skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have no idea if it's true or not

Of course it's not, it's an absurd claim. There's a very clear distinction between political argument and, well, this:

http://www.dw.com/en/pegida-founder-lutz-bachmann-found-guil...
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing does seem to indicate that there will be a Bing Image Search API under the new umbrella.
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Someone should link this article to David Fincher!
How about the incredible social-pressure-to-live!, not only social pressure but legal pressure. In my father's last few weeks of life I would see him wake up each day asking "why am I still here". Because you have NO choice.
> It doesn't cause very much cancer

I can tell you're an expert on the subject from the very technical language you use.
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So if we don't widen roads because people might have to move then we get more accidents. Or the city can't grow. Or people sit in traffic for extra hours a day.

People's needs need to be taken into account, yes, that is what it is all about in the end.

But a few people's inconvenience or greed outweighing the general progress is not a long term formula for successful society.
For anyone interested in this sort of thing "Why Buildings Fall Down" [1] is a good related book. I did civil engineering at university and you'd be surprised how many beautiful and interesting buildings only ended up that way because of constraints forced on the engineers and architects by the surrounding environment.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/...
Indeed the financial support of open source by many users is atrocious. Beyond that you're proselytizing.

This issue didn't get solved particularly quickly, either. Nor was "source to the whole stack" required -- kernel source made for a illustrative blog post but was not really part of the process.

Do you have source files for the CPU? The motherboard? Your DRAM controller? At some point you draw the line and make shit work. Tools plus docs plus code is great, but you can make do with just one of 'em in a pinch.
You're right, I misread it.
Enjoy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11433139 .
SEEKING WORK - remote

I do embedded software of all kinds. Bare metal, RTOS, Linux (including kernel/driver work).

Experience from semiconductor (SoC vendor), aerospace, telecom and imaging.

se.linkedin.com/in/kristofferglembo

kristofferglembo at gmail dot com
My mother had a DNR. She contracted meningitis, and died. She was resuscitated, suffered severe brain damage, and lived another 2 years as a semi-vegetable before dying in her sleep after choking on her own vomit.

If I believed in such things, I would hope my stepfather is in Hell.

edited for spelling
> Facebook isn't for free expression

That is literally the opposite of what Zuck, the founder and CEO of Facebook said in this article: "the idea that everyone in Brazil can be denied the freedom to communicate the way they want is very scary in a democracy"
Again, up to the individual teams to decide what's right for them. The most globally applicable principle we have is "Make sure to use your brain."

Currently most teams don't subscribe to a particular methodology, though there is a Scrum effort happening on one team.
As of yesterday they have been acquired by Adobe.
What Does the Cyber Security Action Plan Mean for Small Medical Practices
Ask HN: Does Trump's nomination affect Big Data, analytics, or the singularity?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republican-voters-decided-on-trump/

Admittedly 538 is a pretty jerky approximation of the state of the arts in analytics, but it seems fair to me to say that there were humans analyzing the race through there own logic were on to Trumps appeal before people looking at the race through analytic lenses were

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interesting footnote from the above linked article:

2. An earlier, longer draft of this post invoked the parable of Bertrand Russell’s inductivist turkey.

https://mashimo.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/bertrand-russells-inductivist-turkey/

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I feel like there is an interesting question being ignored here

whether this is an event that calls into question "Big Data" or "analytics" as a project

whether those things run you into one inductivist turkey after another

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or more accurately, what humans' role will be in the "Big Data" age

obviously that stuff is helpful

but humans might be uniquely positioned to spot the inductivist turkeys before the computers do

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if the singularity worries you

this seems like a wildly reassuring event for humanity
Отличная новость.
Скоро Dart станет рекордсменом по числу выпущенных версий в год.
Но, смею заметить, даже при таких темпах версия-строения так и не была выпущена версия Dart 2.0, но было заявлено (не так давно) о ее выходе в начале 2016 года.
Как говорится, нам не привыкать к тому, что Google скажет и не сделает (в срок или совсем никогда).
IBM makes quantum computing available free on IBM Cloud
Side note - good example of why if you have kids get all the will stuff taken care of before you get sick. Dying sucks enough to not mix kids fighting for your stuff in it.
Yeah, a lot of Microsoft's Enterprise customers are also stuck with archaic software and deployment systems, both built following Microsoft's advice to use ASP.NET WebForms and Entity Framework for everything.
require "securerandom"

module SecureRandom
F = File.open("/dev/urandom")

def self.random_bytes(n = nil)
F.read(n || 16)
end
end
So if they're willing to send people to Brazil once, why not again?
Structuring Your Unity MonoBehaviours
Trigger warnings are a good idea taken to a bad extreme.

Life: May contain events you find distressing.
"Little things like free food and ping pong tables actually offer a massive return on investment."

