skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moralizing is about people actually reading what I wrote and the observations I am contributing. It is not about moralizing morality. I like cartoon boobs, but I would never put them in a project launch video and I am amazed whenever female sexuality creeps into tech promotion. I also personally like the aesthetic of the artists who made this. I'm just amazed that there is this cultural blindspot to this type of presentation
Indeed; we currently go to the University of California, Santa Cruz, when we need a speedy connection. : o )

In 2015, I was getting 96Mbps download from their freely accessible CruzNet campus wireless network.
I'm not a Christian, but I've thought about this from time to time. God could be omnibenevolent, but just not on terms that humans can understand. Humans only know about what happens during life and do not understand what happens after death.

There is a pretty cool short story The Egg that relates to this. I won't ruin it by trying to describe it myself. You can read it here: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
This seems like bullshit. It would have been easy to determine ahead of time that Shafer is not a threat to evade arrest, destroy evidence, or harm agents. Based on that, it would have been easy to interrupt Shafer as he headed to his car to drive to work, explain to him his situation, and have him call his wife and ask her to take the children and walk down to the park for an hour. Next time FBI want to harass a citizen like this, they should leave the assault weapons at home.

The public would certainly be safer and happier if there were fewer FBI agents rather than more.
It isn't a "life-saving technique", it is bunk:

"There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in."
About interrupt calls... If it finds such a call, all it has to do is look at the call's input registers (assuming they are in registers) and output the call with the 'logical' contents of the registers.

The x86 code is basically 32-bit Windows. I haven't got a 16-bit compiler. However, it should work for 16-bit. The key thing is that you can write specialised modules for each CPU, and the rest (loops, variables) are standardised.

On the business side... Basically, my 6502 decompiler works the best so I thought I could sell that. And as for x86, there are issues to do with structs & arrays, that I haven't had time to figure out.

As for the decompiler software, I plan to finish the x86 and ARM decompilers and sell them for a reasonable price (say, $150 for all CPUs, not just one). As noted, arrays & structs are a problem.

As for 'release code', anyone can write a CPU module, but I need to document it first.

Thanks for your comments.
Would you like me to link you a Madonna video? Is that misogynistic too?

At worst this is a spoof of second-rate 80's production. Though without your comments most people probably wouldn't have even noticed.

I think you have yet to make an argument as to why this is an issue and needs to be the focus of the discussion rather than the tech.
My experience is that the decision to switch is often being made for you. I was perfectly happy with Grunt until some plugin maintainers didn't update the Grunt version and only worked on Gulp.
You know, I've heard the same thing said of phrases like SJW, but it seems to me that both "virtue signaling" and "SJW" are useful phrases that describe real phenomena.
Cool, makes sense, thanks!
No. There is no evidence to support the technique at all, and it is no longer recommended in most parts of the world.
NoScript really needs a black-list mode powered by a community-curated filter similar to adblock filters.
This is so wrong, but it's not surprising. We've been reading stories for years of security researchers being charged with a crime or harassed for simply pointing out blatant security holes.

What kind of thinking is this? He was doing them a favor. Every time, it seems to me that they are embarrassed by the incident and lash out. WHY!?? We should be treating these researchers like heroes, not kicking in their doors and having the FBI charge them with criminal CFAA violations. Once the chilling effect comes down in full force, we'll have a much less secure Internet.
I think I might agree if you changed "belief" to "faith"[1]. "Belief" can be informed by evidence (flawed or not), but "faith" is explicit belief-without-evidence. The latter -- I agree -- is a terrible idea, but presumably some of the people who have a "belief" in a higher being have some sort of evidence[2]. That doesn't mean that I would automatically dismiss them, but I would argue that they perhaps haven't learned enough about how to critically evaluate evidence.

EDIT: A mildly interesting observation: There's one kind of evidence that believers use that's actually routinely accepted in a court of law, namely Eyewitness Testimony (e.g. "I saw the Virin Mary!" in the religious context). More interestingly, Eyewitness Testimony has been shown to be incredibly unreliable for finding out what really happened.

[1] The distinction is somewhat technical, but it's a Big Deal(TM) in Philosophy.

[2] Though, it's probably not the sort of evidence that's accepted by anyone else. (Revelation, that kind of thing.)
$20 in 1891 is ~$500 today. I'm sure the iPod nano could be an heirloom-quality device if you were willing to pay $500 for it. The photograph was certainly not maintenance-free so for equal comparison we have to assume even with a massive over-subscription of flash you'd need to replace the memory every 10-15 years. The battery probably every 5.

