skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe this is or isn't non-partisan, but here's a shot: I'm 25 years old. I've never voted and never will vote as long as there is a two party system. There has never been a situation where I can agree with either party or individual enough to support them in an election. How do you intend to get people like me to vote?

In most places in the US, there are plenty of downballot elections, many of which are nonpartisan. There are also ways to be involved in the selection of party nominees (including, but not limited to, party primaries, which are in many places open to both members of the parties and those in no party, and in some places you can vote in primaries irrespective of party. Or, in California -- aside from Presidential elections -- the "primaries" are non-partisan first-round election from which the top two vote-getters proceed.)
"Cancelled" by who?

Hyperloop One is by far the most credible project, with HTT somewhere behind them in second. They haven't revealed anything about their compression systems or lack thereof. HTT has backed off air levitation, but they're still using Inductrack which is radically cheaper than conventional MagLev and hasn't been applied commercially yet.

Several of the competition teams (like the one in this article) have built MagLev sleds with nice brakes, but they're just trying to win a speed record competition. That has no bearing on the real Hyperloop. Other teams are focusing more on scalable tech and doing some pretty innovative work.

The lower per-vehicle capacities also aren't a negative if launch cadences can be kept high enough to maintain throughput. Smaller vehicles let the network operate in a more point-to-point manner instead of the stop-and-go crap that trains have done since day one.
So..... many... DJs....
RF-Only Logic Makes RFID Tags Tinier
Ballotpedia helps: https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page
You pretty much can use it like that, can you not? I just use it like that and then use the tailored playlists for discovering new (and old) music.
It's a topic of DBA religious discussion. In the past, it was more clearly a benefit to use the direct IO method, as the DBMS could do stuff like be aware of disk geometry and optimize layout for IO and logging, and avoid the various gotchas of the file systems the DB ran on.

Way back around 2000 I did a performance bake off of Informix with direct disk io vs the Solaris 2.7 (maybe 2.6) file system. For our workloads, performance was within 5% give or take. We opted to switch to file based storage as it saved us a bunch of money.

There's no one answer -- and some technical explanations are mumbo jumbo concealing the real ask. Some DBAs will demand direct IO simply because of office politics. File systems "belong" to the storage team, but LUNs with Oracle "belong" to the DBAs.
A much saner approach.
The article addresses your point. Industrial revolution forced people to move from physical work to mental work. AI revolution will take over mental work, and there's no other kind of work left for us.

Also, I find it weird to put agricultural and industrial revolution together in this context.

Agricultural revolution was when people shifted from doing less physical work (hunting) to doing more physical work (building a civilization). It probably wasn't even by choice, but simply because agricultural societies were more efficient and would conquer those which didn't settle down. About the only thing I see here in common with industrial revolution is the forced change of lifestyle.
The problem is that the new job titles we keep inventing require ever-greater degrees of intelligence, while the distribution of human intelligence has been remaining just about the same.

A hundred farm workers get replaced by one tractor, but that's okay, because those hundred workers become tractor repairmen, tractor factory workers, tractor designers, and we can farm far more land and produce wealth more efficiently. But not everyone who could plow a field can design a tractor. A thousand years ago, damn near every job was manual labour and could be done with a two-digit IQ, but we're reaching the point in first-world countries where less than half the work which needs to be done can actually be done by someone in the lower half of the population's intelligence distribution.

If we're not there yet, we will be soon. And I think it's fundamentally different to every previous automation revolution.
That's more like 1 cent. Why do you love it? What do you love about it?
Yahoo Mail app arrives on Windows 10
I don't begrudge you projecting information on your retina about people you have seen before. The issue at hand is people you have never seen before, but whose faces have been been captured in a large database.

What's dystopian?

Mass surveillance grants power, to the public and to institutions, to control individuals. One consequence is 'chilling effects': good actions are not taken because of possible future consequences. Planning is hindered, because any action may have unpredictable consequences because of side effects caused by surveillance 'global state' (state as in data, not as in country).

I think there is a negative psychological effect on some (most?) people of being at all times under observation, retroactively, by all people.

Today's governments and today's public often err in their ethical judgements, and "the doctrine that the truth is manifest is the root of all tyranny". Some future ones may be worse. Such large databases (and the social/legal/technical all-seeing surveillance systems we are building) would make it easier to allow bad governments to lock themselves into power more firmly, and once in power to use it in very bad ways: this is Snowden's "turnkey tyrrany".

This kind of information reduces the scope for experimentation, error, and the correction of mistakes. Because that is the source of all knowledge, that is a problem.

