skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that I'm not the one who is saying that land ownership is theft - you are, because you are trying so say "taking by (threat of) force is theft".

I'm not saying that land ownership is theft. I don't advocate taking someone else's land by force, but I do claim that (at least in "proto-world") taking unclaimed land is acceptable exactly because it is unclaimed.

That whole discussion does lead to some other interesting points though... for example, if I abandon the home and garden I build on unclaimed land in proto-world, and move 8,000 miles away, does that land remain "mine" or does it return to its unclaimed state? It turns out that in the modern world, "we" decided that once you own a piece of land, it is yours forever, unless you sell it, trade it way, etc. I'm not actually convinced that is right. On this, I may be closer to the position of some left-anarchist types who hold that land ownership is temporary and only based in actual use/occupancy. I'm not entirely convinced one way or the other on this point though.

Inheritance is another interesting issue, although you can kinda sorta hand-wave around that by saying that "if you can transfer something to a new owner, then doing so a split second before you die is effectively the same thing as allowing inheritance".

In reality, what is and isn't theft is defined by social convention. So land ownership, police returning items, and tax aren't theft, even though they all involve (the threat of) force.

Sure, the social convention is what it is. What I'm arguing is that the social convention is wrong and needs to be updated. It's not like these things are chiseled into stone tablets and made immutable for all time.

I'll also point out that I'm far from alone on the "taxation is theft" thing. It may be a minority viewpoint, but it's hardly some fringe idea held by just two or three crackpots. There's at least five or six of us. :-)
No way that a film as mediocre as that can be comparable to the original trilogy. Saying that it is even better is a complete nonsense.
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I'm glad this came out. Now there should be more concrete information to use in lobbying against these nasty deals WIP.
The conclusion is intriguing, but it's worth reading, or watching if you prefer video, the whole thing:

> What I tell you today is that we're getting
> close to understanding how we can convert
> this intuition that we all have, that we all
> share, into an algorithm. And in doing so, we
> may be seeing in the future a very different
> form of mental health, based on objective,
> quantitative and automated analysis of the
> words we write, of the words we say.

Don't take that paragraph in isolation - read about the supporting evidence, including their initial failures.

Transcription here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_your_words_may_pred...
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As recent as of a couple years ago, Facebook's android app required access to your text messages to read texts. They were reading every text you sent & received just for some fancy Facebook linking.
Has the bar gone up? http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Real-Media...
Kind of, in that opponents of any bill were joined by some Senators that were closely tied to the insurance industry to threaten to filibuster the bill (which passed the House with a public option) if a public option was included, looking several attempts (both passing the form the House did and putting forward different public mechanisms) to include a public option in the Senate version, and dropping the public option was the only way to secure Senate passage.
In AM: A Case Study in AI Methodology by G.D. Ritchie and F.K. Hanna (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220547429_AM_a_case...), a paper critical of Lenat's work on AM, it is, however, stated that "Lenat has attempted (more than most other workers in AI) to render his program available to public assessment, both by making it available for running and by supplying such detailed appendices in his thesis. The whole discussion in this paper could not have commenced if Lenat had not provided this unusual level of documentation. "

As for Eurisko, I'm unaware of the source code being made publicly available, and several people appeared to have asked for the source, without success. However, I think enough has been published on Eurisko to reproduce it, or something similar, from scratch.

OpenCyc (http://opencyc.org/) was released in 2012, and is available on SourceForge. Cyc was released earlier this year (https://www.lucid.ai/press-releases/mit-tech-review-an-ai-wi...). Lucid (https://www.lucid.ai/) has several case studies of applications of Cyc by Cleveland Clinic, the U.S. Forest Service, a Large Global Bank, and a Global Energy Company.
That book was a great read. I am heartened to hear recently that the Kakapo seems to be making a comeback in New Zealand...
You can find more videos via searching for the phrase "minutt for minutt" on YouTube.
> What happens if theres a leak?

I didn't even think of this. That's a very scary thought. Not only is it leaking your password replacement, but a good part of your identity.
I would expect grit to be largely the result of heritable factors, so I wouldn't say grit is overrated.
From Wikipedia:

"Marshmallow Test Revisited". University of Rochester. October 11, 2012.

Kidd, Celeste; Palmeri, Holly; Aslin, Richard N. (2013). "Rational snacking: Young children's decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability". Cognition 126 (1): 109–114. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.004. PMC 3730121. PMID 23063236.
On iOS I use an app called Weblock. Installs through the App Store (no jailbreak). It does require some trust because it proxies your DNS.
Between this and the total redesigns that keep making things harder to use for no reason, Google seems to have no interest in people actually using their products. I’ve never seen a single company with more cases of “geez this stuff is all great if you’d just leave it the hell alone…”.

