CTR, in addition to a low cost per thousand impressions. Reddit ads, as mentioned in the post for example, are one place with low priced ad inventory.
The conservative government here in the UK has put the minimum wage on a steep upward trajectory. This is not a conservative vs left-wing (or liberal as you like to call it) thing.

The more important distinction is between those who keep holding on to paid work as the main or only moral basis for deserved income and the other camp that tries to move away from that principle.

There are conservative, left-leaning and libertarian people on either side of the debate.
You could buy shares in GS or any other public company investing in private companies and/or underwriting IPOs, so there's that. That said, the idea that public capital markets are widely considered to be a way to increase equality, of all things, is stunning to me. I thought/think that people supporting capital markets view them as a method for companies to raise capital in exchange for a share of future profits, and that people opposing capital markets view them as casinos, pyramid schemes, etc., and that the point of extra regulation for public companies is to protect investors, while the point of having less-regulated private companies is to lower the cost of raising capital for those ventures that can make do with a small number of rich investors.

Even if people widely consider the stock market to be an "equalizer", it doesn't seem obvious that adding more early-stage small-cap stocks to the market serves that purpose, because these companies are more likely to go bust, with a small fraction of them capturing most of the growth, and an index with a share in all those companies is not unlikely to underperform a large-cap index. (Incidentally, this is related to the reason that widespread stock ownership seems to me more likely to increase rather than decrease inequality - the prices of these things have a high variance; taxing and redistributing wealth and/or capital gains sounds like a surer path to equality, if that's what you want.)
> My tooling needs to be built around a different level of granularity as the default. I'm not OK with single letter commits cluttering up my git log, for example. Having them around to drill down into if I need them? Sure.

And that would be nice to have, a vcs that allows you to fold and unfold commits to different levels of granularity.

Wanna have only a straight line history with all feature branches squashed? There you have it. Just need some of them like that? Sure enough. What if you want every time the file was saved? Not a problem, just configure it to commit automatically.
For years.

You open up a crit sit that is tagged as a product defect and they will turn fixes around quickly.

If you are strategic to them, they'll fly in people.
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>having an MS proper Linux would be great.

What you're describing will never happen. MS wants to keep .NET/etc development easiest on Windows. They have no incentive or plans to deliver the same support for developers on Linux as they do for devs on Windows.

Any true "linux distro" released by MS will have gimped out tools. If they ship windows with a Linux ABI ("Ubuntu + Windows") so you have MS support, then it's never going to be proper Linux.

I don't see how anything MS is doing really helps Linux. If they were really pro-Linux they'd make a commitment to supporting it 100% by making 100% of their development software compatible with Linux.

Just more extending for the purpose of extinguishing. I have no reason to believe otherwise because MS has not inspired confidence in me. All the tools they've open sourced or released on Linux are half assed. A billion dollar company like MS can make good software for Linux that isn't gimped, they just choose not to do so because they prefer that Windows remains a more viable platform for people who use their tools.
Shame on anyone still for such an archaic form of "justice".
Agreed. It's a weird shopping experience because unlike other online clothing retailers there's no consistent aesthetic. It feels like walking through a flea market, but some of the items are expensive high-end luxury.
> You are essentially making the luddite case.

I'm not, I'm just countering some "don't worry, everything will be fine" idealism.

I don't think we should halt progress, but I do think we should be more intentional about how we go about it. There is not currently a solution on the table to address mass un/under-employment caused by near-term automation. Basic income is thrown around, but even if enacted, does not change the fact that our culture views work ethic ~= value. People want to be valued.

Choosing not to address it in the next couple of years results in a large number of mostly young, angry, disillusioned people with lots of free time. If you've got a history book handy, you can read plenty about what happens after that.
I tried to.

Apparently he claimed to have been harassed by the police, but he also was said to be incoherent and violent in his behaviours.

Bruce Perens unnicely -at my opinion that is not the most reliable in the world- disclosed his mental illness. 1 day after on his blog and /.

The family also asked for discretion. A wish that has been followed by the majority of the community. Except people like me. Because, well, I wanted to understand.

