skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can only assume that technology has created more social isolation

I can only speak anecdotally but from observations it has increased social interaction for those who seek it - as social networking makes the process easier - while reduced it for those who don't seek it or want to take the path of least resistance. Technology merely accelerates individual desire. SJ's old chestnut: computers are like bicycles for the mind - well you could say the internet like is a bicycle for desire.

We know that as the standards of living (reduced mortality, longer lifespans, education etc) improve, the number of children produced decreases. That's one considerable factor.

With regards to Hispanics and Blacks in particular, as someone who grew up in a relatively poor household I quickly grasped how much my parents resented what having children did to their social mobility. They couldn't afford childcare, so only one parent could work. Despite having only a single income until we were teens, they could still afford a good-sized home relatively close to the city. Try doing that on two middle-of-the-road incomes today - not impossible but not easy, and very difficult with kids. The reality is that children have an anchor effect on the lower-middle to lower classes, while barely any affect on the upper middle to upper classes. Teens from poor households are probably well aware of the struggle ahead if they wish to have children.
Actually, reading his other posts, he sounds much more like a libertarian (lower-case L specifically).
I'd love to know what Nolan Bushnell thinks of flappy bird. Aside from all the silliness, I think it's genuinely a good little game, and it fulfils many of the criteria of those classic arcade games we fondly remember: simple graphics, spot-on gameplay balance, an obvious gameplay mechanism, highly replayable (based a lot on strong highscore focus).
It's not only about speed. It's about dispatching on types that themselves are template instantiations. As an exercise, write a CLOS generic function that takes a list, and prints its elements forwards if the elements are ints, but prints them backwards if they are strings. You aren't allowed to use anything other than CLOS multimethods for type dispatch. In C++ this is super simple.
Thanks for the reference, mate!
My guess is health and psychology, they get there by creating exceptionally good personal "life coach" bots. Basically like the movie Her minus the FOOM. I guess that is AI, but really it is more a UX problem, a truly engaging positive thinking bot doesn't have to be too complex to change people's lives. It simply needs to be so well designed that it becomes apart of people's lives. Design may be far from googles strength now but results are and if googles bot can improve my life that is all that maters.
I remember the last time I used VISA and was charged a fee higher than something that would beat the dust transactions.
Too late to edit, but I must add that I'm not necessarily asking if there's an "edge" of the Universe.
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In the big scheme of things all that money are not "sitting there doing nothing". They are probably invested in some short term bonds and therefore they make some other capital expenditures possible somewhere in the overall economy.
Whatever macros can do can be done by code without macros.

We do not have to invoke Turing equivalence.

The simpler proof is that all combinations of macros expand to code which no longer contains any macros. That code by definition does whatever the code-with-macros specifies.

(The exception might be some weird code that keeps expanding while it executes, and never finishes expanding. Then we appeal to Turing equivalence.)
The term socialism applies to dictatorships and democracies worldwide. As does the term republic. It's become a meaningless label. Venezuela's problems center around something known as the resource curse. Brazil, which has had a conservative democratic republican (little 'r') government in power, also has problems that stem from the same issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Whitepages Caller ID is now Hiya
It's certainly less terrifying than having to look at an infinite abyss.
An AAPL share represents about one five billionth of Apple. Tim Cook owns about 1.7 million of those - so Tim Cook owns about three hundredths of one percent of Apple. Jobs died with about 5.5 million shares, call it one tenth of a percent of Apple. So the value of the shares of Apple which don't currently belong to Tim Cook and the Jobs estate (no idea if they still hold those shares) amount to at least 99.9987% of the value of Apple.
Because they are not either free nor fair nor open. The list of reason about why is not the case is large but when violent pro-government groups start shooting at poll lines and the police won't do anything then you can't called open or free. When the campaign tv time is limited for anyone else but the president or when other candidates have to resign their positions (like governors or majors) but the president is allowed to keep it, then you can't call it fair either.
Man Found Dead at Apple Headquarters Identified as 25-Year-Old Employee
> I'd subscribe to a newsletter focused on great, non-IAP-driven iOS games.

I guess one would monetize that by soliciting advertisements and featuring particular games?
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Hiya Caller ID & Block is a mobile app that identifies unknown numbers and automatically blocks scam and spam across the globe so that your phone experience is safe and secure.

