skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>no one has been able to show this external source.

For a start, look up Nihilism on Wikipedia or Moral Anti-realism on the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: this is why people are Nihilists and Anti-realists.

>>And I think he is wrong.

No surprise, you can't provide a source of objective morality that is Empirical/mundane/"scientifically-verifiable". You give no reason why Hume is wrong because you seem to still not grasp the reach of what he "postulates".

>>Is-Ought is only a problem if you chain yourself to the baseless idea…

Dismissing it while unable to give a coherent refutation shows it not to be baseless but painful perhaps.

>>Science can tell, empirically, what ought to be…it tells us with…evidence that [X: empirical fact]…thus we ought to [Y: behavior].

This presumes we ought to treat men a certain way. On what grounds should a human not murder another human? Because society will inflict a certain consequence? That's called Hypothetical Morality, and it falls under Moral Nonrealism. It can be ignored if one is willing to accept the consequence or can evade the consequence. Just because a neurobiologist says something on stage at TED does not make it the case. Though the Sam Harris fan club is often not capable of being persuaded otherwise.

>>medicine tells us objectibly that we ought not to vomit every day

Here you presume human health to be an ultimate good. We (hopefully obviously) can't reason "Humans like to practice violence therefore humans should continue to practice violence" and likewise we can't reason "Humans like to avoid vomiting therefore humans should avoid vomiting" as strange as that can at first sound.

>>You don’t know were morality came from, therefore god.

It's more an observation that our only options are

#1 Moral Realism (cannot be shown Empirically) / "Theism"/departure from Empiricism
#2 Moral Nonrealism / Atheism / Empiricism / Materialism

You have chosen the second camp and seem to dislike the logical conclusions that camp is forced with, namely in such a world nothing is truly Moral or Immoral. How anyone is unfamiliar with this very real dichotomy this far away from 1738 is a puzzle. And you are without grounds to declare that those who proclaim camp #1 are truly acting Immorally.
Seriously? This is hardly a security issue.
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I used to have a rule in my ad blocker that blocked the typing notification and read notification from being sent. Both of which are features that I despise

When typing a `POST https://www.facebook.com/ajax/messaging/typ.php?dpr=1` is sent for example.
I agree with you, and the only way to improve that is to invest more in "software" (in general), although things are moving slowly, yet they move.
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Removing the HSTS header won't help, as your browser will store this data, and IIRC it's not stored in cache, so clearing won't help.

You can however send the HSTS header with max-age=0 which will start clearing it for existing users
Does it interpret CSS's background-color as a single word? How about balance-amount, where the hyphen is used as a minus operator?
Life is too short for poor books :)

I couldn't vouch for the other topics but I can say that the section on Philosophy made me raise an eyebrow! Well, that and the section on Politics & Economy is obviously US/capitalist -centric but you know that. No Communist Manifesto? Really? :)

In case anyone happens to read the list you gave and also reads here, the following are not considered primary philosophical works:

The Passion of the Western Mind
by RICHARD TARNAS

Ascent of Man
by JACOB BRONOWSKI

Science and Sanity
by COUNT KORZYBSKI

Science is not Enough
by VANNEVAR BUSH

What I Believe
by MARK BOOTH (Ed)

Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind
by SHUNRYU SUZUKI

Also. While Plato's Republic is a master-work his Symposium far exceeds the Timeaus. Symposium (not Timeaus) is included in the brilliant _The Classics of Western Philosophy_ which is a decent source and one stop shop of Western Philosophical Works: http://www.hackettpublishing.com/classics-of-western-philoso....
Crimea was an "oblast" (or region) of Ukrainian SSR and the referendum was about re-establishing the Crimean Autonomous republic which was the case and was signed by Ukrainian SSR council: http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/712-12

During the separation of republics from USSR, Crimea stayed as a part of Ukraine (and voted for the independence of Ukraine, btw) which was a logical move in terms of infrastructure.
Would you also consider then:

_The Laws of Form_ by George Spencer Brown,

Anything about logic by Gotthard Günther :) (He's a rare bird.)

_Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living_ by Maturana and Varela

Anything by Niklass Luhmann about social systems: the economy, mass media, art, functional differentiation, … He was a student of Talcott Parsons

Norbert Wiener, _Cybernetics: Or Control And Communication in the Animal and the Machine_ and _The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society_

_An Introduction to Cybernetics_ by W. Ross Ashby

McCullogh and Pitts (You mention Minsky but not these dudes.) _A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity_

Basically, most of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberneticist

? :)
Me too! It was such amazing fun and we really believed we'd make it big time. We built "VR tours" to art cities in Italy. A few are still online: http://www.girareggio.it/ and http://www.comune.bologna.it/girabologna/ and sort of kinda working.
We used a Seitz Roundshot 220VR camera to take all the photos. Probably the weirdest camera I have ever used, quite special.
As you say, it soon became clear that Apple was not investing any effort in QTVR (or in QT in general tbh) and I remember struggling writing a QT C-extension for our PHP-based authoring env. Good times!
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The same thing has been possible with Pidgin for ages - it opened the chat window automatically when a contact started typing.
If by "well documented" you mean "lots of people have whinged about it at great length", then I guess you're right. It's also a "tried and tested" method, too, so it's got that going for it.

