skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best defense we have against bad actors in government (whether intentional or accidental) is ubiquitous public surveillance -- not the government spying on the people, but the people monitoring the government. A cameraphone in nearly every pocket is a good start.
I don't know where the research on this would be, but I suspect this sort of thing is about exploiting an ingrained cultural association from leaders reading prepared speeches/sermons. No filler words => commanding/authoritative/confident/powerful.

I agree that it would probably get tiresome very quickly in regular conversation. It reminds me of a comedian who asked "Do you think Jesse Jackson talks like that at the dinner table?", referring to the "Baptist preacher voice" seemingly being Jackson's default voice when he's interviewed on TV/radio.
OO is pretty conceptual without something to back it up. In this case, Smalltalk.

GUI's... I think that was not him, or certainly not just him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
That sounds.....like fun....I'm serious. Very interesting.
Apple has made plenty of turkeys in the past couple of decades. It's just that when they succeed, they really hit it out of the park.
That was what I was looking for, thanks!
I guess we're not understanding each other. My point is that Mozilla's development of Firefox is no longer user-driven. Instead it's about what Mozilla thinks users should want, and they can take it or leave it, and if it helps Mozilla make money, users should want it.

Despite vocal and repeated requests and complaints, Mozilla refuses to back down and remove things that users did not ask for and do not want; instead Mozilla does things like sneak Pocket support in in a point-release without any advance warning or any chance for the community to give feedback. And note that Pocket has had a fully functional Firefox extension ever since it was Read-It-Later--there was absolutely no technical reason to build in support for Pocket and deprecate the extension.

Mozilla has never been forthcoming about the real reason for doing this. In fact, the few Mozillians who have spoken about it seem to have had no idea why it happened, either.

Instead all we get is vague "people want to save things, this makes it easier for people to save things" statements. Well, people want to use Facebook, too: where is the built-in Facebook plugin? Where's the built-in Netflix extension? Amazon shopping support? etc. Clearly the decision to build in new Pocket code had nothing to do with a principled policy of making things easier for users.

The only reasonable conclusion is that Mozilla cut a deal and is getting money for it. And if that is the case, what is to stop them from doing the same for anything else? What if Microsoft cuts a deal to build in Bing support? etc.
Yeah, 7 1/2 months was a pretty huge announcement-to-launch delay for Apple (though the original iPhone went 5). But that's nothing like a "concept video" or "blue sky research" - it was announced as a final product design with the same look and feature set it shipped with (though not with a price), and was probably delayed due to manufacturing issues. The car, on the other hand, is still years out.
>Lots of outdated information about old versions of the frameworks.

I completely disagree.
They always have very few and vague info which somehow does not change with time.
you know like, angular is slow but has lots of tutorials. etc
I suppose the heart of the matter I'm getting at is this: you have claimed to have delved into IQ correlation data and arrived at the conclusion that interracial marriage is not a good thing. However I have tried to point out that the evidence doesn't lead you to this conclusion since other variables may correlate and you can simply pick smart people from any race, because assuming regression to the mean, if I pick a 160IQ black woman and a 150IQ white man, we'd expect their kid to be centered around 155, regardless of race.

Nonetheless you have repeatedly brought it back to race, which means that this is tremendously important to you. On that topic I'm curious why. You're probably pretty intelligent (though introspection is a skill separate from observing the outside world), so I have high hopes for a good analysis ;)

I am aware that white men have the highest suicide rate of all races, so there's something going on there. I've also heard explanations like "lack of culture", and I personally suspect much of it comes from attacks from activists (offline and online) in what amounts to a social power struggle, and that the natural response to being attacked is to band together and really delve deep into your cultural identity.

Many of us pick race in the US (apparently especially in US prisons), but I've somehow straddled race, tech, and maybe internet culture.
The name is a bit confusing it actually just limits the defensive deployment of anti-ballistic missile bases designed to shoot down ballistic missiles it doesn't do anything to limit ballistic missiles like the name kind of implies. It wasn't really preventing anything and more just cranking up the consequences of nuclear war (could argue that that decreases the probability of it happening by taking away the ability to shield yourself effectively).

ABMs situated after the boost phase were kind of pointless soon after their invention anyways because the MIRV (multiple independent reentry vehicle) warheads + decoys could easily overwhelm them.
There are no guarantees that the iPhone will generate anything like the profits of the last several years indefinitely. There are a number of strong headwinds including the end of carrier subsidies, market saturation, a weak global economy, increasingly mature competition at much lower price points etc. I don't think they're in crisis but they do have a real problem on their hands.

Of course they have a lot of room to slash margins to compete so I'm not too pessimistic but the iPhone was really a once in a generation kind of product and I think they've taken most of the easy profits off the table already.
This scientist just changed how we think about climate change with one GIF
Uplift!