Yes, provided everything else about the company is working. People are productive. The product is showing signs of fit. People believe in the founder(s)' vision and in the CEO's direction. Under these circumstances, things like ping pong tables and free meals can offer amazing ROI.

But when your first few business moves are shopping for fancy digs and filling the space with ping pong tables, your priorities are questionable. Morale can't be bought with trinkets. Morale is earned with a strong sense of collective mission and product traction. The rest is icing on the cake.

This distinction is often lost on people, who rush off to buy foosball tables as though the mere presence of such will trick employees into being happy and productive. It's a very '90s attitude: "People want to work for a startup that looks startupy." Well, sure. But the best people want to work for a startup that has a real shot at success, first and foremost.
If I understand the article, what's already the case is that any reuse of "a" while "b" exists is illegal. Which is simple and uncomplicated and you can work around it like this

let a = 1
begin block scope {
let b = pointer to a
do_stuff(b)
} // end block scope and b is dead
do_other_stuff (a)

What the change would do is make that block scope exist, but it exists implicitly and invisibly. And it invisibly stretches over the call to do_other_stuff(a) by the insertion of the do_more_stuff(b) below it. And suddenly it breaks.

Contrast:

let a = 1
begin block scope {
let b = pointer to a
do_stuff(b)
} // end block scope and b is dead
do_other_stuff (a)
// ... etc etc
do_more_stuff(b) // is obviously broken, b is not in scope

or

let a = 1
begin block scope {
let b = pointer to a
do_stuff(b)
do_other_stuff (a) // is obviously broken, b is not dead
// ... etc etc
do_more_stuff(b)
} // end block scope way down here
> Depends on the context.

And that's all we need to know about how ridiculous all of this is.
Agreed - not sure this is a good thing, making code and actions harder to reason about. Another reason to reconsider Rust...
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there's a limit of how many shiny things you can sell. it's not tim cook's fault.

apple is diversifying, if the car rumors are true it means that they are trying something totally new. its just that building a revolutionary car takes a lot more planning and effort than creating a new iteration of iphone.
If "no more growth" is going to be Apple's story to investors, the company needs to start paying a much bigger dividend.
Trigger warning: University should be about open minds, not closed minds tucked away in "safe spaces".
#ICRA16 duckies and robots: a poetic tribute
I haven't read that but I assume it goes along the lines of...

Gambler: "I already got five 6's. I can't possibly get another one. That's a statistical improbability!"

Wrong assumption: Past dice rolls affect future rolls where as dice rolls are independent. Its improbably to get six 6's in a row but GIVEN that you have 5 sixes, getting a sixth is just 1/6

Am I right?
The odd thing is that "safe spaces" were created because of the intolerance he describes. People are so afraid of expressing their point of view because of the reactions they'll get - including actual bodily harm - that they feel they have no choice but to shelter with like minded individuals.

Safe spaces are a symptom, not the cause.
The Invisible Nightmare in Your Fleece
Facebook has this capability. Write a status or on a friends wall about topic X? In messenger? Just as good if not better than a Google search in intent land. That + demographics is even more powerful imho.
I'd hope the Ruby core team is slightly above average users, and even if not, they could easily verify the claims. They selected not to purely out of stubborness and an unwillingness to admit they were wrong.
Bugs are found in many different places in software (or hardware). Some examples that come to mind,

1. Design
2. Implementation
3. Configuration
4. Deployment

I'm sure other people might think of some more.
What? They wanted a timeout on how long it takes X bytes to send on an active TCP connection. That has nothing to do with poll/select timeouts.
I'm not sure. That's why we need to come up with a good, rigorous definition that doesn't elevates humanity, but is instead an objective, reasonable definition of intelligence that humans can agree upon. I'm doubtful that we can ever find that definition though.

Right now, humans consider intelligence to be "whatever machines haven't done yet" (Tesler's Theorem), but as machine capabilities increase, then there is a real possibility that humans may believe that intelligence doesn't exist at all (after all, if machines can do everything, and if machines are not intelligent, then nothing requires intelligence). [Source: https://plus.google.com/100656786406473859284/posts/Yp83aFwF...]

I do think that intelligence does actually exist and that current AI can already do intelligent things, but that the stuff that current AI can do won't match my vague understanding of the term "strong". If current trends continue indefinitely, then, of course, we won't ever have Strong AI, but we still have machines that do everything. At least, that's one possible way of thinking about intelligence.