I think if you approach them correctly (like the author suggests), then actually they're fine for their intended use. (Not perfect, but this is the real world, nothing's perfect).

If you can't cope with scrawling some pseudocode on a whiteboard because that's "too much pressure" then you're going to really struggle when a deadline looms and we "absolutely must get this code out to the customer by Friday because a $50M contract is on the line."
Thank you.

From what I've read, the idea for The Whole Earth Catalog came to Stewart Brand during an acid trip, so I'm going to try my luck with a deeper question on the subject...

The counterculture and the "psychedelic revolution" of the '60s has been a subject I've been very interested in, especially its impact on technology and computing.

You were there, you saw it with your own eyes, you helped move technology forward with your mind, you worked with all kinds of experimenters and bearded geniuses..

Do you think that psychedelic drugs had a big impact on how technology (and society) has evolved since the '60 ?

The reason I'm asking this, is because these substances and practices are making a major come back, now globally, and I'm very curious about how this will impact our society in the future, given the radical changes apparently spawned in the short period that people explored them, before becoming illegal..
Used to? Did you stop or does it no longer work? Was it as easy as adding that URL to your ad blocker blacklist?
Fixed - at least in the teacher upstream source.
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I also want more digitalization, BUT. If this has to cost my own privacy then I would like to have the time to think about it. I would not like to see my personal/financial data online because a hacker found a hole in the system, or something like that.

Ah, and by the way, what people don't seem to understand is that it's also thanks to laws about privacy that Germany (and Europe in General) is funding more and more companies. People don't use Google Analytics due to that most of the time. Microsoft had to open a data center in Frankfurt, and so on, and so on. All this has diverse implications: hiring a company that keeps data in Germany. Who does it? German companies (or European companies). And money flows as it should. The country grows, people learn software, new jobs are created, and so on.

I would be not so hasty about changing privacy laws - they are there for a (good) reason (actually, more than one). Maybe in the next 10-15 years, when European (and German) software companies are more stable, then yes why not? But now, I am not so sure about it.
Nope.
Had a battery stat widget which I removed, now I have this calendar and all-in-one widgets which I basically never open, they just stand there for looks. Don't know many folks that use them.
>Candidates are requested to supply source code, from one large project, a week before the interview date

Not everyone is the author of a big OSS library. Lots of people do most of their coding as an employee and cannot legally show you their code. Hell, I cannot even discuss some of the more interesting challenges I faced because that would violate my NDA.
No. There have been a bunch of "leaks"/"dumps" claiming to be from Dropbox posted on pastebin for the last two years or so. Most are just rehashed from other pw dumps.

Troy hunt:
https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/599150465335431169

And this latest FUD came from leakedsource.com, who published a list that was claiming to be Dropbox usernames and hashes, but if they did their due diligence they would have notice that the list was in fact Tumblr. They issued a correction later:

https://twitter.com/LeakedSource/status/732225976210472961
The problem with all this "advices" is that they boil down to "just study".

I agree that been prepared for an interview is a good thing, if you are ready and have studied you show that you are willing and that you put in the effort.

But what about people that are currently working ?

You are trying to get the best programmer, and chances are is that the best programmers out there are currently working (minus a small percentages of great programmer that are in between jobs, or that spent the last period on consulting or personal projects) so you automatically put people that are currently working and can't prepare for the interview as well as the other at a disadvantage and those are the people that you are probably most interested in.

To me it seems that in this world the only interview process is solely targeted at young people fresh out of college.
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No reason at all this first game could not be created in HTML5 [0]

[0]: http://phoboslab.org/xtype/ http://zty.pe/

PS: somehow X-Type reminded me so much of rRootage :-D
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FUD is enough to control the rabble. Projects here are about funnelling money to family members. Lots of money will be spent, kickbacks will be received, and nothing will change significantly. Certainly nothing that would stop all the iPhone 6 status symbols from working or the elite will stomp all over it.
Edited. Good spot!
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Good for us that there is no such thing as closed source client side logic in web applications (without installing extensions/plugins). You can only obfuscate.
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Your edit is pretty much irrelevant - it could be applied to literally any example code anywhere. Unless mentioned otherwise you should assume that all variables are thread-local.
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Quicktime still is the standard in professional video. Everybody uses QuickTime and Apple prores codecs.
I so want to use them but I haven't found any good reason yet.