The truest proof of a sentience
Maybe it's early days yet, but I'm not comfortable with the approach taken by Tesla. Either give the car full control, or else the operator must be in full control with the technology playing an assistive role. I cannot be expected to sit doing nothing behind the wheel for hours and then suddenly be called upon to take over the driving in a split second.

Obviously for the former option Tesla is not there quite yet (and that is an understatement), but I wonder if better sensor tech will not help here. Sensor tech is reasonably robust; thus, for example, even if the autopilot is no longer able to properly make out the markings on the road, a sensor override should be able to determine (using radar?) the locations of nearby vehicles within say a 100 meter radius, thus ensuring collisions are avoided, and give the human driver several second or even a minute to take over.

No wonder this [1] effort from Volvo focuses on, among other this, Radar tech. I think that is a core tech for the success of self-driving cars

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...
That's a great article, and the larger advice is relevant in ordinary relationships -- don't be an enabler; care about people, and be willing to tell them when they're doing something that hurts them or you or the team or the family or whatever. "When you say ummm that much it makes you sound stupid" is much better than ignoring the issue and letting your friend keep sounding like they don't know what they're talking about.
The swimming pool near me had to replace their brick wall at the front of their property 3 times in six months. The culprit each time was grandparents dropping off grandkids.

It's a pretty rare incidence given good conditions and a competent driver. Add a driver impairment, fog, etc and it becomes more plausible. It's all heresay until we look at some insurance claim data, though.

The pool has now installed steel bollards in front of each parking spot, by the way.
I don't know about Massachusetts but in my state you can look up arrest warrants and criminal citations online. All public information.
You do recognize that a large percentage of the population heavily disagrees with you about this? The concept of ownership regarding pieces of information or data (music or a video can be thought of as a piece of information or data) is far from settled.
One of my good friends, if he were to go to India and live with his Great Aunts/Uncles, would be Gujarati. His parents immigrated here before he was born. Both of his parents are doctors who went to med school in India, and re-did residency here in the US. Because of the significant delay between his and his sister's birth (youngest child and all that), his parents earlier/primary set of friends are all Gujurati, most of them living in the tri-state of NY. He's met them and talked about them.

His mother, in particular, is interesting, mostly because her case is typical among her Gujarati friends who she practices Yoga as a religious practice with. She's a high risk OB/GYN.

Adjusted for PPP, she is wealthier in India compared to the relatives she left behind. So are most of her friends in her Yoga group.

His sister, also a doctor with a similar professional stance that makes as much, wouldn't be

In no way is this surprising. Nearly all of his parents friends are Upper Caste, and speak excellent English. Nearly all immigrated here when there were actual shortages of certain types of professions. Almost all brought over important relatives, (eg: his grandparents) and to this day are wealthy enough to go back.

Structural changes in those jobs, however, are leaving their "earlier" children economically behind. Despite the fact that both he and his sister are both Born American citizens (unlike their parents, who are naturalized)

His sister will never have that same PPP. Nor do any of her friends, mostly the early born children of said same immigrants, almost all of whom have felt (and in many cases caved) to pressure to become Doctor/Lawyer/Engineer (with the exception of those who got lucky and work for google while also in a low cost of living area)

My friend, ironically, because of the severe birth delay (almost 10 years) will out-earn his sister. He also is far more "behaviorally whiter" than any of his sister's friends. As far as I can tell, he has few, if any, friends who are Gujarati children of high caste immigrants. He also is the first to choose a non-typical career path in his family. (Department of Defense Analyst)

So fast forwarding a few years, it appears your numbers only work for gen=1, and only if gen=1 is high caste.
Isn't this essentially same as current system shows?

If we are serious, I feel much more useful would be provide a range (let's say percentage 0 - 100%) of confidence.
the barriers aren't much lower

They really are. I've been writing code for 30 years (professionally for 20) and while the logic hasn't really changed a great deal, all of the things around coding absolutely have. The work necessary to get something to display on a screen, the speed of both compiling code and running an application, the sheer quantity and quality of example code to learn from, the tools available to do things like source control and testing, the libraries that do most of the work so you can concentrate on the bit you're actually interested in, the quality of debugging tools and error messages that a language will give you ... all of these things add up to an environment where writing code is just so much simpler than it ever has been before. All that means that beginners can concentrate on learning rather than getting frustrated by incomprehensible messages that they need to look up in a manual and decipher because a lot of technical writing was pretty awful back then.

It's impossible to overemphasise how important it is when you're learning to be able to concentrate on what you're trying to figure out without needing to worry about other stuff that might distract you. That is what's made it easier to get in to development.
> To your concerns regarding stable APIs: that's exactly what WebExtensions are designed to address: decoupling add-on APIs from implementation details so that we can keep add-ons working, even as we refactor Firefox to be faster, more stable, and more efficient.