But that's the thing, we don't have a good definition of intelligence at all (and I don't have one either) so we don't really know what's going on. We could invent Strong AI and never even recognize it, and maybe even dismiss it because it doesn't resemble what we think of as intelligence (much less "strong intelligence"). There's just so much that we don't know that talking about it is very difficult. AI is not just a field where you get to write pretty algorithms. It is also a philosophical field, and it is a shame that the philosophical and the practical aspects of AI are disconnected.
Tech wizards search for flatmate at £4 a month to live in £8m penthouse
To stay big, you need to innovate. The releases since Steve's death have been disappointing. Minor changes to existing products. Ok. The apple watch. But really?

Swift may be one of the biggest releases in recent years. However, since it doesn't affect the public, is considered a non-release.
This is exactly one example why non-lexical lifetimes aren't a uniform positive: they do make the compiler more accepting of code that people think should "obviously" compile, but comes at the cost of weird situations where making a (somewhat) distant change results in errors.

Fortunately, these sort of errors should be all function-local and are of course all flagged at compile time. Assuming Niko's usual focus on high-quality error messages continues, I would expect this sort of situation to be fairly clearly explained by the compiler.
Agreed. This hysteria is getting tiresome. I think Apple should simply get rid of investors and go private. I think its big enough and has enough cash to do just that.
The potential desalinisation this could lead to is also pretty exciting
Can you please elaborate, let's say, comparing AAPL with MSFT as an example?

http://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=aapl

http://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=msft
Udik and his responders are talking past each other a bit. Udik is talking about Google + their advertisers as if they were a single entity, and it is dumb for "them" to advertise stuff he's not interested in.

However Google and their advertisers are not a single entity at all. It is efficient/smart for the advertisers to do retargeting (although a cap and funnel adjustments would make it even smarter) and it is efficient/smart for Google to take the money and run the ads.

Udik, ultimately and in the long run I agree with your point; smarter advertising infrastructure will uncover the lost value that you are pointing out. However, given the current structure of the advertising market and state of existing tools, neither Google nor the advertisers immediately stand to gain by changing their approach to people like you. We're in a local minimum/equilibrium.
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There's a fine line between "safe space" and "echo chamber", then.
Sexual harassment training may have reverse effect, research suggests
Agreed -- 1k/mo is not worth the initial time investment.
It's the reason my friends and I all use Hangouts. Basically there are plenty of IM/chat options but Hangouts is the default app on about half of our phones (those who use Android). The ones who use iOS can still install Hangouts and we can all use it in our Gmail browser tabs at work.

It could've easily gone the other way. I definitely favor Android in daily use but if there was an official iMessage client for Android I'd have been fine installing that and letting the iOS users run their default.

But since Apple never did open that up we default to Hangouts. We could run some other app instead but at least this way some of us don't need to install "yet another IM client".
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Funny, I use the quality of the toilet paper as a proxy for how the company treats its regular employees.
> gone back to doing releases by hand.

Did you try Octopus Deploy (1) or Deployment Cockpit (2)

[1] https://octopus.com

[2] http://deploymentcockpit.com
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Wait, these are still projected costs, right ? How can they guarantee they'll be able to recoup their costs and honour their prices?
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So GBps or Gbps? article mentions both. Don't think first one is even a thing...
Even the best AI in the world can't overcome the fact that different interest groups in a country often have orthogonal demands. It might just become better at lying than current politicians.
Never tried it, but I figure bluffing is very easy to do. It is not like they will ask for a pay stub for "proof" and if they do ... run ... fast! Only thing that might hurt you is if you throw out some extremely unrealistic figures.
How does someone get PTSD these days? It was originally the territory of civilians and soldiers who spent an extended period of time in an active combat area. I'm not saying that other things can't lead to PTSD, but if it becomes too watered down then we would need a new term for the physical and mental symptoms that a soldier might experience after 6 months or a year in daily front line combat.
The power of confidence: they can because they think they can
It's not cheap because the costs of building it is cheap, the companies are willing to undercut each other for the benefit of getting the contracts. The question is whether they will ever be profitable at this level.
Or perhaps it could be a cloud service where a VM running OSX is spun up per user to route messages?
Not everything (hashcash, some of Wei Dai's stuff, etc.) -- but I was more referring to how to do tests/proofs in mutually-distrustful environments, not the protocols themselves.

Bitcoin was exceptional in a lot of ways -- most importantly, getting traction! -- decentralization, the ramping up, etc.
Absolutely, and it's much easier to open your mind if you feel safe that you won't be punished and/or ridiculed for your ideas.
Facebook is trying to head that off by having app integrations in Messenger. The whole new bot craze too. Wonder if Google will jump on this train via Hangouts.
While I agree that there should be some places that are safe spaces, especially for people at risk of harassment/worse, it's become a tool for silencing dissenting opinions on the worst campuses, and simply overused in general.

Trigger warning are absolute BS. If half as many of these kids that think they have it actually have PTSD then we are doing something VERY wrong to our kids. PTSD is the new ADHD.