Of course some uses of such data will be good. But, power should be localized to prevent it being abused (the principle of least authority). Some good uses (like helping your bad vision) don't actually require the "sudo" superpower to recognize every person on the planet. All others are not worth the costs (this is a hypothesis, as are all statements I guess).
After four months, Parse hosting providers are already mature?
> One quick change in business strategy could turn Google into the world's largest patent troll

Is there any big tech company for which this statement does not apply? Or do you hold Google to a higher standard?
There is no IDE. But you can use merlin, which is amazing. Debuggers are not very developed, neither are linters.

For me, the development experience is pretty good. But it takes some time to get used to this new world. Conventions are not the same.
Many academic papers and books do this. For example, see the famous paper "Why Functional Programming Matters" [1]. To me, having non-monospaced font in a paper or book is a signal that the contents are "too academic" to be of practical use. This is a very weak signal though - for example, Sally Goldman's excellent book "A Practical Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms using Java"[2] has pages and pages of useful Java code in non-monospaced font.

[1] https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Structures-Algorithms-Chapma...
> If it were only localism, there would be localities that were fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure.

There's at least one: Bellevue, Washington, USA (across the lake from Seattle). I lived near there growing up and watched in awe how they repeatedly refactored the city in record time, over and over and over again, improving it each time. It was almost like watching agile development happen physically in front of you.
I often wonder if AI will be able to write good TV shows.

My facebook feed is really interesting, the AI that curates it is doing a good job, it seems to know what I like to see and recommends more interesting things to get sucked into.

I think humans and machines will blend, so there won't be an AI vs human 'war'... we will integrate AI tools into ourselves thus becoming more than human. A hyper connected being.
If you vote Socialist or Tea Party, the Democrats / Republicans lost your vote and have the stats to back it up.

Even if you disagree with the system, vote for whoever is most aligned with your values. Someone will want your vote and your decision may impact future campaigns.
I like m+
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Ars Technica chose to illustrate this article with a perspective-distorted screenshot of md5-crypt-encrypted passwords, the entire point of which is to prevent the person who has the encrypted password from being able to decrypt it.
I forget the name of the economist/econ.historian, but he got invited to meet with the Politboro(!) of China. He thought it might be about policy, but they wanted to know about what he knew about why the British government did not fall in the 1870s.
I used to think this way. The thing that changed my mind was learning how much people think the USA spends on foreign aid[1]. On average, Americans think 28 percent of the federal budget is spent on foreign aid, but it is about 1 percent. People base policy preference on their mistaken impression. When informed of the correct amount, the number who think America spends too much on foreign aid changes from 61% to 30%.

Foreign aid is one persistently misunderstood issue that I know of, but I worry that there might be many similar issues.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/11/07/the-b...
Doesn't this devolve to a finance problem? For all that, a rather easy one?
School funding is already essentially through local government. It's where the vast bulk of property taxes go to. And, yes, it leads to high-priced suburbs with good schools, with schools that are often less good elsewhere. (It also means that people with children in large urban areas often feel they either have to move to the suburbs or put their kids in private schools.)
nonetheless it's nice to see something made for FF-only
Here's Ivan Andrus's (the creator's) explanation of it: https://irandrus.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/the-periodic-table...
It's worth taking a look. (Well, I make no guarantees.)
I've researched a lot about that and I'm still not sure about which is the best provider. My recommendations are in this order:

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OurSky: http://parse-hosting.oursky.com/
NodeChef: https://www.nodechef.com/parse-server
ParseGround: http://www.parseground.com
Runparse: http://www.runparse.com/
Nimble parse: http://nimbleparse.com/

Potentially dead:
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YourParse: http://yourparse.com/ https://twitter.com/YourParseCom
Parse 2.0: https://twitter.com/parse2_0
Is nuclide good enough? A few weeks ago, a lof of merlin features were still missing. As was the auto-indentation.
Axolotl and Proteus
Do they even have an English version of their website yet? I can't find one, but I did find this press release of a few years ago:

http://www.42.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CP_260313_final_...
I don't know about Washington, but California has:

(1) Candidate statements from candidates (there are requirements for being allowed to submit a statement), and
(2) Pro/con statements from the official proponents and registered opponents of ballot measures (identifying the sources for both) as well as financial estimates for ballot measures (for statewide measures, these are prepared by the state Legislative Analysts Office.)
Yea we figured it out... after numerous wars and cultural revolutions. The point is to hopefully avoid those kinds of things when transitioning into the information age.