Ok, that sounds nice, but is this yet another extension API that does it Chrome-style, restricting extensions to a solitary button in a solitary toolbar, rather than giving them the freedom to truly extend the browser and its UI? Because if I wanted handicapped extension APIs, I'd just use Chrome.

And besides, isn't that what Jetpack was supposed to be? How long until the next extension API that will get it right This Time?

One of the foundational pillars of Firefox is its powerful extension API, however messy and difficult-to-refactor it may be. Take that away, and it's just another browser, no better than Chrome.
Maybe they are working on a non autonomous car?
The car industry is somewhat similar to the phone industry at the time it was dominated by Nokia and telcos: not evolving, slow to integrate new technologies, terrible legacy UIs ... There is a lot of room for improvement outside of autonomy. I can hear the press mocking the development of a"manual " car like it's the 20th century again, and being ridiculed by Apple commercial success once again, as happened for the iPhone and iPad. Indeed. Autonomous cars are extraordinary difficult to produce but they may be even more difficult to sell while a radically new design of a non autonomous car may still be a great success. Customers are in average much less interested by Autonomous cars than engineers, in my experience.
As Indian ecommerce startups get bought, guess who is benefitting
I wouldnt be surprised if Apple is working with Tesla for the model 3. They have the money to invest and help, I can see them owning 25% of Tesla for it. But the fact they are hiring away Tesla engineers argues against this point.
To be fair, an autonomous vehicle will probably also never accidentally put the vehicle in drive instead of reverse. The particular failure modes are likely to be radically different in many cases, so it seems reasonable to gloss over their individual differences and talk about them in aggregate.
It is $200/month not $200/user/month
you can also sometimes use body language as connective filler. Blah blah blah blah [holds finger up] [dramatic pause] blah blah blah blah blah!
No, I realize that. I was thinking more about complaints along those lines in general rather than anything you said specifically. Maybe it's just a case of setting unreasonable expectations as a consequence of how Rails in particular is recommended to newbies.
Maybe they do not see it as being a wage slave. Making it difficult to fire people can help employees take a stand on moral/ethical grounds and just plain refuse to comply without fear of being fired. Anecdotal, but french employees seem to have no fear of self expression unlike employees of many other nations, which is far away from slavish behavior.
When self-driving cars become a reality over the next 10 years it's probably going to reduce the number of cars sold massively.

Many or most adults in the developed world currently own a car. If you can share them even between, say 3 people the number of cars required will plummet. There are credible predictions around as well that even say up to 10 people might be able to share a car.

There is already over capacity in car production globally. Self-driving cars are likely to drive that even further.

It's not a good market for a company that isn't in the game to be going in to. Google are different because they seem to be selling the technology to enable other manufacturers to sell self-driving cars.
Why You Should Be Glad That Quadrotors Have Learned to Dodge Swords
To complicate the situation imagine people searching via mobile: Https and URLs are much more difficult to control there. People trust Google and will click without fear.
Not an American, but I think you are right.

Preventing interracial marriage wouldn't change a thing for the country as a whole, because people would just continue to reproduce with their own race.

Nevermind, I was wrong.

I don't see how my personal race preference could be applied to a country.
In high school I was /enraged/ to learn that the books given to me were censored. Books like Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

I learned that when it came to respecting the power of speech, the Emperor had no clothes, and when deemed expedient a public institution would toss out their principles.
Why was BASIC built into so many operating systems?
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Because it's research, they don't know what they're doing until they do it; they just know the direction they're going in. They're betting on people, not projects.

If you want more concrete details about what these particular people have done in the past, look at the code and papers they've published as CDG and VPRI. (And PARC, in Alan's case.)
Yes, let's program ourselves to sound more conscious.
I explicitly don't include a skills summary section because it is a no win proposition. Everyone has a different idea of what it means to list a skill there and invariably at least one interviewer in a loop will ding you for however you decided to lay it out.

I might get dinged for not having one, but at least I don't have to worry about it.
India to fight climate change with 'dwarf cows that rarely break wind'
The problem is that there is no insight into what is going on in the f-droid build farm. Without reproducible builds, all bets are off.
I'm waiting for a movie where hero is trying run over villain but stopped by safety features
I had the opportunity to do two CTFs using this platform during college. Hats off to Gulshan and Javier for releasing this.
I know someone who had this happen to them.

It's total BS that a potential employer would base their offer on your current salary, but at the same time lying about what you currently make is dangerous
Nothing is indefinite. And, basically, I agree with you. If 2015 wasn't the high water mark of the smartphone market, then some near-future year will be.

