skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr of this article to me screams, "If you don't hold the same opinion about this as me, you are horrible."

If you think someone who works for the sake of money is a "horrible" person, you have to step outside your bubble for a tiny bit and look at the world, you will notice so many important jobs in society no one would really want to do unless money was an intensive.

Don't get me wrong, I am one of those people who are lucky enough to work in an industry I am honestly excited to work in. But you can't say the same about many jobs, doubt you can find a janitor who loves cleaning piss and vomit, its an absolutely important job in our society, the only reason I could think of why someone would do it is because of their situation in life and how the money earned from it can give them a partial answer to their problems.

Seriously HN what hell are you guys up-voting to the front page these days.
I am unable to why the state must pay compensation here. It should be the Hospital. It looks to me that State and Hospitals have colluded to create this $900M fund while reducing risk for Hospitals and not giving anything to the patients.

Can I have the link for SC affirmation ?
Google has indeed moved a LOT of things to Play Services.

I should also mention the support library. I can now use some new niceties like vector assets on all Android versions.

However, not everything is part of play services. You can patch some security holes through play services, but some core elements of the platform need a full system update (however Play Services can detect apps trying to exploit a security flaw).

Also, in order to add something like the new permission model or a better version of the runtime, an OS update is still necessary.
Say what you want about DRM, but at least in the audio world, the best software is still DRMed, even after more than a decade of horror stories.

We don't really know what the presence of DRM means. It could be that DRM works in the audio world. Or it could mean that there's not that many producers of audio world software, and they're taking advantage of the situation. Or it could mean that there's some pernicious and near universal mental fault, a cognitive bias, so that DRM makes some kind of emotional sense if you're licensing software, rather than actually selling something. Or maybe there's a "gentleman's agreement", like the Apple/Google No Poaching pact amongst the vendors.

Personally, I'm in favor of the cognitive bias theory. I think that the concept of ownership, extended to non-physical things, puts the producers of movies, music, software, etc into some weird psychological position where DRM just makes sense to them.
Since when did a college degree become a requirement for programming, or indicate a higher quality of programmer? I know CS graduates who have no ability to program. Half of these big companies have been started by dropouts, and the oldest ones were started when there was no such thing as a CS degree.
Ads won't die, the way they are served will change. You can look at Instagram who are serving ads natively in their feed and they perform well. Lots of other products are doing the same. Ad Blockers can only block traditional ads in web browsers, they won't affect the native ads in apps.
ImageMagick RCE Vulnerability – Critical
>>I think sometimes there is too much tendency to dismiss the arts and humanities as complete lightweight fluff compared to STEM.

As a teenager in India, most people took Arts, Humanities and commerce(No economics, but accounting) because it was widely believed to 'light fluff', course work easy to get through. And you could get a 'Bachelors' title next your name without much work.

Among science people these subjects was what we believed losers took, because they couldn't study anything better. Which was to some extent true. I studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. I would typically get to sleep 5 hours a day. Apart from the main exams, we had to study hard for engineering entrance exams. Compare this to some one who studied history or accounting. You can't exactly compete with someone working 3 times more harder than you, in a area which is vastly more economically valuable.
The next step is specialization. Developing an ASIC makes more sense if there isn't going to be a general purpose x86 that eats your lunch in 5 years just by brute clock speed.
I'm sorry, but this post seems totally fabricated or at least intentionally misrepresenting what is happening. I spend a lot of time reading about diversity initiatives in tech and I'm trying to set up an initiative where I work. However, I've never heard anyone suggest lowering the bar in the ways listed in this article. The whole thing is constructed as reductio ad absurdum.

For example:

>Stop considering some colleges as better than other colleges because that’s racist

No one says this, because it does not follow. One might say that it is important to recruit outside of the Ivies/Stanford, because you will miss qualified candidates who are otherwise pushed out of the industry despite their talent.

Or:

>Stop looking for people with relevant industry experience because it is sexist

No one says that, ever. I think the original kernel of advice may have been, don't only post listings for people with 15 years of experience. Your crud app doesn't require that, so give someone a little greener a chance.

I could go on, but this post is basically reactionary garbage.

*edit for formatting
Another industry faced systemic life-and-death problems like this. Air travel. They use extensive checklists that they run like human computers before every flight, from the smallest cessna to the largest airbus.