Besides we still haven't really figured out post-industrial revolution employment all that well. Lots of people in bullshit jobs collecting paychecks just because.
Senate Passes Bill Exposing Saudi Arabia to 9/11 Legal Claims
Replikativ/replikativ: A scalable distributive p2p system for CRDTs
We've been retelling the Monomyth for generations and it still works. With all the reboots, prequels and sequels we really need some fresh content.
I believe the stronger reason is your presidential election vote won't matter in most states where the contest is already decided. So a candidate winning 70-30 vs. 60-40 doesn't make a difference.
Show HN: Curated and Supported AWS Lambda Functions
Of course, all such objections rest on the implicitly defined concept of "what is REALLY happening". But trying to strictly define this - which is necessary before we can meaningfully talk about it - is very tricky, and is firmly in the metaphysical / philosophical realm, and not science.
> They aren't "useless" they may simply not have job skills of value in the future economy.

I.e. useless. Sure, not morally, but economically. This is what we're talking about when discussing automation of jobs. It's important to be precise, otherwise we risk miscommunication.
No, the sugar's still there.
Nothing, C P Grey had this argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Before the industrial revolution we had lots of horses for horse power. Then we made engines which replaced horses. Horses didn't change jobs, they couldn't.
The Periodic Table of Finite Simple Groups (2012)
I don't know about good TV shows, but I can easily imagine an AI that could spit out a passable soap opera.
Like propagate
Just because you can doesn't mean you should
I took ocaml for a spin a couple months ago and compared to more recently created languages it seems a bit crufty.

If they can simplify the build system to be on par with something like cargo that would be swell.

Also: having rust style traits or haskell classes would be amazing. Also macros that aren't obscure and hard to use compiler plugins please :)

Hopefully it ends up being more than just questionable sugar around ocaml and actually adds some sorely needed language features.
Non-trivial? In Scala it would be:

fruits ++= apples.map(_.asFruit)
For some reason the freezes are much worse in multi-process. Certain sites freeze it up consistently; newegg.com for example I just measured 67 seconds the whole window was completely unresponsive. If I disable e10s it runs fine.
Batteries Included is another solution (which is more compatible with the thin included standard library):
http://ocaml-batteries-team.github.io/batteries-included/hdo...
For me these kinds of things are a straight economic calculation. If the tiger rock plus the premium is less than what other companies are charging, then I'll buy a tiger rock. Assuming it doesn't have some sort of problem.

If there's a problem with the tiger rock (it smells or takes up a lot of room or whatever) then I'll assign a value to the problem and add it to the premium for my calculations. Same thing with the "lock in" effect of having my rock only pay off after three years.

I suppose I could tell them I have a tiger rock when I really don't, but I place a value on integrity, too.
> If you vote Socialist or Tea Party, the Democrats / Republicans lost your vote and have the stats to back it up.

The Tea Party isn't an actual party that fields candidates, its a right-wing grassroots (or astroturf, depending on who you listen to) organization that mostly backs Republican candidates, and mostly serves to push the Republicans on certain issues. If you vote for a Tea Party-backed candidates, a Republican has won your vote, not lost it.
Do we live to serve the economy, or does the economy work to serve human beings?
> what are your thoughts about it, and how can it happen in America? I've seen every single proposal be rejected in congress.

The Republican Party has, for decades at least, had a program of making it more difficult to vote. I'm not saying that to be partisan, it's just a fact (sometimes facts favor one party or the other, but we shouldn't ignore them, twist them, or try to create a false equivalence). I believe it's because they are the minority party, especially among working class people.

A law called the Voting Rights Act was passed in the 1960s that restricted many of those practices, which had been used to prevent minorities from voting in much of the South. In the last few years the Supreme Court said the Voting Rights Act was no longer valid, and many of the practices (though in different forms) quickly returned in Republican-controlled states. For example, in many places they increased the documentation required to register to vote, and then made it harder to obtain the documentation. And then they dramatically reduced the voting locations, so that registered voters have to travel further and wait in long lines in order to vote.
I really wish they'd taken the pipeline (|>) operator from F#, if they were going to rework OCaml.
I've honestly been curious about this for years. Currently, at least in America, we have a culture where if you are not meeting your financial expectations it is your fault. So if you find yourself in an industry that has been outsourced or replaced by technology, you simply need to retool. Ignoring specifics, this is typically sufficient to satisfy concerns of people that are not directly affected.

So, what happens when retooling isn't even an option? Utopia for some, utopia for all? I just can't seem to make any sense of it, but given the lack of empathy in the current climate for people labeled as other, I would suspect the former.
>> Replace non-locality with infinite universes, which is more troubling

It's a question to the philosophers, not the scientists. There is no objective measurement for what "troubling" is.

And if we don't start with any preconceived notions of how things _should_ work, then discovering that they work differently is not particularly troubling.
> The biggest reason people in the US don't vote ...