It's a difficult problem to reason about because our own perceptions are anchored to what we know. You couldn't have had a modern home air conditioner at any price in 1891. Ten billion dollars couldn't have bought you the computing power of a MacBook Pro in 1950.

The quantitative and qualitative gap between successive generations of computing technology is many orders of magnitude beyond what any other technology has ever experienced in human history, and the generations themselves have happened orders of magnitude faster too. I don't even know how you compare these things in economic terms because the baseline equivalence between products is nonsensical to start with.
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> How do they know how this person is going to react (or anyone else in the house)?

Well, you could do some basic investigation before an arrest, which would both give you in most cases a good idea of the threat profile and often give you a better idea if the information you've been fed actually accurately represents the facts.

Its not "investigation" is, you know, right there in the name of the agency, or anything.
At a federal level, this is mostly done. Before executing a search warrant, feds usually pull criminal background and check gun registries. Then look at the reason for a search warrant (drugs, guns, terrorism, etc.).

In theory, they combine those things to decide whether to just knock on the door and walk in or bring SWAT along.

This happens different between agencies and what parts of the country.

But, codifying these guidelines / rules into a law probably wouldn't hurt. Sometimes it is hard to capture the nuances of the situation into a formal law though.

Also, remember that like 10-100's of these things are probably executed daily, peacefully, without any conflict or issues. You only hear about it when they go wrong (or some asshole fed is in a bad mood or something I guess).
Staple food, furniture, and clothing quality has been going down for decades.

In longer time frames food has maintained value for very long time periods, but salt has dramatically dropped in value. If you compare baskets the prices that stay drown out the ones that drop off a cliff. Which makes inflation a tricky subject over very long time periods.

EX: Food and land in ancient Mesopotamia has value in our modern economy. Clay tablets are kind of meaningless, and pottery is really hard to judge.
Benchmark dlang vs. Node.js vs. ruby
If you leave your windows open, your door lock isn't useful either.
A wheelbarrow can be used for 100 years or more, because it's a simple mechanism. Why the focus on reliability?

With an outside view of the past couple of centuries -- an iPod Nano is basically magic.

My point being, I think we're often not amazed enough at everyday technology. I can't imagine Edison seeing a Nano and saying "well, what about durability?"
I don't believe privacy badger has broken any sites for me, I just run it in the background and let it do its thing, but it will of course be less effective than noscript because it doesn't break sites, and often the domains you want to block will break the site.
Sure, parody is fair-use as per Justice Story, but that's where this all gets gray. You can claim fair-use, but unless it's quite obviously a parody or educational, etc., you're going to have a tough time if someone has a mind to sue.
Notice how many cries are due to relationship-based issues.

You are putting yourself at serious emotional risk if you allow your happiness to be driven by another person, regardless of who it is.

IMHO, your emotional success should be based upon things you can control, and if it's not, then you need to make more rapid decisions as to who or what is allowed to take part in your life.
That's probably unlikely, because patents are a source of potential revenue for universities, whereas journal subscriptions are a cost.
I am thinking of a constructive way to solve problems such as these. What do you think of making public the host's acceptance and rejection rate by race and gender?
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If the research says that then either:

(1) The law enforcement decision makers are unaware of the research (which is unlikely), or

(2) The stated motivation is not the actual motivation.
Heimlich means well, but the popularity of his maneuver is due more to his relentless promotional skills, and not to sound research. If someone is choking, it's best to slap them hard on the back a few times.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.05.05/heimlich-05...
As a student with an undergrad degree in Economics, I got into Python programming specifically for the potential applications of Big Data to Economic policy. A shame that my professional career took me a tangential direction, but I hope to eventually take what I am learning now and direct it back towards Economics at some point the future.

Glad to see actual Economists are exploring the area.
It certainly isn't hard to do if a user is searching Google while logged into a google account.
Will this also help against tracking cookies?
Well that surely trumps the local source. We'll change the URL from http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/05/26/henry-heimli....

It would be amusing if there were a long history of 'first times'.
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Yeah, it's close. I made a pretty reasonable analysis of the themes (or tropes) in the video. If this were an art classroom (and any time in the last 50 years, not just the PC era) there would be a lot of discussion about the sexual themes of this video. They are there and they are intentional
If Santa Cruz had the will and might, what would stop it from becoming "New San Francisco"? Seems to me that creating a competing city is easier and quicker than reforming one.
As far as I know, the new concepts like trigger warnings and safe spaces have so far only spread to UK universities, not other European countries.
I use an earlier model of essentially this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BYG3OWK

The flexible head makes a world of difference compared to the flourescent-panel-on-a-stand designs, and it has better UX as an alarm clock than most dedicated alarm clocks. The clock display can be turned on and off, and the main light can be dimmed.