For that matter, didn’t it take Steve Jobs to connect the dots for them so that they’d even consider putting their maps on mobile phones? They’re lucky they’re even in this business.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but radioactive decay is perfectly explained today, without any need of dark matter particles.
The animated gifs located here (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/05/android-insta...) make it look as if you can cancel out of it.

They introduced an instant app like experience prior to this but only through the Google App and they called it streaming. I tried to get hotel tonight to load in this manner right now but could not get it working unfortunately.

edit: got it working. The link was specifically marked as an app link above the regular webpage link.

Personally I could see this being handy for things like games and other times when you might need to install an app to complete a specific task but I don't see it replacing the mobile web.
I mean, it could. But I haven't seen any mention that the conditions of this experiment match the interstellar conditions that indicate Dark Matter (which is usually the angular velocity of galaxies not matching the theoretical prediction).

There's smarter people than me working on dark matter, but one thing to consider is that dark matter may well be simply that -- matter that we're unable to see for inane reasons such as being on a plane of vision that we're unable to see, similar to the unified model of an active galactic nucleus: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~ski/skipicture-1.html.

Again, exciting, but too soon to really say anything. Everyone should be suspect of the claims, it's just par for the course in physics.
H2G2 is interesting to me - in general, over the last decade, there's been a growth in the popularity of "nerd culture". A lot of this has led to "nerd content" actually becoming less targeted (see: Big Bang Theory, recent seasons of Doctor Who). I find H2G2 fascinating because, as far as I can tell, it remains known only by those who were or would have been participants in nerd culture before it became a big thing.
Command line is about the most simple UI I can think of.
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It is certainly not FUD, see https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google

The point is, Oracle have decided to sue once over usage of something they bought and may do so again in the future.
Mirasol also made it to an e-reader, but I believe it was only released in South Korea.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/kyobo-mirasol-color-e-reader-deb...
I guess so, but the whole point here is that there are a lot of hidden costs you might not have considered if you've operated 100% SaaS.
On good trips there, I can certainly understand the attractions of the Bay area (though I'm probably less sold on the city itself). However IMO way too many people, especially in tech circles, have convinced themselves that life isn't worth living if they can't live and work there whatever the other lifestyle tradeoffs. (Which leads to the corollary that someone needs to do something to make it possible for them to do so.)
> Biometric authentication is a powerful enabler, allowing businesses smart enough to deploy it to significantly increase rates of registration, gaining data and insight about their customers, while also increasing customer security. This is a win/win scenario which sounds the death-knell for awkward and insecure passwords sooner than we may imagine.

More unwarranted data-gathering.

I really want to like this idea, because I so very hate passwords, but until there's a method that I have complete control over without the cost of my privacy, I'll be opting out.
> Again, websites work perfectly well for this.

Not always. The idea here is that an app would be able to use some of the phone's native features, making the user experience more straightforward.

Think about the camera purchase concept. If you open a website, once the user has selected a product, they have to either login or enter payment information (like a new credit card). But with a native micro-app, it can just start a payment intent that accepts whatever the user has already saved to their OS (through Google Pay). Basically two taps and you're done, as opposed to a bunch of taps and filling some forms.

Much less friction, if done right. And that's just one example. I'm sure people will come up with others.

I'm sure some publishers will want to abuse the system to force people to run apps that have no benefit over a simple web page. Same problem contrived "mobile" websites have. But at the same time there's a lot of micro-situations where mini-apps serve the user in a much better fashion.

At least until HTML5+ has proper APIs for the features they need.
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"Grit" is the latest pop-psych trend that will eventually fade away.
> In 2011, economist Guy Standing coined the term “precariat”

Not really. It began to appear in German books in 2005 (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Prekariat&year...) and searches took off in the end of 2006 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Prekariat%2C%20preca... The German version of the word is still more common.

It actually really surprised me that the word is so young, as I think the word is pretty much common knowledge in German.
Perhaps I misunderstood the article, but taking a collection of anecdotes (n = 36) about highly successful people who took a wide variety of paths to success doesn't seem like a very good way to attack the concept of grit. For one thing, extremely successful people are likely to be outliers in many ways, and so it may not be wise to generalize their advice.