It seems plausible, but is there some data to back up this theory?
Technical you don't have to vote here in Australia, you just have to put a ballot paper in the box at the polling station and have your name crossed off the roll. Of course most peopl (95%) do bother to vote once they are at the polling station.

The best part of compulsory voting Australian-style is that it encourages people to show at least some interest in the political process since they know they will be voting.
The many-worlds interpretation has no collapse at all. :-)
Hypothetical: in any alternative universe, would you have felt any better if Microsoft or IBM had sued a defenceless Sun into bankruptcy?
Voter turnout is higher in our presidential elections when a person's vote is generally worth less.

People SHOULD be voting at the local level where their votes still matter quite a bit, but generally don't through an interesting combination of apathy and ignorance (e.g. few people actually know who their rep on the city council is and what their basic platform is).
I believe you are correct here, however, I do not think there is much of a difference in the end result. The popular phrase is that past techniques (radiation, selective breeding) are like taking a hammer to a genome, whereas new techniques are like taking a scalpel to a genome.
Every election is about much more than just the presidency. There's always state/local elections, propositions and ballot measures. And these will often have a much more direct affect on you than the President of the U.S. Most local ballot measures aren't unanimous and the results are usually much closer to 50/50, otherwise the city council would've passed it already. So even if you're a Republican in California your vote will absolutely still count for something.
Easy one? Could you describe it?

Also, it may be one with a solution that's easy to state - but not necessarily easy to reach. We can't suddenly change how the economy works - we don't have direct control over it. We can try to transition the current one to the desired future one my means of setting up incentive structures appropriately.
I know politically informed minimum wage folks, and some really politically-flawed doctors and upper-level managers who spend so much time on their job or kids they don't care to read into politics. The "informed voters = rich whiteys" theory is just an assumption that infers people who want informed voters are often racist.
Lets leave race out of such discussions and stick with how we could make an unbiased solution (race/class blind qualifier tests or whatever).
> One of the worst lies perpetuated by the media is that the presidential election is the only one that really matters.

I haven't seen this suggested in the media.
Except that they will all be generated procedurally, and will be more entertaining than human-created versions!
You're talking about the economy in a "Plinko chip" sort of way, and I'm talking about community building. If you want good products and a well paying society, you need to promote more individual nodes rather than giant motherships. And by "promote", I mean actually want it instead of talking about how the rules apply to the current system.
You could have just linked to the website. :) I guess things have changed in 20 years.

But really you only proved my point. OP said that a computer engineering degree makes you an engineer and a computer science degree makes you a developer. So what does a computer science and engineering major make you?

My main point was you can't decide if someone is an engineer based on the name of the degree they were granted.
Not sure why this user posted 2 dupes of this in an hour, but here's the original from earlier today, 28+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713047
jealousy?

;-)
Nope they bought Beats Music too https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/05/28Apple-to-Acquire-...
Sorry, semantics. I know they're are okay with corn that was bred using advanced breeding techniques. And bananas. But to hit you back with some semantics-- they're okay with certain transgenic organisms, like the yeast & mammalian cells we use for drug testing & production. I also bet they're okay with the glow-in-the-dark GFP kittens.

So to be more perfectly exact, let's go with: Transgenic crops.
I think eventually poetry and music would be created by AI. The question is what happens when AI is better than humans at everything.
IMHO `let in` has more to do with semantics than syntax. `let a = b;` doesn’t mean the same as `let a = b in …`. It’s like `def` vs. `let` in Clojure. Outside of this specific case I agree OCaml doesn’t have an easy syntax; I have to re-learn some parts of it every time I need to write in that language.
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> what is a human able to do that a sufficiently good AI cannot?

That may not be the right question. There are all kinds of things that theoretically we could replace with bots over humans but we do not because of convention. For example Home Depot or any Home/Shed tool supply store. Let me explain?

In Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age there is a class of humans who generate handcrafted items. They have machines that produce anything to molecular perfection and yet humans (due to our nature) seek to distinguish themselves from other groups of humans using objects. In this case flawed objects, but objects they willingly paid for nonetheless. It's all about status!

This is not outlandish to me. I want to construct a Tiny House. I know that when I develop the skills and accomplish this task I will place considerable value on my creation.

It is extremely likely that this is not optimal because of the division of labour. However I will enjoy my Tiny House regardless.

AI can endlessly optimize production but it cannot manufacture personal pride or social class.

Human nature creates scarcity naturally even within a state of abundance.

We really do like to belong to tribes and be 'self made'.
Debatable. They had to get into the streaming business sooner or later, Beats Music was comparatively cheap and if not more popular, superior in at least some technical/UI regards.