skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between a drone strike or a beheading of innocents? What's the difference between Assad torturing non-Syrians or Americans doing the same thing at black ops sites? Out of all the justifications for acting brutally or inhumanely according to the ethical standard American rhetoricians, most of the justifications that sort of give a passing nod to all the State sponsored brutality are rooted not in any real plots that have happened, but in fictional ones that could happen.
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No new markets, coupled with lack of upgrades.

If you have a 5, there's no compelling need to buy a 6x because from a user pov it's just more of the same.

Under Cook, Apple has iterated on faster/thinner/bigger/smaller/blingier, and there's been no significant original thinking.

The execution is great, in a slightly wobbly way, but what's being executed has become formulaic, mundane, and unexciting.
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This post on Centauri Dreams discusses another possible way to use the Sun's gravity lens, as a way to effectively communicate with an interstellar probe: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=10123.
No, but at least from the PoV of public perception the situation is easier to deal with in a way that allays fear.

In your example that one drive is taken off the road. That drive is not a problem, and people assume that the remaining drivers are, for the most part, fine and unlikely to make the same mistake.

In the automated truck example you can't take that one driver off the road because barring equipment failure they are all the same driver and just as likely to make the same mistake.

If one human driver kills in such a manner, people will distrust that one human driver (or at worst that one trucking company, if bad training or other compliance issues are suspected), if one automated truck kills in such a manner people will distrust all automated trucks.
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Philippines has Cash-On-Delivery (COD) shippers like LBC. When I buy stuff from Lazada, I usually have to do COD and I get the package within 2-3 business days delivered to the office.
Selective sync, at least in the version of Dropbox that I use, is restricted to the folder level.
What is the library ecosystem like? This is ultimately what limits all other Scheme implementations.
> the argument goes both ways here as well: take an arbitrary human (such as yourself, if you happen to be human) and try placing this human in the cockpit of a landing jet plane, in a semiconductor factory, in the oval office of the White House, in the kitchen of a gourmet restaurant, on a horseback in Siberia, or equipped with only a spear in the middle of the Amazonas jungle. There are humans that have been programmed to do well in each of these situations, but it is very unlikely that the human you were thinking of (perhaps yourself) would know what to do in more than at most one of these situations.

This part seems wrong. I think most humans would make a decent go of most of those situations. Not as good as an expert by any means, but they'd be capable of doing something, unlike a computer program.
I'm optimistic. In a way, Nokia at its height commanded an industry of networked, "dumb" but highly complex electronic devices. They just couldn't keep up when their industry got disrupted by pocketable computers with complete GUIs.

The good IoT devices of the future won't be refrigerators with LCDs running Android grafted to them, they'll be more akin to smart interfaces electronic devices. If I’m right, the future of Nokia could be surprising.
For tech things I would say that just reading the documentation (or source if there isn't any useful documentation) is preferable to any online courses.

On my first meaningfully paid job, first actually useful thing I did was that I went into corporate archives and found documentation for Oracle 7i and Microstation 95 which I was supposed to be using. Somehow nobody else there even thought of reading the docs. (the fact that I somehow automated myself away in this job is another thing)
Spoiler alert: All software has bugs.
Wait, Nokia is still around?
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Like I said, whether they were deserving of those benefits does not feature in any of of those definitions.
But that just confirms it as a a myth - "I really hate the Irish, so I'll pretend they aren't white"
They can open a Nevada or Delaware corporation in the U.S. that hires from the tech scene. They'll have speech/press freedom, almost no taxes, plenty IT people to draw on a low-wages, Stripe support, no VATMOSS, and easy business dealings with any country.

Wonder why that wasn't on the list given we're the start-a-business-and-get-rich capital of the world.
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The MATE DE seems to handle this pretty well too.
I learned this early as a child. I stood next to my dad as he was interviewed by a journalist for a community event where he worked. When I later read the actual article, I was somewhat astounded by the inaccuracy. And I was a child!
It doesn't surprise me in the least, because smart != wise. Academic achievement does not require wisdom on how best to live, and wisdom is not dependant on academic achievement.
For those wanting to be "muppets" go for it.
What DRM, if any, does this use?

Does Steam provide a viewer app, or is each movie packaged as a viewer application to fit the game distribution model?
XML started to be really meaningful buzzword in '98 or '99. (with first really useful implementations in like 2000)
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same with my unit. It does not boot anymore, or only after trying 10 minutes pressing the button to get it to boot.
I have a different personality with different sets of motivations, compounded with mental health differences that make it near impossible to fit in with the SV crowd. It's one of the few crowds like this, despite their swaths of feel-good attitudes and intentions. It's incredibly exclusionary and dismissive. Funny enough, your comment is a great example of what I mean.