It's unfortunate, because I think grit does have real issues: it seems that a large number of studies have found that it doesn't add anything over the existing concept of conscientiousness:

http://scottbarrykaufman.com/study-alert-much-ado-grit-meta-...

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
Looking quickly through the two papers mentioned [0, 1], there is a (statistically) very solid result that something is going on with 8Be, which is only very barely a nucleus and is probably better thought of as a bound state of two alpha particles. In [0] there is a experimental observation of some kind of effect which can be explained by a 17 MeV boson. [1] looks at other experiments and finds a way around current experimental bounds by building a "protophobic" model, that is a boson that does not interact with protons. Interestingly they find that in this model they can explain the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, if the parameters are somewhat close to already excluded limits. (Fig. 1 bottom panel in [1]) So the next generation of experiments should rule out or discover the X boson. (And actually there are many experiments which seem to have a shot at this.)

My take on this, it is probably a parametrization of something we do not understand in terms of a particle. This something may be a experimental effect or a theoretical lack of understanding or insufficient methods for calculation, or a new particle. The energy range is sort of interesting since it is close to the energy range of hadron spectroscopy, a field which is littered with 2-sigma 'tantalizing hints' of new physics. To end this, I believe it is a temptation to speculate (read I will claim I resisted the temptation until "told you so" is an appropriate response), that a heavy charged particle, cough di-photon excess, could be involved in creating the different couplings to u and d quarks.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01527

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07411
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of those types of books that can't really be successfully adapted to any other medium. That's probably the reason, unless the style of humour doesn't, well, humour them.
Pretty much, yes. I think that's what drove the decision to write a law criminalizing "attempts to avoid" rather than anything specific, but it doesn't actually avoid the paradox. It's a bit of a hazy crime, and one that should be probably only be pursued when there's outside evidence of guilt.

As far as I know, the floor is defined by either "this would be too inconvenient even for money launderers" or "the false positive rate is too high to pursue this more strictly".
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I don't know why you're so confident this is settled. Clearly, at the extreme, someone who receives no education at all is going to be extremely hobbled in a modern society no matter how intelligent he is. At the other extreme, the best education in the world won't turn someone suffering from severe intellectual disability into a genius. But there is a large range between these and it is not really so clear, to me, that the balance is tipped so heavily in favor of genetics.
This I think is Google's Android based solution challenging the all encompassing messaging apps(Wechat,kik) and Chrome Apps(Flipkart Lite). Honestly I think the android ecosystem is fragmented enough .Enabling more modularized formats would (in my opinion) make it worse.
I wonder if this would affect the number of installs and how this would affect popularity on the app store.
I have been an android developer for 3 years.And right now I question myself that why would you need android apps in itself if you could have a well developed browser based ecosystem(permissions/push notifications and all that jazz) ,why would you need Android apps.

Currently I view Android apps as the desktop apps equivalent in other systems.

PS:I agree with offline apps like readers/games etc.Online apps whose complete dependence is on APIs.I cannot understand the need for that.
Weird title as Git and ZFS are used for completely different reasons but I love ZFS as well and the article highlighted some of the finer details which was great.
And a password can change. If someone works out how to mimic my biometrics, what do I do?
I disagree. Imho all you need is the intention to do harm.
Peer influence as a major component of environment barely even gets acknowledged.
It'd at least give Amazon a more compelling reason to charge 300 dollars for their top Kindle.
Oh, they sure do. Just a few years back the company behind mapy.cz had a majority share in search in Czech Republic. Somewhat of a rarity in Europe, maybe even (latin writing) world. Google ads were everywhere - radio, tv, billboards, etc... not to mention online.
Surprised they didn't develop something like this earlier, as part of their rebrand (when they significantly redesigned the website and app.)
It'd be interesting if there were a party with a JailBroken iPhone and the Facebook App installed who would check the network traffic.
Mainly because it has a benevolent dictator, which creates very different dynamics (for good or ill)
How many young people now are willing to work at a crappy job and live with 4-5 roommates in a crappy house just to be independent?

How many are deep in debt with college degrees in a useless field?

How many of their parents now allow their GF/BF sleep over, tolerate drinking and drug use etc.?

How many require their adult children to pay rent or other expenses?

I think there are many more factors than just the economy causing this trend.
> Rather than giving a binary answer, as a password does, the API can hand over a score to indicate how confident it is that you really are you

Helpful of them to give everybody trying to break this a measure of how well they are doing. Much easier to optimize against than a binary succeed/fail.
What was the point of this whole exercise?

Patents.

