skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been people living "off grid" and being apart of the community for decades. At the same time, there are people here who are addicts living in their vehicles who also commit crimes/prey on neighborhoods. For those people, neighbors aren't putting up with it.

That said, the community also seems to be getting different treatment from the Coastal Commission as mentioned here:

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/government-and-politics/201...
The AVR cpu at the core of the Arduino uses a (modified) Harvard architecture., which separates code from data memory. A key feature of lisp of that code IS data. How does uLisp bridge the contradiction?
You'll need a citation for that. If you're talking about this exchange: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-releases-more-c..., it was sent securely in the end, not over email. Also no part of that exchange indicates the material was classified.
Toy Story 3 for me since the summer I saw it for the first time was the summer before my freshman year of college and consequently moving out.

I had some tears that time. Occasionally movies make me feel emotion, but not quite to tearing level.
OpenBSD has ROP, SROP mitigations, everything is compiled PIE. Even invented a static PIE variant for single-user and install media.
Presumably that's why GCC, JDK, Mono, Chrome, etc are all in violation? Modifying your JIT to flip-flop between 'W' and 'X' seems like the naive fix but I imagine it ruins whatever hotspot tracing that may also be local to the JITted code.
I'll just be here with my popcorn as this plays out :-D
No it is mandatory, hence the penalty for not having it.
My point is, ICBM hyperbole aside, it's going to be very easy for Clinton to claim that she did not know something was classified if indeed it was not officially classified at the time, and only reclassified later. A suspicion that she might be guilty is not going to cut in the courts.

> Some of her email contained information that she got from other government agencies; she knew it was classified and had no authority to declassify it. Some of her email actually was marked classified; we can assume she believed it to be classified. There is even a lovely case where she tells a subordinate to REMOVE THE MARKINGS and then send insecurely.

You'll need citations for these claims. Nothing I've read indicates any of that is true. The last example proves nothing because 1) the subordinate sent the material by secure fax in the end after all, and 2) there is no indication it was classified (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-releases-more-c...).
This rhetoric in this reply is implying that you may be skeptical that white people are as valuable and capable at basketball as the majority black player population. Please reconsider.
Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL
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Seconded. I paid a ~$450 penalty for not having health insurance for calendar year 2015. The very cheapest health plan in my ZIP is $1,932 a year. It has a $5,000 deductible, $300 emergency room copay, $25 primary care co-pay... basically it's just as bad as no health insurance at all. Why spend the $1,500 extra?
Is tptacek in the crypo community? Why should I rely on his/her evaluation more than its parent comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472468

As most of you know, this guy's career is very interesting. Every few years he's stepped up to another level of thinking, a higher, more abstract viewpoint of the world. It's natural for people to learn and abstract, but he does so much of it.
Introducing Agua Points App
He… Probably didn't really do all of those things.
Yeah, surprised that is just getting posted for the first time here.
I feel like this happens pretty often with rewrites. Up to the very end, you feel like you're doing great. You've written 90% of the original functionality in 10% of the code. Then you try to fill in the last 10%, and end up back where you started (with slightly better/more logical code).
Yeah, that "significant difference" is what I'm interested in. There seems to be some underlying principle that we'll ask you to put your property & other tenants' lives at risk in the service of Ending Discrimination, but not your own, as long as you're "Mrs Murphy"ing it and your house doesn't have more than 4 rooms, after which point you can afford to hire a super to deal with the people the law previously allowed you to exclude.

Is that an accurate assessment of the logic, or is there a more charitable explanation?
DeepMovie: Using Optical Flow and Deep Neural Networks to Stylize Movies [pdf]
Is hedonistic happiness actual happiness? Philosophers have been discussing this for a very long time. You should consider this in your 'analysis'.

> Why are progressive politics are such an engine of grief?

Nice loaded question.
This is a very useful walkthrough.

Some links for those who are also interested in "Thinking in React" in a more conceptual way (#4 is a presentation from the same person who wrote the walkthrough):

1) React — Basic Theoretical Concepts: “A description of the conceptual model of React without implementation burden.” https://github.com/reactjs/react-basic

2) Pure UI: “A lot has been written about the merits of React as a framework. Today I’m compelled to write about the benefits of a programming model it enables and its implications to the design and creation workflow." http://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui/

3) Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome: “I’m mostly concerned with the core problems of data binding and componentizing UIs. After much research and usage of the technologies mentioned above, I found React to provide the best solution.” http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...

4) Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices (youtube): “building views with JavaScript, ‘re-​rendering’ your entire application when your data changes, and a lightweight implementation of the DOM and events.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY

5) Nothing new in React and Flux except one thing: “What is it that makes React so innovative and compelling?… The Virtual DOM allows us to convert a mutable retained mode graphics API to an immutable functional immediate mode API.” http://staltz.com/nothing-new-in-react-and-flux-except-one-t...