I'm assuming you didn't read the article, or else you would have had a better understanding of what I refer to when talking about "it".
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Ok, not arguing just trying to understand better. Surely people are still upgrading. Perhaps it's less frequent? Like, now people are waiting their full upgrade period (or longer) whereas before many upgraded frequently?
that's the thing here - who the fk is denied success in IT, which all this about? I am from east Europe too, currently living in Western Europe, and the only discrimination I ever saw in university and professional job was positive discrimination against women.

At school, that 1 girl we had in whole class out of 100 students was pampered with so much attention and had it so easy on verbal exams (written of course were equal as far as I can say). Everybody would love to have more girls, from teachers to students, but they couldn't care less. Economic studies were far more sexi rather than geeky IT guys.

Same when working - when hiring, female devs were so rare that there was very strong preference in female candidates (ie all that showed up were hired, but it's fair to say they were good... just not better than competing guys).

Right now, I am sitting in front of a consulting girl from Azerbaijan and a guy from Morocco. Both well performing and highly regarded in our company. This IS fair world, as much as we can do it. Not 100%, but damn good and far better than ever before. So stop whining and rather contribute.
I think you could work those policies into law.
> You probably thought it was an attack on white people.

Prima facie, the use of the term leads people to believe that an identifiable group of people (white people) has obtained things which they do not deserve (privilege). A typical human response to being told that another group has things which were unjustly obtained is resentment and hostility. This is inevitable and obvious. The term is by its construction divisive.

> It's not.

That's merely an assertion. The term is a tool. Some people use it to try to effect positive change for certain groups of people (I'm assuming this includes you). Some people very much can and do use it as a weapon to enact their idea of retribution.
Something positive from elevated CO2, that doesn't fit the script.
"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess [1].

Also: Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation [2]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Why-Torture-Doesnt-Work-Interrogation/...
Chernobyl exclusion zone (30th anniversary of accident today)
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However, Nokia is not a brand that I associate with statements like "creating beautifully designed products" or general consumer products period.

Do I really need mention their phones of old? As for consumer products, all I've owned are a set of their Bluetooth noise-canceling headphones (also "of old" considering I've had them for 5 or 6 years). They're awesome, and I'll be sad when they die. That's all I know, but it's enough that I wouldn't immediately discount the idea that Nokia can make decent consumer products.
I'm not sure what there is to be careful of here. A brief search will reveal that it was named after Gell-Mann in an attempt to make it sound better, and I don't see any particular implication from it that it's a scientifically supported phenomenon.
This looks excellent.

I'm well versed in imagemagick to such a degree that I stopped taking on projects that would have to use it. Which is a large subset of projects. Now that I'm primarily Node and Javascript focused I'll bring this up next time.
That's disingenuous to pretend its not compulsory, just don't buy the house! We all understand it to mean, to live in a certain area its compulsory to belong to the HOA. Living in an area can be important for lots of reasons. Buying a house is a contract between the seller and the buyer regarding personal property. To be required to include a third party (the HOA) is strange. You don't have to belong to the NSX fan club to own an NSX.

The whole point of HOAs is to enforce somebody's personal preferences on their neighbors. Its annoying, infringes on my personal space, and promotes a weird philosophy of groupthink in what I consider an un-American way.
FAQ - Microsoft bought Nokia's mobile phones but the rest of Nokia survives (marker cap $22 billion).
I love Elixir very much, but most unixy languages have access to `writev`. Yes that is not default for most IO but programmers typically can choose.

I have done some benchmarks of using `writev` vs concatenating smaller strings using memcpy before sending to the network stream (to avoid kernel context switches) and difference is pretty small.
What in particular do you like about it? I've used Erlang plenty, but haven't had much occasion to use Elixir and Phoenix.
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These pictures were taken from my visit six years ago.

Haunting is too weak an adjective to describe the experience.
> How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader?

Well, you need to have a feed reader set up.
Agree on the class aspect, but it is a bit more nuanced:

It really is a question of your family's values, not finances. I know a few affluent families who don't really value education, and there is enough money for the kids to live off of the family fortune (aka "trust fund kids").

Kids born into white trash families and black-ghetto families are equally fucked, not because they are poor (though it does not help), but because they don't have the values and successful role models to follow/ motivate them.

It is not an easy problem to solve - but that's a whole other discussion.
Researchers pinpoint part of the brain that recognizes facial expressions
What will happen if I run these commands:

cd dropBoxDir

grep -nr someStr .
Very cool!