Microsoft make more money from the Android than Google ...
Every man in Japan carries a small towel. I always think of Douglas Adams.
Absolutely. It's also good for production. This feature saved my butt once when I upgraded a postgresql 8.3 server to 8.4 on a Sun 4500 not realizing that the new server was compiled with a different timestamp format then the old one was (8 byte integers vs double precision floats). Thanks to ZFS I was able to trivially roll back the update.
It's so when they kill it there are fewer people to complain
Good news for OpenStreetMap, as well. And a good illustration of why it is an important project.
The argument is made best by this blog post by bunnie, backed up with real data and realistic projections.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1927
Branches and tags are just snapshots and clones? This actually looks more like Subversion than git, together with the challenges with managing merges that this model brings.
For what it's worth, In the Marshmallow Test book, the author mentions that prior to the test, the experimenter spent 15 minutes interacting with the child to build trust. They gave the child a bell, and the researcher would explain that if the researcher left the room, the child could ding the bell to bring the researcher back. They'd do a few iterations of this, with the researcher promptly rushing back each time, in order to build trust.

Perhaps not a complete solution, but the problem was at least addressed.
Our experience with iSCSI hasn't been very good; its use is limited to some dev ESX systems. Our DBAs prefer to perform cold backups that we backup with traditional tools (Avamar).
The wife and I both had one, I moved to an iPhone (iOS developer, perk from work, woo!) and she's still on the Lumia she had. She's switching as soon as her upgrade is ready. She actually doesn't mind the Store being so lacking (though it's not a selling point for her) but her phone is pure garbage. The thing loses charge inside of 11 hours, after the last software update the camera is crap, and her speaker has gotten progressively quieter over the year and a half or so she's had the thing, which is a problem because she doesn't have great hearing.
Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested this person as a friend.

The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of time.

It would be interesting if someone at Facebook could provide some insight into this.
But Nokia kept the patents, Microsoft only licensed them for a period of time...
That can't be it, we're still here. Quit guessing! ;-)
Those tens of billions of dollars investments baffle me. I'm relatively well-versed in technologies involved as well as their r&d efforts, I understand construction parameters for fabs.. but I still can't understand how can setting up a production process cost such an extraordinary amount of cash.

Also makes me think are chips (any smaller transistor scale, for arbitrary amount of small) out of reach for DIY fabrications and smaller startups?

edit: I did stumble upon few youtubers doing their own chips with vacuum plasma chambers and DIY lithography and whatnots. It strikes me odd that there aren't more of 'hack' attempts at DIY chips. FPGAs and software is all fine and dandy, but this really seems like a fun and great challenge.
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I guess it is about time I stop making my hobby coding portable between WP and Android, focusing just on Android.

Sad, because WP is actually much better from tooling and architecture point of view, but the way the whole WP 7, WP 8, WP 8.1 and the yet to become stable WP 10, just drove everyone off.

Personally I was kind of pissed off, when the 512 MB devices were left out of the last preview update.

Also it was the only viable alternative to Android, on the countries where iOS devices are seen as too expensive, specially the ones where devices aren't subsidized.
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This is interesting, especially this part:

> you must also publicly release any code that connects to an AGPL piece of software over a network. I fear the day that an HTTP server is built using AGPL. Think about it.

I don't think this is true, which part of the AGPL license implies that? It is my understanding that AGPL means that even if you don't redistribute the software with that license - you still need to put the sources online. Nothing about interaction of 3rd part software.

After all database servers are released under AGPL - like mongoDB among the popular ones.
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Isn't this a matter of interpretation?

One interpretation I've seen is that there are 4 Higgs bosons, three of which are "swallowed" by 3 of the the weak-force bosons which and become the W+ W- and Z. The remaining 4th Higgs boson (the 4th degree of freedom of the Higgs field) is what we can see, together with the 4th weak-force boson, the photon, which remains massless.

So I think it's reasonable to consider that the Higgs boson belongs to the weak force.
But we can be more sure of things that are less shakeable. Additionally, these techniques sometimes give us more effective proofs: for example, if we know that A is true, that is less useful than knowing that A is true and that we can find a finite certificate of its truth. We can make computers verify finite certificates, for instance.

A useful distinction to have in mind is: I know that the number 91 must have prime factors, because I can prove that all numbers have prime factors. But that's much less useful than knowing that its prime factors are 7 and 13. Similarly, if I could prove A using infinitistic methods, that's in some sense "a bit less useful" than a proof which uses finitistic and/or constructive methods.
Engineers just smashed wireless speeds of 6 Gbps in the real world
headline had me thinking -- Waterworld?
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