They might have added features but mine's still working after 8 years so I have no reason to try a newer model.
Unfortunately, a service that connects people with other people directly to rent their homes is always going to have issues like this.

I'm not sure that it's fair to expect Airbnb to "fix" this. Why? Because if they prevent people from discriminating on the very evil dimensions of race, gender, sexual identification, religion, etc, then they will also prevent people from discriminating on the basis of reasonable factors like "5 guys from 19 to 21 from a fraternity".
Andrew Ng calls Tesla irresponsible for shipping an imperfect autopilot
There was an article a couple days ago about why everyone believes Columbus proved the world was round[1], even though that isn't true[2]:

The real myth of the medieval flat earth begins first
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has
two principal sources. Probably the most influential
of these was the American author Washington Irving
who in his fictional biography of Columbus claimed
that Columbus had to fight against the Church’s
belief that the world was flat in order to get
permission and backing for his voyage, a complete
fabrication.

I see an interesting parallel between the two cases. When you're the most influential person talking about something (or the only person at all...), people who later want to learn about the subject treat you as the best available authority, even if you're a bad one. Information is copied from authorities and self-reinforcing over time, much like genes in a population. What that means is when there's a bottleneck in the number of people talking about a topic, you can see a founder effect[3].

[1]https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/repeat-after-me-they...

[2]That Columbus proved it, that is, not that the world is round.

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect
I'd go a bit further than 'crackpot' in describing someone who literally gave Malaria to people with AIDS on purpose.
http://bpp.mit.edu/datasets/
Why the risk of AirBNB is not worth it anymore
I have found that emotional stoicism elicits are far greater response in nearly all people.

Emotional people are unpredictable, and unpredictability is a turn-off for most rational and stable people (who I like to surround myself with).

Depending on your goals in life, being "the rock" typically gets you better long-term social results.
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So your recipe for, "emotional success" is to not be affected by other people?

Got it.
That essay is fun but supremely unfair to biologists. The reason that we engineers can "unambiguously understand a diagram describing the radio", "identify familiar patterns or modules in a diagram of an unfamiliar device," or "[use a] formal language that successfully unites the efforts of many individuals" - is because we created all of those things from first principles. We - people - invented radios and all of the parts in them, of course we know how they (and other man-made devices) work. The engineer doesn't have some special mindset that allows him to fix the radio. He just has a lot of knowledge about how the system works, because it was written down by the people that created it, all the way back to simple combinations of common matter.

It's easy to have a formal language and tools when you start with the language and build everything on top of that. When you're trying to look at a complex system that was entirely built by some unknown process, according to unknown rules, and you have to figure out the language from observation, it's obviously going to be a very different ballgame.
That isn't a result of Facebook, that's a result of inconsiderate friends. There are a couple friends in my group that aren't on Facebook, so we text them.
Would you spend millions in developing something just so it's copied one month later after it's released?
> Checking this amount with an online historical currency converter set up by Eric Nye, 135 pounds would correspond to approximately $37,700 (American dollars).

I wonder if this is less informative than meets the eye. My unresearched impression is that there were many households like this, but still relatively few in the entire population. Any number of these households might have been able to afford this. Yet practically no one in the entire population could afford this; maybe they would never make this much in their lifetimes. How much would an Indian tshirt sewer make in a lifetime?

So something like this didn't even exist, practically, in the general population. It was two separate economies, that occasionally traded in the middle. The people at the bottom, which would have been most people, were that day's 3rd world cheap labor.

What does it cost to get a shoe or sandal in a village in $THIRD_WORLD_LABOR_COUNTRY where shoes and sandals are made? Probably cheaper than here, although it probably isn't the same shoe. What does it cost to get a Tesla or buy a cruise in that village? It's all but meaningless, it doesn't exist in that economy.

What will $37K buy you here, and what would it buy in a labor country's village, or a 16th century English village?
Any time part of an organization is given resources, they must use those resources to justify having them and continuing to have them.

They probably rarely have cause to perform this sort of raid, so they do so at any opportunity.
And there should be a responsibility for not applying proper measures to protect personal information.
This is public for the teachers, snooping this file is the same as rummaging through teacher's stuff!
> must be freely accessible to everyone

When? Open access after 12 months has different cost than immediate open access, and, at the pace of today's research, is not open access at all. And ERC funded research already requires open access publishing anyway.

Why not demand publishing to open access/nonprofit journals instead? Why does EU have to pay elsevier $2000-5000 per article?