With a database of more than 600 MM mobile and landline phone numbers in the US, and over 1.5 billion unique numbers globally, Hiya leverages its expansive algorithms to identify unknown calls and texts and to monitor phone-based threats for consumers and businesses. Hiya screens more than 400 MM incoming calls per month, and has detected more than one billion robo, telemarketing and scam calls and texts to date. Hiya is available as a consumer app on Google Android and is integrated into the phone experience for T-Mobile and Samsung Galaxy S7 users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.hiya.com.
The Hacking books Humble Bundle includes a Bitcoin book, and bitcoin is available for payment also.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/no-starch-hacking-books
Interesting; I see this as a special case of a more general problem that I might take on. I have ideas about an organizational decision making tool that aggregates input from stakeholders and web APIs in an intelligent and transparent way to rank options
I upvoted you because I both agree and disagree. Perhaps we can agree he leans libertarian (neoliberal).
My name isn't Tim Cook, and I'm guessing yours isn't either.

Neither of us are qualified to know Apple's plan.
Because the "just before" is referring to the overall trend, not the single month before the Snowden leaks. The actual highest single month view count is found in November 2012 with around 4 million views. The months around the Boston Bombing are not outliers. November 2012, as well as July 2014, are outliers. Eliminating these outliers from the analysis strengthens the case for the existence of a chilling effect. See pages 28-39 of the paper [0] for their methodology and findings. If I'm being unduly short it is because the sort of low-effort skepticism [1] that you offered is all too common with any article involving a statistical analysis.

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2769645

[1] "Did the researchers account for {{obvious factor}}?" Yes, they did. Check before commenting.
Didn't Dell do that?
Before Chavez, Venezuela was falling apart because of a crash in oil prices, instituting price controls, raising new taxes, tariff-rich, and socialism-free.

"In 1995, Venezuela adopted the Andean Price Band system to replace a similar national scheme in place since 1991. The Andean system applies to imports of certain agricultural items (including meat, dairy products, sugar, and various cereals, fats and processed foods) originating outside the region. Its stated objective is to stabilize the domestic price of those products in a manner consistent with the implementation of the Common External Tariff by all Andean Group countries. The system operates by adding an ad valorem levy to the CET rate whenever a reference price falls under a floor, or subtracting from such rate if the reference price exceeds a ceiling; floor and ceiling prices are linked both to the moving average and the spread of prices prevailing in world markets during the previous five years. As under this system applied rates could increase, in principle, beyond bound levels, questions arise about the predictability of such a form of border protection which exhibits many of the properties associated with variable levies.

"In May 1995 customs clearance fees were abolished. Since April 1992, tariff surcharges have been applied to imports of 15 ten-digit NANDINA agricultural products, including certain types of cheese, maize and mineral waters. According to the authorities, these surcharges were to be eliminated by January 1996.

"Since September 1994, a VAT-type wholesale and (luxury) consumption tax has been applied at rates ranging from 12.5 to 32.5 per cent on all goods, except some basic foods; on services; and on royalties from the exploitation of all types of intellectual property rights. Additional internal taxes on alcoholic beverages exclusively affect imported items; details of applied rates were not available to the Secretariat at the time of completion of its report."

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp26_e.htm

"While the oil boom appeared to be a tremendous blessing to Venezuela, it did have some negative consequences, such as chronic inflation and, paradoxically, an increasing indebtedness. These problems were exacerbated when, in the mid-80’s the price of oil began to plummet, due to OPEC members’ breaking of their production quotas. By 1998, the price of oil had reached a new historical low of $3.19 per barrel (in 1973 prices). This decline in oil prices had a significant impact on Venezuela’s economy, particularly on per capita income, which had been in a steady decline between the mid-80’s and the present."

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/74
Linky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441480
Hover over the n here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Plus#German
There's a school of thought that says we're already in a virtual reality.

As I understand it, the argument is basically that, assuming true high-fidelity virtual reality is possible, then it's likely that any society that advances far enough technologically will eventually create a virtual world and populate it (or let it populate itself) with virtual beings that don't know they're in a virtual reality. Given this assumption, if you let the virtual reality run long enough, then the virtual beings inside the virtual reality will eventually end up creating yet another layer of virtual reality. Assuming this is possible at all, it then follows that there could be an effectively infinite number of virtual realities layered inside each other, and under those circumstances, it's extremely unlikely that our reality happens to be the outermost "real" reality but is instead somewhere in the stack of virtual realities.
I bet you didn't make many friends 10 years ago. Let me guess, they didn't welcome you in open arms when you were proven correct? People aren't generally too kind when it comes to revealing painful truths.
We are talking about cities - not the entire country.
While your statements are true, they are viewed through a lens of popularity. RMS goal is not popularity first. It is freedom, and history has shown that freedom is under constant attack. His positions have sometimes seemed extreme, but ended up vindicated. Try "freedom to read" for one example. The FSF clearly documents their philosophy. Do you see them not following it? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

He can also be pragmatic and compromise. See for example the LGPL (note leading L) or one of the audio/video libraries (apologies for forgetting which one) where he was happy with a BSD license, for popularity reasons.