My mom, the NP, says doctors, as a group are too proud to ever use lists like that. She asked me how the "pride issue" was dealt with among pilots. I suggested that when it comes to airplanes, prideful pilots have a way of sorting themselves out one way or another.

Source: I'm a timid GA pilot who actually shouted "I'm a leaf on the wind" at my plane during my first solo...
Yes. Please note I borrowed the phrase "only suckers pay retail" from someone much older and wiser than I. It reveals a powerful and profound truth about the relationship between a seller and a buyer in a retail situation.

You can get that stick of bread cheaper (bulk discount, in-store offers, credit card cashback) or more convenient (free delivery, freshly baked). And those are just the publicly available ways, no extra hassle and for everybody. If you are willing to drive a really hard bargain, you can usually negotiate a price slightly below cost (that's why retail can be cheaper than wholesale). Sociopaths can get to negative price, but not everybody has a stomach for that.

Maybe it is not a burden for you to pay $3 every day to have fresh bread, and maybe you don't eat that much of it anyway. But the same applies to a computer, a house, equity share, even loan rate. If it is a standard agreement, if it is the public offer, if it is the sticker price, you can go way down and still make an equitable deal. And if you don't care about the relationship, you can go even lower and still get good deal just for yourself. If you are on the selling end, it is even more important you understand this, even if just to avoid toxic customers.

Conversely, you should pay more than the sticker price when it makes sense. I do much better service for my customers who are more valuable to me, because I don't want to lose them. If you want better service, demand to be treated specially and insist to pay more.
"Culture Fit" is exactly where the bias creeps in, and what breeds monoculture. Skill should be the only indicator.
Yeah, I'm assuming the wall panels come off or something and those touchscreens are just a nice UI to a more mechanical system. I just can't imagine relying on touchscreens for space travel.
Looks interesting, but what would it be about? Pascal Desktop GPU announcement?
Unfortunately, hardware vendors are jumping on the DRM train, too, with things like Qualcomm's Secure Execution Environment [1], and Intel's Secure Enclave [2].

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/snapdragon-st... (PDF)

[2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx
What exactly falls under the "other security-related tasks" section? The only thing I can think of would be for a privileged application to try and hide things from the OS.
Thanks for your comment, this is very instructive.
...and what about words which contain the string "...nazi...", such as "Ashkenazim"? They don't seem to give the exact query, that I could see.
Isn't Buffett's case a bit different? He typically buys businesses outright, rather than making investments on the open market, so no passive investor (besides one in Berkshire Hathaway) could get those returns.

Also, as I understand it, Berkshire gets to implement management changes (if it deems them necessary) as it wishes, since it owns whole companies, and so the improvements they see could also come from better management of a business rather than picking better businesses. So arguments about average or above average stock picking ability seem less relevant here. (It could well be that Buffett has average management-picking ability, but is one of a relatively small number of market participants who both can and do exercise it, thereby getting an outsize result.)
That phone was a dog 18 months into its life. Google seemed to have struggled getting updates to run at any speed on that phone.
It was also rumoured that Texas Instruments ended support of that SOC hence Google killing it off
I think the above example illustrates why a malpractice insurance pool might be a bad idea. The one who makes the mistake must pay up. This will ensure those who make less mistakes will succeed at faster rate.
I don't believe I am reading this kind of nonsense in HN. Or you don't know what OS is or I do live in entirely other world than you. Google or any vendor which does produce any OS'es , does spend whole year for optimizing or fixing bug in low level API. How do you feel about stagefright in you KitKat ? Or since this is your ridiculous logic, how about people still running 4.0 (let's imagine all of their "app" updates goes through google play) , what about their low level libraries , which most of the time is unfixable without major update ?

Think about stagefright , your personal data is at risk just because some stupid company doesn't give fuck about you (and me), and wants you buy more phone.

Android update issue is clash between whole hardware and software industry. remember when you buy software you was going to get update for 5year or more most of the time.
at the other hand in hardware industry when you did bought (before android) any phone, there was no update. no body cared about updates, and lets be honest the technical capability was not there in that time, so no one excepted companies to update their phone.

But regularly updating their phone require a lot of investment from companies (and at the other hand will a little decrease selling phone). which companies resist, which absoulouttly they don't have right to do.
This is fight right now between customers and hardware companies.