I had trouble building it on Linux if I tried to set --installprefix= to a non-standard location, it built fine using the defaults. Nice!

On OS X, I have a clang version of gcc installed and perhaps because of that my build broke.
I am maintaining an open source simple aggregator:
https://github.com/JARR/JARR
and using it since more than 5 years. It has evolved a lot since...

It is possible to test it here:
https://jarr.herokuapp.com
This instance is limited in resources...
It is deployable quite easily (a vagrant configuration file is also provided).
The anti-instagram?
I got this email this morning about this new app that is calling itself the "anti-instagram". Downloaded it. Seems cool. Not super sold on it but it's worth checking out. Did anyone else get this random message. They almost sound like Anonymous, lol:

With the growing appetite for mobile apps and the necessity of social media, there is something new that occurs everyday that asks early adopters and excited potential users to participate in. But, most users never see the engagement or validation they’re looking for when joining these channels. A quiet storm brews. With it comes change. That change has come in the form of the... Splore app. It's not about the number of followers or likes you get. It's about receiving the true recognition you deserve. Splore-an innovative photo-sharing app that allows users from all around the globe to showcase their content and get it recognized by their peers. Splore users follow the hashtag (not other users) and discover trendsetting content. With its “Reddit” influenced style, Splore is a place where the “99%” can be the ruler of the day. Splore has a team of “behind the scenes” curators to make sure every voice is being heard. Splore is the creative platform that rebels against the norm. The nomadic writers. The late night painters. The visual storytellers of a new generation. We don't follow trends. We make them. Is Splore the “anti-Instagram”? The next “big thing” for young millennials to flock to? Only time will tell. But the movement is here and it is growing.

Get the free app now in the app store: http://bit.do/splore
I'm surprised that I never see mention of having one human at the front and a dozen slave trucks driving behind.

The trucks behind could be connected wirelessly. Or they could even use wires. Some sort of machine vision could keep an eye on the truck in front, adjusting distance as necessary.

Obviously that takes coordinating trucks going to the same direction but it seems reasonable to have a hub-and-spoke layout where "trains" are broken apart and re-assembled.
At one startup I was in, I said to a coworker, "It's like we're all the kids, and daddy drinks" and she had a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
This is parody, right?

"He's been a part of the technological revolution that has proven how an industry free from government regulation can flourish."

You mean the revolution that was literally started by the government thanks to its funding? You mean the revolution that was partially made possible thanks to the government's intervention in Microsoft's monopoly?

Funny how most libertarians I know are white dudes who have made their money in software from the safety of their homes. Maybe if they traveled around the world and saw what real stateless (or weak states) were like, they'd be singing a different tune.
I use Emacs with Alchemist [1] and I love it. The integration of common tasks like module reloading, testing and inline evaluation have all increased my productivity when writing Elixir. Code completion, Phoenix support and the ability to quickly jump to function definitions within a project are all nice features as well.

[1] https://github.com/tonini/alchemist.el
My guess: nope
Netflix DVD is still a useful option if you want to keep up with recent or obscure movies / TV series on the 'cheap'. Streaming, IMO is much more for killing time than watching a specific movie / series.

If you want to be really cheap you can add and drop the DVD section for a few months a year like say summer break.
We have a macro expander for pascal written in scheme (quick and dirty draft made by me that worked so well it stayed). We had some performance problems with some crazy recursive macros (it generates a _lot_ of code. Don't ask, I am not allowed to talk much about it), so I investigated porting it to chez.

Instead I just switched to guile (scheme implementation) trunk and got a 3x speedup. Did some optimizing work and it ended up at 4x, which is good enough.
The article is informal about intelligence and then comes up with a couple of ad-hoc examples where computers beat humans. It's unclear that they have much to do with intelligence. The following definition of the term has been proposed:

Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to
achieve goals in a wide range of environments.

Togelius even addresses this a little by pointing out that humans have to be trained to be a pilot of a president. But
it is unclear at this point to what extent computers can be intelligent in this sense. Alpha-Go's reinforcement learner, probably the most astonishing part of Alpha-Go, was not (to the best of my knowledge) Go-specific, instead, it was a general-purpose reinforcement learner. I doubt it can learn much more complicated forms of interaction without a simple reward function (such as games).

Nevertheless, I'm quite optimistic, but it's far from the foregone conclusion that the author implies it it.
I agree with all of the above but would love to see the "Northern Powerhouse" receive tens of billions (like London) rather than the tens of millions it seems [1] to be getting so far.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/16/osborne-budge...
and convert that in turn into a deeeeeeeply nested

I find that CTEs are the solution to deep nesting. There are very few times that I haven't been able to reduce the amount of nesting down to 2 levels (just the a single query with a subquery as part of an exists or something).