You don't need to agree with him, but there is substance behind it, and for some freedom really does matter.
On Android, Baconreader is king for me. One of three apps I've actually bought in my nearly 8 years on Android.
It doesn't matter what the plan is. There are practical reasons why they can't spend that kind of money unless they just throw it away somehow.
You're talking about it like it's some stupid ORM wrapper or wonky Widget UI library. It is not.

Again, this conversation is about Xamarin the mobile app studio. There is zero ambiguity in this, so it is perplexing that you keep bringing this up.

https://www.xamarin.com/

The context is the cross-platform app creation toolset. It generates extremely poor quality code, usually at a significantly increased development time (quite contrary to the promise). This is the case found by almost everyone who uses it, which is exactly why most teams have an Android project, fully using the tools of the platform, and an iOS project, fully using the tools of the platform. If Xamarin were heavily used, Windows Phone wouldn't be so generally unsupported.
And it's even available in the page as a link:
<link rel="amphtml" href="http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/amazon-reports-surge-in-prof...

That's a call for a browser extension!
So the answer depends. If you are working in Enterprise America, then you have to start contributing to open source projects on your own and outside of your "day" job.

If you are working at a small company or startup that is using other open source projects/products, you can contribute to those projects to help improve your company and get paid to do it.

In the end, if you are hacking on something you think is neat or interesting, put it out there. The worse thing is no one notices, the best is you now have things you can point to.

Personally, I use a combination of all the above, yet I am the first to admit, I screwed up early on in that I used a company email/GitHub account I had to do most of my contributions instead of my personal email. Had I used my personal it would have made my contributions easier to track, but either way they are provable.

Either way, the more you put yourself out there the better. Good luck!
What did CareKit offer you that would make developing an app (or your upcoming hardware) for iOS more compelling than on, say, Android? Thanks!
If "vehicle" does not require cargo capability, even birds are drones. If "vehicle" requires cargo, an RC helicopter (which typically has no cargo) is no drone.
Never attribute to collapsing oil prices that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
You should do some research. This happens all the time. Companies do this as an alternative to dividends. Where do you think dividends come from? (Earnings.)
Lots of people should have this connected to their butts
Understanding USAID's direct involvement in the destabilization of Venezuela's government (during the years the author worked there) is pretty critical information in understanding his viewpoint. See: https://www.rt.com/news/wikileaks-venezuela-us-chavez-358/
Find a random Venezuelan online and send some funds (skype credits, bitcoin and plain old money should do).

It doesn't have to be much by your standards.

When the same thing was happening in ex-USSR, wages fell to $10/mo due to inflation and you could feed a family for a week on $10.
I was poised to post that site in this thread earlier on, but on googling I found not the site itself but this sadly relevant comment on Reddit from the site's former owner describing their eventual exhaustion in searching for the good stuff and disillusionment with the Android platform in general.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/2ggaqp/
SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force
Two weeks Forex Course for one dollar?
Michael Dell and some others got financing and did it. The operating income made that make sense, but they had to secure financing to do it.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/secure/2013-02-04-michael...
Oh I didn't know that. It still seems weird. Objective-C has always been hard for me to read and yet I love reading code—especially Apple's—so I guess the struggle will continue. Even if that means I can't really contribute to this.
Definitely switching too, but really would like to get my bookmarks back. But I rate that as less than 10%. Clearly another company that didn't realise it was incompetent.
Right, because until Apple started doing a buyback, their stock price was low....
You could also argument that it has been fixed by "constant fighting"

But society's pov, politicians or simply all teens haven't catched up yet
What? It's still the same entity, whether it's public or private.
The "dismal science" thing has nothing to do with scientific standards. It was an expression coined and used by Thomas Carlyle in satirical essay in favor of slavery to refer to political economy because economist's support for emancipation.

But I get what you mean.
I don't see why you would need deep learning NN on a phone.

If this is for CV, why not use the myriad DSPs from every silicon company ever?

Seems like a buzzword fueled product.
I've tried most (if not all) of them on Android and stopped on "reddit is fun" as it's the most pliable for my needs.
Turbines. Wind. Turbines. They're not being used to mill grain.

Beyond that, does anybody know what the practical limit is to a wind turbine's size?
FYI: "faze" is the current widely accepted spelling.
Does that event generally lower share price on the market?
>I'd be interested to see the rest of their results

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2769645

I can email a copy if that one goes down.
I worked there from 2004-2007.

I'm glad I don't really remember how many RSUs I sold at $40.
Big changes: I am leaving ownCloud, Inc. today
The high fixed overvalued exchange rates were the main problem, not price controls. It exacerbated Venezuela's Dutch disease, killing off all export industries apart from oil.