What I have used instead (but not much ) is the OneNote badge. It works kind of like Facebook "conversation bubbles", giving me a shortcut to OneNote from any app.
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I've started using a bundled app for messenger.com so haven't looked into blocking them for that. Also use the mobile Messenger app a fair bit.

I'd like to switch away from the Facebook platform, but it's seriously difficult to convert people away from it.
Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor, said: "...the Privacy Shield as it stands is not robust enough to withstand future legal scrutiny before the Court. Significant improvements are needed should the European Commission wish to adopt an adequacy decision, to respect the essence of key data protection principles with particular regard to necessity, proportionality and redress mechanisms. Moreover, it’s time to develop a longer term solution in the transatlantic dialogue."
Not yet there isn't. But I can imagine it being made possible, in the same way as EME is allowing DRM on media.
The kext mechanism is pragmatic and interesting: as opposed to Linux kernel modules, binary kexts are compatible across whole kernel versions.

Also, having alternatives is always interesting. I was also interested in making the core of OS X† have some form of FOSS liveliness, but I've been quite disheartened about OS X and openness (however limited) since this[0] happened.

[0]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller/issues/2

† I do believe that FOSS is very important, but I also recognise the critical effect of closed source innovations, and believe that a delicate balance and synergy between both aspects can produce fantastic results.
I have also worked for such companies. It's more common than what you and I think :)

However, they cannot afford them because they simply don't want to be the best. Look at those companies who invest in people and give them time to grow/think/be. Their products are above average. Why?

When you want to be the best, you simply have no other way than "thinking" and "reasoning". Unless you are just lucky and you get one or two Einstein[s]. But even then, if you don't give such a genius the right environment, he is gonna do his best to get away from you.

What you call will I call it attitude towards business. Nowadays we don't write software anymore to make a product last at least 10 years, we build companies to be sold in order to get someone (the founder) rich so that he can invest in new crap to sell. Why should he waste 500-1000 $ when that money can go to a new feature or an "important" bug (coming from a bigger customer)?
I remember there was a crowdfunding campaign or so, about reimplementing this runtime (including graphics libraries) using opensource ObjC implementations.
Important reminder that the USeng/BReng languages use "recruiter" slightly differently, and that in the UK "recruiter" means "independent recruitment agent middleman". This caused a nasty unnecessary argument last time the subject came up.

The other subject that often comes up when we discuss this is that there's no reliable way of assessing candidates that doesn't have very high rates of both false positive and false negative errors, so most employers tune all the way over to the negative. This includes building ridiculous hoops to jump through.
If you know that the strings are stored in the same table, couldn't you subtract from each pointer a pointer to the beginning of the table and hash the resulting offsets?
I agree, also considering that virtually every spell checker these days uses an online API rather than offline dictionary + semantic grammar rule checks you shouldn't use any of those for sensitive documents regardless of them using HTTPS or not.
What do you mean by "better" ? I'm thinking of creating an image host.
No, they don't actually serve all ads. I imagine they know not to pass off a request from a HTTPS page to a HTTP-only server (mixed-content blocking would give a near-100% failure rate) but here is an example of Google's Doubleclick network being used to spread malware: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/threat-analysis/2014/09/google...
Insanely fast submarine is made of one molecule (2015)
Right. Msync is an ordering barrier. Barriers go hand in hand with atomic operations, but they are really about visibility, not atomicity.
Honestly; the example answer is not good. If I was in a hiring position, I would at least talk to the person writing this and ask them to change their style.

The problem is that the answer is slightly over-engineered, over-commented, checks for input type, logs in a corner-case, looks-like-it-has-been-written-by-a-teacher-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands.

These are not problems in themselves but when you have a new person on the team and they write code like that, it may be inconsistent with what the rest of the team is doing / what the rest of code base looks like.

For comparison here is another way to test for a palindrome:

function isPalindrome(text) {
for (var i = 0; i <= text.length / 2; i++) {
if (text[i] != text[text.length - i - 1]) return false;
}
return true;
}

(Possibly add "normalization" in the beginning as they do in the article.)
I've not played with node.js since the very early days, and never really used NPM. However, I do see the need for modular, composable shell scripts.