But smartphones are also clearly not going to crash and burn. Even if people don't replace them like clockwork every year or two years, there is going to be a healthy market for iPhones for a long, long time. There are still people without smartphones, there are still large markets with low Apple penetration, and they have an enormous install base and developer support -- and, as you say, positively absurd profits to cut into eventually.

Does Apple dream of another product that will be as big as the iPhone, but is yet in its infancy, with its growth ahead of it instead of behind? Well, of course they do. How could they not? Will they launch new products? Of course they will. Might one of them be a car? It might. If the stars align for Apple again, might we in ten years say that they are not the iPhone company, but rather the X company? Yes, that is possible.

But:

1. There is no possibility that Apple is planning to pivot in any meaningful sense of the word. "Pivot" does not mean "launch a new product and hope it takes off." Pivoting is simply not something that the most valuable company in the world does in the face of some cooling of demand. Pivoting is what desperate start-ups do.

2. If the leaders of Apple are basically cool-headed people who do not entirely buy some kind of superheroic mythology of what Apple is capable of, they are probably aware that the iPhone was a literally singularly successful product in the history of, like, the world, and that the odds that lightning will strike twice and they will have another product that successful or even more successful are lower than the odds of lightning literally striking the same person twice. It is possible that Steve Jobs was not a basically cool-headed person. I think that Apple's current leadership is.

3. And specifically, the product that makes us forget the iPhone just straight up can't be a car. There is just no demand for a car that can support an Apple-in-2015 type valuation, especially at iPhone-like profit margins, double-especially in a world in which autonomous cars makes any meaningful jump in the utilization of each car. And PS: approximately 0% of Apple's current employee base would be useful in Apple-as-a-car-company.
I agree that the tooling is better. But if I compare the mid to late 90s to now, it feels like we haven't moved very far. Sure, computers are faster, compilers are a bit more polished, we have access to a CodeView-style debugger more often than not, code completion is a bit more reliable, we can test more easily and use stackoverflow to provide context for new problems.

But that maybe makes me only about 10% faster. As for learners, I'm sure it is useful, but they aren't that far off from when I started (when docs were mostly first-party vs. crowd sourced), and that is depressing to me. Every new step we take is very incremental.
I predate the Solaris stuff, I'm not a fan. I liked SunOS which was a bugfixed and enhanced BSD. When I wrote the sourceos paper I was talking about SunOS. (I lied, I overlapped with Solaris but I try and block that out)

All that said, Sun had an ethos of caring. In the early days of bitmover amy had some quote about the sun man pages versus the linux man pages, if someone can find that, it's awesome. We keep a sun machine in our cluster just so we can go read sane man pages about sed or ed or awk or whatever. Linux man pages suck.

Sun got shoved into having to care about System V and it sucked. I hated it and left, so did a bunch of other people. But Sun carried on and the ethos of caring carried on and Bryan and crew were a big part of that. My _guess_ is that Solaris and its follow ons are actually pleasant. I'll be pissed if I install it and it doesn't have all the GNU goodness. If that's the case then you are right, they don't get it.

What I expect to see is goodness plus careful curating. That's the Sun way.
> vast funds are given to amateurs who are clueless when it comes to how to run a company

sounds like a good number of VC funded startups.
Amazon s3 + Thumbor.org + CDN (if required)
Tesla says:

> As such, Summon requires that you continually monitor your vehicle's movement and surroundings while it is in progress and that you remain prepared to stop the vehicle at any time using your key fob or mobile app or by pressing any door handle.

Let's consider the choices. Key fob? Might be in your pocket. App? Has anyone from Tesla tried to use the Tesla app? It frequently takes literally minutes to respond. What if you try to press the door handle and the [expletive removed] door handle sensor doesn't notice? (The latter happens all the time with my car. It usually works when I press very hard on it, which might be a challenging thing to do when the semi-autonomous car is moving.)

This crap makes my glad my Tesla is too old to support their beta autopilot.
Should Gitlab allocate a whole 2 CPU 4GB RAM VM to each user for free?
Just for the record this thread is where I learned that. And yup, it sorta fits. For better or worse.
if your content is good you’ll make ETH from it

Does it have to be my content? Is there anything to stop me writing a bot that looks for popular Medium/Reddit/HN/whatever articles and post them to AKASHA under my name to harvest ETH?

That's exactly what people will do if they believe there's money to be made.
> You can argue that they should do pro-active refunds but a lot of addresses will have changed and it would be otherwise difficult and expensive. I'm honestly not convinced that's a reasonable expectation.

If I owe my state or county taxes, or otherwise owe money, they will go through all sorts of hoops and efforts to track me down. Why is it reasonable to not expect that same level of effort when they owe me money?
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