That's obviously a problem if you don't have access to CTEs (mysql) or CTEs are an optimization boundary (postgres), but if you're working with a product that does not have those issues, then CTEs can really clean up a lot of sql.
"This is actually very different than traditional network file systems like SMB, NFS, WebDAV, and SSHFS. With a normal network file system over the WAN you would have major latency problems trying to `cd` and `ls` the remote file system."

Is that still true for sshfs ?

People used to ask us if they should rsync to us directly or sshfs mount and then rsync to the mount, and we told them not to do that since the original rsync stat would basically download all files simply to look at them / size them.

But I don't think that's the case anymore. I think sshfs (or perhaps something about FUSE underneath) is smart about that now ... isn't it ?
I wonder what the net effect will be on truck brokerage? Since "75% of cost is labor" I'm sure revenue will be impacted but not margin.
So you ask them 30 questions 10 of which you know the correct answers. Also if you have several prisoners you can compare answers. This should give you a good idea about the validity of the answers.

Just waterboarding till you get a story you like is obviously bullshit but this also does not tell you much about the potential efficacy of torture.
I feel like this article is being disingenuous in order to get discussion going.
An excellent essay. The current "median language" is certainly JavaScript, so using a language that can do things JS can't gives you the advantage pg is talking about.
> Mosh (and its tolerance for high packet loss) helps Iain Learmonth escape from an elevator.

Um, wow! https://mosh.mit.edu/elevator.txt
This is possibly one of the funniest things I've read on the Internet today.

You're absolutely right. By the sound of it they could be tyrants on power trips. On the other hand I think the world would be a much better place if all tyrants on power trips lifted their countries out poverty, creating one of the most educated, cosmopolitan and diverse populations in the world, all within the space of two generations.
If you'd like a solution that the NSA doesn't have backdoors to: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
> that doesn't mean that you sailed through life on a magic carpet with things handed to you.

See, this is why people get frustrated when people tell them to check their privilege. White men are told all the time that they have life so easy, but almost never have their own frustrations or life experiences validated. I'm very grateful for everything I've had relatively easy in life (loving parents who never divorced and not worrying about having dinner each night, among others), but life still isn't easy, and it's frustrating feeling like there's nothing to complain about because of how you were born.
Wow, I never thought they'd open source Chez. This is really cool.
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You keep asking that from people who would have a huge target on their backs in a surveillance state. Quite an unreasonable expectation. Try this: "Have you had in-depth discussions on life in Singapore with people who live there now or spent significant time there? And did you listen to claims of its proponents and detractors?"

That's what I did and do. The proponents always say the exact same stuff in a refrain and ignore anything critical. The detractors usually have something new and creepy to say each year that comes from Singaporean press themselves on top of the other stuff I mostly ignore. Hence, my negative outlook on that country for certain types of people with positive outlook for other types of people.

I'm not going there unless someone can assure my safety while I blog about the threat their government poses to its citizens. I'm a civil liberties and privacy activist who reports on and fights international corruption. So, I definitely will say anything I see good or bad. Will I get locked up, tortured, kicked out? Or will they leave me alone? I can't know since transparency is a lie in that place. So, I can't ever answer yes to your question about visiting.

I can and do listen to people that live there. I find what they say varies depending on whether it's public or encrypted. I recall that being first, disturbing sign.
To be honest, the haulage company or their insurance company is losing money whilst their truck is stuck under a bridge, and even more when someone sends them the bill for the bridge repair. If laser scanners or databases attached to geolocation services aren't sufficiently accurate or affordable to make even that minimal level of driver aid widespread, it's probably an indication that adequate driver replacement services are going to be even further behind for those routes.
Dropbox? My guess is that they are trying to protect the "tray login" thing where the client runs without prompting you for your dropbox credentials, but that's just a guess.

There's an article about the reverse engineering of the client here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/researchers-rev...
You only need to be careful because some smart-alek will point out it is an example of Stigler's law of eponymy.
Somebody revising a quote doesn't mean they were lying the first time around.

You may not care for negotiation, but that doesn't mean it is dishonest. Items and services don't have a "real" price, they are only worth what people will pay for them.
Doug Lenat's Automated Mathematician (AM) apparently did "discover" multiplication by itself:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/ai-course/lenat.txt

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

Of course, you could argue that multiplication was implicitly there in the rules and facts it was programmed with.