I tried to see for similar cases with google news what happened, and a non scientifically screening of hundreds of case in the USA would tend to suggests that if the victim is categorized mentally ill then news about police violence does not seems to make it higher than local news.

I am just a little pea on the internet, I have no way to confirm my conclusions are right. It would require a true journalistic investigation to infirm of confirm the case.

The conclusion I drew for myself having attended FOSS for 10 years as a topic organizer in conferences is the level of freaks tended to be higher than on average. Still not a scientific conclusion.

I naively expected the community to be aware of that. My naive expectation is that the society would recognize the positive contribution of FOSS to the IT thus to the economy and thus would try to push harder on this case.

Apparently I am naïve or delusive according to the feedback I had on this story.

Well, I encourage people to make their own opinions and investigate with their own means.

I am still a tad disappointed in my expectations.
It's a bad deal for Amazon if, as the author assumes, the people aren't buying the product featured in the ad, but rather just happen to buy something else from Amazon within the 24 hour window without any connection to having seen the ad.

I wouldn't be surprised if in future amazon changes the system so that it only pays the fees when the original product from the link is purchased (or perhaps switches to this only for prime users.)
The "belt" is very reminiscent of a stack. I was generalizing, but it is much closer to the traditional stack machine in terms of execution without registers than a load/store based RISC machine like every other mainstream architecture is at this point... Even though x86 is technically a CISC ISA, the actual mainstream implementations of it are RISC internally.

At least for myself and my computer architecture friends/colleagues, most of us just throw Mill into the stack machine box even if it is not entirely true... the benefits of the Belt architecture over the traditional stack machine are there in concept, but Mill has also not released any real concrete information on their compilers (at least from what I have seen).
Awesome, will take a look at your story as well. Thanks for the info :)
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Oh cool, I missed your citation. I am still figuring some things out as well so I am going to check out what you've done.

Definitely happy to have you contribute to the ecosystem. It seemed like a content gap that I wanted to fill in, but at Google we would of course prefer to have a healthy external ecosystem of people writing content like yourself!
Oracle doesn't care what you think at all, good or bad. If you hate them, they undermine you by making you sound like a bumpkin. If you love them, they undermine you by using you as a spy.

They influence your CEO/CIO/board/governor/mayor/general/owner/investor. A few years back, they convinced some dope in the State of California to buy a named user license for every resident of the state.
In the United States, innocence has never been grounds for an appeal, a stay, overturning, or clemency. Here in Florida, I could write an accurate algorithm for calculating the application of the Death Penalty. Skin darkness (literally, not race), IQ, wealth, sex are the relevant factors. The elements of the case are not.

I'm not against the Death Penalty on general principle grounds; I'm against it because we clearly aren't to be trusted with it.
Assuming everything else stays the same, if a swarm of robots enters the economy and starts doing a shit-ton of everyone's work at a tiny cost, then productivity skyrockets and we all start collecting unlimited social security checks starting at age 62.

But everything else won't stay the same.

Consumers will start to demand more from the businesses and governments that use these robots. Businesses that don't get more robots -- or more expensive robots -- will be left behind. Pretty soon the productivity miracle disappears and we all have to work until we're 70, just like before.
> We haven't seen an automation revolution in Australia because the Australian tech sector isn't nearly as developed as that in the US.

But we haven't seen an automation revolution in the US either, so I'm not sure what you're saying here. Some sources[2] claim Australian's are early adopters of new technology.

I wouldn't say "we are already seeing" an automation revolution in the US with regard to driverless cars. I'll be reviewing this opinion ever six months though. It certainly looks like there's a race to full automated driverless vehicles, but we're not there yet. Not en mass.

This NPR article[1] shows truck driver is the most common job is most states in the US. Self-driving trucks are going to be disruptive.

1. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...

2. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/9/19/technolog...
>Can we wait until they actually do or talk about doing something bad before making a stink about them doing bad things? This is kind of jumping at phantoms, and doing that too much will mean losing the ability to do it for real.