This does not seem significant to me.
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Decompilers don't promise to recreate the original C code; they just promise to transform assembly instructions into some kind of C program.
It's a pun played in meta-reverse and it sucked
Life expectancy is dominated by saving younger lives which is it's own bias.
It isn't though, if you read past the first paragraph in the wikipedia history of the technique.

"The European Resuscitation Council and the Mayo Clinic recommend alternating between five back slaps and five abdominal thrusts in cases of severe airway obstructions.[1][2]"

I hardly think they'd still recommend the maneuver still if it was "bunk".
The instant I saw the woman was eating a banana, I knew the word "misogyny" would be brought up multiple times in this discussion. I didn't even notice the breasts.
Military jet aircraft with afterburners lit, flying at low altitude do it for me. No idea why. Perhaps something to do with attending air shows at a young age.
Ah gotcha, sounds like it could be a good first RFC for someone.
he made the "people in charge" look like fools... (granted, they were idiots acting like fools, and if anything he was trying to help)

"people in charge" only stay in charge when they don't look like fools. so anyone pointing out the king isn't wearing any clothes must be tied to a stake and burned for all to see.

also, your dog must die.
No, because it's on an opt in basis, controlled by the site.
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Oracle claimed that their copyright covered "Sequence, Structure, and Organization."
Some of my favorite art, music or otherwise, is (pseudo)anonymous and illegal....and I am not alone. So, no... the end isn't near, but I am fine if most people think so. :D
Waaaay back in 1992, when Jay Leno was taking over for Johnny Carson, I saw an interview with him in which they asked him about having politicians on the Tonight Show. He said he didn't want to have them on unless they did something unusual "like play a saxophone or something silly like that."

Literally just a few months later then-candidate Bill Clinton appeared on Arsenio Hall and played the saxophone.
I had similar effect after watching the trailer of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs
Interestingly, he abruptly stopped posting on Reddit about a month ago [1]. I wonder if he lost some internal battle on this issue…

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey
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It means EU funds will pay elsevier a fee for every article to make them open access.
If all of my friends (coworkers, work friends, casual acquaintances) are using Facebook for events, and I'm the one insisting they contact me directly, then I feel like I'm being the inconsiderate one.
I’ve been working on the assumption that a massive breach did happen, but was never announced (perhaps not even discovered internally).
Surely learning to feel your own life and limb would foster insight and self-control.

And if that holds true, then this one-way media about physical expression, choreographed to maximize drama, surely causes imbalances to healthy and fruitful relief from bottling emotions.
> The point of copyright isn't to keep kids from pirating a few songs, just like the point of property right's isn't to keep kids from walking across your lawn. That's not what's going to destroy the value of your property. The point of copyright is to force Netflix and Amazon Prime and Youtube to bargain with you instead of just ripping you off. And that's not hard to enforce.

You know, I've never heard this position articulated before, but it seems incredibly, and obviously reasonable. To me, the balanced position of "enforce copyright vigorously when significant value is at stake, but don't harm consumers by obsessively trying to prevent minor infringements" seems the most fair position.
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Can you provide a link to said research?
I just returned to the USA after two weeks in Singapore, and I found this article quite poignant.

In the downtown area near Suntec/Raffles city, it feels like everything at ground level is a mall (aside from a few historical buildings). Below ground level, there are extensive malls connecting large buildings in the area. As a pedestrian, it's nice to get out of the sun and skip the long waits at the crosswalks, but I did not relish all the time spent in a mall atmosphere.

I stayed in a different neighborhood for the second half of the trip and it was nice to get away from the glitzy, high-end malls of downtown. I ended up encountering even more malls though! They were smaller, older, and more run-down but they were numerous and packed in tight. Many of the construction sites I saw there were for new malls.

The malls do provide a refreshing air-conditioned space when it's unbearable outside, but it was hard for me to get excited about them other than that. If you will be traveling to Singapore soon and you don't enjoy Western malls, good luck in your planning.
And Aaron Schwartz is dead. RIP
The game that I mentioned elsewhere in this thread seems to be a mix of C and assembly (as one would expect from an early-90s game), so I'd be curious about the same thing.
How do you define "might"? I mean, if you mean by that, the concentration of wealth, talent, and established industry players that San Francisco has, then, sure, if they had that, they could easily become the New San Francisco.

The question is how they would ever get the might?

> Seems to me that creating a competing city is easier and quicker than reforming one.

Santa Cruz is an existing city, and apparently one that you propose reforming into your ideal of what San Francisco should be. Why is that easier to reform that existing city than San Francisco?
Gawker was irresponsible, but the precedent Peter Thiel is setting is dangerous
Obama in Hiroshima
It has an EMP potential to fry electronics probably.
Thought the same thing, awesome book collection...
Jeez I must be dead inside :(