Specially from now on this is going to be interesting , because phones from 2015+ , is capable of doing your ordinary computation (reading mails, watching movies, etc) for maybe 7, 8 years. (just like old pc , which does run latest version of Windows 10/Ubuntu good enough right now for you browsing/chatting/watching/etc, but you cant play high end games on it).
Phil Plait has a long history of using phrases like "Click to X" where X is some made up verb.

Try this Google search: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22phil+plait%22+%22cli...

In the first few results I see:

Click to vonbraunenate

Click to embiggen

Click to barsoomenate

Click to enaurumenate

Click to cascadienate

Etc.
>libraries that ordinary programmers are stitching together

I watched the SICP videos, and I remember Abelson specifically endorsing just that.
I think you're right, but one could also argue that such "gang-up together, feel solidarity, and take action against" behavior is natural to humans. It is in war that the greatest technological advances take place, and it is in solidarity that societies flourish. Is that better or worse for the human species in the long term?
So, did you read the backflap and sent the email to Bill Gates as he suggested ;).. jk.. jk

How do you about working with such a hefty tome. I only use it a (light)reference. Any tips on how you went about it?
It's a weird argument anyway. He is arguing that the mainstream media do a terrible job of reporting science and this occurs when a scientist is allowed to freely speak to the media about their own work - ergo only a media officer should be able to give information to the media.

Bizarre.
Perhaps, although an alternative analogy for ineligible would be to compare an advertiser going after an adult market by airing the ad at 9 PM, but finding out there were still some kids watching at that time. It's all wasted views as far as an advertiser is concerned. The only difference is that offline they couldn't track it. (I'd also point out the computational absurdity of perfectly monitoring eligible websites for their content type - nigh on impossible).

As for fake views, they're already factored into the price as far as I'm concerned. If say 90% of views were fake and I'm paying £1 per click, all that would happen if you could magically crack down on fakes would be that my cost per click goes up to £10 as it's a far more valuable ad service.

As I mentioned above, the real equation is whether my ad generates more profit than it costs. The only difference between online and offline is that advertisers can finally track the percentage of viewers who are not actually looking at their ad at all. That % has always been there, offline or on. As long as your ad is profitable, keep running it.
You have IPv6. Turn it on
I had a change of heart about this recently - from realizing that overcoming challenges, is what's had the most positive impact on me, and those around me.

Really, the people advocating basic-income are those who think 'if only I had the money so that I had the time, to do what I really want to do!', but if they dug a little deeper, they'd realize that's just an excuse.

Anyone who wants to work their ass off, and sacrifice the near future for the long term payoff - USA/Canada are incredible incredible places to do it.

You can live in a basement, work night shift security where you get to do whatever you want, for the majority of your shift.

There are 100 other examples of making it work where you sacrifice in the short term for your long term goal but truth is - people who are wishing for basic income, are wishing they didn't have to struggle so much.

When you get over the hump and see how much more understanding you have of the world around you and of yourself as a result of the struggle, you'll feel differently.

Again, there's nothing wrong with wishing it were easier, but don't believe the fairytale of some outside factor making it or breaking it in you achieving success - it is all you. And it'll always be all you. Nobody else. Not the government, not your boss. You.
Force Watch” – Apple Watch App to Control BB8 (apple.co)
To celebrate the StarWar Day, we just launched the "
Force Watch" app that give you the Force to control BB8.

Force Watch is the app based on the Tickle app, that enable connected devices to be programmable.

May the Forth Be With You!
I'm very skeptical of glass cockpits in general, and I suspect anyone who's used an older android device, or any touch screen when your hands are moist/in gloves / cold would be as well.
Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low
YC realized this a few years ago. Very few of the newer YC companies are ad-supported.

Twitter is in trouble. Their stock hit an all-time low yesterday.[1] Twitter has a fundamental problem - all their ads get in the way of what you wanted to read, and they're small-screen oriented.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/03/investing/twitter-stock-all-...
Interesting, do you have any examples of sites built with Vital?
I disagree entirely. People are known to be fallible. Processes prevent things from accidentally happening. In areas where the life of someone or a large organizational failure hangs in the balance of an action, that action should be wrapped in process to ensure it's correct execution, with fail-safe mechanisms put in place.

Further, these systems should be audited on a regular basis to ensure compliance.

Only in the case of purposeful or willful action or absolute gross negligence or being found unfit for duty (mentally or physically) should someone have their life ruined by removing their status/job/career path.
Could also use the Hydrogen and CO2 to make methane and utilize existing infrastructure.
> There is no US system for coding these deaths

Because admitting to malpractice would be admitting guilt.
>/r/european, which is a neo-nazi forum

That's not an accurate characterization.