(I collected them to go along with something I wrote in the same vein: https://medium.com/@firasd/interface-from-data-using-react-t...)
It's probably the first patent, which seems to cover... a ton of things. Seems like the first patent could potentially cover everything from MPTCP to VPNs to any P2P network to BitTorrent to certain IPv6 transition mechanisms to certain kinds of MPLS routing to...

There is almost certainly prior art, but it can be very hard to challenge a patent if the troll has already notched a few victories.

If that patent really is this broad then its very very dangerous to the Internet. It could in theory shut down dozens and dozens of things, including some very fundamental ones that are core parts of Internet infrastructure.
I'm not sure how you get from, "this is a difficult problem that won't be solved soon", to, "throwing money at this problem is pointless". It seems like the best way to solve problems is not to give up, but to keep the people who are trying to fix it well funded.

Does he just want a more dourer PR campaign? I suppose "We probably won't cure cancer, but, I guess this is better than nothing" would be more realistic.
Irony #1: this article is itself paywalled.

Irony #2: they actually use "paywall" as a term in the resulting URL (subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?prompt=1&promo=digital03_paywall...)
Now that GH has added all this stuff in, what's missing?

This feature is not as big as all the other ones, but it's a nice improvement.
PyContracts: declare constraints on function parameters and return values
When I read words like "conspiracy theorist", "ton", "useless", I don't see something persuasive - hyperbole isn't persuasive, it doesn't inform the reader - it just communicates the writer's strength of emotion.

So why create an account to say that? Why do you feel so strongly about Schneier?
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

Ahem. No, it's just your flawed legal idea that's falling. Code is still totally copyrightable, and not takeable under "fair use" (unless it's a very small amount), but using APIs is fair use.

API != implementation. Is that so hard to understand?
It's so satisfying watching them get their just desserts after betraying their Kickstarter backers by taking the Facebook money and then going back on all their words about keeping the platform free for everybody. Meanwhile that acquisition kicked off a race among the other big players which Valve appears to be winning while having the best features. I mean, Valve isn't perfect, but they're a lot better than Facebook. Things seem to have worked out for the best for once.
The Wii was Nintendo's most successful console, selling over 100 million units.

Like you said, Microsoft and Sony both introduced motion controllers for their consoles. The Kinect was the fastest selling consumer electronics device.

Source: http://nintendoenthusiast.com/article/the-false-success-of-t...
Well in the article it stated that "Siri brings in 1 billion queries per week from users" so that's nothing to sneeze at. But the real challenge is the majority of those queries are probably pretty simple queries that Siri doesn't/can't learn from - she already answers them fine. You need alternative data sets (such as the one generated by mechanical turk) to really learn anything new.

But datasets are only 1 part of the problem - innovate, sophisticated and tuned approaches to solving these problems often make the difference.
I am going to go against the grain of the usual sympathetic responses to this type of articles, and I am going to say that this is a case of pernicious and pointless casuistry. Apparently, this now passes for some kind of deep thought on the human condition.

Well of course any medical treatment for anything just leads to more medical treatment in the future; that's not a profound statement, not as long as people are mortal. And it's not limited to cancer. It used to be, in the bad old days, that some people became almost completely bedridden as their joints gave out, and then either died early or wished they did; now we have arthritis medications and joint replacement surgeries that let many of them (not all, but very many) enjoy decades of their retirements. Does this lessen the need for future orthopedic treatment? Obviously not, since it extends their lives and keeps them on their feet long enough to develop other joint problems. Does that make orthopedics and rheumatology pointless? As someone who needed the intervention of rheumatologists, I assure you that it doesn't.

In the case of cancer, nobody believes that one can make people live forever by curing their cancers; of course, they will live long enough to die of something, maybe even another cancer. Still, I personally know people in their 70s and 80s who would have been dead and buried 20 years ago if it wasn't for cancer treatment; and the idea of the "cancer moonshot" is to give the same chance to a lot more people. I came home today after visiting a very dear friend whose cancer is, with the current level of medicine, close to untreatable. Will she live forever if some treatment is developed for it? Well of course not. Would it be worthwhile to change the several months that she has left to live into several years? Of course, and yes, it would mean that she would require more cancer treatment, not less.

We can debate if the "moonshot" model is right for cancer (personally, I think it has merits), but these pseudo-profound dismissals of medicine are simply vulgar and annoying.
additional benefit of inflation: it makes existing debts easier to pay as time goes on, thus reducing the probability of a default (or a large collection of simultaneous defaults). that is, a small positive inflation rate is good because it means we aren't having deflation, which makes debt harder to pay off.
They never said "As long as resource scarcity exists otherness is inevitable.", they specifically mentioned race.

I don't believe 'racism' in the traditional sense (especially institutional racism) is inevitable at all. Sure you can change the argument and argue about a different thing, but we are specifically talking about race here.
Most western interest rates are very close to zero or even below. I guess that in Zimbabwe you would get reasonable nominal interest rates but there are some other issues that make it uninteresting for most investors.
why is 3% for 10 years 26%?
You are right, I used a cat, not a pony.
And if there was a Scottish, Welsh, and Irish league right next door of roughly (though not quite completely) equivalent stature.
Thanks for responding. Why be "actively skeptical of open data requirements"? From the outside, they seem to have very little downside and occasionally valuable benefits. As always, I suspect the outsider is blind to some important issues.
This is awesome! There's a lot of interesting things that can be done with just the level of sequence generation AI we currently have, transforming the real data into a format for it is the most difficult part, I think.

This similar project from a few months ago does Mario level generation and discusses the training data sequence creation in greater detail: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-2-...
> tens if not hundreds of millions

You sure the word "millions" was meant to be there? ;)

Anyone who's using the same password for MySpace and their email and bank hasn't changed their passwords in a decade.
> Recently Elsevier contracted top logicians to produce a Handbook in the History of Logic. It runs to 11 volumes, each volume north of $300. So folks, if you want to get acquainted with the complete history of what is supposed to be a formalisation of rational thought it can be yours for $3,300 or thereabouts.

Unless you're leaving out important details, that strikes me as a completely reasonable and uncontroversial thing for Elsevier to do. If they're going privately fund the creation of an original specialist work, I think they can charge whatever they want for it. That's worlds away from how they they've subverted the primary scientific publishing process for private profit.
I think you may not grasp how many thousands of engineers Facebook employs at this point. It is literally easier and less risky for them to assemble a 5-10 person team to fix Hg than to fix the code of thousands of other engineers.
tn13, see @justinlaing, above, in response to yompers888, as a start.

The City of Santa Cruz has ~62,000 people, as of 2013. [1] A 2013 boosterism whitepaper, "Broadband Infrastructure in the Monterey Bay Region" [2] [note: published by an investor; salt ready (?)] describes some of the then-current issues experienced with larger broadband providers, which include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and/or Charter Communications, depending on where you live in the greater Monterey Bay area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California

[2] http://www.tellusventure.com/downloads/ccbc/Broadband_Infras...
I'm seriously looking this place up on Wikipedia.org. =)
This API is for physical PoS, where the user running the app is selling things, not buying digital things. That developer agreement doesn't apply.
Apple's Amazon Echo Killer to Feature Facial Recognition Cameras
I know people who have worked at Twitter. Twitter's systems cannot be run, even in maintenance mode, by only a few people on AWS. Not only would Twitter crash / crawl to a halt on AWS, but that's not even enough people.
KVO is horrendous. KVC is occasionally nice but often greatly overused. I certainly wouldn't miss either one.
Git could use inotify (Linux) or kevent (BSD) to monitor for file changes in the background. It's not a limitation of the format or workflow, just the current tools.
Even cooler, you can actually play the AI-generated level from that article if you have Super Mario Maker: https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/courses/4AC9-00...
BBC Food: Recipe for disaster
It means an attempt to do something so so impossibly difficult that you might as well be trying to boil the ocean. I believe a definition was linked to in the article.

I brought up the comparison because I've seen it in wayyyy too many tech articles lately.
Definitely interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019673	871 days ago - 241 comments
> it is to push people with money to spend it or risk loosing its value.

and yet, what these big, very smart companies are doing is not investing. they're just sitting on it.

it seems a positive inflation rate, as an economic growth strategy for a nation, can only do so much. it's also helpful if companies and investors actually see some enterprises or industries worth investing in, or worth creating from thin air, in the current economic environment.
Only if it's your last sheet. ;-)

I've been known to… Well, no one knows it, but I have anyway practice-written letters that, shall we say, have been important to me to get right, trying out leadings and line breaks many times before writing out the out final version.
I didn't say they would be exactly the same company. They would just be in the same position.
They're landing so many, pretty soon they are going to have to open up a used booster sales lot.

Speaking of which, when the first booster landed successfully, someone put up a gag Craigslist ad for a used booster ("only used once, excellent condition") but it got taken down quickly, unfortunately.
When the "boring" parts of programming can be automated, so can the "fun" parts, and AI will have "taken our jobs" just like they did down at the toothpaste factory. I'm not concerned about that. When it happens, that's fine by me. I have other skills to fall back on.
Twitter's Bug Bounty, 2 years in
Summarize:

- Acquihired VocalIQ

- Unreleased product

- Unnamed sources

- Uses machine learning via 10,000 data points from the Mechanical Turk of people asking questions to beat Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple.

I want to believe.
Frustrated, angry... same thing.

> The defining characteristic of transition from childhood is cognitive mastery over emotional whim.

Just because adults CAN suppress almost all emotional reactions doesn't mean that we should. Believing that certain emotional reactions should never be expressed, or that expressing them over 'trivialities' is bad, sounds like a very immature view of adulthood in my opinion. Shedding a tear when you are confronted with an image you find beautiful or poignant seems is one of the greatest things about being human. I'm only engaging in this conversation because engaging with my emotions rather than stifling them has been one of the most rewarding challenges of my life and required analyzinh a lot of my own programming. You have no idea what you're missing if you don't try.
This would make for an interesting derivation of the Turing test: can a player determine if a given level was created by a professional game designer or AI?
"All you have to do is look in the app store on your iPhone and you’ll find the Gabriel Collaboration Suite, a set of integrated applications that enable secure messaging, secure voice and video calling, secure mail and secure encrypted file sharing with any other device. We created and sell these products."

Sure I trust secure comms to a company with CIA involvement. I bet, those apps are closed source...
Valve doesn't publish figures on the number of Steam Links sold. But just look at the Steam Hardware Survey[1]. Valve recommends a quad-core PC to be used as the host[2]. But half of Windows users have two CPUs or fewer. The number jumps up to 64% when you look at OS X users. Meanwhile, the top 10 graphics cards are pretty well split betweel the latest NVIDIA cards and a bunch of Intel on-motherboard cards. I don't think the sort of enthusiast that buys a Steam Link is anywhere close to the bulk of Steam's audience; there are a lot of people who are playing games on laptops, not gaming laptops but just laptops.

1) http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/
2) https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3629-RIA...
The ability to delete issues.
The Tech Boom’s Second Cities
Of course, but if it's possible in one mammal, there's no real reason why it shouldn't be possible in another. I highly doubt that our vulnerability to cancer is somehow intrinsic to what makes us human.

This is obviously far off, but genetic modification opens up a whole new world of possibilities.
Yes, that why I said "Ban wealthy people from financing lawsuits? That's never going to happen."

Reinstitution of maintenance/champerty laws will never politically happen. It means banning donations to the ACLU or EFF or NRA or union legal fund, etc. Good luck with that politically.
Assuming they're being racist when we're not given all the details and facts of the situation just that he applied as a black guy and then again as a white (person) and suddenly the owner is racist? Yeah alright.

If the person is going to complain and pull the race card on a public forum in an attempt to disparage a largely successful company then they deserve to be scrutinized.

If he provided details saying he had similar reviews to his white friend that applied, and didn't message her TWO times without a response (making it seem like he REALLY wants the place for several days) then i'd be more like ok ya she's being racist kind of unreasonably so.
Nothing official. This is based on comments (at Ars, I think) from people who studied the pictures closely.

According to the latest Musk tweets today's rocket was actually somewhat damaged in the landing - the scrificial "crush core" was, well, crushed.
I can't think of Harvey without thinking "Crichton!"

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/farscape/images/b/bd/Har...
Yes, her situation is comparable to her husband's impeachment. It's 100% politically motivated.
We all owe something to the API evangelist
You're thinking 3% of the original amount, rather than 3% of the remaining amount. If you pay 3% then 97% remains. 0.97^10≃0.74, meaning that you've lost 26%.
Does square have a way to handle subscriptions yet? Seems to be the only thing they are missing
Seems like your average tech jury member is still suspicious of running water, and sure as hell doesn't have a smartphone
Does it fit a child properly? I have been planning on getting one for the kids, but I read several complaints that it takes some work to to get a good fit on an adult, let alone a child, plus the fact that it seems very front-heavy.

I don't doubt that it will get a lot of play from the novelty factor alone, but I remain sceptical that it will make sedentary gamers change their habits in the long term.
I guess "artificial reality" refers to this?

https://vimeo.com/166807261
So the author of the article is a male -> female transsexual undergoing hormone treatment?
On the flip side of editing it makes locking binary files trivial which is something Git and Mercurial fail at spectacularly(since the are intrinsically DVCS).
porn?
Finally, Private Unemployment Insurance. But Will Anyone Buy It?
when are they going to perform a launch with a recycled booster?
Congratulations, you have found the most ugly Lisp code ever.

> so I can't judge whether the author of this code actually knows what they're doing

Not really. He can't even format the code.

For example from that blog post:

(defun return_highers_helper (list element result)

(cond

((null list) result)

((equalp (first element) (first (first list)))

(cond

((< (rest element) (rest(car list))) (return_highers_helper (cdr list) element (cons (car list) result)))

(t (return_highers_helper (cdr list) element result))

))

(t (return_highers_helper (cdr list) element result))

))

This would be written usually as:

(defun %return-highers (element list)
(remove-if-not (lambda (item)
(and (equalp (car element) (car item))
(< (cdr element) (cdr item))))
list))