Personally, I've been using Nix in a similar way, since it also has nice features like caching, laziness, splicing into indented strings, dependency management, etc. For example, if you have a Nix expression stored in "my-script.nix" you can use the following (e.g. in "my-script.sh") to invoke it:

nix-instantiate --read-write-mode --show-trace --eval -E 'import ./my-script.nix'

The `--eval` tells Nix to evaluate an expression, rather than build a package. `-E` is the expression to evaluate (in this case, importing our "script" file). `--read-write-mode` allows the script to add things to the Nix store. `--show-trace` is to aid debugging.
>>It should be obvious to anyone with some knowledge of history and modern homo sapiens cultures that there is no such thing as "Moral Objectivity"

Actually observing what humans do (history, culture) as you propose would be absolutely insufficient for determining if Moral Statements refer to Objective Moral Facts or are just invented delusions that were useful. We can't merely observe what humans happen to think or happen to do to tell. We can't reason "Humans happen to believe X therefore X is the case/exists" which is the sense of what we seek in metaethics. The sense of what you propose is akin to reasoning "Humans practice X therefore humans practice X" but similar tautologies are not very useful.

>>Morality (as in, what is considered culturally acceptable) varies greatly across time, cultures and individuals.

No one denies this: human behavior changes. But that's not the question at hand.

>>Morals that seem more universal than others may very well be biologically hardwired or selected by virtue of helping the cultures who carry them prosper (not unlike genes).

This is yet another Fact and fails to escape the limitations observed by Is-Ought.

>>This is the classic "I want it to be true, therefore it's true" non-argument.

The argument isn't to prove that morality is objective or to prove God exists. It is just an observation that "For morality to be Objective, this is the necessary dependency: God" and a suggestion that we understand moral language accordingly. As the Marquis de Sade roughly put it "If God does not exist, everything that Is, is Right". Moral statements are either real (Moral Realism) which requires a departure from strict Empiricism or they are invented opinions (Moral Anti-realism) a position consistent with Empiricism/Atheism/Materialism. The actual instance of "I want it to be true, therefore it's true" occurs when soi disant Empiricists think they can logically hold Moral Realism (often Secular Humanists who've overlooked these implications.)
Good opportunity to market you app you got there, hehe. Anyway, I thought the thing about little snitch was that even before the connection was made for the first time you were able to cancel it, you would miss out on that with your app.

Can you also disallow certain requests with your app? It seems to be app-wide only, but if I wanted to block e.g. chrome (or, all app) from specifically connecting to "adWare.com", would that be possible?
I remember, back in the old days, messenger client ICQ would send your keystrokes as you typed them, exposing your spelling mistakes for all to see.
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In Germany, the mobile plans are extremely stingy with minutes, SMS and data for some reason. I personally use Telegram (trying to convert friends to it), WhatsApp (everyone is on it), FB Messenger (everyone is there), iMessage occasionally, Skype for Voip, and I've stopped using Viber as no one seems to use it anymore (it was extremely popular about 2-3 years ago though).
I don't know a thing about AdSense, but I'm curious as to why the numbers depicted in the graph, while lower, shows a lot less random-looking fluctuations after the switch?
Try to tweak KDE to mimic OSX
I think it can do both. Kind of like how Amazon sells products that ship both from its own warehouses, but also from the vendors directly. But just like with Amazon, there's probably an increasing amount of ads that come directly from the vendors.
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My feelies (feelings i have that i will now pass along like they were facts) tell me that smart phones help people to avoid thinking about hard things.
http://imgur.com/gallery/AD84Z6V
They help in the above as a distraction.

Outside of doing my banking, my smart phone does not help. its small and expensive, brittle, distracting. It exposes a lot of information about me externally. And people expect me to be available because of it.

I switch to a feature phone a while back for simple robustness. Now when i want to know the weather I just look up.

The HCI practitioners learned all their tricks from the gambling industry. Poker machines and smart phones are really similar in the reward cycle that the trap you in.
Not really. It already happened in some countries where with high development but still low salaries, like big cities in China. How/if cities will be able to deal with all the increase in traffic from self-driving cars without significant congestion charges is of course still unclear.
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I agree mostly, but come on, whenever a big company like MS, Google etc puts this in privacy policy, anyone on HN learns about this pretty quick,and tbh I don't think anyone will upgrade to paid version for preventing basic usage data collection
> "which probably doesn't matter at the end of the day because almost no DBA would ever let you use it in production."

Where I work, we have a DBA and use SQL CLR in production. In fact I'm in the process of writing a SQL CLR user defined function today. It's interesting that Microsoft have dropped support for them in Azure, but they're still supported in SQL Server 2016. Furthermore, starting from Visual Studio 2013 efforts were made to make them easier to deploy direct from Visual Studio, so clearly some people in Microsoft think they're worth supporting.

I'd say as long as you have a sane database structure where you don't try to do all your processing in a single database instance, SQL CLRs are fine. For example, use them in databases that handle scheduled processes rather than in ones that can't have any downtime and you it'll be easier to redeploy them without much ceremony.
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Next we'll have an article by the head of marketing at a bottled water company, explaining why nobody will use wells in the future.
And if you have set auto load on, they basically pre load the first 3 seconds and that counts as a view if I'm not mistaken.