There is an element of that, but it is frequently pushed back against.

It's mostly people who are dismayed by this recent migrant madness and the resultant massive spike in horrible crimes.

It is ostensibly also just a place for discussion of european culture but attention to the migrant madness, and seeking political solutions for it dominates the conversation because the issue is so heavily censored elsewhere on reddit.

edit: And it's highly likely that the vast majority of occurences of the string 'nazi' in that sub are in the context of satirical postings like, Oh, you think borders should be secure and rapists should be prosecuted? You must be a nazi!
Better yet, those fuel cells can be "charged" wherever energy is plentiful then shipped as needed.

Sneakergrid anyone?
Microsoft Java Team Services Presentation and Demo
Yes, but the reason it has changed for everyone is that no one understands the fundamentals any more, because they aren't being taught to anyone. The ecosystem is thus becoming infested by horrible hacks which kinda-sorta work, and which everyone uses, because they kinda sorta work, and there is nothing else. The idea that programmers need to understand how to "program by poking" thus becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[UPDATE:] One of the symptoms of no one understanding the fundamentals is how excited people get about things like XML and JSON, both of which are just (bad) re-inventions of S-expressions.
I'm not too familiar with how Television ads work, but online advertising has a clear-cut billing model based on very dubious measurements.

When an advertiser decides they want to bid CPM or CPC they want impressions and clicks from real people, not bots, crawlers, mis-clicks, hidden ads that still count as an impression but is difficult for anyone to actually see, etc etc. Then there is the whole problem with view-based attribution - or attribution in general. The fact that a 1d view attribution is commonly accepted is ridiculous when you think about it, particularly in re-targeting.
It's not the immigrants that I'm afraid of; it's the locals. The Scotch-Irish are being shunted aside by the march of history; their cultural values, especially their economic improvidence, keep them from getting into the mainstream (read _Albion's Seed_); and they're not going to go gently into that good night. As Christian belief declines in the Scotch-Irish parts of the US, Nazi belief grows. (I have personally seen an aspiring pastor with a tattoo on his arm incorporating both the cross and the swastika, who saw no contradiction between the two.) Things are going to come to a head -- either in fierce government repression, or in uprisings or civil war -- and I don't want to be collateral damage when they do.
> There's a third, which is what was often mentioned by Netflix and others during discussions about EME on W3C lists: casual piracy, where people just download a file and send it to a friend.

This is irrelevant in comparison with torrenting. If someone is willing to pirate it, sending to a friend won't be the option they'll go with. So justifying usage of DRM with that is simply false.
Better, if we work together by indefinitely sustaining a war against an artificial intelligence or extraterrestrial invader. Otherwise we will run out of enemies or die in the process.

That or 1984.
I did Nazi see that coming!
I'd argue that there so many differences between air travel and medicine that it's not a useful comparison. A single passenger doesn't even interact with a Pilot, as just one example.
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I don't agree with your stance, but I don't think that it should be downvoted so heavily.
Switches also have another advantage: you can use them in limited visibility situations. Also, good luck hitting the right spot on a touch screen during ANY kind of high-G situation. Terrible idea.
On a side note:
In the photo given of 10^100 - 999...(99 9s) = 1, there should be 100 9s, not 99 9s, for the result to be 1.
To down voters, why down voted this comment? I find it honest and not offensive.
A Rediscovered Film Documents Brown's 1976 Use of Hypertext in Education
I mean nothing more than that if you were to put the S&P 500 graph over the last 15 years and extremely naively look at it, you'd conclude it was very high at the moment. Naively it would seem that it will see 1600 before it sees, say 2500.

Also if you look at long term history you'd conclude something similar : the US has had a very long (if somewhat disappointing) economic recovery since 2008. We're due a bust.

And finally, the playbook from earlier recessions does appear to be unfolding : manufacturing production has dropped by a lot, and services has flatlined. This is very much like the start of previous recessions. Next up is bad loans to commodity producers (ie. miners) and manufacturers actually going bad (meaning banks declaring losses), then a few defaults, then panic, then recovery.

I would expect index investments made today will seem like bad investments in 10 years. I would never dream of predicting 50 years out. To be fair, I would have told you the same a year ago (not about the recession playbook, but probably everything else listed in this post).
Can quantcom be used to compute genesis blockchain?