Essentially the opposite approach was taken in China (fixed undervalued exchange rates), which led to staggering levels of growth.
I think you take a particularly narrow view of what constitutes a "society". Arguably, current human society is the product of over 10,000 years of continuous development. Yes, there have been numerous changes in structure and power, but our fundamental "human" identity hasn't really changed in that time.

Sounds like you are the one who has a narrow view of "society," rather. In the abstract, it only need be something like "a multitude of cooperating but competing, independent self-preserving, self-advocating sentient interests." That's fairly abstract while still being a sure recipe for highly non-linear and chaotic effects.

Even if we do not reach type-III, that does not necessarily preclude Earth from producing a type-III society in the future.

But then you're setting up a situation where a series of chaotic and unstable arrangements snuff themselves out or flare-out in a puff of singularity-colored smoke, ending with the appearance of the first stable meta-societal form.
That's not really how accounting works
Does anyone else see parallels between what's happening there and some of the housing development in SF/ democratic cities? Of course, the rest of our economy doesn't have these price controls, so we're doing fine. What scares me, is the lack of basic economic education in the US, and what that means for the future of the US. There's a lot we can learn from what's happening in Venezuela.
Chavez was elected in 1998 in a clean election[0].

He was re-elected in 2000, in an election the Carter Center found satisfactory[1].

He was once again elected in 2006, in an election EU observers found to be free and fair[2].

After three elections, I'd say the good people of Venezuela deserve to live in a filthy dump.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_electi...

[1]: http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/297.pdf

[2]: http://eeas.europa.eu/eueom/missions/2006/venezuela/index_en...
One word, indians, asians just looking for gold, easier way to make games in the most crappy way. I'm actually one and have seen how they work. Scammers
https://www.kamcord.com/topics/tinder
It would be a self-owned corporation. What does that even mean?
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Why is this on the front page? Completely void of meaningful content. It just throws around some cpp standards :/
A droll reply would be, "It's a fighter, maintenance is always necessary."

But to give a real answer:

If a jet sits for 30 days without any maintenance, then it's supposed to be preserved. This means all fuel is offloaded, all lubricants drained and then refilled and then drained again (leaving a film of clean lubricant over important parts), etc. Otherwise, you have to perform an engine run to keep the aircraft nominally flyable.

Really, if you aren't flying, you are either doing maintenance to prepare to fly, fixing something, performing scheduled inspections, or performing modifications. So if the aircraft is operational, there is no such thing as a 30 day period without maintenance.

Without ALIS, you just do all of this via the old paper processes for a while.
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The tree searched by MCTS is WAY smaller than a googolplex, since it excludes the eye-filling moves that allow games to go on past 400 or so moves.
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I am a big fan of The Culture. Also, it sounds like you just posited that advanced civilizations would effectively exercise population control, otherwise avoid shortages and avoid the necessity of rapid spatial expansion though technological means.
A number of Microsoft's own services -- including Office 365 business, Office 365 consumer, Bing and Xbox Live -- are not running on its Azure cloud backbone. They are still running on their own custom stacks and datacenters.http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-on-a-quest-to-move...
This runs counter to the belief that many have that when given higher access to contraceptives, teens will have more sex. Another knock against abstinence-only sex ed!
I wonder how big a role obesity plays in all of this. It may be that teens are having less sex because so many of them have effectively taken themselves out of the sexual marketplace.
What entire machinery? Optional is just one very simple class.

And classes like Optional have long existed to solve most of the issues you bring up, see Gwt's SafeHtml, Futures, etc.
SciHub appears to be down
https://sci-hub.io/

In the US
Isn't it typically "teen pregnancy" rather than "teen birth"? Is the nuance between pregnancy and birth significant?

Also, this wording can seem confusing (i.e. you can't give birth to a teen!).
Certain, newer pieces of some of these services, such as the Azure Active Directory service at the heart of Office 365 and some of the newer, complementary Xbox Live services are hosted on Azure. But the core Bing, Office 365 Commercial and Consumer offerings and Xbox Live services are not hosted on Azure. (same article as above)
Hrmf, yet another mischaracterization of Torvalds...
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Share buybacks are absolutely not the same thing as a company taking themselves private. When a company repurchases shares, that stock is then "treasury stock" which has no voting rights, cannot receive dividends, and must be under a certain legally set value.

A company cannot own itself.
I think that qualifies. Accurate and efficient storage of values through a machine is of help to the people that were operating them. Or perhaps are you implying they were computing as well as tabulating?
Are you referring to obesity in terms of attractiveness or ability to conceive?