The problem is that that they have not been taught that you can at your core hate what someone is saying, and want to disagree violently, and still have a debate or discussion continue without shutting down.

They have been taught from early on that just because they have a thought, it must be their truth- so everyone is running around following their own religion.

Life doesn't have warning labels, shit happens, a parent's job is to raise a child who can handle life's trials (mostly) on their own. Parents are mistaking their kids for friends and doing none of the hard work of getting a child in control of their thoughts and emotions.

My 3 year old when angry/upset/injured generally resets by stopping, taking a deep breath, and gathering himself mentally. He does this on his own without prompting most of the time.

My 18 month old does the same with prompting. It wasn't easy or fun to take a wailing baby and coach them through calming themselves down, but now they can do it- and when life hits my 3 year old in the face, often literally, he practices tools to calm himself down and regroup that these 'adults' can't even manage.
That only works in transport if the connection is not pinned. I don't know if they do pin, but they should.

If they pin then the NSA would have to actually have access to the data center and doing that much without getting noticed is quite hard.
Why would someone bid at a price like this before the project is set up if it was not the least bit feasible?
We are seeing the opposite of what this article claims. Conversion rates from Google traffic are good and ROI there is steady. Facebook traffic quality on the other hand seems to have steadily deteriorated over the last few months, and our ROI there has plunged.
If you exclude the cash horde (edit - the zombies hired to protect the vault full of cash), Apple's P/E ratio is running at around 5 right now. IBM is 10. Microsoft is about 35 if excluding their much smaller cash pile.

Apple is ridiculously "undervalued" compared to any peer in the industry. It is a money printing colossus.

Having said that, the market seems to get shivers around $600B, and that psychological barrier imposes a friction that makes the rules of the game change. No one can stay above that for long, and in the case of Apple its profoundly out of scale numbers makes everyone simply put it in a different universe of valuation.
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And it's not a question of 1% owning "too much", either. A hunter-gatherer life is hideously inefficient. There isn't enough land on Earth to support even a small fraction of the population living this way.
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conflation between communism and USSR
dictatorship.

It's a simplification, but historically warranted, in the sense that the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society as described by Marx/Engels in the "Communist Manifesto", i.e., the ideal society where the "contradictions of capitalism" have disappeared. Moreover, the 10 points that the "Communist Manifesto" says (Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists) are required to bring about communism were all carried out in the Soviet Union and its satellites (and brought about not communism, but Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, not to mention an inability to feed the population).

If you want to be more precise in your terminology, I suggest the following distinctions:

Marxism is a theory. Typically 3 things are theorised. (1) How capitalism (re)produced inequality.
(2) A theory of revolution as intrinsic part of the transition from contemporary society to communism via socialism. (3)
A theory of post-revolutionary society.

Socialism. This describes post-revolutionary, but pre-communist societies, in particular USSR and its satellites.

Communism. The ideal society, post-revolution, where the "contradictions of capitalism" have disappeared.
I feel like that's a larger trend. APIs are introduced to drive platform growth and then pulled or cut back once that growth has been achieved. Twitter is another example of that phenomenon.
> Most distros symlink /bin to /usr/bin.
>
> Uhm, no? I've only seen it in recent CentOS (older versions didn't have it), and maybe Fedora does this as well.

Arch, Ubuntu, Debian all do it.

> Not really. You can do it in any number of ways, including using Perl/Python/Ruby, writing a short C program, or overwriting another file with execution permissions.

Only the last one is a clever solution. "Just write a program" isn't a fun answer. :P

> My favourite way is a surprise to most people only because they don't know how ELF binaries work.

What do you mean? They didn't know there's a copy of the same binary?
I don't know, borrow checker error messages are already pretty good at pointing out issues of this sort already.

With a minor addition I think it would remain very comprehensible: "you borrowed a here ^^^ ... gave a away here ^^^^, then used it's borrow again here ^^^^ after having given it away."
Read will return 0 when the peer has closed the connection, that's how you detect it. When there is no data, the call will block instead until some data arrives (unless the socket is set to non-block mode).
> The releases since Steve's death have been disappointing. Minor changes to existing products. Ok. The apple watch. But really?

Compare: Since Steve returned to Apple (1997) to the point of iPhone being presented (2007) there were almost 10 years of "minor changes." iPod? "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." (2001)

Steve Jobs died in 2011. This time now is then an approximate year of the "Lame" sentiment.
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>Anyone who hasn't yet switched to uBlock Origin should do so ASAP.

I looked at it, I tried it, I love it so far. I added uMatrix(1) and uBlock Origin Websocket(2). Now I just need to read the documentation to get the full advantage(3).

(1) https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

(2) https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-WebSocket

(3) To RTFM; https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki