skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize if I am being dense but this is such a strange position to me that I do not understand how you could arrive at this conclusion. I am genuinely interested in understanding what is that I am missing.

"War" seems to be a distinctly societal enterprise; this societal component is so important that it does not make sense to think about it on an individual level. If you do approach "war" at the individual level how do you distinguish it from simply carrying out violence? I also have trouble with the notion that someone is better equipped to identify and assess moral principles and ideals (I dont think it matters if you are a universalist or relativist here) simply because of one's participation in and proximity to combat. Is a mercenary as credible as someone that was motivated by political idealism? Bloodlust? The simple desire to avoid a prison sentence? What do you do with the devout Quaker who would rather be incarcerated than violate their commitment to pacifism? In general how does someone establish there bona fides for the identification and characterization of moral principles and ideals?

On an entirely separate note: I don't care if Chesty Puller or Audie Murphy show up; I think it is absurd for anyone to maintain that Karl Malantes' writing is based on the assumption that war is inherently noble.
Consciousness is no bright line rule. Humans like to believe that we are on one side of a great divide between conscious and unconscious animals. But all there is is a gradient between us and the bacteria, with infinite stops in between.

The interesting twist in Enders Game (and other scifi) is that the alien invaders do not understand humans as conscious beings. I see no reason to believe that there aren't beings on earth, animals, who are farther up the spectrum than we. There are some very large brains out there that we do not understand.
For me a lot comes down to the tooling.

* How do I start a new project

* How do I build/test/cross compile the project

* How do I add dependencies and optionally vendor them

If someone could 'reboot' c++ so it ships a decent standard library and update the tooling to work something like go or rust I'd be interested.

One of the projects I've been working on in go parses some csv files, stores the data in a sql database and presents a simple http json rest api. Could I write this in c++? yes. Do I know how to do all the bullshit needed to get a c++ project going that includes csv+sql+json+http libraries? no.
One word: friction.
I still don't understand the draw of either of them, but obviously they're wildly popular for some reason, so bully for them. If I want to start a conversation with someone I call them up or E-mail them. I don't need to download some mobile app or to log in to some 3rd party service to do either of these. You can even send pictures through E-mail and delete them in 24 hours if you want.

How in the world did humanity keep in touch with their family before Snapchat?
That seems downright nuanced for Chomsky talking about language. Did he really say this?

Chomsky considers language to be a thing that physically evolved in humans. Are eyes an emergent property?
pictures and videos are more expressive than words
You can tell who grew up in the XHTML era rather than SGML or HTML5.
Weight is only one dimensional though, so you'll have more collisions. If two people happen to weigh about the same, then your weight sensor is useless and your driving analysis is not.
What if it turns out that people who take corners faster make fewer claims?
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I like garden path sentences in my Joyce, but keep them off HN, please.
Ask HN: Compiler frameworks for AST Transformations?
Are there any compiler frameworks that tools to parse code (C/C++ at a minimum), and analyse, transform, and manipulate the AST?

We've been using the Rose compiler framework (http://rosecompiler.org/) in our group for some time.
However, it's not my favorite and I'd like to use an alternative.

I've been wondering if there was something similar that was better maintained and supported.
LLVM seems like an obvious choice, but it's too low level to be really effective.
We would end up writing a lot more analysis to discover things that are obvious at high-level representations ("Is that a for loop?").

Looking for something:
1) very accessible; other people should be able to build and use my transformations with relative ease.
2) well documented; no mysterious functions and types that I have to use.
3) easy-to-use/intuitive (for compiler writers).

Thanks!
It's interesting - I just became aware of some work Suleiman Bakhit has been doing in order to understand and combat (by way of providing an alternative) to the typical ISIS extremist propaganda. He has some very interesting points about narrative and mythology. I find it fascinating that he got beat up in the US after 9/11 for being Muslim, and attacked by extremists in Jordan, for trying to fight extremism. Some information in the text, but I strongly recommend the linked youtube video of the (brief) talk: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/suleiman-bakhit-comics

Looking at the US from abroad, it is frightening to see a nation recruiting a lot of its poor and poorly educated into the biggest war machine the world has seen, under blatantly false premises and justifying its operations with obviously false narratives. It is especially heartbreaking once one becomes aware of the rich academic and philosophical tradition the US also has.

Not that Europe hasn't abused many of its young people over the recent years, in illegal and terrible wars that history will probably look back on in horror. But for better or worse, nothing really compares in scale to the recent US war effort.
This is a tech site. Is it any surprise that there aren't a lot of discussions about getting men into macrame? There are no discussions of macrame, period, on HN. More's the pity -- it involves lots of cool knots. But somehow on a tech site it's just not of primary interest.

Nursing is brought up on everyone of these threads about gender, though. I haven't yet built the threatened autoposter about efforts to get men into nursing and the premium that men in nursing are paid over women in nursing, but both of those are well-documented.
Suppose I'm a user whose information was disclosed by Yahoo! under these illegal requests. Would I have standing against Yahoo!? What about against the U.S. government?
Personal attacks are not welcome here.

And as a big fan of Common Lisp, I have to say, this is the kind of evangelism we don't need. (Well, the list of libraries is nice, but the bigotry we can definitely do without. It is possible to express strong opinions without calling others ignorant, or worse.)
Really cool idea / site.

Most startups / side projects these days seem to use a cloud hosting service... But you're project is meant to work especially when the cloud hosting providers are down.

Where are you hosted? Or do you host on multiple services?
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Am I the only person who finds a huge amount of my Instagram (60%+) clicks and likes is really automated spam bots? I really feel like the service is particularly prone to it...not that Twitter and BookFace aren't also...
TrustZone is basically the name for the ring -1/hypervisor access level for ARM CPUs, not a separate "engine" or product. It can be used to run and isolate code at a higher privilege level than an operating system eg. for DRM.
I'm not sure exactly what was originally meant, I interpreted it as how currently dynamic linking is the norm, is used in every mainstream OS and most the applications run on them, and all the major mobile platforms. If we had to make a choice right now without the history of dynamic linking behind us, would we still choose to use it for the majority of platforms?
Was an Ex Ebay'r founded startup tried to recruit me. The mouse movement was part of their security product. Not sure what else they were doing or what happened to them.
>But sometimes making room for minority viewpoints/culture/attitudes is worth interrupting the all-consuming capitalist neoliberal worldview for a moment, if just long enough to allow someone to point out its many flaws.

So affirmative action for ideas? If you can't win, maybe you can win by forcing people to listen to you?
Wish I could locate the article but I just saw a quote that only 37% of companies going public had ever accepted venture capital. Now they did say those that did accept VC money got there three times as fast.

I know it's a lot more common for tech companies to take venture capital but there are plenty who do not.
>I'd love to be rewarded for actually being a good driver. Rather than being lumped in with bad drivers who have a high chance of being in $50k accidents, which everyone has to collectively pay for.

The whole point of insurance is not to lump you into good driver / bad driver categories. If you make bad drivers consistently pay for accidents, then you might as well not have insurance at all, and you'll pay perfectly in direct proportion to the accidents you are involved in.

Insurance adds fuzziness to the otherwise "perfectly rational" outcome because people that do not behave rationally with respect to accident avoidance and financial planning will be at a severe survival and status disadvantage to those who do. It's like putting safeties on guns to prevent careless people from shooting people or getting shot. It makes the world more forgiving of individual mistakes at public cost.
Most of these anecdotes are from women at big 4 companies.
It's far from useless, it limits the pool of candidates to two. Far easier to distinguish two drivers from each other than fifteen.
It's not just mobile either. The original Titan card released in early 2013 has much higher FP64 performance than any later Nvidia card.
"In 2008, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the FBI was only entitled to get the name, address, length of service, and toll billing records from companies without a warrant. Opinions issued by the OLC are generally treated as binding and final within the executive branch."

"The FBI has said it disagrees with that conclusion, and interprets the opinion differently, according to a 2014 inspector general report. It sees the question as more of an “impasse” than an actual legal barrier."

It's madness to me that the FBI can just say "na, we see it differently" and until the Supreme Court tells them to stop (and even then?) they'll do whatever they want.
> The math is a little fuzzy

The math is off, mathattack.

Growing by $5m a year on $100M (5%) doesn't mean you'll grow by $25m a year on $120M (20.8%).

You make the good point though that raising the growth rate from 5% to 6% would make a difference.
Yes, but the only way you get a number not divisible by 15 is if, for some number of given drivers, it must have been correct for some trips but incorrect for others. I would not consider those drivers to be "successfully identified". Remember, the goal of this is to isolate individual drivers.
There are many interesting lines of reasoning around this. The idea of Gaia as a concious system is one. If the earth thinks at the speed of one thought every year, or 100 years -- and perhaps communicates with other such beings -- how would we know? (I don't have strong feelings about concrete ideas about Gaia as a concious system, one way or the other -- other than that I find it an interesting idea, and a good storytelling tool)
What is the business model behind your question?
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I wonder if the project name for win10 was shoehorn.
It's already a product.

https://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot/

(among others)
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Only me. And given how buggy-as-all-hell the Ford software is for driver displays/interfaces, I wouldn't let it drive itself either.
Agree, Skylon wont fly. The engineering is real sexy but it wont get funded.
My own car is not going to be snooping on me even if it means getting under the hood with a pair of wire clippers and bootleg ROMs.
You generally can't sue the government unless it lets you. Sovereign immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#United_Stat...
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There are plenty of outreach efforts in the US targeted at students who might not get exposed to coding in school. I guess I wouldn't consider them special victim treatment; after all, golf and tennis also have outreach efforts to communities that don't have golf and tennis in school. Is that special victim treatment? It is often framed as charity as well as a way to popularize the activity in question.

Should all attempts to expose people to coding cease? Or are they ok if we only target people like those currently in the industry, perpetuating the status quo of 2016 but not 1984?

I notice you ignore the "welcoming atmosphere" part of the parent.
In the US, car insurance gives discounts for all sorts of things and charges bad (really, high risk) drivers more. For example:

https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/auto/resources/high-risk...
It's just a macro. It's pretty much exactly like a #define in C
Or what about if the people who take corners.faster make LESS claims?

PS: not trying to defend aggressive driving, I'm not an agresive driver, just saying it'd be interesting if a lot of our assumptions were thrown out the window with that data.
You're right, dichotomy implies sets are mutually exclusive. "Jointly exhaustive" is the phrase I was looking for.
Reversing the genders is not totally changing the context. It just shows that it is discrimination based on gender.
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Oh, sorry, but I don't give a shit.
Lisp is anti-semitic.

Who knew?
Presenting the evidence to help people come to their own conclusions can be more effective than hitting them over the head with a hammer.

My point was ambiguous to begin with: yes, Uber might very well grow to a trillion USD in valuation, but doing so would give it twice the market cap of any other company so far.

Nuances are important.
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Both are crap. For one, neither has a UI instruction area. I get that you want to create a UI that doesn't require instructions, but why does that prevent you from making an instruction regardless?
We've tried to make sure the host and clients don't completely trust our cloud servers. For example the "Jump Desktop Connect" app on the host always requires credentials for a valid local account on the computer before it allows incoming connections through. It won't let accounts with blank passwords through. Also the credential transfer always happens over an end-to-end encrypted connection between the two devices - which means our cloud servers don't get to see or have access to your local computer's creds. This way, if someone gets a hold of your Jump Desktop account, they won't be able to get through unless they also know your local computer's creds.

Another way we protect hosts is by not allowing random hosts and clients to communicate with each other unless you've given explicit permission to each host/client. This means that Bob can't load up the Jump Desktop client and try to randomly brute force Alice's local account password by trying to connect repeatedly. The cloud server will drop Bob's connection requests to Alice unless Alice has explicitly given Bob permission to connect.

The above applies to our zero setup app, Jump Desktop Connect. Jump Desktop is also a full blown RDP and VNC client (with SSH support) - so you don't really have to use the Jump Desktop Connect app if you don't want to. You can use traditional RDP / VNC-over-SSH to establish secure connections as well.
Very good article. I also enjoyed the inclusion of a demo reel to break it up a bit so it's not all just text.
I don't think Flickr had any interest in becoming yet another gallery app. It always marketed itself as a place of photography with above average content from professional and hobbyist photographers. As a photographer who uses Flickr I'd almost guarantee that if Flickr put emphasis on mobile photography a lot of DSLR and Analog users would leave. I sure would.
You may have literally never looked because it's really easy to find those studies on google.
Probably not. From what I understand facial recognition software relies heavily on things you can't change, like the distance between your pupils and the ratio of your facial features to each other. You can certainly obscure your face, but if you were forced to remove sunglasses and such, say, at a security checkpoint you'd probably get ID'd.
And the article points out that they can already distinguish drivers with 90% accuracy based on the throttle sensor alone after 15 minutes of sampling. With extra sensors or more time, they get much closer to 100%.

So yes, you(s) are all correct. With one sensor you get decent accuracy, with more you get improved accuracy.

Noting that these are forensic assessments, and thus useless for personalising car settings when a new driver gets into the vehicle.
Yes but the receiver of your email doesn't necessarily have to delete your email, which is the key distinction of what makes the service useful.
you've certainly mentioned some strong examples. However, it's not the same as real violence.

think of these two statements, jokes whatever you want to call it.

"what do you call a hundred thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start" A joke we've all heard.

Now, same joke 'What do you call a hundred thousand Jews at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

Now which one is hate speech? Both? None? Should history be the only basis for whether jokes are permitted or not? What about who delivers it and why?

I'm not asking you to really answer me here, but it's worth thinking about. And I think platforms banning language simply will get it wrong. Human mods will get it wrong, computer mods will get it wrong.

Again, I'm going to go to the platforms where speech is allowed because of the nuance of humor, of conversation. And especially where personal experience is valid even when it appears biased or hateful.
What's the difference between your comment's "LESS" and its parent's "fewer"?
It is changing the context. I don't know if you know this, but there are a lot of existing gender-based influences in the world already, they aren't inventing the concept.
These different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to.

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The whole point of insurance is to make you pay for the risks you take, and not for when you get lucky/unlucky.

That we often lump people together is just one implementation of insurance. But not a necessary feature. Otherwise, there would be no insurance for one-off events---but that happens all the time.

There's nothing inherently 'social' about insurance.

See eg http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/03/warr...
Oh...you think that stack ranking has anything to do with performance.
"Not a motorcycle. This is an electric bicycle. Forgetting the weight of the bike, that front brake isn't enough to properly handle the mass of a rider panic-braking at 100kph."

I don't how someone could objectively say this is not a motorcycle. Is acceleration or braking performance how we classify whether something is a motorcycle or not? I'm sure there have been 100's of thousands of "real" motorcycles produced with worse braking than the disk brakes on this one. Old motorcycles (and cars) are notorious for having poor braking performance. I doubt a 5" single-leading-shoe front brake with 60's technology pads would do better than this. Some people put even smaller front brakes on choppers in the 60's. And certain kinds of motorcycle racing doesn't even allow brakes.

Yeah, it uses many bicycle components. But I think people underestimate the amount of abuse a downhill bicycle is designed to take. It has a double triple clamp front fork with 35mm stanchions (fork tubes). Bad landings from a big jump would put way more energy into the fork than any normal street riding. If this were supposed to be an off-road motorcycle, I could understand the concerns. But for a street bike I wouldn't be at all afraid of riding it at 100 kph.

Are there any modern motorcycles that it can outperform? Maybe not, but with it's low mass I wouldn't be too sure. And I don't think that's relevant anyways. It's a motorized two-wheeled vehicle with no pedals. There aren't too many more classification requirements one could add. And without pedals, it's certainly not a bicycle.
Everyone except you and me is very and technical here :)
These different applications have varying uses. I think that Twitter is a great for setting up a news feeds from multiple sources (e.g. traditional news, bloggers, business professionals). While your Snapchat is great way to take a peek at what your friends are doing in a fun, non-intrusive, and quick manner. I'm not a power user of either applications, but I can see the varying purposes that they lend themselves to.

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When Marvin Minsky described one perspective on consciousness as "hey, we don't understand consciousness, and we don't understand gravity, maybe consciousness is made of gravity", I thought he was just mocking the ever-popular idea that "maybe consciousness is made of quantum mechanics".

I didn't know that there really was a prominent thinker who postulated gravity (and quantum mechanics) as the place where subjective consciousness is hiding.
The casual disregard with which the FBI has always treated the law is disgusting, and unfortunately, the true face of our country.
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yea i guess that's the joke. very specific hatred going on in that breakfast testicle
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I don't believe the application is in surveillance or tracking. It's just useful to know who is driving out of say a few people so you can adjust vehicle parameters to them.

Modern cars will already learn about driving characteristics so they can better manage the car to match, but I don't know if they try to match individuals.
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Obviously, you'd want to use some more (and more useful) features to calculate your price. (Otherwise, your insurance company will lose out to the competition that prices better. You overcharge low-risk drivers who will leave to a cheaper alternative for them, and are left with the high-risk drivers who cost you a lot.)

The area you are driving in is an obvious candidate. Or even the particular roads you are driving on at particular hours.
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Geography is already taken into account for insurance rates. Why would that cease to be the case with more information?
It's funny you should mention a photo example. Because I've actually seen many times where a terrible photo was used as humor, and it was funny. Dark humor doesn't mean hate speech. All the examples there, I can think of moments where it can work in a context of humor, depending on the delivery, the sender. The culture of the people doing the sharing. All things.
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It is an overreaction, but it's a common one. I'd like to believe it's all horror stories, but it's more than enough to create a chilling effect.