I tend to think once they've done it it's too late: the product, once it's built, will be offered as a take-it-or-leave-it prospect, and lobbying for them to go back and re-engineer it to respect privacy is a losing proposition. We lost with Windows 10 and now there's no hope of it being fixed. I think in the beginnings of the product design cycle is exactly where these concerns should be voiced, and loudly.
> The human biology and mind is clearly limited, while the progress of machines does not seem to be.

Can you explain what you mean by that? That's not an intuitive idea to me, animals/AIs just seem like two different kinds of machines to me with different computational characteristics, neither of which can fully simulate the other.
SLOCCount use the COCOMO method: http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/sloccount.html#cocomo
Here you go: the minimum wage exists to depress rents. Rents always rise until tenants are making whatever minimal profits will keep them in business. Enacting a minimum wage law takes money from the landlord and gives it to the workers, at the same level of minimally attractive profit margins.
In case this is not obvious to you... to be entitled to employment (or anything) means someone must provide it. If nobody is voluntarily hiring a man, you would force someone to hire him because this man is entitled to employment?

How would you feel if I told you that there's someone I know in need of employment and YOU must hire him? Oh, and if you don't, I'll fine you or lock you up.
People were never entitled to employment. The very notion of a job as the primary mode of earning one's living was born relatively recently, some 200 years ago (then, it meant mostly manual labor). It survived the transition to information economy, but current AI progress may finally put end to it.

This is as inevitable as the appearance of middle class during the first industrial revolution. The progress cannot be stopped.
Competition is one reason. Increased sales volume is a second. Social pressure is a third. It's why we get clean tap water for less money than it would cost someone to bring it by bucket. It's why a gallon of gasoline costs less than the bale of hay equivalent. Regardless of the mechanism, the world is full of examples of technology lowering costs.

Certainly you're correct that not all of the cost savings will be passed on to consumers, but as long as the market is not a zero-price-elasticity monopoly immune to social pressure and government regulation, some savings ought to be passed on.
Apple should maintain a standard of quality control. If this is representative of that control, then what she is saying is correct in that their work is not representative of what they espouse.
True in a monopoly situation, but if you have competition and they can automate like you, there will be a race to the bottom.
Maybe you're confusing (as many do) entitled with having the freedom to do something.

Entitled: believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment

If I don't qualify in any way for a job at your business, let's find out what you say when I force you to hire me because of an argument that I'm inherently deserving of that job. I'll just sit on my butt all day, and you pay me. Sound good?
Maybe. Everyone else here seems to think they could do better (or that it could be done better). I'm sure that's not at all inspired by this attempt.
The languages are the only point where I disagree with GP. Most US students don't start studying a foreign language until junior high at the earliest. When I was in high school (early 1980s) very few started foreign languages before high school. There were definitely kids at my high school who were pretty fluent in one non-native language, a few might be conversationally passable in two, but very few if any would have fluency in three or four languages in high school.
Because of this little thing called "competition". There will always be new businesses who can live with lower profit margins and drive you out of the market for good.

Capitalism 101.
Toasting in an epic bread.
Yes, it is different because it's used. It's also supposed to be have been brought back to new condition on the inside where damaged and faulty parts have been replaced by as-new parts, not by replacement parts that are also damaged.
I don't know that money has ever been the issue. What we seem to lack is real conviction to fight the ideologies supporting ISIS.

The real problem is the Gulf States. Wahhabism is a very similar strain of Islam to what ISIS believes. That's a unique threat to the Gulf monarchies, and they are vulnerable to a theological insurgency until they figure out how to pivot from an intolerant oil sheikh culture to a diversified merit-driven economy.

100 years is a long time, but I think as a country we're clinging to an unsustainable Middle Eastern policy and until that changes I am skeptical that we beat back the ideology, and by extension the violence that it encourages.
My current favorites are Talk Python to Me and Startup School Radio.

I have a repo to share my summaries & notes by episode:

https://github.com/tedmiston/notes#podcasts
Yeah, I think you're right.

Just for reference, here's all the allocations. They've got fairly verbose rules http://www.arrl.org/frequency-allocations
Perhaps you could make one in every x links be an affiliate link with your key, and the IAP get rid of that?